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  • 30/08/2024 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    30 Aug 2024 by Andy Savage

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    After a week off for a family holiday, it was back to sea again yesterday.

    With a small neap tide, I hoped to spend the day wreck hopping, but unfortunately it just didn’t turn out that way. The only part of the day that went to plan was catching plenty of Mackerel to start off. With a WNW breeze, the wind pushed us out to sea across the tide (which I don’t like) and we tried three wrecks for nothing at all. Then we found one wreck that did one or two fish a drift for half an hour, but then it dried up.

    We then tried rough ground at five miles, three miles and another wreck for literally nothing. It was a headbanger of a day and I was as disappointed with the day as the lads were, despite the effort we all put in.

    Today with light winds “forecast” and still only a moderate tide, we agreed to have a go on a few wrecks, but to run south to try and get away from the massive amounts of feed that I believe is blighting the sport at Whitby at present. It was one of my fishing days, so there were only seven of us fishing, giving plenty of room. First drift on the first wreck and we had three rods in, wrestling up three reasonable Ling in the 6-8lb class which was a relief after the previous day.

    Just as we were getting stuck into a few fish, the wind lifted and whoever guessed the weather should give their head a wobble!! We were treated to NW winds in the 15-17mph range which really made it lumpy and tricky fishing conditions. Credit where credit’s due, the lads just carried on taking fish every drift. We didn’t find anything massive, but a nice stamp of Ling including a couple of doubles to Dave Sharp and Simon West were good to see. We didn’t have loads of Codling, but we did take a couple over 6lb.

    Mackerel on muppet traces dominated, but Squid still did a few. Streaming lines meant the shad’s didn’t get a look in.

    Thanks for a really enjoyable day lads.

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