With the hot, summer weather, mackerel anglers have been out in force, but small tides and high pressure always seems to put the mackerel off, and a lot of dredger…
Just a few days on from the start of the mackerel invasion and they have moved inshore in numbers unseen since the early seventies. The whole of the Teesbay area…
Just two days of westerly winds were enough to flatten the sea off, clean up the water, and allow the huge shoals of mackerel that have been offshore to move…
Boat anglers are now reporting large numbers of mackerel just offshore with some big specimens to two pounds among them. Unfortunately, the sea has not stayed calm for long enough…
A few mackerel have started to move inshore recently with fish reported from the Region’s piers at Hartlepool, Seaham, Roker, and South Shields where the early morning high tides have…
Still no confirmed reports of any numbers of mackerel from any of the regions piers and with a bit of movement on the sea again they will not be in…
During the past few years, mackerel have moved inshore earlier every year, at one time they would start to show around mid-July, recent years have seen them showing by late…
With the water clarity improving at last and conditions starting to look at least a little bit like summer, anglers are now starting to find good numbers of plaice showing…
Many years ago, a good northerly sea at this time of year would have seen anglers fishing for the spring run of fresh cod, lovely well-conditioned, gold spotted specimens, with…
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…