O4.01.16 Rathouse

[The Doctor]

Rathouse (Sunderland Old North pier) this morning first of the flood 04:30 am to 07:00 am. 4-5 foot swell running upriver. Lot of loose weed for the first hour (took the small tide ages to turn and pick up) then as the tide picked up the weed cleared. 6:0 hook. Git balls of mussel (had no worm). 6 chucks. No fish though. The bait was coming back untouched. I got one whitey bite and that is all. Lad came down and said they had been getting the odd good whitey (one and half to two poundish) on mackerel strip over high water the previous night.

[Huahin]

Rathouse (Sunderland Old North pier) this morning first of the flood 04:30 am to 07:00 am. 4-5 foot swell running upriver. Lot of loose weed for the first hour (took the small tide ages to turn and pick up) then as the tide picked up the weed cleared. 6:0 hook. Git balls of mussel (had no worm). 6 chucks. No fish though. The bait was coming back untouched. I got one whitey bite and that is all. Lad came down and said they had been getting the odd good whitey (one and half to two poundish) on mackerel strip over high water the previous night.

HI,i fished near the gate 11am to 1.30 bates untouched trees weed nitemare ill wait till thursday

[dale19]

think you will find a lot of debris going down the river wear and tyne for a week or so with all the dam rain.
if you fish the river just make sure you keep a hold of the rod as some lads have lost expensive gear over the side into the river in the last few weeks.
must been heart breaking to see your gear disappear like that .

[zippie]

how can you tell it was a whiting bite ?

[kevin collins]

Rattle rattle !!!

[The Doctor]

how can you tell it was a whiting bite ?

Picked me rod up, Finger on the line. Fish gave a couple of rattling tugs then it came back about ten seconds later exactly the same. I moved the lead a couple of foot and left the gear out for another fifteen minutes but it didn't come back. When I reeled in the the bait was hardly touched but with a couple of inches of elastic thread dangling. You can never be sure but It felt like a whitey bite. You get a feel for these t(h)ings. Might not have been a whitey, could have been a rockling, a small flattie, a blenny, an eel, or a twenty pund sprag. You never know unless you land them but in 45 years of angling I've caught quite a few whiteys and I know what they bite like ..... as kevin said rattle rattle !!!

[Huahin]

loosing a rod

think you will find a lot of debris going down the river wear and tyne for a week or so with all the dam rain.
if you fish the river just make sure you keep a hold of the rod as some lads have lost expensive gear over the side into the river in the last few weeks.
must been heart breaking to see your gear disappear like that .

my rod went horizontal twice with debris hitting the line i use wire twists to secure the rod

[zippie]

could have been a crab as the river is still full of them no frosts yet

[mick dunn]

Whitey bites are vey distinctive. Good old rattle.

[blackrat]

Whitey bites are vey distinctive. Good old rattle.

Who been telling you what a bite looks like Mick ?? You been watching Robson Green again 😜

[The Doctor]

Who been telling you what a bite looks like Mick ?? You been watching Robson Green again 😜

That's a disgrace Mick. Where does he live? :O)