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  • 16/04/2015 Fishing Report by Rich Cope on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    16 Apr 2015 by Rich Cope

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    The spring run of cod this year at ‪whitby‬ has been and continues to be phenomenal!

    Today 16/4/15 has been the best day at sea since I started chartering full time in 2012.

    We got away to slow start on a couple of wrecks on the way out to where I wanted to be, we were still catching fish but just a slow picking, until I made the move to where i wanted to be.

    Drift after drift we got every rod into fish, some lads getting a second go at the fish, we carried on picking away until the tide eased and fishing also eased with it. We fished through slack water dropping big baits into the wreck looking for a festival contender, finally Andy Holmes from Castleton, managed to latch into something a bit better, a nice ling, it looked to be around 8/9lb, then his mate Martin boated a nice cod around 8lb.

    The tide got away and we moved to another mark nearby, I could tell as soon as i saw the activity on the sounder we were in for some more fireworks!

    As with the previous wreck, drift after drift every rod bent into fish, you could feel the fish fighting each other for the shads, by 2pm we had caught and returned lots of fish and I called lines up for a steady steam in to give the lads plenty of time to sort their catch.

    Back at the weigh in Andy's fish managed to take 1st position of the day netting him £50, the Ling went 9lb 12oz making it the 2nd heaviest fish of the competition so far, as the tides ease again next week, we should see a few better fish start coming to the scales.

    If you fancy a trip with me on ‪‎Mistress‬ give me a call on 07977 436903,

    Pictured Is Andy with his best fish of the day, one of 27 out his bag!

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