"SAPPHIRE" Chartered Fishing Boat, Sunderland.

[sam harris]

Catfish.

Catfish.

The Catfish (Anarhichas Lupus) is a member of the Blenny family. It is sold in fish shops as Rock Salmon or Rockfish. There are three species of "Cat's" the Spotted, the Black and the one which was caught on the Sapphire just known as Catfish. The British record boat caught is 26lbs.6ozs. taken in 1989 off Whitby. Shore caught record is 12lbs.12ozs. taken at Stonehaven in 1978.
They feed on whelks, clams, hermit crabs, sea urchins and other bottom living creatures.
I remember a lot of years ago a very well known North East angler (I'm not going to mention his name as he still fishes). catching a catfish about 10lbs.
Knowing how dangerous they are he decided to "dispatch" it using a large hammer he had on board. He was in the small boat (15 foot) on his own.
The fish was trying to take lumps out of ???. and the wooden ribs of the boat.
Meanwhile ??? was lashing out with the hammer trying not to get bitten.
Yes, you've guessed it,he put the hammer through the bottom of the boat.
He managed to get back into Cullercoats by stuffing some rags into the hole he had made in the boat. What happened to the fish, I don't know.

 

[Davey1970]

belter story sam m8, as soon as you mentiond the hammer a knew wat was coming, a knew a lad who`s son dropped a 20 kilo weight used for an anchor, it put a hole in the boat, but they were still in newbiggin bay .!

 

[big fish]

These fish are easy to handle,if you know how,Knock it on the head ,and leave for a while then knock it again .lovely eating fish had one last year ,lightly fried in seasoned flour and Olive oil .it has a pink flesh as they feed on lobsters .Prawns etc.Beautiful flavor.

PS There seems to be an outbreak of pettiness on here lately are we not grown ups.lets start acting like grown ups FFS

 

[lingking]

These fish are easy to handle,if you know how,Knock it on the head ,and leave for a while then knock it again .lovely eating fish had one last year ,lightly fried in seasoned flour and Olive oil .it has a pink flesh as they feed on lobsters .Prawns etc.Beautiful flavor.

PS There seems to be an outbreak of pettiness on here lately are we not grown ups.lets start acting like grown ups FFS

only safe when the heids aff marra trust me on this

 

[FROGMAN]

These fish are easy to handle,if you know how,Knock it on the head ,and leave for a while then knock it again .lovely eating fish had one last year ,lightly fried in seasoned flour and Olive oil .it has a pink flesh as they feed on lobsters .Prawns etc.Beautiful flavor.

PS There seems to be an outbreak of pettiness on here lately are we not grown ups.lets start acting like grown ups FFS

Try frying their livers in garlic butter mmmwwwaaahhhh

 

[big fish]

handled quite a few ,never had any bother, hit it several times ,then leave it ,then hit it again .i suppose we all have different experiences with different things .but lovely to eat i would never throw one back unless it was a tiddler of course

 

[kc13661]

Tiddler;

Tiddler;

handled quite a few ,never had any bother, hit it several times ,then leave it ,then hit it again .i suppose we all have different experiences with different things .but lovely to eat i would never throw one back unless it was a tiddler of course

You mean you throw fish back? Glad to hear it M8 to many folk go out and bring 'everything' back, get the small ones back in, the're tomorrow's big ones.

Don't just keep to fill the freeze, there is a full season ahead.:yltype:

 

[Davey1970]

a was on a charter in march, down hartlepool, on our way to the first drop me m8, lee skinner, was telling us how nice catfish were to eat, a thought he was taking the p***, guess not, looking at wat you lads have been saying.

 

[billyturbot]

a was on a charter in march, down hartlepool, on our way to the first drop me m8, lee skinner, was telling us how nice catfish were to eat, a thought he was taking the p***, guess not, looking at wat you lads have been saying.

A lot of top restaurants use it as scampi ,as said the taste is 100%,I would say the nicest tasting fish in the sea

 

[leeskinner007]

a was on a charter in march, down hartlepool, on our way to the first drop me m8, lee skinner, was telling us how nice catfish were to eat, a thought he was taking the p***, guess not, looking at wat you lads have been saying.

yup they are mate i had one last year out the tyne vicious lil buggers but very tasty