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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
    Thu 14/11/2024
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Dave Fowls - x 3 Dave Worsfold - x 1 David Bunting - x 1 Andrew Warren - x 1 Craig Henshaw - x 1
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    Fri 15/11/2024
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.78m Chris Chatham - x 1 Jeff Mosey - x 2
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    Tue 19/11/2024
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.50 David Craine - x 2 Joe Clough - x 1 Robert Wojnarowicz - x 2 Ian Hepworth - x 2
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    Tue 26/11/2024
    3 Spaces Available Good Wrecking Tide - 4.67m Paul Stone - x 2 Steve Ralphson - x 2 Chris Chatham - x 1 Rob Stevens - x 1
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    Thu 28/11/2024
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.94m Will sail with 4 anglers. Ian Purdom - x 1 Dave Alexander - x 2
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    Sun 01/12/2024
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.21m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Steve Walsh - x 6
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    Tue 03/12/2024
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.22m Dave & Del - x 2
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    Fri 06/12/2024
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.97m Will sail with 4 anglers. Ian Purdom - x 1 Joe Clough - x 1
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    Sat 07/12/2024
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.83m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Steve & Ryan Martin - x 2 Waldek Myśliwy - x 3
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    Sun 08/12/2024
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.81m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Lockwood - x 2
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