Well what a day we had on Wednesday the weather was perfect and as I had not been out since last Thursday I had no real idea what the water clarity would be like we set off to the east with wrecking in mind all day with some regulars and two hire rods who had [...]

The spring festival is almost upon us starting next week on Saturday 3rd April and concludes on Sunday 18th April
With a one thousand pounds prize offered to the winner who catches the heaviest fish during the competition, anglers can enter on the day with the wcsa skipper they are fishing with on any day, also anglers can enter [...]

Mackerel fishing you say? Anyone can catch mackerel, yes while I agree in principle there are days when we struggle to fing them and this guide is intended to help the novice on such days, although I think some of you more regular boat anglers might find the article of interest especially the safety aspect covered later (not to mention [...]

Maybe you are thinking of booking a trip on a boat and not really sure of whats involved, well don’t worry Here are a few basics for the total beginners  amongst you, I do intend to cover other boat basics such as makarell fishing, bait, shad and wreck fishing in another post which I will add soon
The most common type 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 [...]

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 6/8 ounce weight and a trace, baited with a variety of sea fishing [...]

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. [...]

Here you will find a host of information on all the association boats who work from this lovely old fishing port on the North Yorkshire coast
The new site is intended to help all the skippers and anglers with posts and skippers blogs fishing updates  festival results to name a few and all are interactive,  skippers ecouraged to leave [...]

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 [...]

Well this week has been a good week all in all with plenty of cod showing on certain wrecks and also a few good days fishing on the ground, the water was beginning to bloom up again which made for hard work inshore, plenty of marks but not easy to catch, had a good day [...]