cullercoats harbour

[TC]

Can\'t take any credit for the photos......got them off the \'net, years ago.

[Edited on 26/1/2005 by TC]

 

[IanW]

Tried that before once Jim. From what I can remember the rocks were a bit on the large side....or am I thinking of somewhere else???

 

[boblydon]

getting to the mark, it is very slippy i have been flat on my arse a few times, it is easier getting back up to the pier and getting down
Ian, the footsteps have been there as long as i can remember ( at least 35 years )

 

[IanW]

Is there a mooring rope thsat runs the length of the harbour or are they individual moorings where the buoys are.

Bob, when you fished on Sunday where you quite close to the pier, as the only people I seen catch the other night, where.

Got Stores\'s book and I think he mentions this mark also.

 

[boblydon]

was fishing at the top of the harbour Ian, but moved down as the tide was coming in and i was getting washed of the skeers

 

[Stores]

Always thought the flat skeers caught as many fish as the big rock at the top but that may be because people tend to cram together at the top. The flat skeers are much more comfortable. If you can\'t get right on the end at the top you have a much harder job getting fish in over the ledges. I was brought up fishing on the Beacon Rock, that sticks up at 30 degrees about 30 yards from the south pier. Always a few fish there.

 

[alan]

Excellent post lads,really nice to see it NOT getting hijacked midway through

 

[boblydon]

still time yet Alan !!! hee hee

 

[Hedley]

Hi Stores - I know the rock you mean - we (when I was a kid) used to call it Hallon Rock - probably because of all those very small fish (Halon?) that we would catch with handlines using a piece of limpet for bait!l Caught my first fish when I was 9, at Cullercoats - a coalie on a handline from the steps at the side of the south pier. Ah! Innocent, carefree days!

 

[Stores]

Yes Hedley, we called them halen (sp?) as well. Used to lie on the rock and peer underneath, too frightened to put my hand in while the old man was getting crab.

 

[5150]

It\'s the south pier/breakwater that I sometimes fish from at high tide. As mentioned it\'s well dicey though, sea has to be pretty calm otherwise it rolls over the top and there\'s no railings around that thing. Very snaggy there too, I use 30-35lb line straight through and take a bag of old spark-plugs to use as sinkers. Some nice fish from there at times.