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 Paul and Jimmy on from Southport. We stared on the inshore wrecks on the 4 and 5 mile grounds where we got some nice codling. However the water just wasnt right and so we headed …

I Had a guy on the phone on Sunday who said the fishing in humber was poor at the moment so he wanted to book an uptiding day out of Whitby. I told him we were going on Monday, and that we had had roughly 30 codlings or so uptiding on the Sunday down off Robin Hoods Bay.
So with fingers crossed we set off on the Monday morning, the forcast was good with just a light breeze this guy from hull said he had 50 fresh small black lugworm, …

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 and various forms of rubber lures. As time has past we are now seeing more and more anglers switching to theses newer methods along with lighter rods and reels.
We would be very interested to hear …

Looking back over 2009 to be honest it has been a good year, as usual the weather allways plays a big part. The last 2 months have been nothing short of disaster as we have lost many days at sea. However as early as March we had some lovely days with the lads enjoying what was to be one of the best starts to the year for quality fish I have seen for a few years.
Overall we had quite a few cod going into the 20lb bracket, so lets …

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

Sea Otter 2 Uptiding Report
Friday saw us fishing off the coast near Robin Hoods Bay in the Long Hole area. Hugh Jones (Taffy) had lovely fish that hit the scales at 9lb 4oz. Sadly Hugh just missed out on first place in the Uptiding festival as his fish was 2 ounces short of the winner caught by Rob Wadsworth on Shytorque.
we have been working on my favoirite marks down off robin hoods bay had dave barham from boat fishing monthly on board yesterday had a nice day i think …

Festival sponsor Glenn Stocks and his mate Geoff charterd sea otter 2 for themselves today. They fished the grounds and wrecks at distance and were rewarded with some very special fish indeed.
The biggest weighed in at 23lb and there were many more well into double figures. Glenn said that they had actually wanted to go uptiding but Sea Otter 2 skipper Paul had suggested the best option was a bit of baiting and pirking on the wrecks.
The fish fell to a variety of techniques including hooks baited with squid, Jiggers, …

I Had chris flowers team on from Barnlsey today. What a difference a day makes, conditions were near on perfect and the cod came out to play. Yesterday had been about Ling and there was plenty of them to go around but today it was the turn of the big cod.
One of the lads with a nice cod.

Another nice cod this guy is a pensioner and getting on a bit  but manged very well.

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 the day fell to Ray Smith with a nice ling  which went over 22lb. We also had cod to over 8lb, considering the conditions we didnt do to bad some lads fished well and managed …

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.