| #1  05-27-2008, 01:52 PM | |||
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| Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 Afternoon All, A first for me today. I think I caught my first ever Codling. I was fishing off the wall about 150 yards the Minehead side of the toilets. Just clear of the rocks on the beach if you know the seafront. I was hoping to catch a Thornback and had a fair sized Mackeral fillet on one of my homemade "piggyback" hooks (see the post in tips if you're interested) on a pulley rig. The bite was a good pull down then a slack liner and I felt the fish pulling as soon as I tightened into it. A smashing little Codling, I think. As I've never caught one before I'm not really certain. It had a whisker under it's bottom jaw and didn't look at all like the Whiting, Pout that I usually catch off the wall. Oh, I guess it weighed nearly 2lb. It was my only fish of the session but I'm chuffed to bits anyway. Tight lines to all. __________________ Rich "If a thing's worth doing it's worth doing to excess!"     |
| #2 05-27-2008, 03:02 PM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 Nice little Codling Richard. And species hunt points too. Well done mate. __________________ Don't Judge My Path If You Haven't Walked My Journey... |
| #3 05-27-2008, 03:13 PM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 Welol done mate ,Nice codling.All the best marty.  |
| #4 05-27-2008, 03:19 PM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 Well done on your first Codling __________________ Dan `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ Big or small, look after them all! ¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((º> |
| #5 05-27-2008, 04:52 PM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 well done lazarus,now for a ten pounder |
| #6 05-27-2008, 07:40 PM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 Defo looks like a cod - fat head and belly, slender tail, brown speckled colour & a barb - sounds like a cod to me ! Well done - always a nice feeling to get a new species .... __________________ SUPPORT THE RNLI - click : www.rnli.org.uk ... every little helps ! PLEASE REMEMBER & GIVE A LITTLE .... http://www.poppy.org.uk/ |
| #7 05-28-2008, 10:11 AM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 Nice one Lazarus  ... It looks like winter is on the way __________________ Spahill <:--- --- --- --- It was this big --- --- --- ---:> |
| #8 05-28-2008, 02:10 PM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 top man, still waiting for my first cod/codling! __________________ fishing is a pleasure,to catch something is an added bonus |
| #10 05-29-2008, 09:36 AM | ||||
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| Re: Blue Anchor 27 May 2008 nice one richard chuffed for you dave __________________ www.exmouthsaa.co.uk 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day simples You won't know unless you go :D...and if you do go!! please let us know :D as thats how the forum thrives |
