Wots yer biggest cod ??

[Topwater]

England - shore 7.75lb Otterspool, Liverpool. Boat 6.5lb Anchorsholme pipe, Cleveleys, Blackpool
Scotland - shore 11lb Cow's Snout, Nr Dalbeattie on the Solway

 

[Skaterboy]

Boat - 26lb 8oz off Whitby
Shore - England - 16lb 8oz and 14lb 12oz at Port Mulgrave though I lost a much bigger fish on Sandsend Cliffs.
Shore - Scotland - 23lb from Loch Kishorn on a hot sunny evening in July.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

All this talk of Cod has got me longing for winter and their (hopeful) return.

 

[J Richards]

13lb 8oz from the bristol channel. First ever cast on a multiplier, did’nt go far lol. But still the biggest i’ve caught. Will try and dig out a pic

 

[geejayy]

Boat- 0, never caught one.
Beach 7lb, chesil, just past bird sanctuary,a pb that has stood for a while . Had a couple more sixes from cogden since, just can't find bigger.

solent cod are worth double points but ive only ever found a few small ones

 

[Angrybear]

Never had a decent cod from a boat,
Beach - took 3 in a RAF match at Abbotsbury, Chesil, early 2000's, something like 14lb 13oz, 15lb 3oz, 15lb 10oz.

All taken on match rigs 1/0 hook, lug tipped with Mackerel/squid, while a whole squid stuffed with lug on the other rod wasn't touched.

 

[Kine262]

Never had a decent cod from a boat,
Beach - took 3 in a RAF match at Abbotsbury, Chesil, early 2000's, something like 14lb 13oz, 15lb 3oz, 15lb 10oz.

All taken on match rigs 1/0 hook, lug tipped with Mackerel/squid, while a whole squid stuffed with lug on the other rod wasn't touched.

Most anglers would be happy with one of those three! Did you win the match?

 

[Plaicehunter]

17lb. Boscombe Pier, September 1969. Carried it home while pushing my bike. Gave it to the local old folks' home and it made 77 fish cakes.

 

[Beach]

The largest I caught on a boat was 34lb, from the beach way back when was 9lb 3ozs.

 

[Angrybear]

Most anglers would be happy with one of those three! Did you win the match?

No, I only came 2nd
Which was my own fault as I was running the Southern area league & scored it on points per species, so the weight didn't matter.
iirc it was 5 points for a cod/codling so they got me 15 points, another chap caught 17 or 18 Whiting 2 points each so beat me for points

 

[Kine262]

No, I only came 2nd
Which was my own fault as I was running the Southern area league & scored it on points per species, so the weight didn't matter.
iirc it was 5 points for a cod/codling so they got me 15 points, another chap caught 17 or 18 Whiting 2 points each so beat me for points

You were robbed!

 

[Mr Fish]

You were robbed!

Yep, that needs a VAR check!

 

[Cwab]

Never landed a shore caught cod above 12lb but had a few decent doubles from boat but nothing above 16 pounds or so, current ambition catch one more shore caught uk double at night.

 

[nearly70ty]

Three doubles off the shore two 10 1/2 lb and one a simgen over 11 lb, my best boat was 18 1/4lb. now a cod around my area the welsh side of the Bristol Channel is something to celebrate.

 

[Angrybear]

Yep, that needs a VAR check!

Na, I can't argue when it was my scoring system.

Similar happened in the RAF Boat Champs, so rough we were stuck inside Poole harbour,
I caught a place 8lb 10oz, it was worth 3 points same as the palm size fish other people caught
Did win me a few bits from the magazines mind.

 

[chesilpete]

UK boat 28lb
UK shore 21lb
Norway about 5ft n heavy!
Both my UK pbs came in the 90s oddly only about 2 miles apart off Selsey.
I did have one just under 10 off Chesil in 23 one just over 10 in 21 and a few over 10 and under 12 in I think 2016/17 but maybe a year out.
will.look for some pics

 

[chesilpete]

Be fun to do a thread on best specimen fish so the best % fish after this thread dies out maybe??

 

[Mike hemming]

It’s quite possible to get a double figure cod locally to where I’m living, it’s not a rareity ether as long as you can get past the tings and straps

 

[J Richards]

Quite a few in the channel over the last few years

 

[stan m]

Shore, Clyde est. 10-11lb. Boat Clyde again, Gantocks est. 23-25lb, both back late 1960`s, were getting so many in those days that never weighed much, those two were mediocre for Clyde back then. To be notable shore had to be 20lb plus and boat at least 30lb.