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  • 11/07/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    11 Jul 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    We’ve had some fantastic weather at Whitby the last three days and have managed to get out to try and get a few.

    The tides have built a little each day from a 4.8m on Wednesday to a 5.2m today which has seen the boat drift a bit quicker each day as a consequence. The days have all followed a fairly similar pattern. First job was to try and collect a few fresh Mackerel for bait, which hasn’t been as easy as it was three weeks ago. Mainly getting 1’s & 2’s as opposed to full strings.

    On Wednesday (smallest tide) we ran south and managed the full day on the wrecks. We fished five wrecks for the day and picked up fish here and there; everyone got a few and some wrecks fished better than others. I had experienced anglers aboard and it helped me shape the day, as I knew they would be catching if the fish were feeding.

    On Thursday we ran south again and spent the morning on the wrecks. The drift was a little quicker, which made the fishing more challenging. That said, we still managed to catch a few. We found that it was better for me to start the drift on the wreck as most of the bites would come within a minute of getting to the bottom. The SE breeze lifted a little on the turn of tide, so we had the last hour of the day drifting rough ground for Codling, Ling and a few Mackerel for those who wanted them.

    Today we started off on the wrecks, then once the Ebb Tide was away, we had to move to rough ground as the drift speed was too quick. We fished both the 3 & 5 mile ground taking fish here and there. As the tide eased again, we dropped back onto a couple of wrecks to finish. Once again we got a few fish.

    Apologies for the boring report. We caught enough fish to make them ok days, but we didn’t catch anything massive and it wasn’t frantic sport.

    Biggest Cod was 8lb 1oz, caught by Henry Fong and biggest Ling was 9lb 4oz caught by Ian Kellock. Both of them won the £50 daily prize in the Summer Competition. Well done boys

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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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