Huge cod lost at Tynemouth!!!!!!

[Hedley]

Longbenton & Seaton Burn SAC had a match on Tynemouth Pier today (Sat 5/1)

Fishing at the top of the steps on the lower level at the drum end, at around 11.30am Charles Cervantes hooked into a whopper!!!! He had to put in a great deal of effort to get it to the surface (It's about 50 foot deep there) and when it appeared - MY GOD - it was huge!!!!! Over the years we have seen a few cod 10lb+ caught here, but this specimen dwarfed them!!!! We reckon it would have been somewhere between 15-20lb!!!!! It was too big to get in our landing net!!!. A huge effort was made by the lads fishing to get it onto the steps, even having to contend with a huge swell, but despite all efforts it rolled over once too often and was lost !!!!!

Charles is gutted !!!! We are all gutted!!!!! This could have been a record fish!!!!

Tynemouth (BOTAC) are fishing there tomorrow - so you never know!!! (Take a gaff in case!!!)

[eddie t]

Hard to bear mate unlucky maybe it must of been some size if you could not get it in your landing net i assume it is a big net.

[rod-the-cod]

gutted for him theres always a next time i hope it swims ower to wor pier and i get it in morning

[jimmy]

i feel really gutted for the guy, a fish like that comes along once in a mans lifetime if he is lucky enough

[tonyfromalnwick]

Not nice to lose a fish like that, but at least it shows some big fish are there !

[basswrasse2]

Hard lines mate you probs catch the morn when you back down tomorrow good luck for sunday mate.

[eddie t]

Not nice to lose a fish like that, but at least it shows some big fish are there !

Its not nice to lose a fish of any size never mind a monster.

[tonynufc]

i fishing a tynemouth club match tomorrow on the pier i hope its still there

[Topfly]

Hard lines Charles.

[jamiebrennan]

Thats a real bummer that, me and few lads had a bit of a debate in the tackle shop the other day on whether or not you would like to see the monster that you had just lost? I was hooked into a good fish weeks ago and lost it without seeing it, i was devastated but not as bad as i would be if i had saw it. Just got to keep trying havent you....?

[basswrasse2]

The best comes to them who wait mate.

[Charlton]

would have been down there like a shot with me camera Hedley, hope he gets it the next match

[Hedley]

I know, Alan - I have your number and would have called.

Still, let's hope there will be other opportunities!!!!!

[mick dunn]

What An Absolute Bummer

[mickcave83]

that would have been some fish that, hardlines to the man