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Commercial Fishing
Saturday, July 31st, 2010

MMO staff give rare shark to Natural History Museum MMO Marine Officer, Pete Edwards from the Plymouth office handing over the rare angel shark to staff from the Natural History Museum. Photo courtesy of BBC Devon. Marine Management Organisation marine officers in Plymouth recently discovered a rare angel shark while inspecting fish market sales. The [...]
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010

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 [...]
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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
Monday, February 15th, 2010
The future Of Shark Fishing In The North East – lets all be prepared to experiment a bit. All the Whitby shark caught so far have been caught whilst fishing at anchor. This is an easy way to get a good long chum trail out, but bear in mind it’s also a relatively narrow chum [...]
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Boat
Monday, September 14th, 2009

Forum moderator Ian Buckingham got more than he bargained for on his weekend stag fishing celebrations. Ian booked the Staithes charter boat “All Our Days” for a 3 hour fishing trip along with his mates. Only minutes into the trip and less than a mile from the harbour one of the lads hooked into and [...]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
SSACN’s Scottish Shark Tagging Programme (SSTP – www.tagsharks.com ) is delighted to announce the launch of the second annual Spurdog Tagathon. The tagging event is part of our ongoing campaign to allow the stocks of spurdog and common skate in Lochs Sunart and Etive and surrounding waters to regenerate by protecting them from excessive and [...]
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Boat, Featured
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Rupert Drury Tells Of His Recent Shark Fishing Trip Aboard Rich Wards Boat Shytorque 3 After my previous trip on 16th June, I had a nagging doubt that the next mission was not going to be successful. Many factors need to fall into place, weather, bait, tides and a good measure of luck. The weather [...]
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Boat
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Report By Rupert Drury This was the earliest I’d booked a shark trip from Whitby and though all the captures from the port have been from July onwards, previous sightings reported to me over the last 2 years in June led me to believe that a booking a trip ths month could possibly be worthwhile. [...]
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Boat
Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Methods Utilised To Catch Sharks My basic technique comprises of fishing four rods. Either all four are float fished, or three are set up with floats and one fished under the boat on a shortish line, with a lead but no float. I wouldn’t recommend using any more than four rods at once and only [...]
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Boat
Friday, December 5th, 2008

Shark Fishing – Organising The Day Before moving onto baits and tactics, it’s perhaps worth touching on how I like to organise the day when sharking. I’m now in my third year of this, with successful missions recorded in 2005 and 2006. This year, however, to date in October 2007, not only have we blanked, [...]
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