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  • 22/10/2024 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    22 Oct 2024 by Andy Savage

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    What a smashing day out at Whitby today. We had a beautiful clear day with plenty of sunshine for the most part.

    With huge 6m Spring tides over the weekend, I didn’t want to be out at sea. But today with the tides dropping down, all the lads were keen to get going this morning. I’d explained that it was going to be a 16oz lead day for drifting the rough ground as there was a fresh Westerly breeze blowing. As it turned out, it was perfectly manageable and we could keep in touch with the bottom and keep the fish coming.

    First stop was the five mile ground, but the first four drifts produced very little. I moved us to the other end of the ground and we started to find a few fish each drift. Squid was the bait of choice for most, as the Mackerel have drifted away again. Hokkai’s and Muppet traces (shock!) were the end gear just like usual. We had an hour on the five mile taking a mix of Codling, Ling and Haddock. Nothing massive, but a few in the boxes and a few returned.

    After a couple of quiet drifts I opted to push out a couple of miles, as we were losing the tide and there was a ledge I wanted to try with a slow drift. That worked ok and we kept ticking over until slack water, when it went very quiet. It wasn’t until the Ebb tide kicked in that we were back in business. The drift line wasn’t perfect with the offshore wind, but every drift we took fish from where I thought they’d be.

    For the last couple of hours we ran out to the nine mile ground. We had a good first drift with Dennis Emeny taking the biggest Codling of the day at 7lb 8oz and Nige Snowden taking an 8lb Ling. Matt Snowden took a surprise Octopus which was returned unharmed.

    After a duff start, we caught fairly consistently all day, with everyone keeping a few for the freezer and returning plenty as well. Thanks for a thoroughly enjoyable day lads. Good angling

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