The Sarah JFK, fishing just off the Tyne, recently reported massive shoals of big mackerel moving close inshore, but just when you thought the mackerel would arrive early, the sea…
Durham angler Sam Bland had an interesting trip recently. Taking the mainline train to Newcastle with all of his gear he ended up at South Gosforth having got on the…
A bit of an outside swell on the sea over the last few days did manage to bring a few cod inshore from most of the marks along the North…
Shore angling has been quiet lately with few club matches being held, most clubs are now waiting until the end of May for their summer season to start. The rivers…
As with previous weeks there are lots of small, undersize fish along the local shoreline to keep anglers occupied. Mostly, they are small poor conditioned dabs which seem to be…
Lots of smaller species are dominating shore angling at present with just the odd chance of a bigger spring flounder or whiting among them. Fishing down the pier sides for…
After an early, warm start to the spring, local commercial boats out of Hartlepool report mackerel are now only around 6 miles offshore, and one local skipper qoutes “thornback rays…
Last week’s comments regarding the possibility of being too early to travel to the west coast for thornback rays and dogfish might have been slightly unnecessary as they are already…
A bit of a northerly sea early last week, in conjunction with some of the biggest tides of the year, brought some cod inshore but not in the numbers that…
Shore sport remains a bit hit or miss with few sizeable fish among greater numbers of various flatfish species, whiting, coalfish and undersize cod. Some anglers have taken bags of…