Malc

No, length is OK but width is a max of 6cm as below. 

Wots a birthday card?

Just got one for my birthday, surprisingly good for around £25, 6 large plastic boxes and 2 smaller ones. I have plenty of lure boxes to swap into it and use these boxes for smaller items like hooks, chebs, weighted heads, clips, swivels etc 
Worth a look if you're not a tackle snob, but the last one I got from lidl/aldi eventually died of a seized zip so will need lube or wax.

Just got one for my birthday, surprisingly good for around £25, 6 large plastic boxes and 2 smaller ones. I have plenty of lure boxes to swap into it and use these boxes for smaller items like hooks, chebs, weighted heads, clips, swivels etc 
Worth a look if you're not a tackle snob, but the last one I got from lidl/aldi eventually died of a seized zip so will need lube or wax.

Lots of turbo at Swansea,lot fewer since north Devon trawlers targeted the banks, mainly in the 1-2lb range lots of smaller ones even in rock pools so must spawn locally ?,usually caught of top of sand banks rising out of deeper water may onwards, best way in fair bit of tide using shortish running ledger(4’) watch type lead just heavy enough to drag slowly around in tide when cast 20-30 yds off side of boat,3/0-4/0 hook, best bait small ammo sand eel or thin 3-4” trip of fresh mack belly, although a friendly gill netter reckons asmall live whiting fished up steepest side of bank works he’s had them to 20#. No one locally seems to get them over5#  on rod and line despite quite a lot about shore and boat, if you know locally where small eye ray are caught that’s the place as both are big Sandeel feeders

We’ve got a bank just outside Milford Haven called the Turbot Bank….. only it doesn’t hold turbot…
The only ones I’ve caught have been drifting sandbanks with 6ft running ledger, fillet of mackerel. That was on Nash Bank Bristol Channel. Sadly most are small as we don’t get turbos round here 😞 

Certainly not the amount of bling that you would you for Plaice !
I usually use a couple of small lumi beads above the hook, and a small metal attractor blade just to give it the flash that attracts the Turbots attention. Most Turbot inline spoons are really quite large, which is a pain in a strong tide flow.

Oh, that's a bit different, most of the other recommendations I have heard before. 
We know that there are fish inshore and although most are little saucers there are bigger ones being caught from the shore. It's a long strip of sand with heavy rock either end and well offshore the trawls pick them up, however we do get lots of launce and there are some good areas of tide with reasonable banks of sand etc so the potential is there so we need to change tactics and area to see whether they are there. 

Oh, that's a bit different, most of the other recommendations I have heard before. 
We know that there are fish inshore and although most are little saucers there are bigger ones being caught from the shore. It's a long strip of sand with heavy rock either end and well offshore the trawls pick them up, however we do get lots of launce and there are some good areas of tide with reasonable banks of sand etc so the potential is there so we need to change tactics and area to see whether they are there. 

I would be looking for a reasonably fast tide that is flowing over a bank, and then fish on the bank slope where the Turbot will wait for the food to be brought to them by the tide.
If launce are in evidence, all the better as that is their favourite food, we even cut long Mack and/or squid strips to look like launce.
The best substrate is a sand gravel mix, i.e. extremely coarse sand, almost gravel.
Another place you will often find Turbot in hiding in the scour of a wreck, so again, a reasonable fast tide area where food will be brought to them with very little effort on their part. However, scours are notoriously difficult to fish on the drift.
Rig wise, a simple running ledger, using a watch lead to create maximum sand disturbance, and a 3ft flowing trace with a bit of bling. I have tried spoons but cannot detect any difference in the catch rate.
Smaller Turbot are quite willing feeders (3lb - 5lb) but the larger fish are a fair bit more fussy and everything needs to be just right. My biggest is 13lb, however, I fish an area where a 30lb fish is more than a possibility.
I don't normally post pics of Turbo's as it quite often easily gives the location away 🙄
Here is Kyle with a 5lb plus fish, this was May 2020, I moved the boat by a couple of miles to take the pic ................

 

It was half a side of mackerel on a 6/0 Aberdeen on a wire trace. Half a side i.e. long and thin so a bit like a sandeel, if you squint. Bounced along the bottom over sandy shingle banks off the back of the Needles, IoW.

@GPSguru is your man for this. I've only caught one turbot before, and that was by accident when drifting for tope 🤣

Exages were OK (they are discontinued now) - but the chrome on the bail arm goes flaky and cuts your braid and the anti-reverse  packs in after a year or two. Stradics are good but a bit pricey. I have an Ultegra which is very good for the money and I use on the kayak - its the cheapest Shimano with a one peice bail arm. the C3000 sized one is almost 50% off at £81  https://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/shimano-ultegra-fc-reel?queryID=a0d87eb623648f030e58ef2cb228c0b9&objectID=95061&indexName=live_ad_uk_products. I would get that sub £100 but it might be a bit light / small for your heavy rod or a Daiwa Ninja (but they have lots of different models and i can never remeber which one is the good one!).

thanks All - Shimano seems to be the brand of choice so far!

let me check my lotto numbers......

Howling wind but got baits down and managed four species between the three of us and instead of codling photos, have a North Sea doggie 😀 

Some people say that they are like a sack of spuds but this was something else!
A small bag of baby boilers.
The snag gave my new fin nor a good work out, I think that it was a lost pot line, I enjoyed it so much I hooked it twice!

Some people say that they are like a sack of spuds but this was something else!
A small bag of baby boilers.
The snag gave my new fin nor a good work out, I think that it was a lost pot line, I enjoyed it so much I hooked it twice!

Around the Hamble the bass are so used to feeding off food scraps that go overboard from all the marina boats. I'm not surprised that you had success with the bbq leftovers! 

theres been the odd siting of them down here aswell  strange looking things 

Howling wind but got baits down and managed four species between the three of us and instead of codling photos, have a North Sea doggie 😀 

Howling wind but got baits down and managed four species between the three of us and instead of codling photos, have a North Sea doggie 😀 

2 of us out for 4 and a half hours, not a bite
That's 3 blanks in a row
Getting embarrassing 

poor thing the R SP A will be after him

That’s what I’m thinking…. They are for boating so prob end up covered in chum and all sorts 🤣

nuthing rong in that malc