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  • 19/05/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    19 May 2025 by Andy Savage

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    After a blustery weekend, it was looking touch and go for today. The winds were remaining in the North, but had reduced significantly and the residual swell was at around 4ft; but with a nice 4.7m tide I chose to bring the lads through and have a run out.

    Once again we had a mixed group of differing experience levels aboard, we headed out North just before 0700hrs with the Flood tide pushing through nicely. If we could get away with it, I planned to spend the day on the inshore wrecks. A couple of weeks ago we had a fairly decent day in this area, so I had a similar plan in my mind. First wreck of the day, the wind was very light and we got a nice drift, with five fish coming up. That cheered me right up, as I was concerned that the weekend winds might have stirred things up a bit, but that wasn’t the case.

    We fished away steadily for the next three quarters of an hour, taking mainly Codling each drift. Robert Blackburn took the biggest Codling at 6lb 8oz on a Rhubarb & Custard Shad baited with a bit of Squid. All the rest came to baited Hokkai’s or Muppets Traces. Once sport slowed down a bit, we pushed on to the next wreck and that was how the day panned out. Catch a few, sport slows up; move to the next wreck.

    The wind did lift a bit during the morning, making the lines stream a touch, which made it a bit more difficult for the less experienced lads. That said, they soon got to grips with it and we continued to pick off fish each drift.
    Slack water was fairly quiet today, the Pouting were feeding with a vengeance, but little else showed much interest. Martin Eccles hooked into something a little better when a 7lb Ling stuck its head out of the wreck to take his Squid. His Dad Keith followed it up with a similar size one a short while later.

    Once the Ebb tide came through, the drift line changed and we started heading back towards Whitby. With a different drift line we could fish wrecks which matched the boats drift that we hadn’t fished in the morning and managed to keep picking up fish.

    It wasn’t a Red Letter Day by any stretch, but everyone got a few and the sport was fairly consistent. Overall, the signs are positive. Good Angling lads

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    UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
    Fri 26/09/2025
    1 Space Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.31m David Craine - x 2 Jane - x 1 Tony King - x 5
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    Sun 02/11/2025
    7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.91m Will sail with 4 anglers. Eric Curtain - x 1
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    Tue 04/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Dave & Del - x 2 Ian Scrivens - x 1 Andy Lammas - x 1
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    Sun 09/11/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.60m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Jamie Ping - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1
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    Tue 11/11/2025
    7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.93m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1
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    Wed 12/11/2025
    7 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.66m Will sail with 4 anglers. Peter Burton - x 1 John Cross - x 1 Steve Mason - x 1
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    Thu 13/11/2025
    6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.54m Dave & Del - x 2 John Cross - x 1 John Weetman - x 1
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    Fri 14/11/2025
    8 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.58m Will sail with 4 anglers. John Cross - x 1 Steve Mason - x 1
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    Sat 15/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.82m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Sean Coupland - x 2 Tom Allen - x 1
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    Sun 16/11/2025
    5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.96m Will sail with 4 anglers. Arthur French - x 3
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