Here we go! I think this is called merk!!!
Good luck (not too much) and stay safe to all.
Rob
it looks beautiful out there ..... lets go!
Just had a photo sent to me from the Cod Comp today!
Im only jealous... 
Dan
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I suppose everybody is returning now with their boats stuffed to the gunnels with huge cod. I'm very jealous, all I've done is had a nice walk and a large roast lunch preceded by a German beer, accompanied by a very acceptable Chablis and followed by coffee and a nap. Just think, I could have been out on a mirror like sea hauling in big ones. Oh well! Next time.
Terry.
Terry ... it was FAR FROM mirror like!!
I have just got back, i'm not full to the gunnels with fat cod (plenty of whiting tho). I had one large conger (around 30LB) about a million doggies, a few pout, lots of whiting and we dropped 2 big fish (probably congers but we would like to believe cod). I'll let the others post their catches.
Oh yeah, at one point we heard someone on the radio say they counted 84 boats off the needles!!
Codless for me and Mike,usual other fish and a couple of big congers.
My mate Andy from the island had a 31lb 8oz beauty which he deserves after two days on cod championship without a fish!
Just one small Cod on MONDAR today, to me - a very lean fish that weighed in at 7lb 6oz.
Toby
Cod less on boblin too. Bobi managed a Smalleyed ray to add to our species list.
Colin
Nothing on the cod front for JoJo. Though my crew who used to do the odd bit of fishing was well chuffed with a conger of 18.5lb, his previous best fish was less than 5lb.
I only counted 73 boats without bins!
I'd of rather stayed at home mind you, horrible lumpy sea!
Rob
This is a post on behalf of Martin Cherritt (Branco on forum)
Martin had one cod of 25lb 2oz when weighed back at
mudeford slip 
His crew non member had one of 14lb.
I suggested he fish the mark i caught 3 cod last thursday
and he took my advice
Well done Martin very good cod on a little boat 
MIKE
Hard goning DR today! sat it out to last knockings, one conger and the usual bits and bobs inc a large rockling! not a sniff from a cod tho,
I counted 67 boats at one point with more turning up!
well done to those who found a cod or two, a couple of nice fish caught by the looks of it 
James
I manage a Cod of 20lb 1oz Today and lots of dogs. Thats 2 cod in the same week. We decided not to visit the car park and stayed a bit closer to home.
If someone can turn this link into a photo i would appreciate it.
Mick B
Thank you Martin
Mick B
Nice fish Mick
Looks handsome athough a bit skinny so a potentially heavier fish if it had eaten couple of boxes of squid prior to the catch
PJ
We managed flat cod (thornback), long cod (conger), sandpaper cod (LSD), and poxy cod (pout) but no real cod
What a horrible sea! And sooo many boats, including one that anchored 20 meters uptide of us then proceeded to drag past us....
Still, managed to navigate via the new radar through the peasouper at Hurst, so it wasn't a completely duff day
Well done to those that managed to catch.