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09/08/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
9 Aug 2013 by Rich Ward
09.08.2013.
Cracking codling fishing no further than 5 miles on this day. No big fish but plenty of them!!
Enough said !!
Pictured is a regular angler on the Shy-Torque,
Bill Barraclough.
Tight lines as ever
Rich -
08/08/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
8 Aug 2013 by Rich Ward
The shark fishing here at Whitby is without a doubt the best I've seen for a number of years.
After last years desperate lack of them it would seem that there are more now than ever.
Todays sharking trip was more of a family trip with just my Brother-in-Law Dave and Nephew Ben on board.
Sailing at 6am this morning we stopped to gather some fresh mackerel for the chum stocks which we had on board in no time. Some big mackerel too.
We steamed out to our usual mark and began our fishing at 8.45am. At 11.30am we were joined by a bull seal. Not what we wanted to see! Not 1 minute after he had turned up we got a run on one of the furthest baits. 10 seconds after that take we had another take on the shallow bait closest to the boat. All hell let loose !!
The closest one luckily dropped the bait which just left us with the one fish on. We sharpish wound the other baits back to the boat and Ben began the fight.
The clock kept ticking.................................and ticking.........................................and after a 2 hour 45 minute battle we had our first glimpse of it. A korker of a fish to be sure.
10 minutes later and we had Ben's prize on board. A fantastic fish. Lenghth 88" Girth 54"
Equation calculated the fish at 320lbs.
Ben has the bug now and will be trying for another one before the season comes to a close.
Ben on the right of the picture.
Super tight lines !!
Rich -
08/08/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
8 Aug 2013 by Rich Ward
Dean Parsons and 4 of his mates on the boat yesterday.
The lads from Easingwold had a cracking days sport working the rough ground between 3 and 8 miles from shore.
The lads were all baited up with fresh mackerel on the Hokkai traces and the cod and ling were loving it!!
With each drift producing up to 6 fish the lads soon had enough fish on board to warrant an hours mackerel fishing for the barbecues! We returned to the bouy where we'd had a great picking of mackerel in the morning to find .....................None !!!
Ah well that's fishing lads.
Richard Buffy is pictured with the best fish of the day. A lovely ling of 21lb 2oz.
When I told him that the fish would have won him £5000.00 a couple of weeks ago he nearly fainted !
The lads will be a back again soon.
Rich. -
04/08/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
4 Aug 2013 by Rich Ward
The fairer sex sometimes join the lads for a days fishing on the Shy-Torque and this last week saw Theresa from Borough Bridge try her hand at it. She was fishing alongside her Dad David from Harrogate.
This was Theresa's first ever trip on a boat and it seemed that ( as is often the case ) that lady luck was shining down on her!
She boated the first couple of fish on the day. Not big fish by any means, but she was over the moon with them both.
She managed 4 fish before falling a little under the weather!
Theresa is pictured with a small pollack of just under 3lbs.
Rich. -
03/08/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
3 Aug 2013 by Rich Ward
The cod fishing here at Whitby is getting better by the day with some good bags of fish for most of our anglers on the Shy-Torque.
The crystal clear water inshore now means that we are able to get a great days sport within minutes of leaving the harbour.
The 3 mile ground is now producing some lovely fishing with a good stamp of fish coming aboard most days now.
Richard Lodder and a couple of his mates from Chesterfield joined us the other day and enjoyed some great cod fishing on the boat.
Richard is pictured with one of his better fish.
Tight lines
Rich -
01/08/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
1 Aug 2013 by Rich Ward
01.08.2013.
Today saw Peter Bloom from Pickering join us again for his annual sharking trip of the year.
Peter is the marine biologist at Flamingo Land Zoo nr Pickering. This was to be his 4th attempt at catching a shark here from Whitby. After boating 5 shark so far this year on 3 trips I was feeling very confident that Pete was going to have his break today.
The last couple of years have seen his attempts be hampered by crappy weather and today was no exception!
