Fishing News – Lead Article

    Whitby Uptiding Festival

    With the uptiding festival just around the corner, the winter uptiding season has kicked off big style at Whitby with cod into double figures already coming from the inshore grounds. Today saw Paul Kilpatrick fishing 3/4 of a mile off Sandsend and the lads onboard who travelled all the way from Coventry were certainly not [...]

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Fishing News – Featured Articles

Johnshavin And Arbroath Cod

Well just come back from a short trip cod fishing at up to Johnshaven which is in north east ...

Kettleness Fishing Marks

Just like Runswick and Port Mulgrave, the fishing marks at Kettleness are considered to be some of the very best ...

Double Figure Cod From Port Mulgrave

Forum member Shammy headed down Port Mulgrave on Saturday night with his mate Ben. A dieing Northerly sea swell provided ...

Whitby Charter Skippers Association New Home

The Whitby Charter Skippers Association website has now moved to http://www.wcsa.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/ . The main url for the homepgae will still ...

Bempton Cliffs Fishing Well For Cod

The arrival of October signals the long awaited opening of the Northern cliff marks at the Bempton cliffs area. The ...

Stuart Mcpherson Resigns From Angling Trust

I was very sad today to read that Stuart Mcpherson has resigned from his post as Sea Angling Representative with ...

Filey Fishing Festival – 2009 Results

Filey Fishing Festival Results - Match 1 Filey Fishing Festival 2009 Shore Match Results Day 1 Saturday 5th September 2009 (Greatest Weight of ...

Bass Fishing

A Bass Wins Redcar Open

Bass made up the majority of catches in the Redcar Navey And Gentlemens open 2009. Fishing at Redcar, local lad Dave Turner won the match with a bass of 2lb 11 ounces. Norman Middlemass and James Moore headed to Upgang and they also had Bass which earned them 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Boat Fishing

Sharkatag 2

Mull Of Galloway Shark Tagging Event
The second annual shark tagging event organised by SSACN and tagsharks.com will be held in 2010 over 3 days in June. The 18th, 19th and 20th June will see boat and kayak anglers from across the UK decend on Scotland with the main aim of catching and tagging as many [...]

Match Fishing News

7 Billets For Rob Allison – Whitby Sea Anglers Association Results

A very small north easterly sea swell was in the water for this 4 hour match fished over a small high water with clear water conditions. Rob Allison was amongst the fish with 7 billet (Coalfish) for a winning bag of 7 pounds 2 ounces.
Paul Rambo Dryden fished his first match of the season [...]

Conservation

Cod Quotas Must Be Cut Says Brussels

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s overexploited cod fisheries are still at risk and catches must be cut by a quarter next year in all zones except the North Sea where measures have yet to be decided, the European Union executive said on Friday.
Northern cod populations have fallen from 250,000 tonnes in the 1970s to around 50,000 [...]

Commercial Fishing

Points On Your Licence – Watch Out Skippers

LUXEMBOURG, Oct 20 (Reuters) – EU fisheries ministers agreed on Tuesday to crack down on overfishing, saying their fishermen would get points on their fishing licences each time they broke rules or quotas and would be banned for excessive infractions.
The points system, taking effect next year, is part of a drive to reduce excessive fishing [...]

Illegal Fishing

Points On Your Licence – Watch Out Skippers

LUXEMBOURG, Oct 20 (Reuters) – EU fisheries ministers agreed on Tuesday to crack down on overfishing, saying their fishermen would get points on their fishing licences each time they broke rules or quotas and would be banned for excessive infractions.
The points system, taking effect next year, is part of a drive to reduce excessive fishing [...]

Cod Fishing

Johnshavin And Arbroath Cod

Well just come back from a short trip cod fishing at up to Johnshaven which is in north east Scotland, about 25mile north of Arbroath. We decided to try a few new idea’s and marks, and with the fishing not been to good back home we didnt feel as if we would be missing [...]