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  • 23/10/2024 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    23 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    After an enjoyable day yesterday, we hit repeat for today’s anglers……. With a crew of mixed angling experience aboard, from brand new to old sweat, it would be great to try and get everyone a few fish.

    No two days are ever the same, but today we faced similar conditions, albeit with a stronger breeze, but a smaller tide and less swell, which kind of equalised the two days fishing conditions wise.
    Having worked the rough ground yesterday and finding a reasonable number of fish, I aimed to do something similar today. We headed out at first light destined for the five mile ground again.

    Today I started in the productive area of the previous day and there were still fish willing to feed. For around ninety minutes we drifted the various ridges and ledges taking mainly strap Ling, small Codling and Haddock, with a few Pouting thrown in. Andy Cooper was aboard today and he likes to use the Pouting as bait. As we covered a nice drop off, one his Pouting baited Hokkai’s was grabbed by something a bit better.

    I could tell by the violent head shakes that it was going to be a decent fish. As he was fishing with his line running under the boat, the lads on the other side saw a sizeable Ling coming up before Andy did. With a bit of effort (as it was also tangled in another line) we managed to net the fish which on the scales went 17lb 8oz. Great angling Andy!

    We pushed out to the nine mile ground for slack water and drifted along a nice ledge. On the run into slack it fished ok with mainly Ling taking the Squid baits, but slack itself wasn’t great (just like the day before). The first signs of the Ebb saw things pick up again with a good few drifts. By this stage, everyone had a got in on the action and had a few in the box. The average size wasn’t anything to write home about, but there are certainly plenty of fish knocking about. Once the Ebb Tide got up to speed, the sport pretty much dried up.

    The wind made it harder than usual today, but with 16oz leads it wasn’t too hard to control the tackle. The lads proved this by consistently taking fish.

    Massive thanks to everyone for coming today. Well done.

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