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18/07/2025
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
18 Jul 2025 by Andy Savage
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It’s been great to have the last couple of days at sea.
Quite a lot of regulars aboard, which is always excellent fun and a few new customers. Both days have followed a fairly similar pattern. The tides are now falling away, but at 5m are still too big to spend the whole day on the wrecks. To be honest, I prefer a mixed days fishing anyway and find them more enjoyable. Wrecking all day can be harsh; especially if you’re having a bad day!
We collected enough fresh Mackerel for the day from just outside the pier ends, then fished either ground or a wreck, depending on the state of tide and drift speed. On Thursday we spent the majority of the day on rough ground as the SE winds were fresher than anticipated. Starting off on the three mile ground we worked our way out to nine miles during the course of the day.
Most of the lads fished with Hokkai’s baited with Squid or Mackerel and a 16oz lead to give better tackle control. Some areas fished better than others, but there were a few fish here and there. Del Moran took the biggest fish of the day with a nice Ling of 12lb 2oz which also won him £50 in the Summer Competition.
Today we had much better weather, so I was optimistic of finding a few more fish, as the fishing conditions were much easier. With the Flood Tide still getting away after the Mackerel Bash, I dropped us onto a wreck just a couple of miles out to test the water. With a 0.6 knot drift speed, we got stuck into a few Ling each pass over.
Unfortunately we got a few tangles as well, and whilst I was sorting one of them out Dave Sharp casually asked for the net as he had a nice Ling. At 13lb 3oz it was the biggest of the day and also won him £50 in the Summer Competition.
The rest of the day wasn’t as productive unfortunately. There was little interest in the Shads and we just picked up odd fish here and there all day. The company has been fantastic, so a massive thanks from me boys, great having you aboard.
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 25/10/2025 3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.21m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dave Pickup - x 3 Calvin Dipper - x 3View details Sun 26/10/2025 5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.01m Derek Hopkinson - x 4 Jason Shields - x 1View details Fri 31/10/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.40m Iga Krawczenko - x 3 Sam Robinson - x 1View details Sat 01/11/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.68m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dmitrijs Lobanovs - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Paweł Rojek - x 3 Tom Allen - x 1View details Tue 04/11/2025 6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2View details Sun 09/11/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.60m Will sail with 4 anglers. Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Jamie Ping - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1View details Thu 13/11/2025 8 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.54m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2View details Sat 15/11/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.82m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Sean Coupland - x 2 Tom Allen - x 1View details Thu 20/11/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.28m Will sail with 4 anglers. Jeff Turner - x 1View details Sat 22/11/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dmitrijs Lobanovs - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Tom Allen - x 1View details -
18/07/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
18 Jul 2025 by Scott Belbin
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We had a lovely 4 hour trip when Liam and his family and friends joined us the other day. We had some cracking hounds, nice bass and even some baby tope. It's always great to see the the kids getting stuck in. I love seeing everyone enjoyed the experience regardless of age or gender. The weather was spot on too so who could ask for more.
We have spaces for short trips, general trips, offshore trips and even tuna trips for groups and individuals over the coming months so please get in touch.
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21/07- 2 spaces @ £60pp
24/07- 7 spaces @ £60pp
01/07- offshore bass fishing 1 space @ £115
06/08- 8 spaces @ £60pp
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View Full Charter AvailabilityMon 21/07/2025 5 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Thu 24/07/2025 7 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Thu 31/07/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Bass.View details Sun 03/08/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore tripView details Wed 06/08/2025 8 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 17/08/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Bass / Brill / Greater Weever / Grey Gurnard / Lesser Spotted Dogfish.View details Mon 18/08/2025 2 Spaces 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass trip Bass.View details Thu 21/08/2025 10 Spaces £60.00pp Clacton air showView details Sat 23/08/2025 9 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sat 11/10/2025 3 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details -
17/07/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
17 Jul 2025 by Nick Gough
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Some of the fish caught on today's 8hr trip
Unfortunately we've been tied up most of this week plagued with strong winds and lumpy sea.
Today wasn't perfect with thick fog this morning which cleared then ran in from south for an hour then went. We also had quite a bit of swell still running.
This wasn't a deterrent for today's anglers who still found loads of plump mackerel, some good size pollock and cod.
Also caught was ballen wrasse, coalfish, whiting, pouting and a weaver. Totaling 9 different species for the day.
As well as the fishing we had loads of wildlife throughout the day with bottle nose dolphins passing by for the majority of the morning, loads of playful seals.
