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 the best mackerel recipe in the world)because in my opinion mackerel fishing on a full charter boat can be the most hazardous form of boat fishing,but by following a few simple safety procedures your day can be hazard …

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 boat fishing we do during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn is drift fishing and as its name implies the boat drifts along while you fish, the boat will be at the mercy of the tide and wind …

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 over 18lb and the largest ling went over 24lb along with a host of other fish  remember this is 2009 and not 1989 when fish were in abundance  not many anglers can claim  to have caught fish of …

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 baits, uptide of the boat you are fishing from. The tackle used usually consists of a 9 foot uptiding rod and a small 6500 or 7000 size multiplier or open faced spinning reel size 70 …

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.

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 reports and anglers are welcome to leave there comments please use this facility as we skippers need your feed back to improve our service 
Here in Whitby the skippers association offer anglers everything from short 3hour trips for the …

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 …

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 on Friday  when Drifield angler Howard gave us all a lesson on how to catch fish,  he was taking fish on shad/bait/jigger you name it he could not fail just makes you realise that even when …

 
 
At last the new boat has arrived in Whitby and if all goes to plan will be up and running for our spring festival, the new and much bigger sea urchin will be licensed for 12 anglers unlike the old boat which could only accommodate 5 anglers which in turn now means have plenty of space available on all festivals during 2009, visit myupdated webb site for more info from this link
www.whitby-sea-fishing.co.uk

Here is a sneak preview of Mick Leonards new boat that’s hopefully replacing the well loved Sea urchin, the deal has been done now just need to get her from south wales to Whitby then get the relevant code of practices applied and were fishing! 
 Mick says the new boat has an imense deck space for you anglers, at 18ft  x  11ft   you could nearly drop the sea urchin on the back! 
with heaps of room to carry 12 with ease there is  also room starboard side of wheelhouse giving the option for the average size group to all fish from one side  (less tangles?)  and a real …