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

    11 Jul 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin III

    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 III
    Sun 26/10/2025
    2 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.01m Jason Shields - x 1 Matt Dowsett - x 1 Matt Gray - x 3 Mike Lee - x 1 Andy Townend - x 2
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    Sun 02/11/2025
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.91m Will sail with 4 anglers Eric Curtain - x 1 Keith Pickering - x 1
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    Sun 09/11/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.60m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Jamie Ping - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1 Liam Dawson - x 4
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    Tue 11/11/2025
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.93m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1 John Cross - x 1
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    Mon 17/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.09m Arthur French - x 3 Sam Robinson - x 1 John Cross - x 1
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    Tue 18/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.19m Arthur French - x 3 John Cross - x 1
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    Wed 19/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.26m Arthur French - x 3 Ray Malik - x 1 Bod - x 1
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    Thu 20/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.28m Jeff Turner - x 1 Arthur French - x 3 Ian Scrivens - x 1
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    Fri 21/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.26m Arthur French - x 3 Stan Matthews - x 1 Joe Clough - x 1
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    Sat 22/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dmitrijs Lobanovs - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Tom Allen - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1
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