Bottom of The Stairs

[The Great Wallsendo]

Is the above mark considered a High Water shot?

Cheers

[codseeker]

what stairs lol?

[The Great Wallsendo]

It's a mark at the North end of Tynemouth beach...quite literally at the bottom of some stairs

[codseeker]

so i gather that it is a sheltered mark with it been northside out of this whirlwind

[johnf]

Is the above mark considered a High Water shot?

Cheers

Nope. Although it might be worth a chuck at top water on a small tide.

[Charlton]

Is the above mark considered a High Water shot?

Cheers

yes the bottom of the stairs is a HW to half tide shot, but you can also follow the tide down to the Flat Rocks, slightly to your right, or onto Slatey Gut

[pollacks]

bottom stairs

I have caught fish before from there high water even from at the bottom of ramp.could have been fluke or maybe just how the beach has been shaped at the time.best of luck if you try.

[Stores]

Couple of debating points. Unlike Alan I've never fished it at high tide off either the prom or the beach but it's always the first accessible mark on the beach on the ebb.

Point 1 - during the Tsunami comp, organised by Tim, I fished the BOS and caught 2 fish first two casts, fishing around the group of rocks that you walk past, high and dry, at low tide so there are fish well up the tide.

Point 2 - ages ago, on a weekend trip, I'd got up at 5am to fish the ebb, before setting off back to Cannock so, predictably, I was on the beach on my own. Looking along the beach 2 chaps arrived and started plodging around below the Toilets mark. I had a walk along and they were hauling a net they'd stuck, randomly it appeared, along the beach. They had 2 codling, one about 2lb and one that must have been nearer 15lb. The setting for their net was flat and featureless. The fish were obviously, to me, running along the beach.

Debate? We get in our minds that certain marks fish at certain stages of the tide and in certain conditions and we base this on, sometimes, years of experience but fishing sometimes defies that logic.

Having wrote the book, the year it came out I caught fish on the ebb at one of the marks I said I'd never done previous. I'm sure this has happened to most of us. It doesn't change the odds of catching but it does put doubt in the mind.

[RossW]

Have fished The Bottom of the Stairs, Tynemouth quite a few times over past 7/8 years. Have caught Codling around L/W including one in quite bright daylight in December. All 1-2lb. Only fished H/W to halftide once and had a couple of little coalies.

[The Great Wallsendo]

Similar theories abound that Whitley will only fish when there's a bit of movement...yet I caught a 3.5lb Cod in calm conditions last year

I guess when the fish are there there is not always hard and fast rule for a given mark

[RossW]

If you do fish the BoftheStairs, Tony, please post a nice long report for this homesick North Shields lad. Even if you catch nowt - just tell me what it was like..the smell of the sea, that wonderful feeling when lugworms explode all over your coat etc... (gotta get back up the road soon)
Cheers mate

[The Great Wallsendo]

If you do fish the BoftheStairs, Tony, please post a nice long report for this homesick North Shields lad. Even if you catch nowt - just tell me what it was like..the smell of the sea, that wonderful feeling when lugworms explode all over your coat etc... (gotta get back up the road soon)
Cheers mate

get yersel up for the 13th of December