Latest Fishing Reports: Northumberland
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07/2013
Fishing Report by Dave Builth
on Upholder (Amble, Northumberland)
Jul 2013 by Dave Builth
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Catch Report July 2013
July 2013 has been a memorable month for many anglers for achieving their personal best catches.
It started on July the 5th with Lee Campbell on his first ever boat trip landing a fine Ling of 14lb on baited daylights (see photo ).
July 6th, No great numbers of fish were caught on this day but Tony Crawford from Carlisle boated a 13lb Cod which was his personal best ever cod beating his Cod of last year of 11 ½ lb, (see photo).
Andrew Mackie boated his personal best on the same trip a 15lb ling which was caught on a mackerel strip fished on a single hook on a flowing trace (see photo ).
July 7th was another memorable day for Rick Fisher from Beverley North Yorkshire when he caught his personal best fish ever a 12lb 10 oz Ling (see photo).
July 12th The Northern Powergrid SAC fished a points competition which was won as normal by John Golding with a mixed bag of Codlings Pouting, wrasse and coal fish. Heaviest fish was caught by Kevin Garside a fine 14lb Cod which is the best Cod caught on the Upholder so far this year (see Photo). Best Specimen was awarded to P Hunter with a 6lb Pollock.
The Rough ground fishing has been very good this year with an exceptional Ling 0f 12 ½ lb being caught by Ian Ragg and a Cod of 12 ½ lb being caught by Martin Marshall and yes the 12 1/2lb Cod was Martins personal best ever Cod.
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11/08/2013
Fishing Report by grahame elliott
on Serenity (Amble, Northumberland)
11 Aug 2013 by grahame elliott
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An 8am start everyone aboard so away we went only to be beckoned by a figure on the harbour....we have nine and the dog aboard and nine booked .....oh no one guy brought his mate Rob was left on the quay.....we pulled in got him aboard and set off again 10 and the dog >>>> We went south with a good westerly wind on our starboard side a show of fish on the souder after 15 minutes so a stop for mackerel . Only a handfull aboard so further South a drop just off a reef 1 Cod aboard but the drift picking up so down to Cresswell>>>>>>> A drift here and there bringing cod up to 5lbs Pollock up to 4lbs Terry from Jedborough bringing the first few abord then the odd coaley a few Scotch haddocks and some Whiting we braved the wind and drift a good few hours unil even the big wieghts could not hold the bottom<<<<<<<< a steam back North and a couple of drifts over some hard ground bringing only a couple more Cod so we went behind the Island for a bit of respite----------there was a whisper that some good pollock had been caught here the day before -------after 2 or 3 drifts and akelpy cod aboard in came 2 nice Pollock one to Ryan Teasdale and one to Gav Gibert both around the 5lb mark we were now windswept out of coffee out of sarnies and the dog had woke up so in we went 15 cod 7 pollock, a lot of small to return and OH YES those monsters that Dave and Ryan lost!!!!????
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06/08/2013
Fishing Report by grahame elliott
on Serenity (Amble, Northumberland)
6 Aug 2013 by grahame elliott
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Early start and early fish 6 anglers from Durham fishing the hard ground 36 cod to keep best cod 7lbs 11 oz 4 ling the best being 9lbs 2oz mackeral were there but not in great numbers Coalies and Wrasse...Plenty small to return best bait black lug best lure green muppets.Places available on the boat this weekend if anyone is interested 07930314030
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04/08/2013
Fishing Report by grahame elliott
on Serenity (Amble, Northumberland)
4 Aug 2013 by grahame elliott
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Bit of a blowy day on Saturday 3rd but we sat it out fishing hard ground and producing around 40 cod to keep the best being 5lb plenty mackerel and coalies Wrasse and Scotch Haddock coming aboard after High water lumpy bumpy but fish there
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02/08/2013
Fishing Report by grahame elliott
on Serenity (Amble, Northumberland)
2 Aug 2013 by grahame elliott
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Half day trip today with 7 anglers Ashington steamed to hard ground South and picked up a few small cod a dozen good sized coalies moved further south and hit a good mark took 20 cod in 10 minutes best was 6lbs 8 oz by Daniel Iredale did the drift a few more times but only took 8 more cod to keep and a lot of small to return......staemed back for 14.00hrs Many thanks to Jim for sharing his flask as I left mine in the car !!!!!
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31/07/2013
Fishing Report by grahame elliott
on Serenity (Amble, Northumberland)
31 Jul 2013 by grahame elliott
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Wednesday 31/7/2013 set away at 08.00 hours steamed south and dropped for mackerel for bait 10 lads onboard all in good spirits....no hangovers today. Picked up 30 odd mackerel and a couple of cod before steaming further south and fishing the hard ground plenty cod here with the best being 8lbs and a good ling 7lbs 11oz both caught by Chris Harris on daylights tipped with mackerel a good few drifts accross the ground bringing a variety of species including wrasse scotch haddocks coalies and sea bass head for port at 15.00 hours giving an hour to gut and fillet .
