Mick Roe from southport with his 2 buddys chartered the boat between them, and what a day they had. They were haveing a whale of a time with the cod on the shads, and then as the tide eased i said its time to go for a biggy. It was micks day, he managed to [...]

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 [...]

So half four Saturday morning soon came and we chucked the kit in the car and took the hour journey to Whitby. We popped into Rods N Reels for some squid, shads and the other bits of tackle you normally pick up, dropped it all off back in the car and then grabbed some breakfast from the cafe. After polishing off bacon and sausage butties with a nice cup of tea it was time to get on the boat and get set up.

Well it was cracking day today today the sun was shineing the sea was more of less calm and some really quality fish to go with it the lads had a very steady day we were wrecking all day and it was what i would call a very steady picking cod,ling,and pollock were the order of the day

Paul Danby wins the latest Whitby Angling Festival with a fine Pollack of 12 Pounds 4 Ounces caught from Paul Eddons boat Trot On. Mr Danby is the lucky winner of the £1000 cash prize for heaviest fish in the festival

After the recent run of poor fishing (which I attribute to the large algal bloom off Whitby over the past week), we decided on a change of tactics for the penultimate day of the festival. I told the lads to arm up with shads and jellyworms and we headed out to the 20 mile wrecks [...]

How very stange apart from one ling all the top  7  fish weighed in the spring festival were pollock and only Oz’s between them was it anglers tactics? the weather? Tide? water clarity played it’s part with the alge bloom effecting the inshore fishing the winning boats were working further off in clearer water what do [...]

As always, we at the Whitby Charter Skippers Association (www.wcsa.co.uk) are very interested in the anglers who come to Whitby to fish from our boats. Traditionally it was the old 1lb jigger that was the favoured method utilised by anglers who visited the port, but in recent times we have seen the introduction of shads [...]

On day 7 of the spring festival we had Eric Grieres and his mates on board Sea Otter 2. We started fishing the wrecks 5 miles south east of Whitby and we managed about 15 cod in the first couple of hours fishing. It then went slow so we decided to head out onto the [...]

We Had Glenn Stocks on Sea Otter 2 on Sunday. We fished a wreck out on the 20 mile ground and Glenn had some cracking cod. A couple of the fish went into double figures, the average stamp was also very good with a lot of fish between 4-7lb.

Today (Tuesday 25th January) we had [...]