Several hours of surveillance of a small uninhabited island in Ferry Reach on Saturday paid off when notorious jail bird Brian Carlton Rogers was recaptured.

And officers knew they were close to catching the bail jumper after a six day manhunt when they found a survival bag earlier that morning and laid in wait.

It is understood Rogers, a 40-year-old career criminal, was hiding on Ferry Island or Old Ferry Crossing, near Ferry Point, in St. George's and was caught around 11 a.m. as he attempted to desperately swim away from Police after being flushed out by a K-9 dog and handler team. Rogers also threatened officers during the recapture.

Rogers was sighted approximately at 6.30 a.m. while trying to remove a moored punt and fled the area.

One and a half acres in size, Ferry Island is connected to St. George's Island by a very short pedestrian bridge.

He is now being held in Hamilton Police Station and Commissioner of Police Jean-Jacques Lemay is thanking the public and media in assisting to capture Rogers.

Police report Rogers was flushed from a "concealed area of bush'' by a combined team from the Eastern Division Community Response Unit, the K-9 unit, Marine Police and other officers.

Rogers was arrested for breaching his bail conditions shortly after being released from Westgate Correctional Facility.

He was able to escape from St. George's Police Station after forcing his way through a holding cell wall described by a Police spokesperson as a "stone wall''.

A full-scale inquiry into the escape was called for from Commissioner of Police Jean-Jacques Lemay on Tuesday.

Rogers gained notoriety in 1993 after jumping through a barred window of an extra security holding room at the Prison Farm -- which is also on Ferry Reach.