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Met with Steve and Darren at Royal quays and picked up Mr G from Mill Dam at 6.45. We turned North from the peirs and after negotiating a safe passage around the Salmon nets we tried the ground off St Mary's.
The water was murky and weedy with visibility down to less than 18 inches so we headed further North off Blyth where the water was slightly cleaner but still too murky for lures such as shads and twintails. The ground off Newbiggin was our next port of call where Steve immediately landed a fresh run Cod of about 3lb. He returned the fish with some ceremonial bollocks about giving it to king Neptune which did us no good because we never touched another fish again on the Newbiggin ground. We decided to go where the water was clean so it was wrecking for the remainder of the day.
The few wrecks we tried did produce fish but it was still hard going and we ended the day with only 14 keepers in total. We did throw back several legal size Ling but we kept the Cod and Pollock which were mainly good clean fish.
On balance not a very productive day but not really surprising after the North Easterly stir up which has blighted our fishing for most of the season.
We need some Westerlies as soon as possible so I hope King Neptune remembers the fish we threw back for him and has a word with whatever God controls the wind.
The water was murky and weedy with visibility down to less than 18 inches so we headed further North off Blyth where the water was slightly cleaner but still too murky for lures such as shads and twintails. The ground off Newbiggin was our next port of call where Steve immediately landed a fresh run Cod of about 3lb. He returned the fish with some ceremonial bollocks about giving it to king Neptune which did us no good because we never touched another fish again on the Newbiggin ground. We decided to go where the water was clean so it was wrecking for the remainder of the day.
The few wrecks we tried did produce fish but it was still hard going and we ended the day with only 14 keepers in total. We did throw back several legal size Ling but we kept the Cod and Pollock which were mainly good clean fish.
On balance not a very productive day but not really surprising after the North Easterly stir up which has blighted our fishing for most of the season.
We need some Westerlies as soon as possible so I hope King Neptune remembers the fish we threw back for him and has a word with whatever God controls the wind.
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