tynemouth beach--flatties

[mardenq]

do you ever get any on the pool to middle of the beach,never see anyone fishing it in the summer.thought of trying early morning or in the dark,is the beach to shallow.how about high tide off the old swimming pool casting onto sand or the middle of the beach at high tide,theres a big sand bar there at the min and the flatties at druridge are caught close in where the water is shallow and same at big beach s/shields

[Raptor1]

Reason is they are so few and far between is hardly worth the effort,King Edwards Bay and Whitley beach is the same,hand size fish,although a decent flattie does turn up now and again.

[mardenq]

Reason is they are so few and far between is hardly worth the effort,King Edwards Bay and Whitley beach is the same,hand size fish,although a decent flattie does turn up now and again.

strange how you get them at sluice-blyth-embleton-druridge-king eddys-south shields,ive had little flounders-plaice-turbot ect only casting 10-20 yards and theres always a few lads fishing these beaches for them with light/match gear,i fish tynemouth loads in the autum/winter for codlings and have caught bass,coalies to but never any flatties and cant remember ever seeing anyone fishing tynemouth in the summer off the sand for flatties.maybe becauase as you say its been tried and nowt gets caught,if you look at the web cam at low water now it looks like there would be lots there as it floods.pitty as its 2 mins down road from me

[Geordie-UK]

The was someone who was fishing the big beach at shields and he caught loads of flatties, all sized, its only a stones throw away, so they are there.

[RossW]

Last winter I caught three decent flounders by accident whilst fishing for codling at the marks on the north end of the Tynemouth Beach. One came from Stoney Bottom (about 12oz), one from the bottom of the stairs (10oz) and a huge, skinny flounder from a miscast into Barge Bottom (1lb3oz about 20yards out).

But like the lads above have said, they're few and far between. The ground is more suited to codling, coalies etc. I wonder whether the lack of crabs and the greater number of shrimps and razors make Druridge and the Northumbrian Beaches better for flatties than Tynemouth and Whitley.

[davidhayley1945]

there are good size flds and odd decent plaice at king eddys,also the boiler skeer at Tynemouth and stoney bottom,lads tend to fish longsands more in the winter. davy.

[Charlton]

they are there but not in the numbers that they used to be, had some realy big butts when fishing for cod, they took a 6/0 hook that is how big they where. You can get plaice on Tynemouth beach in the summer but not many. Don't know what happened to the flounder, at one time winter and summer when out on my wonders you could find them in the rock pools and pools made by the tide when it went out, but over the last couple of years when out with the dog have hardly come across any.

[mardenq]

they are there but not in the numbers that they used to be, had some realy big butts when fishing for cod, they took a 6/0 hook that is how big they where. You can get plaice on Tynemouth beach in the summer but not many. Don't know what happened to the flounder, at one time winter and summer when out on my wonders you could find them in the rock pools and pools made by the tide when it went out, but over the last couple of years when out with the dog have hardly come across any.

might give the south side a go (100 or so yards from the pool) half tide down.will try a bit of crab and bluey.think that area is mostly clean sand so might get the chance of a flattie

[Raptor1]

Longsands Tynemouth.

Dont get me wrong had flounders over a pound from both Whitley and Tynemouth beaches while codling fishing september onwards, and within the last couple of years,never had a plaice,but they have turned up.Like Davey and Alan say if l had targeted flatfish would tend to try Boiler skeer ,Bottom of Stairs areas on Tynemouth.Watts Slope,Half Moons and Old Salts on Whitley all places caught them before regular even by accident.

[davidhayley1945]

there was a plaice caught from the half moon rocks last year nearly 5lbs in a Tynemouth match,there are nice holes either side which hold the odd flounder and occasional bass. davy.

[seery]

ive had a couple of small soles from long sands after dark on ragworm a few years back fishing on a warm calm summers night jim