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  • 11/05/2023 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    11 May 2023 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    Today it was finally time to break out the Factor 50!! We have had barely a breath of wind and fantastic sunshine all day.

    With settled weather this week, Tuesday and Wednesday saw us spend most of the days drifting rough ground and a wreck or two at slack water with the Spring 5m tides. The fishing wasn’t exceptional by any standards, with mainly small fish landed, but plenty of bites to the baited Hokkai’s. There are lots of Haddock being caught at the moment, we caught more Haddock on Wednesday, than I had the entire year, last year.

    Today we were back into the 4m tide range, so we ran off to some wrecks in the 20 mile stream. First wreck saw some solid fishing for three hours. Most drifts we took 3-5 fish mainly Codling with an odd Ling. They were lovely clean fish mostly in the 3-5lb bracket. Shaun Marchington taking the biggest Codling at just over 7lb. Shads did a few bites initially, but Muppet Bait Traces, baited with a whole squid were really doing the business.

    Once the tide fell away towards slack water, we moved on as the bites dried up. The next wreck marked really well on the echo sounder, but we got nothing but small Haddock and a few Codling.
    After an hour and with the Ebb Tide away properly, we moved on.

    The last wreck we fished wasn’t bad considering the drift speed was 1.2 knots. Some beautiful clean Codling to 5lb for everyone to finish the day.

    The weather was fantastic today and the company on board were the same. It’s the most enjoyable day out I’ve had for a while. Plenty of fish caught in fantastic company. Well done everyone.

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