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07/07/2013
Fishing Report by Dave Builth
on Upholder (Amble, Northumberland)
7 Jul 2013 by Dave Builth
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July (early) Catch report
Last weekend started with Lee Campbell from Benton catching a 14 lb ling on Mackerel baited daylights.
This was Lee's first ever boat trip last Friday.
Saturday's trip also managed a couple of decent fish but there was no great numbers of fish.
Tony Crawford from Carlisle caught a 13 lb Cod on a 3 inch shad.
Andrew Mackie caught the biggest fish of the weekend and his personal best ever fish a 15 lb Ling which took a Mackerel strip fished on a long flowing trace.
Rick Fisher from Beverly North Yorkshire also caught his personal best ever fish a 12 lb 10 oz ling which also took a long flowing trace baited with Mackerel.
The advantage of using a single hook on a long flowing trace is that when the fish is hooked there are no loose hooks to foul the wreck when retrieving the fish.
For a good job there were a few good size fish as the number of fish caught are well down from June.
As usual the cod fishing always seem to get harder when the Mackerel come in and at present the Mackerel are in great numbers here at Amble. View Boats Page
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20/05/2013
Fishing Report by Dave Builth
on Upholder (Amble, Northumberland)
20 May 2013 by Dave Builth
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April/May Report
The season got off to a slow start with March being a complete right off, when you look back at last year’s report for late March, we had a mini heat wave with temperatures in the twenties. Everything this year is a month behind, with the sea temperature being around 5 to 7 degrees C and the water being very discoloured with green algae, very little was caught until late April.
For the record, the first Codling was caught by Doug Hutchinson from the Currock SAC on the 20th of April. A clean fish about 3lb, caught on pink Hokki’s and cooked prawns (see Photo ).
It was a real struggle to find clean water and the algae was reported to be right along the Northeast Coast and to be fair to the Anglers, with no hope of catching anything, I cancelled several trips until conditions improved.
It was May the 10th until the first signs of any fish, when a group of Anglers from Lancashire had 20 Codlings to keep, between 2lb to 4lb.
The Currock SAC had 36 codlings to keep on the 11th of May, with many small fish returned.
May 16th was the first sign of any quantity of Codlings, with the best being caught by Tom Hollaway at 6 ¾ lb and Chris Wilkinson had a codling of 6 ½ lb.(see photos). Peter Mc Donald caught the first Pollock of 2013, which weighed 5 lb.
With the weather back to normal with strong Northerly winds 20 mph plus, the sea
was stirred up and the water was yet again coloured, with Sunday’s trip looking doubtful.
Sunday May 19th,
Despite the poor weather from the two previous days, the sea calmed down and a club from Edinburgh managed to catch 40 plus codling with many size codlings returned. The Codlings were caught on fresh dug lug worm and fresh mussel. As the day went on the condition of the water changed with the tide and most of the fish were caught when the water cleared.
Monday 20th,
The best fish of the year so far was caught by Joe Haggerty, a fine 8lb codling,
caught on fresh dug lug worm (see photo) he also had a nice 6lb Pollock and lost a fine fish mid water. Total catch for the 6 anglers was 40 plus with many size fish returned. The Codling are a better stamp of fish between 3lb to 4 ½ lb so thing are beginning to look up. View Boats Page
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24/05/2012
Fishing Report by Dave Builth
on Upholder (Amble, Northumberland)
24 May 2012 by Dave Builth
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May Catch Report.
With the wind coming from the North and East the sea has been far from settled with a Northerly swell for the best part of May.
As a result of the unsettled weather it has been a real challenge to get out and when we have managed to get out the clarity of the water has been poor.
Despite the poor start to the season the Civil Service Angling Club fished their qualifying competition out of Amble and Managed to catch 64 Codlings,15 Pouting,6 wrasse,,3 Coalfish and 1 Scorpion fish.
The Competition was a points Competition run under the NFSA rules with all unwanted fish being returned alive. The Three Anglers to Qualify were Chris Wilkinson, John Cuthbertson And Ian Mitchell who will go onto the National final at Milford Haven.
Mark Flowers And his Anglers had a good day with each angler catching 6 codlings on average, Nothing really big but all were a good stamp of fish between 4lb to 6lb.
The biggest Codling in May was 7.5 lb caught by Doug Hutchinson from Carlisle (see photo).
The best Pollock in May was 9lb caught by Jason Hudson (see photo) who also had a Catfish around 5lb View Boats Page
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22/04/2012
Fishing Report by Dave Builth
on Upholder (Amble, Northumberland)
22 Apr 2012 by Dave Builth
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The Fishing in April was poor compared with previous years with most of the charters being cancelled due to the winter like conditions the best fish was caught by Billy Keans on his first boat trip.
The 6lb Codling won the sweep on the 22nd of April with Mark Flowers and his pals catching 5.5lb and 5.0 lb Codlings And a small Ling of 5.5lb the anglers had 16 size fish to Keep on the day. View Boats Page
