Atlantic Cod Details

  • Water Type: saltwater
  • Latin Name: Gadus morhua
  • Common Names: cod, rock cod, green cod, Finnan Haddie
  • Water Temp: 40-50 degrees
  • World Record: 98 lbs, 12 oz.
  • Last Modified By: nefisherman92 on 02/07/13 05:15 PM
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Baits and Tackle for Atlantic Cod

Other Check Prices

  • More cut clams this time. Tried to include darker pieces of stomch, the fish seem to bite more often on those.
  • Calms - All Between 10"-12"

Other Check Prices

  • Cut clam on a weighted hook brought this one in.
  • clams for bait, catching doubles all day
  • Hooks baited with clams above a 1lb weight.

Worm Check Prices

  • Worm cocktail baits

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Norwegian Jigs and pink teasers
    We caught over 125 fish and kept 80 as the limit is ten per person 24 inch length minimum
  • Butterfly Jig
  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers
  • Non-Keeper

Squid Check Prices

Atlantic Cod Description

The founding fish of Massachusetts the cod has been a staple of the diet of New Englanders and Europeans for hundreds of years. These fish are a long, deep bodied, blunt finned streamlined fish, colored copper to green and found often up to 50lbs out on deep ledges and banks. Caught bottom fishing from 20-400ft with bait or jigs, the cod is a very good eating fish with firm flaky white flesh. An excellent book, COD, was written by Mark Kurlansky that details the world's long history with the cod.

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