Ken Robinson's 40lb 6oz cod

anymore balcary stories and pics anyone?.it is amazing ,ive been many times and had no luck even up till say 3 years ago then i gave up the ghost:(,but i love the old stories ect :)
 
Cracking thread and pics,went up there with ythe old man in the eighties,think i must of been about ten,remember catching dogs which was fantastic for me at the time........We also hired a boat and went out on gareloch,,the old man managed one at 26lb,see if i can rake a picture out
 
canman said:
Yeh, they were good times sandworm. There was some fantastic fishing around then, at lock long, the gare lock, and especially the Rhu narrows opposite Hellensburgh at Rossneath.Young anglers today just don't know what they missed:(. Thats a nice fish you have there as well.:)
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Fantastic fishing areas, fished there through out the 70s. Remember fishing Loch Long one night when 2 trawlers came up the Loch pair trawling, which had up till then been banned. Within a few years they wiped out the mussel beds, etc and that was the end of that area as a fishing hotspot. Some one said the area had been a breeding ground for cod which accounted for the large numbers of big cod. Nothing now even the trawlers have moved on to destroy somewhere else
 
anyone saw the picture of the one in wales i belive it was 44 lb in the 70s or 60s it was a 16 year old lad caught it while fishing with his father on herring if my memory serves me ,the fish was stuffed aswell as a trophy i used to have the mag with it in but i cant find it ,:)
 
ken robinson`s 40lb 6 oz cod

ken robinson`s 40lb 6 oz cod

remember it well. Balcary point was a mecca then.Biggest fish i can remember was caught on the old sarah it was around 45lb+ a monster of a ling caught by the bloke standing next to me.
 
Actually got to handle/see that 40lb fish as Ken used to live at the back of us. He even took my photo with it. Shame I have now lost the photo !!!!

John
 
fishing for luckys

fishing for luckys

l rember a good few years ago fish for 6 hours in the same spot then move as daylight come as we fished further along some old man sat in the spot were we where and pulled out a 35lb cod we all just laughed we still got fish to 8lb :D
 
canman said:
Hi Bob, yeh, I used to look forward to that week at loch long (apart from the midgies) We were regularly putting double figuer cod back alive as non of the locals wanted them. The scots at that time new nothing about peeler, saying, we can't get it around hear, little did they know;), yeh! we bring ours with us from the Tyne was the reply;);). The writing was on the wall then, cos at night you could just make out unlit pair trawlers trawling the locks. Ruined fantastic fishing/breeding grounds for a quick gain to a handfull of skippers:mad::mad::mad:
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in the 70s me and lew marsden used to go crabbing around the cardross area dunbartonshire, we used get 100s of peeler to fish the lochs mosty holy loch! but the scots then would be digging worm around us they never new what peeler was, we use to hammer the fish good old days:D jim
 
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