newbie-hartlepool

[hollygolly]

good day all.
I have recently purchased a shetland 570 for fishing purposes,(say recently had it 6 months now!) and having had her out a few times over the last season managed to bag a few mackerel, and once hit a large shoal of whiting (most had to be thrown back as they were too small) I have yet to come accross any decent fish. Now i have already learned that fishing ground is sacred once you know where a good one is, but just wondered if any expereinced fishermen out there knew of any wrecks not too far out that a newcomer could get to, or indeed if there was anywhere i could get such information about wrecks off hartlepool.
Looking forward to a good seson next year.
Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Paul_h]

good day all.
I have recently purchased a shetland 570 for fishing purposes,(say recently had it 6 months now!) and having had her out a few times over the last season managed to bag a few mackerel, and once hit a large shoal of whiting (most had to be thrown back as they were too small) I have yet to come accross any decent fish. Now i have already learned that fishing ground is sacred once you know where a good one is, but just wondered if any expereinced fishermen out there knew of any wrecks not too far out that a newcomer could get to, or indeed if there was anywhere i could get such information about wrecks off hartlepool.
Looking forward to a good seson next year.
Thanks in anticipation.

Welcome
Do you have a chartplotter and a fishfinder fitted on the boat, all of the wrecks are marked.
you will have to "sweep" the area around the wreck mark until it appears on the fishfinder, as they are sometimes (more often) away from the chart mark.

Out of Hartlepool the inshore wrecks are within up to 6 mile and all produce, you need to get out from end March, although a few fish are coming off them at the moment, there is fish coming off the roughground off the front 1-2 mile off between the lighthouse corner and steetly pier

Hope it helps

Paul

 

[hollygolly]

thanks Paul.
That is where i have been fishing most of the time, with some results. I do have a combined plotter fishfinder, but it does not have any maps on it, was about £125 for the maps, and for what use i am gettinmg out of it would not be worth the cost. Having said that i was looking at the chat room last night and saw that phone app for "wreck finder" someone had mentioned, and downloded it onto my phone, so now at least i have the co-ordinates of some of the wrecks, lets see what happens when i take it out next?
Cheers