Whitley Bay - Cullercoats

[lossafish]

Saturday; I fished the prom at St mary's Sat afternoon, high tide, hour and a half down and three hours up. not one bite on lug and ragworm. Went out again Sunday morning to the southside of Cullercoats harbour, plenty of small rattles but only one Rockling caught. After laying off from fishing for the past three years, this season has been the same, as when I packed in. I wonder if there are any sizeable fish left in the North sea.

[danny boy]

alot of guys are getting the same results, i fished shields pier last week and had loads of bites with no results so i changed my hooks to a size 4, result was small coalies, codling and bull heads.

[g-force]

Fished Slatey Gut last night - a toss up between there & Cullercoats harbour (but the sea looked nicer in Slatey); managed a couple just undersize, missed one good bite, dropped a better fish off halfway in and managed one of 3lb 2oz. Started getting more bites on the flood but had to get back for club weigh-in at 11, so think there are still one or two around when conditions are right.

Cheers, Gary

PS, crab was the main bait - this time of year it's generally what you need to sort out the better fish.

[tich]

the prom W/Bay

guessing you fished at the end of the "new prom" built about 30 years ago,north end of W/B just round the corner from the lighthouse, dont bother when its light,its only 3-4 ft deep on a medium tide, to about 200.. yrds. best bet is a spring tide an extra 2 or 3 foot higher, and do it in the dark.its a little snaggy. look the day before if you can at low tide & you can see what you are casting onto and the best place to cast,theirs a little sewer pipe that comes out the prom , stand there and chuck it out about 75 yds straight out, its next to a bin,thats if the bin is still there, as the tide drops ( a spring tide ) as soon as you can get onto the boat house, 200/300 yrds south,get onto the right hand side of it only 10/ 20 yrds south of it,again, suss the place out at low tide, it moves around a bit, give it 2/3 hours after high tide,then forget it, back into 3/4 ft of water.try lug , some worm beds out there .. again you will see them at low tide, they do tend to move around a bit but usually in the same area ,or on a mid / hige-ish tide try there lug and rag all the way for me, look out for little scoops out in the sand, if you can hit them .. cod only , fished there for 30 years not bad nite out but goes crap after xmass, dont know why? , it just does, used to be a cracking spot, and you can stil pull a bigun everynow&again but as per usuall,it has died off a bit, since I was a Kid.....