Mikey in Norway

Hi all thought these pictures may be of interest to you, taken from a trip to Norway last year.



10lb cod ( a tiddler in these waters)





Skipper with a 40lb cod (this photo was taken at 2 in the morning)





5lb Wolfish Ugly Bleeders!

Hope you enjoy these photos, i can tell you it was a great trip and we caught some big fish unfortunatley did not have decent camera with m Cod of 80 - 90lb have been known to be caught and we had them to 45lb Wish they where still in our waters eh! Mike

good post mikey, big fish there, and yes wish they were here

Terrific photos mikey
I can remember when it was possible to catch Cod like that from Rossall Point off the beach......... I guess that qualifies me as old

Just for the record books, the national shore caught record is 44.5lb - North West record 40.5lb from Whitehaven Pier.
National boat caught record is 58lb 6oz (Whitby) - North-West record 42lb from off Rossall.
There have been reports that Cod up to 300lb were regularly caught by trawlers off Iceland.

We're probably never going to see those records broken in many lifetimes, if ever.
Sad init?

nice pics mikey when were those forties caught in the n/w steve ?? just out of curiosity

Not a clue about the others, but the 58lb'er was caught from a boat off Whitby in 1992.
Who can come up with the answers?

They must still be about cause my dad loses one everytime we go fishing

nice 1 mikey thanks for sharing

kingcrab wrote:nice pics mikey when were those forties caught in the n/w steve ?? just out of curiosity

Not too sure about the shore fish. But, the boat record was caught about 300 yards away from my own boat in the early eighties. Caught by Ted Peak on his own small boat less than a mile off Rossall beach. I caught one of 19lbs the same day, which I thought was a big fish until I saw Teds fish. It was like a pig with fins. Ted later went on to skipper the charter boat 'Wandering Star' from Fleetwood. It was probably 82-83 or 84, early December on a bitterly cold day during a long cold snap.

Proof that the UK could, in the past, produce big Cod. These weighed in at 34lb and 35lb. I'm on the left. I had the 34lb fish together with a 21lb and 14lb fish on the same drop! After that I cut the trace lures off and just used the pirk!
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Nice pics there Mikey and Tomcat!

I have loads (mostly b&w and sepia), maybe Chris would consider a section specifically for angling piccies.