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Sneaking out of work early yesterday I decided to head to a venue I hardly ever fished as a young lad - the Hall beach at Seaham. With HT at 7pm I arrived at the beach shortly after half four to find a fair few people down there already including a couple of kids in the spot I had fancied.
Undettered I got set up about 20 yards south of the steps and soon had a bait in the water. The sea was perfect, plenty of movement still from the weekend storm and a good colour too it. I fished two rods - one at medium range with runnydown / squid and the other at range with fresh lug.
Things were quiet to start with, though it was encouraging to see the bairns nect to me pull in a coalie followed by a just size codling which I have to say made their day. Then the first fish was on the beach for me - not what I wanted but a good size Rockling had saved the blank. Soon after I had a rattle on the distance rod and pulled in an anorexic Whiting which was size but probably weighed about 8oz
This was shortly followed by a good size Coalie of about 1 1/2lb, a nice fish but I was starting to wonder where all the codling were.
I needent have worried because as the light started to fade it was like someone flicked a switch. First codling came to the medium range rod so I dropped the other rod in closer as well. as darkness fell and the tide started to turn I had another couple of fish then things quietened off as the ebb kicked in.
Started to put one rod out at distance again and straight away I was into fish. From here on in it was almost a fish a chuck, all coming at long range until as 10pm approached I ran out of bait and had to call it a night.
All codling were size, littlest one was just over 35cm
Best one was bang on 2lb, another just under
All in all a cracking nights fishing, final tally was 12 fish with 9 size codling (4 came home for tea), a good size coalie, a Whiting and a Rockling. Chuffed to be well into double figures for size cod so far and it is not even the end of September - hope the rest of the season can live up to the start
Undettered I got set up about 20 yards south of the steps and soon had a bait in the water. The sea was perfect, plenty of movement still from the weekend storm and a good colour too it. I fished two rods - one at medium range with runnydown / squid and the other at range with fresh lug.
Things were quiet to start with, though it was encouraging to see the bairns nect to me pull in a coalie followed by a just size codling which I have to say made their day. Then the first fish was on the beach for me - not what I wanted but a good size Rockling had saved the blank. Soon after I had a rattle on the distance rod and pulled in an anorexic Whiting which was size but probably weighed about 8oz
This was shortly followed by a good size Coalie of about 1 1/2lb, a nice fish but I was starting to wonder where all the codling were.I needent have worried because as the light started to fade it was like someone flicked a switch. First codling came to the medium range rod so I dropped the other rod in closer as well. as darkness fell and the tide started to turn I had another couple of fish then things quietened off as the ebb kicked in.
Started to put one rod out at distance again and straight away I was into fish. From here on in it was almost a fish a chuck, all coming at long range until as 10pm approached I ran out of bait and had to call it a night.
All codling were size, littlest one was just over 35cm
Best one was bang on 2lb, another just under
All in all a cracking nights fishing, final tally was 12 fish with 9 size codling (4 came home for tea), a good size coalie, a Whiting and a Rockling. Chuffed to be well into double figures for size cod so far and it is not even the end of September - hope the rest of the season can live up to the start
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