Stuff Cod eat...

[mick dunn]

It would be nice to check the contents of the stomach with the cod i catch.
One slight problem this season only caught one small toomy which went back.

[greggthe1]

Mine last night had a full hardback crab, small fish and squid like thing.

[fozally]

And i bet that was a pic from a cooking mag Steve.

What happened on Friday, i had a fish for you as promised mate, just think if only you'd come back to weigh in you could have seen the real thing and posted about the contents of the cods stommach.

Terry, Thanks for the offer but the missus would have thought I won the match and she would have held me to ransom for ever for some winnings.

[codseeker]

most cod lately are stuffed worm with hard back crabs,odd small lobsters ,small bullheads whiting or rockling ,small flatfish and even pipefish is a feed they are turning too in the last few seasons

[cod basher]

Spoons

My fly fishing priest has a gut spoon attachment so as to see what the trout are feeding on so you can match your fly selection to the contents of it's guts. Funny after 15yr of carrying it in my trout bag Iv'e never actually carried it on a trip to the sea nor tried to empty a cod's stomach with it... just wondering how many of you out there actually use this freshwater tactic on sea fish? If so, how successful is it? It is rumoured that certain species of fish switch on a tunnel vision to a certain food type at certain time's of the year and tide... the spoon could be a useful addition to the sea angler's armoury.

[gazzawill]

the bass i caught and some whities from same spot have all been stuffed with pipefish

[hawthorn]

Found pipe fish, winkles (with the shell on), and somebody else's rig hook,beads and swivels.

[johnf]

Caught a Codling off Tynemouth pier a few years back with a small plastic bottle in its guts (could have been cod liver oil?)

[bigroppa]

caught a cod last year and it had a full shoelace in its belly.

[seanyrooroo]

I don't think for one minute they intend to eat such items, but there must be something edible near by when they scoop it all up. They dont call them bucket mouths for nowt lol. The one I got from the flat rock had shrimp and parp in its gut.

[Topfly]

I caught one a few years back, it was massive. when i gutted it, it had a ships lantern inside it , and guess what? .......

[5150]

Caught one in Blyth harbour years ago, stomach was full of sweetcorn and other (human) food scraps, was a lot of boats in the harbour at the time so I'm guessing it was picking through slops tossed over the side.

[RobAdair]

Not inside a cod, but I found this inside a squid on Friday:



i'm assuming that the squid swallowed it, as I couldn't find a hole anywhere for it to climb in? That's a 6" blade alongside for comparison.

[peter.m]

Found a syringe in a fish once, caught off Blyth




found out it was a drug haddock