Sea Fishing At Whitby

Whitby Fishing Trips

2009-04-02T00:12:00.000-07:00

Anyone thinking of taking a fishing trip on the Yorkshire Coast these days must get very confused quite quickly. Not only are there 20 plus boats in some of the ports like Whitby, but they also offer offer a diversity of fishing times and targeted fish species. Some boats seem to fish 10 or 12 hours a day for cod only, whilst some of the other boats fish short trips of 3 hours and target other species such as mackerel, whiting, bass and some cod when they do venture closer to shore. Another consideration for the boat angler is what tackle should I need. Do you need to bring your own tackle or does the skipper provide it ? Do you need a heavy or light boat fishing rod and do you need to use braid or monofilament line.

After thinking abut all the above and the difficulties the novice boat angler faces when he comes to places like Whitby I decided to write a few pages on the Whitby Sea Anglers website about boat fishing in Whitby. Anyone who wishes to find out more should visit one of the following 4 pages.

Boat Fishing - Hints, Tips And General Information. - This pages covers all aspects of boat fishing and contains numerous links to information on Wreck fishing, uptiding, lists of local boats, polls of what rod is best, what tackle to use, bait or artificial lures etc.

Whitby Charter Boats - A full list of all the Whitby charter boats including contact information.

Whitby Fishing Trips - All the things you will need to know when booking a Whitby Fishing Trip.

Whitby Angling Festival - All the information and updates from the UK's biggest boat fishing festival.

We Have Moved To The North East Fishing News Site

2007-07-19T00:12:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

The contents of this blog have been moved to a new site on the Whitby sea anglers domain entitles north east fishing news. All New posts will be made on the new domain which can be found by clicking here :

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/north-east-fishing-news/

Sea Urchin Whitby

2007-06-13T09:31:00.000-07:00

Sea Urchin was built in Whitby some 40 or more years ago. The boat is still going strong and now under the guidance of a very experienced local skipper is taking daily fishing trips from Whitby.

With fishing at a Whitby currently at a 10 year high and large amounts of all fish being landed including cod, what better time to take a fishing trip from Whitby. If its a great days angling with a friendly skipper your after then Sea Urchin is the boat for you.

Sea Urchin is licensed to carry five passengers and she is ideally suited to smaller fishing parties, be it seasoned anglers, novices, families, all are welcome on either short three hour trips, six, eight, ten, or even. twelve hour trips,
Working seven days a week on a 20 mile cop from Whitby, your skipper (Mick) along with all the modern electronics will do his darned best to get you on the fish,

For details of fishing trips, wildlife watching on an evening and pleasure trips at Whitby please visit the sea urchin page on the Whitby sea anglers website by clicking here.

Holderness coast fishing well again for smoothound, bass and codling.

2007-06-12T15:34:00.000-07:00

Well known Holderness angler Chris Mack hit the shore again this week and made some exceptional catches of smoothhound, bass and codling. Results for the nights fishing was :

Macky = 13 hounds to 9lb 1oz and a 3.5lb cod

Mark = 13 hounds and 2 bass

Please read more here - Holderness Smoothound fishing

Whitby fishing forum - hall of fame

2007-06-11T23:55:00.000-07:00

The members of the Whitby fishing forum will now be competing for a place in the forum members hall of fame. The idea was thought up by local angler and forum moderator Ray Maddison (aka Ramrod) and sees anglers who report their catches on the forum finding their way into a hall of fame on the main site of the Whitby sea anglers.

There are several categories with top ten places for bass, cod, pollock, coalfish, and flounder caught from the shore. To enter the forum members much catch weigh and photograph a fish from the shore then report there catch in the forum.

At the moment Chris Mack (macky) is leading the bass section of the hall of fame with his personnel best 8 pounds bass caught from a mark on the Holderness coast. The cod section is currently being led by Tim Wright (aka Ringer) from Staithes with his personal best cod of 8 pounds caught from the beach at Runswick bay. In thye flounder section young Jay Kilpatrick from Whitby is setting the pace with his first ever flounder, a fine fish weighing well in excess of 1 and a half pounds.

To read the forums hall of fame please visit :

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/hall-of-fame.php

Current leader in the bass section Chris Mack

Jay Kilpatrick with his pb flounder

Tim Wright with his Runswick caught cod

New bye-law means anglers must have permit to collect peeler crabs

2007-06-11T23:45:00.000-07:00

A new bye law has been introduced by the north eastern sea fisheries committee (NESFC) under which individuals must now have a permit to be able to collect velvet crabs for use as bait.

Members of the Whitby fishing forum are astounded by the new law and have expressed deep concern at the withdrawal of their right to collect some baits from the shore without the need for a permit.

Rob q from the whitby fishing forum says :

If that is true as you say, it will have a massive impact on NE anglers, It was bad enough losing the right to use edible peelers legally. They got it right in the article when they mention the law being "sneaked in through the back door" !!
We are not allowed to collect a few crabs for bait for our own personal use, as has been done by generations before, whilst the french pair trawlers hammer up and down every day within view of the same foreshores depleting our inshore fish stocks

To read all the comments on the new crabbing bye law please visit this link :

NESFC - PEELER CRAB LICENCE

Whitby Scars

2007-05-30T14:39:00.000-07:00

After hearing about my mate Paul Lobley's encounter with a big bass whilst fishing at Cowbar cliffs I headed out onto a local rock mark at Whitby scars in search of a bass. For the first 3 casts of the night the rod never even moved - not a sniff, so I had a little walk further towards Whitby. Due to limited time I only had 2 more casts and both resulted in good sized flounder but no bass - maybe my theory of the bigger bass frequenting the shallow rock marks is wrong, or perhaps I need to try at different states of tide.

Whilst returning to the car I noticed the Whitby inshore lifeboat heading into Saltwick corner near Saltwick nab so I stopped and watched for a while. I first I thought they were practising but then noticed they had picked 3 lads up off the rocks at the back of Saltwick scars. Judging by the tide state its is my guess they must have been stuck there since low water this morning which would have been around 10am. With the time when I saw them being 7 PM they must have been stuck in the back of there for some time - How frightening, especially with the swell in the water as it was today.

Small Boat Fishing In The Whitby Area

2007-05-27T12:28:00.000-07:00

Small Boat Fishing - Article Kindly Submitted By Steerser From The Whitby Fishing Forum

I have been involved with boat fishing most of my life, but it wasn't till 1998 that I decided to get a boat of my own in partnership with my brother.

It was a locally built double ender in reasonable condition with a 8hp engine
We only had a few short trips in this boat before we realised that this boat wasn't what we wanted. It was a good little boat for working crab pots within a mile or so of the harbour, but no good for angling.

A lad from Staithes had just bought an Orkney 520 which is a 16 foot grp fishing boat, with a 25hp yamaha outboard on it, a lovely little boat that was capable on a good day of around 20mph..the lad was doing very well in this little craft and was beating everybody else hands down.

That was the type of boat we needed, so after a few weeks of scanning the classifieds, we found an orkney fastliner for sale for £3000. The fastliner is like the big brother of the 520 it's 19 foot 6 long and and can take an engine upto a maximum of 60hp. the boat was in a coal yard in swansea and had been stored there about three years,or so, it was in a bit of a state cosmetically, but structurally it was like new. There was no engine or controls with the boat so that was the next step.

Someone had told us about contract outboards, these are engines that are leased to the RNLI, they are used for a couple of years and are then returned to the manufacturer to be sold off. in my opinion this is the best way to buy an engine, other than a brand new one, as they are regularly serviced and have very low hours on them. we got one of these engines, a three year old 40 hp mariner for £1300 with controls, cables ,fuel tank and fuel lines adding another £250 on, we had boat that was capable of fishing upto 10 miles to sea .

Next on the agenda was electronics..an echo sounder and gps are essential if you are planning on fishing the wrecks.
you can fish over wreckage with just a gps, but you will lose a serious amount of tackle if you can't see what's under you.
After a trip to redcar fish company (marine electronics shop) we came home with a lowrance sounder a Raymarine chart plotter and an Icom vhf radio, a vhf is essential for keeping contact with other boats and the coastguard. by law you are required to have a licence to operate a vhf radio.
most vhf sets these days are dsc (digital selective calling) sets, they can be connected to your gps so if ever you are in a life threatening situation you can press the red emergency button and the coastguard, and other boats will know yor exact position..

A trip to Coates Marine in Whitby, for flares, life jackets, an anchor some chain and a compass and that was us up and running.

Wrecking

There are hundreds of wrecks along this section of the coast, some are huge and largely intact, others are no more than a big pile of wood.that are there some days and then you can't find them as they've been buried in sand. when we first started fishing the wrecks all our tackle was heavy duty... 50lb class rods big reels and 50lb+ braid, we soon realised that this type of gear is overkill ...alright if your'e fishing for large conger, common skate or porbeagle sharks.. but for inshore wrecks round here a 20/30lb rod with similar poundage line is more than adequate. I use a 20lb class shimano beastmaster coupled wth a penn 320ld when I am wrecking I've a had big ling and triple shots of cod on and never had a problem..
Wreck fishing is only possible on slack tides anything above a 5 meter and it's too big.
The main species on the wreckage around here are ling, cod, pollock and pouting, but monkfish, wolffish, and conger are not unknown on the inshore fishing grounds off Whitby.. best results for us have been from bait fishing for ling using BIG mackerel baits but pirks and muppets can be just as good at times.

Uptiding

Uptideing is my favourite way of boat fishing it's basically beachcasting from an anchored boat in less than 50 feet of water, but with shorter rods (9 foot 6 to ten foot) reels like the slosh 30, penn 535 or abu 7000 with 20lb mono mainline are ideal.
Although it is called uptideing it doesn't really matter where in the tide you cast, but you must let out a big bow of slack line so that the tide can pull your grip lead into the ground.
traces are similar again to the ones you would use for shore fishing, with hook sizes dependant on what species you are targeting.
We have had some good trips in late summer fishing in the soft ground for thornbacks with big hooks and big mackerel baits with fish up to 14lb..but it's winter when this type of fishing comes into it's own...for codlings mussel, squid ,rag, lug, peeler will all catch fish ..

Another small boat owned by Whitby Fishing Forum Member Tim Wright (aka Ringer) from Staithes

For Other Articles On Small Boat Fishing Around Whitby Please Visit The Links Below.

Ringer And Steerser Boat Fishing At Port Mulgrave

Ringers Boat - Boat Fishing At Staithes

Things Not Improving For George Metcalf The New Skipper Of Whitby's Chieftain Charters

2007-05-20T05:32:00.000-07:00

A BBC report of Boat fishing out of Whitby with George Metcalf on his new boat chieftain charters portrays a pretty sorry state of affairs for the of shore fishing grounds at Whitby.

The BBC Radio Cleveland's Rob Barlow joined other anglers on chieftain charters for a 36 hour trip with the offshore fishing specialist Mr Metcalf. The BBC reporter appeared to have a bad experience suffering from sea sickness for most of the trip and then catching little if any fish.

Rob Barlow says

All though I did see fish being caught, we had to be 70 miles out in order to find them and from what George revealed to me it's getting worse year by year.

In an attempt to explain the poor fishing Barlow reports that skipper metcalfe says :

"The main problem with the cod crisis in the Northeast and further a field is the super-trawlers' towing massive small-mesh nets.

"Although the main intention of these trawlers is to catch sand eels, everything else in the path of the nets is taken. This targets the same species that the fish, seabirds, and marine mammals rely on for survival.
"This takes all the food away for the cod - how can they survive if there is nothing in the sea for them to eat?"

I think it is quite sad that the offshore grounds at Whitby are still suffering from a lack of cod, this must be even harder for the boats working the waters to take given the recent resurgence of cod fishing on the inshore grounds within 10 miles of the coast at Whitby, especially as in very recent times most of the Whitby charter fleet have been reporting fantastic fishing within site of land.

You can read Rob Barlow's full report of his Whitby offshore boat fishing experience at the link below:

BBC On Whiby Chieftain Charters

North East Kayak Fishing - First Cod For Ray On His Maiden Voyage.

2007-05-16T03:53:00.000-07:00

Scarborough angler Ray Maddison finally got afloat at the weekend in his new kayak. Along with fellow Whitby fishing forum member Iain sellers Ray fished out of Flamborough underneath the cliffs at Bempton. Between the 2 anglers they managed 15 cod the biggest being just short of 7 pounds. To read more about Ray and Iains Kayak fishing adventures off the Yorkshire coast please visit their kayak fishing topic in the whitby fishing forum by clicking here

Scarborough Sea Fishing - Cloughton Angling Club First Summer Match

2007-05-16T03:45:00.000-07:00

Cloughton Rock Angling Club held the first of their summer matches on Monday night. Catches were excellent with most anglers managing to locate the codlings. Chris Scaife from Filey just back from fishing in the states came in first with 6 codlings for 14 pounds closely followed by Mick Chadwick in second with 4 cod for 14 pounds. Scarborough's jeremy robinson took third with 3 cod for just short of nine pounds.

Full report available in the Whitby Fishing Forum Here.

Bass Fishing At Sandsend Car Park

2007-05-10T14:38:00.000-07:00

A well known Whitby Angler has caught one of the first decent bass from the area this year. Fishing from Sandsend car park Alan tempted the bass on a ragworm and peeler cocktail fishing at medium range. The bass weighed 4 pounds 1 ounces and is the biggest I have heard of in the Whitby area this year. To read more about Alan's Sandsend Car Park Bass and see more pictures please visit the Whitby fishing forum By Clicking Here

Where To Fish At Boulby

2007-05-10T00:14:00.000-07:00

Whitby Fishing Forum Member Dav Says

I'm thinking about targetting boulby area quite alot in the up n coming winter , so im planning on doing alot of recce work down there during the summer , sussing the ground out good and proper , especially during spring tides , etc , ive fished it a few times , but ive never really sussed it out as every time i get down there i just want to fish the first good looking gulley i see , i want to study it that much i want to be able to be confident enough to make the descent and ascent in the dark hopefully ... is there any regulars who fish alot at boulby, post on this site ? that are willing to advise on this particular area.

To read the Replies please click the link below.

Boulby Fishing - A Guide To Fishing At Boulby - Including Boulby Gulley, White stone, Boiler Hole And Hummersea.

Small Boat Fishing From Staithes

2007-05-05T00:16:00.000-07:00

Whitby Fishing Forum Member Tim Wright from Staithes has been taking some excellent catches from his small boat. Tim says they use Jiggers, hokeyes, shads and leadheads to catch some decent cod and pollock from the fishing grounds off staithes. Fishing with several friends over the past few weeks Tim has had some truly great catches. Fishing the marks in the Staithes, Boulby and Port Mulgrave area Tim Says.

Sailed out from staithes yesterday for an hour. Caught 10 codlings all around the 4lb mark and a pollock that weighed 5lb.it gave one hell of a scrap and crash dived for the bottom several times.all codlings kept but released the pollock to fight another day.most fish were taken on leadheads and over half of them were full of pipefish.

The fruits of our labour today.Went off with steerser and his cousin on their boat today.fished from 4pm until 5.45pm.we fished half a mile off port mulgrave.all fish between 3lb and 5lb.never caught any on shads.most were taken on pirks with the odd one taking muppets.caught roughly 6 stone.only species caught were codlings.not a pipe fish in sight or in their mouths/stomachs.

To read more about Tim's boat fishing exploits please visit the whitby fishing forum at the links below.

Port Mulgrave Boat Fishing

Staithes Boat Fishing Report

Cos Crisis ? What Cod Crisis ?

2007-05-05T00:10:00.000-07:00

Cod Crisis ? What Cod Crisis ? These were the words of sea otter 2 skipper Paul Kilpatrick recently. After experiencing an excellent start to the boat fishing season at Whitby Paul says :

Over the last couple of months ths cod fishing of whitby has seen some dramatic developments with catches of cod suddenly booming things are on the up and up even the local trawlers have been getting some very large catches

Cod Crisis ? What cod crisis - Click to read more.

North East Kayak Fishing, Whitby, Scarborough, Filey

2007-05-04T23:56:00.000-07:00

I'm probably putting myself in the firing line knowing you lot but all being well I'll be collecting my Ocean Prowler 13 Angler kayak on Saturday from Robin Hood Watersports. Iv,e been trying to get everything sorted these last couple of weeks. Got myself a spinning rod...........................

Read More - North East Kayak Fishing From Whitby, Scarborough And Filey.

