Fishing and waterways

Proper fish that.

 

Pre bait for the big pike with the local yoof

 

I blanked trout fishing for an hr in gales on saturday so it's catching... or not catching i guess.

Shore bait fishing is one area i've never really tried. What bait would you prefer ? Lugworm, crab and What species are you likely to get up there? Cod? Bass? I know a few people that like youself sea fish properly and use baits etc from the shore and they've done really well. There is so much coast to go at. One lad a few yrs ago was catching some cracking spurdogs off the shore, and another guy i know from trout fishing circles had a few bass last year just spinning off the shore in amongst the bladderwrack. He was amazed. He expected maybe a sea trout or something but was stunned to catch bass right near his house. Loads of potential up here, hopefully get the boat out this summer to get some mackerel and pollock. That's about the extent of my sea fishing, i should spend some time experimenting with baits etc rather than just trolling jelly worms and sandeel patterns.

 

Overnighter piking tonight. It's that time of year again, the play offs, or should i say the post pike spawing feeding bonanza, so a bit of surface lure fishing in the shallows. I know it's a hard sell but it's all very exciting if you time it right. Probably blank though good luck to the huge amount of fisher folk on here that there clearly are if you're off wetting a line this weekend .

Hopefully this isn't the first MIDGE weekend though......

 

Beast of an estuary. The humber bridge is an amazing feat of engineering. Think i've been to that museum in my youth. Not fancy The Deep?

 

Keep telling you. Get an urban kit, wee bag of lures, small rod, wire traces, net, rod n line license nd off you go, miles of free urban fishing. If the fishing is crap just go to the pub.

 

What about closed season mate? Is it different on the Eden with it being primarily a salmon river?

Jealous Offy. Stick float for the dace? Lovely little fish. Hope you get a chub or barbel when you go, as you know I was well into chasing these fish back in yorkshire. Not much better in life than running a stick float though a nice piece of water, in yer waders and a pouch full of bait.

 

Excellent. Sounds good that Offy. What they doing with the fish they net? Never been involved with a fish survey/or netting but have had the opportunity up here on the club waters just not been able to help when it came up. I read a thing that it is being discussed about whether the closed season should actually be abolished anyway. Maybe it will be ditched? Cmon it was really just used to keep common folk off the rivers in the spring when the well to do were wafting their greenhearts about for salmon.