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  • 31/05/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    31 May 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    The last week aboard Sea Urchin has been primarily aimed at repainting the deck….

    The preparation took far longer than I estimated, with the surface needing taking back to the original fibreglass before applying the new Flow Coat.
    I got there in the end, but must say a big thanks to Dave Jenkins (Sea Spray Skipper), who gave me a lift with the sanding and my old mate Ian Kellock who measured out the Flow Coat mixes for me to paint. It really is appreciated lads.

    Today we got a break in the weather and managed to have a run out. It was a 5.2m Spring tide which would mean a day spent on both wrecks and rough ground. With a group of experienced anglers aboard we planned to start on a patch of rough ground three miles out and then drop onto a couple of wrecks as soon as the tide allowed.

    There appears to be a few more Mackerel kicking about now, as a couple of lads went in with feathers whilst most went with bait. After only a few minutes, strings of Mackerel started coming, so everyone had a go to gather a bit of fresh bait to compliment the Dirty Squid.With slack water being around 1030hrs we spent half an hour drifting some ridges and gullies, but the lines weren’t streaming away like I thought they might. That was good enough for me, so I moved to take us to a nearby wreck for a few drifts.

    Everyone went down with either baited Hokkai’s or Muppet traces and thankfully there were a few fish at home. We spent the next ninety minutes or so picking up a few fish each drift. Codling were the mainstay with most in the 2-3lb range; a few around 4lb and Jeff Turner took the biggest at a very honest 9lb 12oz along with his first Octopus.

    At slack water, a few strap Ling made an appearance along with the usual Pouting and once the Ebb tide got away we pushed out to the 5, 7 & 9 mile ground for the rest of the day. The rough ground didn’t fish anywhere as near as good as the two wrecks we tried. The five mile yielded mainly Haddock and Whiting with a couple of Codling, so we moved out to seven miles. We hit pockets of fish there and had a couple of occasions where five rods went in at once with nice sized Ling and Cod. I gambled with a move out to nine miles, which wasn’t good at all and sadly sport tailed off to end the day.

    The weather wasn't bad at all. The company was excellent as always and everyone got a few to take home.

    Thanks to everyone for coming along

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    UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
    Tue 15/07/2025
    Summer Festival 5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.45m Dave & Del - x 2 Brendan Swain - x 1 Steve Mason - x 1
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    Thu 17/07/2025
    Summer Festival 3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.31m Dave & Del - x 2 Brenden Swain - x 1 Alan - x 3 Paul Riley - x 1
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    Thu 24/07/2025
    5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.27m Jeff Turner - x 1 Charlie Hewitt - x 1 Dave Parkin - x 3
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    Thu 31/07/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.06m Ian Kellock - x 1 Peter Burton - x 2 Steve Colbourne - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Nick Gray - x 2
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    Fri 08/08/2025
    6 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.07m Jeff Turner - x 1 Ian Kellock - x 1 Nick Gray - x 2
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    Sat 09/08/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.31m Rob Urwin - x 2 Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Toby Plotzitzka - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Ian Smith - x 2
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    Tue 19/08/2025
    1 Space Available Wrecking Trip - 4.55m Ian Kellock x 1 Charlie Hewitt x 1 Dave & Del - x 2 Dave Sharp - x 1 Derek Coulson - x 3 Steve Milnes - x 1
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    Thu 21/08/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.04m Jeff Turner - x 1 Ian Kellock - x 1 Dave & Del - x 2 David Craine - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Dan Evans - x 2
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    Wed 03/09/2025
    Autumn Festival 3 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Jason Shields x 1 Ian Kellock x 1 Stan Matthews - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Sean Coupland - x 1 Dan Evans - x 2
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    Fri 05/09/2025
    Autumn Festival 1 Space Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.82m Jeff Turner - x 1 Juned Islam - x 3 Mark Gilbert - x 5
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