Catch Report "Grace" 13th December

[drifter]

John, Stevie and I left Royal Quays at 8am and headed North on what remained of the ebb tide. We stopped at one of our banker marks off Blyth and were immediately into fish despite there being no drift during slack water.
Many of the fish were undersize and immediately went back but I would guess for every seven or eight undersize fish landed a 3lb to 4lb fish would come to the boat.
We fished all the way to Cresswell, picking up fish at every mark and by this time all fish were being returned. This is the latest in the year that we've boat fished on the drift using the Shad / flowing trace method and we're hoping to get in a few more trips before Xmas.

[Davey1970]

well done gettin out and catching, a thought everyone would have rapped up for the winter, but it was very mild. keep them coming.

[Kev1n]

Long flowing traces with shads catching fish at this time of year, that's unusual. Was the water clear?

The weekend's forecast looks hopeful too.

[01kayak]

nice to see the boat lads staying out in the winter months plenty fish on the hard ground ,just need the weather ,we allways seem to pick a few up on the drift ,aswell ,good few fish suppers ,well done jeff

[drifter]

Long flowing traces with shads catching fish at this time of year, that's unusual. Was the water clear?

The weekend's forecast looks hopeful too.

We set out just before bottom of the tide so the clarity wasn't great from the Tyne outflow. The clarity improved significantly as we headed further North and off Cresswell the water was Gin clear.
Shadding needs good water clarity and we prefer to fish the ground so we dont want any Easterlies or heavy rain. We lost a lot of fish and even the fish landed were mostly just lip hooked so they were not taking as avidly as they do in the summer months. We piggy backed our Shads with prawn and that's why we caught as many fish, when we ran out of prawns the bites dropped off.

[dt1]

Another good session Tony , got to be init to win it