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  • 09/05/2016 Fishing Report by Rich Cope on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    9 May 2016 by Rich Cope

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    Its been around a week since our last report, in one way its good that we’ve been getting to sea a bit more regularly, in another way its been quite hard work, working around the May algae bloom. With the algae being patchy its meant that no two days are the same, and as the tides have lifted its made fishing quite difficult, never the less we’ve put to sea and got our anglers a few fish to take home. As the tides drop this week the fishing should become more productive.

    Early on in the week we experienced some cracking weather and managed to get out and do a bit of Wrecking for a few hours before the wind came on fresh in the afternoon.
    The lads who had all fished before but not really done any wrecking managed to rake up a good few fish each for the morning, we managed a few up to 6lb in weight but most in the 2lb - 4lb region.
    As the wind freshened on we ran inshore and dropped the anchor to finish the day raking a few more codlings together.

    After the previous trip we were tied up a day, then back the day after, the tides had lifted and with only a couple of lads booked on, we stayed inshore Uptiding.
    We admittedly had a slow start to the day, moving around raking a few fish here and there. Our 2nd move produced a real nice fresh run cod just over 6lb for one the lads, so it lifted everyones spirits a bit.
    Another move saw us boat a few more fish to 4lb just before we lost the tide run, and I upped anchor for a move to one of my more consistent ledges.

    The move was a good call, we started getting bites as soon as we’d shut off the engine, we experienced a steady couple of hours with everyone on board getting a few fish and bites.
    My good mate Alex came along to help out and wet a line, and also bought his son Kai for a run off.

    Kai got one around 4lb and was absolutely proud as punch!
    I was fishing too, and despite a bit of a lean time for myself the last couple of trips I was actually managing to bag a few fish!
    Ive been trying to run my baits stocks down a bit for next winter so I was using a lot of crab based baits, Ive still got a lot of Black lug worm too, The cart fished well, getting me quite a few bites, the Worm, Mussel and squid also fished well for everyone else on board.

    The bites dried up a bit, so we upped anchor for our final move of the day.
    It was a good move, no sooner had we settled in got our baits cast in, Kai’s rod started twitching with slow long pulls on his tip. . . . . You guessed it, best fish of the day! It was only ounces short of his PB, he was really buzzing!

    Then on his next cast, still absolutely buzzing from his 7lber, the jammy little git only went and clicked a 5lber too!
    The lads on board, including his dad were all proud as punch to see the young lad get a few nice fish, as it was Kai finished up with 6 nice cod to take home, and fished the best on the boat . . . . . again!

    The tides in the following days took a pretty big jump, and the fishing tailed off a bit for the lads, we still manged fish for the boys though and always put 110% effort in finding our anglers a few fish.

    If you fancy a days fishing with me here at Whitby on Mistress, give me a call on 07977 436903. alternatively drop me an e-mail at; seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or message me on my facebook page; Mistress Sea Angling Charters
    Tight Lines - Rich

    Pictured is Mistress regular Kai Leadley with his two best fish of his trip

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