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  • 17/01/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    17 Jan 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin III

    The run of settled weather continues unabated, so I’ve managed another couple of days out at sea.

    Thursday saw John Wilson and a group of mates book the boat for a day out. Being Uptiding virgins, we spent a a bit of time going through the rudimentary’s of feeling down the lead, baiting up the traces and paying off an arc of line. With everyone cast out it wasn’t long before the rods started twitching and most of the boys “popped their Uptiding cherries” with either a Haddock or Codling.

    We had a couple of moves during the morning to try and get some lee from the brisk offshore wind, then ran further north to meet the flood tide. As the day progressed it was noticeable how the boys improved. Baits looked tidier, casting wasn’t an issue; it was good to see.

    The day was as much about having a laugh as it was the fishing. Everyone was fantastic company and the highlight of the day was a new species boated aboard Sea Urchin when one of the boys brought up a Tadpole Fish! Thanks for a brilliant day lads.

    Today we had a Biggest Bag Competition, where every fish was measured and allocated points. Biggest points tally won the £100 prize and second got £50. We went south today and after a half hour run we dropped the anchor in a sheltered area. Straight from the off we picked up mainly Codling and the boys kept me busy with the net and measure. The sport wasn’t bad at all. Ian Kellock had a 57cm Codling which was the biggest of the day to get him going. Gordon Blyth got three nice 50cm plus fish and Ben Cope caught consistently gaining himself what turned out to be an unassailable lead.

    Just as things were looking good, the wind lifted and at times over the next two hours it was unfishable with well over 30mph blasts coming through. Sport dried up and it wasn’t until we ran back north to meet the flood tide that we caught a few more to finish.

    There were loads of laughs and lots of conversation, which made the day fly by. Ben Cope won the £100 and second place went once again to Gordon Blyth (4th time in a row!) Altogether we landed 52 Codling, 3 Pouting, 3 Dogfish and a lone Lobster.
    Thanks for an excellent day lads.

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    UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin III
    Mon 17/11/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.09m Arthur French - x 3 Sam Robinson - x 1 John Cross - x 1 Graham Christie - x 2
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    Tue 18/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.19m Arthur French - x 3 John Cross - x 1
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    Wed 19/11/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.26m Arthur French - x 3 Ray Malik - x 1 Bod - x 1 Tony Barrett - x 2
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    Thu 20/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.28m Jeff Turner - x 1 Arthur French - x 3 Ian Scrivens - x 1
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    Mon 01/12/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.90m Geoff Smith - x 3 Ian Purdom - x 1
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    Tue 02/12/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.18m Will sail with 4 anglers. Steve Whitaker - x 3
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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
    7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.75m Will sail with 4 anglers. Peter Burton - x 1
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    Fri 12/12/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.56m Steve Mason - x 1 Jeff Turner - x 1 Mick Spencer - x 2 Chris Sayer - x 2
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