Latest Fishing Reports: North Yorkshire
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29/09/2024
Fishing Report by Lee Smith
on Mary Ellen ll (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
29 Sep 2024 by Lee Smith
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Some more of the trophy’s from Scarborough angling ferstival
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 02/02/2025 8 Spaces Rough ground uptiding.View details Sat 22/02/2025 4 Spaces Rough ground.View details Mon 21/04/2025 9 Spaces Wrecking rough ground.View details Wed 23/04/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking trip. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 26/04/2025 6 Spaces Wrecking or rough ground.View details Mon 28/04/2025 9 Spaces Rough ground wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 17/05/2025 2 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 22/05/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 02/06/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 20/07/2025 5 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
29/09/2024
Fishing Report by Lee Smith
on Mary Ellen ll (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
29 Sep 2024 by Lee Smith
Report on-board Mary Ellen ll
More pictures from the trophy’s from the Scarborough angling ferstival
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 02/02/2025 8 Spaces Rough ground uptiding.View details Sat 22/02/2025 4 Spaces Rough ground.View details Mon 21/04/2025 9 Spaces Wrecking rough ground.View details Wed 23/04/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking trip. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 26/04/2025 6 Spaces Wrecking or rough ground.View details Mon 28/04/2025 9 Spaces Rough ground wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 17/05/2025 2 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 22/05/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 02/06/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 20/07/2025 5 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
29/09/2024
Fishing Report by Lee Smith
on Mary Ellen ll (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
29 Sep 2024 by Lee Smith
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Hi there you go here is the prove we have jst won the Scarborough angling sea fishing festival
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 02/02/2025 8 Spaces Rough ground uptiding.View details Sat 22/02/2025 4 Spaces Rough ground.View details Mon 21/04/2025 9 Spaces Wrecking rough ground.View details Wed 23/04/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking trip. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 26/04/2025 6 Spaces Wrecking or rough ground.View details Mon 28/04/2025 9 Spaces Rough ground wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 17/05/2025 2 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 22/05/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 02/06/2025 8 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 20/07/2025 5 Spaces Wrecking. Cod / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
26/09/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
26 Sep 2024 by Rich Ward
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We managed to squeeze in a day at sea yesterday in between all this horrible weather.
We also managed to get away a little early at 6.30am as the group were all aboard and ready by then, which is always good.
A little bit of swell was running from the North but there was very little or no wind at all so a fine morning welcomed us.
The Mackerel were still running well and after a couple of drifts the nine lads had enough go or the bait.
After the Mackerel fishing at the start, the bottom fishing wasn’t anything to shout home about at all.
Just an odd fish here and there throughout the day.
One of our anglers however, Dave Oswin, who fishes with us quite regularly, had a really good day and almost filled a box himself!
Dave was working Paul Mason's starboard aft corner and said that’s why he’d had a good day (because Paul wasn’t onboard!)
Dave cracked his PB Ling mid morning with a nice fish tipping the scales at 10.5 lbs.
Just an hour after that, he managed to better that and took one which scaled at 14. 5lbs
Well done to him!
The other lads on board including three newcomers from Lithuania, probably gathered around twenty fish to keep between them.
Every fish taken on the baited rigs of Squid and Mackerel.
A quick stop for some more fresh Mackerel to take home and we were done.
Nice to see some new faces on the boat and nice to get a small window to set out to sea again, after yet another week off for poor weather.
Speaking to my work colleagues here at Whitby earlier in the week and we really can’t remember a year as poor as this, ever!
We are looking forward to the Uptiding season to start already. Maybe the weather will be a bit kinder to us over the winter period!
The Shy-Torque III is running its own Uptiding competition this year, just before Xmas.
Dates are 15th - 22nd December inc. (check the calendar on here or on F.B for availability)
We’ll have a little Xmas music playing, mince pies and a drop of mulled wine if you fancy a drop.
Cash prizes on offer too.
Hopefully see you then if not before.
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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 -
18/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
18 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
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As the tides had dramatically built up in the last few days up to 6.4m we decided to give uptide and downtime fishing ago at anchor.
Withing minutes we the customers started getting bites and a good amount of dogfish and Ballen wrasse made a appearance.
We did manage to get a few codlings aswel then fishing tried up as the tide slowed down so we relocated and fishing picked back up producing a few more cod.
As the tide completely slackened off inshore we tried a few inshore wrecks over slack water which produces more pouting a few more codling and a lonely strappy Ling. View Boats Page
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17/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
17 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
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8 hour trip
We don't normally like wrecking on a ride so big but as the customers really wanted to try for a bigger fish we gave it a go.
Fishing was very slow from the start with us fishing the strongest part of the tide drifting at a good 2 knots
The anglers did manage to pick up a few whiting and pouting.
As the tides eased back fishing improved with the anglers managing to catch a few strappy ling around the 5 to 11lb area.
Slack water was the most productive time which we expected
While out fishing we had a lot of gannets diving around us with porpoise surfacing with the odd seal popping it head. We had several minki Whales also passing us.
