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  • 16/08/2023 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    16 Aug 2023 by Andy Savage

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    It was a bit more like Summer today…. light winds, sunny and warm.

    The tides are building and we had a 5.2m tide to deal with. Not massive, but a day of mixed fishing between wrecks and rough ground on the cards. After a bit longer than normal, we managed to get some Mackerel for bait from the Bell Buoy. No strings, just one’s and two’s.

    Slack water was imminent so I didn’t want to miss it by running off to distant wrecks. Our first one was just over a mile out and we picked up some small Codling and Ling. We moved on another half a mile after twenty minutes, as the bites tailed off. First drop on the next wreck saw seven rods out of ten go into fish!

    We had a great time for the next forty five minutes taking plenty of fish. The pick of the fish was a cracking 10lb 8oz Cod to Soran Barber. Once the drift speed increased we shuffled out for a few drifts on the three mile ground; but we only had a handful of fish. Once the drift got to 1.9 knots we pushed out to the seven mile area.

    Just like on Monday, it turned out to be a happy hunting ground for a few hours. The baited Hokkai’s were producing mainly small fish, so slowly but surely most of the lads switched over to muppet bait traces. As always, Squid and Mackerel did the business. Most drifts saw 6-8 fish come up, with Mat Rodgers taking a 9lb Ling as the biggest fish off the ground.

    We ran back inside for the second slack water, to fish some more wrecks. The first two weren’t brilliant, but the last one threw up some nice Codling to 6lb.

    All in all, it wasn’t a bad day. Everyone had plenty to take home and we had a decent stamp of fish.

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