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24/09/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
24 Sep 2023 by Rich Ward
The September angling competition came to an end yesterday (should have been today but strong winds stopping us)
The last two or three trips haven’t given us much to report about really with just a picking here and there.
Best day for us was Friday gone, where we picked around 25 fish (all Ling) from a wreck 18 miles East of the harbour.
No big fish landed but with Ling to just under 12lbs on the boat, the lads enjoyed a reasonable few hours angling in nice settled waters.
Yesterday we steamed South East to some wrecks around 16-17 miles for a bare picking of fish.
Our most regular angler Paul Mawson landed a lovely Cod which topped out at 13lb exactly. Well done to him.
His fish now taking the lead in the Shy-Torque III fish of the month where the winner gets a free trip with us (valid for 12 months)
We end the fish of the month competition in October but will start again in April next year.
Last months F.O.M (winners) were Paul Mawson and Bill Barraclough who both landed Ling a smidge under 14lbs. Identical in weight to the ounce, on the same day! We don’t see that very often and we all said we’d probably never see it again. How wrong we were!
The September competition winners are sharing the £1000.00 first prize too!
Both anglers landing Ling of 19lb 1/2oz.
Well done to both of them!
Thanks to everyone who made the competition a success even though we did lose several days to bad weather.
I’m sure everyone enjoyed it.
Also, thanks to Alex at “Mr Chips” fish and chip shop and the Middle Earth Tavern on Church Street for their continued support in sponsoring the events.
Without support like theirs we wouldn’t be able to host these cracking competitions.
On another note, our association is holding an Uptiding competition this year which runs from Saturday 25th November - Sunday 3rd December.
We are giving away a £1000.00 heaviest overall fish plus daily prizes for the heaviest fish of the day.
If you fancy a go at that, give me a ring to sort a day for you.
Individuals are very welcome and we will sail with just 3 anglers on any day.
A nice little prize to have a go at just before Xmas!!
Cheers for now guys and keep the lines tight!
Rich
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14/09/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
14 Sep 2023 by Rich Ward
Sorry I haven’t done a report over the last three days.
That’s mainly due to the fact that there’s been nothing much to report on really.
We had Ken Fusco and family on board Monday/Tuesday.
Ken, Andy, Declan and Dave book the boat to themselves every year with us in the competitions.
Monday we steamed off North to three or four wrecks North of Whitby out to 29 miles. Rubbish! 10 fish for the day!
Declan did however win the daily prize of £50.00 with a Ling of 9lb 4oz.
Tuesday was such that we had to stay more inshore and work marks closer to home as the breeze was to increase from the North throughout the day.
Rubbish fishing again with just 8 fish to keep!
Declan did get the daily £50.00 prize winner again though, with a whopping 5lb 2oz Ling!
Thanks to Ken and the lads for their patience, understanding and support.
They know the score and that it can’t always be a top drawer day.
Yesterday’s team were a group of my most regular anglers who had decided to book the boat for a long trip.
We weren’t in the competition as we sailed at 5.0am and returned late.
We steamed offshore to some ground marks to start the day. Rubbish again with 15 fish or so boated.
Out to the first wreck of the day it was then.
1 fish! OMG!
The second wreck did produce slightly more fish with 8 boated but still rubbish!!
The third stop was on a tiny bit of scrap 38 miles off.
We were hoping and praying this would come up trumps but it didn’t! Rubbish!!
Just a dozen fish from it.
My crewman Fergus did however pull a nice Ling from it though. Weighing in at 19lb 6oz, a P.B for him. Well done to him!
Shame we weren’t in the competition as that fish would have jumped in to the lead on the board.
Ah well that’s life! LOL!
Thanks to everyone who have fished with us so far in the competition and we’ll see you all again soon.
Cheers and tight lines.
Rich.
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10/09/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
10 Sep 2023 by Rich Ward
Yesterday was the second day of this year’s September angling competition.
As is fairly often on the Shy-Torque, the team was made with a mixed group of lads.
Ability wise, all the lads were well seasoned so we chose the offshore wrecking option for the day.
Distances yesterday were such that we would only have time to try two, possibly three wrecks over the course of the trip.
First stop was a fairly big lump of scrap and it threw around 25 fish out which wasn’t a bad start.
A couple of better looking fish were hooked, but as is so often the case, slipped the hooks!
Nevertheless some nice fish taken.
We tried the next wreck which is a short hop of two miles and it fished relatively slowly with only ten fish or so boated.
Unusual for that wreck as it normally produces the best out of the two.
We slipped back to the first one and took a further fifteen fish from it to end the day.
No big fish boated as such but the sweep on the boat organised by my mate Andy Davies was taken by our most regular angler Paul Mawson from Bridlington with a Ling at 10lb 8oz.
Well done to him.
All in all, a nice day on the fish and good to see more Codling than Ling!
