The odd couple

Roccus · 06-06-2007, 07:55 AM

I've been fishing for close to 50 years, I've caught alot of strange pairings but this one is the oddest....Bass and cod?

I've been fishing the inshore grounds for cod and haddock, these grounds have whale cod on them spawning this time of year and I've been picking up a few each trip by livelineing mackerel... this double came on a clam on the bottom rig and a 3 wayed bridled livie... who would have thunk it....a first for me...

the bass had been chasing the mackeel on top all morning, but none had been down deep.. until this one.

TinMan · 06-06-2007, 09:16 AM

Roccus,
Looks like you had a great day there. Congrats.

Haddock is one of the best tasting fish I ever had. Good eats.
I just got back from a cod and haddock trip out of Green Harbor on Sunday with the good capt's Roth (a father and son team)., great boat btw
(the Golden Girl). He said that our trip was the first one in a while this Spring where he DIDNT get a Striped bass. Apparantly they are loading up on sandeels just like the cod. One guy in our party also got a wolffish too. We limited out on the cod and then went for the hadddock, got like 15 haddock. It was a great day. Lots of fun.
Gald you had a good one. The fishing was off for a couple days prior,but Sunday was good.

Charles · 06-07-2007, 02:01 PM

Not to hijack, but my weirdest odd couple was actually two bass tethered together, by an old fishing line. One fish hit a Charlie Graves J-6 and as I'm reeling it in, the other fish ( a rather thin 36") shows itself on the surface and takes off, dragging the smaller fish (that hit the J-6) with it! After a breif tussel, I finally beach the smaller bass, and take the J-6 out if its mouth. There is a tangled mess of line and a bait hook in the small fishes mouth so I cut that all away and release the fish. I hand line the bigger fish, and try to figure out what happened . . . that bigger fish is gut hooked with a 20ft length of mono leading to the other snarled tangle that was in the smaller fishes mouth.

Only thing I could think of was that one or the other fish picked up a baited but snagged rig that was tangled with another rig - also with a fish on it. . . perhaps thru their struggles they freed themselves of the snag and swam away - but now attached to each other by a tangled mess of mono . . . who knows how long the "odd couple" swam around like that until they were lucky enough to get caught . . .

BTW I released the 36", he swam away - somewhat slowly but with some vitality. See, there are some good endings . . .

06-06-2007, 09:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
TinMan Tin - The OTHER White Meat! Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,220	Roccus, Looks like you had a great day there. Congrats. Haddock is one of the best tasting fish I ever had. Good eats. I just got back from a cod and haddock trip out of Green Harbor on Sunday with the good capt's Roth (a father and son team)., great boat btw (the Golden Girl). He said that our trip was the first one in a while this Spring where he DIDNT get a Striped bass. Apparantly they are loading up on sandeels just like the cod. One guy in our party also got a wolffish too. We limited out on the cod and then went for the hadddock, got like 15 haddock. It was a great day. Lots of fun. Gald you had a good one. The fishing was off for a couple days prior,but Sunday was good. __________________ www.diamondtackle.com Last edited by TinMan; 06-06-2007 at 09:47 AM.

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06-07-2007, 02:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
Charles Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1	Not to hijack, but my weirdest odd couple was actually two bass tethered together, by an old fishing line. One fish hit a Charlie Graves J-6 and as I'm reeling it in, the other fish ( a rather thin 36") shows itself on the surface and takes off, dragging the smaller fish (that hit the J-6) with it! After a breif tussel, I finally beach the smaller bass, and take the J-6 out if its mouth. There is a tangled mess of line and a bait hook in the small fishes mouth so I cut that all away and release the fish. I hand line the bigger fish, and try to figure out what happened . . . that bigger fish is gut hooked with a 20ft length of mono leading to the other snarled tangle that was in the smaller fishes mouth. Only thing I could think of was that one or the other fish picked up a baited but snagged rig that was tangled with another rig - also with a fish on it. . . perhaps thru their struggles they freed themselves of the snag and swam away - but now attached to each other by a tangled mess of mono . . . who knows how long the "odd couple" swam around like that until they were lucky enough to get caught . . . BTW I released the 36", he swam away - somewhat slowly but with some vitality. See, there are some good endings . . .