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codseeker
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Just wondering if anyone has any stories about some of the places we used to fish along time ago, like Bullock spouts, Velva Liquids. etc. I had some great sessions at those places
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BAZACODBASHA
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Ahh........."Bullock's Spout" Started my fishing "career" there from the mid sixties. Caught my first ever codling there (1.5lbs) on a handline. Great fishing mark. If I remember correctly you used to have to go through a derelict warehouse and fish from the wooden jetty. Nearly always caught codling there. Once I bought my first fishing rod. Then the Tyne was "teaming" with fish. Trouble was the Tyne was also teaming with "fith". When you caught a fish you generaly had to guide it through all the c**p onthe surface............and I mean human C**P combined with some funny looking "rubber things" like balloons.
Grat fun though.
Grat fun though.
stig
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OLd shots.
OLd shots.
That takes me back to when i was 12 or 14 years old,I wonder where all those guys are who i used to stand and fish with are now?? A big guy called geordie,fished with an eight/four foot orange dc8 and another guy who used his fag butts as hook protectors and when he'd seen/had enough he used to say 'well its time i wasn't here'.Happy memories!.
OLd shots.
That takes me back to when i was 12 or 14 years old,I wonder where all those guys are who i used to stand and fish with are now?? A big guy called geordie,fished with an eight/four foot orange dc8 and another guy who used his fag butts as hook protectors and when he'd seen/had enough he used to say 'well its time i wasn't here'.Happy memories!.
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Topfly
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I remember one night going on the Vidor in mid january with Brian, a mate at the time. there was a young lad about 10 yrs old coming off, and as he climbed under the handrail, we asked if he had caught owt (as you do) ,and he just muttered something and carried on walking.
Brian and myself got tackled up and cast out, he poured a cuppa and i rolled a couple of tabs, and we were having the craic. then our thoughts wondered back to the lad who went off. Had we frightened him off, was he just late for bed. it had started to snow so we thought he must have known,anyway we fished on and had a couple of decent cod by half tide up.
You know the feeling when you know someone is near, like when your on Marsden beach in the middle of a moonless night, and a crisp packet trundles by, or a can is rolling along the pebbles. It was a good job Brian was there, because when i turned round, there was the same lad sitting in about six inches of snow and his duffle coat was thick with snow,so much that he blended in with the rest of the stone jetty about 15 foot behind us.
I walked over and said are you ok, but he never answered. me and brian were off wondering again. . was he deaf , was he retarded, had his mam threw him out,and he knew we were down there and might help him.
We fished on, keeping an eye on the lad. he was facing the Groyne and all the time he sat there, his left hand was visible. then the snow came and his hand was burried. all this time the lad was motionless, it must have been an hour and a half. it got to high water, and we were just about to pack in when there was a shriek of delight from behind us.when we turned round , the lad was coming towards us with a huge Rat on his knife.
We asked again if he had caught anything earlier, and he replied yes, one about 2lb, but when i turned my back this fellow dragged him away, and i knew he would come out at high water
one determined young lad
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Brian and myself got tackled up and cast out, he poured a cuppa and i rolled a couple of tabs, and we were having the craic. then our thoughts wondered back to the lad who went off. Had we frightened him off, was he just late for bed. it had started to snow so we thought he must have known,anyway we fished on and had a couple of decent cod by half tide up.
You know the feeling when you know someone is near, like when your on Marsden beach in the middle of a moonless night, and a crisp packet trundles by, or a can is rolling along the pebbles. It was a good job Brian was there, because when i turned round, there was the same lad sitting in about six inches of snow and his duffle coat was thick with snow,so much that he blended in with the rest of the stone jetty about 15 foot behind us.
I walked over and said are you ok, but he never answered. me and brian were off wondering again. . was he deaf , was he retarded, had his mam threw him out,and he knew we were down there and might help him.
We fished on, keeping an eye on the lad. he was facing the Groyne and all the time he sat there, his left hand was visible. then the snow came and his hand was burried. all this time the lad was motionless, it must have been an hour and a half. it got to high water, and we were just about to pack in when there was a shriek of delight from behind us.when we turned round , the lad was coming towards us with a huge Rat on his knife.
We asked again if he had caught anything earlier, and he replied yes, one about 2lb, but when i turned my back this fellow dragged him away, and i knew he would come out at high water
one determined young lad
I
jamiebrennan
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Bullocks at the back of Laygate/commercial road. Mill Dam before it was done up, before the jetty was there and then afterwards hiding behind the wall when the wind screamed down the river. And the pilot jetty next to the pilot hoiuse where the walkway is now. I can remember huge mussels on the legs of the jetty.
