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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Saturday Shane Kevin and Tim travelled from Chesterfield to fish in the Whitby Charter skippers spring angling festival and Shane always the optimist could not have imagined how events would turn out,

the day before he gave me a call to check on weather and such and I explained to him as I did [...]

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 [...]