Paul Kilpatrick Whitby Charter Skipper Criticises The National Federation Of Sea Anglers Over Their Stance On Bag Limits For Sea Anglers

2007-05-02T05:48:00.001-07:00

Local charter skipper Paul Kilpatrick has spoken out in opposition to the NFSA who say they are in favour of the Priniciple of bag limits for sea anglers. In reponse to this statement by the NFSA

Re : Bag Limits - The NFSA will therefore support the concept of bag limits where it is part of a balanced campaign to conserve or improve a specific fish stock or stocks. For the avoidance of doubt we will oppose such proposals where controls are placed solely on anglers whilst other users have free access to fish stocks important to sea anglers.

The Sea Otter 2 Skipper says

There is one thing for sure the NFSA wont get 1 pence out of me bag limits which planet are these idiots on.

Please visit the Whitby Fishing Forum To Read More.

Yorkshire Division Of The National Assocition Of Sea Anglers To Reform

2007-05-02T05:45:00.000-07:00

The Yorkshire branch of the National Federation Of Sea Anglers is to reform. After a meeting on the 30th April 2007 at the Scarborough sea anglers social club it was decided there was enough interest to reform the Yorkshire regional division of the NFSA.

Read More Here

National Federation Of Sea Anglers - Yorkshire Division

2007-05-02T00:53:00.000-07:00

I attended the NFSA Regional meeting tonight at the anglers social club in Scarborough. The turn out was pretty decent (better than I expected I must say). With no exact agenda other than looking at the potential for reforming a regional division of NFSA I felt things went ok. It was good to see the 2 reps from NFSA travel over and put the view point of the NFSA across on the Licence and Bag Limits issues.

Re : Licence - The NFSA position is to oppose the principle until significant improvements in the sea angling experience are recognised.

Re : Bag Limits - The NFSA will therefore support the concept of bag limits where it is part of a balanced campaign to conserve or improve a specific fish stock or stocks. For the avoidance of doubt we will oppose such proposals where controls are placed solely on anglers whilst other users have free access to fish stocks important to sea anglers.

Info On Bag Limits And Licences From :

http://www.nfsa.org.uk/news/2007-03-05.htm

Communication between the NFSA and anglers in the region was raised as an issue and the gents at the table said they hoped to improve that in the future.

Please read full article at NFSA In Yorkshire

Fishing With Shads

2007-04-29T03:45:00.000-07:00

Shads arent expensive at £3.50 for a pack of 6 that is just under 60p each and some dys you can fish all day with just one shad plus the catch rates on them far outweigh most other lures including pirks which are far more expensive.

Read More On Fishing With Shads Here

Whitby Boat Fishing - Pollock On Shads

2007-04-29T03:22:00.000-07:00

28th April 2007

Cod And Pollock to double figures on sea otter 2

The Whitby Charter skipper Paul Kilpatrick is reporting excellent fishing at Whitby again with Pollock now beginning to show. Saturday the 28th April 2007 saw one of Paul's Anglers catch this fine double figure Pollock using a shad

Click Here For More Updates On Boat Fishing At Whitby

Recent Topics In The Whitby Angling Forum

2007-04-28T02:09:00.000-07:00

Coalfish Showing In Good Numbers

Robert Goodwill MP Speaks Against Fishing Licences

Parts of the governments white paper refers to the introduction of a sea angling licence. I am firmly against the introduction of such a licence. In particular I am concerned that this may have serious effect on the charter fishing which takes place out of ports like Whitby. If A day fisherman had to buy a licence for £25, and it was the only days fishing he would have in that year, it would be a real disincentive for clubs and organisations to organise fishing trips for their members.

Pollock Fishing In The Whitby Area

I think if you spin off the end of long hole who knows just what you might encounter in the summer months pollock must be favourite but i am sure you might get a big surprize and get a few cod you are straight into deep water there.

Fund Raising For Whitby East Pier Bridge Replacement

Talking to a friend the other day and he suggested that we shoud try and raise funding to replace the bridge on the east peir i think i will to have to speak to somebody in sbc

Fishing At Boulby

anyway thought ide break the silence with a question .im thinking about targetting boulby area quite alot in the up n coming winter , so im planning on doing alot of recce work down there during the summer , sussing the ground out good and proper , especially during spring tides , etc , ive fished it a few times , but ive never really sussed it out as every time i get down there i just want to fish the first good looking gulley i see , i want to study it that much i want to be able to be confident enough to make the descent and ascent in the dark hopefully ... is there any regulars who fish alot at boulby, post on this site ? that are willing to advise on this particular area , every time ive been down there i always fish to the bottom and the right in them gulleys , never been to the left as yet , heard theres a mark called white stones , ? is it very recognisable , ie big white stones etc

Boat Fishing For Cod

went off on boat tonight for half an hour.used jiggers and was fishing between 40 and 60ft of water.plenty of billets and 3 nice codlings.biggest was around 6lbs.couple of other boats out earlier this morning from staithes also had codlings on jiggers.one lad had 3 on the same drop.gonna go in morning for a couple of hours.

Test Post

2007-04-23T07:35:00.000-07:00

Test Post

North East Kayak Fishing

2007-04-22T11:21:00.000-07:00

Hi Just a quick post to let you know about a great new article on the Whitby sea anglers site.

North east kayak fishing is an article all about kayack fishing in and around north yorkshire. The article was kindly written by Iain Sellers of Scarborough AKA quint from the Whitby fishing forum

North East Kayak Fishing

Trot On In The Whitby Angling Festival

2007-04-21T13:54:00.001-07:00

Rather than starting another topic ill stick this here.

Local Junior angler Dan Craig sure had a "grand" day out on Paul Eddon's Charter Boat Trot On in this years Spring boat fishing festival at Whitby. Dans catch, a ling of almost 15 pounds made him the youngest winner to date of any of the Whitby Angling Festivals, and earned him the first placed prize of £1000 for the biggest fish caught in the event.

Dan (centre) is Pictured Here receiving his prize money from (left to right) Paul Kilpatrick Chairman of the Whitby charter skippers association(also representing stagecoach supertram the festivals main sponsors from Sheffield), Mark Stringer of local firm Buildings Ltd, Mike Clarkson of MC Electrical services, and Paul Eddon skipper of the winning boat Trot On.

Above : Dan Craig with his winning Ling from Trot on charters.

The winning boat owned and skippered by Paul Eddon is a 105 offshore class and with 430 horse power under the deck is capable of up to 25 knots.

Anyone interested in booking a trip with Paul can contact him on 01947 821694 or 07766995847, or by email at : pauleddon@yahoo.co.uk

The Whitby Charter Skippers Festivals are sponsored by :

Stagecoach Supertram
Mc Electricals
Buildings Limited
The Fleece Public House
The Ship Inn
Arbutts Cafe
Mister Chips
And The George Hotel

Details of the sponsors can be found here : http://www.wcsa.co.uk/sponsors.php

Whitby Fishing Forum - Recent Topics

2007-04-21T01:47:00.000-07:00

The Whitby fishing forum is now growing ever more popular and each week sees more members signing up and guests reading the posts increasing daily. The forum is not only about fishing at Whitby but also about all types of fishing (course, game and sea) all around the north east. With the forums members now debating new topics on a daily basis the forum just gets more and more interesting.

Whitby Fishing Forum

Amongst the popular topics within the Whitby fishing forum this week are :

Kayak Fishing Under Bempton Cliffs - Forum Member quint says

I took my kayak and tucked under cliff about 300 yards off opposite the high water mark boiler - had 5 fish all 2 to 3lb mark and a smattering of billets

Whitby's MP Robert Goodwill Speaks About Proposed Fishing Licence

I agree. If this is seen as just another stealth tax there will be tremendous resentment among recreational fishermen, but if they see that there are some concrete benefits their attitude might change.

Peeler Crabs For Sale At Scarborough Tackle Shop

Scarborough Castle foot tackle shop has 500 fresh peeler crabs if any one is interested. The largest is of average size, most are dogs and they are 70p each.

North East Kayak Fishing

Hi all .....

I run the website www.kayakfishing.co.uk and am based in Kingston Upon Hull. We regularly from marks off Withernsea, Bridlington, Flamborough, Cayton Bay, Whitby ..etc ...

Its nice to see another fishing related website covering our area. Do any of you lads use kayaks for fishing or is it more shore and ledge based fishing.

Hornsea RNLI Open - Turned Into A Debate On Catch And Release

"murder matches" Should be a thing of the past!

be it cod, yting hounds, skate etc.

How long is it going to be before a match is runb that just so happens co-insides with a big run of hounds.
on a good day on the hounds u can get 15-20 fish between 6-12lb
and if 160 anglers all caught 5 hounds, thats 800 hounds slaughtered for what.......pot bait!.

same goes for cod,yting.

Reel Review - Abu 6500 C3 CT

Well now Ive looked I dont know which one I mean appears to be so many 6500's from Abu these days.

6500 C3Ct florida orange
6500 CT Chrome Rocket
6500 CT Mag High Speed
6500 CT Mag
Premium 6500 CT
6500 CS Mag

Are they all that same crappy side plate material. Paul you know I dont pay over much attention to my reels and these things corrode like shit if you dont really look after them - which I know I wont. I need one with brass side plates like the 7000 syncro that Dav uses or like the 7500 c3.

Which Spinning Rod ??

Daiwa Whisker 9ft, shimano solstace, greys 10 ft grx 15 gr to 60 gr, daiwa alltmor-s 7gr to 40gr,
shimano sustain 4000 fd, dinky 7ft sr 842-2 glx rated at 1gr to 9gr

Ramrod Says :

Can anyone recommend a good spinning rod to buy? I don,t want to spend a fortune but at the same time I don,t want a stick of rhubarb either

Local Angler Dan Craig Wins Whitby Fishing Festival On Paul Eddon's Boat Trot On

Whitby club Junior member Daniel Craig has gone into the lead of the Whitby charter skippers Spring boat fishing festival with a Ling of almost 15 pounds caught from Paul Eddons Boat Trot On.

Filey Brigg Fishing Club New Website

2007-04-12T08:30:00.000-07:00

Just a quick update to let you know that I have redisgned the filey fishing club website on the behalf of the lads at the club.

To take a look at the new site please visit.

www.fileybrigganglingsociety.co.uk

Mackerel Fishing At Whitby

2007-04-09T08:40:00.000-07:00

The Main Summer Species At Whitby Are The Mackeral

Mackerel is the main summer species for anglers at Whitby. It has to be one of the most enjoyable species to catch. Warm summer evenings spent on Whitby's piers can produce decent catches of mackerel for all anglers. The shoals often arrive in June and stay right through the summer.

Please click here to read more about mackerel fishing at Whitby

Rod Review Century ttr, zziplex vmax f1 reelsport response

2007-04-06T15:22:00.000-07:00

Rod Review -
Century TTR,
Zziplex Vmax f1 or
ReelSport Response.

currently on review over in the Whitby fishing forum are the rods listed below from reelsport, ziplex and centuary. If you want to read about the rods or add your opinion -

Centuary TTR, Zziplex V max f1 or Reel Sport Response

Then why not head over to our forum and join
the debate.

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php

Season Over

2007-04-06T00:25:00.000-07:00

Well after 6 months of match fishing twice a week the Whitby Sea Anglers Association winter league finally came to an end on the 28th March. Its funny how as you get older you notice things pass by a lot faster. I know I'm relatively young having not reached 40 just yet, but you do get to wondering how many more seasons you can get up and down those cliffs - I hope I'm still going strong like my old mate Whacker Atkinson whose up and down the cliffs like a mountain goat still - at the age of 65.

This season has been rather special for me as I actually managed to achieve a long time goal of mine to finish top of the league. After fishing the club for 10 years now I thought it might never happen but this year I finally managed it. I remember emailing Scottish international angler Steve Souter a couple of times and asking for a few tips on match fishing. Amongst a lot of things he told me was "you need a hyde like a rhino lad" - "The more fish you get the more people will be on your case". Well that certainly was true. I managed to locate a couple of fishing marks where I could scratch out a whiting or 2 (and sometimes a dozen) on the calmer nights when I knew some of the other lads would struggle for a fish if the whiting never came to the beaches at Whitby. I remember the first time I put them on the scales - All the hardline cod anglers turned up their noses and I could hear comments of "bloody whitings" floating around in the background. Being quite a sensitive person it felt pretty bad and at times I must admit I felt like not fishing at all and walking away from the club. But those words of Steve's stuck in my mind and so did his advice of "make an achievable goal and go for it - and don't be put off by others". Its a fishing club not a cod club I said to myself and so I continued.

Next came the enquiries about where I was catching the whiting from. I couldn't go bait digging or pleasure fishing without enduring endless questioning from 2 people in particular as to where I was catching my fish on the calmer nights. I managed to dodge the questions and refused to speak to them about the matches.

Through the early part of the season up till Christmas I had some great catches. Luck had played its part and I'd even managed a 10 pounder in a bag of 5 fish weighing 19 pounds from from one of my favourite marks. When the sea was rough I fished for the cod and when it was calm whitings were the target. Christmas came and went and I thought that might be the end of the better catches as things go down hill usually in the new year. But that wasn't to be the case this year and at the end of January I was struggling back up the cliffs with my heaviest bag of the season - 5 cod (all of a similar size) for 23 pounds in total - a bag which was to later turn out to be the heaviest caught throughout the season by any angler in the club. Not bad for a whiting angler - I thought to myself.

On the following Sunday one of the whiting venues I'd been using was discovered by the lads who had interrogated me many times over the season. "found you" came the shout from a grinning face as their car pulled up a matter of seconds behind mine. The 2 year game of hide and seek was finally over. As we got onto the pier question after question came about where to cast, what bait to use. It was the 4th February and I had a 50 pound lead, so I didn't worry to much although one of the lads who had found me was the lad in second place. Comments of "were gonna catch you up" although said tongue in cheek did knock me out of my stride a little but I still managed 10 pound of fish that night whilst they only managed 4 between them.

As we headed into March I still had the 50 pound (and a bit more) lead I had had at Christmas and although I had been worrying about being caught up I felt with a month to go I was about home and dry. Through March I went on and fished well, infact I was very pleased as I often catch nothing at all in this month. I managed almost 30 pounds in total this month also getting the heaviest bag of the month at 12 pounds and the heaviest fish of the month at around 6 pounds. In the end I finished 75 pounds ahead of the next person behind me.

Needless to say I was over the moon at finally winning. As I said to myself in November (and every other month) when a certain few were making things difficult because I was targeting whitings. This will probably be the last season I will compete 100% in the fishing club. I will still be there next year as there are some good mates who also fish and I would miss the social side of things with them if I didn't fish, but I wont fish as often and on those calmer nights Ill probably stay home rather than take stick for catching whiting - I wont be competing to win from now on, just enjoying the fishing.

I have set myself another goal now and that is to start fishing the local open matches a lot more - something I've never done. Although I don't expect to win if I can get up there amongst the top 3 in the odd one I will be more than happy.

Well that's another season over. It's the presentation dinner this month and I have 3 trophies to collect - Heaviest bag, Most fish and League winner. Not bad for a whiting angler if I say so myself.

Now its off to collect the bait for next years fishing.

Fishing Port Mulgrave

2007-04-03T11:26:00.000-07:00

Information On Fishing At Port Mulgrave can be found on the following page:

Cod Fishing At Port Mulgrave

Boat Fishing At Whitby

2007-04-03T04:52:00.000-07:00

I have just added a new page to our Website entitled Boat Fishing At Whitby.

Please Visit this link to read more :

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/whitby-boat-fishing.php

Late Winter Storms At Whitby

2007-04-02T07:12:00.000-07:00

Thought some of you mike like to see the pics of the rough seas at Whitby on the 20th March 2007. With the biggest tides of the year coinciding with strong northerly winds and a deep low pressure over the north sea it was always going to be a rough few days. I understand some of the houses in Church street were flooded as the river broke its banks. The beach huts on the west cliff were also smashed to pieces and dragged into the sea. Having a couple of weeks off work I managed to get into town with my camera and took these pics.

