The North Sea is not the greatest place for fish but on any dive you are likely to see pollack, coalfish, ballan wrasse, anglerfish, topknots and ling.
During late August and in September specimen coalfish, cod and conger up to 35 lb have been recorded.
If you are fishing specifically for pollack, coalfish, cod or bass with strip, slice the mackerel strip lengthways along the dotted line indicated by the bone locations.
Like other members of the cod family the coalfish has a single barbel, although this is very small and may even be absent in some fish.
I turned around and caught a shoal of coalfish passing by, searching for food.