Sea urchin steers local angler to daily festival win

The sea urchin helped land local angler Simon Oxby a daily festival win last Wednesday during the w.s.ca. autumn fishing festival,

Simon landed his ling (22.5lbs) just after slack water on one of the many ledges just off Whitby, taken on fresh mackerel, after the fish made a few runs Simon soon had the fish off the bottom and with the help of the skippers gaff safe on board,

Simon won £50 for the daily first prize, as it turned out the third heaviest fish caught in the w.s.c.a. festival,

Simon says he will be booking for next years festival aboard the sea urchin, and who can blame him with £10,000 worth of prize money up for grabs during the summer festival alone.

to book now for all the 2008 festivals contact mick on 07855439380 or via the web site.

Whitby Fishing Festival Prize Money Up To £10,000

The First placed prize money for the heaviest single fish in the Summer 2008 festival has now been confirmed as £5000. The festival will run from 27th June 2008 through until 17th July 2008. There will be a prize pool of over £10,000 with £2000 for second heaviest fish, £1000 for third and £500 for fourth. With daily cash prizes and many tackle prizes also up for grabs The boat fishing festival at Whitby is about to become the largest in the Uk.

Sea Urchin 3 Hour Trips

THREE HOUR TRIPS on the SEA URCHIN

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During school holidays the sea urchin has been making short three hour trips to introduce novices into the exciting world of sea fishing, ideal for all you regular boat anglers trying to introduce your families into fishing and holiday makers alike, during the trips the skipper is happy to explain all the workings of the on board electronics and help give some understanding of the tides and conditions that we anglers have to endure in order to catch fish, also apart from the everyday feather and muppet fishing the anglers have the chance to try there hand at shading and perking amongst other things, all top tackle is provided on the trips, and we have had some remarkable results with some excellent catches and given many a novice the buzz, see picture young girl and dad landed double figure ling while perking, and good cod on the shad , remember these are all novices and most never been on a boat before, you can contact skipper via web site www.whitby-sea-fishing.co.uk

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The sea urchin has been very busy recently and reporting some excellent catches of good size cod, mostly taken on shads over hard ground,

the algae bloom disappeared a few weeks ago and the fishing was phenomenal with all the WCSA boats reporting excellent catches and with so many fish around the summer angling festival looks set to be a great one.

The sea urchin still has plenty of spaces available during the festival week, you can contact mick on...07855439380 or via email... enquires@whitby-sea-fishin.co.uk

Top Fishing, And Not Too Far From Shore For Two Dogs Of Whitby

On the 5th May 2007 Whitby charter boat 2 dogs had an excellent days fishing only a mile or so off the coast near skinninggrove. Paul Kilpatrick the chairman for the Whitby charter skippers association said that anglers on 2 doggs had taken around 50 codlings fishing very near to shore.

It has also been noted that its not just the Whitby Charter Skippers which are having a good time at the moment. Some of the local Privately owned small craft sailing out of Staithes and Skinnigrove have been reporting some fantastic catches too. Tim Wright from Staithes fishes from his own small coble and has reported to members of the Whitby Fishing Forum reported huge amounts of codling in the water from Staithes right down to Whitby.

With Fishing said to currently be at a 10 year peak for Whitby there surely is no better time to pick up the phone and book a days fishing from Whitby with one of the Whitby Charter Skippers Boats

To read more about boat fishing at Whitby why not visit the Whitby fishing forum where a wide range of topics covering all aspects of angling are currently beeing debated.

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Whitby Boat Fishing Festival Spring 2007

Whitby Fishing club Junior member Daniel Craig has won the Whitby charter skippers Spring boat fishing festival with a Ling of almost 15 pounds caught from Paul Eddons Boat Trot On. Some of you may remember Daniel as the young angler who caught the decent pollock off Whitby west pier last Autumn.

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£5000 First Prize For Whitby Summer Fishing Festival In 2008

Whitby Angling Festival 2008

Whitby Charter Skippers Association have announced that the first placed prize money for their Summer Fishing Festival 2008 will be £5000 with the prize for second place being £1000.

Paul Kilpatrick The Chairman Of Whitby Charter Skippers says -

"Our main sponsor stage coach supertram from Sheffield has agreed to sponsor the July festival in 2008 for a first prize of £5000 for the heaviest fish caught over the festival with £1000 for second place once things are ironed out which will be in the coming month I will post full details of the festival which we hope will be the biggest in the UK."

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Big Catches For Sea Spray, Sea Otter 2 and Trot On

I ventured down the charter pontoon after work this evening and the 3 boats that had been at sea today had all had excellent catches with most anglers catching upwards of a dozen cod each, some a lot more. Some had retained their catch for the freezer others I understand had released some. Malcolm Pitman the Sea Spray skipper said they had had a great day with shads being the favoured method. Paul Eddon on Trot On had some good fish aboard and several decent sized pollock to boot.

Paul Kilpatrick's anglers on Sea Otter 2 said the fishing had been hectic. One lad said he'd had quite a lot of fish on the jigger but when he lost that he tried a shad for the first time and was amazed to find them so effective.

Sea Otter 2 - Great Day Uptide Fishing

It was another good day for Paul Kilpatrick's anglers on Sea Otter 2 Fishing just 400 yards off the cliffs at Robin Hoods Bay Paul says th action was constant most of the day with black lugworm and squid coktails being the favoured baits.





Above and below : Uptiding Cod for the sea otter 2 customers

Uptiding At Robin Hoods Bay on Malcolm Pitmans Sea Spray

April 22nd 2007

Anglers on Malcolm Pitmans boat Sea spray had a great days uptide fishing down at Robin Hoods Bay. One of Malcolm customers was lucky enough to hook into and land a fantastic cod that went 15 pounds on the boats scales.



Above : A cod of almost 15 pounds taken by an angler on Malcolm Pitmans boat Sea Spray