port carlisle, advice please

[micky-quayle]

with the fishing cack over here at the moment going to give port carlisle a shot for the flounders over easter. i used to fish silloth quite a bit a few years ago but never got round to fishing port carlisle. wheres the best shots, whats parking like, is it best fished with light gear, i suppose crab is THE bait now. any advice appreciated.

[kingfisher]

head to burgh by sands go over all the cattle grids and you will come to some trees on the right with a picnic area park there .walk to the left along the tree line and fish there macky or blue and rag or maddies the best bait at the min but crab will fish better soon loads of fish at all ranges short long two hook flapppers being best dont have hooks to small as there is some good flatties good luck

[micky-quayle]

giving it a try tomorrow, fishing the afternoon tide then grab a bite to eat, a few hours kip in the car then fish the flood on the night before heading back. supposed to be fishing very well at present so very hopeful of lots of action. got plenty fresh crab and macky so hopefully got what they want.

[kingfisher]

maddies and bluey is a good bait to beat over there and yes it is fishing very well, seaton sluice have a match across there on sunday

[mickcave83]

Mick i was over last week and worm and bluey done the bussiness, gareth, ding and tommy fished the port carlisle open on saturday, gareth won, ding was 2nd and and tommy 4th.

enjoy your day but becareful on the flood it races in, its that fast it scary, i prefer over high water

[sk4]

Mick i was over last week and worm and bluey done the bussiness, gareth, ding and tommy fished the port carlisle open on saturday, gareth won, ding was 2nd and and tommy 4th.

enjoy your day but becareful on the flood it races in, its that fast it scary, i prefer over high water

Was fishing that match was on the next peg to ding he gad 26 all on fresh crab tipped with mackerel was that the same match????

[micky-quayle]

Well I arrived about 9 o'clock and started next to the trees to the left of the picnic area, not quite low water, (the BBC tide times are wrong by 1 hour, it says they are stated in bst they aren't they are in gmt, so I mis plonked by an hour) first cast a flounder about 1lb, good start I thought then nothing at all for 2 hours then another about the same size. Another hour or so passed with nothing else so decided on a move. Drove to just outside port Carlisle and pulled into a lay-by close to the water, the tide was still well out so started to fish on the mud then about 2 o'clock the bore came, quite a big one, got some good piccys of it I'll post them when I get home. The tide really started to race in and soon pushed me up onto the grass, then the action started with a steady flow of flounders on the flood and about an hour and a half into the ebb, plenty double shots but nothing huge best about 1lb 8oz. I lost count of how many I had but it was well over 20. All fish were caught on fresh crab, tried macky a few times but no success. Another bloke down fishing was using rag and only had one fish so they have definitely switched their preference to crab now. Weather was hot and sunny after a chilly murky start, a good enjoyable session, no monsters but loads of action in a manic two and a half hour spell. Too tired to drive back tonight so going to get a few hours kip in the car then fish top of the water through the night and drive back early in the morning.

[micky-quayle]

just got back home, fished just over 2 hours this morning at the same spot loads of flounders again (about 20). just before i packed up the rod lunged down and stayed down, double shot of flounders including a beauty which measured 47cm, heres the piccy


heres a piccy of the tidal bore yesterday