Does it count? :)

[<(Andy2009)>]

There is actually no such thing as a codling, a codling is just a "used" term for a young cod.

Pete, just drop the arguing mate, you wont win. I think you will find, in quite a few sea fish and aquarium books, and trawler and all fishing magazines, that the word codling used always as a term to mark the north sea cod fish of under 6lb in weight.

Yes, as a species, it is a cod, but as its size (like the one in your catch report 'fished today') it is a codling. If there's no word of codling, then what the hell was that fish you caught in the picture, coz it certainly ain't a sized cod!.....

You still have a lot to learn Pete.

[pazza]

I don't understand why cod can be taken and killed at 35cm, when they don't breed until they over 50cm.
What is the point of minimum size limits that allow fish to be taken before they reach sexual maturity?

I agree, have you seen the size of different fish species they sell in supermarkets? I can't believe they're allowed to keep them, never mind put them on display for sale. My 10" tommy wouldn't look out of place.

[codseeker]

the undersize Gadus morhua = iz a codlet

The Cod

http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/tan/x5911e/x5911e01.htm

[lingking]

and a small codseeker is a codseekerlet

[lingking]

I agree, have you seen the size of different fish species they sell in supermarkets? I can't believe they're allowed to keep them, never mind put them on display for sale. My 10" tommy wouldn't look out of place.

a lot of supermarket fish are farmed or come from an area where size dosent matter

[Pete from shields]

Pete, just drop the arguing mate, you wont win.

You still have a lot to learn Pete.

LOL Andy I ain't arguing with anyone, I am stating a "fact" codling is a given nickname for a small "cod." I caught a codling lol or so the fishing fraternity would say, however in reality it is a small cod lol. Check out wikipedia etc.

Cod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moridae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I do have a lot to learn but don't we all mate, I learned today that wd40 attracts big crabs and lots of them haha.

[Pete from shields]

the undersize Gadus morhua = iz a codlet

The Cod
The Cod

According to that I didn't even catch a small codling LMFAO.

[billynobaits]

a lot of supermarket fish are farmed or come from an area where size dosent matter

Where is this place where size does'nt matter? I want to go and live there.....ooh er missus!

[codseeker]

and a small codseeker is a codseekerlet

yup if ya read its also known as .....

Common names
Although the name ‘cod’ is used in other parts of the world to describe fishes unrelated to Gadus morhua, there is no problem of identification in Britain; cod means only this one species and there are no other conflicting common names in general use to confuse the issue.

The name Atlantic cod is sometimes used, particularly in North America, in order to avoid confusion with a quite different species, the Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus. Small cod are usually known as codling, and fishes intermediate in size between cod and codling are sometimes called sprags; the sizes to which these names refer are given later in this note. The name poor cod is used to describe a smaller and much less important relative of the cod, Gadus minutus.

Having said that the cod is known as such everywhere in Britain, it may be of interest to list some of the local names that have been applied to this fish from time to time; most of them are now no longer in use, even in remote fishing communities. Among the names are blockie, dolefish, droud, duncan , heaver, horgan, keelin’, kleg, kylling, poullach, ruggie and stuckie. Cod bearing the colouring and markings peculiar to those caught on rocky ground have been variously known as redware cod, rock cod, warey codlin’ and warey keelin’, while cod caught in poor condition have been named poor John, shingler, slinger, slink and sousler cod. Cod of small size, that is codling, have been known as coddie, josser, purr, Scots Willie, tamling and tommy cod. The recommended retail trade names for the species are cod or codling, according to size.