very dissapionting cod season

[paulthespark]

I don,t know about anyone else but i thought this years cod fishing was total crap.what happened to the spring run, what happened to the winter run for that matter. I fished every week from back end of september till now and managed to get a grand total of three, with one just over five pounds. just a few years ago i saw more fish landed in one night than i,ve sees all seoson this year . Doe,s anyone agree with me .


the eternal optamist

[fishingfanatastico]

Aye the winter just gone wasn't great by any means. I was happy though scoring 2 big cod (10lb 2ounces and 9lbs)in January of Roker pier.

Theres always next winter who nows we all might have a great season.

[gazzawill]

ive seen alot of nice cod landed last season 07/08
my bigest this season was 3lb
there were nights they were alover the place and weeks of a few 2lbrs caught
but there were some nice fish there to be took
roll on september/october ill be back out night after night trying lol

[dappa]

cod season

well lads i'm not going to complain,i've had more than my fair share this season.one night i had 16 fish ranging from 2lb to 8lb,all on shields pier so the fish are there it's just the case of being in right place at right time.

[codseeker]

had plenty of codling but not the monsters i wanted .all averaged from 1.5lb and over biggest at 8lb, lets hope the next is better

[RONVIK]

i have noticed some years are better than others,and i think the cod stocks are slowly healing.
its the same here! i keep catching baby codling all the time. this tells me that there is plenty cod, they just need to grow. sometimes its a few years inbetween.(check the catch reports for the last 5 years or so) hopefully the coming winter will bring some big cod runs in or it could be the year after.
fingers x.

[brash1]

Cod Season

have to agree was totally sheehite was out maybee 30-40 times and caught two biggest just under 3lb, plenty of whiting mind, this has been the worst year for me, i have fished sunderland pier shields pier blyth pier, cambois, the groyne, whitburn, seaburn, rat house seaham spiles, seaham beach, hawthorn, the blast beach, shields beach, the target, frenchmans, and for two cod, one caught at seaham and one at the rat house.

[Graham B]

I have to say that I had a very good year with regards to numbers and the size of cod caught. My brother just started back fishing last season and had a fish of 12Lb. We found it wasn't so much the sea conditions as the tides that were the best times to fish and had more cod in flat calm seas than we did when the sea was running, even if that meant getting out of bed at 2 in the morning! We mainly fish around amble and to be honest I can only remember two blanks from the whole season. Lugworm and crab were the preffered baits and anything else just didn't cut it.
Graham.

[seanyrooroo]

I think some of it boils down to luck. I've had quite a good season, with one night alone I took over 30lb of fish, and could have had more if I had more bait. I've also had a double and 4 others over 5lb. We haven't had a lot of luck with conditions either, I think I can only remember a handful of decent blows this winter.

The South had a great season, maybe this year it will be ours.

[paulthespark]

four years ago i had 58 cod from the steetley pier up to nine and a half pounds, most over four pounds, good fish and loads of whitting ,this yesr almost nothing and i tried various marks all over our coast still bog all , maybe i was just unlucky.

[Charlton]

paul
dont think there has been proper spring run of codling for twenty years

[paulthespark]

your dead right on that one alan

[jordy]

well for me 07/08 ive had my most consistent season ever, nowt big but plenty to the 3lb mark.Biggest was 7lb from the warriors and most consistent has been the Tyne.Had a few good bags me and the bairn.

[brash1]

hopeless season

will somebody take me out next winter and show me how to go on, lol. it seems some people had a great season and some had, like me a crap one. never mind this winter could see me getting a big un...

[dappa]

how to fish

brash come fishin with dappa,i'll show you where the fish are mate lol,serous theres always next season.