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19/05/2011
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
19 May 2011 by Pete Rose
£15000 Cash prizes for Summer Festival
May 19th, 2011 | Author: mick | Edit
£15,000 Worth Of Prizes For The Whitby Summer Angling Festival 2011
The Whitby Charter Skippers Association (WCSA) – www.wcsa.co.uk summer boat angling festival at Whitby starts on the 18th June 2011. Once again there are some magnificent prizes on offer including a staggering £5000 for the heaviest single fish over the whole festival. With an overall prize table in excess of £15000 (£12,000 cash and over £3,000 of tackle prizes), boat spaces are going fast.
The Lucky angler who lands the heaviest single fish over the whole event will receive £5,000 in cash. Other prizes are as follows : £2000 For the second heaviest fish, £1000 for the third heaviest fish, £500 for fourth heaviest fish and £500 for the heaviest single cod.
On a daily basis there will be £100 up for grabs with £50 for the heaviest fish, £30 for the second heaviest and £20 for the third heaviest fish.
Talking recently about the festival, WCSA spokesman Paul Kilpatrick said “This year’s summer event looks like being the biggest in the UK in terms of prizes and numbers of competitors. Also the fishing has been exceptional so far this year with good numbers of all fish species now showing. The cod fishing has been awesome and the anglers competing in this years festival should be looking forward to some of the best sea angling available anywhere in the UK”
Where Will The Event Take Place ? – The event will take place each day (weather permitting) from the harbour at Whitby with boats sailing from both east and west sides of the river, please see our website at www.wcsa.co.uk for boat details.
When Will The Event Take Place ? – The festival will run from 18th June 2011 to 10th July 2011 with daily sailing times from 7am (weather permitting). Anglers must fish from a WCSA registered boat and be back through the swing bridge by 5pm each day. The weighing of fish will take place in the Fleece car park on Church street from 4.30pm to 5.30pm -
06/05/2011
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
6 May 2011 by Pete Rose
James raised the bar yesterday in the sea urchin fish of the month comp (free and automatic entry to all sea urchin anglers) with a fantastic cod of 16lb2oz which was also a PB for James his previous weighed 12lb which he caught two years ago on one of my charters, the fishing was brilliant yesterday with fish coming aboard at every stop wrecks ground and all within 5mls of Whitby the algae is almost gone and most of the cod fell to shads although James 16lber fell to a full squid on the ground summer is just around the corner and all anglers gain free entry to my fish of the month even throughout the festivals
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27/03/2011
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
27 Mar 2011 by Pete Rose
Brian and his huge Pollacks
Had Brian Cope on and his partner Sunday along with 9 lads from sheffield the weather was perfect for a run off to the distant wrecks and the long journey proved worth while plenty of cod but the best sport was with the pollack which are showing more and more this time of the year here in Whitby Brian managed a cracking fish of just over 15lbs along with a few more well over 10lb the 15 lber is a new pollack record for sea urchin II over the last few years they seem to be getting bigger our previous best was 13lb last year lets hope this is the future because the sport they offer is absolutely fantastic -
27/03/2011
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
27 Mar 2011 by Pete Rose
After Saturdays poor inshore fishing possibly due to the murky sea and swell combined Sundays trip had to be another long off shore wrecking haul but boy was it worth it for Brian Cope who beat his personal best with a marvelous Pollock of just over 15lb also I might add a Sea Urchin best ever Pollock
the boat was mainly full of novice anglers who also caught plenty of cod on the bait but the pollock were the main sport I think Brian landed four all over 10lb and one around 13lb I managed to land one just over 8lb in between untangling and re rigging the novice boys from Sheffield but a great day and well worth the trip out the festival looks to me like a pollock winner allthough we did see a double figure ling as well on the boat Sunday but my money is on the pollock in this years spring festival lets just hope the weather stays fine -
25/02/2011
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
25 Feb 2011 by Pete Rose
The weather forecast has been irritating of late I cancelled today because of the strong wind forecast in place from a northerly direction and we could have got out after all drat,
However we did get out yesterday (Friday) again a strong wind was forecast but south westerly in direction and our only real option was up tiding not ideal as the tides were perfect for wrecking double drat.
Still the group I had on board had travelled all the way from Dagenham and the sea was flat under the cliffs so we had to give it a go
I called in at Whitby angling supplies to stock up on bait and we departed at 8am the only place to go whare there would be any tide and shelter was robin hoods bay north cheek and to be honest I did not expect much fish with recent poor reports from the long liners and netters angling was going to be hard.
