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  • 09/09/2022 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    9 Sep 2022 by Andy Savage

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    It's been a while since I've given an update on the fishing on Sea Urchin. There's a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I've been away on holiday for a week with my family; but mainly the weather and fishing have been well below par. Whilst I love writing about the brilliant days, it's equally important to give a bit of balance. Not every trip is a red letter day. Quite frankly, some are an absolute grind when the fish aren't playing ball.

    Since the last catch report dated 25th August, we've only been to sea four times. On each occasion we've been out on the bigger tides above 5m. That's not to say we wouldn't catch fish, but the fishing conditions are more tricky on a bigger tides at this time of year.

    (26th August) John Turnbull and a couple of friends took the boat for the day, which resulted in a few fish around slack water off the wrecks, but we couldn't find many fish on the rough ground. The best falling to Pete, with a Ling of 11lb 8oz. Bait fishing with fresh Mackerel caught the majority of the fish.

    (27th & 28th August) The weekend saw rising tides well above 5m and the fishing remained difficult. In a similar pattern, the wrecks did a few fish during slack water, but there wasn't much taken off the rough ground.
    Our last trip was yesterday (7th Sept) and once again it was a real battle to find some fish. The conditions in themselves weren't too bad, but with a drift speed around 2 knots in the morning, the lines were streaming. We found a few small Codling and one Ling around 5lb for Charlie Hewitt. The rough ground produced very little yet again.

    During this time, the common theme has been that there is alot of natural feed in the water. It shows on the echo sounder and there are seals, whales, dolphins, porpoise, gannets etc all over the place. We were surrounded by over 50 seals yesterday afternoon on the 7 mile ground. I firmly believe that the fish have an all you can eat buffet at their disposal at the moment and don't really need the anglers baits.

    This weekend, we're just coming into another set of near 6m Spring Tides, so I'm not going to punish myself or the inexperienced anglers who usually end up on these tides, by going out to sea. Hopefully towards the end of next week things will settle down and the neap tides will do us plenty of fish.

    For anyone interested, I've now adjusted the November and December Booking Calendar on CBUK to show the days where we are planning to wreck fish and uptide. If you fancy a run out, just drop me a line.

    Tight Lines

    Andy

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