dredging
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SIXFOOTSTEVE
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A lad I work with used to be on the dredgers years ago ,I\'ll see if he\'s got any idea Dave.
LING_BASHER
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Looks like its going to be a poor year from shields pier then 
the last few year when they have dredged, the water was brown and the fishing very very poor.
the last few year when they have dredged, the water was brown and the fishing very very poor.
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TC
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Have a look here, Dave.........doesn\'t make very encouraging reading.
http://www.southtynesidetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1111&ArticleID=933917
I\'ve been watching the dredger for about a week......seems to be dumping the spoil off Souter aswell.......a few miles further out, though.
http://www.southtynesidetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1111&ArticleID=933917
I\'ve been watching the dredger for about a week......seems to be dumping the spoil off Souter aswell.......a few miles further out, though.
LING_BASHER
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You lot just cheered me up so much more today as if sitting in the house watching the rain lash down was a major then i read this thread lol.
as if sitting in the house watching the rain lash down was a major then i read this thread lol.
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It had been working further up the river, but I noticed on Wednesday PM that it was dredging the shipping channel in the harbour itself.
2 passes up & down and it was fully laden......off it went....watched to see where it was going.....as I said, off Souter (about 4-6 miles out)......then back in it came to do the same again. This went on all Wed afternoon (and I dare say before and after then aswell).
2 passes up & down and it was fully laden......off it went....watched to see where it was going.....as I said, off Souter (about 4-6 miles out)......then back in it came to do the same again. This went on all Wed afternoon (and I dare say before and after then aswell).
Thanks lads . I\'ve just finnished a job on a suction dredger oddly enough and the volume of material they shift is incredible . Wherever they dump will turn in to a desert by the time they are done There is a case on whitesands beach currently where the locals and angling organisations got together to stop it and I think they won , which makes a change .Hope your wrong about 6miles from Souter Tony
There is a case on whitesands beach currently where the locals and angling organisations got together to stop it and I think they won , which makes a change .Hope your wrong about 6miles from Souter Tony Hi dave
if i was you i would be trying to find where he is dumping the spoil, not to avoid it but to fish over it. One of the best shore gounds just off hartlepool is called the dumps precisely because the stuff dumped there has made great peaks and troffs, had some good days fishing over them just as good as wrecking. Threre are also a couple of good areas off Blyth where spoil has been dumped and formed big mounds where good fishing can be had.
if i was you i would be trying to find where he is dumping the spoil, not to avoid it but to fish over it. One of the best shore gounds just off hartlepool is called the dumps precisely because the stuff dumped there has made great peaks and troffs, had some good days fishing over them just as good as wrecking. Threre are also a couple of good areas off Blyth where spoil has been dumped and formed big mounds where good fishing can be had.
Hi alan , yeah i agree but not at first , it will take a while to settle down I think . The spoil ground of blyth has wrecks in it and they all do well as you say . Might be crying before we are hurt like , i\'ll have a run over them if the bloody weather ever improves .
LING_BASHER
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Since there seems to be no catch reports of eels,colie etc from shileds pier and there should be loads this time of year, i take it the water is coloured and the fishing is poor.
Stores
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Alan I remember watching a video at school that showed the spoil dumped off Blyth from the power station. Once in water it turned to hard, concrete like. Although it would kill everything off to begin with it would quickly become reef like and hopefully untrawlable. Don\'t know if the silt from the bottom of the Tyne would have the same effect.
I think it is just the spoil from the power station that turned hard, i belive uyou can actually use it as a form of concrete. The spoil at Hartlepool stays soft and muddy, when you are fishing it when your jigger hits the bottom they actually sink in a little way, it is just like getting a take.
Alan /Dave , I believe the \"Fly ash\" from the stations is made in to breeze blocks as well . It does set like concrete and it has not bothered the fishing off blyth at all I have found , but it was dumped many years ago like . As for the river waste , we had a customer who dredged in holland and had to dump the waste (by pump) to a landfill area for all the heavy metals and crap in the mud . God knows whats in the Tyne 
LING_BASHER
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At least 2 stone of lead from me 
RobAdair
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Fished the Wear the other year while they were dredging and it didn\'t seem to bother the fish at all, in fact it was a fish a cast most nights (whiting).
My ex brother in law is skipper of the PTA dredger \"Hedwyn\" and when we were on speaking terms, I used to get bucketfuls of leads and peelers off him (especially when they dredged Howden!)
My ex brother in law is skipper of the PTA dredger \"Hedwyn\" and when we were on speaking terms, I used to get bucketfuls of leads and peelers off him (especially when they dredged Howden!)