Funny How It Goes

2007-04-02T06:46:00.000-07:00

Isn't it funny how things turn out sometimes. Take our fishing match on the 21st March this year. With the match being fished from 90 mins after high tide to 2 hours before low tide on the largest ebb tide of the year I felt chances of cod were pretty slim with my best chance being from 9 until 10 pm (the last hour of the match) at Boggle hole. I arrived at Boggle at 6.30 and had a quick look at the conditions, the high seas of the previous 2 days were now subsiding and conditions looked near perfect, but with the mark I wanted to fish inaccessible until around 8.30 I had to find somewhere else to fish and pass the first 90 mins of the match. I decided to head back into Robin Hoods Bay and fish one of the marks up there so I set off on foot and arrived there about 6.55pm. I baited and cast into the heaviest coloured water I had seen at Bay in some years. The storms of Monday and Tuesday had really given the bottom a good stir up and the conditions looked good. Thinking I had little chance of a fish at this state of tide at this mark I propped the rid in the rest and set about passing time until I could get to where I felt there would be fish later in the evening. No sooner had I put the rod in the rest I had a tiny bite - Undersized codlings I thought to myself (there has been so many of them about this year). I picked the rod up and stood with it for a while. A few seconds later I felt a slightly better bite and wound down - as I did so the rod pulled right over and as I struck I knew I was into a half decent fish - As it landed next to me I could see it was a nice cod of around 3 pounds. Looked at the watch and it was 5 mins past 7. Only five minutes of the match gone, what a start I thought to myself.

I quickly added a few more worms to the pennel rig and cast it back in. Again within minutes another bite which ended with another cod of around 3 pounds in the bag. The same happened again twice more and by 7.40 I had 4 three pounders in the bag, but by this time the water in front of me was getting rather low. I cast back in and struggled for a bite for about 15 minutes. Just as I was thinking the bait must be about high and dry (the big tides ebb out fast on the shallow marks around here) the rod went over again, the fish must have swam with its back half out the water to get at the bait. As I struck I felt the fish was on but immediately the line went light and I knew I had dragged the bait out of the fishes mouth. When I got the trace back I noticed the bottom hook of the pennel had entangled with the top hook and was upside down which had meant there was nothing for the fish to get caught on. I wish I had a pound for everytime this happens with a pennel rig.

Realising it was pointless to cast back in I headed out onto the scars at Robin hoods bay, but after a couple of casts I realised the fish had vacated the area and as it was about 8.45 it was now time to head into boggle hole. Having got 4 fish in the bag already and now going to the place I was most confident about before the match began I now fancied I had a good chance of another couple of fish and taking the bag weight over 20 pounds. I got cast in around 9pm and immediately my line was heavy with loose weed (it can really be a problem at this venue). Needless to say I spent most of the next hour casting back in and suffering the same problem of weed on the line meaning it was impossible to fish. I never got another fish. I got to the weigh in at Whitby and weighed the 4 fish I caught early on for a total of 12 pounds.

In analysing the nights fishing I thought to myself - Funny how things turn out at times. Id ended up with 4 fish from somewhere I thought I hadn't got a chance and the mark I thought was a banker produced a blank.

Test Post - Filey Brigg Sea Angling Society

2007-03-19T11:22:00.000-07:00

Trial run for Filey Brigg Angling Society. Below is a new picture of my 13 year old nephew with his personal best fish,a fine cod of 6lb 2oz.This fish was located at a mark in Robin Hoods Bay on a medium Northerly Sea with plenty of colour in the water.

Shark Fishing At Whitby

2007-02-28T15:50:00.000-08:00

http://www.seaspraywhitby.co.uk/sharks.htm

Traditionally boat anglers at Whitby have targeted mainly cod, however a recent research article undertaken by The North Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee has suggested that Whitby along with other north east coast ports could benefit from a diversification of fishing methods to target species of shark living off our coast. One of the first Whitby Skippers to try such fishing methods with any level of success has been Malcolm Pitman on his Whitby boat sea spray Charters.

To read more please go to this page about Whitby Shark Fishing.

Whitby Fishing Forum

2007-02-22T11:10:00.000-08:00

Links To Interesting Topics In the Whitby Fishing Forum

Fishing Robin Hoods Bay

Strange Fish At Runswick

Runswick Personal Best For Tim

Lucky 7 For Lobley In St Marys

Port Mulgrave Report - Sea Angler

Fishing Cloughton Wyke

Creta Block

Sandsend Sewer Hole Cod

Cowbar Jetty

Storing Black Lug Worms

Fishing Hayburn Wyke

Runswick Beach Sea Fishing

3 Double Figure Shore Cod

Tope From The Shore

Uptiding At Whitby

Sea Otter 2 - New Website

2007-02-08T13:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/index.php

Over the past few days I have re wrote the sea otter 2 website for Paul. The new site has some exciting new articles including one on shad fishing at whitby produced by boat fishing monthly. I intend to add some others in the coming months about various types of boat fishing including : Wreck fishing , shark fishing and Winter uptiding.
The site replaces the old one which was written in frames therefore giving it a low ranking in the search engines. Hopefully with the few on page optimisation tricks Ive applied the new sea otter 2 site should appear quite high in the search engine rankings.

The urls below are the urls for the new site. Please feel free to browse at your leisure and I hope you enjoy the site.

www.sea-otter2.co.uk/index.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/paul-kilpatrick-skipper.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/sea-otter-2-charters.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/whitby-boat-fishing-gallery.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/contact-skipper.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/whitby-fishing-links.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/shad-fishing.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/monthly-catches.php

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/sponsored-by-shakespeare.php

Shad Fishing At Whitby With Paul KIlpatrick On Sea Otter 2

2007-02-08T13:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/shad-fishing.php

I Called Paul for a chat about the general state of play regarding cod fishing out of Whitby, and I was pleasantly surprised by the response he gave me. Were catching plenty of fish here Dave, and I'm not steaming more than 3 miles outside the harbour!" Paul explained. " Come up and have a day out you will see it for yourself". "Oh and bring some light gear with you - something like an uptider, or a 12/20lb boat rod and a reel loaded with light braid... were using shads for them !!" he continued.

For more details on Whitby Boat fishing with Shads please visit :

Whitby Boat Fishing

How To Use Shads

Shad Fishing At Whitby

North east coast cod fishing picture archive.

2007-02-05T06:23:00.000-08:00

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,166.0.html

I've been wanting to start a bit of an archive of sea fishing pictures from the north east taken other the last few decades. Up until recently I have been unable to find any at all. However forum member bassman has kindly sent me a few of his pics taken whilst fishing in Whitby and so I'm starting this thread to show them and hopefully encourage others to post up or send their pictures on so we can get a bit of an archive running.

For more information please visit

Whitby boat fishing for cod

Fishing Hawsker Bottoms 27th Jan 2007

2007-02-05T06:21:00.000-08:00

After a run of extreme bad luck for me (crashed the car whilst going fishing, snapped the tip of my rod, lost my bag off the cliff, lost my tiga headlight etc etc) things finally came right last Sunday night whilst fishing a mark near Hawsker bottoms at Whitby.

Our match started at 6pm and I fished a little gulley at the foot of the cliffs. After an hour with no bites I decided the mark was either empty or the strong crosswind was stopping me from fishing it properly as my gear was fast up on every cast. I pondered for a moment as to head into the gullies to my left (nearer the car - quicker to get away later in the evening) or to my right (one hell of a place to get back from at high tide and the tide was now rushing in). Remembering a fantastic catch by a fellow angler several years earlier in the same conditions I decided to go right. After 20 mins without seeing the rod twitch I thought "nothing here as well" When I started to wind in, just to confound my misery I was stuck fast), A couple of good pulls and my rotten bottom broke out but the rod was still bent over but I was retrieving line. Thinking it was weed I thought well what else can go wrong, then the weed kicked waking me up to the fact it was a fish that must have been laid on. I got it to the rocks below and picked it out, it was a nice fish of 6 pounds 8 ounces. Brilliant after going almost a full month without much to shout about I had one and a good one at that. Just makes you wonder how a 6 pounder can lay there and not move - bizarre but I have had 9 pounders do the same.
I cast straight back in with a bait I had prepared whilst watching the rod on the last cast. This time I had put different bait on the hook. After 20 mins nothing. I wound in dissapointed thinking there was only 1 fish there. Just to make sure I had a third cast with the same bait as the first cast - half a green peeler, 2 mussels and about a dozen small lugworm wrapped around a 6 o hook. Within minutes the rod lurched over and I was into another nice fish this time about 3-4 pounds. I unhooked it and wrapped a few more worms around the hook and cast straight back in. same thing happened again and with 5 mins I had another fish of about 5 pounds. Next cast same again but the fish came off half way in. Was the bait getting too big on the hook ?? bait up another and cast back in got 2 more fish to make a total of five. Next cast I lost another off half way in - again about 5 pounds. It was now getting late and it was nearly time to go. Just one more cast I thought hoping to get that 6th fish. After 15 mins the rod went right over again. I hit the bite but missed it so left it out for another 5 mins. Now I'm getting worried about missing the weigh in beacuse I've stayed longer than I should do. Just as I was going to wind in the rod goes again, but again I missed it. This time I had to go so wound in and set off back to the car. 45 mins later and after traversing rocks the size of houses I arrived back at the car then went onto the weigh in. I was absolutely kackered when I got back but glad my luck had finally returned, and somehow pleased I didn't get those extra fish - the bag was very heavy as it was when I climb up the 300 foot cliffs.

All in all not a bad night. Five fish for a weight of 23 pounds.

Whitby Sea Fishing Club - Results for January 2007

2007-02-05T06:17:00.000-08:00

Wednesday 31st January 2007

A bright moonlit evening met the members of Whitby angling club as they headed out to fish their midweek match on an ebbing to low water tide. With a slight northerly swell in the water expectations of good catches were high but for some reason the fish did not show in the bigger numbers seen over the previous weekend. Paul Kilpatrick was the night's top angler with a single codling of 2 pounds 7 ounces, Bernado Vasey came in second with a codling and a rockling for 2 pounds 4 ounces, Brian Harland took third with 2 billets and a rockling for 2 pounds 1 ounces.

Results : 1st Paul Kilpatrick 2-7(1), 2nd B Vasey 2-4(2), 3rd B Harland 2-1(3), D Thompson 1-15(1), D Hansen jnr 1-12(1), D Perett 0-6(1).

Sunday 28th January 2007

A dieing northerly sea swell met the Whitby sea anglers as they turned out to fish their 4 hour Sunday night match fished on a small low water to flood tide. Catches were better than of late with 16 anglers weighing in a total of 31 fish mostly codling. Glenn Kilpatrick was the nights top angler with 5 fish for exactly 23 pounds. Glenn’s bag now leads the way in the heaviest bag of the season competition and beats his previous seasons best bag of 19 pounds 5 ounces caught back in December. Brian Harland came in second with 3 codling for 13 pounds 2 ounces. Dave Perret took second place on the night with 4 codlings for 12 pounds 11 ounces.

Results: 1st Glenn Kilpatrick 23-0(5), 2nd Brian Harland 13-2(3), 3rd D Perett 12-11(4), P Kilpatrick 8-15(4), R Allison 6-13(3), D Thompson 5-10(4), A Cass 5-2(2), W Atkinso 4-15(2), D Smith jnr 3-7(1), T Wright 2-8(1), P Mead 2-1(1), A Kelly 1-13(1), D Waters jnr 1-12(1), B Vasey 1-11(1), J Gilpin 1-8(1), C Stainthorpe 1-7(1).

Wednesday 24th January 2007

A big north to north easterly sea swell met the Whitby sea anglers as they turned out to fish their weekly midweek match. Expectations of good catches were high after almost a month of flat calm seas, but as is often the case on the roughest nights the fish did not show in the numbers expected. Junior member Dan Craig continued his excellent season and came out on top in this match beating all the clubs senior members with a fine cod of 5 pounds 8 ounces. Rob Allison came in second with 2 codling for 4 pounds 13 ounces. Third place on the night went to Phil Mead with 1 cod for 4 pounds 5 ounces.

Results: 1st D Craig Jnr 5-8(1), 2nd R Allison 4-13(2), 3rd P Mead 4-5(1), D Hansen jnr 4-0(1), P Kilpatrick 4-0(2), D Perett 3-8(1), T Wright 2-8(1), A Craig 1-4(1), D Thompson 1-2(1).

Sunday 21st January 2007

Sunday saw 9 members of the Whitby sea angling club fish the bell trophy team event over in Scarborough. Fishing against teams from across the Yorkshire coast Whitby faired well coming in second only a few ounces behind the strong team fielded by Scarborough Rock Anglers Society. Five of the nine Whitby anglers managed to find fish. Colin Stainthorpe showed his knowledge of the Scarborough area coming in first with 3 codlings for 8 pounds 7 ounces. Paul Kilpatrick had a good day taking second with 2 fish for 7 pounds 3 ounces. Philip mead continues to find the single codling with 1 fish 1 pounds 12 ounces.

Results: 1st Colin Stainthorpe 8-7(3), 2nd P Kilpatrick 7-3(2), 3rd P Mead 1-12(1), W Atkinson 0-9(1), G Kilpatrick 0-8(1).

Wednesday 17th January 2007

A slight north westerly sea swell met the Whitby sea anglers as they turned out to fish their 3 hour midweek competition. This match was fished over low water which usually gives a good chance of catching codling from the scars and kelp beds which are exposed over the bottom of the tide. It was a great night for Colin Stainthorpe who caught a personal best cod of 10 pounds 5 ounces to win the match. Colin’s fish now takes the lead in the heaviest fish of the season competition narrowly beating Glenn Kilpatrick’s fish of 10 pounds 4 ounces caught on the 3rd of December. In second place was Rob Allison with a single fish of 6 pounds 8 ounces. Dave Perrett took 3rd place with 4 fish for 5 pounds 9 ounces.

Results: 1st Colin Stainthorpe 10-5(1), 2nd R Allison 6-8(1), 3rd D Perret 5-9(4), B Vasey 4-2(1), D Thomspon 2-10(2), P Mead 1-14, G Kilpatrick 1-1(1).

Sunday 14th January 2007

On a mild windy evening the Whitby sea anglers fished their 4 hour Sunday night match with a slight long distance northerly sea swell in the water. Twelve anglers returned to the scales with a selection of fish including codling, rockling, whiting and flounder. Glenn Kilpatrick managed 18 whiting to take 1st place with 14 pounds 2 ounces, Dennis Thompson took second with 3 codling and 4 rockling for 13 pounds 12 ounces. Paul Kilpatrick had 4 codling for 8 pounds 5 ounces to take third place.

Results : 1st G Kilpatrick 14-2 (18), 2nd D Thompson 13-12(7), 3rd P Kilpatrick 8-5(4), R Allison 6-10(1), W Atkinson 6-9(3), D Hansen 4-12(1), B Harland 4-9(4), D Perett 4-1(1), D Craig jnr 2-9(4), A Craig 2-7(5), C Stonethorpe 2-1(3), B Vasey 0-4(1).

Wednesday 10th January 2007

A moderate north westerly sea swell and coloured water gave good conditions for the Whitby sea anglers mid week match fished over high water. Catches were not quite as good as expected possibly due to the sea swell growing throughout the match. William Atkinson continued his good recent form and took 1st place with a mixed bag of 2 codling and 2 rocklings for 7 pounds 7 ounces. Rob Allison caught 3 codling for 6 pounds 14 ounces and came in second. Dave Perett came in third with 2 cod for 6 pounds 2 ounces. Dave had a rather unlucky night and could well have finished in first place as 2 fish he had caught earlier in the night were washed out of his bag never to be seen again by a wave.

Results : 1st W Atkinson 7-7(4), 2nd R Allison 6-14(3), 3rd D Perett 6-2(2), C Stainthorpe 4-15(1), B Harland 3-10(2), D Thompson 2-5(1), P Kilpatrick 1-13(1), P Mead 1-6(1), D Smith jnr 1-3(2),

Sunday 7th January 2007

On Sunday the Whitby Sea Anglers fished the annual Ship Inn Open match which also counted as their club match. Calm conditions meant the going was tough in this cod only match but anglers still managed to find the odd fish. Phil Mead had a great day and came in first in the Whitby club match with a fine cod of 9 pounds 6 ounces. Dave Perret took second with a codling of 1 pounds 15 ounces. Glenn Kilpatrick finished third with his codling of 1 pounds 9 ounces - Glenn also caught a ling of approximately 4 pounds which unfortunately he could not weigh in due to the cod only rule. Ling are very rare from the shore and this was possibly the first to be caught in the Whitby fishing club.

Results : 1st P Mead 9 pounds 6 ounces, 2nd D Perett 1-15(1), 3rd G Kilpatrick 1-9(1), P Kilpatrick 1-8(1), R Allison 1-6(1).

Ship Inn Open results to follow when I receive them from Paul.