Throughout the trip we also had many species of sea birds buzzing about. View Boats Page
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3hr.View details Sun 27/07/2025 2 Spaces 16:00-19:00
3hr. Cod.View details Mon 28/07/2025 2 Spaces 8 Hours 8 till 4.View details Tue 29/07/2025 1 Space 16:00-19:00
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17/07/2025
Fishing Report by Steve Green
on Brigand (Brighton, East Sussex)
17 Jul 2025 by Steve Green
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Very foggy out there today so radar nav for the majority of the day..... which was fine.
An absolute abundance of jumbo size mackerel around Offhsore, the Turbot were there but not in the numbers experienced on our last trip and the sizes were generally very small - 13 Turbot, a solitary Brill with only a couple really worth keeping. Andy Austin had the best of the day at around 4lb.
Simon Clark got smashed up by a very big fish (almost certainly a Bass) when we stopped for a couple of drifts on the way back in - no trip complete without a "one that got away" tale!
Fantatsic crew to share the day with, thank you all ��
Best wishes
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View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 25/07/2025 8 Spaces 8 SPACES - OFFSHORE BANKS TURBOT & BRILLView details Sun 27/07/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours 8 SPACES OFFSHORE TURBOT & BRILLView details Wed 06/08/2025 4 Spaces 4 SPACES CONGER FISHINGView details Thu 14/08/2025 5 Spaces 6 Hours 5 SPACES OFFSHORE BASS FISHING 6 hr TRIP £70ppView details Wed 10/09/2025 4 Hours INSHORE BASS FISHING EXPERIENCED ANGLERS ONLY MAX 6 ANGLERS 4hrs £40 PER PERSON 0700 - 1100 - 4 SPACES 1100 - 1500 1500 - 1900View details Thu 18/09/2025 2 Spaces 8 Hours 2 SPACES OFFSHORE BIG BREAMView details Sat 20/09/2025 8 Spaces 8 SPACES OFFSHORE TURBOT & BRILLView details Tue 23/09/2025 1 Space 1 SPACE OFFSHORE BIG BASSView details Fri 03/10/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours 4 SPACES OFFSHORE BIG BREAMView details Sun 12/10/2025 8 Spaces 8 SPACES OFFSHORE TURBOT & BRILLView details -
05/07/2025
Fishing Report by Matt Rowe
on Piscary (Poole, Dorset)
5 Jul 2025 by Matt Rowe
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For the most part the fishing has been exceptional.Had 4 matches so far this week.First it was the Thursday round of the Piscary Super league, a real red letter day as the sea was like a sheet of glass all day with sightings of Sunfish seals and sharks on the way out. Knew it would be an easy day the decision to go straight out offshore was almost unanimous, only 14 species on the boat but 52 very big Tope in the first 2hrs ,plus Bullhuss, Cuckoo Wrasse Congers and Big Bream made for a great morning.In the afternoon session inshore had some lovely Smoothounds,Bass and a bonus Turbot.Top 3 on the day
1st Steve Harder 278
2nd Ray Barron 220
3rd Rod Giles 208
On the Friday a total different day, strong easterly restricted us to very close inshore which was a bit disappointing after Thursday, however the fishing was very good much better than you would expect in those conditions.
20 species on the boat with more Rays than usual. Top 3 on the day
1st Gary Young 304
2nd Richard Dicky Day 240
3rd Mike Fox 223.
Next it was the Piscary evening league.I made the decision to stay in the harbour due to the continuing easterly winds, this was a big mistake although the fishing was slow we did manage 9 species in the end,a few nice Plaice and big Gilthead Bream. Top 3 on the night
1st Andy Peadon 100
2nd Gary Rook 87
3rd Darren Phillips 80
Today it was the Swan Kingsclere, unfortunately again the forecast was totally wrong really strong easterly wind made the fishing very difficult .10 species on the boat plenty of Mackerel which makes a nice change and is a good sign and Bass to 6lb top, 3 on the day
1st Billy Verney 151
2nd Gillan Thomson 145
3rd Alistair McLaren 117 . View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilityTue 22/07/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Spaces on an individuals tripView details Fri 25/07/2025 3 Spaces 5 Hours Spaces for individuals to make up the numbers for the evening leagueView details Fri 01/08/2025 4 Spaces 9 Hours Spaces on an individuals trip offshore anchoringView details Tue 05/08/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours Spaces on an individuals tripView details Fri 08/08/2025 4 Spaces 5 Hours Spaces for individuals to make up the numbers for the evening leagueView details Sat 09/08/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Spaces on an individuals tripView details Tue 12/08/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours Spaces on an individuals tripView details Sun 17/08/2025 4 Spaces 9 Hours Spaces for individuals possibly offshore anchoring tripView details Tue 19/08/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours Spaces on an individuals tripView details Fri 22/08/2025 3 Spaces 5 Hours Spaces for individuals to make up the numbers for the evening leagueView details -
14/07/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
14 Jul 2025 by Scott Belbin
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With calm seas, roasting hot weather and some cracking bass fishing could we want for anything else? Well perhaps some of the lads could have used some more clothes by the looks of it but other than that we had another great day aboard Galloper. Richards group haven't always been blessed with good weather on their annual trip so who can blame them for making the most of it.
