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21/07/2022
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
21 Jul 2022 by Andy Savage
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Great to be back out at sea today, after what I can only describe as a period of wobbly weather and Spring Tides.
The tides are finally falling away and it should be back to a bit of wreck fishing again for a few days. With slack water only 30 minutes after we left the harbour this morning; instead of looking for the Mackerel, we dropped straight on a big wreck, using Squid on bait traces for hookbaits.
The conditions were far from easy to start with, we had a Northerly wind whipping up a few troughs, which made bait presentation difficult. Despite the sea conditions, it turned out to be the right choice, as there were plenty of Codling waiting below, and they took the baits with merry abandon for a couple of hours. Most drifts saw 3-5 Codling and an odd strap Ling.
Nobody took anything of any size, but there were plenty of fish in the 3-5lb bracket. Ian Steadman and Simon West took a fish almost every drift and showed what is achievable with good tackle control.
We picked away on the next couple of wrecks, as the flood tide got away properly. Unfortunately, once the tide was at full speed, the bites really started to slow down.
We kept on the move and took fish here and there, but the morning action was certainly better than the afternoon for us.
A big thanks to all the boys for being great company. Hopefully see you all again soon.
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
11/07/2022
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
11 Jul 2022 by Andy Savage
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Speaking meteorologically, today we got caught with our pants down!
Looking at the weather forecast last night, all looked hunky dory for a lovely day in the sun. It didn’t quite turn out to be that way for us. The wind was much stronger than expected and turned the fishing conditions on their head. It was a real struggle.
After once again failing to find any fresh mackerel and with a rising tide, we chose to start the day drifting some rough ground. The lines were streaming away, but the more experienced anglers still managed to find a few fish. Sea Urchin regular Jim Lister got stuck in and after a couple of Codling, landed a nice Ling just into double figures. We spent the morning on rough ground, periodically moving further away from land, to try and lose some tide, to slow down the drift.
We admitted defeat at dinnertime and moved back in closer to try a few wrecks when the wind and tide held up the drift. It was a similar story on the wrecks, with odd fish coming up. The drifts were difficult to set and we didn’t get much time in the strike zone, before the lines were streaming again. Absolute credit to all the boys on board, we kept on the move and picked up a few fish here and there. Most fish falling to muppet bait traces mounted with squid. Mid afternoon we moved off the wrecks, back onto some rough ground for the last few drifts.
Pleasingly, we found a nice spot which produced a good few fish. I’d just set up the third drift and was watching the anglers as normal. I saw Gordon Yates lift into what appeared to be a snag, so went to assist with my breaker. Initially it looked like he was caught in some old fishing gear, as very little happened….., then I saw the rod tip nod! Gordon played the fish to absolute perfection and after a good five minutes we saw a large patch of colour below the surface. With a final shuffle, Gordon pulled a lovely Cod of 16lb 7oz into the waiting net.
A great result in some difficult conditions. Well done mate and thanks to everyone for coming out for a trip. View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
09/07/2022
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
9 Jul 2022 by Andy Savage
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Last weeks fishing wasn’t exactly what you would call brilliant on Sea Urchin.….in fact, I thought it was bang average at best. With three trips cancelled for rubbish weather, Tuesday, Friday and today were the only days we went to sea.
With smaller tides, I had hoped to get a better stamp of fish from some of the inshore wrecks; but it never happened. The lads on board plugged away all day and most took plenty of nice pan sized Codling home, but the average size was on the small side at 3-4lb with only an odd 5lb fish (hence the lack of photos).
All the usual methods produced fish; bait traces, Hokkai’s and Shads. The Mackerel have been elusive for the last few days, so Squid has been the dominant bait. Of the three days at sea, we never had one full day of decent fishing conditions. Either the wind and/or swell spoilt either the morning or afternoon. When the conditions were good we caught, but definitely struggled at other times.
I always try my hardest for the anglers, to put them on fish and get frustrated when the conditions go against us all the time. So if this report sounds a bit negative, I apologise, but last week certainly tested my resolve. It’s definitely not all “Champagne and Skittles” as Del Boy says!! Hoping for a big improvement on tomorrow’s trip.
Tight Lines
Andy View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
07/2022
Fishing Report by paul eddon
on TROT- ON (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
Jul 2022 by paul eddon
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We were at sea Tuesday.an the fishing ��.was good the lads had 70 or more cod for the day .so things are looking good ��
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View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 06/06/2025 4 Spaces Cod / Ling (Common).View details Fri 04/07/2025 4 Spaces Cod / Ling (Common).View details Wed 06/08/2025 4 Spaces Cod / Ling (Common).View details -
04/07/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
4 Jul 2022 by Nick Gough
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Catch report from today 6 hour trip
We started the trip running off to our inshore wrecks and the anglers manged to catch half a dozen codling around 3lb as well as a few pouting whiting and mackerel after a few hours the winds rapidly increased and the drift became really fast.
So we decided to run inshore and go back to basics with downtiding, fishing was steady with a good amount of codling been caught again around the 1lb to 3lb area and a few pollock aswel.
Best fish today was a 7lb cod closely followed by a 6lb pollock. View Boats Page
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03/07/2022
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
3 Jul 2022 by Andy Savage
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Weekend fishing report aboard Sea Urchin.
Saturday was one of those days that I really didn’t fancy taking people out in. Moderate westerlies hampered where we could fish (most of the day was spent fishing under the cliffs). However, Colin Clarke from Grantham had his annual mates trip booked and really wanted to go out and try, regardless.
