WHITBY STILL THE TOP COD PORT

[big_cod]

Maidstone mike one man said he has 40 cod on tuesday with me ,he was the best man a very good angler and is a regular with me but what you say about 400lb of cod harming cod stocks as i have said before we dont even scratch the surface ,there was 3 pair teams working near me on tuesday what they must have been catching is nobodys buisness in numbers of fish there is probably 1000 times more going back over the side each day in discards, one pair team just the other day had over 2000 stone of fish for a 4hour tow and got only 400stone of fish out of the hall the rest went back over the side now these fish are undersize just how many fish is that frightning isnt it ,just to say we had a very good day yesterday but not quite as much as the day before also we had a lady on board she must have had about 15 cod.

[big_cod]

These trawlers are on this sort of fishing at the moment because of the herring spawn but they dont get these sort of catches all the time.

[Ian Burrett]

n4lly:

I have a great article about 60 lb tope from the shore. Have shared with Henry G'

Can email it, but they are large files

Hi n4lly

Any chance of sticking your story on the SOS website

[Ian Burrett]

tuggs:

no offence taken @autumn@

sorry, bit busy tonight so not posting or reading much... my site gone down and now pulling our hair out with the database and php and sql and whatever flipping letters are involved

back on track.... no not joking, going to give it a go this year i think i know of some good possible marks, just need the beasties around and the weather

Ever tried water skiing Tuggs

[tuggs]

That's what I am imagining Ian

Sturdy chunk of rope has already been worked into the equation for safety

[John F]

It's happened before in Ireland tuggs - granted its been a while but just shows it's a good possibility - especially in Scrabster.

 

http://www.irish-trophy-fish.com/articles/kevinl.htm

[Guest jay_con]

big_cod:

Maidstone mike one man said he has 40 cod on tuesday with me ,he was the best man a very good angler and is a regular with me but what you say about 400lb of cod harming cod stocks as i have said before we dont even scratch the surface ,there was 3 pair teams working near me on tuesday what they must have been catching is nobodys buisness in numbers of fish there is probably 1000 times more going back over the side each day in discards, one pair team just the other day had over 2000 stone of fish for a 4hour tow and got only 400stone of fish out of the hall the rest went back over the side now these fish are undersize just how many fish is that frightning isnt it ,just to say we had a very good day yesterday but not quite as much as the day before also we had a lady on board she must have had about 15 cod.

Big Cod im interested in what you say about discards off Whitby. In another topic on here recently Wurzel asked a question about why discards are still so high as He thought as do I that larger mesh sizes were meant to stop the catching of such numbers of small fish, why is this still happening?????

[tuggs]

Brilliant article, thank you for posting the link

[Ken Davison South Wales]

"He thought as do I that larger mesh sizes were meant to stop the catching of such numbers of small fish, why is this still happening?????"

 

Almost without exception when I frightened a shoal of fish whilst diving they all took of in the same direction.

 

At a guess when they come up against the net they all veer off away from it, which at a rough guess would be into the centre of the net not through the mesh.

 

I know it has little to do with trawling but it is a sound observation.

[big_cod]

Ken you are right mate its the volume of fish the mesh size isnt as affective as you would think,

And also the weight of the codend is very heavy compared to the trawls used in the past,

We were out yesterday an excellent days fishing again plenty of cod up 10lb but now the weather is breaking we wont be able to get out to the 20mile stream to where we have been working but the weather in the last three days here has be tremendous not a breath i dont think that happened in summer for three days on the trot,but the tides are now on the way down and the inshore wrecks next week should fish well for cod a northerly is forcast for tuesday next week that may stir it up but lets hope they are wrong as usuall.