Two other skippers and myself are organising an “Uptiding” competition which runs from 26.11.23 to 03.12.23.
If you fancy a run out for a go, give me a bell, email, or drop me a text.
Cheers
Rich.
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09/09/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
9 Sep 2023 by Rich Ward
We had a mixed bunch of regular lads plus two newbie’s on board the boat yesterday.
We were welcomed by thick fog as soon as we cleared the piers and unfortunately it didn’t lift for us all day. A shame because a bit of sun on another flat calm sea would’ve been nice.
Anyway, unlike Fridays fishing, yesterday’s was a marked improvement with one of our stops providing most of our catch for the day.
A small wreck some 9 miles North of the harbour.
Codling, Ling and a few small Haddock boated.
Bryan Stanton taking the best of the day, a nice Ling of 11lb 3.5oz.
His fish is now leading the Shy-Torque “Fish of the month” which can get the winner a free trip if they have the heaviest fish at the end of the month.
Good luck to him, although with the September competition starting today, we really are hoping for something a bit heavier to stand any chance of winning it!!
Let’s see what happens.
Tally for yesterdays trip, around 50 fish to keep.
Tight lines everyone,
Rich
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08/09/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
8 Sep 2023 by Rich Ward
Yesterday’s team were treat to some cracking flat calm and (sunny at times) weather. The fishing on the other hand wasn’t so cracking!!
We played around on the rock top to start the day, looking for the Mackerel.
They were a little hard to come by, but after three or four drifts we had gathered enough for the day.
We dropped down to couple of the inshore marks which gave us some stunning fishing for four days on the last set of small tides. Nothing much at all, so down to the next mark we steamed.
A handful of small fish to chuck back that’s all and nothing on the Shads.
I figured that the “booling” Spring tides just gone had stirred the shallower waters so we moved out some wrecks in deeper water.
No great shakes on any of them with just a couple here and a couple there.
Thank goodness for the Mackerel bait as it was the only thing that caught for us!
Tally for the day, around 20 keepers, with the usual chuck backs.
Cheers for now,
Rich
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30/08/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
30 Aug 2023 by Rich Ward
Yesterday’s trip was our last day at sea before the big Spring tides start running.
We had just the 3 lads on with us today.
Regular angler Daryll, Jamie and Gary.
We started at the bouy and took around a dozen Mackerel in as many seconds!
Plenty enough for the three of them.
First stop after that was literally 5 minutes from the bouy and straight away the lads were into the fish.
Codling, Pollack and a few other bits and pieces to throw back.
At around 9.30am we ran another mile or so to a little area known as the “Funnel”
The three of them picked steadily until the tide was ripping through too strong giving a drift of nearly two knots.
At 2.0pm we all agreed that we had caught plenty enough and we returned for the 3.0.clock bridge opening.
Best fish going to Jamie, a lovely Cod of 9lbs.
Tally for the four of us, some 60+ fish.
Not bad for just a short trip!!
Cheers lads and hopefully we will see you a week on Thursday when the tides are running nice for us again at 4.6m.
Room for individuals that day if anyone is interested.
Let’s get back at em!!
Cheers
Rich
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29/08/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
29 Aug 2023 by Rich Ward
They say that lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place.
Well, it stuck for the third time in the same place for us yesterday. Unreal!
Saturday gone-Exceptional days fishing.
Sunday-Fantastic days fishing
Yesterday-Another fantastic days fishing.
In fact, the last couple of days were basically a carbon copy of each other.
The only thing that was different was the different faces aboard.
One of those faces being that of Holly Stewart, an old friend from West Yorkshire who now lives in NZ.
She was visiting her parents in Huddersfield for a month and came across for a days fishing.
She’s mad bonkers about angling and spends a lot of her time in NZ on the water.
A few tips from Fergus on how to catch our kinds of fish and she was off and running.
Holly catching on the shads and the baited rigs and ending up with a dozen or more fish for herself. Fabulous!!
The rest of the group which included Glenn and Nick who fished with us on Sunday too, fished their socks off as well.
Nick and Glenn gathering another full box of prime Codling again.
Mark Davenport and his dad Brian who were newbies to us also having a great day with a “slack box” of fish between them.
Paul from Brid who also fished with us over the Bank holiday weekend knocking 16 fish out for himself.
I managed a few drops myself and knocked out a quick dozen too.
Two of our Chinese customers, Henry and Simon also fishing well.
Henry won the July “fish of the month” prize of a free trip on the Shy-Torque III and used that on yesterday’s trip.
Henry landed a lovely Cod of 13lbs to win that.
Poor “decky” Fergus having no time for a go, with all the help needed getting the fish safely aboard!
All in all another fantastic day on the water with superb craic and banter!
Holly joining in with the great humour aboard too. A true sport!!
The majority of the catch today came at the end of the day when the tide eased back on the flood.
Tally for the day today nudging around the 90-100 mark.
