Norman Berry Catches a Big Turbot out of Dartmouth

Norman Berry's 23-4-3 Turbot Video - Here's the video of Norman Berry catching his specimen Turbot.  You can also read the full story on this page

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Sunday 8th April 2007 - Norman Berry's Turbot and Ling - Norman Berry, the Proprietor and Editor of the popular free colour newspaper, "Sea Angling News", who is also the newly appointed England Shore Team Manager for the Home Internationals, which are soon to be held in Southern Ireland, enjoyed a day afloat with Dave Challice and I, aboard Dean Corbett's private Offshore 25, "She Likes It Rough", fishing the mid-Channel wrecks out of Dartmouth.

We thank Deano for a most enjoyable and productive day out.  Between the four of us, we caught plenty of very hard fighting Pollack to around 16 lbs.  I caught a Ling of 18½ lbs which fought like a demon.  We had several more Ling and quality Whiting over 3 lbs.  Dean caught the best Whiting, which was about 3½ lbs.  He also caught a small Cod.  Dave Challice caught several fine fish including the biggest Pollack of the day and an unusual Gurnard which looked superficially like a "Grey Gurnard" except that it had a bright golden line along its flanks.

Norman showed his sea angling class when fishing a strip of Pouting fillet, mounted on a 4/0 Sakuma "Manta" hook, attached to a brand new lightweight and particularly responsive 20 - 30 lbs class  Shakespeare Sporting Braid Boat Rod, fitted with an Accurate 270 reel, filled with 20 lb Berkley Crystal Braid line, he caught a fine specimen Turbot which weighed in later ashore on calibrated scales at Brixham SAC, at 23 lbs 4 ozs 3 dr, which is a personal best for this species.

Norman Berry proudly holds a specimen Turbot 23 lbs 4 ozs 3 dr caught from a mid-Channel wreck scour out of Dartmouth, aboard Dean Corbett's private Offshore 25 "She Likes It Rough" Sunday 8th April 2007 Photo courtesy of Mike Concannon

Norman also caught a personal best Whiting of 3 lbs 3 ozs.

A short while later he landed a magnificently marked and hard fighting Ling on the same tackle, which we weighed on board at 16½ lbs.

Norman Berry proudly holds a quality Ling around 16½ lbs caught from a mid-Channel wreck mark out of Dartmouth, aboard Dean Corbett's private Offshore 25 "She Likes It Rough" Sunday 8th April 2007 Photo courtesy of Mike Concannon

We've shot some video of our day afloat and Norman's epic battle.  It's well worth watching.

This sea angling photo journalism is a hell of a job, but someone has to do it!  We've even got to do it again tomorrow!