Spittal Beach ?

[Persues]

I'm heading up to my caravan tomorow for the first weekend this season and I'm thinking of giving Spittal beach a bash on Friday night.

Anyone ever fished it ?

I'm only considering it because I'm a lazy hack and it's easy access (car park right next to the prom) and whenever I've walked the pooch along the beach it always appears to tick the right boxes.

There's a slightly rocky point at the top end of the beach and more rocks at the south end, with lots of clean ground in between. It seems to shelve off into fairly deep water but you never really know until you cast into it how deep it might be.

I'm planning on fishing one or perhaps two big ledgered baits (ever the optimist ) and I'll probably throw with my new bass rod and slowly retrive a rag or rag/mackerel bait back up through the surf.

Anyone ?

 

[RossW]

Give it a try and post a report. It seems a fairly shallow beach but ideal for flatties, i would have thought.

 

[g.ordon]

Never fished the seaward part of spittal beach mate but fished the bit in the estuary (before the lifeboat station) and had some cracking dustbin lids out.

 

[Persues]

A friend of mine is on the lifeboat crew and he's just been telling me more or less the same thing.

Apparently salmon and sea trout are sometimes caught by shore anglers too.

My luck will be I'll catch a cold and that's about it...

 

[Persues]

fished the north point of the beach for three hours or so this morning.

7 good flatties, all on rag. Nothing was interested in mussel except Tilly, my Labrador

No bites casting into the estuary bay towards the lifeboat station - all fish were caught casting on the seaward side into a gully not too far out.

Kept 1 fish that was too deeply hooked to return, 14 inches long.

My 5 year old daughter enjoyed it with me for tea this evening, with a salad and baked potato

 

[rocketman]

fished the north point of the beach for three hours or so this morning.

7 flatties, all on rag. Nothing was interested in mussel.

No bites casting into the estuary bay towards the lifeboat station - all fish were caught casting on the seaward side into a gully not too far out.

Kept 1 fish that was too deeply hooked to return, 14 inches long.

My 5 year old daughter enjoyed it with me for tea this evening, with a salad and baked potato

flounder?

 

[Persues]

Yes - delicious too

The one I kept was the smallest of the day.

I still have some bait left and I'm trying to talk myself into going back out tonight.

So far, I've not convinced myself...

 

[rocketman]

Yes - delicious too

The one I kept was the smallest of the day.

I still have some bait left and I'm trying to talk myself into going back out tonight.

So far, I've not convinced myself...

well if i were you and the caravan was next to the beach i wouldnt take much convincing

 

[Persues]

It's a 10 minute drive, but I was shooting this afternoon and I'm knackered.

The mind is willing, but the body's not listening...

 

[g.ordon]

Well done on catch mate. Flounder is ok to eat out of that estuary IMHO.
Best time for fishing inside is at low water, best bait is crab I think.

 

[northeastcoast]

the tide and the surf comes in fast all along that beach i grow up not far from ther fished it alot over the years very rocky take a big lamp and watch for the tide spittal beach is more the needles eye area it fishes good though but rocky