| It is these purses, and those of the thornback and the edible skate, that we oftenest pick up on the English coast. |
| The thornback is another ugly fellow of this family, having spines on his back and a double row of them down his tail. |
| For a while we thought it might be a smallish skate, but it turned out to be a nice thornback of around twelve pounds. |
| Keelan landed bull huss, conger, cod, rockling, pouting and dogfish before latching on to the prize catch of the day, a 20lb 8oz thornback ray. |
| Eleven of these are of the shark variety, who live in blissful harmony with stingrays, thornback rays, conger eels and dogfish, to name but a few. |
| Thornback and blond rays are most often seen, with brill, plaice, sole, flounder and even turbot on occasion. |
