Hendon 16/02/2014

[Stewart 1971]

My second Seaham club match of the year today, the plan had been to fish the pier but by the time I got to registration all the pier pegs were gone Could have fished below 75 I suppose but after a bit think in the car I decided to head for Hendon Prom.

Got there at half eleven and with HT not till 4:20 and a big tide surprise surprise there was hardly any water there. Was going to head for the end of the prom but there were loads of old bill down there and it was cordoned off so I ended up a couple of bays down from the pipe where the ramp goes down on to the beach. Decided scratching was order of the day so got set up with a two hook clipdown rig, lug on one and bluey on the other and trudged down on to the sand to belt it out.

Fifteen minutes later I pulled in to change bait and found a little codlet on the lugworm so at least the blank was saved:


A few casts later the curse of firt-castitis was banished with a nice little Flounder coming to bluey


Things were pretty slow but at least the tide was flooding in fairly quickly. I did manage and other little codlet and a Flounder barely the size of my palm and then just after three pm I got my first reasonable bite, another decent pull and I lifted in to what felt a slightly better fish and after negotiating it through the backwash I had my first size codling of 2014


Fished on for the last two hours of the comp with no further luck, then on the very last cast as I was pulling in to pack away and head for the weigh in I landed the worlds littlest Whiting


All in all a canny day out, half a dozen fish including tomorrow nights tea. The codlets and the whiting took straight lugworm while both flounder and the better codling took bluey. All fish came at long range and when I didn't have a fish the baits were coming back untouched so no bother with the crabs today which is always a bonus

[GEORDIE H]

Well done Stewart you did better than me on the pier mate i only had 1 bite a 1-01lb whiting just before it became awash, Your codling of 1-61lb got you 1 piont and you were 12th mate just done paper work.

[lead chucker]

Well done mate, was just wondering why old bill had far end of pier blocked off??

[Stewart 1971]

Well done mate, was just wondering why old bill had far end of pier blocked off??

No idea, they had a couple of cars and an unmarked van down there, they were there when I got there and finally left a couple of hours later so whatever it was they were there for a good while

[lead chucker]

Aye seems strange, I fished Ryhope cliffs for an odd hour over high water this evening, I could see a bobby and a railtrack worker on the line.

[mick dunn]

Well done. Me and my mate fished Roker beach today in club comp. Lots of small stuff with just a decent whitey.
Mick.

[Nooo Fish]

Not a bad days fishing Stewart mate. Enough different fish to keep ya happy eh?

[Stewart 1971]

Not a bad days fishing Stewart mate. Enough different fish to keep ya happy eh?

Cheers mate, it's certainly looking a bit better for the species hunt table thats for sure

[codcatcher3000]

nice variety of fish with a nice codling too. well done

[regpude]

nice report steward.sounded like a bit hard going.atleast teas sorted for tomorrow,mind you will need a few chips@ slices of bread,haha.good times just round the corner? enjoyed reading your venture.

[safc]

fished the ryhope comp in the end bay. ended up with 2 whities and a flatty

was expecting a fish a chuck as it got dark

[hound hunter]

nice mxd bag,well done

[toonboymc]

welldone mate a canny session with a nice fish supper too

[g.ordon]

canny variety mate so well done

[andyco]

Well done on the catches, looks like a good session with a few different species.

How is your scratching rig made up? I usually just use one hook, or a pennel, on either a flapper, pulley or running ledger. I'm gonna make up some scratching rigs, was thinking, 6' rig body, three 12" snoods, size 2 aberdeens?