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02/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Feb 2012 by Rich Cope
*** Whitby Charter Skippers Association 2012 Competition Dates ***
These are massive events, with lots of big money prizes up for grabs, I still have plenty of available dates for these popular competitions, phone or drop me a line to get the best tides early while they're still available. All the best, Rich
Spring Competition - 14th to 28th April 2012
3 daily prizes totaling £100 every day, and an overall prize of £1000 for the heaviest fish weighed.
Summer Festival - 16th June to 8th July 2012
This huge event has 3 daily prizes totaling £100 every day. and an overall prize of £3000! for the heaviest fish weighed in. plus lots of other prizes available.
Late Summer Competition - 8th to 23rd September 2012
3 daily prizes totaling £100 every day, and an overall prize of £1000 for the heaviest fish weighed. -
29/01/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
29 Jan 2012 by Rich Cope
I only had 4 lads booked ontoday so it gave me a chance to wet a line for a change! we had a smaller tide today, but the sea was flat it was a lovely day to be at sea once the sun poked through the clouds. we started in the same spot we left the day before and were into codlings from the start, again it was slow, but i tried something a bit different today, i moved the boat everytime the bites dried up and as a result found the lads a few more fish and they seemed to be of much better stamp too, the best lad had half a dozen fish upto 7lb,
pictures youres truely with one around 5lb -
28/01/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
28 Jan 2012 by Rich Cope
The fishing party from west yorkshire police have been trying to get out uptiding for a few months now, and finally with a break in the weather we managed to get out, it was a bit bumpy to start with having wind over tide. It was hard work from the start with us catching a few whiting and pouting only on the flood tide, we had quite a efw missed bites too. Anyway as the ebb tide approached we moved and intatntly got into the codlings. It was a faily slow day with the cod going to around 4 1/2lb.
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12/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Dec 2011 by Rich Cope
Whitby Charter Skippers Association - Winter Uptide Festival Results
The conditions this year were less than ideal, with settled conditions and clear water. We managed most days at sea with some quality fish caught.
The Final results are as follows:
1st - John Dixon - Redcar - Cod - 7lb 3 oz - Mistress.
2nd - Alan Radcliff - York - Cod - 6lb 1oz - Sea-Otter 2
3rd - Andy Stonehouse - Redcar - Cod - 5lb 12 oz - Mistress
Any Other Species - Ali Hasanbasogly - Ling - 8lb 7oz - Sea-Otter 2
A massive well done to all participants, and organisiers.
Pictured Left to Right,
Paul Kilpatrick - WCSA chairman and skipper of Sea-Otter 2, Andy Stonehouse - receives £100 for 3rd place, John Dixon - receives £500 plus £50 for 1st place, plus daily winning prize, Rich Cope - Skipper of Mistress -
12/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Dec 2011 by Rich Cope
Whitby Charter Skippers Association - Winter Uptide Festival Results
The conditions this year were less than ideal, with settled conditions and clear water. We managed most days at sea with some quality fish caught.
The Final results are as follows:
1st - John Dixon - Redcar - Cod - 7lb 3 oz - Mistress.
2nd - Alan Radcliff - York - Cod - 6lb 1oz - Sea-Otter 2
3rd - Andy Stonehouse - Redcar - Cod - 5lb 12 oz - Mistress
Any Other Species - Ali Hasanbasogly - Ling - 8lb 7oz - Sea-Otter 2
A massive well done to all participants, and organisiers.
Pictured Left to Right,
Paul Kilpatrick - WCSA chairman and skipper of Sea-Otter 2, Andy Stonehouse - receives £100 for 3rd place, John Dixon - receives £500 plus £50 for 1st place, plus daily winning prize, Rich Cope - Skipper of Mistress -
21/11/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
21 Nov 2011 by Rich Cope
The winter uptide festival is underway and we managed a day at sea with a couple of regular lads who had been looking forward the day for months.
We got under the bridge at 8am and headed towards one of Whitby's popular uptiding marks just a couple of miles up the coast off sandsend.
