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  • 08/10/2024 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    8 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    First catch report aboard Sea Urchin for a couple of weeks.

    After a decent set of Northerly winds, today we finally had the opportunity to get out and Mark Johnson had the boat booked along with five friends. The tides are dropping a bit, but we still had a 5m tide to contend with which would present some challenging conditions later in the day. First job was to see if there were any Mackerel left and we had three drifts which only gave us a dozen or so. We knocked it on the head as we didn’t want to waste too much time as we had a SE wind against a flood tide, which would hold us nicely on the wrecks.

    We ran south to fish a couple of wrecks in the six mile stream. First stop, first drift and pleasingly we had five rods out of six take a fish; a mix of small Ling and Codling was a nice start. We had some steady sport for around an hour, but nothing exceptional was caught until Jono’s rod went over with something more substantial. His pimped up squid bait was snaffled by a lovely Cod of 11lb which won him the boat sweepstake.

    The wind showed no sign of dropping away on the turn of tide, so I knew we would have too fast a drift to stay on the wrecks once the Ebb got going. We agreed to try a couple more wrecks through slack water (which were unproductive) then head to the rough ground for the remainder of the day. We had an hour on the five mile ground first and found odd pockets of fish, but the consistency wasn’t there. With the drift speed up to 1.7 knots the lads had to work hard to keep the bait on the deck. 16oz definitely helped in this situation.

    We pushed out another couple of miles for the afternoon, to lose a touch more tide and hopefully find a few better fish. It was patchy to start with, but then the wind eased a touch and the sun came out. This seemed to have the desired effect and the last hour gave us a much better run of fish. We had a few Ling around the 7lb mark and some nice clean Codling to 4lb to finish off a really enjoyable day.

    It wasn’t a red letter day, but there were signs that there’s still quite a few fish knocking about. Thanks for coming lads

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