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  • 30/05/2025 Fishing Report by Barry Smith on Mary Ellen ll (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)

    30 May 2025 by Barry Smith

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    Went out today on a good sea trip out Scarborough, on the Mary Ellen II. Skipper Lee Smith.
    Hadn't been out on a charter for a couple of years, after being let down numerous times in the past, but I'm glad I took the bait on a post from Lee last week in a Facebook group

    I was alone, but we went out with 7 friendly faces, (6 men and 1 woman!)
    Despite a high tide of 5.7m this morning. We had a very succesfull day overall around the rough grounds near Filey.
    Biggest of the day was a cod, just over 6lb, which I believe was caught by the youtube famous , Karl (h**ps://m.youtube.com/@karlpage8113)

    For a spell. I was nicknamed the Wrasse man. After landing 3 in a row .

    Lee was a great help, always helping any snags and tangles and of course helping us to land the fish. The boatman also clearly knew his stuff because we had at least a fish on every drop. It was good to speak to a chap out who was out his first ever boat trip, and was great to see him catch a fantastic pollock, gutted I didn't actually get a pic of his , Karl might have some pics on his channel later.

    Despite having a good few different species caught, surprisingly no mackerel about yet , but we don't mind that when the cod, pollock and wrasse are happy to entertain.
    I returned a few small codlings, many wrasse and brought one decent wee codling home for the table .

    Really happy to get back out, will defo be back up at Scarborough for a days wrecking during the summer with Lee and Mary Ellen II, as I'm positive these guys will get me some more good days fishing .

    If anyone has ever wanted to get out and try some sea fishing, you defo won't go wrong with this charter. Give them a shout in Scarborough.

    Tight lines all, thanks Lee

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