MY FISHING DIARY ADVENTURES OF A JUNIOR SHORE ANGLER

THE WEEKEND HAD ARRIVED and I had been itching for the chance to head up into Northumberland, a stretch of coastline dominated by forests of kelp along with deep, rocky gullies and golden beaches.

Anglers have many fishing choices, ranging from scratching for flatfish to fishing big edible crab baits for resident cod from the kelp shoreline. Good numbers of codling had shown since the previous big tides and with a couple of weeks’ worth of settled weather, flat calm seas and big tides it was a good opportunity to get