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28/04/2016
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
28 Apr 2016 by Rich Cope
We have actually managed a day at sea this week, The water has been well and truly churned up with the last northerly, so I gave it a last attempt at the Uptiding figuring the last blow over the spring tides would have coloured the water up well offshore making the wrecking very hard work indeed.
The day started out very cold, with last nights frost still very visible on the boat windows. It didnt take long though for the sun to burn through it and turn the day warm for us, there was virtually no wind all day too making it a very pleasant day at sea.
I knew it might be hard work for the boys, but I knew we’d more than likely muster up a few fish for the lads.
As it turned out we managed fish at most of the marks we fished, we were just picking away at concentrated pockets of fish. Picking a few up then moving and picking, and we moved a good few times throughout the day finishing on the rock top.
Most of the fish were around 2lb but we had a few fish around the 4lb stamp and the best tipped the scales at a healthy 7lb.
If you fancy a days fishing with me on Mistress here at Whitby give me call on 07977 436903, e-mail seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or message me on my Facebook page; Mistress Sea Angling Charters,
Tight Lines - Rich
Pictured is Eric with the best fish of the day - well done mate! -
12/03/2016
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
12 Mar 2016 by Rich Cope
Finally the weather gods have cut us a bit of slack here at whitby . It was nice to get to sea after a good week or so tied up.
The tides have been enormous this last few days so with only a few anglers booked on we opted to give the uptiding grounds another crack.
Our first spot gave up a few codlings as we finished the flood and went into slack water, the bites dried up completely so I had a run off a few miles to see if we could tempt a few fish to bait or shads but a combination of coloured water and the big tide meant we just lost gear! Nothing ventured and all that!
So we steamed back inside and got the anchor back back down, the fishing really was slow on the ebb tide, despite moving all over trying different spots and different baits we just werent hitting them, a few undersized codlings, pouts, whitings and a doggy were all we could muster. In all honesty I thought about calling a short day, but the tide at this point was about to turn so i sat it out a bit longer.
As soon as the flood bent though the rods started bouncing, so with a couple of hours of the day left we sat it out, moving to a ground edge I like we took a steady picking until home time, everyone got a few cod to take home finishing up with around 20 codlings and the usual bleggs and a doggy, nothing huge but a good few pushing 4lb, and a bonus Lobster for myself, a couple of the lads caught undersized Lobsters too that were returned.
This next week the tides fall away and the water is clearing all the time so we will be looking to hit the wrecks again, we have bookings for wednesday and friday and the minute with spaces available, we will sail with a minimum of 3 anglers if you fancy any of the other days,
If you fancy a days fishing on #Mistress give me a shout on 07977 436903, e-mail, seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or drop me a message on my facebook page Mistress Sea Angling Charters
Tight Lines - Rich
Pictured is Mistress regular, young Kai Leadley from whitby with one of his Cod - well done mate -
03/03/2016
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
3 Mar 2016 by Rich Cope
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 -
24/01/2016
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
24 Jan 2016 by Rich Cope
The weather gods were semi kind to us this weekend here at Whitby. We managed to fish both Saturday and Sunday, the wind direction and strength made the boat wonder a bit at anchor, but with perseverance we found the Mistress anglers a few fish!!!
Saturday was hard work despite moving around lots of ledges, gulleys and ridges, we finished up with 25 cod for the day plus a couple of Ling, Coalie, Poutings and Whitings,
Sunday I worked a different area, when we first arrived the wind was very fresh making bite detection hard, so I got the lads to let off plenty of line and hold the rods the same as we do when fishing from the shore, Bingo! the fish were at us within minutes and we started taking a steady picking of fish,
Slack water was slow, as always, we managed maybe 4 or 5 cod, then I moved to a ledge that has served me well for the start of the flood, I was a bout to give up when we'd not had a bite, then suddenly all the rods started going, we were getting 2 or 3 rods in at a time, and had a good afternoon,
Again nothing massive to report, the biggest went maybe 6lb most in the 2lb-4lb bracket, and a few chuck backs, the best angler took 14, the rest of the lads managing 8-9 fish apiece so we ended up with just over 50 cod for the day.
We are now taking bookings for the season, and the good tides are starting to fill up, we usually finish uptiding around march and then start back wrecking as water clarity allows.
If you fancy a trip me, give me a shout on 07977 436903, e-mail me at seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or drop me a message on my Facebook page Mistress Sea Angling Charters,
Tight Lines - Rich
Pictured are the lads at the end of the day with a few of their fish on sunday -
13/11/2015
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
13 Nov 2015 by Rich Cope
The Uptiding here at Whitby this week on Mistress has seen some absolute belters boated, lots of fish in the 6-8lb range boated with a couple of lucky anglers boating double figure fish,
our best day saw 5 anglers boating the best part of 90 cod, awesome angling, the best bag went 64lb for local Mistress angler Alex Leadley. the same day also produced two further 50lb bags for anglers onboard.
Yesterday also saw another good Cod hit the decks, just a couple of ounces under 10lb!
Have a click on the link to see the pics!
If you fancy a crack at the winter fishing here at Whitby, give me a call on 07977 436903, E-mail: seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or message me on my Facebook page Mistress Sea Angling Charters
Tight Lines - Rich
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Pictured are Alex Leadley and myself with our 11lbers! -
07/11/2015
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
7 Nov 2015 by Rich Cope
First day back at it after a very relaxing family holiday, It was also the 1st day of our Mistress festive sweepstake here at Whitby
Conditions weren't the best to be honest but we got a morning in, in testing conditions with the wind being over the tide it took a while for the boat to lay properly at anchor,
The fishing was good though, Mistress regular, Gary Price has set a good bag weight in the sweepstake at 40lb 5oz with 15 fish, and we were back in just after lunch, Gary fished very well indeed!.
