Catch Reports

[seanyrooroo]

I love reading the catch reports in here, they are often amusing and good crack. Mostly though they are a valuable source of information. You can scroll through and find where was fishing well this time last year, what conditions, bait, marks etc. Novices can learn through other peoples fortunes/misfortunes. Also a great place to eye up new marks that you may be thinking of fishing.
I nearly always put up my catch reports wether I've caught or not. I don't believe that any angler can boast they know everything, our hobby is a learning curve. I have 24 years experience but wouldn't dare boast I know it all. I will continue to put up my catch reports so other anglers can enjoy my highs and lows and hopefully learn more.

I entirely agree with Pottsy though, there are a small number of people who join purely for an argument. Our cod stocks are definitely in decline, but, I don't think they are as bad as some people would have us believe. The cod are there if you put the time and effort in you will be rewarded.

Going down every weekend during daylight hours, when the sea is as flat as a fart aint always gonna put you among cod. Tides, sea conditions, time etc are all factors that effect fishing, and naturally if you don't catch cod you think they aren't there. That is wrong though, I've been down during the night , when it's flat and caught no cod, but a bloke comes along using whites and pulls them in one after another. How?? His bait is better than mine, but an hour ago I thought there were no cod here!! So I know that just because I'm not catching doesn't mean the species has been wiped out.See what I'm getting at?

Catch reports are a valuable commodity to this forum, and I will continue to share good and bad days.

Sean

[treeboa]

being a newbie to the area the catch reports are what i read to give me an idea whats about and when, however i aint under any illusions that because someone caught a lunker cod last night at mark x i will go there today and catch similar, however it helps me from going to mark y and going for say cod and later finding out i would have been better fishing in the grid , being an ex merseysider we hear that the east coasts the cod mecca, however the east cost like out west coast is a big place, hell even the river mersey, that can throw up good cod is a very strange place, there are certain marks there that produce and others you would think are good cod marks that dont, again its down to reading the catch reports and seeing trends from the areas, and of course using the right bait at the right time, i dont mind sharing what info i have, even if i blank

[jimmy]

Read my edited post. Think I was having a PMT moment but what I say goes there has been alot of backbiting lately and we want this forum to work. You are more likely to get more catch reports by putting up a thread saying - I really like reading about peoples fishing trips and have learned loads form them so please keep up the good work

...see the difference

Oh and well done on catching

Ali you dont suffer from PMT,but everything you said was true and to the point,whats the use of everyone who goes out and blanks posting about it,i do like to read about people being out if they catch or not,but it becomes a bit monotinous if EVERY post is about not catching.
There are people come on a lot of forums just to wind people up,take the pi** etc etc.
these are the people who get forums a bad name,if they dont like what they see or read,they have the option not to visit that forum again.

well rant over now


STEW well done on your catch mate,oh i was out saturday night at seaburn beach fishing the tide up,caught 1 undersize and had a massive bite and slackliner which snagged me up then came to nothing,baits were mussell,squid,runnydown and yellow tails,pennell pulley fished at about 80 yds out.dont know where ya from mate but if ya ever want to fish some marks south or north of the tyne with me your welcome,maybe we can both learn from each other

[5150]

Got to say, I rarely post a catch report on here and rarely catch anything these days but mainly because I'm lucky if I go fishing once every two months and when I do it is when time allows rather than when conditions are ideal - but I don't go for the fish, I go to clear my head, relax and take in the sounds and smell of the sea, it isn't all about the fish. I'd sooner go out and come back relaxed and mellow than spend half a night dodging from mark to mark wasting time and money for a couple of mention-worthy fish, I'd sooner sit somewhere like the Wansbeck and catch average sized flatties for a couple of hours, or take the kids to Amble harbour and see them catch puddlers on poundshop rods. Done my time in my late teens through twenties standing on Seaton Sluice beach all night long, had my memorable big cod from there, big Bass from Cambois, bin-lid plaice from Blyth pier etc. Fishing certainly is different now to the 70's/80's, I can recall fishing Blyth harbour with my dad, puddlers then were never less than a pound weight, codling 1-2lbs, not the small stuff we see now in there.

[paulthespark]

to stewy 07, i was the bloke who started the thread [cod in the decline] and i was not trying to be bitchy all i was doing was having a moan. i could say everthing on our angling front is fantastic but that would,t be true.i joined this forum hoping to have frank and open diolog on every thing to do with sea angling up and down our n.e coast.iv,e never critisiced any bodys reply to my comments ,and sometimesi i think people are not grasping what i,m trying to ay

[willywetegg]

Paul, I don't think you are grasping what Stewy07 was trying to say either lol. He didn't say that you were being bitchy. Read his post again mate

Jim.

[Red5]

I personally don't post catch reports on here as I do so through our local paper (the Northumberladn Gazette) where I am the reporter for our club. However I never state where the fish come from. Call me a nimby or whatever, but the lads in our club never tend to venture far afield and only fish a small stretch of the coast, which can become overcrowded very quickly if a mark is producing fish and people find out. There were apparently tens of lights at Seaton Point on Saturday night after a picture was published in a paper on Friday of a fish that had been caught from there in December. Again back in December Seaton went through a purple patch for a couple of nights and the following Sunday there were 30 lights fishing as far as the eye could see.
I see my attitude to posting as being no different from those that don't post about where bass have come from to prevent them being netted.
Each to their own. If you want to state a mark, all good and well, but some of us like the odd secret kept that way

[paulthespark]

sorry willy ;did read stewy 07 rerpy wrong 'apoligies stewy

[stewy07]

No worries Paul. I agree Red5, thats my point nobody really knows whats being caught. Just taking it off a few catch reports of the same people who happyly give there time to report on here is not a fair basis of fish stocks. I've been on the beach loads of times over the years looking at other anglers nearby thinking i'm blanking, they're blanking, fish mustn't be here. Then a walk past them on my way back and theres a brace of cod beside them. Why have they caught and i haven't, it's not luck most of the time.