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  • 05/2010 Fishing Report by Dave Builth on Upholder (Amble, Northumberland)

    May 2010 by Dave Builth

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    Fishing was poor in April mainly due to the water being dirty with an abundance of algae, on the occasions the water did clear, there were a few Codlings caught.
    The very first Codling was caught by Dennis Miller on the 13th of April weighting around 2lb and would have been returned but was damaged when it was deep hooked on prawns and Squid.
    Colin Chandler had 3 or 4 small codlings to keep on the same trip.
    As usual with April fishing, if the weather is settled the first of the Codlings normally show at the back end of the month. On the 24th of April a party of six anglers from Carlisle had 16 codlings to keep with quite a few small size codlings being returned, they also had wrasse, pouting and a few coalies for a bit of sport.
    The best day in April was the 29th when six anglers had 30 codlings to keep between them,
    The best fish of 9lb was caught by Jim Tate on lug worm, when the fish was gutted it had one of the other anglers Lee Builtcliffe’s hook baited with peeler crab in its stomach, A little disappointing but Lee still manage to go away with 6 decent codlings to keep between 3lb to 5lb.

    May,
    No boats went anywhere from Amble the first two weekends in May due to the Northerly winds. With snow still lying on the Cheviot and a frost all over the Northeast the first trip out in May was the 12th.
    The six anglers that were out managed to catch on average 8 to 9 codlings to keep apiece all between
    3lb to 5lb with all the smaller fish being returned.
    The best bait being fresh dug lug worm also prawns and squid fished on daylights and hokkis.
    With the weather forecast looking good for the weekend there should be some decent catches to report for the second half of May.

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