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15/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
15 May 2024 by Rich Ward
15.05.24.
Small tides, a flat calm sea and a good bunch of lads on board.
Surely the perfect recipe for a perfect day on the water?
We sailed at the usual time of 7.0.am yesterday and decided to head to the 5 mile area to start on a couple of bits of scrap, basically to see if there had been any change in the fishing from last time we tried there.
The first few drifts saw both Codling and Ling coming on board steadily which was great!
All the fish were coming up on the baited rigs. Hokkais and baited muppets tipped with squid doing the job.
I was determined to get them on the Shads but sadly to no avail.
A few tugs but nothing definite.
I was guessing that the water was still too murky there.
We moved just 1.5 miles down to the South next and tried a tiny piece of wreckage which I have, that is rarely fished.
I persevered with the Shad and bingo, they were taking fair and square on that one.
This got me thinking that maybe there was patchy bloom in the water.
When we’d picked that bit clean, we moved out over slack water to try some strips of ground and it was alive!
Feed fish all over the grounds and plenty of fish on the feed too!
I reckon that for the last 20 or so drifts over a small ledge, I personally managed at least 1 Cod each go on the Shad! Brilliant sport.
Regular angler on the Shy-Torque III Chris Siddle, showed his skills off to everyone today and managed to fill his box (6 stone) to the brim. He took all his fish on the baited rigs.
Chris also took the best 2 fish on board too
A couple of lovely chunky Cod around the 8 lb mark.
It has to be the best day on the inshore marks for us this year with a tally of close on 80 fish boated.
Plenty to keep Fergus entertained with his sharp knife!
The Cod are in and feeding lads!!
Cheers
Rich.
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10/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
10 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Yesterday’s trip had been advertised as a “Wall trip”as the tides were still running in the Spring range at 5.5m.
We really need a full boat of 8 anglers to cover the fuel costs with runs of those distances.
We only managed to sail with just the 6 lads as 2 others had dropped out.
The remaining lads agreed to chip in a little extra so we could still do the run.
The fish were a little elusive to start off, but we soon found where they were hiding and the lads were clicking them every drift after 20 minutes or so.
As the ebb started to run, the devils SE wind started too which made the fishing a little more challenging.
The drift kept creeping up and by high water we were running at 2 knots.
A bit quick really but we were still knocking the odd fish out so we stuck it out till the end.
A surprise visit by a Porbeagle too yesterday which was a bit of a nuisance for half an hour as it kept pinching the fish on the way up!!
A nice show of some 50-60 fish between the 6 lads at the end of the day, with a good number of juvenile throw backs too.
Young Fergus and myself landing around 20 between us which was great because my Dad had said he’d like a few fillets.
Fergus began the filleting as soon as we got underway for home and had the lot done and the boat washed down before we landed. Good lad!
The shads worked great yesterday for us and the baited rigs also caught.
Squid and frozen Mackerel doing the business.
No big fish to shout about again but a great days sport.
Thanks to Craig, Tim, Pete, Mark, Johnny and Steve for sailing with us and we’ll see you all again soon.
Cheers
Rich.
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06/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
6 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Last day of the Spring competition yesterday.
Alex Choy and his friends joined us on a perfectly flat calm day!
Alex fished with us a couple of weeks ago alongside Gary Jones and had a cracking day on a strip of ground 20 miles East of the harbour.
He asked me straight away if we could return there again yesterday to see if we could chance a repeat performance!
A fairly heavy tide to punch our way out there putting a few minutes and a few more gallons of fuel through the motors!!
The day started out well with a couple of dozen fish boated in the first three drifts!
Things slowed up over slack water and just as the flood tide pushed through, a guard vessel came over the VHF asking us to move for a cable laying ship (which was nowhere to be seen and not even on the radar range of 16 miles!!!
Most annoying as we had just started clicking a few more fish!
Anyway, we obliged him and moved inside him by half a mile and finished off with another 15 or so fish.
No big fish sadly.
Our best, a Ling of just 8lbs.
A thoroughly enjoyable day on the water with Alex and his crew.
Tally for the day was down on their last trip, but still a good 60-70 fish boated.
Cheers lads and see you in a couple of weeks.