Wednesday 3rd Januray 2007

A moderate north westerly sea swell provided good conditions for the Whitby sea anglers first match of 2007. The match was fished on an ebb to low water tide which can be very productive at this time of year. Berado Vasey had a fantastic nights fishing finding 4 cod for 15 pounds 4 ounces the biggest of which weighed 6 pounds 4 ounces. Bernado's bag and biggest fish set the pace in the clubs heaviest bag and fish competition for the month of January. Brian Harland took second place on the night with 2 fine cod for 10 pounds 3 ounces. Rob Allison finished 3rd with 3 cod for 7 pounds 11 ounces.

Results : 1st B Vasey 15-4(4), 2nd B Harland 10-3(2), 3rd R Allison 7-11(3), W Atkinson 7-8(3), G Kilpatrick 4-14(1), D Smith jnr 3-2(2), C Stainthorpe 2-13(1), D Perret 2-2(1), A Kelly 0-11(2), P Mead 0-7(1), J Gilpin 0-5(1).

St Mary's fishing club matches

2007-02-04T01:02:00.000-08:00

Brian Miller caught a cracking 7lb 8.5oz cod in the St Mary's match - but it wasn't enough to earn a top three spot and he lost a bigger one.

The drama unfolded at Runswick beach where he caught the biggest cod of the match but lost the better one when his line parted after a 15-minute battle.

Paul Lobley won with seven codling for 14lb 12.5oz from Port Mulgrave, in a match fished by 18, with seven weighing in a total of 20 codling.

Terry Dalton was runner-up with four codling for 12lb 12oz from Runswick, while Darren Dalton caught four for 10lb 15.5oz from Port Mulgrave.

Paul Lobley says

I had 7 for 14lb odd mate, nowt like the stamp of fish you had Sunday mate, i only had one good fish 5.5lb the rest were mops, but, which im sick of saying now, i lost an absolute monster.
i was reading a post about the filey lads ,about a massive fish keeps getting the better of more than one angler or something, this has me thinking, that maybe i have hooked the same fish twice down port, the one that nearly took my eye out when the real handle snapped off, i just dont know, but what i do know is that i lost something special sunday night, i've had doubles down there, this was a real pig with fins, :'(i miss my TTR)

For more details visit

St Mary's fishing club - cleveland and yorkshire coast cod fishing

Paul Lobley Wins The Hornsea Open 2007

2007-02-04T00:57:00.000-08:00

Fished the hornsea open 2 day and had a 7lb 7oz cod, which won me the match, i fished the same place i fished over x-mas pleasure fishing with chopper(kelpster), when i got a six pounder, so i thought mite as well go back to same spot, could'nt believe my luck when the exact same spot, with 200 plus angler's fishing, was up for grabs, after 2 crack off's, i was well cheesed, nomatter what i tried , nowt, so when our lass pulled in a slug, which sadly she couldnt weigh in, i thought i would scale my hooks down from a 6/0 - 4/0 "bloke in red overalls" pennel spesh to a 2/0 long pennel

To read more visit

Holderness coast - Hornsea open fishing match.

Tope At Bempton Cliffs ??

2007-02-03T09:14:00.000-08:00

In a recent Post to the Whitby fishing forum. North East Sea Angler Ray Maddison claims to have hooked into something rather large from the top of Bempton cliffs. With tope being on the increase in the north east on the Yorkshire coast perhaps this is what it was ?

While fishing down Bempton during one of the rock anglers summer matches last year I hooked into a fish which I believed at the time to be a Billet. After winding only a few turns my rod lurched over and I had to quickly press the release button on my reel to prevent the line from breaking. The fish sped off at breakneck speed much to the disappointment of my thumb! Suddenly it stopped and I even managed to move it back towards myself about 15yd. Once again it sped off, taking my line off down to the backing. I had no choice but to engage my reel and my line snapped like cotton. I can only assume that it was maybe a Tope. I know after talking to Chris Scaife he was catching them from his boat around that area at the time. It wasn,t a seal, the water was like a mill pond with thousands of birds lolling around, there's no way I could not have seen it had it surfaced. Has anyone else had any similar experience.

For more info visit

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,151.0.html

Tope fishing from the shore

Storing Lug Worm

2007-02-03T03:43:00.000-08:00

Paper is probably best if your going to use them. Trays of water in the fridge is a good way to prolong the life of any worm but I think it subtracts from their quality.

Some of the lads I know keep them in buckets of sand. I'm currently experimenting with trays of sand in my tank. Ill let you know how they come on.

I think the blacks may be lost mate (or is this age of politically correctness and awareness of a multitude of cultures perhaps we should call them worms from an ethnic minority). As your aware they are tempremental little buggers and will struggle to resettle. Best to go in water when you get them and change it daily with water of the same temp. Always beware when keeping them in water of the waters salinity. I once put all my whites in water to find them dead the next day. When I checked the water salinity it was the same as tap water, I had taken it from too near the outlet of a stream.

Hope that helps. I would be interested to learn how others keep their worms.

More information at

Storing Lug worms

Fishing At Cloughton Wyke

2007-02-03T03:39:00.000-08:00

Report From Martyn Wilding

Flushed with Friday's success, I opted to try for a piggy yesterday - went to Cloughton in search of a cod of the Ramrod stamp, but finished up with a few Kirpatrick-esque antics.

Arrived about 8pm, conditions looked good in the back of the wyke - nice swells rolling in, but good black water. Got a 3lber first cast, followed by a mop next cast - put both back. then as I was rebaiting, I turned round just in time to see the massive swell that swamped me!! Didn't have my waterproof on at the time, so whole of my left side got soaked, including what must have been a gallon down the chesties. Rod got swilled up the beach, rest went down the beach & bag fortunately stayed where it was - oddly enough when wave went back I found that in blind panic I'd held onto only my bucket, which contained virtually nothing of value!!

Retrieved my rod just as a second swell did similarly, & had just about given the rest up as lost, but fortunately it'd lodged amongst some rocks!! Only thing missing was my bucket lid (which washed back up 5 mins later).

After that, my dampened enthusiasm only lasted for another 2 or 3 casts, & this plus no more bites meant I packed up around 930. Should really have stayed for the ebb, but clothes were showing no signs of draining!! Couple of good things was it wasn't too cold, & that neoprene socks have proved that they're probably the best thing since sliced bread - although my left leg/ foot were soaked though, & I could feel water squelching about in the boot, my foot never felt wet or cold!! My sock was saturated, though!!

Probably going back out tonight - hope the session's a bit longer & dryer than last nights!!

Mart

Full report and comments at

Cloughton Wyke Cod Fishing

New Personal Best For Tim

2007-02-03T03:28:00.000-08:00

Whitby Angling Club Member ventured onto the rocks at Runswick bay and landed 4 cod for 18 pounds. The biggest fish was 8 pounds 7 ounces and is now Tim's new personal best fish. For a full report please visit.

Big Runswick Bay Cod For Tim

Robin Hoods Bay Cod Fishing

2007-02-03T02:26:00.000-08:00

In a recent outing to Robin Hoods Bay Scarborough Rock Angler Martyn Wilding caught 11 codling for 28 pounds to win his local Cloughton club Friday evening competition.

Martyn Says

Just back in from a good session at one of my favourite marks in RHB - started at 6pm & by 830pm had 10 codlings in the bag, plus another undersized went back, plus several good bites not converted.

Had to vacate the mark, leaving fish, as was in danger of getting cut off - went to another mark, but only 1 more codling came my way - did lose a couple more, though.

Weighed in for weekly club match, 11 codlings for 28lb - my best of the winter.

For full report and pictures please visit the link below

Robin Hoods Bay Cod Fishing

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New Forum Added To Sea Anglers Website

2007-02-03T01:44:00.000-08:00

After running an external forum for about a year I finally added a forum onto the Whitby sea anglers domain at http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php. The forum is for north east anglers including those who fish from both boat and shore for the multitude of species that swim off our coast at Whitby and the surround area from the Humber up to Northumberland.

The Whitby sea anglers forum has several boards including :

The North East Sea Fishing Board - An area to discuss anything about any type of fishing.

Members Pictures - A self explanatory board for pictures taken by the forums members includes some very interesting pictures of : cod caught off the north east coast, North east coast Tope and many other species.

North East Coast Sea Fishing Resource Board - Containing a list of sites and information which could be useful to anglers on our coast. Information includes : surf forecasts, weather forecast, rig making info, sites for learning to tie various knots, sites about north east fishing marks and much much more.

North East Charter Boats And Tackle Shops - Information on charter boats and tackle shops in the area including : Sea Otter 2, Shytorque, Whitby Angling Supplies and many others.

Non Fishing Chat - Where members can talk about anything they choose.

Ship Inn Open 2007

2007-01-08T00:15:00.000-08:00

In yesterdays Ship Inn Open match I caught a ling of all things from the shore. Unfortunately the match was a cod only competition so although the catch was significant for myself (my first ever shore ling) I returned the 4 pound fish to fight another day. On my last cast of the day I managed a small codling just short of 2 pounds which won me £50 for my efforts. There were 2 good sized fish brought to the scales in this match. Whitby club angler Phil Mead got his best of the season and came in second with a cod of 9 pounds 6 ounces. Scarborough angler Ray Maddison who seems to make a habbit of locating the big fish in these matches went one better and won the match with a cod of just over 10 pounds.

Recreational sea angling strategy - good or bad news for the reasons sea anglers ?

2006-12-30T12:46:00.000-08:00

Well the first draft of the recreational sea anglers strategy has been published and controversy over the document has ensued. Many anglers see this document as beneficial for the sea anglers of our country. However many including myself think that quite the opposite is true. I believe that the rsa strategy could potentially be damaging to sea angling.

Within the sea anglers strategy measures of control over angling are discussed and these include the possible introduction of a sea angling licence and restrictions on anglers catches through bag limits. With little or no evidence available of bag limits having a conservationist effect on fish stocks and the potential impact such measures could have on the uk's charter fleets and angling this measure I feel should be campaigned against and removed from the sea anglers strategy.

To read more of my thoughts on this issue please visit the rsa strategy page of the whitby sea anglers website.

Another Double

2006-12-21T13:01:00.000-08:00

After many years of Cod fishing on the Yorkshire coast I caught my first double figure cod back in Nov 2003. The fish weighed 14 pounds 8 ounces and was part of a 5 fish haul for 30 pounds exactly. I remember the night well (how could I forget it) and remember loosing another fish of similar size right at my feet on the same night. There was a huge south easterly swell running into Runswick bay and the water was the colour of chocolate. I missed several bites and half of the 4 hour match had gone before I got the first fish of about 5 pounds in weight, then on the next cast a felt a slight tap and I wound down hoping it was another bite. After a few seconds the rod lunged forward and when I hit it I knew it was the fish I'd been waiting for for all those years. I remmber how good it felt to see the scales at the weigh in go around to 14 pounds and I remmber hardly sleeping a wink with excitement that night.

Well 3 years later I hooked another. Not quite as big at 10 pounds 4 ounces but it still felt great. This time from Robin hoods bay but the sea direction was the same again although not quite as big. A south easterly with chocolate coloured water seems to be luck for me. Hopefully I'll get around to scanning the picture in soon. A fantastic fish that thought hard all the way to my feet, and again just like last time I lost another decent 1 on the next cast. Perhaps it is true what people say about double figure fish swimming together.

Whitby Fishing Club Results For December 2006

2006-12-21T12:58:00.000-08:00

December 2006

Sunday 17th December 2006 - Christmas Match

Sunday saw the members of the Whitby fishing club head out for their annual Christmas match between 2 and 7 pm. Anglers fished a light north westerly swell on a small ebbing tide with heavily coloured water in places. Eighteen anglers returned to the scales with a mixture of cod, whitings, flounders and rockling. William Atkinson was this years Christmas champion with 2 fine cod for 14 pounds 12 ounces. Within this match second place always goes to the angler with the heaviest single fish which this year was Colin Stainthorpe with a fine cod of 5 pounds 14 ounces. After the match all the anglers went to the fleece public house where all entrants of the match received a prize and a free Christmas meal. The club would like to thank Dave Perret for organising all the prizes, and The fleece landlord Mike for his hospitality and excellent cooking.

Results: 1st W Atkinson 14-12(2), 2nd (heaviest fish) C Stainthorpe 5-14 (total of 6-5 for 2 fish), G Kilpatrick 7-9(13), D Thompson 7-8(4), P Hoy 5-5(1), R Allison 4-15(2), P Mead 4-2(3), M Pitman 3-3(2), B Harland 2-12(3), D Waters jnr1-15(1), D Perett 1-15(2), P Kilpatrick 1-11(1), B Vasey 1-8(1), A Craig 1-7(2), D Mcarthy 1-3(2), D Craig jnr 0-15(2), J Kendrew jnr 0-14(1), J Ebbison 0-8(1).

Wednesday 13th December 2006

Gale forced south westerly winds again made the going difficult for the members of the Whitby Fishing club in their 3 hour mid week match fished on a small flood to high tide. Andy Craig had his first win since rejoining the club after several years away. Andy's bag of 8 whiting and 2 flounders weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces gave him joint first with Glenn Kilpatrick who had 9 whiting for the same weight. In third place on the night was Phil Mead with 7 whitings for 4 pounds 7 ounces.

Results: 1st A Craig 5-8(10) and G Kilpatrick 5-8(9), 3rd P Mead 4-7(7), P Kilpatrick 2-14(2), B Harland 1-9(2), M Breckon 1-8(2), T Wright 1-6(2), D Craig jnr 1-4(1), C Stainthorpe 1-3(2), D Perett 1-2(2), M Vasey 0-11(1), P Dryden 0-8(1).

Sunday 10th December 2006

Cloughton Open 2006

Heaviest Fish Match

Open Boundaries

Fishing 10am-4pm

Low water : 1.20 pm 2.2 ebb.

Sunday saw the members of the Whitby sea angling club fish the annual Cloughton Open match which was also the club match for this weekend. A slight north westerly swell and coloured water at most marks gave good conditions in this small low tide match. The winner was Cloughton's Alec Bayes with a cod of 5 pounds 12 ounces. Alec who is the Cloughton club's longest serving club member won £300. Second place went to Whitby club member Dennis Thompson with a cod of 5 pounds 3 ounces. Scarborough Matt Hillaby took 3rd with a cod of 4 pounds 12 ounces. The prize for the heaviest bag of codlings went to Scarborough angler Ray Maddison who caught 4 cod for 9 pounds 14 ounces.

Results : 1st Alec Bayes - Scarborough - 5lb 12oz , 2nd Dennis Thompson - Whitby - 5lb 3oz ,3rd Matty Hillaby - Scarborough - 4lb 12oz

Heaviest Bag of Codlings

Ray Maddison - Scarborough - 4 cod - 9lb 14oz

Congratulations to Alec, the club's Chairman & probably longest serving member.

Thanks to Duane & Julie at the Red Lion for their sponsorship & hospitality, all who gave prizes, the Tackle Shops who sold tickets for us, & finally & not least to all who entered.

Results of the Whitby Match

1st D Thompson 5-3(1), 2nd P Hoy 2-12(1), 3rd D Perett 2-7(1), W Atkinson 1-13(1), C Stainthorpe 1-4(1).

Wednesday 6th December 2006

With the prevailing weather still coming from the south west the conditions for sea fishing on the east coast remain less than perfect. Despite this whenever there has been a bit of swell there has been some good fishing as Dave Perett proved in Wednsday's ebb tide match. Dave managed to locate a venue where a slight long distance northerly sea swell was stirring the bottom which helped him catch 3 fish for 11 pounds 2 ounces, the biggest of which was a fine cod of 8 pounds 15 ounces. Glenn Kilpatrick came second with 16 whiting for 10 pounds 4 ounces. Bernado Vasey found a couple of decent sized codling for 5 pounds 13 ounces which gave him third place on the night.

Results : 1st Dave Perett 11-2(3), 2nd Glenn Kilpatrick 10-4(16), 3rd Bernado Vasey 5-13(2), M Breckon 3-8(4), D Thompson 2-0(2), D Waters jnr 1-10(1), R Allison 1-6(1), A Cass 1-4(2), P Hoy 1-4(1), M Vasey 0-13(1), C Stainthorpe 0-13(1), M Robinson 0-7(1), D Mcarthy 0-6(1), D Smith jnr 0-5(1), P Kilpatrick 0-5(1), P Mead 0-4(1).

