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05/11/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
5 Nov 2024 by Andy Savage
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It’s been a few days since I’ve managed to find the time to get a catch report together.
The incredibly settled weather (for the time of year) has continued on, so thankfully we’ve been out at sea every day. It was Spring Tides over the weekend, so, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday saw us Uptiding.
After a couple of promising signs earlier in October, it looks like the colour is dropping out of the water again with the settled weather.
A similar pattern emerged over the four Uptiding days. Leaving the harbour with the Ebb Tide running, it wasn’t particularly prolific on any of the days. We caught fish, but sport was patchy. Resident Codling, Pouting, Whiting, Haddock, Dog Fish, Wrasse and Lobsters came our way, but nothing worthy of getting camera out.
Sport improved each day with the Flood Tide and it coincided with us catching the few fresh run fish that we landed. All the fish came on the usual baits of Squid, Black Lug, and Crab Cart.
Tony Firman took the biggest Cod we had over that period with a fish of 5lb. Like I said, there were plenty of bites (apart from Monday, which was very quiet), but the average stamp is currently quite small.
With the tides now falling away and yesterday being poor fishing at anchor, today we were back drifting the rough ground and a couple of wrecks. With it being a 5m tide, we started the day off around slack water on a couple of wrecks in the five mile stream which yielded very little. Once the Ebb came through we started working the ground marks. Five mile produced only a handful of fish; seven mile wasn’t a great deal better, but we took two or three fish a drift of mainly Ling and Haddock.
A run out to the nine mile ground gave better results and we found a few more Codling and a better stamp of Ling. The five day period hasn’t seen any amazing fishing, but the anglers I’ve had aboard have been brilliant and have kept at it all day. I’ve had a go with a Shad today and still took an odd fish or two, so there’s still good clarity in the water for those coming over the next few days.
Thanks to everyone for the continued support. I really appreciate it.
Tight Lines
Andy
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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 -
31/10/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
31 Oct 2024 by Rich Ward
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Dan, Lawrence, Jacob and Andy, all from Doncaster, joined us on the boat yesterday for our second Uptiding trip of the season.
We ran to where we had a good result a week last Tuesday and found nothing but Pouting and the odd Dog fish. Not the best of starts!
Slack water was upon us around 9.30am so we decided to steam across it and try a completely different spot.
The flood tide was just bending through when we arrived and an odd Codling was coming aboard from the off.
As the tide strengthened the Codling were starting to feed a little better and the rods were twitching steadily.
I commented to the lads that this was a lot better and as soon as I’d spoken it went quiet!! Commentators curse!!
Another short move of just 3/4 of a mile and the lads were taking slightly better Codling. Nothing of any great size but fish to around the 5lb mark.
We stuck with that spot until the end and we counted around 25 fish to keep with a good number of undersized to go back too.
The usual Uptiding baits were used. Black lug, squid and crab.
A lovely day weather wise, some good chitchatting and a few fish each for the guys making for another good day at sea.
Cheers lads and see you all again soon.
The tides are making fairly heavy for the next few days so fingers crossed for some even better inshore fishing.
Rich.
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View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 31/01/2025 2 Spaces 9 Hours Inshore at anchor. Uptide/Downtide. Room for 2 anglers. Kelvin 3. Lee 1. Andy 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 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 -
30/10/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
30 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage
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Lovely group of lads aboard Sea Urchin today.
We broke the 5.0m tide barrier, so I knew that we’d be drifting a bit quicker on the ground; but with light winds forecast, I fancied us to find a fish or two. We followed a similar path as the previous two days. Starting off on the five mile ground, we had a couple of drifts for only a handful of small Codling, then moved further south on the same stretch of ground, but this time found a few fish.
As has been the norm, we caught mainly Ling on this mark, with an odd Codling or Haddock. We didn’t get anything huge, but Pete Allard who was using my hire gear for his first trip, got straight in on the action. On only his third drift, I saw the rod go over and with a bit of a tussle he landed an 11lb 8oz Ling. Not bad for your first sea fish ever!! A couple of drifts later he also had a 9lb Ling to join its mate in the fish box. When your lucks in, it’s in!!
