dredging

[John]

I must admit we have had some good catchs of Cod, Haddock and Ling from the spoil ground off Blyth and good sized fish and also 2/3lb Plaice.

[DaveMason]

Alan /Dave , I believe the \"Fly ash\" from the stations is made in to breeze blocks as well . It does set like concrete and it has not bothered the fishing off blyth at all I have found , but it was dumped many years ago like . As for the river waste , we had a customer who dredged in holland and had to dump the waste (by pump) to a landfill area for all the heavy metals and crap in the mud . God knows whats in the Tyne

[LING_BASHER]

At least 2 stone of lead from me

[John]

Talking to an old mate the other day and he used to follow the Blyth Dredger out to where it was dumping and used to swear by it saying it dumped worms and other baits in that area and said he got good catches.

[RobAdair]

Fished the Wear the other year while they were dredging and it didn\'t seem to bother the fish at all, in fact it was a fish a cast most nights (whiting).

My ex brother in law is skipper of the PTA dredger \"Hedwyn\" and when we were on speaking terms, I used to get bucketfuls of leads and peelers off him (especially when they dredged Howden!)