Scarborough Angling / Fishing Club Results

Evening News Report - July 2006

Back at last, too much work and not a lot of fishing
On Sunday The Seabirds at Bridlington held their first ever summer open match, fished under clear blue skies, a light south easterly breeze and clear waters fishing expectations were high.
as been the case most of this summer the big fish failed to materialise, but with the tide well in at the start of the match the early signs were promising, but with the out going tide the bites started to get less and less with each hour that passed.
43 competitors took part and the eventual winner was Steve Aklam of Bridlington with a fine fish of 4.4.0 from Flamborough.
Generally the cod fishing on the north east coast around Scarborough is slow but there are plenty of summer species around to keep everyone occupied, particulary the mackerel and flat fish fishing from the piers and with plenty of bait fish activity there has been a few small bass in Filey Bay to holiday anglers fishing with spinners.
For those interested Scarborough Angling Festival Schedules are now in all local tackle shops.

Seabirds Result

1 S Aklam Bridlington 4.4.0, 2-M Salvage Hornsea 3.13.0, 3 M Chadwick Scarborough 3.4.0
Doubles Winners Harry Moon and Mick Chadwick Scarborough.

Evening News Report 27-7-2006

This weekend saw the third in the series of Rock Anglers Society summer matches and this year it has turned in to something of a whitewash for Ray Maddison, Ray fished on Sunday in almost perfect summer conditions, a windless glass like sea, fishing from low to over high water ray managed a seven fish haul for 18.5lbs, including the heaviest fish of the weekend a cod of 5.5.0.
Rays average over the first three matches is around 20lb and if Ray can manage another bag of over 18lb in the last match in August he will beat the heaviest aggregate engraved on the trophy over the last 30years.
Rays bag was made up mainly of red cod which is a good sign that some fish have moved in to the rock edges.
On the general fishing front the main quarry is mackerel, the large numbers are not around at the moment and perseverance is the key, you may have to fish for a couple of hours to find them but generally when they do put in an appearance the average size is now a pound plus

Many thanks to Scarborough angler Pete Atkinson for supplying the results