Norman
Well-known member
Out today Sunday, not the usual Saturday as spent the day at St James park ... 
Tony The Great Wallsendo crewing for me ... cheers mate ....
Well we thought we had it sorted, out at 6.00am (a little late but low tide at 7.45am kept us back)
Got to say the forcast was pretty spot on, it was said to be misty (it was), cold (it was) raining at times (it did) ....
This in our eyes was the main start of the season after being released from the royal Quays lock (eventually) what with a reasonable days weather and a med tide right in (we thought) the middle of the spring run ....
Fishing certainly is an eye opener, if we'd been the least bit pessimistic we would have been back by 10.00am.
It was rather cold, dreary and wet, with NO FISH (at first), tried a few favourite spots and even a few close in wrecks but by 10.00am (4 hrs into the trip) we had but 2 codling of 2-3 lbd.
decide then to steam up to newbiggin hoping to find better fishing following Ivans posts ......... It Rained ... constantly, and gave us nothing but scotchies (pouting) mind you they were in the larger size at around 1lb plus.
Gave up on that and headed back to St Marys with a thought of maybe this is not quite our day ..... I believe at this point weaker men would have gone home (or is that more sensible men ?) but we didnt and eventually the fish started to bite, with take after take beginning to brighten our day ......
we did return a lot and have video to show later but ended up keeping 9 good clean spring run fish between us.
There were many border line size fish taken but all were returned , along with many pouting.
So, eventually it turned out to be a real good day with the family guaranteed Cod and Chips for mondays tea ... however as mentioned earlier, it would have been so easy at a number of points to call it a day and return almost empty handed.
I think the moral is, this fishing aint easy, aint a given and requires patients and perseverence ...... with all that in front of you you just do stand a chance ........
few pics of the day ......
sunrise beat us as it was way up there in the sky before we even left the marina ...
first codling of the day to Tony...... (see how warm the scene looks )
My first of the day :- .....
then eventually they started coming in 2 X 2 .....
and the end result .......... cod fillets all round ..
Great days fishing, but just goes to show its not easy, you have to stick at it to get results.
Once again many thanks to crewman of the Day Tony ....
cheers
Norm
Tony The Great Wallsendo crewing for me ... cheers mate ....
Well we thought we had it sorted, out at 6.00am (a little late but low tide at 7.45am kept us back)
Got to say the forcast was pretty spot on, it was said to be misty (it was), cold (it was) raining at times (it did) ....
This in our eyes was the main start of the season after being released from the royal Quays lock (eventually) what with a reasonable days weather and a med tide right in (we thought) the middle of the spring run ....
Fishing certainly is an eye opener, if we'd been the least bit pessimistic we would have been back by 10.00am.
It was rather cold, dreary and wet, with NO FISH (at first), tried a few favourite spots and even a few close in wrecks but by 10.00am (4 hrs into the trip) we had but 2 codling of 2-3 lbd.
decide then to steam up to newbiggin hoping to find better fishing following Ivans posts ......... It Rained ... constantly, and gave us nothing but scotchies (pouting) mind you they were in the larger size at around 1lb plus.
Gave up on that and headed back to St Marys with a thought of maybe this is not quite our day ..... I believe at this point weaker men would have gone home (or is that more sensible men ?) but we didnt and eventually the fish started to bite, with take after take beginning to brighten our day ......
we did return a lot and have video to show later but ended up keeping 9 good clean spring run fish between us.
There were many border line size fish taken but all were returned , along with many pouting.
So, eventually it turned out to be a real good day with the family guaranteed Cod and Chips for mondays tea ... however as mentioned earlier, it would have been so easy at a number of points to call it a day and return almost empty handed.
I think the moral is, this fishing aint easy, aint a given and requires patients and perseverence ...... with all that in front of you you just do stand a chance ........
few pics of the day ......
sunrise beat us as it was way up there in the sky before we even left the marina ...
first codling of the day to Tony...... (see how warm the scene looks
)
My first of the day :- .....
then eventually they started coming in 2 X 2 .....
and the end result .......... cod fillets all round ..
Great days fishing, but just goes to show its not easy, you have to stick at it to get results.
Once again many thanks to crewman of the Day Tony ....
cheers
Norm
but your right, if they're not biting straight away, don't give up, just move around. Nice bucket of uniform fillets
. Great pic too.
