I thought I'd get schooled in the art of cod filetting before we embarked on some recreational cod fishing in Motion Bay, Newfoundland today. I wanted to feel the smell of a fresh catch. Glad I felt this before I left the dock. Well it looks like they are biting today boys? They said we should have no problem. Hmmmmm. Final last words!!
It was beautiful paddling out of Petty Harbour this morning at 1015h to fetch some cod. It proved easier said than done. For us anyways.
Steve having a bit of a paddle before we attempt to relocate to another spot to catch some cod fish as we participated in the "food fishery" today. Then cod season is over till next year. We were allowed to get 5 with a max of fifteen per fishing boat. They were pulling them in all around us. The lines were not out for 5 minutes it seems and they were pulling them in. We did not.
Nope....we had fun trying in Motion Bay, Newfoundland. The rope for our anchor (100 ft) wasn't long enough. So we drifted way too much and had some line tangling. We didn't have the proper line either or the right spool. This was practise for next year. We thought we let them get nice and fat for us.lol
Well it didn't take us long to figure out two things as we rafted up to jig for the cod. Number one was it was easy to understand how this Bay git its' name. It is constantly in "motion" lop, slop-de-bop. We were the proverbial bobbing cork. You can See Maddox Cove in the distance though. Since we didn't have to spend time taking cod of our lines we had lots of time to site-see :(
Well Steve try we did. It was tough watching all those boats pull in their catch all around us though. Next year we'll have the technique.
