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  • 04/09/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    4 Sep 2025 by Andy Savage

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    Today we had a group of three lads book the boat for the day. Dave Coote, his brother Pat and Dave’s son Martin. Dave asked me if I could provide them any entertainment, so I duly invited the court jester Ian Kellock along!! Only joking Ian ��

    With it still being neap tides (a 4.5m), we planned to spend the majority of the day on a few wrecks. We gathered up plenty of fresh Mackerel to accompany the squid; although the average size was much smaller today. The massive tonkers we were getting appear to have thinned out a bit.

    We had three hours of Ebb tide left and with South Westerly winds it wasn’t ideal. The first wreck we fished, Ian managed three Ling around 6lb on a Mackerel baited muppet trace. The other lads were struggling a bit as the drift was well over one knot. We tried another wreck, but just got hammered by Pouting or got stuck. I chose to drop tight inside and spend an hour on some rough ground until the tide eased a bit. Everyone swapped over to Hokkai’s or Shads and whilst the fish weren’t jumping aboard, we did find half a dozen Codling in amongst a tidal wave of Pouting.

    It wasn’t long before the wind dropped away a bit, so we headed back to the wrecks; where we spent the rest of the day. We fished another four wrecks for the day. The sport wasn’t amazing, but we picked up Ling on each wreck. Just after the Flood kicked in, Pat hooked into what looked like a decent fish, but then his line went fairly slack. He carried on winding and came back into contact. I should have sussed it, as the next thing we saw was a lovely Tope coming out of the gloom. We netted the fish, took a couple of pictures and sent her on her way. Weight wise it looked in 35-40lb bracket and a first Tope for Pat.

    Top rod of the day was Martin who caught fairly consistently throughout ending with a nice box of fish. Ian also helped himself to a good few and then very kindly filleted the catch in the rain on the run back home.
    All in all a thoroughly enjoyable day in great company. Thanks lads. Hopefully see you again soon.

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