Cod guts??

[tack4]

Opened the guts of a Pollack at weekend to find a few prawns and ? the shell of a hermit crab!!!!

wouldn't like to have to pass that

[John E Ashford]

Of course the Cod are full of worms, all the ones I have fed them.

[Spur-Hound]

It a hard one to assess Whatsinaname...I was using short snoods as i had hear that small snoods will help to hook shy feeding cod, Tho in the instance my friend thaught beter to gpo for a reaaly long snood so the fish felt very little resisntance, HE leaned his rod on the tripod on a way that at the slightest indication of a fish he could swoop and strike in one action dead quike so probably just the same effect as holding the rod,

 

Strange feeding that night Definetely finiky..And they were veery well fed.. belies where realy bulgey... They hit the baits hard but only for an instant but spat it back out just as quikly, So for realy finiky well fed fish, i havnt a clea, Has to be iether realy long or realy short snoods, Oh and by baits we had been using big shelfish cocktails all night, 4/0 pennels, To get the fish that was changed to a size 1/0 and a single lugworm bit tipped with e realy small quater of crab, did the rtrick,

 

 

So its not just the red cod with worms, Do the fresh runners hav em also????

[Guest jay_con]

not as many.

 

Thanks for the advice. Strange how fish will hit the bait so hard but wont be hooked, you would think some would foul hook themselves, but they dont.

[Socksy Squirrel]

Gurnard have some yukky worms in the flesh and dogfish have worms squirming around and through their guts.

I give them a miss.

I have opened up a conger's gut to find big crabs inside, maybe they would have been digested in the end.

Senna Conger, gets rid of that bunged up feeling and lets you pass those big claws naturally

[Guest jay_con]

Makeral are the worst Ive ever seen.

 

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[thurso angler]

The worms in cod are worse when they are caught inshore, deeper water cod is almost always better.

 

The red cod have been resident inshore so they are bound to be more wormy?

[spanner]

You'll find the worms are nearly always in the flesh close to the gut, either around the belly or anus. I find if you just take a half-fillet off the back of the fish, above the spine, then it is nearly always worm free even in fish that have quite a few of them.

 

The other thing I notice about red cod, other than the flavour nor being so good, is that the flesh seems softer, a bit mushier. A nice fresh run gold/grey winter cod is much nicer.

[Toerag]

I read that the worms in cod actually live in the gut until the cod dies. They then crawl into the flesh.

That is why it's best to gut cod as soon as you catch them, to get rid of the worms before they have a chance to get into the flesh. Pollack are even worse for worms.

Deep wreck-caught fish need their mouths & gills rinsing too as they tend to get 'wormified' when the fish's swimbladder pops out.

 

[ 15. October 2004, 12:46 PM: Message edited by: Toerag ]

[swanseabay]

once when gutting a mackrel i caught off the pier in swansea i found a 5p peice,

and my misses says i waste money fishing !!