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28/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
28 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Two day report on Shy-Torque III.
Saturday 25th May.
There is a fair amount of Algae Bloom in the water at present making for some quite difficult fishing for the lads n lasses.
On occasion, we do find an odd clear patch and this is when we click a few fish.
What’s been noticeable is that the clarity on the surface few fathoms isn’t too bad at all and we can see the fish some 20-30 ft down. We just need it like that on the bottom again now. Shouldn’t be too long.
A mixed group of 8 anglers on the boat on Saturday gone.
We started off by working the ground on the 5 mile for just a couple of fish and within a couple of hours and half a dozen stops later, found ourselves out on a small wreck just over 12 miles offshore. Just one fish from that.
Fish count by this time was just 5 fish to keep. The usual throw backs too.
We continued the hunt, working some more bits in to the West, where we did start picking a few more fish up, but nothing to make it a top drawer day.
The banter helped make the day go by as usual, with some great conversations and stories about motorcycles, my other great passion!
Thanks to the lads for having robust patience throughout the day and working tirelessly to try and tempt the fish to the hooks.
Monday 27th May.
Yesterday saw another mixed group join us on the boat.
As the forecast was very good for the day, we chose to run a little further out to try and get some clearer water from the start.
We steamed to a wreck 18 miles East of the town to start the day.
First drift was good with around eight fish boated. Three of them (Coalies) falling to Joseph. He had dropped down with a five hook Mackerel trace a clicked a treble!!
Great sport!!
I also managed a nice Codling on a shad, fair and square in the mouth. Clearer water it seemed.
We picked away at the wreck for a couple of hours, taking an odd fish or two each go.
Allen Hallworth, Joseph and their two friends from Manchester filling a “Gorilla” tub to the top between them with Codling, Ling, Coaley and the odd Pouting.
Reasonable fishing for them.
After we had milked the wreck, we moved in towards land a few miles and tried another couple of wrecks, where the group took another dozen or so fish.
The majority of fish were taken on the baited rigs with the usual squid and frozen Mackerel.
We saw a Mackerel on each of the last few trips too!
Nice to see those fellas in the water again and it won’t be too long until young Fergus is washing down a messy boat again!!
Cheers for now and good fishing to you all wherever you wet your lines.
Rich.
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21/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
21 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Newcomers to the Shy-Torque Phil Bland and his mates from Bedale joined us yesterday.
We mostly picked away on the rough ground marks as the lads were fairly new to the game, dropping on just two bits of scrap over slack water.
Again, the baited rigs out fishing the artificial gear with squid being the best bait. I’m fair sure the bloom is lurking down there in places.
Tally for the day, around 35 fish to keep which between 10 men isn’t a good show by far, but the lads really enjoyed the day out with us nevertheless.
Cheers lads, nice meeting you and enjoyed your company. See you again soon.
Rich.
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20/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
20 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Rob Newcombe and his mates Jimmy, Rob, Shaun and Dave from Nottingham chartered the boat yesterday on their first trip out of Whitby this year.
We played around on a couple of bit of scrap to start the day for a meagre picking of small chuck back fish.
I move the boat out to a few ground marks next and the lads started picking away at the fish there.
Just one or two some drifts and an odd drift with a few more.
Baited rigs were the order of the day again with thin strips of squid on the Hokkai traces doing the best.
The bigger fish were elusive for the lads but at the end of the day they were all very pleased with their tally of 50 fish to keep, along with the juvenile throw backs.
A nice range of species too with Codling, Ling, Haddock, Whiting, Pouting and Wrasse.
A very enjoyable and chilled day on the water with five great blokes.
See you on your next one lads,
Cheers
Rich.
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19/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
19 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Alex Choy and his mates joined us yesterday for their third trip of the year.
The group love to fish the “Wall” if the weather allows it, as they love to target the Norwegian Haddock (Acadian Redfish) on the light tackle.
Luckily for them, the weather fell in their favour so we gave it another go.
Plenty of them for the lads!!
Fergus reckoning on 40+, plus other small bits and bobs.
Leo who fishes with the group was telling me that this particular fish is so expensive in Hong Kong.
Around £30.00 per kilo!!
We never saw a fish above 4lb but still a fun filled day for Alex and the boys with good Chinese banter all day!
