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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.

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