difference between poor cod and pouting!!!!!!!!

had a handy enuff little session down in cobh tonight couple of cod caught and a lobster for flany555, aswell he cought either a pouting or a poor cod and im just wondering what the difference between the 2? i was thinkin that it was a pouting because it was a bit more plump and round??? or am i wrong???? sorry no image to uplaod he has em on his fone tho!!!!!!!

Pout are way deeper and have different colour bands along the body,but they fade the bigger the pout

Here we go again

Forget about deep bellies, smaller scales, a bigger smile or where they came from or how they ducked the bucket brigade to get here.

This is the only way to be dead sure of the ID before they are all dead and on someone's plate for dinner

The Poor Cod: The first anal fin begins behind the first dorsal fin

The Pouting: the first anal fin begins under the first dorsal fin

The best way to renenber is the poor cod has the poorer (lesser) anal fin

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The cfb fish ID book:


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thanks for the replys lads, much appreciated mr domney great diagrams must compare them now to the pics on his fone...........cheers again

Here we go again

Forget about deep bellies, smaller scales, a bigger smile or where they came from or how they ducked the bucket brigade to get here.

This is the only way to be dead sure of the ID before they are all dead and on someone's plate for dinner

Well done Donal

On the plevic fins ---- I use: "pouting past" (that is in a pout the pelvic fin go beyond the vent. A poor cod the fins only reach the vent)

@ Donal... once again you come to the rescue... well done and the diagram you have done has stuck in my head since the last time...
Think you should change your user name to Cpt Pouting!!

And compared to cod, is there any big difference in taste ?

Cheers

yes they taste crap good pot bait or conger mash

yes they taste crap good pot bait or conger mash

Which one now ?

jamie oliver was cooking pouting a while back and it looked delicious he reckoned as good or better than cod saying that they were fish over the pound weight

large pouting make fairly decent eating flesh is very delicate,they should be gutted straight away and kept very cool with ice packs, and eaten as soon as possible as in the same day they are caught

yes they taste crap good pot bait or conger mash

Which one now ?

both!