blyth harbour

[steak and kidney pie]

Hi new to the forum, after a few years away from fishing I decided to take it up again by starting in the summer to warm up before the winter and rollup ciggy mangling cold fingers start!
Anyway yesterday took my mate baz who is keen to start again too, and went down the beach! huge waves so decided to seek shelter by fishing at the cambois boilers into the river off the little jetties. lovely afternoon in the sunshine but ultimately no fish( just as I remember the place!) however the crabs did keep me interestd by dipping my rod end from time to time! and got to see the spectacular demise of a suicidal seagull using the windmills as its preferred despatch method!

Will wait for the sea to calm down before trying again, probably go to alnmouth! almost guaranteed a flattie or two there from memory.

Nice forum peeps, wish I had this a few years back to reassure me that I am not the only bugger out there catching nowt on those fruitless winter nights.

 

[el_sid]

alrite steak and kidney and welcome to the forum

aye blyth harbour doesnt really produce much like! coalies and odd decent flatties

few decent marks roun the area tho

where do you live??

 

[codseeker]

canny report shame about the lack of fish welcome to the site

 

[steak and kidney pie]

live in ashington, got some good spots here if weather right but used to like travelling up to sugar sands or in front of the astley at seaton sluice in winter. Dont know now how good they are now as it has been a good five or six years since i last went, however I am trawling through the last few years posts to get a feel for the good beach spots again

I didnt catch owt yesterday but atleast my gear still works, now the kids are older i'm hoping to put some effort into getting plaice in the summer and cod in the winter...both very tasty! Always chucked flatties back never new the different kinds. They were all just flatties and Ive had some yarkers mainly down to having the wanny on me doorstep..but now I have acquired a taste for plaice and the knowledge how to recognise them from not very tasty flounders ...gives me a reason to fish properly in the summer!

When ..If i catch some keepers i'll be here trying to work out how to put pictures up of bin lids!

 

[5150]

fished blyth since i was a kid, it's died a death. try behind the business park for flatties, snaggy rocks so check at low tide - plus side is there's bait there. main harbour is a waste of time in my opinion since the 80's. jig for coalies with daylights down the side at high tide, but little else.

keep in mind where the food is - blasting to the middle is dead-water, stuff the fish feed on is among the rafters.

 

[steak and kidney pie]

your not wrong! in the 80's used to fish the "roond end" by the power station every summer, mint fishing for kids did'nt need bait even, soon learned a bit of white plastic was enough for the milllions of poddlers that used to visit. even managed a very decent lobster one day that fancied the bait and got the line tangled round its claw, reeled it up...flap! flap! flap! dad was amazed and eager to get it in the pot, straight home in the pan.

Also used to dig bait under that pier, stunk like hell and lost a fair few shoes!

Doesnt matter I caught nowt yesterday, kinda new I wouldnt, but it was fathers day and for me getting away from the teenagers at home was enough! however I came home to find they had got me a nice little bottle of jack.....sweet!

 

[5150]

get some nice worms, hit and miss to find them. plenty mussels at monkeys island. had some great sessions as a kid with my dad in the late 70's/early 80's where the sheds used to be on the blyth side, good sized fish. last decent codling i had there was about 1993, just piddling small coalies now. not had a flatty there in years.