THE COD ARE COMING.

[bryan]

Cod on Chesil beach, any idea whereabouts Jim?

[thurso angler]

crabster?? scrabster??

[Jim Roper]

H.A.:

The cod in my avitar went just over 18lbs and was caught on October the 19th from Hayling Island beach.

My best cod was one of 20lb, caught on October 10th from the Portland end of Chesil.

 

The one caught on Friday would have been from the same area, I think.

 

I have heard of instances off Portland when Cod, Bass and Mackerel have been caught together on the same set of feathers

 

[ 31. August 2004, 11:44 AM: Message edited by: Jim Roper ]

[Guest jay_con]

chesil. aint thatdown south somewhere?

 

im talking about real codding

[H.A.]

Yes Jim, a 20 is my target. Nice fish.

 

Got to put the hours in on the right tides, though.

 

In 1989 - 90 winter, I managed 22 x doubles from mee back door ..... next year 2 or so, then nothing much until Oct 19th 2002 .....

 

what chance have we got?

 

If proper legislation for recreational sea angling got through, your sons and daughters might see an improvement. I'm afraid I won't be here that long.

[Guest jay_con]

you may be surprised how fast fish could increase their own levels.

[H.A.]

Have a look at bass scales .....

 

yes they have been brought on, but my 13+ was 26 years old ..... scale check .....

 

cod can reach that size in 5 years .....

 

plaice reach 3lbs in approx 8 years .....

 

that's why the specie need protection, especially inshore.

 

Not because they spawn there, but because they need the mussel beds/slipper limpet beds and kelp to keep crabs to bring on the next generation and

before they can increase their numbers .....

 

I live in a Bay that has had all natural structures 'wiped out' by trawlers .....

 

no kelp beds (small compared to NE), no slipper limpet beds which can survive the autumn/winter storms. Pea mussel beds gone from Portsmouth, Eastney and Hayling.

 

Fishes grow at different rates according to breeding stock to start with, ecological suitability, food supply, sustainable catches .....

that's the irony .....

 

my mate's father (traditional family sustenance) went to sea in a 16' clinker built and a Seagull engine one day .....

 

I'm afraid we didn't see him again.

 

But he was able to catch enough soles, bass, cod, whiting, bream .....

 

to keep his family at a reasonable standard of living.

 

No more .....

[Guest jay_con]

isnt it always the case on your first fishing trip for a long time: couldnt cast to save my life, reel kept birds nesting, forgot a rag,forgot my hat, had to use my spare headlamp cos i couldnt even find my best one. still managed two small codling though, both about a pound. lots of smaller fish bites too.

 

At least its a start.

[Yankeecodman]

Greetings from across the pond

 

[ 04. September 2004, 03:20 AM: Message edited by: Yankeecodman ]

[Guest jay_con]

another yank. standards are slipping.

 

only joking codman - welcome