Longbenton & Seaton Burn Sea Anging Club

Summer Night Hawks Matches

Fifteen matches in total for 2024.   A match every 2 weeks, give or take a few days for tides. Matches start from March to end of September.  Matches are fished  at multiple locations.  Four matches at  British Airways, Copthorne Hotel and Pottery Bank.  3 New venues will be added for 2024 and a match fished at each. 

Longbenton & Seaton Burn Sea Anging Club

Summer Night Hawks Matches

Matches are straight length measure matches.  All fish count (no minimum size) or restrictions on hook size.  Maximum of 3 hooks, trebble hook counts as 3 hooks. 

Members recieve 10 points for first place, second place recieves 9 points, 3rd 8pts, 4th 7pts, 5th 6pts, 6th 5pts, 7th 4pts, 8th 3pts, 9th 2pts, 10th 1pt.  All members who fish recieve 1pt, even if they have blanked.  Longest fish on the night recieves a further 5 points. 

Ref.

Month

Date

Day

Match Type

Tide

SNH01

Mar

4th

Mon

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

9:38 PM GMT 3.89 m

SNH02

Mar

18th

Mon

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:37 PM GMT 3.83 m

SNH03

Apr

2nd

Tue

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:26 PM BST 3.88 m

SNH04

Apr

15th

Mon

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

9:46 PM BST 3.93 m

SNH05

May

1st

Wed

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:22 PM BST 3.99 m

SNH06

May

15th

Wed

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:33 PM BST 3.81 m

SNH07

May

30th

Thu

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:07 PM BST 4.20 m

SNH08

Jun

13th

Thu

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

9:43 PM BST 3.94 m

SNH09

Jun

28th

Fri

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

9:41 PM BST 4.41 m

SNH10

Jul

14th

Sun

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:32 PM BST 3.90 m

SNH11

Jul

29th

Mon

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

11:10 PM BST 4.16 m

SNH12

Aug

13th

Tue

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:26 PM BST 3.86 m

SNH13

Aug

27th

Tue

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:39 PM BST 4.05 m

SNH14

Sep

11th

Wed

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

9:31 PM BST 3.93 m

SNH15

Sep

25th

Wed

Summer Night Hawks – Pegged Match Tyne

10:14 PM BST 4.03 m

British Airways

Directions:  NE4 7YA, the vennue is a left hand turn off William Armstrong Drive.  

Parking:  Two car parking spaces before British Airways private car park.  The rest of the parking is on the roadside before the barrier.  

Vennue:  Easy access, fishing from the promenade.  Best fished on the flood on larger tides.   Clean Ground.  

Species:  Mainly Flounder and Eels.  Small codling, whiting and coalfish on bigger tides.  The occasional smelt.  

Copthorne

Directions:  NE4 7YA, the vennue is a left hand turn off William Armstrong Drive.  

Parking:  NE1 3PN Forth Banks Car Park.  08:00 – 19:00 80p per hour.  Free from 19:00.  

Vennue:  Easy access, fishing from the promenade.  Clean ground with odd bit of debris.  Best fished on medium to large tides on the flood. 

Species:  Mainly Flounder and Eels.  Small codling, whiting and coalfish on bigger tides.  The occasional smelt.  

Pottery Bank

Directions:  NE6 3RU, should take you to the top of the road which you drive down to the river.   

Parking: Parking is available next to your pegs.    Approximately 20 spaces. 

Vennue:  Easy access, fishing from the promenade.  Fairy clean with the odd snag, more toward the down river end of the venue.  Best fished on the flood.  

Species:  Mainly Codling, whiting, Flounder, Coalfish, Eels.