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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

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    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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    UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
    Mon 25/11/2024
    1 Space Available Good Wrecking Tide - 4.42m Ian Kellock - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Martin Novo - x 1 Carl Peel - x 1 Mike Lee - x 1 Tony Firman - x 1 Carl Marin - x 2
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    Sat 30/11/2024
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.15m Mairis Bennison - x 7
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    Fri 06/12/2024
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.97m Ian Purdom - x 1 Joe Clough - x 1 Craig Henshaw - x 2 Christopher Arrand - x 3
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    Sat 07/12/2024
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.83m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Steve & Ryan Martin - x 2 Waldek Myśliwy - x 3 Marc Smith - x 1
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    Mon 09/12/2024
    7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.88m Will sail with 4 anglers. Joe Clough - x 1
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    Tue 10/12/2024
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.74m Will sail with 4 anglers. Aaron & Steve - x 2
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    Sat 14/12/2024
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.46m Jeff Mosey - x 4 Oliver Venus - x 1
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    Tue 17/12/2024
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.48m Will sail with 4 anglers. Ian Purdom - x 1 Shaun Marchington - x 2
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    Thu 19/12/2024
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.15m Stan Matthews - x 1 David Craine - x 2 Greg Ince - x 1
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    Sat 21/12/2024
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.71m Pawel Rojek - x 4 Tim Albright - x 2 Jimmy Yeung - x 1
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