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  • 17/01/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    17 Jan 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    The run of settled weather continues unabated, so I’ve managed another couple of days out at sea.

    Thursday saw John Wilson and a group of mates book the boat for a day out. Being Uptiding virgins, we spent a a bit of time going through the rudimentary’s of feeling down the lead, baiting up the traces and paying off an arc of line. With everyone cast out it wasn’t long before the rods started twitching and most of the boys “popped their Uptiding cherries” with either a Haddock or Codling.

    We had a couple of moves during the morning to try and get some lee from the brisk offshore wind, then ran further north to meet the flood tide. As the day progressed it was noticeable how the boys improved. Baits looked tidier, casting wasn’t an issue; it was good to see.

    The day was as much about having a laugh as it was the fishing. Everyone was fantastic company and the highlight of the day was a new species boated aboard Sea Urchin when one of the boys brought up a Tadpole Fish! Thanks for a brilliant day lads.

    Today we had a Biggest Bag Competition, where every fish was measured and allocated points. Biggest points tally won the £100 prize and second got £50. We went south today and after a half hour run we dropped the anchor in a sheltered area. Straight from the off we picked up mainly Codling and the boys kept me busy with the net and measure. The sport wasn’t bad at all. Ian Kellock had a 57cm Codling which was the biggest of the day to get him going. Gordon Blyth got three nice 50cm plus fish and Ben Cope caught consistently gaining himself what turned out to be an unassailable lead.

    Just as things were looking good, the wind lifted and at times over the next two hours it was unfishable with well over 30mph blasts coming through. Sport dried up and it wasn’t until we ran back north to meet the flood tide that we caught a few more to finish.

    There were loads of laughs and lots of conversation, which made the day fly by. Ben Cope won the £100 and second place went once again to Gordon Blyth (4th time in a row!) Altogether we landed 52 Codling, 3 Pouting, 3 Dogfish and a lone Lobster.
    Thanks for an excellent day lads.

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    3 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Robin Lever - x 3 Steve Austin - x 2 Piotr Maciarz - x 2
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    Uptiding Trip - 4.94m Nabeel Ismail - x 4
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    Fri 28/02/2025
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.51m Jeff Turner - x 1 Bod - x 2 Jonathan Stirrup - x 1 Tom Allen - x 1 Charlie Hewitt - x 1
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    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.59m Joe Clough - x 4
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    Wed 05/03/2025
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.14m Will sail with 4 anglers. Steve Milnes - x 1 Chris Chatham - x 1
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    Thu 06/03/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.83m Stan Matthews - x 1 David Craine - x 2 Howard Thornton - x 1
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    Tue 11/03/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.78m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2 Neil Kennedy - x 1
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    Sun 16/03/2025
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.25m Chris Ibbotson - x 1 Dave Johnson - x 5
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    Thu 20/03/2025
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.81m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1 Ian Purdom - x 1
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