Mick Roe from Preston has won this years summer angling festival with a ling of 26lb 2 ounces caught from Paul Kilpatrick’s boat Sea Otter 2. Mick is the lucky winner of our first prize of £5000. He was also a daily winner and winner of the ling section.

Skipper : Paul Kilpatrick
Tel : 01947 811329
Website : www.sea-otter2.co.uk
Boat Details : Sea Otter 2 is a Lockin 33. Lockin are renowned for their stability and safety, in fact the same hull of these boats are often used in manufacturing lifeboats, so you know when you step aboard Sea Otter 2 you are boarding one of [...]

During last year the new sea urchin II not only lived up to but surpassed all my expectations the extra deck space was heaven and its heavy displacement hull proved extremely stable in all conditions I still have one or two alterations to make outlined below
but the fishing season produced plenty of fish and it was a good year for large cod the largest was just [...]

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 [...]

Well conditions this morning we far from ideal with a fair southeastly breeze and northerly swell. The sea state wasnt very nice at all but as the day went on conditions improved and the swell started to drop out.
With the wind easing fishing was steady, we took fish every where we went, the best of [...]