Stingray nice weather report :) 21.05.09

[northeast1]

Day of two halfs weather wise, flat sea no wind at all and rain am, wind, choppy sea and sunny pm.

Nice day out anyway, tried 8 wrecks some 9-11 miles out with not a touch other than pouting so ended up heading close in again to do what i had hoped to avoid..rough ground fishing...ended up with the normal stamp of fish 1-3lb from there ad the scotties.

Water was very coloured but never seen ti so flat this year, drift was from 8am until about 1pm 0.1 to 0.3 of a knot. Dropped some big baits down ont he wrecks but nothing, bit slack for the pirk but gave it a bash anyway.

Canny company from Big.sid and he managed the 1st line caught herring today (see pic 6")

I tried every stop for mackerel from 1 mile to 11 mile sout but nothing yet.

Couple of pics but forgot i had the camera until the end of the trip

pic 1 Behind the boat
2 Close in at Tynemouth
3 Standard size codling
4 Nice Herring

[tonynufc]

do herring usually get caught in this area

[mark]

you do get them, has a look of a shad about that one

[davem2005]

Nice report richie. Shame the hols are not coming up with the goods.

Tony,
If you consider what Seahouses is famous for ...kippers...ie Herring a la barbie it should answer the question. Google Northumbria and herring and you will see it was once a staple industry.

The north sea was famous for the herring catches with all ports landing huge quantities. Scarborough and whitby had a huge herring fleet along with a renown tuna fishing industry based on the fact they chased them into the north sea. Where did they all go ? No points for a correct answer.

Incidently the region now imports herrings to provide the customers with their famous product.

Nice management Mr Commercial!!

Cheers
DAve

[fishingfanatastico]

Well done sounds like a good trip out.

[eddie t]

At least ya's give it a go mate nice pics too.

[big sid]

IT MOST CERTAINLY WAS A GOOD TRIP EVEN THOUGH THE FISH WERE PLAYING HARD TO FIND.GOOD WEATHER,SMASHING SKIPPER JUST A SHAME NEPTUNR HADN'T SENT ALONG SOME OF HIS PET COD FOR US.WHATS BETTER THAN TODAYWERE DOING IT ALL OVER AGAIN TOMORROW

[KeithB]

Well done lads, best of luck for tomorrow.

[Charlton]

do herring usually get caught in this area

only if you fish for them, use tiny hokkais once you have located the shoal on the finder, last summer and the summer before there was some good catches of herring.
AND I AM QUITE PARTIAL TO A HERRING AS WELL AS MACKEREL, HINT, HINT

[jason]

mmmm herring fried in butter with oats - class.

[northeast1]

Still looks like Whitby doing better than up here at the moment, hit some new wrecks and some cracking ones from last few years..not a sniff and perfect drfit and bang on top then down the sides...nowt..anywya out today but feel it will be the same story today.

[northeast1]

Same again today, nothing but scotties off the wrecks and the standard size codling and scotties on the rough ground.

Not a great deal about at all of late, spoke toa few people with no luck for them and also ended up on a 6 mile wreck with a Blyth charter and about 10 on board at 2pm...result for the boat....1 codling.

Still always next week and have a hell of a tann now and the weather was cracking...not a drop on rain all day at sea and flat sea.

Hope you have some luck Shanka after we held you up fueling main and back up tank up

Yer we showed a few large shoals on the sounder but never had any smaller hooks to catch them.

[Iva-Cod-on]

Spot on cheers for the info Rich and well done m8

[parrot]

re.herring

one of our lads off whitburn today came in with 3-4 herring,,must be a few knocking about,, cheers lads parrot....

[fishing bairn]

well done mate brilliant pics