The lads had bought a mate with them so we had three anglers fishing the competition with us today, they had some quality bait with them too, fresh lug, frozen black lug, mussel, squid, cart and a few peelers.
It paid off for the lads having all that good bait, within minutes af settling into anchor everyone was getting bites and few codlings starting coming over the gunnels.
About an hour in, one of the lads John said he'd hooked soemthing a bit better, and seeing as it was staying deep it looked a bit better stamp of fish, when we got it in the hook just slipped out its mouth, so lucky there! it took the scales round to about 7 1/2lb which is nice fish by any standards. The fishing continued to be quite good until the tide eased and the fish went right off the feed. We upped anchor and moved to another mark which we hoped might have a bit of tide running but it was quiet so we moved back to the other mark for the start of the tide, the fish seemed slow coming back on but they did, and one of the lads managed around another 6 fish before home time. Andy cod-catcher Stonehouse managed around a dozen fish for the day all between 2 and 5lb, the other lads managed around half a dozen fish each too upto 6lbas well as the 7lber.
Back at the weigh-in we were delighted to learn that John had the heaviest cod of the day making him £50 for his efforts, also being a new uptide PB for him.
Pictured is John with his daily winning fish. -
19/11/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
19 Nov 2011 by Rich Cope
With a settled spell recently and the water clarity good, the lads wanted to have a crack at the wreck and ground fishing today. The tide was fairly small so was perfect, the only thing against us would be the southerly wind which threatened to push us along a bit too fast on the ebb tide in the afternoon.
Well, 1st stop was a wreck at only 3 miles, we hit a ball of fish taking a few off it and losing a few, all nice conditioned cod, all around the 5lb mark.
the mark slowed off so we moved around taking the odd fish until we arrived on the 8 mile ground. Moving between marks we passsed over a huge feed mark, I went around it & set up the drift for the lads - Bingo! all rods straight into fish! some of the lads pulling in 2 or 3 fish on the same rig, we continued to fish this mark until the tide eased off and it went off the feed. we moved around trying a few more marks but the fish were a bit ellusive. As the ebb got away the drift increased even though we tried more marks it was proving hard to nail a few fish. Finally it was home time, and the lads had had a good day considering the time of year and conditions, between the five of them they managed 4 boxes of quality fish, Cod to 8lb, Ling to 14lb, with another slightly lighter ling of 11lb but still in double figures.
Pictured are the lads with some of their catch -
10/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Oct 2011 by Rich Cope
October
This month has seen the beginning of the Uptide season. Unfortunately the weather hasnt been kind to us and the only option of getting to sea has been uptiding. The fish we have seen have been fresh run and in great condition with an average size of around 5lb. Sport has been a little slow to start but the signs are there for a great winter season, on the average to larger tides.
We managed to get offshore wrecking a few times and we were still getting fish to double figures for the lads.
Weather permitting we will still be running rough ground and wrecking trips throughout the winter period.
Pictured is Tony with a nice cod of around 6lb, caught uptiding. -
09/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
Sep 2011 by Rich Cope
September
What a month of fishing we have had. The late summer festival taking place this month
saw all the Whitby fleet trying hard for the biggun!
Athough we never won the competition we got our name up on the daily board on a number of occations again, getting the anglers daily prizes.
This month the fishing has been fantastic seeing many double figure fish aboard the Mistress.
We have have seen many double figure Ling upto 17 lb 8 oz, Cod upto 12 lb, and a new Mistress best Pollack of 15 lb, which is a great fish for this coast.
A massive well done to all the anglers taking part in the festival this month.
Pictured is Lee Harris with the 15 lb Pollack -
25/08/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
25 Aug 2011 by Rich Cope
The weather this morning was absolutely attrocious, we all got a proper dowsing with the rain. its didnt dampen the lads spirits though, they fished steadily getting a mixture of cod, pollock, ling, mackerel, pouting, whiting and coaly. Pictured is Shaun from Notts with a 15lb Ling - the best of the day.
