Uptiding Novice! Advice Required!

[Graham B]

It must be the time of year and the fact that I have got too much time on my hands at work but I am getting itchy feet for the forthcoming boat season!
I am deadly serious I want to try uptiding this year when I get home mid-late february. Has anyone on here tried it up at Amble area?
I think the general idea is to anchor up on broken ground? Not too heavy in under 20metres of water and fish one rod cast uptide with a fixed or breakaway style of lead and another downtide with as light a lead as you can get away with in order to bounce it away from the boat and downtide?
Just a couple of questions that spring to my mind, how much warp to pay out for one? And what stage of the tide should be the best?
I would imagine all the baits will be the same as normal, lug, crab, squid etc working.
The last anchoring we did lasted for all of thirty minutes before we thought sod it and went back on the drift! I will endeavour to do a whole day at anchor this time!
Saying that I have managed almost two weeks at anchor so far at work this trip waiting for a berth in Singapore!

Thanks for any help, advice or tips,

Graham.

 

[amblecol]

Going to try that this year as well Graham. I want to target plaice and dabs, an area of fishing overlooked up here. Got the marks from my mate (ground edges) so I just (like you) have to find out about anchor lengths and best tides. We're busy doing up a little 16ft boat to use for inshore fishing so I'll see you more often this summer.Got a few other methods to try but I like to see if they work first.

 

[lingking]

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aye G.B.if you are a drifterit will be hard to bide in the yin spot aal dayunless of course the anticipated boredom is regularly interrupted by the landing of a few(lots) of fash cant give you any advice im afraid other than you will need to build up knowlede about marks tides etc,just as you do with shore fishing

 

[canman]

Hi Graham, Alec Harvey and myself shared a boat in the late seventies we had quite a few successful sessions at anchor up tiding on medium ground off Cullercoats area. We found on the big tides a 6oz lead would not hold bottom straight out the back of the boat, for ever letting line off to compensate. So we tried casting up tide in around 60ft of water with plane leads, with a few lost leads which wouldn't pull out, but once the sinker got a good enough hold, which then held the bait on the bottom we soon caught fish.
We would cast about 30-40 yards up tide, let the sinker hit the bottom and let out a further20-30 yards of line so the rods were facing the back of the boat with a bend in the rod from the water pressure. The rod straightening out and the line going slack would indicate a fish on. At first you think you missed it, but that's just the fish coming with the tide, until you catch it up, then you feel weight increasing as you reel in.
Havn't fished that way for a long time as I've used braid for the last few years and have no probs holding bottom, which was the reason trying it in the first place.

 

[Graham B]

What kind of boat is it Colin? The best plaice we had was just inside Creswell skeers and just over 2 and a half lb on hokkai's baited for cod! I think if you get it right south of Hadston to Creswell should have loads of flatties as no one trawls in there like they do the North bay for pot bait. I heard a couple of whispers about a couple of reliable Turbot marks as well but am still trying to prize the co-ordinates of the keeper! I am sure these marks would hold Plaice as well.
Thanks for the advice Arthur. I am going to invest in some 7oz fixed wires!

Graham.