As we travelled back to the harbour we managed to find a pod of approximately 60+ bottle nose dolphins passing us. View Boats Page
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18/09/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
18 Sep 2024 by Rich Ward
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Cliff Atkinson and his 5 mates chartered the boat on Monday gone.
The forecasts for the day were perfect, which was great as the tides were making quite strongly from the day before.
The Mackerel were scarce at the start, but after a short shift of a quarter of a mile they were in abundance. One short drift and we had the bait stocks.
We started out on the grounds near to the Mackerelling session and only clicked three or four fish.
I decided to move out to the areas we had tried a few days previously and the lads started knocking a few fish out on the baited rigs.
At slack water we dropped on to the wreck on the nine mile ground and they took around a dozen fish from it.
Dave (a newby) took three lovely Codling to 8lbs from it which was great. He was over the moon with his efforts!
A lovely chilled day on the water with great company.
Cheers lads and we’ll see you all soon.
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 -
17/09/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
17 Sep 2024 by Rich Ward
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I thought I’d leave the reporting from the boat until the end of this year’s Late Summer Competition here at Whitby.
This one should be called “The Ling Competition!!
The competition came to its conclusion on Sunday and it was certainly one of mixed fortunes both fish wise and weather wise.
There were only 7 days taken at sea with 9 days cancelled for bad weather (seems the days of endless weeks of settled weather are well and truly gone)
In general the fishing was anything but easy with some days only producing into the teens of fish boated.
The first week of the 2 week event saw the best weather and the second week (on the best tides) saw some very poor weather with many of the days cancelled. Luckily we managed to get the last 2 days on the last of the neap tides.
No fish worthy of taking to the scales were caught on the Shy-Torque until Sunday’s last run out.
We worked for the Mackerel first off to gather the bait, which were still plentiful.
Once the lads had a few each we headed out to a couple of wrecks which after a slack week off for bad weather hadn’t been touched.
The first wreck threw just 5 fish out. I’m sure there would have been more if it hadn’t been for a seal the size of a bull which joined us and scattered the fish!!
A short move out to the next wreck paid dividends and the lads picked fish from it for a steady 3-4 hours. Some slightly better fish too for them, with a good number of them around the double digits, with the best one falling to David Shay from Doncaster, a fine fish just short of 17lbs.
Paul Mawson from Brid did hook into something very big which was peeling his line off the reel but sadly the fish slipped his hook after he’d got it clear of the wreck and never showed any signs of feeding again. It will be there for next time!!
Tally from that wreck was around 35 fish with the usual “chuck backs”
After we landed back in Whitby David took his fish to be weighed and it registered 16lb 12oz on the association scales (just 2 ounces short of the second place fish) and took 3rd place overall in the competition. Well done to him.
He wins the £50.00 daily prize plus a free stay at my lads pub, the Station Inn with a £50.00 drinks voucher included.
Nice to see some better quality fish boated at the weekend with every fish bar one caught on the bait. One Codling was taken on the shad and it was foul hooked. .
I’d like to thank all the lads who joined the boat again this year and look forward to seeing you in the future events if not sooner.
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 -
16/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
16 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
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Well what a day with lots of smiley customers
Mainly ling and mackerel caught today with 5 ling over 19lb
Apart from the skippers 33lb ling
The next heaviest fish was 24lb 9oz
Not the greatest conditions for it we had wind against tide for the first few hours then as slack water came on so did the ling fishing
Then when the tides built up fishing became impossible on the wrecks so we drifted down the sides with the anglers getting a good amount of strappy ling, whiting and mackerel still in good numbers
Great bunch of customers on today and thank you for letting the skipper join in View Boats Page
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16/09/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
16 Sep 2024 by Andy Savage
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With the building tides going over 5m today, but light winds forecast; we had a much sloppier start to the day than I’d hoped for. The NW breeze really spoilt things. We struggled for over an hour to get enough fresh mackerel for bait for the day, then had a few drifts on the rough ground at three miles as the wind was holding us up on the drift.
After half a dozen drifts with only a few small fish coming up, we moved out to the five mile ground. The drift was slow enough for us to try a couple of wrecks and the wind began to fall away on the run in to slack water. We fished two wrecks for a handful of small Codling, the best going 4lb or so.
As the Flood Tide came through, we ran out a couple of miles to try some more ground marks. As the tide grew we had a few productive drifts. Martin Novo and Bryan Stanton had 13lb and 14lb respectively on the same drift with a couple in the 7-9lb class boated as well by some of the other lads. Next drift, Chris Chatham also took a 13lb Ling and a couple of other 6-8lb fish came up to keep it company. After a hard morning, it was nice to get a few, but unfortunately it was shortlived.
Once the Flood Tide got away properly, we were up to 1.5knots on the drift and the sport died off. We plugged away for the remainder of the afternoon, but once again, it was another hard day at sea, with very few fish caught. Despite the mediocre fishing, I’d like to say a massive thank you to all the lads for the positivity and great chats all day.
Thanks very much for coming, I really enjoyed your company and hope I can deliver a more productive trip next time 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
