Coalfish

[RossW]

Just read the report from BOTAC match on the pier (what a winning mixed bag - 35lb 10oz!). Interesting that there are so many coalies about...

...I live miles away from the NE coast and only have a couple of weeks over Xmas to look forward to some fishing. If the seas are good then I'll be fishing for codling on Tynemouth and Whitley Bay beaches as usual. If the seas are flat, are there any beach marks/rock marks between the tyne and Seaton Sluice that
consistently produce decent coalies? I hardly ever seem to get any. Or do they need a sea running too?

Any advice greatly appreciated

[seanyrooroo]

Piers normally produce good number of coalies when it's flat but they tend to be on the smaller side. When a bit of sea is running it tends to throw the bigger ones up. I always had plenty coalies at the ramp at blyth, but none were ever any big.

[Charlton]

since the sewer pipes at Rocky Island, Whitley pipe, Tynemouth, LLoyds Jetty and Blyth stopped being used the coalies did a vanishing act. At one time you could get some realy big ones at high water when they washed North Shields Quay and all the bits and pieces came out at the fish quay sands, but no more. They are there not far off and now only seem to come in, in numbers at South Shields, Tynemouth, Seaham and Roker piers.

[RossW]

Cheers

Thanks for that guys...I guess it's hard to rely on them being there.

I don't know whether it's nostalgia but I seem to remember catching tons of them at Amble when I was fishing with my Dad as a kid (15 or so years ago).

I didn't realise they were so keen on sewage, like!...I used to eat them too. Oh, well - it's all good natural stuff, I suppose Cheers

[Topfly]

Ross, where the sewage outfalls were, there were probs lots of worms and crabs, apart from the sh@t. After digging bait as a kid with my dad, we used to floatfish at the fish quay and catch massive coalies......wish they'd come back without the copper rivetts ..

[RossW]

Aye, Topfly, float-fishing...sounds like fun, cos coalies are good little fighters. Have to give it try some time.

Just phoned my old Dad to berate him for feeding me s**t-filled coalie cakes as a kid and he pleaded ignorance. Glad to hear that wasn't their only food source. Gutting fish stinks bad enough as it is..

[Charlie_Thompson]

[Charlton]

Napoleon's army ate their own "they lost didnt they"

[RossW]

Pooey coalies

Tell me you ate them too, Mr Charlton, or I won't be able to look my father in the eye this Xmas... (We put manure on our tomatoes after all)

[Topfly]

We put cheese on ours....

[gazzawill]

We put cheese on ours....
lmao cheese and tomatoe sarnies mate pmsl