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29/09/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
29 Sep 2014 by Nick Gough
Scarborough Angling Festival 2014
we had a fantastic festival yet again. managing to take several trophies and prizes. the weather started out quite challenging for the first few matches with the Sunday match been cancelled and postponed until Wednesday.
Day Awards won by the Skylark this year.
Vice admiral of Yorkshire Coast Challenge Trophy - 1st place in the relevant match
The John Gyte Memorial Trophy - Heaviest Cod in the Yorkshire Boating Championship - 8lb 13oz
Heaviest weight of fish from the land rock in two matches.
as well as many other cash and donated prizes throughout the week.
End of Week Specials won by the Skylark this year.
the A. E Horsley Memorial Trophy - Heaviest Weight of fish from the land rock - Chris Darke
The Jack Sullivan Trophy - Heaviest Fish other than Cod or Ling - Rosie Sylpheena - Pollock - 8lb 11oz
The Sam Taylor Cup - Heaviest Cod out of competition - Nick Gough - 13 lb 11oz
A massive well done to all the anglers who fished on the skylark and everyone else who fished in the festival.
and an even bigger thank you to the festival committee who worked even harder to make the festival possible. -
04/09/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
4 Sep 2014 by Nick Gough
had two 3 hour trips today.
weather was great with the sea like a mirror and the sun beaming down on us all day.
fishing was perfect with some nice cod pollock and ling showing as well as the usual mackerel for this time of year.
one of the lads managed to get a belting cod of 14lb. -
24/08/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
24 Aug 2014 by Nick Gough
6 hour Wrecking Trip and a 3 hour Wrecking Trip
Had two excellent trips with plenty of good size cod, ling and Pollock been caught in poor sea conditions. -
06/08/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
6 Aug 2014 by Nick Gough
a good stamp of fish from our 6 hour trip today.
only had 2 customers today, so i decided to have a go myself. -
09/08/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
9 Aug 2014 by Nick Gough
Rough Ground still fishing well
we had a 6 hour trip and a 3 hour trip today with several cod and pollock caught, conditions were far from perfect with a strong wind all day.
the 6 hour trip produced some good size cod and Pollock between 3 and 5lb and loads of mackerel, but when we got out again on our 3 hour trip the wind and tide were in the same direction and we were drifting to fast so we ended up anchoring up and bait fishing which produce a few nice fish. -
01/08/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
1 Aug 2014 by Nick Gough
A great start to the month
6 hours on the wrecks.
photo showing Roger Knights catch. -
26/07/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
26 Jul 2014 by Nick Gough
North Yorkshire Coastline sea swim.
Skylark was used as a passenger and safety vessel by the Kingfishers sea swimming club.
the first leg started from Staithes and the swimmers swam for 1/2 hour intervals as part of a relay.
in the first day the swimmers managed to cover 17.2 miles in 8 1/2 hours.
unfortunately due to weather and sea conditions they couldn't continue the swim the second day and continued the swim 2 weeks later.
the swimmers worked hard even with jelly fish brushing over them.
in total they swam the North Yorkshire Boundary, Staithes to Speeton in 17hrs 18mins 19secs -
25/07/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
25 Jul 2014 by Nick Gough
We had the Same unsettled weather today as we had yesterday, so we decided to cancel all the 3 hour trips we had planned as we couldn't reach a spot for sheltered fishing in 3 hours. instead we decided to run a 6 hour trip running through the weather to reach sheltered waters we fished yesterday.
Again we had a great day catching the thornbacks only 3 anglers fishing we had 20 landed and several lost.
the heaviest was 101/2lb.
Photo showing some of the thornback rays we kept. -
24/07/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
24 Jul 2014 by Nick Gough
We had a fantastic start to the day, nice settled weather.
we decided to target cod and Pollock, but the cod that were been caught were only a couple of pound where the Pollock were all over 5lb.
so we quickly changed tactics to targeting Pollock with lures. in a few hours we had a good amount of Pollock about 30 in total then the weather deteriorated and the area we were fishing became unfishable so we decided to have a go on the sand and shale hiding from the winds.
this was defiantly the right move as we had been drifting 10 minutes and suddenly started to get good bends in the rods, fist fish wasn't a massive thorn back ray just about 41/2 lb. great fun on the light gear we were using to target the Pollock.
by the end of the trip we had 11 Thornback rays landed then we had the uncomfortable hour steam back over the grounds we couldn't fish due to the strong Northerly wind.
(Photo Showing the Largest thornback of the day 7lb 14oz) -
22/07/2014
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
22 Jul 2014 by Nick Gough
What an eventful Day
3 hour wreck fishing trips
Morning trip 10 am till 1pm
had the lads from the S.S.A Group
we started well with Andy Forshaw hooking into the first cod of the day on his first drop, fishing started well the lads getting a nice size fish every drift. then Andy Harrison managed to get a nice brace of cod with both fish over 5lb. the lads managed to catch a good amount of fish in a short space of time.
also while fishing we had two eurofighters training with a helicopter firing flairs at one an other while fishing great to watch but very worrying when it first kicked of just behind the boat.
Afternoon trip
had 3 families aboard, and from the first drift we managed to bag several cod and ling. all between 3 and 5 1/2 lb.
Evening Trip
we had a couple who hired the boat for a coastal cruise and wildlife spotting evening.
we ventured slowly to Gristhorpe to watch the seal bathing in the sun then ventured towards filey were we saw many types of birds.
we managed to spot Gannets
Kittiwakes, Cormorants, Razorbills, Puffins, Northen Divers, and the usual Heron gulls. aswell as several gray seals.
Cracking weather to be out in and great fishing to.
(Photo showing the S.S.A lads, a cracking bunch of lads which were a pleasure to fish with)