Once it quietened off, we pushed out a couple of miles, but the three drifts we did didn’t yield much. The wind wasn’t giving us the right drift line for that spot, so I took us out to the nine mile ground. We had one rough ground drift for a couple of Ling and Haddock, but I noticed the lines were now a bit more vertical, so I took us to a nearby wreck. On arrival, we were greeted by a big old seal, and first drift saw us get nothing……..bugger!!
As the tide eased, next drift we were in business. It didn’t last long, but 3-5 fish a run during slack was most welcome. Neil Swallow took the biggest fish with a Ling just into double figures. We spent the remainder of the day on the seven and nine mile ground picking up fish on the muppet bait traces or Hokkai’s, baited with Squid or Mackerel.
My son has been crewing with me for the last few trips during half term. Today was a fishing day for him and he showed me that he’d been listening to the advice I offered. I was so proud to see him get two new PB Ling from out of the wreck on his own. They were 6lb & 7lb but he had no help from me at all. Very proud Dad. Well done Will ����
Thanks lads, a really enjoyable day once again, spent in fantastic company. 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 -
29/10/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
29 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage
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Three day catch report aboard Sea Urchin......Apologies for the lack of reporting ( and lengthy report), but I've struggled to find time to put one together, with quite a lot of background stuff going on.
For once, October has given us a bit of reasonable weather, where we have managed to string a few days together. This report covers Saturday 26th, Monday, 28th and Tuesday 29th October.
Instead of giving a blow by blow report, day by day (as is usual), I thought it would be useful to go through a few patterns which emerged over the three days, so hopefully anyone coming in the next few days can hopefully use the information to their benefit.
We have been drifting rough ground and a couple of wrecks for the last three days (no Uptiding). The tides have been steadily building, from 4.3m on Saturday to 5.0m today.
Each day has seen groups of mixed experience anglers aboard. At Whitby we have rough ground available to us from three miles to nine miles, so it gives us lots of options. Basically, the further from land we go, the less tide we get and that is how I shaped my days, to give the best fishing drifts I can.
Having tried the three mile ground twice; it only produced a few small fish in half a dozen drifts, so I didn't visit it today. The five mile ground has been the best starting point for us recently, with a 17lb Ling at the end of last week and again today Robert Warsap took a 13lb 8oz Ling. It's a case of being in the right place, at the right time.
Best Rigs; usual stuff. Muppet bait traces or Hokkai's baited with Squid, Mackerel, or Pouting. Andy Cooper took a 17lb Ling on Pouting, then one of my regular anglers who was struggling, tried Pouting yesterday and got a few quick fish, when he hadn't caught much at all. It might be worth keeping an odd Pouting as a change bait instead of chucking them straight back. The Ling on the wrecks must eat them every day.
A few of the more experienced lads tried fishing with Shads, as the water clarity looks as good as I've seen it all year when you get beyond five miles. We got a couple of fish, but for the amount of effort, bait is definitely the way to go at present.
We've been going out each morning on the Ebb Tide and I've noticed that the fishing hasn't been brilliant throughout that period. We've kept on the move, consistently trying different areas, but there wasn't a golden key. We found odd pockets of fish, but there wasn't any great consistency.The run into slack water and the Flood Tide in the afternoon appear to have been the trigger to get the fish feeding (they aren't machines, despite what some people think). The last couple of days have seen us put plenty of fish up for the last couple of hours. The average size hasn't been amazing, but keeping the bites coming, keeps everyone motivated.
It would be fair to say, there were more Ling than Codling, but plenty of other species. We've caught Codling, Ling, Pollock, Haddock, Pollock, Pouting, Poor Cod, Octopus, Gurnard and Whiting.
If I was going out tomorrow, I think a Muppet Bait Trace with Squid or Mackerel will "do the do". When you fish with the Hokkai's or Daylights, the small fish strip the bait off in no time all if they're feeding. 16oz leads being crucial in the bigger tides.
