Sunday evening session

[phil1]

Going to try our luck tonight from Hartlepool yacht club for a few hours, going at 6.30pm when we finish work. Got no bait , can anyone recommend any decent bait from the supermarket, was thinking of getting some mackerel and mussels. Will post a report tomorrow and hopefully with photo's if we catch anything and if i can work out how to upload photo's. Will be trying inshore wrecks about 3 to 4 mile out.

[Kartonkel]

I do not know about Hartlepool in specific, but the trend looks like that:

Fishing is better on the inshore grounds. The wrecks produce bigger fish, but way offshore and only a few.

Loads of codling on the rough grounds, 3/4 of them undersized but the odd keepers

The best baits seems shads.
Best colours: green, white and blue 4 inch

Bait: By a mile the best bait atm is crab, but it attracts little ones

Also good: prawns on hokkai

disappointing: worms, squid

If you do do the wrecks, try to catch a fresh mack, but they are very very scattered

Good mark near Hartlepool to catch them is a drift over 54 42.25N 1 2.01W ish

hope it helps

[phil1]

Thanks for the info Kartonkel, appreciate it, will give that area a go and let you know how we got on. Got plenty of shads in most colours and hokkies so we will try both methods.
cheers phil.

[DreamofTurbot]

I do not know about Hartlepool in specific, but the trend looks like that:

Fishing is better on the inshore grounds. The wrecks produce bigger fish, but way offshore and only a few.

Loads of codling on the rough grounds, 3/4 of them undersized but the odd keepers

The best baits seems shads.
Best colours: green, white and blue 4 inch

Bait: By a mile the best bait atm is crab, but it attracts little ones

Also good: prawns on hokkai

disappointing: worms, squid

If you do do the wrecks, try to catch a fresh mack, but they are very very scattered

Good mark near Hartlepool to catch them is a drift over 54 42.25N 1 2.01W ish

hope it helps

Yesterday on our boat out of Hartlepool the fishing was poor but it was squid on shiny daylights that did the trick. I got two on them and only one from leadhead pearl colour. I tried all sorts of shad, redgill, twintails on different colour with no luck. Even the surefire rhubarb and custard didn't catch any. I never had to try so many colours of shad in my memory yet caught so few fish on them.

I don't think hokkei tipped with prawn caught any yesterday but the pink hokkei with squid caught one or two.

There were quite a few undersized codling caught and only one big macky.