We ran up north and spent much of the morning drifting the Uptiding grounds from Upgang up to Staithes. Periodically we found pockets of small Codling which mostly fell to baited feathers, small Hokkai’s or Sabiki’s.
At slack water we pushed out to a wreck a mile off land, and with the lines streaming, we picked up a few more fish. The biggest Codling of the day came just as the Ebb tide got away at 6lb 2oz. It was hard work, but everyone caught.
Today saw much lighter winds, so we pushed out a bit, concentrating mainly on the rough ground and wrecks in the 3-5 mile stream. We had a couple of drops for Mackerel, and finally got a good few strings coming up; bait sorted.
The flood tide wasn’t too bad, with a nice picking of Codling and strap Ling coming to Hokkai’s baited with Mackerel and Squid or bait traces. We had to endure a lot of tangles every drift (not using enough lead) and most fish came up tangled in someone else’s line, which cost us a lot of fishing time during the day. Top rod by some margin was Tony Firman who put together a really decent bag of fish; a very tidy angler indeed.
Everyone got a few to take home, and it was a nice day out overall. Thanks lads. View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
03/07/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
3 Jul 2022 by Nick Gough
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Photos from today's 8hr trip
A complete difference to the fishing yesterday with the winds finally easing enough to run offside.
Today baited traces seamed to fish the best we did manage to get a few fish on lures and shads but baited seamed to be deadly for cod today.
We had a few ling, pollock and coalfish but the majority of today catch was cod and codling. View Boats Page
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01/07/2022
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
1 Jul 2022 by Andy Savage
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After a few days off with poor fishing/weather conditions, we went back for a look on Thursday and Friday (today) this week.
With us being back on larger 5m tides, we spent Thursday chasing fish on the inshore wrecks and rough ground. A firm believer in telling it how it is; we struggled to put many fish aboard. We tried rough ground at five, seven and nine miles, along with some inshore wrecks.
For whatever reason, the bites were hard to come by. Most drifts would see one or two fish come up, but nothing of any size. A wreck at nine miles provided some reasonable sport for an hour, which was the highlight of the day. Ian Kellock was top rod (no change there then!) with a dozen Codling to 4lb.
With a similar tide today, I thought it best if we had a run off to some wrecks a bit further out. Arriving at the first wreck half an hour before slack water, with a mixed abilities group on board, some of the lads struggled to control their gear through what is a “chewy” wreck. That said, Keith McCance and Jim Lister got stuck straight in with a couple of Ling and Codling apiece to 6lb.
Slack water itself was fairly unproductive, but as soon as the Ebb tide got away, “first timer” Joe Mould took the biggest fish of the day; a nice Ling at 13lb 8oz, much to the surprise of his mates. The second wreck we visited also produced well, in periods. Top rod for the day Keith McCance, took the biggest Codling at a smidge over 8lb along with a fair few others. A switch to baited Hokkai’s certainly brought about more bites on this wreck.
Everyone persevered and everyone got themselves a few to take home. In terms of fishing, it wasn’t right up there as the best day out ever, but we kept on trying and picked away all day. Thanks to all the boys for a nice couple of days out. View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
01/07/2022
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
1 Jul 2022 by Rich Ward
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Not very good at all for the majority of yesterday’s mixed group of lads.
That is with the exception of my mate Derek Wiggins from Leeds who always works his socks off on every trip!
He fished a single 220g jig all day and ended up with 15 Codling and 2 Ling himself! 100% effort paid dividends.
Phil Ross from Stratford taking 8 fish himself too.
A challenging drift at nearly 2 knots making it really quite hard work catching to be honest.
Great humour all day though with a great bunch from Hook nr Goole.
Great to meet you all lads.
Summer Competition starting here at Whitby tomorrow. Big cash prizes on offer!!
Cheers
Rich
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 02/02/2025 1 Space 8 Hours Uptiding trip. 5.6m. Steve Williams 3. Steve Tempest 2. Mike Channing 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 13/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.4m tide. Will sail with just 3 anglers. John Short 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 15/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.4m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 16/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.3m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 17/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.1m tide. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Lawrence Byrne 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 20/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.5m tide. tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cliff A 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Fri 21/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 1 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cliff A 2. Chris Ibbotson 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 22/02/2025 1 Space 8 Hours Offshore trip includes wrecking. 4.1m tide. Room for 1. Cole Dempsey 4. James 1. Marius 3. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 23/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 24/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
28/06/2022
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
28 Jun 2022 by Rich Ward
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A slowish picking for yesterday’s lads.
A breezy sort of morning hindering the angling somewhat, however the lads did pick fish up everywhere we went but just not that many!
A great crack on board all day long made the day fly by!
James Webster taking the best bag with 8 fish for himself.
No big fish landed at all on this trip.
Cheers for now,
Rich
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 02/02/2025 1 Space 8 Hours Uptiding trip. 5.6m. Steve Williams 3. Steve Tempest 2. Mike Channing 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 13/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.4m tide. Will sail with just 3 anglers. John Short 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 15/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.4m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 16/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.3m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 17/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.1m tide. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Lawrence Byrne 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 20/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.5m tide. tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cliff A 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Fri 21/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 1 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cliff A 2. Chris Ibbotson 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 22/02/2025 1 Space 8 Hours Offshore trip includes wrecking. 4.1m tide. Room for 1. Cole Dempsey 4. James 1. Marius 3. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 23/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 24/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details