aye i remember it jaimie it was velvor oil liquids ,used to fish it when the crab first peeled in the river had bags of 10 codling plus all the time as long as you had crab the good old days , used to be able to shelter in the hut on that wooden jetty , used to fish the stone jetty at the back of vidor batterys as well if you where first on it ,used to fish at hebburn on a wooden jetty were the cranes were can,t remember the name of it just remember our kid cast out and left go of the rod ,he says he was going to fall in cos it was icey ,we went down for a full week to try and get it back casting out and winding in with 5 hooks on then to our amazement a kid further up wound it in 
so we got it back off him and sold it to second hand rose cos it was broke fixed it with electricians tape in the cogs and got the same money we paid for it brand new lol
the good old days , used to be able to shelter in the hut on that wooden jetty , used to fish the stone jetty at the back of vidor batterys as well if you where first on it ,used to fish at hebburn on a wooden jetty were the cranes were can,t remember the name of it just remember our kid cast out and left go of the rod ,he says he was going to fall in cos it was icey ,we went down for a full week to try and get it back casting out and winding in with 5 hooks on then to our amazement a kid further up wound it in so we got it back off him and sold it to second hand rose cos it was broke fixed it with electricians tape in the cogs and got the same money we paid for it brand new lol
john/r
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Just wondering if anyone has any stories about some of the places we used to fish along time ago, like Bullock spouts, Velva Liquids. etc. I had some great sessions at those places
velva liquids it was a lad from shields who told me of this mark geordie stobs do you know him does he still fish, i just got to know the mark then it got fenced off ,they say it was difficult to keep your catch on there the rats used to come on and drag them away when your backs were turned.
lost a cracking fish there one day on boat moorings it was very deep in water close in and this was only second time i had fished it.
stig
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Geordie stobbs is is alive and fishing mate,saw him on ssp a couple of weeks ago.Think he fishes with the Alberta club?
jarrowviking
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Used to get the train down from Hebburn to South Shields then walk to the Velva liquids jetty. It was always a mission fishing on there, hiding among the pipework out of sight of the security guard. We would stay all night on that jetty and get the first train back home in the morning. At that time I was only about thirteen years old, our parents let us get away with so much back in the day, how times change.
First light was always brill on the old jetty with loads of codling, even in summer.
The old coal jetty at Jarrow was a great place to, just down from where the White lead pub stood (Dougies Tavern) if the fishing was poor as kids we'd perve through the ships windows tied along the quay. The foreign sailors would always bring back the girls from the pubs at the top of the bank, think I seen my first naked lady there, lol!
Great place to fish for codling to, shame it's just a burnt out shell of a jetty now.
We'd also sneak onto the old ferry landing at Hebburn during the night just where Church bank is now and that would also be a great place to catch to, the river up there was far deeper than it is now as ships were still launched from Swans over the water in Wallsend at the time.
The jetty that's in front of the Sea Cadet building at Hebburn was fantastic to until they fenced it off, access to a deep river channel, I'd watch in amazement as Ken Cowie and Peter Clark would pull 6lb'ers in and we'd have to settle for little ones.
Yes those were the days when we couldn't afford wellies never mind waders and would plodge out on the mud banks with placcy bags tied round our shoes looking for peeler crabs under old bits of metal and carpet.
What a great thread, cheers Topfly, I'll see if I can find any old pictures of these places on the net and post them up if I do.
First light was always brill on the old jetty with loads of codling, even in summer.
The old coal jetty at Jarrow was a great place to, just down from where the White lead pub stood (Dougies Tavern) if the fishing was poor as kids we'd perve through the ships windows tied along the quay. The foreign sailors would always bring back the girls from the pubs at the top of the bank, think I seen my first naked lady there, lol!
Great place to fish for codling to, shame it's just a burnt out shell of a jetty now.
We'd also sneak onto the old ferry landing at Hebburn during the night just where Church bank is now and that would also be a great place to catch to, the river up there was far deeper than it is now as ships were still launched from Swans over the water in Wallsend at the time.
The jetty that's in front of the Sea Cadet building at Hebburn was fantastic to until they fenced it off, access to a deep river channel, I'd watch in amazement as Ken Cowie and Peter Clark would pull 6lb'ers in and we'd have to settle for little ones.
Yes those were the days when we couldn't afford wellies never mind waders and would plodge out on the mud banks with placcy bags tied round our shoes looking for peeler crabs under old bits of metal and carpet.
What a great thread, cheers Topfly, I'll see if I can find any old pictures of these places on the net and post them up if I do.
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jarrowviking
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The old coal staithes at Hebburn just down from Dougies tavern
Once a hive of activity, ships loading, ladies of the night and lots of codling. Coal loading finished in the mid 1980's and the jetty is now derelict and dangerous.
Once busy
Derelict now with no access available
Seen loads of cod caught at the jetty where TS Kelly sea cadets are now, shame it's fenced off now.
Me in May 1973 when the jetty was first built. Binoculars, blazer and patches on my knees, very funny. The very place I caught my first fish and the area is known as Church bank now.
The old ferry landing at Hebburn, once a cod hotspot to. Church bank again.
Unfortunately I coiuldn't find a pic of Velva liquids jetty when it was in use, be great if anyone has one for us to see.
Once a hive of activity, ships loading, ladies of the night and lots of codling. Coal loading finished in the mid 1980's and the jetty is now derelict and dangerous.
Once busy
Derelict now with no access available
Seen loads of cod caught at the jetty where TS Kelly sea cadets are now, shame it's fenced off now.
Me in May 1973 when the jetty was first built. Binoculars, blazer and patches on my knees, very funny. The very place I caught my first fish and the area is known as Church bank now.
The old ferry landing at Hebburn, once a cod hotspot to. Church bank again.
Unfortunately I coiuldn't find a pic of Velva liquids jetty when it was in use, be great if anyone has one for us to see.
