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  • 19/03/2024 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    19 Mar 2024 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    Don’t be fooled by the pictures…..today was was a really tough fishing day, made into a thoroughly enjoyable day by the anglers aboard.

    We had a small tide but the winds were a bit too fresh for running out to offshore wrecks. That gave us the option of fishing inside at anchor as the inshore wrecks and ground still haven’t sparked up yet. We headed South to make the most of the tide and after an hours run we put the anchor down. With the area receiving little pressure this winter, I hoped there would be a few willing resident Codling that would come and find us.

    I was wrong, simple as that. We had dropped anchor in the fishy equivalent of Dogs Trust, with a constant stream of DogFish and Pouting snaffling the baits. Three moves later we conceded defeat and ran back a few miles towards Whitby; arriving about an hour before slack water. Before I’d even had chance to finish making the brews, I saw Chris Chatham bring up a Codling which was a relief. Thankfully an odd Codling started to make an appearance, but it certainly wasn’t prolific.

    Once the bites dried up, we had a short move as it appeared there weren’t many fish running. I put us on a short anchor as we were about to lose the tide and start swinging about. Interestingly, as we lost the tide we had a bit of a flurry of Pollock. We don’t seem to get too many of them when Uptiding, but we had half a dozen of them today. With Charlie Hewitt taking the biggest at 6lb 12oz.

    Most of the lads switched over to regular leads (as opposed to breakaway leads) while the boat was swinging and we kept picking up odd fish which certainly hasn’t been the case recently.
    Once the Ebb Tide came through, things tailed off again and despite another three moves, we ended with only an odd fish here and there. I would have loved to be able to deliver a few more fish for the boys, but it just wasn’t to be.

    From a personal perspective, it was great to have a group of “anglers” (not freezer fillers) aboard, most of whom I hadn’t seen this winter with the rubbish weather we’ve had. A good catch up with some great banter. Thanks very much to you all

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    UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
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    2 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.50m Steve Lawton - x 1 Jim Lister - x 1 Neil Swallow - x 3 Marc Smith - x 1 Nick Gray - x 1
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    Sat 13/09/2025
    Autumn Festival 2 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.49m Chris Roberts - x 1 Ian Scrivens - x 1 Iga Krawczenko - x 3 Ian Smith - x 2
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    Sun 28/09/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.81m Ben Cope x 4 Greg Ince - x 1 Steve & Ryan - x 2
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    Sat 18/10/2025
    6 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.10m Rob Waterworth x 1 Jamie Britton x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Oliver Venus - x 1
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    Mon 20/10/2025
    12 hr Offshore Trip - Baymans Hole £75 per Angler 7 Spaces Available Rough Ground Trip - 5.36m Derek Coulson - x 3
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    Sun 26/10/2025
    1 Space Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.01m Derek Hopkinson - x 4 Jason Shields - x 1 Matt Dowsett - x 1 Matt Gray - x 3
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    Tue 28/10/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.56m Dave & Del - x 2 Paul Marsh - x 5
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    Fri 31/10/2025
    4 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.40m Iga Krawczenko - x 3 Sam Robinson - x 1 Chris Sayer - x 2
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    Sat 01/11/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.68m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dmitrijs Lobanovs - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Paweł Rojek - x 3 Tom Allen - x 1
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    Tue 04/11/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2 Ian Scrivens - x 1
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