south shields pier

Joined: Jul 10, 2010 Posts: 4 Location: south shields

went down to south shields pier to fish the tide out, was another decent fishing session had 5 codling and the 1 dab. all codling were between 1lb-2lb 4 of them were size and 1 wasnt and the dab was a canny size. ended up taking 3 codling home to eat, my mate caught 3 codling aswell but just undersize. so it was a canny night out got there for about 6 and stayed till half 11.

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:27 pm

nice 1 m8, was going to go tonight but weather looks bit shit, gonna be blowin a bit tonight according to forecast with 5.5ft swells,

think im gonna go fri night instead,

scoobs

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:22 pm

im off to south shields pier again tomorrow , friday the 16th, be their prob from 8:30pm untill prob 4am pos 5am, on the end. if any1 fancies it,

scoobs

Joined: Jul 10, 2010 Posts: 4 Location: south shields

it looked abit windy for me today, i went to the pier yesterday and had 1 cast then went on the little beach it was far to windy for me my seat box was even blowing over. had a little codling on the small beach my mate had the 2 codling, was some others fishing aswell they were gettin flatties and codling was no wind on the beach nether.

im goin diggin tomorrow so might be down the pier tomorrow night depending on the wind, but the wind seems to have died down tonight hopefully be like this all weekend tougue

good luck scoob hope u catch some nice ones

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:12 am

went to s/s pier as planned last night, just got back in, weather forecast was spot on wind died just as was arriving, and sea was quite calm as well,

had a slow start with 1 codling in the first 3 hours or so, then had another codling and a dab then around 3am they started biting, ended up with a total of 8 codling and 1 dab, 4 where of size so came home with me the other 4 where returned unharmed.

thought my second to last cast had produced a very decent fish, struggled to reel it in and could feel a fish thumping, realy struggled to get it up the pier wall, only to find a codling of about a pound and half together with a big ball of line and weights from about 3 rigs people must have lost, after closer inspection 1 of the rigs was mine from the prev week, so even tho was a disapointment the fish wasnt the monster i thought it was least i got some weights back tougue

scoobs

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:11 pm

are you alowed to add the rigs to your overall bag weight? hehehe

i bet one of them was mine though......

Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 3 Location: south shields

were is the best place on the pier after the gates are closed

Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:09 pm

i generaly climb round the gates and fish the end, best place if you not willing to climb round is just infront of them fishing into the river side...

scoobs

Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 3 Location: south shields

cheers scoobs

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:38 pm

i fish a bit further towards the beach, there's a couple of spots where the rocks are far thinner on the ground so a lot less tackle loss. i seem to do fiarly well. plus if it gets to windy from the north north west,you can just about hop over the wall and get some shelter from the rocks and fish into the sea.

the best haul i've seen recently was actually from the bigade hut a lad spinning as it got dark... had a bag with fish spiling out of it.