Looking For Slugs

"It's definitely a rugged-outdoors man type of activity"

Captain Hook

In this trip report we head to a new secret ormer spot.
The ocean pulled back just far enough for us to gather a good feed on our second afternoon this month of ormering.  Better known to the non local as abalone, this particular shellfish is legendary in Guernsey cuisine.  A single ormer of high quality, sells for a pretty penny, matched only by the pricelessness of the finished dish served up on grandma’s dinner table, crafted after a careful afternoon of casseroling.

So away we went in Tuc's boat, waders, oil skin's ormer hooks and the peril in tow. We stopped at a couple of our favourite spots – the locations of which I shall not reveal – before we found what we were looking for. ORMERS: big and plentiful. Within minutes Danny (the Bordeaux Rat) and I, had shot over the rocks and found a couple of gullys that had not been turned, bingo, after a few turned rocks, found two beauts clinging on for dear life to all kinds of rocky, sea-weedy terrain. The rat and I ventually managed to pry 19 off the bottom with our hooks but the lion’s catch was made by Tuc (Stu) and Phil (Phyllis) with an impressive catch of 23.
But enough of all this. I believe this entry has overstayed its welcome. Thanks to anyone who has read all the way through. Tonight, we feast like kings

A traditional Guernsey 'Pannier A Cou' (fisherman's basket)
woven in green Black Marl willow.
Pannier a Cous were traditionally used by Guernsey fishermen,
 and are still today 

The Rat and Tuc checking out possibilities

Guernsey's Sea Fisheries officers carried out shoreline patrols
with the peril in the forground