As well as the bass we had several hounds and even some thornback rays.
Fingers crossed there's plenty more where they came from over the coming weeks.
We have spaces for groups and individuals for offshore trips, general trips and shorts trips.
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21/07- 5 spaces @ £60pp
24/07- 8 spaces @ £60pp
03/08- offshore bass fishing 4 spaces @ £115pp
06/08- 8 spaces @ £60pp
18/08- offshore bass 2 spaces @ £115pp
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View Full Charter AvailabilityMon 21/07/2025 5 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Thu 24/07/2025 7 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Thu 31/07/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Bass.View details Sun 03/08/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore tripView details Wed 06/08/2025 8 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 17/08/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Bass / Brill / Greater Weever / Grey Gurnard / Lesser Spotted Dogfish.View details Mon 18/08/2025 2 Spaces 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass trip Bass.View details Thu 21/08/2025 10 Spaces £60.00pp Clacton air showView details Sat 23/08/2025 9 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sat 11/10/2025 3 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details -
07/2025
Fishing Report by phillip browning
on Braveheart II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Jul 2025 by phillip browning
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The weather this last few weeks has been awesome, settled and good fishing, we've caught smoothound, bass, thornback ray, tope, eel's, lsd's, mackerel, Scad, and even our 1st conger eel which norw seems to be appearing more frequently around the essex and north Essex coast, and recently we added yer another species aboard BRAVEHEARTII.... the Bluetooth Rockfish! A beautiful little brightly coloured fish that wouldn't look out of place in the red sea or Caribbean!
We had no less than 5 that morning and I was more excited about them than the nice tope i caught on the 1st cast in the morning.
That's the beauty of sea fishing, as you never know what the next trip will produce.
Many thanks And tight lines
Phil browning 07970 728707 View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilityMon 01/09/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Fishing the sandbanks. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Mackerel / Smooth-hound / Tope.View details Tue 02/09/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Fishing the sandbanks. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Mackerel / Smooth-hound / Tope.View details Wed 03/09/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Fishing the sandbanks. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Mackerel / Smooth-hound / Tope.View details Thu 04/09/2025 4 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Fishing the sandbanks. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Mackerel / Smooth-hound / Tope.View details Mon 08/09/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Bass, hounds, stingray. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Dover Sole / Mackerel / Smooth-hound.View details Fri 26/09/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Bass / Mackerel / Smooth-hound / Thornback Ray / Tope.View details Mon 29/09/2025 4 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Bass / Dover Sole / Mackerel / Smooth-hound / Thornback Ray.View details -
05/2025
Fishing Report by Kevin Lavis
on Crusader Charters LTD (Plymouth, Devon)
May 2025 by Kevin Lavis
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May
A very busy month with lots of activity over the offshore wrecks!
Plenty of Pollack to mid doubles coming up each trip, nice to see some good sized coalfish coming up with them. The Seaquiliser tool is working overtime with anglers choosing to return a big chunk of their catch.
We also hold our favourite competition of the year this month - Best of Three Species £1000 cash competition. This year we were restricted to inshore grounds but still managed to find a decent range of species and some nice specimens too. Nobby added yet another win to his belt and walked off the boat with a fist full of cash!
Training sessions for the tuna fishery are in full swing, our count for vessels trained now is building by the week!
Tight lines all �� View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 14/08/2025 7 Spaces 10 Hours £90.00pp Wreck / Reef drift trip. Lures and baits. £90pp Bass / Black Sea Bream / Ling / Couch's Sea Bream / Pollock.View details Thu 11/09/2025 1 Space 10 Hours £250.00pp 1 space big game tuna fishing. Bars, baits, poppers Bluefin Tuna.View details Fri 12/09/2025 1 Space 10 Hours £250.00pp 1 space tuna fishing. Bars, baits, poppers Bluefin Tuna.View details Wed 17/09/2025 2 Spaces 10 Hours £250.00pp Big game tuna fishingView details Sat 20/09/2025 Drift fishing 4 spacesView details Sat 11/10/2025 3 Spaces £90.00pp 3 spaces drift fishingView details Wed 15/10/2025 Tuna fishing 3 individual spaces £250ppView details Sat 29/11/2025 4 spaces drift fishingView details -
12/07/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
12 Jul 2025 by Nick Gough
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8hr and 3hr trips today
Fishing started on the first mark we went to and it was steady away all day.
