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  • 03/03/2016 Fishing Report by Rich Cope on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    3 Mar 2016 by Rich Cope

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    With a very small window in the weather today here at Whitby, we managed to get a team of 5 anglers together with a view to hitting the inshore wrecks.

    As forecast it was a shabby start this morning, with the cruise out to the wrecks steady. We tried a few different marks to break the journey up on the way out to one of my favourite early season wrecks.
    We arrived at around 10am and started hitting the fish steady away 3 to 4 a drift, although we tried shads but they were preferring the squid baits offered on paternoster rigs.

    The fishing remained steady until the turn of the tide and went off a bit then. But not before we’d taken a good number of fish for our anglers.

    We took mainly Cod but a good few Lings came aboard too, the biggest of both falling to Mistress regular Martin Hoole, his biggest Cod would of been in the 5-6lb region and Ling around 8lb.

    We Finished up with around 60 fish for the day, the two best anglers boating 16-18 fish apiece. Personally I fished Like a lettuce and boated 7, 3 of which were milting as I pulled them from the sea so returned them immediately, The other lads also returned a good number of fish to fight another day.

    Prospects for the up and coming season are certainly looking good, as the water clears further and the fish turn more to feeding rather than spawning we should see an increase in both numbers and size of fish.

    The lures will come into their own too as the water clears, people using 4” & 6” sidewinder sandeels usually do well, I find early season White and also green fish very well.
    Sometimes a pirk can outfish the shads if the clarity isnt quite right and will often find out the better fish.

    Martin at Whitby Angling Supplies stocks an extensive range of top quality tackle and lures along with all other terminal gear and baits at very competitive prices, so will be able to sort you out for a great days sea fishing aboard Mistress

    So, if you fancy a crack at the Wrecking, We still have some good tides available through out the year along with some some decent tides in our WCSA angling festivals.

    Give me a call or text on 07977 436903, e-mail me at: seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or drop me a messages on my Facebook page Mistress Sea Angling Charters,

    Tight Lines - Rich

    Pictured is Mistress regular Martin with a few of his cod

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