And to be honest it was slow but fish did come aboard in dribs and drabs a good few fell to worm (wish I had bought more in the morning) and squid cocktails.
The best fish was around 8lb another six or so were around 6lb, another six around 5lb and the rest about ten coming in around 3lb in total around 25 fish in around 6 hours fishing.
not bad realy but would have preferred to get on the wrecks but at least we got out -
01/01/2011
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
1 Jan 2011 by Pete Rose
NEW FOR 2011
As an extra bit of fun this season every angler who fishes on the sea urchin II between the 1st April-31st December 2011 will automatically be entered into our
HEAVIEST FISH OF THE MONTH COMPETITION
to which each months winner will receive a free 10 hour boat trip worth £45 plus a Sea urchin fish of the month T shirt to commemorate there win, plus each months winner will have there name in lights on the front page of the sea urchin web site in a week of glory,
enter as many times as you want, each booking will give you another chance the more you fish the more chance you have, a leader board will be on view each and every day in the wheel house window so you can see the previous months winners and see the present months leader
Open throughout all the festivals
the rules are simple…..
All possible contenders will be weighed and photographed with there captors as soon as they come aboard whole and un-gutted, winners will be posted on the front page of the sea urchin web site
all and any species count,
anglers must reel the fish up themselves but may be assisted in netting or gaffing,
foul hookings will stand,
adults ladies and juniors all count as same,
In any disputes the skippers decision will count,
non transferable prize winners only,
so what are you waiting for check out the web calendar now and book yourself some dates fishing on the sea urchin II -
30/12/2010
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
30 Dec 2010 by Pete Rose
Here is a short report on our wrecking trip Wednesday and Thursday. As I said in my previous post the tides and weather were perfect for some winter wrecking.
As the water was reasonably clear around 5 miles into our journey I decided to try a few favorites 8 and 10 mile to the east of Whitby.
This tuned out to be a bad choice, the first wreck produced nothing and I should have changed my plan. Looking back now it's easy to say that.
Still I pressed on further east to another favorite which can often produce some good pollock after plenty of drifts and only one pollock (albeit a cracker) we had to admit defeat and made the long journey back north west to the 9 mile ground and this was absolute rubbish as well.
There are a couple of wrecks in that vicinity but my good Friend killer was sat on the best one most of the day and after a call on the radio I realised any fish that were in the area were probably on that one wreck.
I tried all the others with just the odd ling and the usual poutings we covered lots of miles that day for nothing and I really felt for the lads as the other two boats had done really well we discovered when we got back.
so I decided the next day I would push off to the distant wrecks around 20 miles from Whitby. With only two anglers showing interest both forum members (woody and Arkle) two did ring late on Wednesday but never showed what a mistake they made.
Woody invited his dad to join us so now there were four including me and as I don't often get a chance to fish I decided to take the chance and have a days sport myself.
We set off early to gain a bit of help from the tide and we made good time full of anticipation I headed to the first wreck and hoped we could re produce that marvelous day in the Autumn when we badged up on the first wreck.
Just before we arrived around a mile away I heard another boat behind us I knew this was Paul Eddon's boat (trot-on) as we spoke the night before and discussed our plans he got to the wreck first by one drift as I set the boat up he called me on the radio and said all the rods were in.
Brilliant stuff our first drift all four of us were into cod as well and this went on drift after drift we caught every time.
The only time we missed was the odd time we got stuck in the wreck most of the cod were caught on squid around 4lb to 6lb with a good sprinkling of 8lb to 10lbers. I think the best one went 12lb.
What a cracking day and by the time I decided to headed back I was totally knackered we hadn't stopped for three hours solid no time for tea or food when the fishing is that good!
I put the auto pilot on and just sat back for 15mins before contemplating all that filleting enough fish for the family now until spring -
12/12/2010
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
12 Dec 2010 by Pete Rose
Congratulations to Dan Green from Loftus nr Whitby who recently won the W.C.S.A. winter angling festival and John Dixon from Middlesbrough who took second place along with Garry Arkle from Newcastle -upon-tyne who took the heaviest other species prize ALL THREE fishing from Sea Urchin II and bagging a total of over £1000.00 between the three of them,
apart from third place anglers on Sea Urchin II would have swept the board in this years competition which proved very hard work to even find fish last week and the horrendous snow falls on land made it difficult for anglers to even reach Whitby but hardy anglers once again travelled from all across the north of England to enter what is now becoming a regular event in W.C.S.A. calendar sponsorship has already been pledged for next year lets hope the weather is kinder
here are the weeks results…………….
