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Article: Whitimg dominate as sport becomes erratic.
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- Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2007
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Sea Angling by Jack Melton
SHORE angling has settled down to mainly whiting catches with a sprinkling of good-sized codling, mainly from the rock edges and the piers.
There are one or two flounders and the odd coalie being taken from the river and piers.
Sport has been very erratic, with good catches some days and a real struggle the next. Night tides have produced the better fish, with codling topping 6lb from the Hall Beach and Roker Pier.
Alan Jones was unfortunate when hooking a double figure cod at the old Austins Dry Dock below the town bridge during a midweek competition. When he drew it along to the platform in the dock and ...