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Today on the Tamar I uptided with two rods: one with big baits, the other with a two-hook flapper with small baits for whiting.
I was merrily catching good-sized 'tings when I hooked a heavier fish which thumped all the way in. As I was baiting with small bits of squid and mackerel, I was expecting a strap eel, but up popped a 4-10 cod, neatly hooked in the scissors on a 1/0. As I unhooked it, I noticed a mangled mackerel lodged in its throat; it was wrapped in bait elastic, but there was no hook! When I gutted the cod, its stomach was crammed full, with contents including a squid head, a mass of squid flesh and three hardback crabs! Seems it had been hoovering up discarded bait and anything edible it came across.
I finished the day with plenty of whiting, a doggie and three strap conger.
A huge seal spent the day beached on a flat buoy just yards away, but we agreed not to bother each other! PH

<blockquote data-quote="Plaicehunter" data-source="post: 13699" data-attributes="member: 582">Today on the Tamar I uptided with two rods: one with big baits, the other with a two-hook flapper with small baits for whiting.I was merrily catching good-sized &#039;tings when I hooked a heavier fish which thumped all the way in. As I was baiting with small bits of squid and mackerel, I was expecting a strap eel, but up popped a 4-10 cod, neatly hooked in the scissors on a 1/0. As I unhooked it, I noticed a mangled mackerel lodged in its throat; it was wrapped in bait elastic, but there was no hook! When I gutted the cod, its stomach was crammed full, with contents including a squid head, a mass of squid flesh and three hardback crabs! Seems it had been hoovering up discarded bait and anything edible it came across.I finished the day with plenty of whiting, a doggie and three strap conger.A huge seal spent the day beached on a flat buoy just yards away, but we agreed not to bother each other! PH</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plaicehunter, post: 13699, member: 582"] Today on the Tamar I uptided with two rods: one with big baits, the other with a two-hook flapper with small baits for whiting. I was merrily catching good-sized 'tings when I hooked a heavier fish which thumped all the way in. As I was baiting with small bits of squid and mackerel, I was expecting a strap eel, but up popped a 4-10 cod, neatly hooked in the scissors on a 1/0. As I unhooked it, I noticed a mangled mackerel lodged in its throat; it was wrapped in bait elastic, but there was no hook! When I gutted the cod, its stomach was crammed full, with contents including a squid head, a mass of squid flesh and three hardback crabs! Seems it had been hoovering up discarded bait and anything edible it came across. I finished the day with plenty of whiting, a doggie and three strap conger. A huge seal spent the day beached on a flat buoy just yards away, but we agreed not to bother each other! PH [/QUOTE]

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