Few anglers attempted to fish the Wear during the recent heavy flood conditions, with the river being full of debris making fishing almost impossible. However these conditions are known to…
Continuing heavy seas have kept the main mackerel shoals well offshore with just the odd fish reported from all of the region’s piers, although before the sea came away boat…
With a bit of movement on the sea mackerel have been scarce in the Teesbay area with just the odd fish taken from the Hartlepool piers and Steetly Pier. Further…
Settled conditions last week saw the mackerel move inshore again in reasonable numbers with all of the regions piers producing bags of up to 40 fish on the more productive…
Mackerel are moving inshore in greater numbers when conditions allow but persistent easterly winds are keeping the main shoals offshore. On good days the Hartlepool piers have produced bags of…
Both shore and boat angling have improved over the last week with mackerel moving inshore in good numbers and increasing numbers of cod showing from the inshore ground marks. Boat…
Recent northerly seas destroyed the chances of mackerel moving inshore in any numbers, but a few have started to show from South Shields Pier again, along with good numbers of…
Mackerel moved inshore in reasonable numbers early last week with most of the regions piers producing bags of up to 20 fish on lures. Lures should take most of these…
Sizeable fish are few and far between from all areas but there are plenty of smaller specimens to keep light tackle anglers happy. Small flatties, coalfish, whiting, and the odd…
There are plenty of flatties in the Teesbay area with some nice dabs amongst them, but the bigger plaice have yet to appear in numbers. The local Hartlepool piers, Parton…