Big or small

[LING_BASHER]

When fishing the wrecks i always feel like i am going to catch more if the wreck is big, now this is not always the case and large wrecks seem to hold less cod but more ling and pollack.

How about the rest of you, do you get better catches from large wrecks?

 

[jeff]

Richy,

We tend to stick to the smaller wrecks unless the drift is a little on the quick side. We seem to have more success on the smaller ones when fishing for Cod. In fact, our finding probably match yours exactly!!

Not sure if there is a science to this though.

Jeff.

 

[jason]

Cod are quite a lazy fish and feed on slowish swimming fish (you dont often see small pollack or collies in a cods stomach) so cod like smaller brocken up bits of wreck as the tide is broken into smaller eddies etc and has more places for them to hunt out of the tide. Large wrecks tend to be in big pieces and the cod seem to live in the wreck rather than around it. On large wrecks sometimes the cod can be as much as 100mts down tide from it as the eddy created by the tide can sit this far off it and eddy on small lumps will be closer due to less resistance against the tide.

 

[LING_BASHER]

I know this goes against alot of you but I am going with......big/long wrecks but not high wrecks fish the best....for me anyway.

 

[CODHEAD]

RICHY, YOUR ABOUT RIGHT SMALL RECKS COD BIGGER RECKS LING, LOOKING FOR MY 20IB THIS WEEK HAVE YOU SEEN THE 1 ON THE HOME PAGE ,THE LAD WITH THE 30LB WAS A NON FISHER MAN STICK IN .YOU ONLY GET OUT WOT U PUT IN

GARY

 

[LING_BASHER]

Thata why i am hoping for a trip over to Norway for a 20lb or 30lb+ fish.There is still alot of 20lb+ ling about at the end of the season but a 20lb cod???? not many at all caught our days as you will know.Mind we have had about 20 double cod already this season and 2 double ling.

 

[CODHEAD]

RICHY,
THERES 20LB OUT IN THEM HILLS (QUOTE ALAN SKINNER)AND HES RIGHT MATE ITS A SHAME YOU DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO FISH THE RUIN NARROWS IN THE 70,S WARE THE REAL FISH WERE TILL THE TRAWLERS HIT

GARY