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25/09/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
25 Sep 2012 by Rich Cope
The Autumn festival has now come to a close this year, the best fish weighed in was just shy of 24lb. Unfortunately on Mistress we missed the top place by just 3lb!!!
Although we didnt get the top prize this year on Mistress, we did get alot of decent fish for our anglers. We entered the festival 10 times throughout this competition (everyday I got to sea), we had many fish in the teens, two great ling just short of 20lb, a few PB's and many lost fish too! (just look at the gallery from the 8th to 23rd Sep)
I would like to thank all the anglers taking part on my boat and others, without your continued support we wouldnt be able to run these popular events. I would also like to thank the weigh masters who did an exellent job in weighing, photographing and reporting each day.
Pictured is Chris Gibson with our heaviest fish of the compeition - A nice Ling of 19lb 12 1/2oz, it won him a daily 1st prize, well done mate -
17/09/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
17 Sep 2012 by Rich Cope
Had to cancel today with poor weather - yet again!
Winter is only just round the corner now, with prospects for uptiding still looking good. Remember there is a competition running 10th to 18th November with £1000 up for grabs!
The last three days at sea we have seen plenty of fish aboard Mistress, with a lift in tides to springs I have concentrated more on finding a few cod, I feel that the shads fish a bit better on the bigger tides as long as we have clear water. The lads have been heading for home with upto and over dozen Cod per person. Most of the fish have been in the 3lb to 5lb range, with a few pushing 7 or 8lb.
We have dropped onto the wrecks going to, over and out of slack water finding a few Ling hoping for a better one to poke his head out! we managed another decent one on the 15th, Mistress regular Mark Storey got one which weighed in at 14lb 9oz, unfortunately he just got knocked into 4th place on the daily board, only missing it by a lb or so.
Still plenty of mackerel showing here at whitby too.
Pictured is mark with his 14lb 9oz Ling -
12/09/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
12 Sep 2012 by Rich Cope
The Whitby autumn angling festival is in full swing at the minute (when weather allows us), so with the small tides we had a full day on the wrecks.
The day started slowly, and it took a couple of wrecks before we took some fish, but once we started boating a few we managed to take a steady picking picking all day.
We managed a number of fish well into double figures today, the biggest went 18lb 7oz to Mistress regular Andy Officer from Hull, the big fish got Andy second prize on the daily prize board.
Pictured is Andy with his Ling
There are still a few places available next week, Book in with a chance to win £1000 for the biggest fish. -
10/09/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
10 Sep 2012 by Rich Cope
The last week has been a bit up and down to say the least, referring more to weather than anything else. On the days we have got to see we have been getting amoungst the fish again, last monday started great with some exellent cod fishing to shads, but as the tides eased we gave a bit more focus to wrecking and boated some respectable fish, with Cod and Ling into high teens in weight. The weather looks to have beaten us again for few days, so has given me a bit of time to get some reports and photos onto the interent!
tightlines
Rich
Pictured is Mick with the best Cod of the week. -
30/08/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
30 Aug 2012 by Rich Cope
WHITBY SEA ANGLERS - WINTER UPTIDING COMPETITION
This is the first year this competition has been sponsord by the whitby sea anglers forums the date of the competition is in November starting Sat November 10th till Sunday November 18th inclusive
With a top prize of £1000 to the angler with the biggest Cod caught over the week.
3 boats are in the competition Mistress, Sea-otter 2 and Never can tell A, all these boats have sponsered the event fishing times are 8am till 4pm there also 2nd and 3rd heaviest prizes as well plus a prize for the biggest any other species plus a biggest bag on the day so come lads uptiding is great fun catching quality fish in shallow water 20lb + cod have been caught here at whitby uptiding.
Its £5 to enter plus your boat charter some fantastic prize money up for grabs only 3 boats can fish in this compettion so its 1st come first served book early.