4th-12th December Boat name
Day 1 1st Dan Green Cod 5lb 11.5 oz Sea Urchin II
2nd John Dixon Cod 3lb.14 oz Sea Urchin II
3rd Adam Greaves Cod 3lb.1 oz Misstress
Day 2 Cancelled due to weather
Day 3 1st Taffy cod 2lb.10 oz sea otter 2
2nd Colin rutland cod 1lb.14 oz shy-torque
3rd Taffy cod 1lb.13 oz sea otter 2
Day 4 1st Taffy cod 3lb.5 oz sea otter 2
2nd Dave Crawford cod 2lb.3.5 oz Sea Urchin II
3rd woody cod 1lb.12 oz Sea Urchin II
Day 5 Cancelled due to weather
Day 6 Cancelled
Day 7 1st Garry Arkle cod 2lb 12 oz sea otter 2
2nd Garry Arkle cod 2lb 12 oz sea otter 2
3rd Garry Arkle cod 2lb 2 oz sea otter 2
Day 8 Cancelled
Day 9 Cancelled
FINAL RESULT 1st Dan Green Cod 5lb 11.5 oz Sea Urchin II
2nd John Dixon Cod 3lb.14 oz Sea Urchin II
3rd Taffy cod 3lb.5 oz sea otter 2
Heaviest other species…………
1st Garry Arkle Ling 13lb. 6.5 oz Sea Urchin II -
20/11/2010
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
20 Nov 2010 by Pete Rose
The whitbyseaanglers forum lads were gifted a £500 sponsorship in cash from our kind and regular sponsor Glenn Stocks the event was to be fished on Saturday the 20th November the rules were simple anchor fishing only and heaviest cod takes first prize with other prizes down to fourth and a prize for the angler with the largest bag on the day.
The weather was poor on the Saturday with a big swell rain wind you name it still with recent catch report the prospect of fish was high.
forum members fished off two association boats sea otter 2 and sea urchin II there were plenty of fish caught on the day.
here the top rods of the day.
first prize fell to Ben Laws with a cod of just over 7lb on sea otter
second Rich Deadman cod 6lb 13oz on sea otter
third Garry Arkle cod 6lb 7oz from sea urchin II
fourth Dan Green cod 6lb 2oz off sea otter 2
The heaviest total bag of over 50lb going to Garry Arkle fishing off sea urchin II
A big thankyou to all involved also I would like to thank our kind sponsor Glenn Stocks, as well as all who took part on the day who gave £5 each to the Whitby life boats thank you for your generosity.
Please remember the uptide festival starts on the 4th to 12th of December and runs for a week with£1000 in cash prizes book your places now Sunday the 5th is totally empty up to press. -
13/10/2010
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
13 Oct 2010 by Pete Rose
Had a fantastic day out on the distant wrecks yesterday with a group of regular lads from Manchester who wanted to target cod as apposed to ling which was forming forming the biggest part of the inshore fishing of late so I decided to steam off with the forecast half decent and a 2.5 hour journey either way this is always a gamble but the lads knew the pitfalls and were happy to sacrifice fishing time in the hope of a jackpot,
the anticipation was evident with all the lads having just traveled on a two hour trip from Manchester then another two hours plus on top I was really hoping there journey was going to be worth the wait, as the wrecks grew closer land was only just visible and the sea was threatening a change with fresh northerlies getting fresher this was either going to be sh*;;”t or bust,
as I run over the wreck I could see a huge feed mark which can be a good sign but alas not always the only way we would know if I had made the right choice was to get the lines down to the bottom first drift the lads were taken completely by surprise all the rods were in before they hit the bottom some had shads some were on the jigger some on hokias didn’t matter there were so many fish down there every hook was taken on every drop, after the first three drifts I asked the lads on the hokias to change on to a single hook it was taking an age to pull fish up with huge cod on every hook, they agreed and all switched to mainly shads of different colours drift after drift saw a fantastic stamp of cod mostly in the 8 to 10lb range with the best at 16lb with enough fish for the table we decided enough was enough and left what must have been hundreds of cod below us for another day and headed home on the long journey with a stiff northerly breeze behind us the trip was slightly faster by 10 minuets and we were back in town by 4pm,
a day to remember and all the lads agreed they had not witnessed cod fishing like that ever and a few p.b. were broken in the process
this proved to be a jackpot day which could just as easily been a disaster Whitby will continue to produce the goods for anglers prepared to try alternative trips in my opinion
the uptide season is just around the corner with heaps of juvenile cod showing this summer the prospects of a good season look promising
