River Coquet

[JJ]

Any takers, encouragement, fish, decent conditions, tips out there from our Coquet anglers?

I had a beak round yesterday and didnt see anyone about at all?!

- JJ

[ludite1]

wait till june the first when the worming starts, and go to sandy hole,High Park

[JJ]

Oh great! Worming on a small river with few streamy fly beats,, lovely!

I got turned right off the Annan Common Good fishings by stationary wormdrowners in their dozen hogging the best fly pools,, gggrrrrrr!

[ludite1]

hi JJ
if you havent fished the Coquet before the, federation has water from the Tidal section (seperate ticket)
with stretches up to Rothbury. mostly shrimp and worming, but for the dedicated fly fisher there are patches of fly water on all sections, hardy night fishers catch there fair share on an evening, if you want to have a quite day not combat fishing keep away from the popular worming spots and head for Wagtail Farm south bank below Rothbury, can be very productive with a drop of water from late June onwards and might find you have the water to yourself fly worm spin

[johnc]

The Federation stretch at Felton is fly only.

I am hoping the rain this week will have brought some fish in as I am going out tomorrow.

[chasb]

Dont bother, sell your gear and go to Canada for a fortnights holiday, you'll get more in a day over there than in a life time on the Coquet

[JJ]

Depressing but probably true

[chasb]

Depressing and very true!! The T & J nets have completely wrecked the Coquet and Aln, it's high time the commercial boys realised they cant fish the seas til they're empty no matter how much they want to.

Greedy sods wreck everything

[salmonking]

I have fished the river on several occasions at Weldon,mainly because you can fish on a Sunday , its a pretty dour river to put it mildly,its a pity about the nets ,I'm sure the potential is there.Got a bit crowded though,with Geordie's,wey eye mun

[johnc]

It costs £85 a season to fish the federation waters for a season and for that price I don't expect much.

When the water was low over the last couple of years in June there ahave been dead salmon in the river. There are also beats (private) in the lower river that are full of fish when there is nothing further up.

The potential is there but it isn't just the netting that is a problem.

[ludite1]

for £85 you get the chance to fish two rivers on the fed water Coquet and lower Tyne.if the Coquet is to low some of the regulars fish the Tyne where even in a heat wave fish enter the river with the help of Kielder releases,What would rather pay? the usual day ticket price for a small stretch of so called top beat fishing or £85 and have the choice to fish either river. When theres a drop of water your spoilt for choice .long live the fed

[chasb]

Agreed, the nets are not the only problem.

It's high time bait fishing, worm, prawns, shrimps etc. and the so called drop minnow fishing were banned from the river completely especially on the lower stretches and around Rothbury but a blanket ban would be best.

Effective management of a lot of the river would also help.

[highplains]

I have no knowledge of your rivers, but a little of human nature.

As a great man once said, its not the bait that is unsporting, it's the man fishing the bait.

[salmonking]

chasb said:

Agreed, the nets are not the only problem.

It's high time bait fishing, worm, prawns, shrimps etc. and the so called drop minnow fishing were banned from the river completely especially on the lower stretches and around Rothbury but a blanket ban would be best.

Effective management of a lot of the river would also help.

Times ive been there,very rarely have i met fly fishermen,i think you make a very valid point.

[ludite1]

OMG Blanket ban on every thing bar the fly? this would mean the few would rule the many, and what difference would that make to the Coquet? only 25% of the river getting fished by bigets who think that the way they fish has to be adhered to by everyone. I prefer fly fishing but would never dictate to fellow anglers who are fishing any lagally excepted method just remember we call ourself fishermen when infact we are only people who catch fish on the angle, fishermen go to sea in boats to gather there fish, theres no place in angling for any type of antis enough people out there want to ban it alltogether with anglers fighting over what can be used and what cant. if you banned the most prolific catching method on most rivers you would be banning the FLY get my drift

[Taddy]

"Golden Sprats"--"Sand Eels" used to be order of the day once over on the Coquet,these baits were very effective back in the early 80s.

Personally i would close the river for a year or two or maybe close the tidal section for a year or two in the hope that stocks would make a slight increase.

Its always the comercial fishermen who get the blame! as usual,but its down to a number of things,comercial fishermen,illegal netters both at sea and in the tideway Warkworth and Amble has had some sereous stick off poachers over the years,also the so called "True Blue" anglers! from my knowladge of the Coquet, a lot of so called "fair" fishermen aint that fair when it comes to it,ok they is good and bad everywhere,but it seems that a lot of so called respected anglers around the northeast area who fish both the Tyne and Coquet are in fact practiseing the art of keeping foul hooked fish,which in turn over the years will desimate fish stocks along with other problems that i mentioned earlier.

When comercial netting was rife Salmon prices stayed rather low compared to what prices used to be like in years gone by,plus people are getting wise to farmed fish,so no controled comercial fishermen means WILD Salmon prices will increase,once again the demand is there for WILD fish,with prices fetching as much as a fiver a lb in certain areas poaching for Salmon is defenately on the increase again.

[acw]

When comercial netting was rife Salmon prices stayed rather low compared to what prices used to be like in years gone by,plus people are getting wise to farmed fish,so no controled comercial fishermen means WILD Salmon prices will increase,once again the demand is there for WILD fish,with prices fetching as much as a fiver a lb in certain areas poaching for Salmon is defenately on the increase again.[/quote]

A certain well known fishmonger was trying to sell me at work some wild fish well over £25 a Kiilo .I refused !

[johnc]

Fished a private beat on Coquet on Saturday at Guyzance. landed a 14lb salmon and moved one other. The beat had fantastic water.

It was a days fishing that I won in a raffle. No-one else was fishing on either bank.