SPRING INTO COD
Feb 03, 2022
4 minutes
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photography by
SEA ANGLER
While overfishing and warming seas are both having their impacts on the number of cod around the UK coast the places that can still produce big winter fish do so while the cod feed voraciously, packing in their calorie-rich prey needed to produce their millions of eggs, migrate offshore and spawn, typically in late winter.
It’s at this stage that shore anglers should readjust their expectations and focus on immature cod up to 5lb known to anglers as codling. While the fish are smaller, what they lack in weight they can make up for in numbers as they shoal and
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