The ling fishing has been good but what an array of quality cod.

Your noit wrong the amount of ling between 4 and 8lb is unreal when the weather lets you get a bait down.

As for cod, well i been thinking they just about vanished, had 4 double cod in June but none since, seems like they moved down your way :)
 
northeast1 said:
Your noit wrong the amount of ling between 4 and 8lb is unreal when the weather lets you get a bait down.

As for cod, well i been thinking they just about vanished, had 4 double cod in June but none since, seems like they moved down your way :)
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The wrecks to the south of whitby have produced the bigger cod they seem to still hold the cod this time of year as those to the north of whtby spring is the best time for those wrecks the tides are now big takeing the inshore wrecks out of play you only get a short window to fish towards slack water maneged to find another 2 better cod last week before the winds started.
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paul.
 
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aye its a pity them strappers cant go back though:(

i pop em before i chuck em back but i dont think they live at least we try,

if i knew they,d live i,d put decent ones back ,i just luv filliting em:eek:

tightlines lop
 
Yer i cant give ling away as its not "cod" and also i hate with a total passion cleaning a ling as its so bloody hard to hold and do.

I put every fish back that is alive apart from maybe 1x 3-4lb cod per trip, have done since mid-June.

Unless its looking like a cod from the ship shop no one wants them and i hate doing them anyway so its win win for em and the fish :)

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY MORE INFO REGARDING "LING" LIVING AFTER YOU PUT A SMALL HOLE IN THE BLADER? i put over 70 back this year by putting a pin prick in the swim blader and hate to think i only sent them down for a slow death.
 
northeast1 said:
Yer i cant give ling away as its not "cod" and also i hate with a total passion cleaning a ling as its so bloody hard to hold and do.

I put every fish back that is alive apart from maybe 1x 3-4lb cod per trip, have done since mid-June.

Unless its looking like a cod from the ship shop no one wants them and i hate doing them anyway so its win win for em and the fish :)

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY MORE INFO REGARDING "LING" LIVING AFTER YOU PUT A SMALL HOLE IN THE BLADER? i put over 70 back this year by putting a pin prick in the swim blader and hate to think i only sent them down for a slow death.
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If you prick the gullett which pops out of there mouths they will allmost certainly die what you see if is there stomach lineing if you prick the gullett and let the air out of the fish it actually drowns when it goes back down i did it myself for quite a few years myself not knowing thinking it would be ok but i found out they drown when you do this it is such a shame with ling as at least 50% have there gullett out of there mouths when you bring them up to the surface some go straight back down when released but unfortunatly a lot dont some are past it when you bring them up you might as well keep them as the birds only peck hell out of them on the surface before they die.

paul.
 
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Yer thats what i was thinking, like i say i cant give them away so even if i kept them they would be wasted.

Such a shame, good job its about a 50/50 split so far this year with cod and ling but seems like the ling are going to take over for next few weeks of the season as per.
 
It may be possible to return blown ling with a device used in Australia. It is a lead weight with a big 9/0 barbless hook sticking out of the top of it. The idea is to hook the ling through the top lip with the hook point protruding into the fishes mouth. The weight is attached to a rod and line at the hook shank and lowered to the seabed which recompresses the bladder. The weight when retreived will unhook the fish.

I have thought about getting one made, but I am also convinced the fish will die anyway. I saw an American report years ago which said any fish with a swim bladder would die if caught and returned in depths in excess of 90ft.

Alan
 
I'd be very surprised is Ling isn't sometimes passed off as "Cod" in some places

What I do is cut fillets in half and trim them to look like a "normal" fillet...the people that take the fish off me never notice the difference
 
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i honestly think ling is a better eating fish than cod 6 to 12 lb range fish,

but like richy i hate doing em ,

a ling is a cleaner fish than most cod ,not as many lodgers in em either:o

the stink off some cod when you gut em is enough to make you spew

and i dont leave my fish long before they are seen to ,

but at the end of the day some like cod best some like ling

tightlines lop
 
a heard/read somwhere reel in and stop 30-50 ft wait till u see sum bubbles then reel in? sounds belivable, worth a shot cos a hate seein the ling nakad when u want to return them.
 
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went to donny fish market the other week whitby bream for sale 2.50 lb

closer look ,what was it pout:eek: fish is fish ,in this country we are blinkered

in the med all small fish are eaten ,presented with the head on .

when i first went to whitby 15 years ago ling were frowned on ,not now

they,ve saved many a charter skipper a red face:D

tightlines lop
 
wildcard said:
It may be possible to return blown ling with a device used in Australia. It is a lead weight with a big 9/0 barbless hook sticking out of the top of it. The idea is to hook the ling through the top lip with the hook point protruding into the fishes mouth. The weight is attached to a rod and line at the hook shank and lowered to the seabed which recompresses the bladder. The weight when retreived will unhook the fish.

I have thought about getting one made, but I am also convinced the fish will die anyway. I saw an American report years ago which said any fish with a swim bladder would die if caught and returned in depths in excess of 90ft.

Alan
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Alan Cefas did a survey a few years ago on returning cod if they were brought to the surface i think they did the survey in water between 150-200ft cod were caught on longline and were then tagged with an electronic senser and returned what they found out was the cod went down into midwater for roughly about a week to decrompress then they gradually return to the bottom interesting stuff but on the other hand for some reason when a trawler brings fish to the surface most die if returned it must be the speed of the winch brining the net to fast to the surface what does the damage.

paul.
 
when i've been boat fishing and have a mixture of cod and ling, i bring them home and my wife makes fantastic fish pies with the cod and ling, added prawns, nice creamy fish sauce, mashed spuds with garlic and loads of butter as a topping, then on top of that grilled mature cheddar and on top of that sliced grilled vine ripend toms, one of my fave dishes and you know what makes it taste so good the strong flavour of the ling.:red::red::red:
 
big cod said:
Alan Cefas did a survey a few years ago on returning cod if they were brought to the surface i think they did the survey in water between 150-200ft cod were caught on longline and were then tagged with an electronic senser and returned what they found out was the cod went down into midwater for roughly about a week to decrompress then they gradually return to the bottom interesting stuff but on the other hand for some reason when a trawler brings fish to the surface most die if returned it must be the speed of the winch brining the net to fast to the surface what does the damage.

paul.
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Interesting stuff Paul. I think the thing with net caught fish is the sheer weight of fish pressing down on the ones below them, literally tons of fish in some cases. The ones in the mid to bottom of the net have the life squeezed out of them and cannot be returned alive.

Alan
 

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