Slinky Kate

[kayos]

No reports Norman, have you not been out recently? Very few boat reports on NESA in the past few weeks?

[lingking]

No reports Norman, have you not been out recently? Very few boat reports on NESA in the past few weeks?

weather hasnt been that "boat" friendly mark

[Norman]

Aye Mark as Dunc says weekend weather been windy and wet ..... Always seems to come good on a Monday though


Norm

[bri1960]

Talking to lads out of Hartlepool been a very poor summer lets hope winter shore fishing better

[kayos]

Worst summer since we started messing about at the fishing, truly awful weather up here too!

[The Great Wallsendo]

At least Norman is on top of his orders

At least he should be

[Charlton]

don't think Norman and the lads have had a mention in the papers, normally in a few times, feel sorry for you lot with boats now the way the weather is these days, especially weekends, can remember when you could go out practically when you wanted to, very rarely got blown off

[canman]

Wish the jetstream would go to wherever it was in 1976. 6 weeks of totally settled weather over Britain.

[northeast1]

Yes a poor end to a poor year, a record low 29 trips for me this season and packing the boat away for the winter weekend after not wetting a line since the 1st of Oct.

Always next year, roll on late March

[Wasabi]

Yes a poor end to a poor year, a record low 29 trips for me this season and packing the boat away for the winter weekend after not wetting a line since the 1st of Oct.

Always next year, roll on late March

This was the most unreal season ever !! Not moaning about my broken boat again...had my last fishing trip mid September!!

Not only was the fishing totally different, the weather and sea currents made me believe I was a total beginner. We have been out on tides and weather, where we normally would fill the boat up and struggled and on days that looked hopeless, we caught well.
We really struggled in prime season like August, but did well in March or April, where we normally don't get a sniff.

TopTop wrecks like Adam Beck, Eagle, Trident, Gateshead, HC Flood gave us blanks, whilst some of the not so good suddenly held fish.

One wreck was accountable for most of our good catches and almost all of our double figure catches (forgive me for not naming it )

Anyway, the stamp of fish was better than normal. The average fish were 6-7lb and we had 14 fish over 10lb (of which 7 were over 15lb) between all of us.

The cracker of the season was James` 24lb ling, Ashley`s 18lb uptider cod and yours sincerely 18lb cod just 1/2 mile out on a 4 inch shad !!

I think the weird weather and currents were still a knock-on of El Nino and La Nina and the totally awkward behaviour of the cod was because of the inshore herring run.

It can only be a good thing to have the herrings back, but it seems we have to re-learn fishing for the cod !

[Davem]

I think you have a point about the Herring , cannot remember catching any on my last two boats . What methods now then mmmm

[Wasabi]

I think you have a point about the Herring , cannot remember catching any on my last two boats . What methods now then mmmm

If the herrings will be (like in the past) an annual event, I think we see the big ones much more inshore. I also think that tunnies and halibut will follow.

In September we hardly found any cod on the wrecks or in the deep water...in retrospect we should have looked for them near the rivers!

I also think it could be worth to target Salmon and Seatrout in the river mouth.

When we went out the herrings were jumping out of the water and I think they were hunted by some bigger fish !!