It's great to see that there are still a good number of fish out on the rough ground, with an odd one or two decent ones amongst them. Everyone has had a few fish the last three trips, but it would be remiss of me not to mention Mike Lee who fished on Monday.Mike has been out with me on numerous occasions, but on Monday, he had "one of those sessions" where he could do no wrong. For those who have been aboard Sea Urchin, they will know the fish boxes are quite roomy. Mike caught most drifts and by the end of the day I was having to try and shuffle his fish in as he had filled it right up! Well done mate, you did fish brilliantly.
Hopefully, the weather stays calm and the sport continues. I really appreciate the support and a massive thank you to everyone who has fished hard every day.
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 -
28/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
28 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
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What a completely different day today was to yesterday the sea was like glass most of the day with hardly any wind.
We started off anchoring as the tide was at its strongest and strait away we had the rods bouncing with codling and pouting steadily coming over the rail.
We didn't see the dogfish at all and had a smaller stamp of cod showing around the 2 to 3lb area with 1 cod about 5lb
Fishing slowed down halfway through the trip so we ran offside to catch the slacker part of the tide and first few drifts were pretty much blanks just the odd pouting coming up then after a few drifts in we started seeing more codling.
Best fish of the day was a 9lb 4oz cod.
Water clarity off at a mile was quite surprising and we also managed to get a few fresh mackerel aswel which is probably the latest I've ever seen them caught. View Boats Page
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27/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
27 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
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8 hour fishing the ground inshore as awe had quite strong winds then when the weather aloud we ran to some inshore wrecks.
We seamed to catch a lot of dogfish and pouting with the occasional better fished mixed in
Nothing huge caught but not a bad stamp of cod around the 4lb area and heaviest fish was a 6lb 2oz ling View Boats Page
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26/10/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
26 Oct 2024 by Rich Ward
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A mixed group of regular anglers joined the boat yesterday for some mixed rough ground and wreck fishing.
First stop was a small wreck just 4 miles North from the harbour where the lads took a half dozen fish. Small Codling and Ling on the baited rigs.
A short move of just a mile next, to another bit of scrap which produced a similar amount of fish. Again, nothing of any size.
We moved on again then to another wreck which fished a little better where the group took a dozen or so from it.
Everything so far falling to the baited rigs. Squid bait being the best.
Alan Sutcliffe did try a pink Shad on this wreck and clicked a couple of Codling fair and square which was good to see.
When the fish slowed up we decided to drop on a strip of ground which has a tiny bit of scrap at the North end and the fish started coming aboard much better.
3 doubles boated here and around 25 fish in total. Much better sport for half an hour or so.
We steamed down to our last wreck of the day next, around 5 miles South of our last stop.
Again, nothing startling but we did take fish again. Just half a dozen or so and still, nothing big to shout about.
One last stop on the ground on the 3 mile to finish off, where on one drift the lads took 10 fish in about 2 minutes! A proper mad moment.
A good finish to a pretty good day.
A rough guesstimate, I’d say 60-70 fish for the day which is well satisfactory.
Best Codling today nudging 7lb with Ling to a similar size.
Everyone going off home with happy faces and plenty of fillets for the table.
Cheers lads,
Really appreciate your support as ever.
Rich.
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View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 31/01/2025 2 Spaces 9 Hours Inshore at anchor. Uptide/Downtide. Room for 2 anglers. Kelvin 3. Lee 1. Andy 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 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 -
23/10/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
23 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage
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After an enjoyable day yesterday, we hit repeat for today’s anglers……. With a crew of mixed angling experience aboard, from brand new to old sweat, it would be great to try and get everyone a few fish.
No two days are ever the same, but today we faced similar conditions, albeit with a stronger breeze, but a smaller tide and less swell, which kind of equalised the two days fishing conditions wise.
Having worked the rough ground yesterday and finding a reasonable number of fish, I aimed to do something similar today. We headed out at first light destined for the five mile ground again.
Today I started in the productive area of the previous day and there were still fish willing to feed. For around ninety minutes we drifted the various ridges and ledges taking mainly strap Ling, small Codling and Haddock, with a few Pouting thrown in. Andy Cooper was aboard today and he likes to use the Pouting as bait. As we covered a nice drop off, one his Pouting baited Hokkai’s was grabbed by something a bit better.
