With the hot, summer weather, mackerel anglers have been out in force, but small tides and high pressure always seems to put the mackerel off, and a lot of dredger …
Northern Bites
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Just a few days on from the start of the mackerel invasion and they have moved inshore in numbers unseen since the early seventies. The whole of the Teesbay area …
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Just two days of westerly winds were enough to flatten the sea off, clean up the water, and allow the huge shoals of mackerel that have been offshore to move …
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Boat anglers are now reporting large numbers of mackerel just offshore with some big specimens to two pounds among them. Unfortunately, the sea has not stayed calm for long enough …
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A few mackerel have started to move inshore recently with fish reported from the Region’s piers at Hartlepool, Seaham, Roker, and South Shields where the early morning high tides have …
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Still no confirmed reports of any numbers of mackerel from any of the regions piers and with a bit of movement on the sea again they will not be in …
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During the past few years, mackerel have moved inshore earlier every year, at one time they would start to show around mid-July, recent years have seen them showing by late …
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With the water clarity improving at last and conditions starting to look at least a little bit like summer, anglers are now starting to find good numbers of plaice showing …
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Many years ago, a good northerly sea at this time of year would have seen anglers fishing for the spring run of fresh cod, lovely well-conditioned, gold spotted specimens, with …
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With spring refusing to turn into summer the mackerel seem a long way off yet, though in previous years they have been taken as early as mid-May from the piers …