Well done to all who fished with us.
A great day!!
Cheers
Rich.
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28/08/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
28 Aug 2023 by Rich Ward
Another belting day on the Cod today for our mixed team of lads yesterday.
A nice quick stop at the bouy for the Mackerel again and enough for the full team in 5 minutes. Some big Mackerel again too.
We marched back to a similar area we fished with yesterday’s team and things were a bit slow to start off, with just a few fish here and there.
Fortunately there are an abundance of ground marks where we have been working and the rest of the day saw us hopping from ledge to ledge, peak to peak, picking a few fish up everywhere we stopped.
As the tide eased back towards the end of the working day, we moved to another little spot to finish off and the fishing went mad!
More beautiful fresh run Codling/Cod for the lads with a couple of drifts giving them fish to 9lbs. A few doubles coming up too.
The Shads outfished the bait by a long way today but the baited rigs also taking some nice fish.
The quality of the fish over the last day or two has been great. Really healthy/fit fish giving the lads some fun moments.
Glenn Stocks and his son in law Nick took a good full box of fish between them as did father and son team Jeff and Jim McNeil.
Everyone taking plenty of lovely prime fish home for the table.
Tally for the day today, around 100 fish.
Excellent sport for the lads again and the banter was exceptional again too!
Cheers lads and we’ll see you all again soon.
Rich
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27/08/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
27 Aug 2023 by Rich Ward
Regular angler Darryl Machant and his five mates, Mick, Les, Eric, Che and old Stevie chartered the boat today.
Love it when a smaller group charter the boat for themselves.
The baited rigs have been out fishing the artificials of late for our lads so we gathered the Mackerel on the rock top before we headed out.
Whilst we were gathering the bait I noticed a load of birds feeding in a frenzy about a mile South of us, so we decided to give it a go on the inshore shallow marks to start the day. These marks are no deeper than 60ft and often even shallower!!
Straight into fish!
First fish on board taken by Darryl. A nice little Pollack.
Three or four short passes across the ridge giving the lads around 15 fish to keep.
A nice start to the day.
A short move further South next, to an area my crewman Fergus likes to work with his mate Ryan on his little boat in the Summertime.
Again, the lads were hitting the Cod on each drift. A lot of throwbacks, but a steady three or four to keep each pass for four or five drifts.
Then the black monsters arrived and spoilt the party like yesterday and the fishing went dead.
We steamed down a few miles further to a small piece of scrap to try escape the pesky seals.
None to be seen anywhere thank goodness!!
We stayed on this last mark for the rest of the day where the lads took over 70 fish from it!!
Best fish falling to Eric. A lovely Cod of 10lb 8oz. Well done to him! Excellent sport in shallow water!!
Best part about today was, apart from two “Bootlace” Ling and one Pollack, every fish taken was a Codling/Cod.
Without a doubt, the best day of the year so far with over 120 fish boated!
Oh, just to say that, because we had seasoned anglers on today, young Fergus and me also had chance to work the rods ourselves too, which is always a bonus.
I had 15 fish to keep myself, my best going around 8.5lbs.
Fergus however fished like a handcuffed crab today! Hope you’re reading this Paul Mawson!! ��
Excellent banter with these lads as always and an extremely pleasurable day with perfect conditions and brilliant sport.
Cheers lads and see you all soon.
Rich
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26/08/2023
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
26 Aug 2023 by Rich Ward
Yesterday’s crew consisted of mainly regular Shy-Torque anglers who always take advantage of the easier neap tides.
As always we started out on the hunt for the Mackerel which were in good supply at the bouy for the lads. One drift did the job.
I decided to try a few marks further out for a change as I reckoned on nobody being out there for some time. Also a nice change of scenery!!
We started on a small piece of scrap just over 8 miles from port and the lads picked around 20 fish from that. A nice start to the day.
Once the wreck dried up on us we dropped on to one of my favourite little marks. A small ledge rising just a couple of metres which runs West to East around 50 yards.
A great little mark as you can often pick away at it in different parts.
The lads were really on the cod, bringing some nice fish up, when 4 huge seals decided to gate crash and spoilt the party instantly!
Another move then.
We steamed a bit further out to try and escape from the seals and tried what is normally a good wreck to us but today it proved fruitless with just a handful of fish coming aboard.
We still had time to run to a couple more bits of ironwork so we ran back in towards a small wreck split into two pieces.
It fished okay where the lads took another couple of dozen fish from it.
Cod coming aboard to just a shade under 10lbs.
My old mate Paul from Bridlington, who normally beats everyone, fished like a handcuffed crab today and lost many more than he landed!!
Chris Siddle on the other hand had a lovely day with a dozen nice fish to take home.
Another great day with the lads with Fergus getting the usual ear bashing from them!!
At least he managed to get out of bed and made it on time!
Cheers for now,
Rich
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