I could tell by the violent head shakes that it was going to be a decent fish. As he was fishing with his line running under the boat, the lads on the other side saw a sizeable Ling coming up before Andy did. With a bit of effort (as it was also tangled in another line) we managed to net the fish which on the scales went 17lb 8oz. Great angling Andy!
We pushed out to the nine mile ground for slack water and drifted along a nice ledge. On the run into slack it fished ok with mainly Ling taking the Squid baits, but slack itself wasn’t great (just like the day before). The first signs of the Ebb saw things pick up again with a good few drifts. By this stage, everyone had a got in on the action and had a few in the box. The average size wasn’t anything to write home about, but there are certainly plenty of fish knocking about. Once the Ebb Tide got up to speed, the sport pretty much dried up.
The wind made it harder than usual today, but with 16oz leads it wasn’t too hard to control the tackle. The lads proved this by consistently taking fish.
Massive thanks to everyone for coming today. Well done. 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 -
22/10/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
22 Oct 2024 by Rich Ward
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We took to sea yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks, after a family break abroad.
The tides had been huge over the last weekend, but were starting to recede a bit to around the 5.2m mark.
With us only having the three lads booked onboard I chose to try Uptiding for the first time since it finished back in March. The tide was still strong enough for it.
The lads were happy to try it and were armed up with squid and black lug worm.
We ran just 3 miles from the harbour to start the day. Slack water was on us when we started and the lads picked just a couple of Pouting and an odd Codling to begin, but as the tide swung round on the ebb they started clicking fish steadily away.
Dave and Joe from Leeds were on board with us for the first time, Joe being on his maiden trip. They had a great day on the fish with Codling to just over 6lb.
Regular Shy-Torque angler Chris from Middlesbrough, taking half a dozen fish home too.
For the first Uptiding trip of the season, I was really pleased with the results, as were the lads. Tally for the 3 lads, around 30 fish with plenty of “chuck backs” too.
The day ended with a big pod of Dolphins passing by and putting on a bit of a show for us for which is always great!
A cracking day all in all.
Cheers
Rich
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View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 31/01/2025 2 Spaces 9 Hours Inshore at anchor. Uptide/Downtide. Room for 2 anglers. Kelvin 3. Lee 1. Andy 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 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 -
22/10/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
22 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage
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What a smashing day out at Whitby today. We had a beautiful clear day with plenty of sunshine for the most part.
With huge 6m Spring tides over the weekend, I didn’t want to be out at sea. But today with the tides dropping down, all the lads were keen to get going this morning. I’d explained that it was going to be a 16oz lead day for drifting the rough ground as there was a fresh Westerly breeze blowing. As it turned out, it was perfectly manageable and we could keep in touch with the bottom and keep the fish coming.
First stop was the five mile ground, but the first four drifts produced very little. I moved us to the other end of the ground and we started to find a few fish each drift. Squid was the bait of choice for most, as the Mackerel have drifted away again. Hokkai’s and Muppet traces (shock!) were the end gear just like usual. We had an hour on the five mile taking a mix of Codling, Ling and Haddock. Nothing massive, but a few in the boxes and a few returned.
After a couple of quiet drifts I opted to push out a couple of miles, as we were losing the tide and there was a ledge I wanted to try with a slow drift. That worked ok and we kept ticking over until slack water, when it went very quiet. It wasn’t until the Ebb tide kicked in that we were back in business. The drift line wasn’t perfect with the offshore wind, but every drift we took fish from where I thought they’d be.
For the last couple of hours we ran out to the nine mile ground. We had a good first drift with Dennis Emeny taking the biggest Codling of the day at 7lb 8oz and Nige Snowden taking an 8lb Ling. Matt Snowden took a surprise Octopus which was returned unharmed.
After a duff start, we caught fairly consistently all day, with everyone keeping a few for the freezer and returning plenty as well. Thanks for a thoroughly enjoyable day lads. Good angling View Boats Page
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