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  • 14/01/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    14 Jan 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin III

    It’s been awesome to get the last three days out at sea, at what can be a “dodgy” time weather wise. With building tides of 5m plus, I was hopeful that after the last stir up, we’d have some decent results.

    On Saturday, we ran North to try and use the last of the Ebb Tide. Unfortunately the NNW wind didn’t let the boat settle properly so we swung around and caught very little for the first hour. Moving further North to catch the flood tide Simon England started to pick off a fish or two on Crab Cart, Squid, or Black Lug. He’s a vastly experienced angler and had plenty of good bait at his disposal, no surprise he was top rod for the day.

    Simon West is a good angler (who I watch to make my tactical decisions) but hadn’t had much success at all during the morning, but on the Flood tide his Black Lug which he pumps himself started to yield results along with Squid and Crab Cart. Overall, the fish didn’t feed well and from what I saw, it was the anglers with the best bait, changed regularly, fished properly, that came out on top.

    Sunday saw a similar day. It was hard going again, but Jason Shields still managed to find a few fish. Once again, he is experienced at Uptiding and brought plenty of good bait…..a pattern emerges!!

    Today I made sure to let everyone know that having a good quantity and quality of bait would help secure success. Everyone took it on board and we had a much better day. The Ebb wasn’t brilliant, but the boys still managed a few Codling to 4lb or so. The turn of tide brought more consistency and Ian Purdom and Joe Clough maximised it by taking fish regularly, ending with a dozen or so fish each; with a couple over 4lb, but nothing huge. Everyone has been fantastic company and it was good to see a few old friends I’ve cancelled countless times last year.

    The message is quite clear….bring plenty of bait (I’ll happily advise), changed it regularly and don’t defrost it in Harbour Water and wash out all the scent. The scent trail is critical to success when Uptiding.

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    Mon 01/12/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.90m Geoff Smith - x 5 Ian Purdom - x 1 Ben Mallock - x 1
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    Tue 02/12/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.18m Steve Whitaker - x 4
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    Mon 08/12/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.51m Joe Clough - x 3 Ian Scrivens - x 1 Dan Simes - x 1
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    Tue 09/12/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.27m Ian Purdom - x 6 Martin Novo - x 1
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    Thu 11/12/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.75m Peter Burton - x 1 Dave Whitehouse - x 3
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    8 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.72m Will sail with 4 anglers. Naveed Aqdas - x 1
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    Wed 17/12/2025
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.85m Will sail with 4 anglers. Greg Ince - x 1 Bod - x 1
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    7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.94m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1
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    Tue 23/12/2025
    7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.08m Will sail with 4 anglers. Bod - x 1
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