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13/11/2022
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
13 Nov 2022 by Andy Savage
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With a slightly smaller 4.9m tide today, I decided to go and have a look on some of the rough ground and maybe a wreck or two. James Tuck brought five of his mates who hadn’t fished for a long time and needed a bit of guidance from us. The rest of the lads on board had their own gear and fished fairly regularly. So a mixed abilities group today.
The wind strength far exceeded what I had hoped for and made fishing conditions quite challenging as there was a bit of movement, making the boat pitch and roll on the drift. Initially we ran to some rough ground three miles out, to asses the drift speed, before maybe trying a wreck. With wind against tide, the drift speed of the boat wasn’t covering the ground sufficiently, so it was a baptism of fire and straight to a nearby wreck!!
Credit to the less experienced lads, they got to grips with controlling the gear in tricky conditions very quickly and started to pick away a few fish every drift over the wreck. It took 16oz of lead to control the gear properly today, and a muppet bait trace with either Squid or Squid and Black Lug did the bites. The two wrecks we fished over slack threw up mainly Codling to 5lb 8oz. We didn’t manage to clip anything any bigger, but there were plenty of bites.
Once the Ebb tide got away, we had wind and tide together, so moved back onto rough ground as the drift speed got to 1.7 knots. Now we were covering the ground, we found 3-6 fish a drift of mostly Codling, with an an odd strap Ling or two making an appearance. That’s how the remainder of the day went. We kept on the move, finishing up on the five mile ground and kept picking away until we lost a bit of tide. That really slowed things down, so it was a bit of a slow last hour, but by then everyone on board had fish to take away.
The lads kept on taking the mickey out of each other all day and it really kept up everyone’s spirits, making it a good day out in tough conditions. Well done on some great angling boys.View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
Sun 23/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.18m Andy Warren - x 1 James Daggett - x 2 Toby Plotzitzka - x 1 Diane Lincoln-Price - x 3 Steve Alderson - x 1View details Mon 24/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Robin Lever - x 3 Steve Austin - x 2 Piotr Maciarz - x 2View details Wed 26/02/2025 Uptiding Trip - 4.94m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Fri 28/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.51m Jeff Turner - x 1 Bod - x 2 Jonathan Stirrup - x 1 Tom Allen - x 1 Charlie Hewitt - x 1 Dave Fowls - x 1View details Mon 03/03/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.59m Joe Clough - x 4View details Wed 05/03/2025 6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.14m Will sail with 4 anglers. Steve Milnes - x 1 Chris Chatham - x 1View details Thu 06/03/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.83m Stan Matthews - x 1 David Craine - x 2 Howard Thornton - x 1 Ian Rigby - x 1View details Tue 11/03/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.78m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2 Neil Kennedy - x 1View details Sun 16/03/2025 2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.25m Chris Ibbotson - x 1 Dave Johnson - x 5View details Thu 20/03/2025 6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.81m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1 Ian Purdom - x 1View details