Effects of Dredging

[drof46]

Deliberately went down the Tyne yesterday to check-out the effect that the dredging for the new tunnel is having on fishing.

Decided to fish one of the jetties at the owld 'Brighams' site which is down river from the dredger.

Got there around 11.00 with low tide @ 13.30 so any dredger spillage would be swept down to us.

Anyway managed to get a couple of tommy codling out in 2.5 hours - not exactly a decisive result.

We waited until around three-clock when the tide was flooding properly and went up to Hebburn on the grassy banks directly opposite the 'Duco' works - upriver from the dredger.

Managed five fish in five casts all tommy codling.

Stayed there for three hours and the final score was eleven codling (a couple of them 'keepers' but they went back anyway)

Used big ragworm baits, long-casting into the deepwater channel.

So the general consensus is that the dredger is having no negative effect at the minute AND it could be that the food dislodged by it is ecouraging fish into the area.

Drof

[Charlton]

Terry informed me at the South Shields Open that the type of dredegr they are using, sucks everything they dig up and it is pumped straight to shore and disposed of properly.

[Sigsy]

The waste is being pumped to infill tyne dock

[drof46]

The waste is being pumped to infill tyne dock

Aye, I read that.

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a load of decent ragworm in the 'spoil'

We used to buy it off the owld bucket-dredger crew in the 60's and 70's.

Drof

[mrchairman]

Theres more than just river muck being pumped through to the fill site at tynedock i have a mate working on the old timber yard and he rekons you can see some cracking codling and flounder among the the old tyres and river mud that is being sucked along the massive pipe.