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  • 04/03/2024 Fishing Report by Rich Ward on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    4 Mar 2024 by Rich Ward

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    We are pinching just an odd day at sea at the moment in between days of windy weather.

    Yesterday, we decided to be the Guinea pigs and run offshore to a few wrecks to see if there was any improvement from our last trip out there some 3-4 weeks ago.

    A perfect forecast and perfect conditions should have allowed for some decent fishing but sadly they weren’t playing for us.

    Our first stop was on a bit of scrap on the 9 mile ground resulting in nothing!
    Two or three drops on the ground and we saw just a handful of chuck backs.

    Decisions, decisions, which way to go.

    We’d been watching what looked like a rig some distance to the North of us and in the direction of a bit of wreckage I was thinking of trying. We were talking about how far away it was from us.

    Four, five, six miles were guessed, but when I put the radar on, it sounded at a shade over 8 miles. Exactly where the wreck was so we decided on a couple of different ones in a slightly different direction.

    These produced just a handful of fish and things were looking a bit desperate!

    I looked on my shipping A.I.S and found out the name of the vessel out at the back of us.
    It was a “Jack-up” rig called “Voltaire”
    A colossal ship just short of 200 meters in length.

    I radioed the skipper and asked him for his intentions and was told that they were on trials and we were welcome to fish the wreck they were close to.

    On arrival, the Voltaire was just 500 meters from us and this generated a lot of interest for the lads.
    A good thing as the fishing here wasn’t very interesting!! Around 10 fish from this piece of wreckage.

    At the end of the day we had managed to boat a meagre 15-20 fish with a couple of those going back over the side.

    Because the weather was on our side, morale was held at a fairly high point all day with the usual Shy-Torque craic and banter helping us along!!

    Thanks to everyone for joing us and we look forward to seeing you again soon, hopefully with some better fishing.

    Cheers for now,
    Rich & Fergus.

    07733 233352
    richardward384@yahoo.co.uk

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    Need 1 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Nick 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.
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    Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.9m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.
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