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  • 30/09/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    30 Sep 2025 by Andy Savage

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    To be honest, I was in a bit of a quandary as to what to do yesterday ….After a great day on Monday I had two options in my mind; run off, North or run off South? Thankfully, after a chat with Kevin on Jean-K, he reported a good few fish from the North the previous day, so we ran that way ourselves to try a couple of wrecks that I knew had not been fished in a while.

    We had half an hour trying for a few Mackerel, but today it was futile, with only half a dozen joey’s caught. Everyone had plenty of squid so we cut our losses and ran North to try our luck. I set up the first drift over a wreck that has been kind to me before, but regularly gets plenty of attention. I only go there if I think it’s had a break, and today we had another decent start.

    As I always do, I watched the first drift on my plotter and when I came on deck, there were a few rods buckled over. Eight fish on the first run over was very encouraging, with some nice plump Ling.
    Everyone got stuck in and quite a few fish were landed during the initial drifts. The wind was forecast to stay very light at 5-6mph, but as it turned out, this wasn’t the case. A SSE breeze began to build against the flood tide and it had the unfortunate effect of squeezing us out to sea and across the tide.

    This made the lines stream a bit and also made it difficult to get the lines in the wreck. Consequently, the catch rate slowed a bit and after another hour, we pushed on to try another wreck. With the tide beginning to slow, we were now drifting straight across the tide, which I really don’t like as it delivers the bait unnaturally to the fish. That said, we had some really nice clean Codling from the second wreck and quite a few of them fell to the Shads. Rhubarb and Custard being most successful.

    Just before slack water, Stan Matthews hooked into a bit better fish and after a heavy lunging fight brought up a nice 14lb Ling which was the biggest of the day. Slack water was very quiet, with nothing much caught, but just before we set off for home the Ebb tide started to run and the fish came back on the feed.

    All in all it was another good day out with plenty of banter from the lads.

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