Cod fishing techniques for deep-sea boats in coastal areas of the country

Cod is commonly known as big head blue, big mouth fish, big head fish, mingtai fish, water mouth, broad mouth fish, big head fish, stone intestine fish, etc., pure cod refers to cod fish, divided into Atlantic cod, Greenland cod and Pacific cod. Usually the concept of cod expands to more than 50 species of cod, most of which are distributed in the northern Atlantic shelf, and the important fish species are haddock, blue cod, green cod, cod, Norwegian bassock and narrow cod. Cod is one of the most abundant annual fish in the world and has important food and economic value. At present, cod, which is widely distributed in the northern Yellow Sea, the eastern Bohai Sea and the northern part of the East China Sea, are basically a variant of The Atlantic Cod. This is also the only kind of cod that anglers in the coastal areas of our country can catch.

When I was a seafarer, I had a history of catching cod, and almost all of them were caught when I dropped anchor in the Yellow Sea, such as cod at the anchorage outside Dalian Port in the late 1970s, at the luhuasan anchorage in Shanghai in the early 1980s, and at the incheon outer anchorage in North Korea in the early 1990s.

Habits and characteristics of cod

Cod is a deep-sea carnivorous and ferocious fish that feeds mainly on small fish, shrimp and invertebrates. It often lives in shipwrecks in the sea with a depth of more than 50 meters and a sedimenty texture around it, or in large reef areas on the seabed. Most of the individuals are about 30 cm, and the largest individuals can reach more than 60 cm and weigh more than ten kilograms. Before the 1970s, it was the main economic fish in China, but later due to uncontrolled indiscriminate fishing, the amount of cod was sharply reduced. In recent years, the relevant departments of the state have intensified their efforts to rectify indiscriminate fishing and set up a fishing moratorium, so that the number of cod has increased year by year. Cod generally do not migrate, but only make a short migration to the coastal coast during the reproductive period of early winter (starting in early November of each year), which is the best time to go out to sea for fishing.

After many years of fishing for cod, there is such an experience, cod eat hook fiercely, and like mackerel, it is almost a swallowing hook. The struggle after hooking is strong, so fishing for cod must use thick lines, large hooks, and long lines. We say "put a long line to catch a big fish", when fishing for cod with a long line (the length of the line is not less than 200 meters) feels that the thread is difficult to collect, it must be the big cod hooked. At this time, you can't force hard fighting, only it can pull you to put, it does not pull you to close the line. But when putting the line is very exquisite, can not be put fast, but when you feel the strength, the line is straight, but you can not force the release of the line, otherwise the cod will be decoupled and run away. However, I don't know whether cod is this habit or cunning, sometimes I feel that a fish is hooked, and it is very heavy, but suddenly it is so light that I can't feel the weight. It turns out that after the cod finds itself deceived, sometimes it will suddenly do the opposite, not to tighten the fishing line and struggle to escape, but suddenly along the fishing line upwards to escape, in this process, if the hook is not hung firmly, the angler closes the line and slows down half a beat, the cod will take the opportunity to escape from the hook. Therefore, fishing for cod, whether it is line fishing or rod fishing, the feel is very important, when there is a fish on the hook, we must master the strength, can close the line, can raise the rod; when putting the line, we must leave sufficient room, so that we always feel that there is strength in the hand.

Cod is a deep-sea, cold-water fish that is rarely harvested from shore fishing. Cod is mostly active at a depth of 40 to 50 meters, and if you want to catch cod, you must take a boat to the sea more than ten nautical miles or twenty nautical miles away to harvest. When you go to sea by boat, the first thing to do is to choose a fishing boat with a high safety factor to go to sea. Large fishing floods are generally in the early winter of each year in the northern Yellow Sea, that is, from November to January and February of the following year.

Cod fishing tackle

The size of the tackle for cod fishing must be higher than that of offshore boats, because its fishing points are mostly in the deep sea. Deep water fish are large, and the struggle force of cod in the hook is greater than that of other bottom fish, so the requirements for fishing gear are mainly strong and strong. In the past, the crew used to fish with a line, not a rod. Now look at Dalian's anglers going out to sea to catch cod and using the line fishing method, a long one. The thick fishing line connects the fishing group weighing more than 500 grams, and the line is tireless and enjoyable.

However, with the rapid development of China's fishing tackle industry, the younger generation of anglers or rod fishing is the mainstay, fishing cod fishing rod to choose a hard adjustment of the boat rod, some anglers recommend the choice of rod length 2.4-2.7 meters hammer load between 100-120 special boat fishing rod. The winding wheel that matches the fishing rod should be equipped with a transverse wheel with an energy storage line of about 200 meters. The main line generally uses a special boat fishing weaving line, and its number is generally in the number 6-8, which is enough to deal with about 10 kg of large fish. Branch lines generally use nylon wires of No. 5-6. The fishing hook is mainly based on the international general standard 18-22 sharp hook, and the lead drop should be equipped with a variety of models, such as 150 grams, 200 grams, 300 grams, 400 grams, etc., to adapt to the different water depths and sea slip flow rates during the fishing process. Anglers have the experience of falling, "often fishing in the water, which will not fall". In the past year, I have learned from experienced anglers a way to supplement the fishing fall, which is to prepare more river pebbles and bring a roll of tape paper. Using river pebbles as fishing falls, it is a pity to lose it, and it does not pollute the water body and does not cost money. Before going to sea, in addition to preparing more falls, the different types of fishing hooks tied to the branch lines must be prepared more, and can be quickly replaced when encountering fish of different weights and lost hooks.

Cod is a carnivorous fish, mainly feeding on animal meat bait, earthworms, fish meat, clam meat, octopus whiskers and so on. The crew initially used pork or beef and mutton to fish, and after fishing, they used fish to fish. As long as you get on the first fish, you don't have to worry about no bait, so don't forget to bring sharp knives and scissors to cut and cut the meat of the fish.

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