With spring refusing to turn into summer the mackerel seem a long way off yet, though in previous years they have been taken as early as mid-May from the piers…
Spring seems to have stalled a little, summer is nowhere to be seen, and if it were not for the humble flounder inhabiting the local rivers then any sizeable fish…
A bit of warmer weather and westerly winds saw a big improvement in shore sport but only if you like flounders and lots of undersize fish of other species. Large…
With slightly milder weather and more settled conditions shore sport is starting to improve with a few more summer species starting to show. Plaice in particular have moved inshore and…
Persistent and very cold easterly winds have put the fish off the feed along the open shoreline with sizeable fish proving to be very scarce. Even the usually reliable flatties…
In this article Steve Walker take us out and about around Hartlepool’s productive shore marks.
Shore sport has been very poor over recent days with cod few and far between. The prolonged heavy seas have washed a lot of feed out, it is a classic…
Another prolonged period of heavy seas has seen a few cod being taken, but only from the more sheltered marks at the North Gare, Middleton and Pilot piers at Hartlepool,…
The recent big heavy seas did finally bring a few cod inshore but only if you were in the right place at the right time. The days of widespread spring…
North East angler Steve Walker takes us to some of his favourite marks, here he features the beaches to the north of Hartlepool.