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  • 10/08/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    10 Aug 2025 by Andy Savage

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    Today we had a great bunch aboard Sea Urchin, for a run out in some beautiful Summer sunshine……

    We had a building 5.5m Spring Tide to work with, which would mean that the boat would drift quickly when the tide was up to full strength, making the fishing a bit more challenging. That said; we still had two periods of slack water, which would allow us to try a few wrecks. We started off the day catching a few fresh Mackerel for bait, then with the tide almost being slack, tried a couple of inshore wrecks.

    The first one produced nothing in two drifts, so we moved on. It’s essential to maximise slack water on the big tides, as the tide turns so much quicker, giving less time to fish in prime conditions. We fared a bit better on the second wreck, taking 4 or 5 small Codling each drift. We didn’t get anything massive, but Martin Gadomski had a couple of better Codling with the biggest being 6lb.

    Once the tide was away we moved out fishing rough ground at 3, 5, 7 & 9 miles. Even though the lines weren’t streaming badly, the ground fishing was hard work today. We fished a mixture of Shads and bait. The shads worked better the further out we got, perhaps suggesting a clarity issue at the bottom. The nine mile ground was definitely the most productive giving a few Codling each drift. Once again Martin Gadomski found the biggest fish of the day with a 9lb Ling on a baited muppet trace.

    We planned to run back inshore for the second slack water to fish a couple more wrecks to end the day. Unfortunately it didn’t quite turn out that way as we experienced some engine trouble and had to nurse ourselves back in when (what looks like) the throttle cable snapped.

    Thanks to everyone for being so understanding and for being excellent company. Hopefully see you again soon.

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    Tue 04/11/2025
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Dave & Del - x 2 Ian Scrivens - x 1 Andy Lammas - x 1 Dave Fowls - x 1 Richard Gotts - 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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    Wed 12/11/2025
    1 Space Available Wrecking Trip - 4.66m Peter Burton - x 1 John Cross - x 1 Steve Mason - x 1 Annie - x 3 Craig Isbell - x 3
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    Thu 13/11/2025
    6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.54m John Cross - x 1 John Weetman - x 1 Fran Schaap - x 2
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    Fri 14/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.58m John Cross - x 1 Steve Mason - x 1 John Atkinson - x 2 Fran Schaap - x 2
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    Sun 16/11/2025
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.96m Arthur French - x 3 John Cross - x 1 Steve & Ryan - x 2
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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
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.26m Arthur French - x 3 Ray Malik - x 1
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