blyth harbour
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fishing very very good atm mate....was there last night had 37 big big whiting and a cod 6lb....u would never belive it like but caught them on bacon..i have my own special little mark at the harbour like and always have good fishing there....its even better wen it snows coz the fish think its food on the top of the water and go mad.....total fantastic mark blyth harbour like.
rossysmallcast
Well-known member
Bacon!!!!!!!
I've had excellent mullet fishing on Loch Ryan, over Stranrear way, using bacon rind as bait and fine diced rind as a form of 'chum' to bring them in.
I've never experimented with it for bigger fish but my own thoughts are that the bait is less important than placing it in proximity to a feeding fish.
I've fed some pretty big pollack on the Isle of Sky in crystal clear water with bread, sweetcorn, corned beef, bits of sausage meat and all sorts of other junk they would not encounter in their natural habitat.
I was at Blyth last night myself and the jetty was pretty much deserted and nobody on the pier did much of anything other than small stuff, so where-ever this special spot is it must be pretty well hidden...
I've never experimented with it for bigger fish but my own thoughts are that the bait is less important than placing it in proximity to a feeding fish.
I've fed some pretty big pollack on the Isle of Sky in crystal clear water with bread, sweetcorn, corned beef, bits of sausage meat and all sorts of other junk they would not encounter in their natural habitat.
I was at Blyth last night myself and the jetty was pretty much deserted and nobody on the pier did much of anything other than small stuff, so where-ever this special spot is it must be pretty well hidden...
charlie10910
Active member
i fish the harbour at least twice a week sometimes more if i get the time , the last 2 weeks its been really poor only small stuff getting caught , tings flats and small codling , ive fished all the way up and down the harbour and any where is as good as any where else , i use a two hook flapper most of the time or a long hook lengh and short lead lengh , rag seems to be catching the fish that are there at the moment , if your fishing it m8 just find a spot you like and try your luck if its no good just try farther up or down , i was there sunday and nothing much was caught a couple of small tings and a rockling , all ways worth hoying a big bait out now and again though as you never know 
When I got there last night there were two fellas coming off the pier as I was going on. They'd caught four small Whiting.
There was an elderly chap and his spaniel
fishing the bend to the seaward side, who had caught a small flattie - he left an hour or so later with little or nothing of note caught.
I parked myself half way between the bend and the pier end, one chap was fishing the end of the pier and another two came shortly after I arrived and also went to the end.
The chap at the end came back down past the bend a couple of hours after I arrived, complaining that he'd not had a bite in an hour and a half, and when I left at around 2am he was pulling in a codling just a few inches long.
There wasn't a soul that I could see on the jetty, and I drove all the way down it on my way home to see if anyone else was daft enough to be out
There were no lights from anyone fishing the shore at either side of the base of the pier either.
No idea whether the two lads who arrived not along after me caught anything - by the time I left I wasn't curious enough to walk down and ask
There was an elderly chap and his spaniel
fishing the bend to the seaward side, who had caught a small flattie - he left an hour or so later with little or nothing of note caught.I parked myself half way between the bend and the pier end, one chap was fishing the end of the pier and another two came shortly after I arrived and also went to the end.
The chap at the end came back down past the bend a couple of hours after I arrived, complaining that he'd not had a bite in an hour and a half, and when I left at around 2am he was pulling in a codling just a few inches long.
There wasn't a soul that I could see on the jetty, and I drove all the way down it on my way home to see if anyone else was daft enough to be out
There were no lights from anyone fishing the shore at either side of the base of the pier either.
No idea whether the two lads who arrived not along after me caught anything - by the time I left I wasn't curious enough to walk down and ask
over par
Well-known member
fresh bacon only? what about stuff thats been out of the freezer for a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
Bacon
Bacon
This thread reminds me of the story about an old woman who, on a winters day wonders into a butchers shop and sees the butcher standing in front of a fire. She then walks over to the counter looked down and said,
'Is that your ayrshire bacon'
and the butcher replies,
'Naw I'm just heating my bum'
On a more seriious note a few years ago I was invited out on a boat trip by a salmon fishing syndicate to make up the numbers. These guys were not sea anglers, plus the fishing was pretty poor. Anyway, one of them had been eating an orange and just for a laugh he put a bit of peel on as bait. Straight away he caught a codling, and then another and another until he ran out of orange peel. If i had not seen this with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it but I was standing right next to him catching nothing on my lug and razor. I reckon in this case it might have been the colour that attracted the fish but I don't really know. One thing is for sure fish do eat the wierdest things.
Bacon
This thread reminds me of the story about an old woman who, on a winters day wonders into a butchers shop and sees the butcher standing in front of a fire. She then walks over to the counter looked down and said,
'Is that your ayrshire bacon'
and the butcher replies,
'Naw I'm just heating my bum'
On a more seriious note a few years ago I was invited out on a boat trip by a salmon fishing syndicate to make up the numbers. These guys were not sea anglers, plus the fishing was pretty poor. Anyway, one of them had been eating an orange and just for a laugh he put a bit of peel on as bait. Straight away he caught a codling, and then another and another until he ran out of orange peel. If i had not seen this with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it but I was standing right next to him catching nothing on my lug and razor. I reckon in this case it might have been the colour that attracted the fish but I don't really know. One thing is for sure fish do eat the wierdest things.
codseeker
Well-known member
he did ya nah with hes own eyes toomuch as it may beggar belief,i have witnessed the orange peel catching from a boat
