Horden 08/08/10

[Stewart 1971]

With a decent tide and a warm sunny afternoon forecast I headed for my old stamping ground of Horden beach for a Sunday afternoon session. The target for the day was Thornback Ray, with a second rod out scratching for Dab, Flounder and the possibility of a schoolie swimming by.

HT was 3pm and I got to my mark around 12 noon to find a couple of rods on the beach already. Got set up with a Portsmouth loop rig baited with rag / squid on the top hook and a big oily Bluey bait on the bottom loop belted out to 120 yards or so. The scratching rig was a 2 hook flapper, size 2 hooks baited with rag tipped off with squid.

Fished the three hours of the flood with not a sniff until just after the tide turned I had a nibble on the scratching rig but it came to nought. Then as the ebb got going I had a good pull on the bluey, lifterd into it and a decent fish felt like it was on. Got it to within 20 yards of the beach then all went slack, the damn thing had dropped off and the curse that came out of my mouth may have upset any delicate ears at the Tall Ships in Hartlepool (as the lad fishing next to me will testify...)

Fished on for another hour for a couple of bites then on my last chuck as 5pm approached I looked up to see slack line everywhere. Reeled in like mad and finally caught up with it, a brief scrap later and I had a Mackerel on the beach that had taked a massive chunk of bluey on a 3/0 bigmouth hook Still, at least it saved the blank.

All in all a canny if quiet session, by the time I left there must have been 7 or 8 rods on the beach which showes how the NE summer fishing has changed over the years. I'll defo be back down there again trying for Ray / Bass and hopefully next time the bugger (probably a Bass) won't get away

[fishingfanatastico]

Well done on the macky mate,shame about the one you lost.

[nrgjim]

fishing for luckys

sounds just like the afternoon ive just had at walkway loads of undersize fish and one dab on size l did say to the lads it was a bad idea to fish there but they know best l want ed to go fish the blocks on pier oh well come had something to eat then got my waders on and went crabing got 27 so off to pier tomorrow night got one cock crab as well so next big tide we should get them if it dont rain

[guy]

sounds just like the afternoon ive just had at walkway loads of undersize fish and one dab on size l did say to the lads it was a bad idea to fish there but they know best l want ed to go fish the blocks on pier oh well come had something to eat then got my waders on and went crabing got 27 so off to pier tomorrow night got one cock crab as well so next big tide we should get them if it dont rain

i seen you mate i was the one who asked if you wanted to sell any of your crab

[scaley]

Well done on the macky mate,i was fishing to your right,looked like a belter you lost,i did hear a few choice swear words,unlucky mate....at least you saved the blank..well done mate

[nrgjim]

fishing for luckys

hello there its good to put a name to the face sorry didnt have crab for sale as im out tomorrow night and my mates will be helping them selfs to them there turn next then ill use theres

[eddie t]

With a decent tide and a warm sunny afternoon forecast I headed for my old stamping ground of Horden beach for a Sunday afternoon session. The target for the day was Thornback Ray, with a second rod out scratching for Dab, Flounder and the possibility of a schoolie swimming by.

HT was 3pm and I got to my mark around 12 noon to find a couple of rods on the beach already. Got set up with a Portsmouth loop rig baited with rag / squid on the top hook and a big oily Bluey bait on the bottom loop belted out to 120 yards or so. The scratching rig was a 2 hook flapper, size 2 hooks baited with rag tipped off with squid.

Fished the three hours of the flood with not a sniff until just after the tide turned I had a nibble on the scratching rig but it came to nought. Then as the ebb got going I had a good pull on the bluey, lifterd into it and a decent fish felt like it was on. Got it to within 20 yards of the beach then all went slack, the damn thing had dropped off and the curse that came out of my mouth may have upset any delicate ears at the Tall Ships in Hartlepool (as the lad fishing next to me will testify...)

Fished on for another hour for a couple of bites then on my last chuck as 5pm approached I looked up to see slack line everywhere. Reeled in like mad and finally caught up with it, a brief scrap later and I had a Mackerel on the beach that had taked a massive chunk of bluey on a 3/0 bigmouth hook Still, at least it saved the blank.

All in all a canny if quiet session, by the time I left there must have been 7 or 8 rods on the beach which showes how the NE summer fishing has changed over the years. I'll defo be back down there again trying for Ray / Bass and hopefully next time the bugger (probably a Bass) won't get away

My mate was fishing next to ya and he said ya lost a canny fish.

Unlucky mate maybe next time but like ya say ya saved a blank my
mate didn't.

[john/r]

With a decent tide and a warm sunny afternoon forecast I headed for my old stamping ground of Horden beach for a Sunday afternoon session. The target for the day was Thornback Ray, with a second rod out scratching for Dab, Flounder and the possibility of a schoolie swimming by.

HT was 3pm and I got to my mark around 12 noon to find a couple of rods on the beach already. Got set up with a Portsmouth loop rig baited with rag / squid on the top hook and a big oily Bluey bait on the bottom loop belted out to 120 yards or so. The scratching rig was a 2 hook flapper, size 2 hooks baited with rag tipped off with squid.

Fished the three hours of the flood with not a sniff until just after the tide turned I had a nibble on the scratching rig but it came to nought. Then as the ebb got going I had a good pull on the bluey, lifterd into it and a decent fish felt like it was on. Got it to within 20 yards of the beach then all went slack, the damn thing had dropped off and the curse that came out of my mouth may have upset any delicate ears at the Tall Ships in Hartlepool (as the lad fishing next to me will testify...)

Fished on for another hour for a couple of bites then on my last chuck as 5pm approached I looked up to see slack line everywhere. Reeled in like mad and finally caught up with it, a brief scrap later and I had a Mackerel on the beach that had taked a massive chunk of bluey on a 3/0 bigmouth hook Still, at least it saved the blank.

All in all a canny if quiet session, by the time I left there must have been 7 or 8 rods on the beach which showes how the NE summer fishing has changed over the years. I'll defo be back down there again trying for Ray / Bass and hopefully next time the bugger (probably a Bass) won't get away

i know you have moved up from the south but the portsmouth loop rig, you should realy be using the north east loop rig lol.

hell of a rig the portsmouth rig bob gasgoinge was telling me about this rig years ago and rated it very highly as i do.

my other rig which i realy like is the up and over pulley tend to use this were there is a tide pull ie river tyne.