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  • 06/02/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    6 Feb 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin III

    The last wrecking trip we ran was on the 27th December, so with perfect tide and weather conditions today, we had another go.

    I’d explained to the lads that it’s a high risk strategy running off a long way in the winter, but they were happy to give it a try. We headed out at first light for a two hour steam North to the first wreck. The fishing conditions were perfect with all the lines being vertical and a lovely slow drift straight along the wreck. Unfortunately that meant nothing to the fish, as in half a dozen drifts we caught nothing but a strap Ling. It was at that point that we saw a pair of seals moving around us. Unsure if they had put the fish down, we pushed on to the next wreck.

    We didn’t do much better on the second wreck. Each drift there were Pouting clattering the baits and a few hung themselves. We did catch a handful of small Codling, and I even took a picture of a 3lb fish that Paul Hargreaves caught, just in case we didn’t get anything else!! After 45 minutes or so, we pushed on to another wreck, which would have us arrive just as the tide was running into slack. It was only a small piece of scrap, so hopefully the lack of tide would allow us a bit more time to extract a fish or two.

    Thankfully, after giving the “all in” four rods went over almost immediately and I breathed a sigh of relief! We spent the rest of the day drifting slowly across the wreck, taking 2,3 or 4 each time.
    The biggest fish were a pair of Ling at 9lb 8oz to Chris and 8lb to Andy; plus a Codling just over 7lb to Joe Clough. Muppet traces with Squid and/or Mackerel seemed to work well. Although one of the lads put down a set of Daylights and took a triple shot of Pouting and a double shot of Codling.

    The weather was fantastic all day and whilst we didn’t break any records, everyone got a few fish. When we set off, I feared the worse, but hoped for the best; and at the end of the day we were probably somewhere in between. It wasn’t too bad. The company and weather were fantastic, so thanks for a lovely day out lads.

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    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.09m Arthur French - x 3 Sam Robinson - x 1 John Cross - x 1 Graham Christie - x 2
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    Tue 18/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.19m Arthur French - x 3 John Cross - x 1 Alan Sutcliffe - x 1
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    Wed 19/11/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.26m Arthur French - x 3 Ray Malik - x 1 Bod - x 1 Tony Barrett - x 2
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    Thu 20/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.28m Jeff Turner - x 1 Arthur French - x 3 Ian Scrivens - x 1
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    Thu 27/11/2025
    2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.56m Steve Mason - x 1 Dave Guest - x 2 Mike Lee - x 1 Fran Schaap - x 2 Iga Krawczenko - x 2
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    Mon 01/12/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.90m Geoff Smith - x 3 Ian Purdom - x 1 Ben Mallock - x 1
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    Tue 02/12/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.18m Will sail with 4 anglers. Steve Whitaker - x 3
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    Mon 08/12/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.51m Joe Clough - x 3 Ian Scrivens - x 1 Dan Simes - x 1
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    Tue 09/12/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.27m Ian Purdom - x 6 Martin Novo - x 1
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    Thu 11/12/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.75m Peter Burton - x 1 Dave Whitehouse - x 3
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