Newton Haven fishing bait collecting

[Davey-m]

A lad I know was done for digging at budle bay. charged with melestering worms and in court it was heard that he was taking the food from the baby chicks mouths of the wildfowl that live there.

[stevie.walker]

hi alan this is mick hardy from the blyth club me and my mate were moved on from a spot at holy island just last week by the warden he got very aggressive with my mate as he asked us to stop digging anyways as we didnt no our rights and he came up with alsorts of stuff we found it best to move on he told us there was a spot just of the main drag but when we tryed it it was total crap so my point is if i return i can tell him to jog on as u said they only lease the land and the crown own it.

As far as Iam aware (and I am sure someone may verify this) you can dig bait anywhere around the island apart from Budle Bay as long as you are not within 100 feet of the causeway.

Probably not a good idea to dig on the left hand side of the causeway (as you look at the island) as the area was used as a range during the war for pilots dropping all sorts of ordanance and live explosives regularly turn up.