Lesser Spotted Dogfish

[RossW]

It's mad that southern anglers hate them and we like them... I know there are still not many about but what are the best places to have a chance of a LSD in the North East?

Thanks for any help

[Bushwhacker]

Seaham north pier is your best shot for one.
Sandeel bait.Size 1 hook.
There is also an odd one comes from roker roundhead.

[Debaitable]

i've had a couple from hartlepool marina. first sized fish i caught and when it surfaced belly up i thought it was a small Shark haha, learned a bit since then lol

[davidhayley1945]

a few of tynemouth pier in club matchs barrie had one a few weeks back. davy.

[OuTkast76]

i've had a couple from hartlepool marina. first sized fish i caught and when it surfaced belly up i thought it was a small Shark haha, learned a bit since then lol

It is a small shark

[RossW]

Thanks for the replies lads. Has anyone ever got one as far up as Craster/Dunstanburgh?

[eddie t]

theres also been a few thornbacks and spotted rays come off seaham pier as well.

[OuTkast76]

Thanks for the replies lads. Has anyone ever got one as far up as Craster/Dunstanburgh?

To be honest i dont think its really a species you can target very well in the north east it will be mainly pot luck cathcing one as the arent very prolific around our coast compared to the west coast etc, Good luck in your hunt anyways

[g-force]

Thanks for the replies lads. Has anyone ever got one as far up as Craster/Dunstanburgh?

Not had one myself, but Craster does throw up a few each summer; we've had one or two in our summer matches. They tend to be very dark, almost black; and a friend of mine had a very good one while pleasure fishing, well over 4lb, that would most likely have been a N/E record if he'd kept it & had it verified.

Gary

[codseeker]

seaham seems to be the best area round here sure there wer alot weighed in from one comp on there weeks back so they there in numbers

[davidhayley1945]

beadnell throw a few out of the long skeer in the summer. davy.

[CHUKKA]

Cullernose point through to Craster.

[Stores]

Coldingham

[Stewart 1971]

Horden hoys a few out after dark, in fact I'd hazard a guess that most of the colliery beaches would produce Woofers after the sun goes down but so very few fish them in the summer it's a bit of an unknown quantity. Now if the Smoothhound continue their northward migration and start showing off the Durham coast, then you really would see packed summer night beaches...

As for hating them: when you have made a 200 mile round trip to fish Chesil beach hoping for Trigger Fish, Conger, Bass or Ray but your bait is being nabbed by 1lb LSD's within moments of being cast out then yes, you soon come to hate the little scavengers.

[waco]

Thanks for the replies lads. Has anyone ever got one as far up as Craster/Dunstanburgh?

i have fished craster lots of times and have ahd 1 off cullernose point and 1 from the black hole and have also heard of a few more from that area, alos 1 off the walkway at shields and seen bout a dozen taken off shields pier in the last13 year