Arnside - Lancashire

**pr3** · 11-01-2005, 21:50

Hello everyone. Has anyone who reads this forum fished the river Kent estuary at Arnside? I have fished there a couple of times and have caught half a dozen flounder on black lug. I was wondering what other species are present here and what the best tactics / tide states are the most productive. Any advice is greatfully appreciated.

**shoreangling** · 12-01-2005, 01:17

Ainside is fished 2-3 hour into low water and just after when the flood starts, depending on the sizes of tide it would be advice to finish fishing the mud banks before the flood starts as sometime with a big spring tide they get a bore wave which can be deadly and 'WILL' throw you in.Pegs fishes best towards the left near to the moored boats there.Some anglers me inculded have fished the pier there nearing high water,but there isn't a long fishing session.Rigs used is a one up one down or 2 hook flapper.Hook size needs to be long sharks 2.0.Lug or mackerl strips best, but maddies (harbour rag)the killer bait along the river.A light beach rod will do plus using a plain 2oz lead with water condition allows being the method and the baited rig is wind in slowly to make the bait more attractive to the flounders on offer.The down side to this kind of flattie fishing is the deep hooked fish which results in damage gills and blood everywhere.Most anglers locally used the quiver tip rod set up with keep nets to store fishes for wiegth in, in matches which throw up great sport on light tackle.as always do watch out for quick sands along this river and if a horn is heard its a warning the 'BORE WAVE' is heading towards you!!!You have been warn.

**pr3** · 14-01-2005, 08:57

Thankyou for your reply. The advice is greatly appreciated. I also found that as soon as I added large illuminous beads to the rig I was getting more bites. I was talking to a local angler a couple of weeks ago and he reported catching a couple ofd whiting. Do you know what sort of size they reach in this stretch of water?

**shoreangling** · 17-01-2005, 01:44

Never remembering catching whitlings, but i have seem sea trout jumping, plus caught a 3lbs mullet on the peir.Pictures of the mullet on my site..There a few other venues for flounder fishing on the northwest coastline.Ainside is very quiet and nice looking mark, but only fish this if there isn't a lot of rain water entering the rivers or snow melting.Connar's quay on the dee is ok but fishing times are limited to tide pulls, with just on high water being the magic hour for the flounders to feed.Preston docks being another flounder mark.

**mikrick** · 14-07-2005, 09:10

Hi everybody this is my first post. I have not done any fishing for at least 30 years and having retired recently I decided to dust off my tackle and see if I still enjoyed it as much as I used to.

And I did, to my surprise I could still cast.

I went to my old haunt of Arnside.

I fished from the pier from around 2 hours before the tide came in to high water.

Things were totally quiet until the tide flooded and I had a 45 min period of bites ( no fish) and things went dead. The bites were on frozen black lug, mackerel strip was totally ignored. I was using 2.0 long shank hooks which could have been a bit big.

I thoroughly enjoyed the day and I will be fishing again soon.

**Glynn** · 11-08-2006, 09:51

could you all please tell me what fish are being caught what area of arnsides coast and on what bate please

**cupboardlad** · 11-08-2006, 11:04

Originally Posted by Glynn

could you all please tell me what fish are being caught what area of arnsides coast and on what bate please

elo glyn , there are 2 top baits at arnside m8 , one is maddies ( tiny little harbour rag ) or very very rotten lug ( and i mean rotten

) those flounder luv it,
as for species , i have only caught flounder and mullet there but as in a previouse post i have seen the sea trout jumping about

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cuberd,
ps ,, a 1s or 1.0 s aberdeen hook is the top hook to use too

**Glynn** · 11-08-2006, 14:41

thanks m8 very helpful

**Glynn** · 12-08-2006, 09:03

if anyone else has any info on Arnside please can you say thanks

**oldchukka** · 24-08-2006, 18:19

Originally Posted by Glynn

could you all please tell me what fish are being caught what area of arnsides coast and on what bate please

if you want some fun --try float fishing with light gear . area -boat house and cafe
just before end of run off and after low water. best bait creeper tipped whith mackeral for flounders