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  • 18/08/2025 Fishing Report by Rich Ward on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    18 Aug 2025 by Rich Ward

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    Since winning the Summer competition with Ivan Davy’s 23lb 6.5oz Cod we haven’t really had much to report to be honest.

    A lot of the trips we’ve had booked since then have been cancelled for windy conditions.

    On the trips we’ve have managed to squeeze in we have found a few fish here and there but no great shakes at all.
    One trip down to the “Snake Pit” did produce a half decent picking one day but no red letter day for sure.

    Yesterday’s trip however was a whole different kettle!!

    My old mate Paul from Brid had had the boat booked for a long trip (14hrs)
    since last year. Sadly he couldn’t make this one but the other guys were ok to join us on it.

    Perfect forecast and conditions welcoming us which is exactly what we needed for our distance trip.

    We sailed at 04.00hrs and steamed for two and a half hours to our first wreck, a smallish piece of scrap just short of 30 miles from shore. Nothing from it!
    Not a scale!! ��
    Young Fergus said he didn’t like the area we had chosen and that we should have gone the other direction!

    We moved East another few miles to a different sector and dropped on to a bigger wreck.
    All rods were straight in to fish from the off and morale was instantly lifted!
    Shut up Fergus!! ��

    It kept us going for about an hour and the lads had gathered a nice show of fish in their boxes.

    Wreck *3 didn’t produce much at all as I couldn’t find it!! A new one I hadn’t been to before and won’t be trying again!
    Our plotters and Ferg’s Navionics said it was there but wasn’t.

    Anyway, off we trotted again to our next mark.
    This wreck was absolutely littered with fish and we were over the moon with our efforts from it.

    In total the lads took a nice 100lb of Cod each for the day with a few Ling thrown in (not many thankfully)
    A few “treble hookers” brought up too on the multi hook baited rigs. The smaller throw back fish taking these.

    No big fish amongst the catch with Dave’s Ling being the heaviest at around 11lb and best Cod going to Alan at around 8lb.

    A cracking trip with the lads which I have to say is our best day of the year quantity wise.

    Cheers Simon & Bill, Chris, Dave, Oscar and Alan.
    It was a real pleasure.

    Rich
    07733 233352
    richardward384@yahoo.co.uk
    www.shytorqueseafishing.com

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