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  • 14/10/2024 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    14 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    Managed to squeeze one out today……. A fishing trip in-between the poor weather that is!! ��

    Yesterday we had 10ft of swell and rough seas at Whitby. The weather forecast gave it to drop away a bit through the night, leaving around 4ft this morning with light winds for most of the day. Hopefully they would be right, as it wouldn’t take much breeze to spoil things. Giving due consideration, I decided to give it a try.

    With the lads aboard, firstly we had an unproductive 20 minute Mackerel hunt (which I thought might well be the case). It was a 4.8m tide and everyone was keen to try a few wrecks, so we got stuck in. The inshore waters were looking a bit green and mucky, so we headed offshore to try some further out. Using the Ebb tide, we ran for an hour or so to our first wreck. It looked like there was plenty of feed around it as we set the boat up.

    First drift saw us put up five nice clean Codling with bright white bellies which was encouraging. They fell to squid hookbaits on a mix of muppet traces and Daylights. The next half an hour saw fish every drift, then unexplainably sport just dried up. We moved on to the next wreck, arriving just as we were running into slack water, giving us a nice slow drift. This time I counted thirteen fish on the first drift! Clearly a few at home. A productive half an hour around slack saw everyone getting amongst the fish. Nothing massive, but plenty of lovely clean Codling around 3-4lb with Alan Kwok taking the biggest at 6lb 8oz.

    Once the flood tide started to push through, the Codling stopped feeding and we got plagued by Haddock. They were coming up two at a time on the Daylights. I thought it best that we moved on as they were only just around “size” and I wanted to try and find something bigger. We fished another two wrecks, but they weren’t anywhere near as productive. The first drift was the best on each, then it just progressively tailed off.

    To finish the day we had a couple of drifts on rough ground, which gave us a few to finish with. Codling dominated the boxes today, with only a handful of strap Ling to 7lb. Everyone got some fish for the table today which was great. Thanks lads.

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    UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
    Mon 28/10/2024
    1 Space Available Wreck & Reef Tide - 4.81m Ian Kellock - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Martin Novo - x 2 Joe Clough - x 4 Mike Lee - x 1
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    Thu 31/10/2024
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.32m Will sail with 4 anglers. John Bennison - x 1 Carl Williams - x 1
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    Fri 01/11/2024
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.40m Will sail with 4 anglers. Joe Clough - x 1 Carl Williams - x 2
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    Sun 03/11/2024
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.38m Sean Coupland - x 2 Keith Lockwood - x 2 Jimmy Yeung - x 1
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    Wed 06/11/2024
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.01m Ian Purdom - x 1 Keith Pickering - x 1 Carl Williams - x 2 Chris Bateman - x 2
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    Thu 07/11/2024
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.82m Stan Matthews - x 1 Carl Williams - x 2 Jim Bailey - x 1
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    Sun 10/11/2024
    4 Spaces Available Good Wrecking Tide - 4.53m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Aaron, Andy & Brad - x 3 Allan Knaggs - x 1
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    Thu 14/11/2024
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Dave Fowls - x 3 Dave Worsfold - x 1
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    Tue 19/11/2024
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.50m Will sail with 4 anglers. David Craine - x 2 Joe Clough - x 1
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    Fri 22/11/2024
    6 Spaces Available Good Wrecking Tide - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Richard Moulds - x 2
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