Blyth pier saturday

[bluepied2280]

Fished blyth pier saturday from 2.30pm til 8pm with fellow member justchips.we fished just before the end using lug,rag,squid.just chips landed a good plaice around about 1lb8oz on squid.nothing seemed to be doing using the bait,so around 5.30 we reverted to the tinsel feathers.i landed two macky and 9 coalies on them.justchips fished within a yard of myself using the same and blanked"strange".didnt see much else being caught apart from 2 macky on the end and the odd coalie.the place was swarming with kids and you couldnt get moved for them and the rubbish they were leaving lying about,gives bad impression
over all not a bad session

[Lowrider]

Cheers for the report but the rubbish and the crowds is one of the reasons i never fish there

[codseeker]

nice report mate a shame about the wild ones ,i know blyth is such a small pier and not as much room but ya shud see roker pier which is plentyfull space on some days its murder i do feel for you lads espeacially with the minors on there

[kela66]

had an hour on there tonight chocca block , lager cans floating about in the sea, cars parked well up the road ,rig / feather packets all over the place depressing stuff .full of the once a year angler's ,
i think i saw 5150 and fishing bairn on there but not sure ?

[g-force]

Well done on the plaice chaps, but as you say it can be pretty depressing on there at the moment with all the trash (and the litter don't help either ) - when I went on the other morning there were a couple of fish boxes and no amount of old carrier bags & packets, as well as old line (but strangely no cans?)

Afternoons / evenings are bad enough but weekends are the worst - I don't usually go anywhere near the place at these times, although the school holidays are yet to come! At least when the mackerel arrive in numbers you can catch them the full length of the pier, so for me it's a case of leaving the end to the nutters & cracking out the float - there's usually a bunch doing the same along the stretch before the bend & woe betide anyone who tries to monkey in with a spinner or daylights! It's so much more civilized

[5150]

i think i saw 5150 and fishing bairn on there but not sure ?

We were next to the bend, aye, where were you?

[kela66]

too your right (as you were leaving) will say alright next time im on

[dannyg4561]

rubbish on the pier

members of NESA,
i am a new member to this site, but reading the problems of rubbish has given me an idea, i fish alot down south from weymouth pier, and on that pier their are bait tables seats and bins. note bins, if we were able to set up a pitition or some thing to the council to put bins on the pier, or has this been put forward before.

[Richie_fishy]

when im on the piers i just clean up the crap and see what i can keep.. i bring bags all the time..

[willywetegg]

Hi Danny and welcome to NESA. To be honest, it would'nt make any difference if there were bins on the pier, they would still just throw there rubbish on the pier or in the sea. There is a big bin in the car park where you park your car and they have to walk past it to get to their car or home if they are walking. The carpark itself is always littered with fishing rubbish so I don't think a few bins on the pier would help at all. The price alone would be enough for the owners to say no.

I think there would only be one way to stop it and that would be to charge people to fish from it or close it. Unfortunatey it will probably be the latter when it does happen as some of the people that fish there just don't care.

That said though I don't think it is much worse than the other piers in the area. As codseeker said yesterday, Blyth pier is smaller so all of the problems are pushed into a much smaller area.

Jim.

[dannyg4561]

i bring bags to, but they are for fish. altho i never use them lol..

[5150]

Pier is owned by the Harbour Authority and it's not dedicated to the public so there's very little chance of them putting bins on it unfortunately. It does get in a right state, especially this time of year and seeing all the beer cans that were chucked in the other day doesn't leave much hope for a tidy beach this summer either.