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  • 17/07/2012 Fishing Report by Rich Cope on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    17 Jul 2012 by Rich Cope

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    What a lovely day to be at sea today! only a light breeze and sun shine all day, it actually felt like summer!

    We're still on neap tides, so a bit of wrecking was in order today!
    We sailed and got to our first mark as the ebb tide was starting to push, I decided to start on the wreck where we caught a good few cod the day before. Sadly we only took a few Whiting for our efforts, so a quick a move to a reef nearby saw us making a start on the better fish!

    First drop saw around 4 Codlings and a couple of Ling. We continued fishing the reef edges taking a steady picking each drift.
    As the fishing eased I moved to a small wreck and the lads took a few more Codlings.
    The tide started easing at this point to I moved to a wreck which can occasionally throw out a few better fish.

    The lads managed a few mackerel for bait on arrival then started dropping the bigger baits for the better fish! Well, we came up trumps today, we managed a couple of cod around the 10lb mark, plenty of Ling then on our second to last drift one of lads struck into something a little better!

    He managed to turn the fish as it made for the wreck, and I instructed him to slow down and wind steady, a quick adjustment of his drag saw him wind the fish to the surface with a few lunges from the fish taking line each time! I got the gaff into it and it spun taking the gaff out my hand! after a heart stopping 3 seconds I leaned over side and got it back and boated the fish.

    After unhooking and weighing, we had a Ling 27lb on the boat, one very pleased angler and I must admit I was a bit excited too! absolutely typical that the festival ended a week and a half ago had it been caught in the festival Andy would have netted himself a cool £5000! better luck next time.

    Pictured is Andy from Liverpool with His new PB and new Ling boat record for Mistress.

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