The spring fishing was a little slow to get going with constant NE winds and cold nights, but eventually the scoolies began to show up around april amongst the spring run of codling
me with a 3.5lb bass
Graham with a scoolie
Eventually the milder weather came around may time, and the summer fish slowly but surely started to show, if you picked ur tides right and put in the hours the was very rewarding.
mixed bags of cod, bass, thornbacks and smoothounds where available.
3lb cod
1st thorny of the summer at 3lb 8oz
bass of 4.5lb
What better way to spend a summers night than on a holderness beach
All of a sudden in may, we had strong westerly winds for a week solid and it really kicked the fishing into hyperdrive, huge hauls of thornbacks, smoothounds and cod where coming from most beaches.
Graham jonied me on a few occasions, and sampled how good the fishing can really be when its on form
one night at hilston me and graham had 22 thornbacks to 8.5lb, 3 cod, 3 bass a pout a doggy and a flounder between us
a few weeks later we set about getting graham his 1st smoothound, he achieved this on his 1st cast with a 6lb hound
we had a good night on the hounds up to 6.5lb with a few cod mixed in
Things went very quiet in june, the only 2 notable catches where my Tub gurnard
And a new PB bass of 8lb 13oz for me
Back end of june the hounds hit holderness big time
one night me and mark had 3 hours hectic sport, landing 13 smoothounds each to just over 9lb and a few bass and cod
July saw the hounds vacate holderness and hit the linconshire coast, me been hound mad this time of year i dicided to follow
best night of the year was 25 hounds to over 12lb and site member J-lo had 8 to over 9lb
August and sep was fairly quiet with a few thornbacks and a bit of float fishing for mackrel up north and from brid pier which threw up a few surprises in the form of shads
Eventually the cod arrived, in the river at 1st with plenty of cod in the 5-10lb range
my biggest been 6lb 13oz from east halton
Lets hope the good fishing continues into next year
tight lines all
mack