The tides are massive now until Friday so a couple of days off now.
Friday’s trip is back out to the same grounds and if anyone wants to join us we just have two places left for then.
We also have spaces next weekend.
Cheers
Rich
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04/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
4 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Mansfield lad Brian Cunningham and his five mates had the boat chartered yesterday on what was the penultimate day in this year’s Spring Festival.
Their first wrecking trip of the season.
Perfect conditions welcoming us to start the day off so we tramped off to three wrecks NNE from the harbour, the first one being 23 miles.
The first drift over the wreck produced just a couple of small Codling.
On the smaller wrecks, the first run can often be an indicator of what’s down there, but this was a bigger one and after swinging the boat around and marking where they were hiding, we managed to pluck another couple of dozen fish from it.
A few nice plump Codling and Ling coming aboard.
Slack water approached us around 10.30am and things went a bit quiet so we moved to the second wreck in the group and basically stayed there until it was time for the homeward journey.
Daryll Machant who fishes with us regularly outside the club meets landed the heaviest on the boat, a nice Ling of 12lb 8oz which won the sweep and also took the heaviest daily prize of £50.00.
A good day for him!
Well done mate.
The lads return for their second club booking next month. We look forward to seeing you all then lads.
Great crack and company as ever!!
Cheers
Rich.
07733 233352
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02/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
2 May 2024 by Rich Ward
A lovely morning welcoming us yesterday for another run out in this year’s Spring competition.
A full boat of good mates and regular anglers sailing with us to have a go for a bigger fish or two hopefully.
The day started out well for us on the first wreck some 17 miles from the harbour.
A steady picking of Codling and small Ling for the lads giving them some nice sport for a few hours.
Nothing big though.
We moved on to a smaller piece of scrap a couple of miles East for just a handful of of fish. Not so good there really, so on we marched to another wreck known personally to me as Bobs wreck.
Named this way after my good friend Guy Wrightson’s Dad who used to fish with us years ago.
Guy sadly lost his Dad whilst out fishing with us. He got the call with the sad news.
His Dad gifted him with a beautiful Cod just over 17lb from the wreck that day.
He looked to the sky and winked ��
It didn’t produce much at all yesterday!!
We mooched back towards shore to finish the day off and managed another 10 or so fish.
Rob Moore from Selby taking our best fish on board (weight wise) A Ling of just over 7lbs which wasn’t a contender.
Young Fergus filleted away on our return journey to port and reckoned the average per angler was 7/8 fish so numbers wise, a steady 60+ fish boated. Plenty around the 4-5lb mark. Not too bad.
Thanks again to one and all for your support in what has been the worst start to any year I can remember in 40 years in the game.
The competition ends this Sunday so we will having another good go at it then.
Cheers for now
Rich.
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28/04/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
28 Apr 2024 by Rich Ward
To say that finding a bigger fish here at the moment is an understatement and yesterday was no exception.
We sailed on just our second day in this year’s Spring festival looking for a fish to compete with, to no avail.
Plenty of Codling were boated between the 6 lads on board which was good, but sadly, nothing over 4lbs!!
Craig Booth and his two mates from West Yorkshire and Warwick Mathews and his mates from Nottingham taking 40 odd fish between them making for a good days sport and plenty of fillets for the table which they were all very pleased with.
Our crewman, young Fergus providing his filleting service for them on our run back to port.
I’m sure there will be a better fish or two poke their heads out for us on next weeks smaller (neap) tides, providing the weather plays it’s part. Fingers crossed.
The current leading fish in the competition is just 6.5lbs so the chances of pipping it next week should be good.
It’s looking like Wednesday is going to be our next chance of getting away with fresh to strong winds forecast for tomorrow.
We have places left on just Thursday next week now so if you’re interested in having a go for the £1000.00 top prize in this extended competition, contact me on any of the below.
Cheers for now,
Rich
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23/04/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
23 Apr 2024 by Rich Ward
Yesterday was our first day back at sea since the 2nd April due to all the rubbish weather we are all suffering with at present.
It too was the first day out in our Spring angling competition here at Whitby.
We sailed with just 7 lads aboard so plenty of room for everyone.
