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  • 20/04/2025 Fishing Report by Rich Cope on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    20 Apr 2025 by Rich Cope

    Report on-board Mistress

    It was the last day of the festival yesterday, I had a plan.......

    It's been hard to nail down a settled spell with weather to run to a group of wrecks a little over 30 miles away, but we got it yesterday. I've not managed to get out that way since last September so expectations were running high!

    Did we catch fish? Oh yes we caught fish, some nice ones too! but not quite big enough to win the spring festival!
    We visited 4 wrecks 2 fished better than others, we manged every rod in on one drift some manged 2 drops that drift too.
    There didn't seem to be any favourite methods, shads and bait traces took equal amounts of fish.

    Everywhere we went we were just picking steady away 1-3 fish a drift, once the ebb came through the fishing unfortunately died on us. There were some spectacular marks on the sounder which always makes me question if there was enough tide or drift to get the fish really fired up. Our lines were perfectly vertical on both side of the boat all day.

    With a good run home required we set off back to whitby at 1420 and hit the pier ends at 1645.

    Thanks again to all the anglers taking part in the spring festival, thanks to all our sponsors, Simon Page at Billy Wilson, Jill Blackburn and sandy at the Middle Earth Tavern and also The station.
    Well done to Toby for catching winner with Andy on Sea Urchin.

    Our next big summer competition runs 28/6/25 - 20/7/25
    If you're interested in a trip with me please give me a call on 07977 436903, if you can't get hold of me please give me a text message or WhatsApp and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
    Tight lines - Rich

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    Sun 17/08/2025 3 Spaces 10 Hours £70.00pp
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