[Codfisha15]

was stumbling around on the internet and came across this pic:

my norwegian is a little rusty but I think it says that the fish weighed 46 kg bled =101.2 pounds! Big fish.

Yikes

 

[tunafever]

wowza!! Now I'll have nightmare of being attacked by one of those things.

This post edited by tunafever 11:46 AM 02/20/2008

 

[ckonkol]

Thats a monster. I think I remember Sam posting a pic a while back in the Cod fishing report thread.

 

[shawn22]

that's one **** of a codfish!

 

[KILSONG]

The largest cod ever recorded was caught off Massachusette coast at 211 pounds.

 

[Codfisha15]

One Phil Eastman, apparently a more adept Norwegian scholar than myself (doesn't take much), opines that the fish weighed 46kg gutted, not bled, and that the estimated whole weight was actually 56kg, roughly 121lbs...

 

[clementine]

Big Cod

Here's a big cod that Al Grover Sr. caught back in the day. Winter off long island, just a compass. 82 pounds i believe..

 

[MisterX]

I Dig the white shoes!

 

[Aquarius]

I spoke to Al about that fish. He caught it on a set line that he was tending for a Freeport fisherman whose boat was broken down. They put the fish on display at the Nassua Boat Show sitting on ice in the ****pit of a Groverbuilt they had on display. He ended up eating the fish after it spent a week on ice at the show. He had said they brought in over 2500 lbs of cod that day. Didn't even realize how big the fish was until he got back to the dock. It was just he and his wife on board as I recall the story. Happened in the late '70s.

 

[clementine]

Cod

Thanks for the story Aquarius

 

[JC30967]

Anyone remember, or have any details on, the NYS record codfish, think it's 85lbs or something? I believe it was caught out of Montauk at CIA in the early 80's. Wondering if anyone here saw it, or knows someone who did.
The story behind Grover's big cod is great

. Unbelievable, it was caught right out of Freeport, just 30 some years ago.

 

[ctwhitechin]

that big cod, 85 pounds, was caught by Fred "Motor" Shay on the Marin, I saw the fish, well a mount of it anyway, at Edelmans in Farmingdale.

That was some fish.

 

[MisterX]

I wonder what happened to that mount....?

 

[chumslk]

Anybody remember Kenny the Cod ? Guy could have wrote a book on all the large cod, halibut, etc. that he caught back in the 60s and 70s.
If he was on the boat you could pretty much forget about the pool.

 

[JC30967]

ctwhitechin wrote:
that big cod, 85 pounds, was caught by Fred "Motor" Shay on the Marin, I saw the fish, well a mount of it anyway, at Edelmans in Farmingdale.

That was some fish.

I remember a mount of a huge codfish there, wasn't aware that that was the fish. It must have been unbelievable to see it live, though

!
Fred Shay fishes the Viking a lot, correct? I've heard about him from other Viking regulars, not sure if I've ever seen him, though.

 

[fishfinder13]

correct

Freddy Shay does fish the viking alot.
I have fished with him many times.
He is one **** of a fisherman thats for sure.

His big cod was caught on the marlin 5 and i believe there is a mount in salivars restaurant in montauk also.