Cod fishing Saturday on the NW corner

Mist-Rest · 05-04-2008, 05:14 PM

Went codfishing Saturday and hooked into this monster yesterday out on Stellwagon Bank. It grabbed onto a #13/0 treble hook attached to a 17.5 oz. stainless steel jig. My Cape Fear 30-50 ro with a TLD 30 2 speed had all it could do to bring this bad boy onto the deck of the boat. As you will see, there was no need to question the new 24" size requirement on cod fish for the 2008 season. I'd love to meet the idiots who set these size limits. Capt. George (aka Codfisher) of the vessel Lady Diane could not recall seeing a fish in this size class in the more than 30 years he's fished the North Atlantic waters. Take a very close look at the size of eyes on this fish. They are huge!

We had a great time on the water yesterday. There were quite a few boats out considering the cold, wet weather. The 1-2's grew to 4+ at times. Heading east @ 0600 was tough but westbound for shore @ 1500 allowed us to pick up the pace. Had the rules for minimum size not changed to 24, we would have brought back coolers filled with cod.

andyp262 · 05-04-2008, 05:23 PM

ahhh. yet another boatload of arm weary anglers. hard to grip the wheel on the ride back after a day of hauling whales like that from the depths of the ocean. i feeel your pain brothers, its early in the season and we are all a bit out of shape

Sashamy · 05-04-2008, 05:48 PM

tHE size has been 24" for a couple of years now......that fishies eyes are bugged out from you reeling him up so fast....yes I agre the size limit needs some adressing

timothy11 · 05-05-2008, 04:09 PM

Why dont i see a accurate reel in that picture and i see a shimano reel. That drag on the accurate might have really struggled landing that beast.

Mist-Rest · 05-05-2008, 05:31 PM

Tim,

That Accurate real is sitting on a G Loomis on my rack in the basement that did not see daylight that day. I have repairs to tend to... Busted up one gimble on a St Croix and my Cape Fear has a loose gimble. I couldn't get my other St Croix out of the hands of one of the others. He was so happy with it I know for fact he was going out to buy one for himself. The high speed retrive placed a nice cut on his hand with the braid. This guy never bitched and kept fishing. He brought his own set up and never wet the line.

That Accurate needs a bigger stick to be more than truthful with you.

I'll just have to buy one.

Did you sort out your problems?

Rob

timothy11 · 05-06-2008, 07:02 AM

problems are solved and the season is ready to begin.

V2325wreckfisher · 05-07-2008, 02:48 PM

Don't complain. I was robbed of at least 2 haddock that day from certain people. lol.

Tom of T-Wrecks.

Mist-Rest · 05-07-2008, 05:11 PM

That's what you get for telling us they were under your boat. Next time LIE!

Nice meeting you OTW.

Rob

onearcher · 05-08-2008, 04:08 AM

Mist-Rest hope your in great shape and did'nt pull any muscles hauling that GIANT aboard! Have a great season.

Codfisher · 05-08-2008, 05:39 AM

Worst part was he broke two gaffs landing the beast...I told him to use the poon