Majority of the fish fell for lures with a good picking of good size Cod and pollock. Overall the lads on the 8hr trip had 50-60 cod and pollock to keep with many smaller size fish returned to fight another day.
As well as the cod and pollock we have also had several ling, whiting, loads of pesky ballen wrasse and a good amount of plump mackerel.
Heaviest fish from the 8hr was a pollock just under 8lb.
With several cod around the 6lb area
We even had a large shark possibly a porbegle due to its size follow a mackerel up surface for a few seconds then disappeared.
The 3hr trip was pretty much the same with us getting the best fish of the trip on the first drop a nice 5lb Pollock.
They also caught many other Pollock and cod, ballen wrasse and dreaded weaver.
And a dozen mackerel enough for everyone busy with plenty of sport and everyone taking a good few fry's home.
Overall for the day the customers caught 10 different fish species.
Cod, Pollock, ling, coalfish, whiting, mackerel, horse mackerel, pouting, weaver, ballen wrasse View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilityWed 23/07/2025 2 Spaces 08:00-14:00
6hr.View details Thu 24/07/2025 4 Spaces 08:00-14:00
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3hr.View details Sun 27/07/2025 2 Spaces 16:00-19:00
3hr. Cod.View details Mon 28/07/2025 2 Spaces 8 Hours 8 till 4.View details Tue 29/07/2025 1 Space 16:00-19:00
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12/07/2025
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
12 Jul 2025 by Andy Savage
Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl
Another lovely day out at sea today.
Gill Braund booked the boat for the day for family and friends and just like last year, the five gentlemen who came were fantastic company. With a foggy morning greeting us as we left the harbour, we started off the day tracking down a few Mackerel for bait, then stopped on a wreck a couple of miles from the pier ends as slack water was around 0830hrs. With a mixture of Hokkai’s and muppet traces, baited with squid and mackerel we had a couple of fish, but to be honest, it wasn’t great. We had a few Codling and one Ling around 6lb, but also lost a bit of gear; so I moved us to rough ground (for the rest of the day as it turned out).
We fished three different areas of ground between three and seven miles and thankfully they all produced fish. With it being a bigger 5.2m tide, we found that the first few drifts on each bit of ground were the most productive. Taking between 3-8 fish each run. Then as the tide built and the drift speed increased, we had to nudge a bit further out to lose some tide, and sport improved again. We repeated this three times.
Codling and Ling in the 2-5lb range were the mainstay, with an odd better Ling up to 8lb. Chris Braund took the biggest Ling of the day at 10lb 7oz, which also won him £50 in the Summer Competition.
My son Will was crewing for me today, and with there being plenty of deck space, the lads very kindly let him join them for a few hours. He loves fishing with Shads and I was made up for him when he picked up a 5lb 8oz Codling which was a new PB.
We caught fish fairly consistently all day around the boat, a couple of lads had more success than others. But we all have one of those days from time to time when it goes really well, or really rubbish. It’s part and parcel of a day out in a Charter Boat.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable day, spent in excellent company.
Looking forward to 2026 already. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 25/10/2025 3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.21m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dave Pickup - x 3 Calvin Dipper - x 3View details Sun 26/10/2025 5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.01m Derek Hopkinson - x 4 Jason Shields - x 1View details Fri 31/10/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.40m Iga Krawczenko - x 3 Sam Robinson - x 1View details Sat 01/11/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.68m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dmitrijs Lobanovs - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Paweł Rojek - x 3 Tom Allen - x 1View details Tue 04/11/2025 6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2View details Sun 09/11/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.60m Will sail with 4 anglers. Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Jamie Ping - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1View details Thu 13/11/2025 8 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.54m Will sail with 4 anglers. Dave & Del - x 2View details Sat 15/11/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.82m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Sean Coupland - x 2 Tom Allen - x 1View details Thu 20/11/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.28m Will sail with 4 anglers. Jeff Turner - x 1View details Sat 22/11/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Dmitrijs Lobanovs - x 1 Greg Ince - x 1 Tom Allen - x 1View details
