Cullercoats / Tynemouth last night 21/10/09

[dave craig]

Well dont think I could have had a worse night! forstly me and my mate started off on cullercoats harbour about 7.30pm, conditions looked perfect and the pier (south) looked perfectly safe. cast in after about half an hour a freak wave out of knowhere came and took my box full of gear, my fish bag, and our bucket full of bait which we had just spent £30 on a matter of hours before! so pretty p****d off to say the least!! anyway left the pier straight after that and not to be defeated drove home to pick up some crab that i had in the freezer and fished slaty gut from 9-1am, again conditions looked perfect- no weed. so stood soaked to the skin for another four hours and managed a bloody rockling! couldnt believe it! so almost suicidal went home to bed!
so if anybody is thinking of fishing cullercoats harbour (or any other small breakwater for that matter) in a big sea, think twice before you do because it could quite easily be more than your bait bucket and tackle box that gets swept away. I learned the hard way last night.

[Brock]

This was the worst night of my life!

[johnf]

Its only a matter of time before someone gets in real trouble on the Cullercoats Piers. I wouldnt go near the piers with any big sea combined with a high tide. Stores & Alan Charlton mentioned it on another post they can get swamped from a couple of hours from low water. I'm Glad you managed to stay on it!

[5150]

Yeah you need to be very wary about when to fish Cullercoats, when I first started there it was only during the day and it took a couple of years to get used to keeping an eye on the sea before I even thought about fishing it at night.

[Stores]

Its only a matter of time before someone gets in real trouble on the Cullercoats Piers. I wouldnt go near the piers with any big sea combined with a high tide. Stores & Alan Charlton mentioned it on another post they can get swamped from a couple of hours from low water. I'm Glad you managed to stay on it!

It's not my way to patronise but it was actually dave craig's post where he was warned of the danger so he was, at least, forewarned. Just to hammer the point home does anyone remember fishing one of the NESA comps a few years ago? It was the one, fished in a good sea when Boblydon lost a monster in Cullercoats Harbour, fishing the next mornings low tide. Me and Rod couldn't hang around until the morning (me going back to Brum) so we fished the flood.....on the South Pier. The sea was nowhere near as big as it looks at the minute but by half tide I had itchy feet and we were off. It just seems to be that odd wave (or two waves with the back one catching the front one up) getting over the bar and funnelled up the skeers that catches you out and you're right - you can't really see them coming.
Dave is the latest of many - me included - who has had a scare in the Harbour. Stay safe guys.

[paulgalon]

seen u box bobing around behind the north pier gan dwn 2moro u might be lucky it still looked in 1 piece

[dave craig]

yeah i was warned and i have definitely learned my lesson- i suppose its the temptation to fish that can haze your safety awareness.
aye ill have a look down there 2moro cheers.