Short Session On South Shields Pier

The Journey

After a busy half an hour drive, my dad and I got down to the pier car park for 8:30am last Wednesday. We ended up choosing the famous 44 mark as catch reports said it was producing some nice plaice. As you can probably guess, it was a short session due to the absolute opposite, The time I had dragged my dad along the pier and got set up, it was an astonishing 9:30 the time we wet our first line.

TIP: The Car park costs £3 in the summer to park all day.

Fish On!

The tide was on the turn so we didn’t expect to be able to fish it for too long. Upon the first cast my dad caught a nice codlin for a weight of about 1.5lb.

Small Codlin

After this fish we thought that we’d be in for an interesting day with signs of some nice fish being around. No sooner than I’d bait up and cast back out, my dad was onto another fish! When he was retrieving his fish, i didn’t quite know what it was on the surface of the water. Once the fish was landed it became clear what it was, A SMALL COLEY!

A Big Loss

By this time, the tide had already gone down by 2 metres so it was nearing lower water, we were constantly changing bait and recasting but no luck until, my dads rod doubled over with an outstanding knock. He began reeling it in and after 5 minutes of fighting what seamed to be a fish, it appeared to be snagged. I tried helping him for 15 minutes to get it out of the snags. But we had no choice other than to pull at it which resulted in the loss of whatever was on the end.

After that my dad lost 3 sets of gear and it was time we left and picked my mam up from work so that we did.

And yes you have read correctly, I did blank unfortunately.

Baits Used

Ragworm, Black Lugworm and Mackerel.

We got our bait from our local tackle shop which is Fraisers Fishing Tackle and it was outstanding with nice size worm in our buckets.

Worm of about 10inches. Absolutely Great bait.

Some more photos 

RNLI Boat At Work