It’s not to early to book your festival places on the contrary now is the perfect time, while most anglers are still recovering from the winter blues you can grab those tides that suit you now not like in previous years when you left it to the last minuet and found only the tide and days which were available did not fit round your work or family commitments tidal books are available for the whole year from our local tackle shops and stationers also the harbour office and only cost around a pound or …

Christmas came early this year for Rob Wadsworth the happy recipient of

£1000 in cash for his first place in this years uptide festival with a cod of 9lb

6.5oz fishing off Rich Wards shytorque also in attendance was local angler

Karl Reid receiving a cheque of £200 for his third place cod of 9lb 3.5oz

fishing off sea urchin II and I was there to accept Russel Keymers cheque of

£100 for heaviest other species also fishing off sea urchin II

Final placings
1st Rob Wadsworth cod 9lb 6.5oz SHYTORQUE £1000
2nd Hugh Jones cod 9lb 4oz SEA OTTER II £300
3rd Karl Reid cod 9lb 3.5oz SEA URCHIN II £200
Heaviest other species
Russel A Keymer ling 6lb 12oz SEA URCHIN II £100

Day 1 – Monday 30th November Results From www.wcsa.co.uk Cancelled due to weather – Read Daily Report Here
Day 2 Geoff Drake – 6lb 2oz Shytorque
Day 3 Russel A Keymer - 6lb 12 oz Sea Urchin II
Day 4 Rob Wadsworth 9lb 6.5 oz Shytorque
Day 5 Karl Reid – 9lb 3.5 oz Sea Urchin II
Day …

Today’s weather has delayed the start of the festival for many anglers who were looking forward to the first day of the uptide competition, and with a similar forecast for day two it could be  much later in the week before it gets underway, I recomend anglers who have days booked this week should keep a close look on the forecast and  check with there skippers for any updates and news they may have Mick Leonard.

WCSA Press Release – Please Feel Free To Place This On Your Own Websites.
After the sucess of last years winter uptiding festival, the Whitby Charter Skippers Association will be running another event this year during late November and early December. This years week long uptiding festival will run from 30th November to 6th December. Glenn Stocks and Stagecoach Supertram from Sheffield will again sponsor the event and the prizes will be £1000 for the heaviest single cod, £300 for second heaviest cod and £200 for 3rd heaviest cod. There will …

We now have the dates for the WCSA Fishing Festivals 2010
They are as follows:
Winter Uptiding Competition 2009

30th November 2009 to the 6th December 2009 – £1000.00 for the single heaviest Cod, and £100.00 for the heaviest fish of any other species.

WCSA Fishing Festivals 2010

Spring Festival – 3rd. to 18th. April.
Summer festival – 19th. June to 11th. July.
Late summer festival – 11th. September. to 26th. September.

Congratulations to Alison gibbson who was Tuesdays winner in the 2009 Whitby charter skippers association late summer festival,
Alison who was fishing off the sea urchin 2 landed a cracking ling weighing in at 16lb 1.5oz  and over 2lbs heavier than the 2nd place fish who was also a female angler
Alison showed the all male anglers how it’s done over the wrecks and landed herself £50 into the bargain well done again Alison.
also during Wednesdays festival and fishing off the sea urchin 2 Mick spragg landed 3rd place with another ling of 16lb 13.5oz this fish came off …