Fishing the tyne when there is a high tide

[bigandy]

Hi folks, was goinmg to fish the walkway today, have been discourage being told that it is a very high tide and won't be good to fish, is someone going to explane this to me as I don't know what this is about. is it something to do with weed be dragged in.

 

[Topfly]

Hi Andy, The walkway is normally a flood shot, so on a really big tide, the water travelling upriver, drags your end tackle,,swinging it back in, even big gripleads dont hold the bottom, but you will get a short spell at high water slack to get a few casts in. You can always cast short with grippers on which will reduce the drag on the line.

 

[sandworm]

On these big tides the best time to fish the walkway is 2 hours either side of low water.
Small to medium tides on the flood are better....

 

[mick dunn]

I find its best to go and have a go yourself. I was told it was rubbish as the tide went out but it was not true. If the rivers big just chuck out a small distance. If its no good try Shields Pier.

Mick.

 

[Charlton]

the river has been fisging extremely well even with the big tides

 

[Tall Tony]

Hi, it's the difference between low tide and high tide...if low tide was 1m and high tide was 6m you would have trouble holding bottom as the amount of water flowing would generate too much pull...
If low tide was 2m and high tide was 4m the tidal pull up the river would'nt be as strong and fishing would be easier but who said fishing was easy
Like Mick said you can still fish it in any state but will need bigger weights when the tides are bigger

 

[thommaz]

Hi folks, was goinmg to fish the walkway today, have been discourage being told that it is a very high tide and won't be good to fish, is someone going to explane this to me as I don't know what this is about. is it something to do with weed be dragged in.

fished it for years, best time to fish walkway is on a small wide flood, none of this big tides malarky, small tides :yltype:

 

[john/r]

best fishing the wider river marks on the tyne the likes of mill dam on the big tides.