Sunday 3rd December 2006

A storm forced south westerly wind made conditions difficult for the Whitby sea anglers as they turned out to fish their 4 hour Sunday night match over low water. A slight south easterly swell and heavily coloured water gave better prospects on the cod front and this was shown in the results with catches being up on the past few weeks. Glenn Kilpatrick had a good night weighing in 5 fish for 19 pounds 4 ounces the biggest of which was a fine cod of 10 pounds 4 ounces. Glenn's bag and fish now lead the way in the club competitions for the heaviest fish and bag for both the month of December and for the season. Paul Kilpatrick came in second on the night with 3 fish for 10 pounds 10 ounces, Paul also had a decent fish of 6 pounds 1 ounces. Brian Harland completed the places on the night with 5 fish for 8 pounds 8 ounces.

Results: 1st Glenn Kilpatrick 19-04(5), 2nd Paul Kilpatrick 10-10(3), 3rd Brian Harland 8-8(5), M Vasey 4-0(2), D Perett 3-12(4), A Kelly 3-2(1), D Mcarthy 2-3(2), P Mead 2-3(1), J Ebbison 1-14(2), D Thompson 1-8(2), T Wright 1-5(2), D Smith 0-9(1), D Sullivan 0-7(1).

Whitby Sea Fishing Club - Results for November 2006

2006-12-02T11:21:00.000-08:00

Wednesday 29th November 2006

The autumn storms and northerly swells from the start of the month now seem like an age ago. South or south westerly winds bringing calm seas seem to be dominating the weather at the moment and this means the chances of catching codling are few and far between. In Wednesday nights match the majority of anglers headed to the beaches in search of whiting and flounders, only Paul Kilpatrick managed to find a codling from the rocks. Glenn Kilpatrick won this match with 20 whitings for 12 pounds 12 ounces. Brian Harland caught 5 whiting and a flounder to take third place with 3 pounds 15 ounces. In third place was Mike Breckon with 5 whitings for 3 pounds 13 ounces.

Results : 1st G Kilpatrick 12-12(20), 2nd B Harland 3-15(6), 3rd M Breckon 3-13(5), W Atkinson 3-0(4), D Perett 2-4(2), P Kilpatrick 1-14(1), D Sullivan 1-5(2), P Dryden 1-4(3), J Kendrew 0-9(1), A Craig 0-9(1), B Vasey 0-7(1).

Sunday 26th November 2006 - Whitby Open

Sunday saw the Whitby Sea Anglers Association hold their annual open match between 10am and 4pm. With flat calm seas and bright sunlight, conditions were poor for codling fishing. Eighty Anglers fished and only 12 returned to the scales with fish.

In the senior section which was a cod only match the day belonged to Mick Chadwick of Scarborough who managed to land 5 codling's for a total weight of 8 pounds 7 ounces earning him a cheque for £400. In second place was Whitby angler Norman Brittain whose single fish of 4 pounds 9 ounces earnt him £200 plus an extra 50 pounds for the heaviest fish superpool. Philip France of Scarborough found 3 codlings weighing a total of 4 pounds 1.5ounces and took the cheque of £125 for third place.

The junior's competition was an any fish match with codling taking preference. Dave Smith won this section and had an excellent day landing the biggest fish in both matches. Dan's codling of 7 pounds 11 ounces earnt him a cheque for £50 and also takes the lead in the junior's biggest fish for the season competition. In second place was 6 year old Chris Mcarthy whose 1 pounds 4 ounce flounder won him a cheque for £30. Dan Craig took 3rd place with 1 whiting weighing 1 pounds 0 ounces earning him a cheque for £20

Overall Places

Seniors

M Chadwick 8-7(5) £400
N Brittain 4-9(1) £200
P France 4-1.5(3) £125
W Atkinson 3-13.5(1)
I Thompson 3-4.5(2)
P Mead 2-8.5(2)
H Moon 1-9.5(1)
M Wilding 1-8.5(1)
S Barker 1-7(1)

Juniors

1st Dave Smith 7-11(1) £50
2nd C Mcarthy 1-4(1) £30
3rd D Craig 1-0(1) £20

This match was also a Whitby Club match and the positions for WSAA are as follows :

Results: 1st D Smith jnr 7-11(1), 2nd W Atkinson 3-14(1), 3rd P Mead 2-9(2), D Mcarthy 1-0(1)

Dan Smith with his 7 pounds 11 ounces cod.

Wednesday 22nd November 2006

A slight to moderate sea swell gave good conditions in this 3 hour ebb tide match. Dave Perett continued his excellent recent form finding 7 fish for 17 pounds 9 ounces. Dave's biggest fish of the 7 weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and is now the heaviest fish for November and the season. Phil Mead came in second on the night with 3 fish for 8 pounds 2 ounces and Paul Kilpatrick took third with a solitary fish of 6 pounds 5 ounces.

Results : 1st D Perret 17-9(7), 2nd P Mead 8-2(3), 3rd P Kilpatrick 6-5(1), J Gilpin 3-12(2), D Thompson 3-8(3), W Atkinson 3-0(2), R Allison 2-11(2), C Stainthorpe 2-7(2), B Vasey 2-5(2), P Hoy 1-13(1), M Pitman 1-11(1), B Harland 1-11(1), D Hansen jnr1-7(1), J Ebbison 1-7(1), D Smith jnr 0-8(1), M Vasey 0-6(1).

Sunday 19th November 2006

Gale forced southerly winds and driving rain made the going tough for the Whitby sea anglers in their 4 hour Sunday night match fished over low water. A slight North easterly sea swell gave good conditions for codling fishing and only the extreme weather kept catches down. Malcolm Pitman caught his first cod in the club this year and came in first with 2 fish for 6 pounds 5 ounces. Mike Breckon continues to find the better sized whiting and returned to the scales with 4 whiting and a billet for 5 pounds 5 ounces. Colin Stainthorpe found 2 decent codling and weighed in a total of 5 pounds to finish the night in third place.

Results : 1st M Pitman 6-5(2), 2nd M Breckon 5-5(5), 3rd C Stonethorpe 5-0(2), D Mcarthy 2-8(4), D Craig 2-5(1), A Craig 2-2(1), G Middlemass 1-9(1), P Mead 1-9(2), D Thompson 1-6(1), A Kelly 1-4(1), D Pereet 1-1(2), J Ebbison 1-0(1), P Kilpatrick 1-0(1), M Vasey 0-15(1), T Wright 0-15(1), D Sullivan 0-11(1), G Shepherd 0-9(1), G Kilpatrick 0-8(1), B Harland 0-4(1),

Wed 15th November 2006

On a flat calm night with one of the smallest tides of the year hopes of catching codling were extremely low and most anglers again headed to the piers and beaches in search of Whiting. The poor conditions did not deter Dennis Thompson who persevered on the rocks and not only found 1 codling but caught a total of four and 1 rockling to take first place on the night with a weight of 6 pounds 2 ounces. Second place on the night went to Dan Mcarthy who weighed in 5 whiting for 2 pounds 5 ounces. Brian Harland with 4 whiting for 2 pounds 8 ounces took third place.

Results : 1st D Thompson 6-2(5), 2nd D Mcarthy 2-15(5), 3rd B Harland 2-8(4), M Breckon 2-5(3), R Allsion 1-14(2), P Short 1-10(2), P Mead 1-0(2), M Vasey 0-15(2), G Kilpatrick 0-8(1), A Cass 0-6(1), P Dryden 0-6(1).

Monday 13th November

Monday Night saw many of the club anglers out pleasure fishing in search of that one big fish to take the lead in the clubs competition for the heaviest fish outside of a club match. Glenn Kilpatrick managed 6 fish but nothing quite big enough to take over the lead from Mike Vasey. However Colin Stainthorpe managed a fish of 8 pounds 5 ounces which now leads the way in this competition.

Sunday 12th November 2006

A dieing north westerly sea swell gave good conditions for this 4 hour high water match. Catches were excellent with the cod appearing to be in abundance at most marks. Dave Perret's bag of 10 cod weighing 18 pounds not only won the match but takes the lead in the heaviest bag of fish competition, both for the season and the month of November. Second place on the night went to Glenn Kilpatrick with 8 fish for 17 pounds 5 ounces. In third was Rob Allison with 5 fish for 12 pounds 15 ounces.

Results: 1st D Perret 18-0(10cod), 2nd G Kilpatrick 17-5(8cod), 3rd R Allison 12-15(5cod), P Mead 10-1(6), D Hansen Jnr 8-7(4), P Kilpatrick 7-10(5), M Vasey 7-7(3), C Stainthorpe 6-11(3), B Harland 4-11(5), W Atkinson 4-0(3), D Craig jnr 3-7(2), A Craig 2-12(1), D Mcarthy 1-14(1), J Gilpin 1-11(1), A Kelly 1-9(1).

Thursday 9th November 2006

Whilst pleasure fishing tonight Mike Vasey landed the heaviest fish outside of a club match to date. Mike's cod weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces and was officially weighed by Bernado Vasey. Mike is four times winner of the club competition to catch the biggest fish outside of a club match, and if he makes it 5 the trophy could be renamed the Mike Vasey Big Cod Trophy. Past winners of this event include : John Butler with fish to 16 pounds, Colin Stainthorpe, Dennis Thompson and Glenn Kilpatrick. To enter the event club anglers simply need to catch a fish and have it weighed on the club scales and witnessed by a club member, or have the fish weighed in one of the tackle shops.

Wednesday 8th November 2006

Calm seas on a still night with an ebbing tide gave poor conditions for codling fishing, However those who persevered on the rocks were pleasantly surprised and 4 of the club members : Colin Stainthorpe, William Atkinson, Rob Allison and Dennis Thompson all managed to catch a small codling each despite the poor conditions. A lot of anglers headed to the beaches and piers in search of Whiting. Glenn Kilpatrick took first place overall with his catch of 14 whitings for 8 pounds 12 ounces, second place went to Charlie Breckon with 8 whitings and 2 dabs for 7 pounds 0 ounces. Brian Harland was third with 7 whitings for 4 pounds 6 ounces.

Results: 1st G Kilpatrick 8-12(14 whiting), 2nd C Breckon 7-0(10 fish - 8 whiting 2 dabs), 3rd B Harland 4-6(7 whiting), P Mead 3-5(5 whiting), P Short 2-5 (3 fish - 2 whiting 1 dab), J Kendrew jnr 2-0(3 whiting), W Atkinson 1-14 (1 cod), R Allison 1-9 (1 cod), C Evans 1-7(2 whiting), D Thompson 1-7(1 cod), C Stainthorpe 1-4(1 cod), D Perrett 1-3(2 whiting), D Craig jnr 1-2(2 whitings), B Vasey 0-10 (1 whiting).

Sunday 5th November 2006

Philip Mead landed his third cod of the season to win this ebb tide to low water match. Philip hooked his 4-4 ounces cod on his first cast of the night and went on to win his second match of the season. Fishing at the same venue, Paul Kilpatrick caught 2 codling and a rockling for second place. Andrew Cass came in third with 2 whiting and an eel for 2 pounds 12 ounces.

Results: 1st P Mead 4-4(1), 2nd P Kilpatrick 2-15(3), A Cass 2-12(3), J Gilpin 2-8(3), C Stainthorpe 2-8(3), B Harland 1-7(4), M Vasey 1-2(1), G Kilpatrick 0-15(1), D Thompson 0-13(1), P Dryden 0-8(1), D Craig jnr 0-6(1).

Wednesday 1st Novemeber 2006

A stormy autumn night greeted the Whitby sea anglers as they headed out to fish this low water to flood tide match. The sea was extremely rough meaning a lot of the usual fishing marks were un fishable and this was reflected in the results with only 8 of the clubs members returning to the scales with fish. Glenn Kilpatrick took first place with 5 fish for 11 pounds 7 ounces, the biggest being a cod of 5 pounds 8 ounces which gets the ball rolling in the heaviest fish competition for November. Mike Vasey found 2 fish for 6 pounds 3 ounces and finally managed to beat his fishing buddy Brian Harland who came in 3rd with 2 fish for 6 pounds 2 ounces.

Results : 1st G Kilpatrick 11-7(5), 2nd M Vasey 6-3(2), 3rd B Harland 6-2(2), T Wright 3-4(1), W Atkinson 2-12(2), C Stainthorpe 1-5(1), D Thompson 1-4(1), B Vasey 1-2(1).

Always Fish The Deep Water ............................. Not.

2006-11-27T06:28:00.000-08:00

Sunday 19th November - Remembering it was the Whitby Open on the 26th I started keeping an eye on the weather forecasts and surf predictors. Magic seaweed are giving moderate north easterlies and given the tide next Sunday is a small ebb of 2 metres I have just the place in mind to catch me a sack full of fish and win the open (Dreaming again just like I do every year - something everyone else does no doubt).

Monday 20th Magic seaweed changes its forecast again to a huge easterly. No problem I'm thinking head a few miles further north and another venue which will throw a big bag of fish out. Remember The catch of Dennis Thompson in the Robin hoods Bay victorian weekend comp a few years ago I picture myself pulling in those big fish and winning the event.

Tuesday 21st Again the surf dudes at the magic sea weed prove themselves to be less than magic - the forecast changes to a moderate south easterly and my thoughts switch back to the earlier mark - still confident of some fish.

Wednesday 22nd Forecast changes again to light south easterly. Head south to Robin hoods bay my mind tells me but Ill need an overcast day to get the fish as they dont like to run the shallow scars in sunlight.

Thursday 23rd The forecast changes to south westerly with no swell. I want to murder mr magic seaweed whoever he is. Well the only place I can think of is the deep water at bay ness end. There has been fish there but the tide isnt brilliant with the mark usually fishing on the bigger ebbs.

The forecast changes again and again over the next few days and now i'm convinced the weather forecasters should be on the dole. They are clueless as to what it is actually gonna do.

Saturday 25th Its definately gonna be flat. I get my bag ready for the morning. 30 sinkers (the ground is a touch heavy and with cross winds you can loose a lead a cast). Trace wallet is filled and every thing else readies for the morning.

Sunday 26th Get up get ready. Packed all my bait including 30 crabs - 20 gulley worms two pots of mussel and a flask full of my secret bait which is at times deadly. Headed off to Robin hoods bay and on arrival immediately noticed there is a slight south easterly swell coming in and the water is coloured like chocolate. Im certain to catch fish in that im thinking then bang into my mind comes doubt its beaming sunlight the fish dont like the sun when you fish the shallows. Dilema ? what to do ? half an hours walk to the deeper marks or fish the scars at bay ? Half heartedly I decide to do both - fish the scars then if I dont get anything head to the deap water and try there. Cast in about 10.10 am and not a bite for the first cast. Cast in again. Then Philip Mead comes around the corner heading to the deeper water spots. Phils full of confidence and dashes off quickly - I watch him head off around the next corner and out of site. Should I stay here or follow Phil ? well 2 casts and no bites means I should head off - its too bright to fish the shallows my head says so I follow Philip around the corner.

I get around the corner and cast in. It gets to low water and noone has had a bite except Philip who has caught a billet but we cant weigh them in today because its a codling only match. There is 8 of us fishing and nothing is coming out. Phil makes up his mind to go back inside to where I started. Thinking I might get a big fish soon I stay where I am and start casting out a 6o pennel rig full of bait. 3 oclock arrives, philip is long gone and still no fish. Should I go inside and try with philip ? Still looks too bright I'm thinking - Stick it out in the deep water. At 3.30 my day is over and to get safely back to the car without being cut off by the tide I must leave now so pack up and set off on the half hour walk back to the car. I pass Philip on the way back to the car and the smile on my face tells me he has been succesful. 2 small codlings says Philip - perhaps not enough to win but at least its something. MAkes me wonder what could have happened if I stayed there all match. Too late for thet now though so I make a mental not of it for next time - Philip caught fish in bright sunshine.

So next time my head says fish the deep water on a sunny day what will I do ? Well I wont know untill next time will I but At least I'll have the confidence to try it a little longer next time.

We all get back to the weigh in and only 11 anglers have caught fish. Not many of the Whitby lads have even had a bite never mind caught anything. However local JUnior Dave Smith has shown the seniors how to do it and has weighed in a cod of almost 8 pounds - great day for Dave - well done. Philip gets 6th which isnt bad.

The day is rounded off with a great big bowl of stew, a few pints and a laugh with the lads. I spent half an hour trying to get 6 quid im owed from PK but he is that tight his arse is squeeking on the way to the bar.

All in all not a bad day - maybe would have been better for the short casters like me if the earlier predicted swell had been present.

The moral of the story is take no notice of any long term weather and swell forecasts, and you don't always have to fish the deep water on a daytime.

