Latest Fishing Reports: North East
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21/05/2023
Fishing Report by Geoff Sharp
on Sweet William (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
21 May 2023 by Geoff Sharp
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Massive thanks to the guys for the run out yesterday; they stuck with us through both the good and the tough days, and were rewarded with flat seas, sunshine and some cracking fishing!
They say the apple never falls from the tree, and after Daz caught an almost double figure cod recently, he brought his son Hugo to what all the fuss was about. Hugo didn't waste any time to secure his position in the pecking order, and top rod for the day, by knocked into a lovely Ling of just shy of 12lb! It looks like Daz has some catching up to do :-) Between them both they had almost 20lb of fillets for the pan!
Warren and his brother were literally non stop once we hit the wrecks, and between them, after a 1 hour two man filleting session on the run home, had almost 30lb of fillets for the pan.
Mark was finding fantastic codling and Ling all day, and might also need a bigger freezer!
Shaun was given the name the ‘silent assassin’, as he didn’t have much time to chat between hauling them in pretty much non-stop on the shads!
Of course the First Mate didn’t feel like missing out on the party, and put his new rod gifted by Kingie, and new reel from Billy’s Fishing Tackle to work; safe to say it definitely works and that low speed setting came into its own. I’ve got some filleting to do myself later!
The saying goes that no two days are the same; we had tough day last Wednesday with only one decent codling boated and buckets of pollock, it was steady but challenging on Saturday with a mixed bag, and then yesterday produced very few pollack and hundreds of codling. Warren went around weighing a substantial proportion of the fish out of interest, and the average stamp was approximately 4.5lb.
Once again thanks to the lads for great craic yesterday!
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21/05/2023
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
21 May 2023 by Lee Brown
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Class day cod to 11.6 lb loads of wrass colies good laugh as always lovely weather spaces Wednesday full day full Saturday few spots Sunday ����������
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20/05/2023
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
20 May 2023 by Lee Brown
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Over 200 fish landed the day bit foggy at first but sun came out loads of wrass and cod to 6 lb most returned for another day cracking day and good laugh as always inbox or call lee for spaces cheers ��������������������
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20/05/2023
Fishing Report by Geoff Sharp
on Sweet William (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
20 May 2023 by Geoff Sharp
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Massive thanks to the lads for coming from as far away as London for a run out today.
The day started off with a chill in the air, shrouded in a thick blanket of fog which lasted until mid-afternoon, until the sun finally burnt through. The south easterly swell seemed to have lingered on making it uncomfortable at times.
We started on the inner rough grounds and there were codling, pouting and coalies, but still no mackerel even on some of the favoured inshore shoaling wrecks.
The first few wrecks started slow, with the lads picking away at pouting, whiting, coalies, pollock and codling.
Once the tide started to flood, it was good to see the codling turn back on again in numbers after a notable absence a few days ago.
Nothing particularly noteworthy came aboard, other than a single Ling weighing in at just shy of 8lb (which isn’t too bad here for this time of year).
It was good to get back towards the Tyne later in the afternoon and continue to pick away at codling in the sunshine and calmer seas! View Boats Page
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17/05/2023
Fishing Report by Geoff Sharp
on Sweet William (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
17 May 2023 by Geoff Sharp
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Massive thanks to Royal Quays Marina for a late notice overnight hang and hold, and 68 Marine Solutions for their trademark last minute evening shift yesterday!
We were dropped back in at 8:00am, and immediately picked up Ash and the guys who had travelled up from Barnsley for a run out today.
We set off to glorious conditions; flat seas and sunshine and it felt promising!
Not long after we had exited the Tyne piers, the light offshore breeze turned to the South East and began to slowly build throughout the day.
The first stop off consisted of a quick check for mackerel, as usual, but produced nothing; the first wreck give up a lovely pollack just shy of 6lb (no more debating weights for the sweeps on the new Reuben Heaton scales accurate to 1/500).
This set the tone for the remainder of the day; the guys fishing shads caught numerous lovely pollack also up to the 6lb mark. One decent codling came aboard weighing approx. 3 / 4 lb, and the remainder ranged from small to thumb size! Not a single Ling aboard throughout the entire day.
We headed home trying out a good number of the inner rough grounds, and again, the codling were smaller than the hooks :-)!
Cracking but incredibly challening run out, the lads fished hard up until late afternoon; and look forward to seeing them again soon. View Boats Page
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14/05/2023
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
14 May 2023 by Lee Brown
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Loads of sport the day none stop cod to 5 lb and loads of wrass will do Thursday Friday full day if interested full Saturday 2 spots Sunday inbox lee cheers ������������
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13/05/2023
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
13 May 2023 by Lee Brown
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Cracking day the day good laugh as always cod to 6 lb full next Saturday spaces Sunday inbox lee cheers ������������
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05/2023
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
May 2023 by Allan Skinner
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may
the weather in may has started same as april with lumpy and unsettled seas. however when we do get out there are signs of a better stamp of fish
showing through, with ling just into double figures, and cod to 7lbs
and at last ther weather seems to be settling down this week
we do have places left for this thursday and saturday coming 13th may
so if you fancy a look out give me a ring 0780-8684358
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30/04/2023
Fishing Report by Geoff Sharp
on Sweet William (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
30 Apr 2023 by Geoff Sharp
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We departed the Royal Quays Marina at 7:00am to glassy conditions on the River Tyne; no sooner than we’d got out of the piers an uncomfortable south easterly swell made its presence known.
We had wind, rain showers, fog, cold snaps, and occasionally sunshine for the majority of the day until late afternoon!
The first few wrecks proved quite slow until we got a fair way off, and Paul landed a lovely Pollack weighing 8.1 lb to start the sweep off!
The fishing got progressively better once the tide started to flood, and some lovely Cod, small Ling, Coalies, Pouting and a solid number of smaller Codling came aboard throughout the afternoon.
Hats off to the the lads for braving the conditions; they kept at it relentlessly, pretty much non-stop, for the entire day, other than a running pit-stop for snacks and coffee.
Daz must have been keeping his powder dry, as no sooner than I said we had about 10 minutes left he knocked into a 9.15 lb Cod to take the sweep. The digital scales were flashing onto the 10 lb mark but stayed mainly below the double and the First Mate had the final say :-)
Fantastic banter all day long with some cracking fish for the pan View Boats Page
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29/04/2023
Fishing Report by Geoff Sharp
on Sweet William (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
29 Apr 2023 by Geoff Sharp
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We were up against it today; half of the full party broke down on the motorway and unfortunately ended up homeward bound to Manchester.
This left the lads aboard with no bait, so we headed out for a full day on the Tyne wrecks hoping to find some bait early.
The first three wrecks produced nothing noteworthy, but finally we found some pouting, which turned the day around. The next wreck started to produce some lovely Codling and by 11:00am, we stopped for a break, and had a quick group photo whilst the fish were still fresh.
After a few refreshments we headed onwards, and more Codling began to appear, including a couple of small Ling and Pollack which was nice to see this early in the year.
The confused sea state, and the wind, thankfully began to ease off in the afternoon, prior to the long run home with a lazy following sea.
Hats off to the guys for keeping at it pretty much non stop; against all odds we had a great run out with good banter and plenty of fish for the pan! View Boats Page
