66lb cod caught in the north east

[DaveMason]

I read on another site it was netted about 500m of berwick , don\'t know how true it is like .

Better get some depth charges of Bob .

[sless]

just out of my casting range
hahaha

[Charlton]

Hi Norman regarding that big cod blown up on a wreck just off Blyth, it was a load of rubbish. You have to have a lot of permission to blow anything up off a port, i phoned the port of Blyth to see if it was true. They assured me no such thing had happened, the fish in fact where only tiddelrs and i believe taken by divers.
Anybody know the name of skipper and boat and method of fishing, how far off etc; was used to catch that big cod. It was as the rumour has it caught off Berwick

[Norman]

seems these reports always come out around April 1st Alan LOL must have been the date the clearance explosion happenned

[John]

That one Allan was supposed to have come from the Hanne wreck just off Blyth beach when they were extending the sewage pipe futher out to sea due to EEC waste rules, they were said to blow the wreck up as it impeded in there way for the pipe.This is where this came from about the 100lb Cod was said to float up to the surface dead ,as to how far true it is well its anyones guess



[Edited on 6/4/2004 by John]

[Charlton]

Hi John
the 100lb cod is real, i went along to see it in the shop, it was taken in a trawl, it was quite a few years back long before the wreck story. The ones from the wreck that was supposedly blown up where only make belive \"size wise\" they did get fish but a lot smaller than the story that went around.