Summer Cod Fishing

Summer Cod Fishing

FISHING FOR SUMMER COD. Just because the cold days and rough sea’s of winter are now a distant memory doesn’t mean that we have to put our Cod fishing gear to the back of the shed and wait until the next winter for some cod action. Summer Cod fishing can be very rewarding, yet many [...]

Freezing Peeler Crabs

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Freezing Peeler Crabs – By Ian Alexander Firstly I bring my crabs on until they are just starting to “split” as in the photo. I only peel good crab, any that are dead I throw away and any that have “hairy” legs are also discarded. “Hairy” legs is when you snap the leg from a [...]

Alan, Garry And Friends – On The Cod At Arbroath

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Arbroath is the place to be if you want to sample some of Scotlands finest summer cod fishing. Every year Garry Watson and a group of friends from north east England, head north in search of summer cod. Their latest trip was in mid July and resulted in bumper catches of summer red cod once [...]

Fishing At Arbroath Summer 2010

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I was invited to spend the weekend fishing for summer cod around Arbroath with Gary, Alan and Martin. Alan and Martin were at a wedding on saturday and couldn’t get up till Sunday so myself and Gary headed up early Saturday morning. We arrived at the cottage about 10:30, quickly dumped our gear off, had [...]

Fishing With Shads

Paul Kilpatrick With A Prime Cod On A 4" Blue Storm Shad

Tackle For Shad Fishing. Using Shads to catch fish involves using relatively light gear. A 20 pound class boat rod is the norm coupled with a 7000 size multiplier filled with braid of between 25 and 50 pounds. It is useful but not  essential to use a 50 pounds mono shock leader to cushion the [...]

Boat Fishing Season Kicks Off In Style

The inshore cod fishing has kicked off at Whitby in style. The algae nightmare of April has now cleared and with the water clearing fast, the wrecks and reefs close to shore have started to provide some excellent cod fishing with bait and shads both fishing exceptionally well.

First Cod From Flamborough In 2010

We had a good drift down  to Bempton with jiggers, pretty slow but Ian’s woolly specials seemed to be working as he picked a few undersized fish up to start with. later he managed 3 decent codling of about 3lb each and i finally snaffled one as well, as the tide slacked at about 5:00pm [...]

Best Cod Fishing Baits

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Top 10 Cod Fishing Baits Peeler Crab – The Number 1 Cod bait. 1. Number 1 bait whilst fishing for cod on the north east coast has to be the peeler crab. One, Two or even Three common shore or velvet peeler crabs whipped onto a 5 or 6 ° hook with elasticated cotton has [...]

Keeping Peeler Crabs

This article will cover the fairly untouched subject of keeping peeler crabs in tanks using filtered sea water which reduces the work necessary to keep healthy crabs to use for your bait. I love fishing with Peeler crabs and it is one of the countries top fishing baits for many species including cod, bass, flounder, [...]

Rock Fishing

Cod Fishing From The Rocks Rock fishing is just another type of fishing. It’s nothing special and can be mastered by all anglers, all that’s needed is time and a willingness to learn the art of rock fishing. Over time the rock angler will learn what areas will hold cod and at what states of [...]




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