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  • 08/03/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    8 Mar 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    It’s been a couple of months since we’ve had the opportunity to have a go on the wrecks, but today was a dinky 4.4m Neap tide which was ideal for it. With the winds from the South East, it could have gone a bit pear-shaped if they lifted, but thankfully, it was a beautiful day out in Springlike weather.

    I had a group of mixed experience anglers aboard, who were happy to run offshore to try a few wrecks in the 20 mile stream. Whilst I really don’t like spending hours steaming back and forth, I’m happy to do it if I think it’s going to give us the best opportunity of finding a few fish. To make the most of the day, we headed off early and arrived at the first stop at 0830hrs with the tide Flooding against the SE wind. This resulted in the boat being held up on the drift and we literally crept across the wreck, which is ideal as it is a bit snaggy!

    The first half a dozen drifts saw fish each run through falling to mainly Squid baited muppet traces. They were all small bright white Codling, but it wasn’t really what I’d hoped for. Then for some reason, the Pouting decided to muscle in on the action and they were stripping hooks and hanging themselves and just generally being a nuisance. Change of plan required…..

    There were another couple of small wrecks nearby, so I opted to give them a go whilst the drift speed was so slow. Unfortunately that turned out to be a complete waste of time, as we just lost three sets of gear and never had a bite; never mind a fish. As we’d already had a few Codling from the first wreck and with plenty of different areas still to try, we dropped back onto it and set up a drift right at the very top end.

    First run over and we put up four nice Codling between 3-5lb, pressure off!! Thankfully we had 3-6 fish every drift for the remainder of the day. Everyone got a few and whilst we didn’t find anything enormous our biggest Codling went 6lb 8oz, but the average stamp was much improved from the morning.

    Squid, or Squid & Mackerel did the majority of the bites today. Big thanks to the lads for a really enjoyable day out.

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    Sun 16/03/2025
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.25m Chris Ibbotson - x 1 Dave Johnson - x 3 Steve Milnes - x 1 Si West - x 1
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    Tue 18/03/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.11m Peter Burton - x 1 Marc Birch - x 1 Neil Kennedy - x 1
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    Thu 20/03/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.81m Stan Matthews - x 1 Ian Purdom - x 1 Richard Chapel - x 2
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    Fri 21/03/2025
    2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.60m Pete Durrant - x 2 Shane Ingram - x 1 Paul Carroll - x 5
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    Sun 23/03/2025
    2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.15m Ben Cope - x 3 Tony Martin - x 2 Mario Marczyk - x 3
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    Mon 24/03/2025
    4 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.14m Tony Martin - x 2 Robin Lever - x 3 John Powell - x 1
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    Tue 25/03/2025
    5 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.26m Charlie Hewitt - x 1 Tony Martin - x 2 John Powell - x 1 Ian Scrivens - x 1
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    Sun 30/03/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.71m Greg Ince - x 1 Diane Lincoln-Price - x 3
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    Mon 31/03/2025
    7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.73m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave Sharp - x 1
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    Thu 03/04/2025
    9 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.16m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1
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