Scottish waters see incoming tope from June, with peak numbers later in August, though September can be very good. |
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The sea angling season to date has seen an improvement on last year with big catches of tope and codling reported. |
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Conger to over 50 lb, pollack, bass, rays, sole, plaice, bream, mullet, garfish, wrasse, tope, cod and probably a few others I've forgotten. |
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You see, tope are the UK boat anglers favourite summer fish alongside the bass. |
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The tope packs are targeting small flatfish and school bass in the surf tables at this time. |
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Most tope fishing is done either by casting baits uptide away from the boat, or deep dropping baits in areas of fast tides and deep water. |
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Only the slack water period goes really dead though, and tope can show at anytime. |
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There is absolutely no need to ever gaff a tope, it's an appalling thing to even consider. |
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Their main food supplies are dabs, whiting and gurnards, all fish that are easily outrun and caught by chasing tope. |
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Wouldn't south-west anglers want to put out launce and mackerel baits for tope and rays at distance? |
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None of us knew how to handle a shark or tope of this size and I feared for a serious injury if we landed it. |
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These roll around until they hit the reef where the baits are and add smell to the water to help the tope home in on your baits. |
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On the other hand, I have been invited to fly-fish for pollock and tope off the Mull of Galloway in a couple of weeks. |
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Ireland also holds a wealth of beach and rock fishing with the tope more evenly spread than on the UK mainland. |
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The tope is closely related to the blue shark and shares many of the features of this fish. |
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The tope shark is considered harmless to humans because of its small size and its preference for small prey items. |
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The tope work around the rising edges and base of these banks scaring up dabs, whiting and gurnards that hug the sand waiting for food to be brought to them by the tide. |
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Chunking in the vicinity of fish means blue sharks, tope and spurdogs. |
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The climb was a simple lead to a bolt where we set up a tope rope. |
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Despite this, many anglers use this pier for tope, mackerel, cod, dogfish, mullet and plaice. |
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A similar scenario was described for school shark or tope shark in Australia. |
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The tope, also known as the school shark, can reach nearly two metres in length and weigh up to 100lbs. |
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Fancy saddles, good horses and skilled riding are admired and many towns in Guanacaste feature a rodeo, called a tope, where the main event is bull riding. |
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Firstly, Utopia actually got its name from being a place where pups are born to the tope, a long, narrow shark that is widespread throughout the world but still a vulnerable species. |
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But what I didn't remember, and found looking back through notebooks, was that years ago I penned notes for a story about a man dragged out to sea when he hooks a tope, a small shark native to the waters here. |
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The user irrigates the plant by pouring water into the tope of Ti-Totem. |
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In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope. |
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General Baird was directed to scour this grove and dislodge the enemy, but on his advancing with this object on the night of the 5th, he found the tope unoccupied. |
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The second column, under Colonel Wellesley, on advancing into the tope, was at once attacked in the darkness of night by a tremendous fire of musketry and rockets. |
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The tope shark, which is also known as soupfin shark and school shark, is the largest of Britain's inshore native sharks and is known for its sharp teeth and rough skin. |
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Tope packs come in shallow and work the edges of stony reefs looking for black bream, school bass, rockling and even small dogfish. |
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Tope love the first flush of a new tide as it begins to gain a little speed and washes over the structure you're fishing. |
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Tope are mainly fish eaters, hunting small whiting, cod, mackerel and flatfish which they chase down and disable by biting chunks out of the fish. |
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Andrew Dismore, Graham Tope, and Richard Tracey are all former MPs who were later elected to the assembly. |
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Till ye finally meet with the acquaintance of Mister Typus, Mistress Tope and all the little typtopies. |
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Sally Hamwee, Graham Tope and Toby Harris were life peers elected to the assembly, while Lynne Featherstone and Dee Doocey were appointed peers after leaving the assembly. |
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One of these groves, called the Sultanpet Tope, was intersected by deep ditches, watered from a channel running in an easterly direction about a mile from the fort. |
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Dogfish, Mackerel and Tope feed on Shrimp and Whitebait in the estuary. |
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