Haddock

[roybert]

Long lining with me Uncle Alfie off whitburn around 48 years ago, I remember him pulling quite a few Haddock in. Better tasting fish than Cod too.

[Muad_Dib]

excellent catch !

[Bushwhacker]

What an amazing catch. Congratulations!

No one has caught a Haddock for about 20 years off the shore I'm guessing!

Around 10 years ago there were a few being caught from Sheilds pier.
If you want to target them try in front of Killantringhan lighthouse just north of Port Patrick on the west coast in April and May.
Had a dozen from there one day a few years back,all you need is fresh Lug.
Also had a few Plaice and Turbot.It does hoy up some nice Bass with some movement.
And the best thing is, you don,t get pestered with the dredded LSD,s.

[on the mark]

Nice one. It was only a few years ago, although thinking about it, it was 39 years ago to be precise, that as teenagers we used to catch Haddock by the bag full while jigging from a small boat about 2 mile of Marsden beach. But nowadays you don't here about them getting caught at all. So well done!

used to catch plenty through the 80's and 90's in marsden right out to the spoil ground, plenty good jumbos even though it was trawled quite regular.

[CHUKKA]

Had a one 2lb 9 off smiths dock in the Tyne a good few years back when it was very cold. At the time there was some huge whitings in the river between 1-2lb that could almost be mistaken for haddock!! My thinking is they swim amongst the whiting shoals.

If you want a whiting though from the shore get to Iceland!! Easy to catch and taste wonderful done on the barbecue whilst your sitting in the hot tub relaxing after a hectic day catching 2- 300lb of fish.

Strong fish that give great bites my favourite for catching and eating mmmmmmm!

[Boro5707]

Cracking fish. My great grandfather and father used to get massive bags of haddock off saltburn pier in the 60's back in the day when it was twice the length. Before the stocks where wiped out

[christine]

Haddock

My mate caught one on tynemouth pier end of last year about a pound during a pleasure match in our club we'll done

[PETER]

Well done on the rare catch m8 one to remember

[Dilbertd]

Nice catch, haven't seen one caught for years.
I caught one on a 4 hour tourist boat fishing trip off Scarborough in the late 70's when I was a teenager. About a pound and a half and on mussel from memory. The only fish I had on the trip and was sick as a dog for 2 hours