Seniors

M Chadwick 8-7(5) £400
N Brittain 4-9(1) £200
P France 4-1.5(3) £125
W Atkinson 3-13.5(1)
I Thompson 3-4.5(2)
P Mead 2-8.5(2)
H Moon 1-9.5(1)
M Wilding 1-8.5(1)
S Barker 1-7(1)

Juniors

1st Dave Smith 7-11(1) £50
2nd C Mcarthy 1-4(1) £30
3rd D Mcarthy 1-0(1) £20

Niel Ingliss' mate with a nice wrasse

Waiting for a bite - We would probably still be waiting now

Phil Mead down to an early Billet bite

Rotten Bottoms

2006-11-23T12:49:00.000-08:00

Rotten bottom rigs are a great help for anglers wanting to fish the rough ground. Rotten bottom rigs are very simple to make and easy to use and I have written an article on the Whitby sea anglers website about how to tie a rotten bottom and use them for rough ground fishing in kelp and rocky areas. A rotten bottom rig is just a simple everyday fishing rig with a weaker line between your rig body and your weight which allows you to snap off your lead weight should it become fast in the rough ground. To read more about Rotten Bottoms please click here

Sandsend Car Park

2006-11-23T04:56:00.000-08:00

I have been doing some more work on the Whitby sea anglers website and have added some more venues to the fishing marks database. The most recent additons to the site are Steetley pier in Hartlepool and Sandsend car park near whitby

Sandsend car park is an excellent fishing venue for anglers who want something simple and easy. Cod, bass, whiting, coalfish, flounder and mackerel are amongst the species available at this mark.

Steetley is one of the best pier fishing marks on the north east coast. Cod bass and whiting again form the mainstay of the catches.

To read more please visit :

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/steetley-pier.php

and

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/sandsend-car-park.php

A shortage of winter storms

2006-11-20T13:58:00.000-08:00

When the weather has been kind to us this year the cod fishing has been excellent. Last Sunday saw Club angler Dave Perett land 10 cod in the the 4 hour match, and its a long time since I remember anyone doing that in the Whitby Fishing club matches. There does indeed seem to be an increase in the amount of codling about on the north east coast this year. Lets hope some survive the onslaught of the local trawler fleet and there hoover everything up policy.

Looking specifically at the weather this year, the mild conditions and off land winds have kept my fishing efforts to a minimum in fact I can count on 1 hand the number of times I've been out pleasure fishing since September. There just seems to be a lack of those northerly gales which usually signal its time to get the rod out the shed and head out onto the rocks, and with time passing by so quickly I feel the weather is denying us the opportunity to sample some of the best cod fishing to be seen on the coast for about 10 years. I have my fingers crossed for some Northerlies through December then hopefully we will start to see the cod in numbers and hopefully we will also see some quality fish.

Pictures of Northerly seas on November 1st 2006

Mick Hillerby Memmorial Trophy

2006-11-20T13:51:00.000-08:00

Sunday The 12th November was the Mick Hillaby Memorial match day, the 70 odd competitors were met with a fresh North Westerly Sea and bright sunshine, the eventual winner was Ray Maddison whose 12lb 13oz bag narrowly beat Dave Bielby in to second place, in all 22 anglers weighed in which is about average for the size of turnout and due to the generosity of the anglers and the people who attended the charity night over £1400.00 was raised.

Mick Hillaby Memorial Match Result

1-R Maddison, 2-D Bielby, 3-D Gyte, 4-R Allinson(Whitby), 5-D Thompson(Whitby)
6-P Atkinson

Heaviest Single Fish P Atkinson.

Yorkshire And Lincolnshire Associtaion Of Sea Anglers

2006-11-20T13:36:00.000-08:00

Over the past few days I've been doing a bit of work on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire association of sea anglers (YALASA) website. The association is a group of local sea anglers led by Marine Biologist Nigel Procter. The primary aim of the group is to promote and develop the sport of recreational sea angling within Yorkshire and Lincolnshire area. In order to achieve this aim the group will work to influence the policies set by inshore fisheries managers and local government authorities by ensuring an awareness of the considerable social and economic benefits of sea angling.

The main reason of this post is to draw the attention of our readers to this website and the valuable work done by YALASA. So if you have a few minutes spare why not head over to the Yalasa website and take a look.

www.yalasa.co.uk

Policy Statement Of YALASA

About Yalasa

Members Of Yalasa

Minutes of the yalasa meetings

Letters sent by yalasa

Contact Details For Yalasa

Useful Conservation contacts

Whitby Sea Fishing Club - Results for October 2006

2006-10-27T11:56:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 25th October 2006

Monsoon like conditions met the members of the Whitby fishing club as they turned out to fish their midweek 3 hour match. Conditions were again favourable for codling fishing with a mixed northerly and south easterly swell in the water. Paul Kilpatrick was the nights top angler finding 3 fish for 9 pounds 1 ounce. Junior member Daren Hansen in second proved his ability to compete well with the seniors with 4 fish for 7 pounds 7 ounces. Dennis Thompson caught the most cod (4) of the night and took 3 rd place with 4 fish for 5 pounds 9 ounces.

Results: 1st Paul Kilpatrick 9-1(3), 2nd Darren Hansen 7-7(4), 3rd Dennis Thompson 5-9(4), G Kilpatrick 5-8(2), D Perett 5-0(2), T Wright 3-2(4), B Harland 3-1(2), R Allison 3-1(2), C Stainthorpe 2-13(2), C Evans 1-4(2), B Vasey 0-14(1), M Vasey 0-7(1), W Atkinson 0-5(1).

Sunday 22nd October 2006

An un seasonally warm night with heavy rain showers greeted the Whitby sea anglers as they turned out to fish on Sunday night. A light to moderate long distance northerly sea swell and coloured water gave excellent conditions for codling fishing through this 4 hour ebb tide match. Brian Harland continued his excellent start to the season catching 6 fish for 11 pounds 14 ounces. Glenn Kilpatrick came in second with 3 fish for 6 pounds 2 ounces. In third place was Rob Allison with 4 fish for 6 pounds.

Results : 1st Brian Harland 11-14(3 cod & 3 rockling), 2nd Glenn Kilpatrick 6-2(3 cod), 3rd Rob Allison 6-0(4 cod), B Vasey 5-0(5), J Ebbsion 4-8(3), P Kilpatrick 4-8(2), C Stonethorpe 4-1(3), D Thompson 3-3(2), W Atkinson 2-14(2) D Hanson 209(1), M Vasey 1-9(3), C Evans 1-4(2), D Perett 1-3(1), D Craig 1-2(1), A Cass 1-2(2), D Smith 0-11(2), J Gilpin 0-9(1).

Wednesday 18th October 2006

A growing long distance northerly sea swell gave good conditions for cod fishing in this low tide match. Catches were the best to date with 23 anglers returning to the scales with fish. Dennis Thompson was the nights best angler with 5 cod for 13 pounds and now leads the way in the competition for heaviest bag of the month. Second place went to George Middlemass with 3 cod for 8 pounds 12 ounces. Last years league winner Rob Allison came in third on the night with 3 cod for 8 pounds 4 ounces.

Results: D Thompson 13-0(5 cod), 2nd George Middlemass 8-12(3 cod), 3rd Rob Allison 8-4(3 cod), B Harland 8-0(2), G Kilpatrick 7-0(3), P Kilpatrick 6-2(5), P Hoy 4-4(2), D Hanson 4-3(5), D Mcarthy 2-14(5), M Robinson 2-8(2), D Waters 2-7(2), M Vasey 2-1(4), A Kelly 1-14(3), P Mead 1-13(2), T Wright 1-11(3), W Atkinson 1-9(1), C Stainthorpe 1-8(2), D Sullivan 1-4(2), B Vasey 1-2(1), D Smith 1-1(2), D Craig 0-12(1), C Breckon 0-9(1), G Shepherd 0-8(1).

Sunday 15th October 2006

Big pollock caught from Whitby west Pier by Dan Craig

Sundays match was fished on a small flooding tide with flat calm seas. As usual these conditions meant the fish were hard to find for most. However the poor conditions had little effect on Junior member Dan Craig who won the match outright with a Pollock weighing 5 pounds 13 ounces. Dan's personal best fish now leads the way in the competition for the heaviest fish within the clubs junior section. In second place was Dennis Thompson with 3 rocklings for 2 pounds 3 ounces, closely follow in third by Dave Perret with 2 codlings for 2 pounds 2 ounces. Charlie the Pollock Breckon also landed a nice pollock which would have taken second place on the night but unfortunately he missed the weigh in due to work commitments.

Results : 1st Dan Craig 5-13(1), 2nd D Thompson 2-3(3), D Perett 2-2(2), A Kelley 1-12(2), D Smith 0-15(1), G Middlemass 0-13(1) A Cass 0-11(2), J Gilpin 0-9(2), C Stainthorpe 0-9(1), M Vasey 0-8(1), W Atkinson0-5(2).

Please double click on Dan's Pollock for a full sized picture.
Wednesday 11th October 2006

After taking second place in Sunday evenings match Philip Mead went one better tonight and won with 14 whiting for 9 pounds 13 ounces. It just goes to show how strange sea fishing can be at times as Phil's fishing partner Dave Perett fished next to Philip most of the night with the same bait but only managed to catch 2 fish whilst Phil landed 14. William Atkinson's years of angling experience shone through yet again as he managed to take the majority of fish from his chosen venue whilst those around him could only stand and watch, William landed 3 cod for 6 pounds 12 ounces and took second place in the match. Brian Harland concluded the nights placing's with 3 fish for 5 pounds 2 ounces.

Results: P Mead 9-13(14), W Atkinson 6-12(3), B Harland 5-2(3), R Allison 2-13(1), J Gilpin 2-5(2), C Stainthorpe 2-2(1), G Middlemass 1-11(1), D Perret 1-6(2), D Smith 1-2(2), M Vasey 1-1(2), D Craig 0-14(1).

Sunday 8th October 2006

Whitby sea anglers turned out to fish a big ebbing tide and flat calm seas for this evenings match. For the second Sunday running Dave Perett caught well and returned to the scales with a mixed bag of 6 codlings, 2 pouting and a dogfish to earn first place on the night with a total weight of 10 pounds 10 ounces. Philip mead took second with 10 whiting for 5 pounds 4 ounces, and was closely followed in third by Glenn Kilpatrick with 9 whiting for 4 pounds 15 ounces.

Results : 1st D Perett 10-10(9 fish), P Mead 5-4(10), G Kilpatrick 4-15(9), P Kilpatrick 3-2(2), B Vasey 2-15(5), B Harland 2-6(5), M Vasey 1-14(3), A Cass 1-7(2), D Mcarthy 1-5(2), J Gilpin 1-1(3), C Stainthorpe 0-15(1), W Atkinson 0-13(2), D Sullivan 0-8(1), D Smith 0-8(1), M Breckon 0-6(1).

Wednesday 4th October

A Light to moderate northerly sea swell provided better conditions for the Whitby Sea Anglers mid week match fished over low water. However this also made things difficult as the sea state meant it was too rough to fish some venues whilst not rough enough for many others. George Middlemass' experience shone through and enabled him to choose the right venue to catch 3 fish for 10 pounds 11 ounces giving him 1st place on the night. George's bag, the heaviest of the month to date, also included a fine cod of 7 pounds 8 ounces which sets the pace for the heaviest fish of the month competition. Wednesday nights second place angler was Brian Harland with 6 codlings for a total of 9 pounds 2 ounces. Aidrian Kelly took third place with 3 fish for 8 pounds 11 ounces and continues to be one of the clubs most improved anglers over the past couple of years.

Results: 1st George Middlemass 10-11(3 Cod), 2nd B Harland 9-2(6 Cod), 3rd A Kelly 8-11(3 cod), P Short 7-14(3), G KIlpatrick 6-11(1), D Hanson jnr 2-8(2), M Vasey 2-7(2), D Mcarthy 1-13(2), D Craig 1-11(2), D Waters1-5(1), D Perett 1-4(1), J Ebbison 1-3(1), T Wright 1-1(1), B Vasey 0-8(1), P Kilpatrick 0-8(1), J Kendrew jnr 0-6(1).

Sunday 1st October

The smallest of neap tides, flat calm seas and gin clear water meant the conditions were not good for sea angling in Sunday nights 4 hour match. There seemed to be a lot of fish about that were just under the legal size limit but finding any above that size proved difficult. Dave Perret was the top angler on the night with 4 codlings and 1 pouting from his chosen mark. Glenn Kilpatrick came in second and Colin Stainthorpe third, both with mixed bags of fish. The matches so far this year have seen an increase in the amount of pollock being brought to the scales, tonight's match saw both Mike Vasey and Charlie the Pollock Breckon catch decent sized fish.

Results : 1st D Perett 6 pounds 4 ounces (5 fish, 4 codling 1 pouting), 2nd G Kilpatrick 3-10(5 fish, 3 Billet 2 Whiting), 3rd C Stainthorpe 2-9 (3 fish, 1 codling 2 rockling), W Atkinson 2-8(3), J Gilpin 2-5(4) M Vasey 2-4(1 Pollock), M Breckon 1-10 (1 pollock), B Harland 1-1(1), P Mead 1-1 (1), R Allison 0-15(1), G Shepherd 0-12(1), D Sullivan 0-7(1).

Wednesday 27th September 2006

Wednesday saw the start of the 6 month season for the Whitby Sea Anglers fishing club. Strengthening winds and heavy showers met the anglers as they turned out to fish at their chosen fishing marks. Catches were reasonably good given that the sea was flat calm and there was little colour to the water. Glenn Kilpatrick won the evenings match with a mixed bag of 1 codling, 1 coalfish, and 2 whitings for 3 pounds 7 ounces. In second place was Colin Stainthorpe with 2 codlings for 3 pounds 5 ounces. Paul Short from Guisborough took third with 1 codling and 2 coalfish for 3 pounds 4 ounces.

Results : 1st G Kilpatrick 3-7(4 fish), 2nd C Stainethorpe 3-5(2), 3rd P Short 3-4(3), A Cass 3-0(2),D Smith 1-14(3), B Harland 1-14(2), J Gilpin 1-14(2), T Wright 1-11(3), G Shepherd 1-3(2), D Perett 1-2(2), M Vasey 0-15(2), J Kendrew 0-15(2), C Evans 0-14(2), P Atkinson 0-8(1)

League positions are available on the Whitby sea anglers league table page

Rough Seas At Whitby - 27 th October 2006

2006-10-27T10:51:00.000-07:00

It appears the weather men got it wrong today. With only light to moderate swell forecast some of the Whitby fishing boats put to sea early this morning. But the sea swell came much bigger than expected and the lifeboat had to go out and escort some of the boats back into port. Thankfully everyone got home safe and well.

Whitby Trawlermen could be out of cod quota in 3 weeks time.

2006-10-21T03:09:00.000-07:00

THIS year's cod quota could run out in three weeks a local fishing industry head has told the Whitby gazette.

Dave Winspear, managing director of Whitby's Alliance Fish, said the Government's limits mean fish caught accidentally will have to be thrown overboard and left to die as fisherman will not be allowed to land them.
The stark warning comes in the wake of year-on-year warnings that traditional North Sea fish stocks are seriously depleted.
And scientists from the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas have again said a complete ban on cod fishing is the only way to prevent the species dying out in the North Sea.
But conversely industry experts report an upturn in the numbers of fish being caught in the North Sea.
It overturns government warnings about low stocks, the basis of its clampdowns on fishing levels.
The East of England Fish Producers Organisation (EEFPO) says there has been a "phenomenal" increase in catches this year, particularly of fish such as cod, whiting and saithe.

To read More please visit the Whitby gazette website

Fishing At Filey Brigg

2006-10-17T12:47:00.000-07:00

Filey Brigg is no different to all rock fishing venues in that it is extremely dangerous to fish. Anglers should not think of fishing any rock fishing marks for the first time without the assistance of a local with expert knowledge of the area. Filey Brigg is notoriously dangerous and largely in accessible to most anglers except those with local knowledge. Restricted access to the brigg at low tide only gives access to some excellent fishing marks though.
Filey Brigg is known to most anglers right across the UK - Filey brigg - a large rocky outcrop just north of filey holds some excellent fishing for those willing to learn the venue. Cod well into double figures, pollock and bass of good sizes are caught there every year.

