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  • 17/09/2024 Fishing Report by Rich Ward on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    17 Sep 2024 by Rich Ward

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    I thought I’d leave the reporting from the boat until the end of this year’s Late Summer Competition here at Whitby.
    This one should be called “The Ling Competition!!

    The competition came to its conclusion on Sunday and it was certainly one of mixed fortunes both fish wise and weather wise.

    There were only 7 days taken at sea with 9 days cancelled for bad weather (seems the days of endless weeks of settled weather are well and truly gone)

    In general the fishing was anything but easy with some days only producing into the teens of fish boated.

    The first week of the 2 week event saw the best weather and the second week (on the best tides) saw some very poor weather with many of the days cancelled. Luckily we managed to get the last 2 days on the last of the neap tides.

    No fish worthy of taking to the scales were caught on the Shy-Torque until Sunday’s last run out.

    We worked for the Mackerel first off to gather the bait, which were still plentiful.

    Once the lads had a few each we headed out to a couple of wrecks which after a slack week off for bad weather hadn’t been touched.

    The first wreck threw just 5 fish out. I’m sure there would have been more if it hadn’t been for a seal the size of a bull which joined us and scattered the fish!!

    A short move out to the next wreck paid dividends and the lads picked fish from it for a steady 3-4 hours. Some slightly better fish too for them, with a good number of them around the double digits, with the best one falling to David Shay from Doncaster, a fine fish just short of 17lbs.

    Paul Mawson from Brid did hook into something very big which was peeling his line off the reel but sadly the fish slipped his hook after he’d got it clear of the wreck and never showed any signs of feeding again. It will be there for next time!!
    Tally from that wreck was around 35 fish with the usual “chuck backs”

    After we landed back in Whitby David took his fish to be weighed and it registered 16lb 12oz on the association scales (just 2 ounces short of the second place fish) and took 3rd place overall in the competition. Well done to him.
    He wins the £50.00 daily prize plus a free stay at my lads pub, the Station Inn with a £50.00 drinks voucher included.

    Nice to see some better quality fish boated at the weekend with every fish bar one caught on the bait. One Codling was taken on the shad and it was foul hooked. .

    I’d like to thank all the lads who joined the boat again this year and look forward to seeing you in the future events if not sooner.

    Cheers
    Rich.

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