Sea Urchin Whitby

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.

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

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

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