Weekly report by Andy rutherford...26/1/20

Flat seas and clear water made it hard going last week for local anglers. Having said that, some good sized whiting along with a few codling were taken. Even a few pollock have started to show. The best pollock weighing just over 4lb was taken at The Blocks on the bottom of Seaham South Pier by Lee Burton.
Seaham North Pier has seen a few good size whiting along with the odd coalfish and flounders.
The cliff marks at Ryhope have still produced the odd codling, with the best over 3lb.
Roker Pier has not produced as many whiting as the water has cleared up. The odd codling up to 2lb has been taken out of the bay. Ian Elliott took a pollock of 3lb 13oz when fishing from the pier in the South Shields club comp.
Marsden and Whitburn's rock marks have produced the odd codling, with the best around 3lb.
South Shields Pier and The Groyne at the mouth of the Tyne have seen codling up to 2lb along with coalfish that are just undersized.
The River Tyne is full of undersized codling taking all types of bait, but frozen crab has picked out the odd better one up to 3lb. Further up river there are still plenty of flounders at the British Airways Car Park.
Anglers traveling to the west coast of Scotland have had great sport with thornback rays - some anglers have taken 12 fish a session with the best over 12lb.

Seaham pier 25/1/20

Venue : Seaham pier.

Anglers : Brian Neil and my self.

Weather : windy and dry.

Bait : lug frozen crab squid razorfish sandeel mussel.

Neil got down to seaham pier before us about 3pm we followed
behind him we got there about 4.30pm there was a load of lads
on the pier but nothing much was getting caught just a few small
stuff like coddling whiting dabs.

We got set up on pegs 32 34 and 35 Neil started off on peg 60 but
never managed any thing or bite fishing was really slow it was a
good few hours before any of us had a bite then Neil get the first
second and 3rd fish all whiting.

Then I managed to pull a small whiting in a few casts later I pulled
a small coddling in then a small flounder nothing like last weekend
not many size fish about and Brian had a big fat blank he missed a few
bite but that was about it we packed in about 11.30 Neil packed in about
10pm....

Seaham pier 17/1/20

Venue  : Seaham north pier.

Anglers : Brian and my self.

Weather : Wind and dry.

Bait : Lug squid razorfishr runnydown  mussel cart wings.

We arrived at seaham round about 4.30pm there was a few lads on

the pier as we walked on we ask how things were going there seemed

to be a few nice whiting about. So we picked our spot pegs 34 and 35

fishing was a bit slow all night i managed a nice whiting out at long

range with a squid bait.

Mean while Brian was slowly catching fish as well with a few whiting

things picked up a bit when the tide started to go out we managed a few

more whithing dabs and Brian landed a nice flounder which was returned.

we called it a night round about 11.30 it was a very enjoyable few hours our

we ended up with a few for the table.