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04/07/2025
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
4 Jul 2025 by Andy Savage
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We've managed to get out to sea for the last couple of days. The weather conditions have been very changeable and have given the anglers some challenging conditions to fish in. That said; they've fished well and caught some decent fish.
On Wednesday I had a mixed group of regulars aboard, most of them had fished together before, so there was a great atmosphere and loads of banter. I was hoping to run off to try a wreck to two in the 20 mile stream, but as soon as we cleared the pier ends I knew it just wasn't an option. The sea breeze and sea conditions were not good enough, so we went with Plan B......running North and trying a few inshore wrecks.
We the tide flooding, we just hopped between three wrecks for most of the morning. The fishing was steady with a couple of fish a drift, but at least there was life on the wrecks. Charlie Hewitt tried hard with the Shads, but they just didn't seem to be any interest. Muppet bait traces with Squid and/or fresh Mackerel did the business. The third wreck was quiet and it wasn't until we hooked a fish (which was bitten in half on the way up), that we realised there was a seal looking for its dinner.
With that in mind and the wind easing a bit, I opted to run out to a wreck in the nine mile stream, which as far as I knew had been left alone for a couple of weeks. We had an hour to go before slack water, so the tide was beginning to ease off. Pleasingly, there were quite a few fish at home and we had a good ninety minutes taking a nice stamp of 3-4lb Codling and a few Ling mixed in. Stan Matthews and Bod were the stars of the show, catching a box of fish apiece. I was really please for them, as I have had to cancel most of their trips this year for bad weather. Stan took the biggest fish of the day with a 10lb 5oz Ling, which also won him the daily prize in the WCSA Summer Festival.
Today I had the pleasure of Gordon Blyth and his mates aboard. We had a bit of a wobbly sea again this morning, but it was forecast to fall away by midday. We had a real struggle finding Mackerel and after an hour, we gave up with around 25 between everyone. With the forecast as it was, I opted to put Plan A from yesterday into action. We ran out to fish a wreck in the 20 mile stream. All the way out there I was hoping that the wind would drop away, as we had a bit of wind behind the Flood Tide. As I set up the first drift the Navigator would not drop below a drift speed of 1.5 knots, which is fairly rapid for trying the wrecks!
I'd briefed the lads and advised them to go in with a single muppet trace (to reduce drag) baited with the usual suspects of Squid and Mackerel and a 16oz lead. Once I'd worked out where we needed to set up the drift, surprisingly, we caught Codling every drift for the next couple of hours. They were a really nice stamp as well with almost all of them in the 4-5lb range.
Surprisingly, the quicker drift speed was more productive than slack water as it turned out. We never caught any Ling with the tide running, but once we got into slack, a couple of Ling did decide to feed, with Gary Grantham taking the biggest at 11lb 6oz. We also lost three really decent fish to the wreck throughout the day, but we will never know how big..... All I can say is that they certainly made a 30-50 Class rod buckle over!
It was a really enjoyable day in fantastic company. Thanks lads. See you again in a few weeks.
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