To read more about fishing at Filey Brigg please visit the Filey Brigg advice page on the whitby sea anglers website

Keeping Peeler Crabs In The Fridge Untill You Need To Use Them

2006-10-17T12:32:00.000-07:00

Your Peeler crabs are at their very best for use as fishing bait when they start to get a hairline crack aroun their shell. At this point in time many anglers peel the crabs, wrap them in cling film and freeze them down for use at a later date. Sometimes crabs are ready for use at the same time as you are going fishing so they then make an excellent bait to use whilst still fresh. At certain times of year Fresh peeler crabs will outfish those that have been frozen. You are simply wasting your time fishing next to an angler who has fresh crabs on their hook. In order to have fresh peelr crab for their next fishing trip many anglers store there peelers with cracks in the shell in cat litter trays in the fridge. Storing peeler crabs at low temperatures halts the moulting process and allows you to keep peeler crabs that are ready for use for up to a week (sometimes longer). To learn how to keep your peeler crabs in the optimun state for fishing untill your next trip please visit the Keeping Peeler crabs page on the Whitby sea anglers website

Keeping White ragworms

2006-10-17T12:21:00.000-07:00

There is an extreme amount of effort in locating and digging white ragworms, far too much effort to get them home and let them die before your next fishing trip. The fishing trips where you will use your white ragworms may be well into the future. Some people often keep them many months before they actually thread their white rag ono the hook. It is essential therfore that you do your very best to keep them in prime condition untill that time when you plan to use your white ragworm. This guide on keeping White rag will give you all the information to enable you to keep these deadly baits in prime condition for several months. To read the report in full please visit the keeping white ragworm page on the whitby sea anglers website.

6 Pound Pollock For Whitby Club Junior Member

2006-10-16T00:25:00.000-07:00

Whitby sea anglers match on Sunday 15th October 2006 was fished on a small flooding tide with flat calm seas. As usual these conditions meant the fish were hard to find for most. However the poor conditions had little effect on Junior member Dan Craig who won the match outright with a Pollock weighing 5 pounds 13 ounces.

For more info about the whitby fishing club please visit www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/index.php

Sea Otter 2 - 2006 - The Best Year For A Long Long Time

2006-10-12T12:48:00.000-07:00

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.

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

John Egan Festival winner 2006 22 pound ling

Sea Otter 2 with Chieftain Charters in The Background

News From Scarborough fishing clubs - 10 pounder for Mick in the Bridlington Open

2006-10-12T04:57:00.001-07:00

Anglers venturing out over the last week have had some good returns and the slight bit of sea that appeared mid week last week encouraged a few more cod to show on the northern marks that have not faired as well over the recent weeks, the best catches have still come from the south of the town with Filey Brigg and Bempton tops still providing the best results and with the nights drawing in rapidly the whiting are on the increase for the pleasure angler. On Sunday a good number of anglers turned out for the Phil Rounding Memorial Trophy run be Bridlington Sea Angling Club, the winner who took first place and £250.00 with a nice cod of 10lbs 5ozs from Filey Brigg was Scarborough angler Mick Chadwick, Mick also took second place with another cod of 6lbs 6ozs. This Thursday should have seen the start of the Angling League but unfortunately due to a lack of teams the league has been disbanded.
This weekend sees the first matches in the Rocks and South Cliff Angling Club's calendars with Dave Bielby and Pete Dunn defending their club championships they won last year, and next Thursday night sees the start of the South Cliff Open Night Matches.

Phil Rounding Memorial Trophy Result

1-Mick Chadwick- 10.5.0, 2-M Chadwick 6.6.0, 3-S Aklam(Bridlington)5.2.8 4-M Cliff(Bridlington) 4.14.8, 5-I Thompson 3.14.8, 6-D Medd 3.14.0

Juniors

1-T Cliff 2.3.8, 2-T Marshall 2.2.8,3-T Marshall 1.0.0

Thanks to Pete Atkinson for allowing us to use his Evening news report

Match Fishing - Fishing the Whitby Fishing Club Matches

2006-10-05T00:11:00.000-07:00

Ive enjoyed fishing the Whitby Fishing club matches the past few years, but have to admit at times I also find it a touch stressful. My aim is always to do as well as possible. I must admit I never have thoughts of winning the fishing club (too many good anglers about) but every year I hope to do my best.
There are nights when things go really wrong, like last night for example. The sea just want as rough as I had hoped meaning my first choice venue was really out of the question, yet it was still too rough for some of the marks I would fish had it been calmer. I spent a while looking at the sea yesterday teatime and settled on a mark I knew could provide a fish or 2 if the sea state dropped just a little.
I got there at 6.45pm and immediately noticed the tide hadnt ebbed as far as I would have liked, Still 2 hours to low though so I opted for another mark near by. Knowing it was really too rough for this mark I cast in anyway but was faced by white water for most of the time and the conditions just didnt look right for a fish. However I got one bite but missed it. I cast in again hoping there may be others about but the sea just seemed to get rougher. Not a chance of a fish here I thought so I headed off to another mark the other side of the one I really wanted to fish as the tide still hadnt ebbed far enough - However conditions werent really right for here either - not rough enough this time. On the first cast I had a good bite, most likely a small codling but it never returned, upon winding in after 20 mins I noticed there was a huge dogger crab attached to the hook, infact the hook was right inside its mouth. The fish had obviously tried to shake the dogger of the bait but as the hook was in the crab there was nothing to catch the fish on - More bad luck I though - what more can go wrong. Had another cast in the same place, whilst waiting for a bite I noticed a lot of activity at the next mark along "are they catching lots of fish ???? should I move to them ????" I decided to stay where I was - I always thinks its best to ignore everyone else and concentrate my efforts on the place I have chosen. After 10 mins I saw one of the lads from the other mark pack up and head back past me heading for the mark I really wanted to fish. Noticing the angler looked in my bag for fish on his way past I knew it would be Paul Kilpatrick - Well who else would go poking about in your bag.
I quickly wound in and followed him knowing the tide would be far enough out to fish the one place I knew I had chance of some fish. Its now 8.45 and the night was getting on. First cast I had a bite but it never came back. Quickly cast in again and waited (all the time with Paul in my ear telling me we were in the wrong place, with the wrong bait at the wrong time, other people would be catching, and listing 50 different places that would be far better than the one we were fishing. Again I told myself to ignore my thoughts and Paul and stick to what I know. If I was going to get a fish from anywhere now it would be here. Paul eventually moved on and left me on my own. 2 more casts gave me a small undersized Billet. With the tide now floding in I waded out and had what I knew would be my last cast of the night where I knew I had chance of a fish. Its 9.20 and I let a load of slackline out and go back to my bag - where it was safe as standing waste deep in a flooding tide is not the best of ides. I felt what I thought might of been a bit but nothing significant. After 20 ins I went to wind in knowing my night was over without a fish. I thought i was snagged on the bottom but then noticed I was retrieving line. I winched in a dead weight knowing it wasnt a fish. Must be a great ball of weed I thought. By the time I got it to the side my arms were aching. I finally retrieved the weed and went to pick it out the water. As I sone my light on it I noticed it wasnt weed at all but a nice big cod foul hooked through the tail. Well that rounded off a dreadful night nicely. One more cast without the chance of a fish (to far back now due to incoming tide). I packed up and headed of to the weigh in. The fish that I thought was weed was just short of 7 pounds and gave me 5th place on the night. Not a bad way to round off a poor nights fishing.

Match fishing can do your head in but I will be back on Sunday for more of the same.

New Blog On The Block - East Anglia Sea Angling

2006-10-03T08:52:00.000-07:00

A recent addition to sea angling blogs on the net comes from Holmsey off The Anglers Net Forums.
His blog entitled East Anglia Sea Angling details the fishing activities of Aitch and his mates down the coast in East Anglia - of all places. His early posts show the diversity of sea fishing on that part of the coast with Sole, Bass, Smoothound, Spotted Rays and Codling being amongst the reported catches.

By the looks of it Paul Kerry is one of his fishing buddies and perhaps may make the odd appearence on the blog.

Anyone interested in reading the blog should head on over to The East Anglia Sea Angling Blog by clicking here. Ill be a regular reader myself and have added the site to my rss feed.

Tope Consultation - We need your help - Time is running out - Dont sit there thinking this does not concern you - as an angler it does so please reply

2006-10-02T12:51:00.000-07:00

Right lads we need your help. Anglers need to reply to the Tope Consultation Plan currently being undertaken by DEFRA.

Ive had this email from Leon at Sea anglers conservation network and feel it needs a wider audience.

Would those of you from this forum who have replied to defra please put their names below. Anyone who hasnt replied by the closure date will be deleted from the forum - So there ;)

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email from Leon

To all SACN Members,

Just a gentle reminder that time is running out for the opportunity to respond to the DEFRA consultation on Tope, which closes on 20th of this month.

As the value of shark fins soar in the Far East, it is important that as many people as possible respond to the consultation to drive home the need to protect this species from the growing market for tope products.

So whether you currently fish for tope or not, please try to get in a response supporting option 2, and convince your club and friends to do likewise.

If this opportunity is lost, and a directed fishery is developed whilst tope remain unprotected, future regrets will be too late.

DEFRA are particularly anxious to attain any data that can be used to illustrate the value of the Recreational Tope fishery, and how that has been affected by the decline in large tope, and the potential of the sector should tope populations be recovered, so information about personal expenditure, or from club records etc will be welcomed.

For details of the consultation, and other information, please see the menu to the left of the SACN main website, which includes links to Save Our Sharks which contains much additional information and discussion on the forums there.

Regards - Leon Roskilly

Sea Anglers' Conservation Network (SACN)

http://www.sacn.org.uk/

Whale Watching At Whitby - Minke Whales Sited In Whitby Bay

2006-10-02T09:56:00.000-07:00

Whilst fishing on Sunday night on the west pier at Whitby we noticed that the Eskbelle pleasure trip boat was advertising Whale watching trips. Interested in finding out more I visited their site. It appears there have been Minke whales sited a couple of miles off Whitby for the past few days now and passengers on the eskbelle have been enjoying watching them.

If your interested in taking a look there is some pictures available at the following link

http://homepage.mac.com/dr_pete/Whales/index.html

Not the Minke whales in question but borrowed from another site.

Picture of Minke Whale courtesy of : http://www.orcahome.de/orcapici.htm

Whitby east pier - reply from councillour G Allanson

2006-09-30T12:09:00.000-07:00

Pier pressure in finding the money for essential repairs

From: Coun G Allanson, Scarborough Borough Council, West Street, Muton, Filey.
I REFER to the letter from Mr Glenn Kilpatrick regarding East Pier, Whitby (Yorkshire Post, August 18).
In the letter, Mr Kilpatrick says that "the Borough Council always passes on the blame, saying that there is no budget for repairs".
I would like to reassure him, and your readers, that the council is not seeking to attribute blame in this matter. However, with some 14 km of coastal defence structures to maintain, it is not always possible to effect repairs or enhancements as quickly as we would all like.
The piers at Whitby are several hundred years old and there is no doubt that works are required.
However, the degree of funding required will be extensive and will require the support of National Government to deliver.
A recent bid by the council to Defra has not been successful and so the council will need to proceed in a prudent manner to see if other avenues for funding are available.
Mr Kilpatrick alludes to the coastal protection works at Scarborough. These works were carried out due to the fact that there was an imminent risk of failure of the defences and Defra funding was made available, without which there would have been little prospect.
The council is, as always, mindful of the needs of Whitby having spent many millions of pounds there over recent years.
It is proud of the town's heritage and status and will continue to pursue initiatives and schemes which will preserve and enhance the reputation of the town.

Tope Fishing - Fishing for tope at Bridlington and Flamborough

2006-09-26T04:42:00.001-07:00

My fishing is a bit slow at the moment so I have little to post up onto the blog. The long term weather forecast is giving little in the way of autumn weather and so it looks like the rough seas we require for cod fishing from the shore may not materialise for a while yet. Its been one of the mildest and most settled Septembers I can remember. To be honest this is quite annoying, Im longing for a big northerly gale to fetch in those winter cod.
Anyway Although I have little post about my own fishing I was sent some pics and a report from Martin Wilding and Chris Scaife who have been fishing for Tope and Bass from their boat out of Flamborough which is down near Bridlington. I thought I would share the report and pics with you here.

Sunday 10th September 2006 - Tope Fishing

Scarborough angler Chris Scaife and his fishing partnet Mick went Tope fishing on Sunday, they had 9 in total, Chris had 5 and Mick 4, they also lost 3 more [dam cercal hooks ] all in about 4 hours. At one point it all got pretty hectic and Chris had 2 tope at once on one occasion [fishing 3 rods] shame it was the north of England cod champs that day as Chris would have liked to have fished that , but the temptation of bigger fish was too much. As you can see in one shot from a previous trip all thats neaded is a good egg beater spinning real and a spining rod

all thats neaded is a good egg beater spinning real and a spining rod

says Chris

Bridlington Tope Fishing - Sunday 24th September 2006

This weekend saw the conclusion of the Scarborough fishing festival but Chris Scaife, Martin Wilding and Jeremy Robinson Didn’t bother with the All-England match on Sunday – Instead they opted for the Brid tope option – They launched at South Landing around 0700, & wished for about an hour or so that they hadn’t bothered – a snidey North Easterly wind, bit of swell, rain & white horses while they had a troll for bass (Jeremy caught the only schoolie) made them think that it wasn’t going to be fit for topeing. They had a run across to one of new found marks and once they were past the shallowest bit, the conditions improved greatly, although mackerel were pretty well non-existent at the start, probably due to the strength (strong!!) of the tide. They eventually found a few near to where they were going to fish for tope, & as soon as they put the anchor & ruby-dubby bag in, then the mackerel found them … & there were literally thousands once the tide slackened a bit!!

Again, Chris and Martin thought the tide was running just a bit too hard for tope at the start, but as the flow started to slacken, Chris had a couple of bites. The first dropped the bait, but he made brief contact with the second – unfortunately his trace wire gave way…..shop-bought as well!! Then shortly after Jeremy had a run, missed it, but left the bait & it got taken again straight away. He eventually landed a very nice male tope of around 50lb – his first ever tope & after quite a few trips!! He got another about 25-30lb pretty soon after & that was it until after slack water.

A while after slack water, when they were about ready to give up, Martins uptider showed a real screamer of a run – he hooked it & despite pretty strong drag it just carried on running, & was getting within about 30yds of getting “spooled” when all went slack –

"I think the mainline (20lb mono) must have rubbed against something on the seabed!! I’m sure I didn’t have that much drag on to break the line!!"

says Martin.

That was the only chance they had on the flood, but they trolled 7 or 8 bass up on their way back in, biggest a nice 3lber to Chris.

Looks like a tope has had his teeth into this mackerel bait

Martin Wilding With 1 of Sunday's Tope

Jeremy Robinson from Scarborough with his first ever Tope - Approximately 50 pound - Not a bad start.

Thanks Go To Martyn, Chris, Mick and Jeremy for sending the report and pictures. Cheers lads keep them coming and good luck with the tope - Dave Brown reckons we have potential 80 pounders around here.

Sea Anglers Conservation Network

2006-09-24T08:58:00.000-07:00

The Sea Anglers Conservation Network is an organisation for sea anglers similar to the National Federation of Sea Anglers. In my opinion the sacn is probably the best of the 2. Dealing with the issues of the moment and working towards improving the lot of the sea angler in the long term, sacn appear more visible in the world of conservation. Visit the numerous online forums and websites about sea angling or type the phrase sea angling conservation into any search engine and material from sacn wont be far away.
The Sea Anglers Conservation Network is headed up by Leon Roskilly whoose name you will find on every fishing related internet website, their work involves representing sea angling at a national level. Recently sacn was involved heavily in lobbying the government to introduce new legislation to increase the minimum size limit for bass. Their list of other involvements is endless, but you can find out all the latest news at their new website .
If your an angler interested in conservation, fed up of the current situation: fishless sessions, polution, restrictions denying you access to your favourite marks then the sacn website is the place to visit.
Membership of sacn is free, and signing up couldnt be easier so why not head on over to thier site and see whats on offer today.

