In my own boat Dave about 5 miles north of whitby, god knows where we go when on chieftain for a couple of days. Never tried the tyne though (yet!) but will come up this year and meet some of the lads,still want to get you out on our local patch though!!
Just ordered a shad pirk mold have a look on do-it molds web site and stocked up on vmc trebles from uk hooks.