What have I hooked?..

[davem2005]

Regular boat anglers will probably reconise that as a thought every time the line goes tight.

Its one of the beauties of sea angling is you can never be sure what has taken our bait and exactly how big it is

Who can say they have never foul hooked a whiting through the back and thought they had a personal best cod?

I once battled with a personal best cod for 10 minutes off st mary's only to find it was a flat lump of slate with a dead mans finger on it which my pirk had hooked into. i swear that "fish " fought long and hard!

So the reason for the post..I was looking through some video tape for something else and came across some fishing footage from last july that has never been shown here or anywhere else. Unfortunately it had been taped over by a friends wedding but there is enough left to get the idea of what happens when you wrongly identify what has taken your bait.

When we finally realised what we caught the result was mayhem! (CAUTION THERE IS SOME BAD LANGUAGE)

www.turbiniapub.co.uk/images/video/whitbysharkshort.wmv

Irronically its what what we were fishing for but because of its small size had put up a poor fight on heavy gear by comparison. We were convinced it was a tope. When the penny dropped all hell broke loose in panic which is why the filming stopped.

The captor was Norman Berry aboard Seaspray from Whitby. The fish was tagged and returned. (In fact if you look close you can see the tag just behind the dorsal fin).

Cheers
Dave

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

I caught a urchin attached to a huge rock off the Isle of Man yonks ago. All the way up (it took a long time I was about 13 and my dad refused to help) we thought it just could be summat, it's going to go any second, it'll wake up when it sees the boat. The disappointment didn't outweigh the excitement of what could have been though.

And shared the same fish with me dad off opposite sides of the boat, we fought each other like devils.

Fish had my sinker coming out of it's gill and my dads hook in it's mouth - or maybe that's 2 stories in one?

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

I rememeber fishing the Tyne ,I'd only been fishing a few months , I decided to pull in and rebait after the crabs had their dinner , anyway it was very heavy and my excitement was making me tremble ,was it a big cod I thought lol ,when I got it in it was my trace and two others ,the others had obviously been snagged and snapped a while before and a foul hooked flattie which was foul hooked on one of the other traces ,I was gutted to be honest .

 

[Red5]

Remember fishing a club match a couple of years back and one of the lads in our club who really takes it quite seriously suddenly struck into what he thought was the cod of a lifetime from the shore....His Century Kompressor was bent double as he pumped away, reeling this fish in slowly from 150yds out.....Suddenly in the surf there it was................

















A schoolie bass all of 8 inches long which had been foul hooked through the dorsal fin....All we could hear was, ****ing *******s....****ing hell.....aw for ****s sake....
God did we laugh!

 

[codhw]

fishing last week just off the groyne (we couldnt get out to rough) hooked into something which I thought was a very good fish, it was kicking and kicking eventually got it aboard to find it was an old sock fullof sand!!!!!***** know wonder it was kicking. needless to say the rest of the lads had hours of fun at my expense!

 

[bigroppa]

Once tied a bait tray lid to my mates line when he was having a p**s, the line was doing circles and his rod was bent double. The look of dissapointment on his face when he saw what it was. Thought he was going to kill me.

 

[mick dunn]

Last week aboard Maggie may i pulled in a whopper. Rod bent double. this is it i thought i,ve broke my PB. When it came up i had caught two smallish whities. The bottom one was foul hooked through its back and came up sideways.

 

[scotty3968]

I thought i was pulling in a monster fish on tynemouth pier a good few years back now,rod was doubled over and it felt like it was giving it its all to stay in the sea....to my disbelief i pulled up a pair of shell suit bottoms with the ankles tied up and full of wet paper,,,half of guy forks i think
scotty

 

[codseeker]

shows ya the tradition is still here in the notheast ,penny for the guy anyone ,lol

 

[davem2005]

shows ya the tradition is still here in the notheast ,penny for the guy anyone ,lol

Around here its penny for the guy or yer winda's go thru.

On our last skate trip we had a wind on leader break at the joint between the braid and the nylon.

Gutted to have lost the fish and left it with an 0/14 and 10ft of 250lb line in its mouth. (Barbless hook though)

Next drop by snatcher and he hooks a good fish. When he landed it wrapped around it is the lost trace and no sign of the fish that was attached. How that can happen in 450ft of water that is racing through I will never know.

Cheers
Dave

 

[codseeker]

Around here its penny for the guy or yer winda's go thru.

you carnt live in pennywell aswell can you lmfao

 

[mark]

a couple of years back hooked up with something on the rough ground of whitburn. took an age to pump it up, rod bent double, every turn of the reel was hard work, the gut that was out with me was starting to panic - no gaff, no landing net, took and age to get it up from all of 20metres..

finally on the surface, and I kid yee not... a brieze block, hook had gone in somehow and stuck

 

[davem2005]

LMAO,

bet you spent the next three hours trying to get the rest of the house!




Dave

 

[sless]

lets hope it was a bungalow then
hahahah