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Featured News

Big Cod On Sea Otter 2 - Angling festival Results

Day 4 Results Geoff Saxton Rotherham - 13 02 Cod - Sea Otter 2 Phil Hogg Nottingham - 12 13 Ling - ...

Whitby Angling Festival - Summer 2009 Results - Trot On Leads The Way

After day 3, a ling of 15lb 05 ounces leads the way in the overall festival. The ling was caught ...

featuredimage Your Favourite Whitby Charter Skipper

Please vote for your favourite Whitby Charter Skipper using the pole below. The pole lists all the members of the ...

featuredimage Whitby Porbeagle Shark Fishing On Shytorque

Report By Rupert Drury This was the earliest I’d booked a shark trip from Whitby and though all the captures from ...

featuredimage Whitby Angling Festival Results - Spring 2009

Day 1 Ben Steer cod 11lb 9oz shy-torque Ian Burton cod 11lb  sea otter II Martin Mills cod 10lb 7oz sea otter II Day ...

The Singing Wolf Fish - Sea Spray

This singing wolf fish This singing wolf fish was caught in the Whitby Spring Angling festival 2009 on board Malc Pitmans ...

featuredimage Sea Spray On Top - Whitby Fishing Festival

Whitby Fishing Festival Day 6 Results Day six saw most of the Whitby charter boats at sea. Many fished at distance ...

featuredimage Northern Federation Of Sea Angling Societies - Email To Anthony Hynes Regarding Marine Conservation Zones

Alan Charlton Press Sec NFSAS Anthony Hynes DEFRA Re MCZ meeting 3rd April This is the first time I have been able to contact you ...

featuredimage Whitby Angling Festival - Sea Otters Day

Day 2 of the Whitby Angling Festival again saw a poor turn out of anglers with only 3 boats leaving ...

Wildcard £10, 000 Prize - Cod/Ling Record

Read Wildcard Boat Fishing Topics In Our Forum - Click Here Alan Jackson the owner of Wildcard Charter Boat at Whitby ...

featuredimage Charter Boats Will Need A Licence

Monday, 23rd March 2009 - UKIP News Release Britain's recreational sea anglers will have to wait until next week before they ...

featuredimage UK Cod Record

British Record Cod - The UK Cod Record - Caught From Whitby UK Record Cod - Sea Trek Now Shy torque Cod ...

featuredimage European Open Beach Championships 2009 Results (formerly British Open Beach Championships)

European Open Beach Championships Results 2009 - Bridlington Open(formerly British Open Beach Championships) Quite a few NE anglers did well in ...

Stuart Mcpherson - Angling Trust Chairman - Marine Committee

Angling Trust News Release Stuart Mcpherson Elected Chairman Of The Angling Trust Marine Committee. Related Forum Topic Here An outspoken critic of apparent ...

featuredimage Whitby Piers Repair Work - Rock Armour Is A Non Starter.

Whitby Town Council Tells Scarborough That Rock Armour Repairs For The Towns Piers Are A Non Starter. Quote ...

Conservation

British sea bed “trawled into a wasteland”

22.06.09 British sea bed “trawled into a wasteland”
From The Sunday Times - Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor
Though still an island, Britain is now surrounded by desert. New research has shown that repeated trawling has turned much of the sea bed around the UK into a barren wasteland.
Scientists using deep sea photography and painstaking analysis of [...]

Match Fishing News

Filey Brigg Summer Fishing Matches 2009 - 1st Match Results

25 adult 4 juveniles ventured out for the first match .conditions were good with light winds and a calm sea.fileys own mick wright  was top rod with 2 cod for 5-8-2 fishing off filey brigg,only 13 anglers weighed in with most finding the fish difficult to locate
mick wright 5-8-2
martin dixon 5-3
john tindal 5-2-8
terry holmes [...]

Commercial Fishing

W. Stevenson and Sons - Illegal Fishing - Conditional Discharge

W. Stevenson and Sons Partnership Ordered to Pay £776,000 For Black Fish Scam
Newlyn fish auctioneers W. Stevenson and Sons were ordered to pay a confiscation order and costs totalling £776,633 by a judge at Exeter Crown Court on Wednesday June 17, 2009, for a massive “black” fish scam.
This hearing marked the end of a long-running [...]

Illegal Fishing

Sea Anglers Who Sell Thier Catch Are No Longer Sea Anglers

The Definition Of A Sea Angler
The Marine Committee of the Angling Trust meeting in June agreed that they would only represent recreational sea anglers. The meeting confirmed that the EAA definition of Recreational Sea Angling formulated in 2004 should be their criteria:
“Recreational sea angling is the activity of catching or attempting to catch fish, principally [...]

Kayak Fishing

Cod For The Boys - Skinigrove

Forum members: Glen, Mike, Dan and Damo had a days kayak fishing off Skinnigrove in East Cleveland. Find out how the got on there.

ANGLING TRUST - National federation Of Sea Anglers

British sea bed “trawled into a wasteland”

22.06.09 British sea bed “trawled into a wasteland”
From The Sunday Times - Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor
Though still an island, Britain is now surrounded by desert. New research has shown that repeated trawling has turned much of the sea bed around the UK into a barren wasteland.
Scientists using deep sea photography and painstaking analysis of [...]

Boat Fishing

Big Cod On Sea Otter 2 - Angling festival Results

Day 4 Results
Geoff Saxton Rotherham - 13 02 Cod - Sea Otter 2
Phil Hogg Nottingham - 12 13 Ling - Trot On
Glenn Stocks Rotherham - 12 08.5  Cod - Sea Otter 2

Glenn Stocks And Geoff Saxton who are the festival sponsors. They love their fishing and as usual they have booked Pauls boat for themselves [...]

Bass Fishing

Kayak Fishing For Bass

An interesting article by forum member Iain Sellors. The article looks at bass fishing from a kayak and examines the issues of casting, trolling, which lures to use, what time of year to fish etc etc ………..
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/kayak-fishing-for-bass.php

Sea Angling News

Arbroath Cod Fishing - Garry Watson

Well just arrived home from another enjoyable weeks cod fishing on Scotlands rugged east coast with good pals Martin Jackson and Alan Jackson aka (Big Cliff) Must admit the weather was unusally kind to us and the fishing was pretty hot too…. :yes: :yes: :yes:
Cant beat summer cod fishing beats getting blown off a rock [...]

Cod Fishing

Wildcard £10, 000 Prize - Cod/Ling Record

Read Wildcard Boat Fishing Topics In Our Forum - Click Here
Alan Jackson the owner of Wildcard Charter Boat at Whitby is offering a prize of £10,000 for any angler who can break the UK Cod Or Ling record from their boat.
Alan says
We understand that anglers by nature are competitive in their outlook. For this reason [...]