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  • 07/06/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    7 Jun 2025 by Andy Savage

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    Today was the first trip of the year for The Keel Inn fishing club from Barnsley. I always look forward to them, they’re a fantastic group of lads who have fished with me since I’ve had Sea Urchin.

    Still on the Neap Tides, we planned to get some fresh Mackerel and then try a few wrecks. I had a similar plan to the previous day in my mind…..stick with the wrecks through the Ebb Tide and then be prepared to move to rough ground when the Flood came through.

    We got the fresh Mackerel from the same three mile ground as yesterday; but with it being a Saturday, there were more boats knocking about and less choice of wrecks to go at. I opted to try one I hadn’t fished for a couple of weeks; (although I’m confident it has been fished by other anglers), which was a decent size and matched the drift line perfectly. The lads are all very adept wreck anglers, so it was no surprise that they got off to a good start. First drift saw four nice plump Codling come up to the mainly Mackerel baited muppet traces, which set the precedence for the next hour or so. We took a few fish each drift with a nice average size; most being 3-4lb and lovely clean fish.

    Once sport slowed, we moved on a couple of times during the rest of the Ebb to keep a fish or two coming up. Slack water wasn’t very good for us today, we caught very little at all and I hoped for better as the new Flood tide pushed through. We had an hour on the wrecks on the new tide, but it wasn’t productive at all. Once we got to drifting at nearly 1 Knot, I took us back to the rough ground that fished well yesterday. Over the next three drifts some small Codling and Ling came up which the lads chucked back.

    We had the last hour on a couple of wrecks which gave a few more quality Codling. We didn’t get anything huge today, the boat sweep was drawn with two 5lb 11oz Ling.

    That said, everyone got a few and the banter was relentless as always. Thanks lads, great to catch up again.

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