Trip Up the Coast

[NUFC09]

Me and some mates are heading up the coast on monday, for a fishing trip, have no idea where to go though. Is there any place up north, say berwick area worth fishing at the minute with the flat sea? Mainly hoping for cod and obviously wanting to fish off rocks/kelp etc. Cheers

[Gaverick]

Depending on the weather St. Abbs will be worth a shot, you need a head for heights mind.

[NUFC09]

i thought about st abbs, does it fish best when its calm/flat? how do you get to the marks, from st abbs itself? Also bait tactics etc?

[Gaverick]

i thought about st abbs, does it fish best when its calm/flat? how do you get to the marks, from st abbs itself? Also bait tactics etc?

I would recommend fishing in relative calm because it can get quite nasty on the rocks if the sea is up. I park in the nature reserve next to the light house and you just put a donation in the box for all day parking. Then there are various marks that you climb down the cliffs to. It's probably best to be shown the way your first time there though. Tactics I use are simple pulley rigs with a rotten bottom and all the usual baits that you would use round here. There's also Coldingham bay a bit south of St. Abbs for an easy and safe mark. Fishing off the rocks you can get bass, coalies, whitey and I imagine cod but I went there in the summer so never caught any cod there.

[Stores]

"I would recommend fishing in relative calm because it can get quite nasty on the rocks if the sea is up."
I would go further than that and recommend fishing in VERY calm conditions as it can get VERY nasty on the rocks if the sea is up OR the rocks are wet. Would dismiss Coldingham Bay as not worth the petrol money. If I was to venture that way and it was flat calm I would go to the Golf Course at Eyemouth. If there's a bit sea on I'd try Burnmouth or THE north side of Berwick pier (both low water shots).