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Bass Fishing Catch Reports, Boat, Featured
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

I recently heard news on the grapevine of a rather large bass being landed down in the channel islands. In search of the news I contacted Mick Ward of Mr Fish Jersey. In double quick time an email came back with information of the catch, which was indeed a new Jersey boat fishing Bass record. [...]
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Boat, Featured
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Whitby Angling Festival – Summer 2010 Mick Roe has won this years summer anging festival at Whitby with a ling of just over 26 pounds caught on Paul Kilpatrick’s boat Sea Otter 2. The ling took a fish bait on a wreck roughly 4 mile south of Whitby. Mick wins the overall festival and will [...]
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Boat, Polls
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Please vote for your favourite Whitby Charter Skipper using the pole below. The pole lists all the members of the Whitby Charter Skippers Association and some non members. Anyone voting should also use the comments section (at the very bottom of this page) to tell us who they voted for and why. This poll is [...]
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Boat, Tackle
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
What braided line should I buy? (Part 1 of 2). It is not an exaggeration or overstatement to say that braided line has revolutionised modern day sea angling. This is certainly true for many branches of boat / kayak angling, and increasingly so, for spinning and other shore casting techniques. Braid first came on to [...]
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Boat, Featured
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

In recent years local shark angling expert Rupert Drury has landed many a big shark from Rich Wards boat shytorque. This year Rupert invited Dave Brown (Skipper of the lizzard – Bridlington) to join him on an early season Sharking session at Whitby. As usual, the boys were not dissapointed and some huge sharks were [...]
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Boat, Featured, Fishing
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
The mackerel arrived en mass at Whitby today. Masses of boats were fishing for them just outside the harbour with hundreds of mackerel getting caught. I was onboard Paul Kilpatricks sea otter 2 and we filled a box in no time at all. http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=15595.0
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Boat, Cod
Monday, May 31st, 2010

Tackle For Shad Fishing. Using Shads to catch fish involves using relatively light gear. A 20 pound class boat rod is the norm coupled with a 7000 size multiplier filled with braid of between 25 and 50 pounds. It is useful but not essential to use a 50 pounds mono shock leader to cushion the [...]
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Boat
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Matty and Bowsey headed out of Runswick on Monday evening to fish the rough ground at the southern end of the bay. The fishing was good and the sample of fish was excellent with a high average size of cod coming aboard quite regular. Matty had some good cod to almost 5 pounds but it [...]
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Boat, Cod, Featured
Saturday, May 15th, 2010
The inshore cod fishing has kicked off at Whitby in style. The algae nightmare of April has now cleared and with the water clearing fast, the wrecks and reefs close to shore have started to provide some excellent cod fishing with bait and shads both fishing exceptionally well.
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Boat, Featured, News
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Paul Danby struck gold on the final day of the spring angling festival at Whitby. Paul who was fishing on board Paul Eddons Trot On landed a fine pollack of 12 pounds 14 ounces which gave him a daily win and more importantly, first place overall in what had been a very exciting first festival [...]
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