Sea Fishing At Whitby: Sea Otter 2 - 2006 - The Best Year For A Long Long Time

September 2006 - Well He did it again. For the second time in a year one of Pauls anglers won one of the 3 annual boat fishing festivals. John Egan from Hull landed a 22 pound ling on one of the last days of the festival to take the £1000 first prize. John is seen here accepting his Prize money from Paul Kilpatrick far left and Aidrain laws from Mister chips whitby in the middle.
Other catches this month included cod to 20 pounds and pollock well into double figures.

cod pollock ling and haddock from whitby

August 2006 - Some years August can be a quiet month but not this year - Things just couldnt get any better. Cod, Ling, Pollock, Coalfish, Mackerel, Catfish and Haddock were amongst the many species that turned up for Paul Kilpatrick;s anglers onboard sea otter2. Shads and jelly worms again seemed to be tempting the majority of the fish. These things have been a revalation for sea anglers at Whitby allowing them to use light gear to temp fish well into the double figures.

JUNE 2006 - June once again proved it is the month when pirking really starts to take cod in a big way at Whitby. The big sprat shoals set in on the rough ground at Whitby. Stacks of cod were taken, at times on pirks but a lot of anglers now seem to prefer fishing with shads over wrecks and rough ground to take the cod and Pollock. This method of fishing with the light gear saves on the arms at the end of the day. The mackerel shoals also arrived in vast numbers with a ready supply of bait for the big ling.

MAY 2006 -May turned out to be a good month for cod but the weather was a bit up and down but when PAul on Sea Otter 2 was able to go to sea the fishing was very good indeed.
The inshore wrecks fished extremely well with shads once again doing most of the damage. Pollock also made a big show with occasional ling being taken. Although they had not arrived as yet it was felt that the mackerel should not be to far away.

APRIL 2006 Saw Paul Kilpatrick on sea otter 2 win the Whitby spring angling festival for the second year on the trot. Although the weather was very poor Pauls anglers saw some good fishing throughout the month. The second half of the month changed for the better weather wise and fishing then came on with a bang at Whitby. Fishing with shads seemed to beat everything else out of site and the cod seemed to be commiting suicide over these lures. The odd better pollock had started to show and Paul felt positively optimistic for the coming month of May..

MARCH 2006 - The weather for this month was very poor and did not allow Paul a great deal of time at sea. Fingers were crossed for better weather as Paul was certain the Great Wall of death area would be lifting with quality cod.

FEBRUARY 2006 - What a pleasant surprise February turned out to be. Better than average weather for a large part of the month allowed Paul to get out to the marks around the great wall of death 26 miles off Whitby. As can usually be the case at this time of year fishing at the wall produced some fantastic catches. I would go as far as to say that catches this month were better than anytime over the winter with many cod being taken on squid baits dropped onto the ground.

JANUARY 2006 - January as usual was a struggle due to the inclement weather conditions. Paul managed several good trips towards the end of the month with the inshore wrecks producing many quality fish with several going well into double figures. Best Method this month was bait fishing with squid.

Sea otter Cod Sept festival