Whitby Fishing Forum - Recent Topics

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.