Blyth East Pier - found this photo on google..
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phill_itofish
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WAS being the operative word !!!!
Davyred
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In my mad youthful days, I used to fish Roker (quite successfully) in some massive seas, but one really sticks in my mind.
Myself and my mate(Mick 65) went down an hour before dusk, and climbed over the pier gates at low water. There were waves splashing up as per normal for a force 4 Northerly, but we were used to that.
We got on the roundhead and starting fishing. After about an hour, we notice the troughs of the swell were getting deeper and deeper, the peaks higher and higher, so much so that an hour after low water the top of the swell was about a foot from the top of the roundhead
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Now we were quite experienced at judging swell size and frequency by then, so we decided on a hasty retreat. We done our usual studying of the swell breaking over the pier and legged it at their lowest point. Fair to say I was bricking it.
I'd love to tell you all that it stopped me and Mick65 doing it again, but it didn't, but I'll never ever forget how menacing that sea looked.
Myself and my mate(Mick 65) went down an hour before dusk, and climbed over the pier gates at low water. There were waves splashing up as per normal for a force 4 Northerly, but we were used to that.
We got on the roundhead and starting fishing. After about an hour, we notice the troughs of the swell were getting deeper and deeper, the peaks higher and higher, so much so that an hour after low water the top of the swell was about a foot from the top of the roundhead
.Now we were quite experienced at judging swell size and frequency by then, so we decided on a hasty retreat. We done our usual studying of the swell breaking over the pier and legged it at their lowest point. Fair to say I was bricking it.
I'd love to tell you all that it stopped me and Mick65 doing it again, but it didn't, but I'll never ever forget how menacing that sea looked.
Looks fake to me ' the view through the piers supports to the left of the picture looks like a huge wave is about to hit the pier ' now my knowledge is the waves have alredy been broken by the rocks on that side of the pier and i have never seen a sky that colour in my 40 odd years ..
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cocomonkey19k
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it dont look fake to me like as it looks like the tide on the inner side of the pier is broken down because its the mouth of blyth and the sky just looks like a good old rainy day at blyth lol and to photochop that would take some amout of doing.
also found this link on bbc website with same pic
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i.../images?q=blyth+pier&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&sa=N
also found this link on bbc website with same pic
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i.../images?q=blyth+pier&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&sa=N
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CHOPPER
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Just found this one while perusing the net, looks like the bounty was on a visit to Blyth last week, anyone see it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/image_galleries/september_2007_gallery.shtml?3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/image_galleries/september_2007_gallery.shtml?3
codseeker
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bounty was on the news tonight
http://www.itvlocal.com/tynetees
watch the itv northeast news if ya missesd it
http://www.itvlocal.com/tynetees
watch the itv northeast news if ya missesd it
bigroppa
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The photo is definatley not fake, it was taken 2 years ago and and the chanses are one of the rods belongs to me. The lifeboat and the seaking chopper came out for us that day. Before you call me stupid, when we went on the sea wasnt that rough. It got up over a couple of hours and we had to sit it out for 12hours untill the tide had gone right out. Very scary day. Didnt catch anything either.
mark
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I think that one is probably not a fake, but there's a lot in his gallery in that link above that have certainly felt the hand of photoshop bearing down on them!
If I'd of been there I think I'd of been inclined to sit tight in the hole and wait it out, don't think even ben johnson and a bottle mandralone could of got along the length of there between waves
If I'd of been there I think I'd of been inclined to sit tight in the hole and wait it out, don't think even ben johnson and a bottle mandralone could of got along the length of there between waves
Charlie_Thompson
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It may be a false memory but I'm sure me, me dad and a few other anglers got took off a local pier in the 70's - would have been either of the Roker piers or down Seaham. The memory says we all got caught out on the end and tied cloth rod bags together to tether ourselves to something. Life boat turned up and we had to jump while the boat was going up and down like a dafty, if you jumped when the boat was at the top of a swell it would drop down and you'd hit the deck 40 ft below just as it was on it's way up! really don't know whether it happened or not.
Blanketyblank
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The Bounty is in the Tyne as we speak,i think it leaves tomorrow at 12am.Its moored up at Spillers Warf.So if you get the kids up early you'll see it before it leaves...Enjoy
