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  • 12/07/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    12 Jul 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    Another lovely day out at sea today.

    Gill Braund booked the boat for the day for family and friends and just like last year, the five gentlemen who came were fantastic company. With a foggy morning greeting us as we left the harbour, we started off the day tracking down a few Mackerel for bait, then stopped on a wreck a couple of miles from the pier ends as slack water was around 0830hrs. With a mixture of Hokkai’s and muppet traces, baited with squid and mackerel we had a couple of fish, but to be honest, it wasn’t great. We had a few Codling and one Ling around 6lb, but also lost a bit of gear; so I moved us to rough ground (for the rest of the day as it turned out).

    We fished three different areas of ground between three and seven miles and thankfully they all produced fish. With it being a bigger 5.2m tide, we found that the first few drifts on each bit of ground were the most productive. Taking between 3-8 fish each run. Then as the tide built and the drift speed increased, we had to nudge a bit further out to lose some tide, and sport improved again. We repeated this three times.

    Codling and Ling in the 2-5lb range were the mainstay, with an odd better Ling up to 8lb. Chris Braund took the biggest Ling of the day at 10lb 7oz, which also won him £50 in the Summer Competition.
    My son Will was crewing for me today, and with there being plenty of deck space, the lads very kindly let him join them for a few hours. He loves fishing with Shads and I was made up for him when he picked up a 5lb 8oz Codling which was a new PB.

    We caught fish fairly consistently all day around the boat, a couple of lads had more success than others. But we all have one of those days from time to time when it goes really well, or really rubbish. It’s part and parcel of a day out in a Charter Boat.

    It was a thoroughly enjoyable day, spent in excellent company.

    Looking forward to 2026 already.

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    Sat 25/10/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.21m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dave Pickup - x 3 Calvin Dipper - x 3
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    Sun 26/10/2025
    5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.01m Derek Hopkinson - x 4 Jason Shields - x 1
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    Fri 31/10/2025
    7 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.40m Will sail with 4 anglers. Iga Krawczenko - x 3
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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
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2
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    Sun 09/11/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.60m Will sail with 4 anglers. Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Jamie Ping - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1
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    Thu 13/11/2025
    8 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.54m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2
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    Sat 15/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.82m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Sean Coupland - x 2 Tom Allen - x 1
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    Sat 22/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dmitrijs Lobanovs - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Tom Allen - x 1
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    Wed 03/12/2025
    2 Spaces Available Christmas Uptiding Competition - Cod - Biggest Bag 1st - £100, 2nd - £50, 3rd - £40 £5 Entry Fee
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