PRIZES
1ST FOR BIGGEST COD £1000
2ND BIGGEST COD £150
3RD BIGGEST COD £100
BIGGEST BAG OF COD £100
BIGGEST ANY OTHER SPECIES £100
MISTRESS TEL 07977436903 http://mistress-whitby.co.uk
SEA-OTTER 2 TEL 07748705695 http://sea-otter2.co.uk/
NEVER CAN TELL A 01287 660118 OR 07790955604 http://www.wcsa.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/never-can-tell-a-boat-information/
Sponsors for this compettion are as follows.
WHITBY SEA ANGLERS FORUMS
SEA-OTTER 2
MISTRESS
NEVER CAN TELL A
Frank Cope
Fr Engineering Projects Ltd, Derby UK
phone 01332 870160
mobile 07980 010872
H+E electrical searvices
G+R elecrical services. -
28/08/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
28 Aug 2012 by Rich Cope
The last week has produced some good catches again on Mistress. The weather has been a hinderance at times, keeping us ashore. The days we have been to sea have been steady, with quite a few Personal bests beeing beaten.
We had to fish close inshore one day due to the fresh SW winds but we still found some nice pollock for the lads on jelly worms in around 15ft of water.
Wrecking is still producing lots of Ling to Mackerel baits and the odd better Cod also falling to Bait.
Shads have been producing well, I will keep you updated on how they fish after this current northerly!
The Autumn festival starts on the 8th September, £1000 first prize for the biggest fish, there are still a few places left, get yourselves booked on! -
08/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Aug 2012 by Rich Cope
Cod fishing abord Mistress has been good this week, please take a look at the latest video clip we took last week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGWxZCFXyg -
21/08/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
21 Aug 2012 by Rich Cope
Finally a spell of settled weather again here at Whitby, even with the huge tides, we have been getting amoungst the Cod.
The last few days have seen most anglers onboard catching upward of a dozen fish or more a piece. All falling to shads wound very slowly. Most Cod were in the 2lb - 6lb range, but we had a belter today that went 15lb 8oz!!!
The most productive lure at the minute being the 4" Rhubard and Custard Sidewinder.
Also over slack water, we have been dropping bait onto the wrecks and getting a good number of Ling in to double figures too.
Plenty of Mackerel still showing all over at the minute.
Mistress regular Paul bought his son Ethan (11) today, he had a great time. He caught plenty of fish and set himself a new personal best of 7lb, well done mate.
Pictured is Ethan with one of his Cod -
09/08/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
9 Aug 2012 by Rich Cope
Today we had a mixed party of lads, some novices thrown into the group too.
we started out ta the bell bouy jigging mackerel for bait, seeing as we're on neap tides again wrecking was the order of the day. Plenty of mackerel about so two drifts saw us with enough bait to get started.
We were rifting quite quickly to start with so fishing was slow, as soon as the drift slowed a point or two of a knot the fish came on to feed!
The fishing wasnt hectic today, but we saw some nice fish non the less.
the biggest Ling was 15lb, Cod to 10lb. we had a number of Ling over 10lb again today.
We had a young novice, Peter, with us today he caught a couple of really nice fish to take hoem the best being a Ling around 7lb in weight, dad was pleased as punch, its always good to see the youngsters getting amoungst the fish! well done mate.
Peter with his Ling -
08/08/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
8 Aug 2012 by Rich Cope
Another drop in tides again today saw us wrecking all day. We travelled a bit further offshore with the lads from Hull.
The drift was around 1.6 knots to start with, once we had arrived at our mark. We took fish from the off today, with hardly any blank drifts. The fishing remained steady until slack water and it went off a bit.
The lads had already graced the deck with some cracking fish, Ling to 17lb to Steve who also had two others into double figures plus a box of smaller fish to himself.
Craig the organiser, managed half a box of fish with Cod approaching double figures, and Pollock to 8lb or so.
The other lads managed some respectable fish too taking a number of Ling over 10lb.
I wet a line too today and took Pollock and Cod on rhubabrd and custard sidewinders.
Pictured is Steve with his two best fish of the day