I was going to try some wrecks and ground around the 9 mile area, but as we approached, we realised the water clarity was still suspect and so carried on a bit further.
We dropped on a piece of scrap 12 miles North of the harbour and the lads picked around 10 fish from it. No festival weighing fish so we moved out a bit further.
The next wreck we stopped on is one of my favourites as it has thrown a lot of competition winners out in the past.
A steadyish picking for a couple of hours on that one producing around 25 fish.
Again, nothing big, but a couple of doubles coming on board which is always encouraging and good to see.
Paul from Brid taking one of the doubles which, when he was winding up, was hoping it was just the one fish! Unlucky mate!
Every fish bar one boated on the day fell to the baited rigs of Squid and Mackerel.
I managed one Codling, fair and square on the shad which indicated the clarity down there wasn’t too bad.
It was the only one though!
John from Newcastle took our best fish on the boat, a Codling just shy of 6lbs which was pipped at the scales at the end of the day by a Ling of 6.5lbs.
All in all, a nice day at sea with some great company.m and nice calm conditions for a change.
Yet another Northerly hindering us now which we’re waiting to fade.
The association has extended the Spring competition for another week and now runs through until Sunday 5th May.
The £1000.00 first prize is there for anyone to have a go at, so come and join us next week sometime!
All dates available on the Shy-Torque are listed on our calendar on our website and on CBUK or you can give me a ring or text me on :-
07733 233352
Cheers for now
Rich
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22/04/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
22 Apr 2024 by Rich Ward
Due to such a chronic start in this years Spring competition here at Whitby, our association has taken the vote to extend it for another week to give everyone a sporting chance.
This will mean the competition will now run till Sunday May 5th.
Today’s anglers (22.04.24) who are the first to have a go since it started on Saturday 13th April have been informed.
Give me a shout if you fancy re-booking the day you lost last week due to bad weather.
Next weeks tides also fall in the more favourable neap (small) range.
Dates we have available from Monday 29th April are :-
29.04 - Empty boat.
30.04 - Empty boat.
01.05 - Room for 3 anglers.
02.05 - Empty boat.
03.05 - Room for 5 anglers.
Individuals are welcome as always.
Cheers
Rich.
07733 233352
richardward384@yahoo.co.uk -
22/04/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
22 Apr 2024 by Rich Ward
Due to such a chronic start in this years Spring competition here at Whitby, our association has taken the vote to extend it for another week to give everyone a sporting chance.
This will mean the competition will now run till Sunday May 5th.
Today’s anglers (22.04.24) who are the first to have a go since it started on Saturday 13th April have been informed.
Give me a shout if you fancy re-booking the day you lost last week due to bad weather.
Next weeks tides also fall in the more favourable neap (small) range.
Dates we have available from Monday 29th April are :-
29.04 - Empty boat.
30.04 - Empty boat.
01.05 - Room for 3 anglers.
02.05 - Empty boat.
03.05 - Room for 5 anglers.
Individuals are welcome as always.
Cheers
Rich.
07733 233352
richardward384@yahoo.co.uk -
03/04/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
3 Apr 2024 by Rich Ward
Yesterday’s weather and sea conditions were absolutely perfect for us on the water.
Our mixed group, Bill, Paul, Si, Talon, Paul and Malc and his mate joined us for another run out to the “Hills” where we worked last Sunday.
Not a lot of drift yesterday to be fair with the tides on the neap side at 4.3m, which made coverage of the ground tricky.
With so little movement in the water, we basically had to find the feed marks and pick away at them.
Not the quantity of fish like Sunday, but a good 50+ fish boated with a couple of doubles thrown in too.
The usual juveniles going back safely to fight another day.
One or two slightly better fish yesterday (still not big) at around the 6lb mark.
All in all, a really great day on the water with the lads and I thank you all for your continued custom with us.
Some rubbish weather again now so looking like the boat with be tethered for some considerable time, which is so annoying when we know there’s a few fish out there for us.
Ah well, such is the nature of the game.
To book any trips, give me a call or drop me a text, or email me.
Individuals are always welcome.
Cheers
Rich.
07733 233352
richardward384@yahoo.co.uk
