Englishman gets huge cod in Saltstraumen

[Tor helge]

A 32 kg cod was caught by an englishman in Saltraumen (Our local tidal current).
Could be a world record for cod caught from shore.
Was in the local News, but I found an English site that Writes about it:


http://www.fish-on-friday.com/2016/02/monster-cod-sets-new-world-record/

 

[bobnewboy]

Thats gonna need a whole lotta chips !

 

[Janne]

Yes, the Skrei season is now!
Mamas this size seldom do not venture that close to the shore, they must have been fisking from a promotory.
Nice fish, but a lot of the weight is eggs. It is packed with them. In fact fish this length is not uncommon during the season.

The fantastic feat is to be able to bring in onshore. My hat is off to the fisherman, and I am bowing deeply!

( goddamn, I have to wait 3 more weeks!!)

Tor Helge, where do you live? Bodö?

 

[Tor helge]

Yes. I live in Bodø.
Sometimes Fish from shore in Saltstraumen but usually only get small Pollock.
IMO there are better Places than Saltstraumen to Fish from shore.
But if you are after the really big ones Saltstraumen is the Place.

 

[petrochemicals]

Yes, the Skrei season is now!
Mamas this size seldom do not venture that close to the shore, they must have been fisking from a promotory.
Nice fish, but a lot of the weight is eggs. It is packed with them. In fact fish this length is not uncommon during the season.

The fantastic feat is to be able to bring in onshore. My hat is off to the fisherman, and I am bowing deeply!

( goddamn, I have to wait 3 more weeks!!)

Tor Helge, where do you live? Bodö?

Shame that, i suppose i could eat a bit of fresh cods roe, its not that bad. I was going to say it looked all head, guts and gills.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Yes, the Skrei season is now!
Mamas this size seldom do not venture that close to the shore, they must have been fisking from a promotory.
Nice fish, but a lot of the weight is eggs. It is packed with them. In fact fish this length is not uncommon during the season.

The fantastic feat is to be able to bring in onshore. My hat is off to the fisherman, and I am bowing deeply!

( goddamn, I have to wait 3 more weeks!!)

Tor Helge, where do you live? Bodö?

Yes, record breaking or not it is a very ugly fish that looks uncannily like so many of the flaccid-bellied carp we see pulled from Day Ticket waters across the UK but stuffed with boilies rather than roe.

K

 

[Janne]

As they say, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, )or something like that?)!

Tor Helge, keep your eyes peeled midday Eastern Sunday as I will wave to you from across the Vestfjorden!

 

[Big G]

I bet it put up one hell of a fight... Well done that Fisherman

 

[Janne]

Cod do not fight much. Heavy - yes!

 

[Robson Valley]

Maybe not an athletic fight but maybe like tying your fishing line to a bus? Wonder what he thought when he hooked it.

 

[Janne]

The only time cod foght is when you hook them in the tail, back or stomach. Not fight as a salmon, they just want to swim away.
We get quite regularly 3-5 large cod on the line at the same time. Very, very heavy.
Last summer, wife got a Coalfish, about 12 kilo, and 2 cod about 15 kilo each, on the same line. I had to help her of course.

She cougt the 3 largest fish during our 3 week holiday with that .

Big cod hooked in the mouth is suprisingly light to take up. They kind of help by swimming in your direction after a while.
A small cod, say 5 kilos, hooked elsewhere on the body, feels very large and heavy.