Fishing Marks South Gare To Sandsend Cliffs

2006-09-18T14:24:00.000-07:00

Port Mulgarve - Many Peoples Favourite Venue

PORT MULGRAVE is host to the next set of worthwhile fishing marks. The old harbour at the base of the cliffs is all but ruined now, but this is one of Yorkshires very best cod marks. Access is via the lane signposted Port Mulgrave from the A174. The path down is steep dangerous and a no go area for all but the super fit (or super mad) but the walk is well worth it with the winter cod fishing being betterd hardly anywhere in the country. Best tidal period is from half flood to half ebb from the inner jetty wall but as with all this coast there are also plenty of low water rock edges and gullies. Again the favoured baits for Port Mulgrave are lugworm and peeler crab

Click here to read about more north east fishing marks including : Runswick bay , Kettleness , Skinnigrove, Goldsborough and Sandsend Cliffs

Dead whale - an unfortunate accident

2006-09-17T00:59:00.000-07:00

Paul Kilpatrick on sea otter 2 sent this picture yesterday of a dead whale in the sea out off whitby. Paul says the whale had crab pots hanging from its mouth and looked like it may have choked on them. Its a sad site - A very unfortunate accident.

Getting ready

2006-09-16T06:38:00.000-07:00

The winter fishing season draws ever nearer. The local fishing club starts a week on Wednesday and I'm raring to go. Just spent a couple of hours tieing cod rigs, making rotten bottoms and generally preparing my gear. The reels look like they require a bit of a service and that is a job for the coming days. With a bit of a south easterly swell running I think I might head out tonight and use up a few peelers. Fingers crossed for a few codling from the rocks.

Undersize codling petition - Save The Whitby Cod

2006-09-15T13:10:00.000-07:00

Well after a year I finally got around to sending my petiton to Mr Bradshaw the fisheries minister. I waited untill now as I felt it would be the best time with the herring spawn fishery just kicking off again. I dont expect anything to change but as the old saying goes the squeeky hinge eventually gets oiled.

Dear Mr Bradshawe,

Re: Online Petiton viewable at-

http://www.petitiononline.com/COD/petition.html

For the past year I have been collecting signatures in an online petition specifically asking DEFRA to assess juvenile codling discards from the autumn north east coast herring spawn fishery - which coincidentally has restarted this past week. The discards are said to be as high as 50 percent with many many undersized codling being needlessly killed. Rhumours on the local grapevine say that for every box landed the same is discarded dead. This appears to be supported by recent cefas research (see : http://www.cefas.co.uk/FSP/publications/FSP-03-04-Project-3.pdf) which clearly states this fishery is of a juvenile stock with high discards. In such times when cod are so low in numbers it appears mindless that this practice still continues every year.
I realise the petiton is not the biggest you will have ever seen and more than likely is not in a format that DEFRA will accept but please take some time to have a look and at least think about what is being said.

Your sincereley - Glenn Kilpatrick

Just wait for a reply now

A Taste Of Things To Come

2006-09-13T12:06:00.000-07:00

Well I was just looking through some old archives from Scarborough angler Pete Atkinson and found this snippet. Pete has given me permission to copy his results from the scarborough evening news onto my site and I thought this little article about last years cloughton festive sweepstake would get you all motivated for the coming winter season.

"Anglers enjoying a break and a traditional time for big fish along our coast anglers have been busy although the conditions have not been ideal, on Wednesday 29th a Sweepstakes match was ran from the Red Lion at Cloughton and the eventual winner with a bag of seven fish for 39lbs 8ozs was Ray Maddison, include in his catch was a very fine Cod of 19lb, by far the biggest reported in club boundaries this year and reported to have come from the Ravenscar Area New Year's day saw anglers fishing the members day competitions and with freshening wind and sea conditions were expected to be difficult but proved to be more productive than expected, angler of the day was Ian Thompson who managed 16lb 8ozs 12drms including the heaviest fish of the day a cod just short of 8lb, fish came from far and wide on the day with the winning fish coming from Cloughton"

Please double click to view the full sized image

New leader in autumn festival

2006-09-12T12:02:00.000-07:00

There is a new leader in the whitby charter skippers autumn festival. Unfortunately I have been unable to get down to the weigh in so I thought I had missed the photo opportunity, however the fish was caught on John Whitton's boat Never can tell a and John has emailed me the picture. Unfortunately I dont know the anglers details but Ill get them off Weigh master Dave Perett tomorrow. All I can tell you is that the lad had never been sea fishing before and thought that the fish was a cod! Not bad for a novice on the biggest tide of the year.

21lb 9oz ling caught on Never can tell-a on Saturday

Whitby tides - Biggest ebb tide at Whitby for 20 years

2006-09-10T09:03:00.000-07:00

According to the Whitby Tide tables the last few days have seen some of the biggest tides for 20 years on the north east coast. These tides are of great interest to shore anglers as they allow you to get out at low water an identify potential fish holding gulleys into which you can cast at high water or on the smaller low water tides. I have been out and about looking at Fishing marks and have added more information to my own personal fishing mark data base. These are just a few of the 200 pics I took this weekend whilst out and about.

Filey angling festival 2006

2006-09-10T08:50:00.000-07:00

Cod fishing tonight.

2006-09-07T15:42:00.000-07:00

After a decent nights mackerel fishing last night on Whitby's west pier the sea had roughed up a bit today so I headed out with the big rod and a dozen peelers. I fished 2 hours at one of my favourite early season marks. I managed 3 size codling (returned 2 and kept 1 which was deeply hooked) and 2 just under size with quite a few more bites. The 3 fish that were size were all 37 cm long so it looks like a fish measure is going to be an essential item for fishing the matches this year.

Anyone unfamiliar with the legal fish sizes can check out the nfsa size limits on theWhitby sea anglers website

Last night session - Whitby angler Phil Mead with a string of mackerel caught on Hokeyes

filey angling / fishing festival - Bielby's winning bag

2006-09-07T11:10:00.000-07:00

Filey Angling Festival got off to a racing start on Saturday thanks to some very large shoals of Mackerel around our coasts at the moment.
The winning weight on the Saturday, the opening day of the festival, was a massive 103 pounds taken by Dave Bielby who was fishing at Filey Brigg. The heaviest fish of the day went to Mick Chadwick with a cod of 5 pounds.
Sundays Filey Festival match was cod only with Mick Chadwick coming out on top with 14lb of cod.
With autumnal weather imminant the mackerel should soon disperse bringing normaility back to our fishing and the prospects look good for the cod anglers with fish now showing at most marks.

This weekend sees the filey festival drawing to a close with Saturdays match being for the heaviest fish and Sunday is the festivals premier event The North of England codling championship.

Full details of all the matches on the Whitby sea anglers calendar page

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/calendar.php#Filey_Angling_/_Fishing_Festival_2006_

Thanks to Scarborough angler Pete Atkinson for the information.

North East Fishing - Top 8 north east fishing baits

2006-09-04T03:15:00.000-07:00

I have recently created a page on the Whitby sea anglers site that gives my top 8 baits for north east sea fishing. The list reads as follows.

1. Number 1 bait whilst fishing for cod from the rocks on the north east coast has to be the peeler crab. 1,2 or even 3 common shore or velvet peeler crabs whipped onto a 5 or 6 ° hook with elasticated cotton has to be the way to go. If its a big north east cod your after then peeler crab will give you the very best chance.

2. Lugworm - On its day the Blow or black lug will out fish anything you can lay your hands on. I've had to go home before today because I've sickened myself watching others catch fish whilst I couldn't get a bite simply because I had no lugworm in my bait bucket. If the cod are hunting lugworm no other bait will do. A fantastic bait if there are small codlings (1-2 pounds) about.

For the rest of the top north east biats article please click here.

North East Fishing - Rock Fishing For Cod

2006-09-04T03:05:00.000-07:00

Rock fishing is just another type of fishing. It's nothing special and can be mastered by all anglers, all that's needed is time and a willingness to learn the art of rock fishing. Over time the rock angler will learn what areas will hold cod and at what states of tide cod are likely to turn up. Rock anglers start to learn their marks by fishing lots of different rocky areas including: small reefs that run into or parallel to the shore, patches of big boulders, rock ledges like fingers that extend out into the sea and are surrounded by deep kelp filled gullies. Also worth a try are the ends of rocky headlands that extend out into sea such as those at Robin hoods bay, Marine drive in Scarborough, Filey Brigg and Ravenscar where a strong tidal current forms. Food gets washed past these areas and so you often find the north east coast cod sat waiting.

To read more about north east fishing for cod please click here

Whitby angler Niel Ingliss with the towns record shore caught cod of almost 30 pounds.

Peeler crab for bait - How to keep peelers

2006-09-02T15:11:00.000-07:00

Peeler crab article

About a year ago I wrote a page on the Whitby sea anglers website about keeping peeler crabs in tanks in filtered sea water to reduce the effort involved in changing water etc whilst keeping peelers. For some reason Google has ignored this webpage and very few people have viwed the peeler crab article. To give it a bit more of an airing I will post a link to it here in the blog where hoipefully more eyes will se it.

This article will cover the fairly untouched subject of keeping peeler crabs in tanks using filtered sea water which reduces the work necessary to keep healthy crabs to use for your bait. I love fishing with Peeler crab and it is one of the countries top baits for many species including cod, bass, flounder, coalfish and quite a few others. Most aspects of catching and using peelers are well covered in internet articles but when I found very little information on keeping them in a tank I decided to write about it. Please click here to read more of the Peeler crab article

Whitby Charter Skipper Association Autumn Festival - Day Two

2006-09-02T11:15:00.000-07:00

The weather today deteriorated as the day progreesed with most of the boats heading back to port early due to torrential rain and strong winds. Paul Kilpatrick on Sea otter reported an excellent mornings fishing with lots of fish being caught on his boat including cod to 10 pounds, Pollock and double figure ling. Malcolm Pitman on board sea spray reported a good days fishing but said mackerel were proving quite a pest at times. As most of the boats returned to port early today the weigh in started earlier and therefore I missed the opportunity to take a few snaps when I arrived at the normal weigh in time. Todays winner was Simon Smith on Rich wards boat shytorque and his 17 pounds 2 ounce Ling takes overall first place in the Festival. Simon will no doubt be preying for bad weather for the next 8 days so that none of the boats can get to sea allowing him to collect the first place prize money which is £1000 for the autumn festival.

Results for day 2.

Simon smith was todays winner and goes into 1st place overall. Simon will be preying for bad weather for the next 8 days so that he can claim the forst place prize of £1000

1. Simon Smith - Rotherham - Ling 17lbs 2 oz - Shy torque -Rich Ward
2. Glenn Stocks - Rotherham - Ling 15lb 0 oz - Sea otter 2 - Paul Kilpatrick
3. K Fellows - ? -Ling 14lb 8 oz - Two Doggs

With the weather turning bad the weigh in started early so when I arrived any photo opportunities had been missed.

Glenn Stocks with 2 10 pound cod caught on sea otter 2 today

SeaFishing At Whitby - cod

2006-09-02T03:45:00.000-07:00

Whitby is the cod capital of the UK with the record cod a massive fish of 58 pounds 7 ounces being caught here from Stu Johnston's boat Sea Trek. There are 2 main ways to catch cod from Whitby and they are from a boat or from the shore. To read more about sea fishing for cod at whitby please click here

North East Junior Anglers - Baza's trip

2006-09-01T12:47:00.000-07:00

I saw this great post on the North east section of the world sea fishing forum's. The post is about a young lad who went Boat fishing off the north east coast and had a cracking days fishing. The young lad called Alan caught a huge Pollock of 8 lbs and 2 more just a tad smaller. The smille on the young lads face confirms he will be hooked on fishing for the rest of his life. Well done to the lads who made this happen.

To read the report please click here

Whitby Charter Skipper Association Autumn Festival - Day One

2006-09-01T12:37:00.000-07:00

I went down and helped out with the weigh in today for the Whitby charter skippers autumn boat angling festival. It was a good day for anglers on Paul Kilpatricks boat Sea Otter 2 as They took all 3 of the daily prizes. Todays results were

1. Ian Campbell - Pickering - 16lb 4 oz Ling - Sea Otter 2 - Paul Kilpatrick
2. Dave Barret - Ripon - 15lb 8 ounce Ling - Sea Otter 2 - Paul Kilpatrick
3. Nick Kelly - Ripon - 14lb 14oz Cod - Sea otter 2 - Paul Kilpatrick

Whitby Charter Skipper Association Autumn Festival - Off To A Great Start

2006-09-01T06:54:00.000-07:00

Today is the first day of the Whitby charter skippers autumn fishing festival. Paul Kilpatrick (aka Big cod) had an excellent start aboard his boat sea otter 2 with the first fish caught being a cod around the 15 pound mark. Paul has emailed me in this picture of the fish and asked me to post it up on his behalf. Ive just spoke with him on the phone and he says they have some ling aboard the boat of a similar size. Im going down to the way in at tea time and will take some more snaps. Ill post more details of the first days action later today.

Sea Spray Charters - New website for boat fishing at Whitby

2006-08-31T10:04:00.000-07:00

Sea Spray Whitby is the new website for Malcolm Pitman's charter boat Sea Spray. I have been working on the site for a couple of weeks now and its all but finished (just need to add a bit of blurb about Malcolm himself). If your thinking of taking a fishing trip at Whitby then why not browse the site to see what Malcolm has to offer. There are various fishing trips available including the traditional cod and ling fishing trips and More recently Malcolm has added Shark fishing trips to the list of whats on offer.

http://www.seaspraywhitby.co.uk/

Whitby's east pier balls up

2006-08-29T14:43:00.000-07:00

I recently had a letter printed in the Yorkshire post regarding Whitby's east pier balls up. It is a bit of a rant, and made me laugh when I saw it published as I was in a bit of a bad mood when I wrote it having learnt Scarborough Borough council are saying they have no funds to replace the east pier bridge. There is one bit of the letter that I believe now to be factually incorrect as I am reliably informed the bill for Scarboroughs Marine drive is closer the 60 million mark.

The letter reads as follows

Exerting pier pressure
From: Glenn Kilpatrick,
St Peters Court, Whitby.
I AM appalled at Scarborough Council's inability to repair the East Pier in Whitby (Yorkshire Post, August 8). It has been out of bounds to sea anglers for far too long.
The council always passes on the blame, saying there is no budget for repairs.
Well, no wonder it hasn't the funds: it spent £25m-plus on Scarborough's Marine Drive sea defences only a couple of years ago. Whenever cash is needed in the Scarborough area, suddenly it can be found.
It would easily be possible to fabricate a one-piece-span bridge to reconnect the East Pier, restore Whitby's heritage and give back the only place worth fishing to the local sea anglers.
I also note that 90 per cent of Whitby's West Pier is also out of bounds to anglers because of a corroded handrail. How long will it be before this is put right?Perhaps the council should put up a big sign outside Whitby saying: "Anglers not welcome here. Please find somewhere else to fish".
They could, perhaps, suggest Scarborough's Marine Drive as an alternative?

The letter can be read at

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=101&ArticleID=1705891

flikr picture gallery

2006-08-27T10:25:00.000-07:00

Whilst searching the net I came across the flikr pictur gallery, which holds thousands of pictures from across the globe. It looks like it could be quite interesting with members commenting on each others photos etc. Ive registered an account and added a few pictures. Ill be adding some more over the coming months. Ive also started a group where other flikr members can add their pictures and discuss the. The group is entitled north east coast sea fishing and I hope that some of you will join up and add your own pics etc.

to view my pics visit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitby-sea-fishing-and-general-pics/

Cod recovery plan - Why let fishermen dictate

2006-08-26T01:34:00.000-07:00

I notice the regional advisory councils are asking the question is cod recoverable. With a large majority of these groups being represenatives of the fishing industry I am a little suspest of this. I think the result is a foregone conclusion - global warming is to blame and fishermen should be aloud free reign on our seas (why bother meeting). I find myself asking the question whoose job is it to decide if cod is recoverable ? I ackowledge that there are anglers and conservationists on these groups but just like the sea fisheries committee they are so outnumbered they will struggle to be heared (however I know they will shout very loud).

http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.p...n_cod_move.html

http://www.sacn.org.uk/Conservation-and-Po...ecoverable.html

Bike ride

2006-08-25T15:30:00.000-07:00

Photo stuck together using photo stich software. You would never know that this is 4 pictures glued together to make one.

Ive been off work this week and been getting out and about with the kids. Today me and Jay went to Robin hoods bay on the bikes along the old railway line. As we got near bay I noticed some excellent looking fishing marks that I hadnt seen before. Judging by where I was on the railway line I think they must have been in the south Hawsker area. One day ill have to get down their on my own and have a good look at the area. It looks like it should be really good fishing. However it also looks miles from anywhere so will probably be a long walk from where ever you decide to park up. I took some pictures at Robin hoods bay and have posted them below. On our return to Whitby we called at the Windmill pub in Stainsacre for lunch. Top notch grub at a decent price and they even gave Jay a free ice cream which I thought was jolly decent of them.