We sailed on a fairly good forecast and managed to reach the favoured grounds by around 9.30 (slack water time ) This is usually the best time for us here at Whitby ( today was different ) The weather was nothing like predicted and hampered us no end. A very stiff S/E wind over tide, lines getting caught in the screws etc etc.... the list went on....... Unhappy skipper until 12.30pm when we had our first take.
Nigel Hall my crew man for the day had spotted a fin break on the surface whilst mackerel fishing and reported back to me. With baits checked and extra chum going over the side we waited. Thankfully we had to wait little more than 5 minutes before the fish took hold. Pete took hold of the rod and played what seemed to be a fairly small fish. After around 15 minutes we actually caught sight of the fish. Obviously I was thinking it was going to be a small fish after getting it to the boat so quickly. WRONG!!
When the fish saw the boat ( or Pete! ) it immediately turned and dived some 75 mtrs in no time and just sat there on the bottom. Bigger than we thought for sure!
He wrestled with the fish for some 45 minutes, actually getting it quite close to the boat when " OH F**K " was muttered. The fish had slipped the hook and Pete was left staggered and in awe with what had just happened... me too!!
We re-chummed for the last couple of hours without success and called it a day. Bugger, bugger, bugger.
Nothing more annoying than losing a fish, especially one of these fine creatures.
Pete is coming back for yet another attempt next year and hopefully his 5th will prove to be the one!
Whilst we were sharking he was also doing a bit of bottom fishing and just happened upon a very nice cod of 13lb 1oz..... BONUS !!!
Pete is pictured. -
27/07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
27 Jul 2013 by Rich Ward
27.07.2013.
Some lovely cod starting to show at last here at Whitby.
The 9 mile ground proving to be a very successful area for a better fish or 2.
Jamie Britton joined a mixed crew last week and had a cracking days sport with ling to 13lb and cod to 12lb 14oz.
We have all been waiting for the water to clear here at Whitby and it sure has now, but strangely enough most of the fish caught this day was on the bait. Mainly the baited hokkai traces.
No rules in this game even when the clarity is like Gin!!
Jamie is pictured with his best cod of 12lb 14oz.
Tight lines
Rich -
17/07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
17 Jul 2013 by Rich Ward
17.07.2013.
Mick Long and his crew were aboard the boat on the 17th this month and enjoyed a lovely day at sea.
After struggling for the first hour or so we settled into some steady fishing on the 9 mile ground and ended up with a good show of both cod and ling ( with a couple of haddock thrown in ) at the end of the day.
The group managed around 60 to 70 fish all told and were well pleased with the results after the recent "slowish" fishing here at Whitby.
Things are certainly picking up now with the water clearing to an aqua blue colour at last.
Pictured is Billy ( who doesn't like having his picture taken !! )
Rich. -
25/07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
25 Jul 2013 by Rich Ward
25.07.2013.
The Whitby 118 boys had a trip with us the other week and had a ball !!
Flat calm conditions allowed us to have a good run offshore to a couple of wrecks which hadn't been touched for some time.
The first wreck only produced around a dozen fish to 6lb but the second one we visited rewarded them with a great 2 hours of mad fishing. The lads ended up with around 80 fish in total for the day with a couple of them into double figures.
They asked that the group picture be displayed so they could show their mates!!
Tight lines as ever
Rich -
16/07/2013
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
16 Jul 2013 by Rich Ward
16.07.2013.
Still playing ctach up on the reports!!
Bill Barraclough from South Yorkshire experienced some cracking Ling bashing on his trip on the 16th July.
The tides on the day were perfect for wreck fishing and Bill with his " special " lures showed the rest of the lads the way home with his catch. Bagging over a dozen fish with his best going just short of 13lbs Bill also the won the sweep on the boat, a very tidy £60.00!
It's getting towards the time of year now where the big ling start showing themselves and we're looking forward some 20lb plus fish very soon.
Bill is pictured.
Tight lines wherever you're fishing lads
Rich