Cheers
Rich.
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18/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
18 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Two day report on the Shy-Torque III.
Thursday didn’t fish very well at all for the guys on the boat in all honesty.
We re-ran our route we took the day before, as we’d had such a great day, but sadly the little buggers weren’t playing for us.
We finished Thursday’s trip off on a little wreck just 2.3 miles from shore and had our best fishing there to be fair.
We did only take 8 Codling from it but considering what we had before this, it was good!!
Yesterday I chose to run back in the direction we’d finished off the day before and wreck hopped for the first couple of hours.
On the first bit of scrap, I went straight into a fish on the shad and two other lads hooked up straight away too.
20 winds off the bottom and a seal grabbed my fish, taking it clean off the hook in one.
10 seconds after this, Graham Soloman’s fish was attacked by the beastie and his came up with just a head and entrails!
Moving on then!!
The next wreck was just 3/4 mile away to the North.
First drift, one fish boated.
Second drift, 2 fish on and both pinched by a seal!!
Long story short, the same f*****g seal followed us for 2 hours and killed our morning!
I moved the boat to a completely different sector to get away from it, hoping to find a seal free area and luckily for us we managed to find a few nice fish on a strip of ground with no seal harassment.
The lads plucked away nicely for a couple of hours and ended up with some nice Codling to just under 9lb and Ling to just over 10lb.
Around 30 fish from that ground making for an enjoyable bit of fishing to save the day.
A great mixed group of lads who were pleased with the day in the end.
See you again soon lads.
Cheers for now,
Rich
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15/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
15 May 2024 by Rich Ward
15.05.24.
Small tides, a flat calm sea and a good bunch of lads on board.
Surely the perfect recipe for a perfect day on the water?
We sailed at the usual time of 7.0.am yesterday and decided to head to the 5 mile area to start on a couple of bits of scrap, basically to see if there had been any change in the fishing from last time we tried there.
The first few drifts saw both Codling and Ling coming on board steadily which was great!
All the fish were coming up on the baited rigs. Hokkais and baited muppets tipped with squid doing the job.
I was determined to get them on the Shads but sadly to no avail.
A few tugs but nothing definite.
I was guessing that the water was still too murky there.
We moved just 1.5 miles down to the South next and tried a tiny piece of wreckage which I have, that is rarely fished.
I persevered with the Shad and bingo, they were taking fair and square on that one.
This got me thinking that maybe there was patchy bloom in the water.
When we’d picked that bit clean, we moved out over slack water to try some strips of ground and it was alive!
Feed fish all over the grounds and plenty of fish on the feed too!
I reckon that for the last 20 or so drifts over a small ledge, I personally managed at least 1 Cod each go on the Shad! Brilliant sport.
Regular angler on the Shy-Torque III Chris Siddle, showed his skills off to everyone today and managed to fill his box (6 stone) to the brim. He took all his fish on the baited rigs.
Chris also took the best 2 fish on board too
A couple of lovely chunky Cod around the 8 lb mark.
It has to be the best day on the inshore marks for us this year with a tally of close on 80 fish boated.
Plenty to keep Fergus entertained with his sharp knife!
The Cod are in and feeding lads!!
Cheers
Rich.
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10/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
10 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Yesterday’s trip had been advertised as a “Wall trip”as the tides were still running in the Spring range at 5.5m.
We really need a full boat of 8 anglers to cover the fuel costs with runs of those distances.
We only managed to sail with just the 6 lads as 2 others had dropped out.
The remaining lads agreed to chip in a little extra so we could still do the run.
The fish were a little elusive to start off, but we soon found where they were hiding and the lads were clicking them every drift after 20 minutes or so.
As the ebb started to run, the devils SE wind started too which made the fishing a little more challenging.
The drift kept creeping up and by high water we were running at 2 knots.
A bit quick really but we were still knocking the odd fish out so we stuck it out till the end.
A surprise visit by a Porbeagle too yesterday which was a bit of a nuisance for half an hour as it kept pinching the fish on the way up!!
A nice show of some 50-60 fish between the 6 lads at the end of the day, with a good number of juvenile throw backs too.
Young Fergus and myself landing around 20 between us which was great because my Dad had said he’d like a few fillets.
