Whitby Angling Festival

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 [...]

Uptiding

Great Fishing On Light Tackle Whilst At Anchor. Uptide boat fishing at anchor (uptiding) is one of the most productive and enjoyable methods of fishing for Cod and numerous other species like ling, conger, bass, tope and rays. The method involves casting a 6 ounce weight and a trace, baited with a variety of sea [...]

Downtide Casting

Downtide Casting Of Shads, Jellyworms And Light Pirks. Why does one lucky angler often dominate the fishing ? Most boat anglers cant have failed to notice that there is often one very annoying person on the boat who catches the majority of the fish. Often without any second thought this is put down to luck, [...]

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 [...]

Ugly Stick Uptide Rod

The Shakespeare Ugly Stick Uptide Rod

The rod is made up of 3 distinct layers. The tip section has a spiral core of high strength fibreglass and/or carbon. Then a spiral woven coat of glass fibre/high carbon tape with carbon fibres runs horizontally up the blank.

The butt sections are made in the traditional rolled manner to give a faster, modern action.
This produces a light, fast action blank, 35% stronger than normal rods and yet retains the classic clear tip in most cases.

Scarborough Angling Festival – 2009 Kayak Fishing Match Results

Forty three kayak anglers from across the Uk turned out for the second annual kayak fishing match ats Scarborough’s marine drive. Once again the weather was perfect for the match which is part of the Scarborough Angling Festival. The anglers paddled out under cloudless blue skies, and with little more than a southerly breeze the [...]

Whitby Uptiding Festival 2009

The whitby charter skippers winter uptiding festival date has now been finalized. The competition will run from Monday the 30th November 2009 to Sunday the 6th december 2009. First prize is £1000 for the captor of the heaviest single fish. The competition was held over a long weekend last year but due to the popularity [...]

Kayak Fishing Competition At Scarborough – 2009

Sponsored By Robin Hoods Water Sports and Johnsons Outdoors Match Date : 26th September 2009 Fishing Times : 10am – 4pm Weigh In : 6pm At The Anglers Social Club Entrance Fee : Rules : Heaviest fish match, no wrasse. Great news today as its been confirmed that Johnson outdoors are once again commited to [...]

Kayak Uptiding

Uptide fishing from a kayak is really no different to the general uptiding methods employed in boat fishing. These methods were developed by South East boat angler Bob Cox who discovered that casting a bait uptide from an anchored vessel gave better results than bait fishing whilst drifting. To uptide from a kayak you simply [...]

Robin Hoods Bay – Uptiding

The opportunities for a day afloat had been few and far between since last September but today was a different story. Myself and Mike had been watching the forecast since midweek and for once it seemed to be in our favour. A light South westerly was forecast and so we decided to launch at Robin [...]