Shields 25th March

[Davey-m]

Fished last night with my mate not much had been doing but we managed rocking, coalies, small codling and a pouting just shy of 2lb.

 

[codcatcher3000]

nice one mate
what rig .bait hook size did u use for the pouting?

 

[g.ordon]

Nice pouting piscatorial

 

[lingking]

Nice pouting piscatorial

big enough to eat:exclam::exclam:

 

[g.ordon]

big enough to eat:exclam::exclam:

I heard they had loads of bones in them (more than cod, haddock etc.)

 

[lingking]

theres a post about somewhere that they aint too bad i find the fillets a bit small,depending on fish size ha ha,but quite sweet to taste,and of course you have to descale them the post might have been on bsa site

 

[Davey-m]

nice one mate
what rig .bait hook size did u use for the pouting?

Used a reverse pulley rig so bait was hard on bottom as tide was still strong with size 2/0 hook baited with rag, lug and some peeler crab claws off the crab i used the cast before which i took a small codling on.

i caught a pouting of similar size a few years ago on roker, it was gut hooked so i kept it took it home to eat was a few more small bones compared to codling and the taste was quite strong sweeter fishy taste if you can get what i mean 1 fillet would have been enough for me but forced the 2nd fillet down out of respect for such a fish in terms of size.

 

[codseeker]

scotch haddock better than nowt if its a decent size

 

[steven]

crackin fish mate,seen 1 get caught on the heugh on thursday night

 

[fish fingers]

looks like your pouting got tangoed nice fish davey welldone by the way i,ve got a 28mm on my rod the blank itself is 26.7 with the shrink tube on if you did,nt put the shrink tube on you might get away with a 26mm but i, do,nt no if the blank butt is tapered