Fergus began the filleting as soon as we got underway for home and had the lot done and the boat washed down before we landed. Good lad!
The shads worked great yesterday for us and the baited rigs also caught.
Squid and frozen Mackerel doing the business.
No big fish to shout about again but a great days sport.
Thanks to Craig, Tim, Pete, Mark, Johnny and Steve for sailing with us and we’ll see you all again soon.
Cheers
Rich.
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06/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
6 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Last day of the Spring competition yesterday.
Alex Choy and his friends joined us on a perfectly flat calm day!
Alex fished with us a couple of weeks ago alongside Gary Jones and had a cracking day on a strip of ground 20 miles East of the harbour.
He asked me straight away if we could return there again yesterday to see if we could chance a repeat performance!
A fairly heavy tide to punch our way out there putting a few minutes and a few more gallons of fuel through the motors!!
The day started out well with a couple of dozen fish boated in the first three drifts!
Things slowed up over slack water and just as the flood tide pushed through, a guard vessel came over the VHF asking us to move for a cable laying ship (which was nowhere to be seen and not even on the radar range of 16 miles!!!
Most annoying as we had just started clicking a few more fish!
Anyway, we obliged him and moved inside him by half a mile and finished off with another 15 or so fish.
No big fish sadly.
Our best, a Ling of just 8lbs.
A thoroughly enjoyable day on the water with Alex and his crew.
Tally for the day was down on their last trip, but still a good 60-70 fish boated.
Cheers lads and see you in a couple of weeks.
The tides are massive now until Friday so a couple of days off now.
Friday’s trip is back out to the same grounds and if anyone wants to join us we just have two places left for then.
We also have spaces next weekend.
Cheers
Rich
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04/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
4 May 2024 by Rich Ward
Mansfield lad Brian Cunningham and his five mates had the boat chartered yesterday on what was the penultimate day in this year’s Spring Festival.
Their first wrecking trip of the season.
Perfect conditions welcoming us to start the day off so we tramped off to three wrecks NNE from the harbour, the first one being 23 miles.
The first drift over the wreck produced just a couple of small Codling.
On the smaller wrecks, the first run can often be an indicator of what’s down there, but this was a bigger one and after swinging the boat around and marking where they were hiding, we managed to pluck another couple of dozen fish from it.
A few nice plump Codling and Ling coming aboard.
Slack water approached us around 10.30am and things went a bit quiet so we moved to the second wreck in the group and basically stayed there until it was time for the homeward journey.
Daryll Machant who fishes with us regularly outside the club meets landed the heaviest on the boat, a nice Ling of 12lb 8oz which won the sweep and also took the heaviest daily prize of £50.00.
A good day for him!
Well done mate.
The lads return for their second club booking next month. We look forward to seeing you all then lads.
Great crack and company as ever!!
Cheers
Rich.
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02/05/2024
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
2 May 2024 by Rich Ward
A lovely morning welcoming us yesterday for another run out in this year’s Spring competition.
A full boat of good mates and regular anglers sailing with us to have a go for a bigger fish or two hopefully.
The day started out well for us on the first wreck some 17 miles from the harbour.
A steady picking of Codling and small Ling for the lads giving them some nice sport for a few hours.
Nothing big though.
We moved on to a smaller piece of scrap a couple of miles East for just a handful of of fish. Not so good there really, so on we marched to another wreck known personally to me as Bobs wreck.
Named this way after my good friend Guy Wrightson’s Dad who used to fish with us years ago.
Guy sadly lost his Dad whilst out fishing with us. He got the call with the sad news.
His Dad gifted him with a beautiful Cod just over 17lb from the wreck that day.
He looked to the sky and winked ��
It didn’t produce much at all yesterday!!
We mooched back towards shore to finish the day off and managed another 10 or so fish.
Rob Moore from Selby taking our best fish on board (weight wise) A Ling of just over 7lbs which wasn’t a contender.
Young Fergus filleted away on our return journey to port and reckoned the average per angler was 7/8 fish so numbers wise, a steady 60+ fish boated. Plenty around the 4-5lb mark. Not too bad.
Thanks again to one and all for your support in what has been the worst start to any year I can remember in 40 years in the game.
The competition ends this Sunday so we will having another good go at it then.
Cheers for now
Rich.
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