What Cod eat!

[JIMBOB]

on gutting the 4 cod we found all sorts in the stomachs! so I thought i would share with you the contents

 

the 20lber had,

 

2 pout one 5 inches

a crab, blue swimmer

a flat stone

a whelk

and half a dozen sycamore seeds!

 

the 18 had

1pout

2blue swimmers

 

the 19 had

7! pout one about 6inchs

and a crab

 

and the 7lber just a crab

 

after seeing all the pout in their stomachs I was half tempted to fish with a live one as bait!

[alun j.]

........and I'll add to that sample........

 

similarly, the 4 I've caught recently were stuffed with crabs and a few fish [and one whelk and limpet in one].

 

From a 17 lber down to a 4 lber, much the same........just the bigger ones had more, and bigger, fish in them.

 

Good luck with the live\deadbait technique.

 

Could next Tues. be the next time to try??

 

Alun.

[great white]

Nice one James

 

Thanks for sharing that information

 

we used to deliberatly fish for pout with a small baited hook above the main hooks [like a hair rig.]

The problem was that the rod tip kept rattling away and eventually stoped so you wind in to find you have been fishing with a doggie or 2lb pout as live bait

 

Now there are more conger than cod I am sure you would get a few of those, they love pout

 

 

Charlie

[Seamouse]

Nice one James

 

Thanks for sharing that information

 

we used to deliberatly fish for pout with a small baited hook above the main hooks [like a hair rig.]

The problem was that the rod tip kept rattling away and eventually stoped so you wind in to find you have been fishing with a doggie or 2lb pout as live bait

 

Now there are more conger than cod I am sure you would get a few of those, they love pout

 

 

Charlie

Hi Charlie,

I've tried the same rig the other way up, with a small baited circle rigged BELOW a big hook, but it wasn't too good at hooking the bait fish up with the upper hook nicely presented. Have to try it your way

 

Steve

[Gnasher]

Steve, the small baited hook below the larger one is the usual way to do it when fishing like this but its worth trialing Charlies way, just to see what works best for you. Remember though, that the longer the 'hair' the longer the snood needs to be and the shorter the hair, the shorter the snood, etc. This will help maximise the hooking properties of the rig. It's just the same as carp fishing really.

 

But.... with the amout of cod getting caught on squid, i wouldn't see the point of changing as more fish have been landed in the 1st couple of weeks of the season so far than pretty much the whole of last winter. Fishing a live may be a good option when they start feeding hard on sprats though.

Edited November 29, 2007 by Gnasher