Rob Gillings got the heaviest fish in the sweep so far at 5lb 4oz, Im sure this will be smashed though as we had fish upto 7lb on the boat.
There's a lot of fish on the inshore grounds this year, so if you fancy a crack at our sweepstake give me a bell on 07977 436903, e-mail: seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or drop me a message on my Facebook page - Mistress Sea Angling Charters
Tight Lines - Rich
Pictured is Gary with his bag of fish for the morning -
26/10/2015
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
26 Oct 2015 by Rich Cope
We've managed to sneak a couple more days Uptiding in here at whitby this week since our last report, the tides continued to lift which gave us the opportunity to explore a few of the marks we fished last year to see what we have in store in for us over the coming months.
The #Mistress anglers weren't disappointed in what we found! We've had some absolutely belting fish with the general stamp of fish being around the 4lb mark, but saying that every trip so far has chucked a lot 6lbers out too, two of the trips this last week has seen double figure fish coming to the boat. Ling to 12lb 8oz and Cod to 10lb 4oz, most days were getting a couple of 8lbers too, plus plenty of fish for everyone. We're currently averaging 60-90 cod per day for the boat.
I'm off for a well earned holiday on Thursday and will get back at the fish from the 6th November, when our Uptiding festive sweepstake will begin and run to the 15th December, some great prizes and cash up for grabs just in time for Christmas!, entry is £5 per person per rod (on top of the charter fee £45 per person), and all entry money will go to the total fund at the end of the comp. we still have dates available, so get yourselves booked in!
My number is 07977 436903, e-mail: seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk & my Facebook page, Mistress Sea Angling Charters,
Tight Lines - Rich
Pictured is Les Patrick from Driffieild with his 10lb 4oz Cod, -
24/10/2015
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
24 Oct 2015 by Rich Cope
Its safe to safe to say the uptiding has come on with a bang here at whitby With the forecast giving strong winds from the southwest, we could only realistically get onto the uptiding grounds with any hope of getting Paul and the lads from just outside Hull some comfortable fishing.
The tide was just easing as we sailed so we only got a short amount of time before the fishing fell slack over slack water, we managed half a dozen or so fish then had to wait for the flood coming.
A short journey to one of my favourite spots saw the rods going mental for about an hour until a bloody seal showed up and ruined for it us! but with many cod in the 3lb-8lb range the lads were already buzzing.
A few more moves throughout the day taking fish everywhere really until we ran out of worm, saw the end of the day but not before getting a cracking Ling a shade over 12lb, some great fishing tbh, with plenty of fish in the 5-6lb range, especially with conditions not ideal with clear water, I cant wait for the next big northerly the uptide fishing will go MENTAL!
if you fancy a crack at the winter uptiding here at whitby aboard Mistress give us a bell on 07977 436903, e-mail me at seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or drop me a message on my FB page Mistress Sea Angling Charters
Tight Lines - Rich
Dave shows the best cod of the day, absolutely cracking fish in shallow water on light gear! he also got a Ling over 12lb! -
10/2015
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Oct 2015 by Rich Cope
Finally we've got a spare day or two to report on our last week or so here at Whitby,
The Mistress anglers have been rewarded with some great fishing still when we have been getting offshore, with some cracking bags of fish, with 20-30 fish per angler not uncommon, again all on shads one at a time on light gear.
We have had fish around double figures most days we have been getting offshore too.
With conditions not being perfect to run offshore one day and a lift in tides this week we had a go at the uptiding again, we got off to great start with anglers getting double hook-ups of cod on their pennel rigs, and some real nice fat 5/6lbers too, but as the breeze got up we struggled holding position with wind against tide, but we were still clicking a few codlings but had to call it a day with deteriorating sea conditions. the lads still enjoyed their day with cod upto 6lb and ling upto 7lb.
We are currently experiencing another bout of poor weather with fresh easterly winds keeping us ashore.
It has given me time to get out shore fishing a bit with plenty of fish inshore, so the prospects look good for the uptiding once this sea dies away sufficiently for us to get back out at em!
If you fancy a crack at the winter fishing give us a call on 07977 436903, e-mail: seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or drop me a message on my facebook page, Mistress Sea Angling Charters
happy fishing and tight lines - Rich -
09/2015
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Sep 2015 by Rich Cope
An update is long over due, I've been busy as hell this last week, so I'm just finding time to report on our last weeks activities!
The Wrecking here at Whitby is on fire! the Shadding has been absolutely phenomenal!
When we have been allowed by the weather to get where we need to be the Mistress anglers have been rewarded with some of the best fishing we have seen for a few years.
We always encourage catch and release on the Mistress and our anglers have put many fish back over the last week, all over 40cm I might add, but some days have seen the better anglers boating around 40 cod per person, all on shads catching them one at a timeon light tackle! seriously, the fishing just doesn't get any better!
We also had another go at the Uptiding on days we couldn't get offshore, the signs are certainly promising with the general stamp of fish being 4/5lb, it looks like its going to be a bumper winter ahead of us.
If you fancy a trip with me on Mistress here at Whitby, give me a call on 07977 436903, or drop me a message,
Tight Lines - Rich
Pictured is Mistress regular Dave Crellin from Kendal with a shad caught cod just into double figures
