Latest Fishing Reports: Mistress
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08/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Aug 2013 by Rich Cope
This past week has been a productive one here at Whitby. We have seen good catches most days we put to sea when the conditions are suitable for us.
One of the better days last week saw a good number of double figure fish coming over the gunnels.
we took Cod of 12lb 8oz, 14lb 8oz and 18lb, plus a couple of 6lbers all in one drift! it was like stepping back 10 years!
With it being a small tide the slack water period was a little longer than normal so we took the opportunity to get some big baits into the wrecks too taking a good number of Ling into double figures too.
We had our second sharking trip too, we got a tentative bite halfway through the day which we waited for to develop, but never did, we wound in an empty hook! Then 20 mins toward the end of the session we got a positive run, the ratchet on the reel screaming off - it is exciting stuff when that happens! unfortunately we never hooked up, but we will be returning the sharking grounds on the next set of appropriate tides to try and get one on board for a cuddle!
All in all its been a good week.
Tight lines
Rich
Pictured is John with his 18lb Cod, -
24/07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
24 Jul 2013 by Rich Cope
I wasnt over optimistic with it being a 6m tide today.
we managed a few fish yesterday from a bit of ground inshore whilst the tide wasnt flowing full bore so was eager to get back to it this morning.
we got there just as the tide was easing and managed a few codlings before slack water on shads. over slack we popped some baits down and a manged a few ling into low double figures,
as the tide got away we took a slow picking of fish getting 1 or 2 a drift until we started getting blank drifts.
by this point the the lads had taken a steady picking and boated around 25 cod and ling.
I used the tide for a move, and found a another piece of ground that was producing, and by the end of the day we had amassed 56 fish, approx, half a dozen ling the rest cod, there were the usual whitings, poutings, and mackerel on top of that too. the best ling went 11lb and cod just short of 7lb.
the lads finished the day very pleased with their catch. it was a very unexpected result given the huge tide today, and with us drifting at well over 2 1/2 knots, well done fellas, you fished well.
Pictured are the lads today with some of their fish -
21/07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
21 Jul 2013 by Rich Cope
The algae has finally cleared here at whitby, only about 5 weeks later than normal! along with it some better fishing.
The last three days have produced some much better fishing for us on Mistress. Friday and today saw us boating just over 40 cod, ling and pollock each day, Saturday saw the best day of the year for us with us taking just over 70.
here are a couple of links to full reports
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31261.0
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31273.0
we have had cod and ling well into double figures each day the best falling to Gerry from east riding
taking the scales to 14lb, well done mate.
Pictured is gerry with his cod. -
07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Jul 2013 by Rich Cope
The grand summer festival has just finished for another year, onboard Mistress we had quite a successful event.
On the leader board at the end of the festival we finished up with 2nd place in the Ladies section and 3rd place in the Haddock section.
But overall, Mistress had more daily wins and more daily prize winners than any other boat in the competition.
We have an autumn competition coming up from the 14th to the 29th September
We still have a few dates available on some of the better tides, please get in touch if you're interested
at seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk or call on 07977 436 903
cheers Rich
Pictured is Liam one of our daily winners -
07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Jul 2013 by Rich Cope
We recently held a parent and child evening for one of my regular anglers, Mark, who has been asking to do one for a while to get his kids interested in fishing.
He bought along a couple of the regular lads too with their kids. luckily as it turned out it was a lovely summer night.
We picked them up after the festival weigh in and set off to the rock top, the kids were all absolutely buzzing, there was bucket loads of excitement, enthusiasm and energy!
We arrived, the rods had been tackled up, so as we arrived I went round making sure everyone knew how to handle the rods and reels, and within seconds there were mackerel being swung in left right and centre! along with screams of that 5 now, thats 7 now, ive got three now and oh no that one dropped off !
well after three drifts we had filled the boxes suffiently with mackerel, and were now catching and releasing! this was accompnied by sceams of thats 72 now, thats 65 now and oh no thats ones just dropped off!
By 7pm i was feeling a bit run off my feet after being up since 5am, but a couple if the adults and older kids set up a chain gang gutting and washing the mackerel.
by the time we had finished gutting and washing there were only about 3 die hard kids still fishing and we called it a night arriving back for around 745pm
A happy bunch at the end of the trip -
16/06/2013
Fishing Report by andrew stonehouse
16 Jun 2013 by andrew stonehouse
Had the pleasure of fishing again with Rich Cope skipper of Mistress out of Whitby.
A short evening competition where the local Charter Skippers Association give there boats for free to raise money for the RNLI resulted in quite a few fish and a a couple of section winners aboard .
Junior and Ladies and if I had bothered to weigh mine possibly a 2nd in the Seniors.
Great night had by all and well done Rich on finding some nice fish.
Following day was the local Forum match and again Rich put us over some decent fish in what had been fairly testing times prior to the 2 events.
Young Jack from Leicester showed the way taking some nice codling and ling and I managed 2nd with a ling just under 9lb.
Rich worked his socks off looking for the fish and making sure every angler spent as much time as possible in the water by helping with sorting the tangles and unhooking fish.
Infectious Skipper who's enthusiasm is 2nd to none . -
06/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Jun 2013 by Rich Cope
We have been seeing some nice fish again here at Whitby during the last month.
We also had our 1st EVER sharking trip after seeing a rather large Porgie swimming by the boat a few weeks back. Although we never landed the shark we hooked up to, we had a good look at it as it rolled on the surface near the boat then stripped some 250 yards of line before parting company with us! it looked to be well over 6ft long! We than had a further 2 runs before setting off for home. The fella who booked is a regular angler with me and has rebooked and is very eager for another go at them next month - watch this space!
The wrecking is throwing out a few better fish and we have seen a few into double figure this month, I think our best fish though is a cracking 8lb cat caught on the 21st of this month. It was the 2nd one caught by us this week. The 8lber is a new Mistress best, Phil the captor wasnt keen to take it home so I Kindly offered to take it!
Phil with His Cat! -
16/06/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
16 Jun 2013 by Rich Cope
Whitby RNLI Charity Event
We had a very successful fundraising event again on sunday evening.
A total of £720 raised for a very worthy cause with a combination of competition entry fees and raffle.
On Mistress we managed to get the Top Ladies prize and top Junior prize, missing the overall top place by only a few ounces
full write up and photos and the following link
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=30890.0
Pictured is one of our Lady anglers Amanda with fine cod caught on squid -
05/06/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
5 Jun 2013 by Rich Cope
Wednesday 5th June
Fishing has started picking up inshore now, we had a novice party take the boat today it fished well for the lads really with us taking fish on shads and bait, we took cod and ling into double figures.
we took around 50 fish for the day for lads
Full report
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=30751.0
Pictured is Norman with his best cod of the day, honestly, its not sucking the fellas face off behind!! -
02/06/2013
Fishing Report by Graham Lund
2 Jun 2013 by Graham Lund
First of our 3 trips with Richard this year. Weather settled although not as settled as I first thought when we set, and this determined where we should fish. Our party consisted af 6 anglers on their first ever sea angling trip, along with 5 more experienced guys. Novice anglers supplied with top notch rods and reels by Richard. I know the fishing has been hard in the past few weeks, but as usual Richard tried a number of spots and although no great quantities codling were coming up to both sidewinders and baited rigs. A couple of small ling, a number of whiting. pouting and a scorpion fish. Sea flattened off as the day weny on and the sun shone, what more do you want if the fishing is tough. As usual Richard was a good laugh and helped our new anglers with good adice and some even managed to catch a cod or two. Looking foward to our trip during the summer festival.
