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  • 16/10/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    16 Oct 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin III

    Two day report aboard Sea Urchin…..

    The neap tides are back again which generally means the anglers book on to go out wreck fishing, so that’s what we’ve been up to. On Wednesday we had a funny forecast with lightish Northerly winds and a couple of feet of swell. It wasn’t going to be perfect conditions, so I gave the anglers the option of going or not. Six dropped out, but I still ran with seven anglers who were still keen to come and have a day out at sea.

    We managed to find a few Mackerel before running North on the Ebb tide. Arriving at the first wreck, the conditions were ok. The first three drifts saw ten fish come aboard. Best being an 8lb Ling for Ian Kellock and a 6lb 8oz Cod for John Weetman which reminded the biggest fish for the day. A weather front started to close in on us and the breeze lifted making it difficult to get the lines in the wreck as the drift speed increased.

    The lads persevered and we picked up fish here and there on mainly muppet traces with squid and mackerel, but it was hard work. We fished three wrecks for the day and whilst it wasn’t particularly productive on the fish front, the true anglers who came were brilliant fun and we had a great laugh.

    Today we had similar conditions (even though the forecast gave much lighter winds) for the group of five lads who had the boat booked; but after finding only four mackerel we ran south to a wreck I knew hadn’t been fished for a couple of weeks. I had the usual internal anxiety setting up the first drift, but thankfully there were a few fish at home. The lads got stuck straight in taking a mix of nice clean Codling and Ling for the last couple of hours of the Ebb Tide.

    Gary Grantham took the biggest Ling, just into double figures and we had plenty of Cod around the 3-4lb mark. Squid and muppet traces dominated today. Once the flood came through, the drift speed increased significantly and it spoiled the afternoon, with only a few fish taken in the last couple of hours. Still….it was nice to give Simon and his crew a good day out after cancelling their last three trips. Thanks to everyone for coming. It was brilliant to have you aboard.

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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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    Sun 23/11/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.11m Egidijus Jonytis - x 4 Bod - x 1 Peter Kisby- x 2
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    Thu 27/11/2025
    6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.56m Will sail with 4 anglers. Steve Mason - x 1 Dave Guest - x 2
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