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 [...]

As the alarm bell rang at daft oclock this morning, I turned back over and thought, just 5 more minutes. Not long after Killer was shouting at me to get up. “Its quarter to 4″ Paul said, “were meeting Glenn, Geoff and Nick at the boat in 15 minutes, get a move on”.
Just enough time [...]

Whitby charter skipper and local boat fishing expert Paul Kilpatrick says that the simpler methods for setting up a shad rig are by far the most successful. There is no need to use a boom style set up, and in Paul’s experience that only causes more tangles. Paul Says “you simply tie a snap swivel [...]

Tuesday saw a group of regulars onboard sea otter 2. Shakespeare rep Nigel used the new Berkley Hollow Tail Shads too good effect catching the biggest cod of the day, a fish that weighed almost 19lbs on Pauls scales.
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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 [...]

Ive always said, that in fishing no 2 days are ever the same. Yesterday saw us run off only 5 miles where we fished the wrecks and hard ground. The water had cleared out lovely and the fish were playing ball and being more than willing to take unbaited shads. Today we went back [...]

With the weather being nothing short of brilliant today I had one of my regular teams onboard. We decided to have a go at uptiding down off Robin Hoods Bay. I wasn’t that confident, but the boats that were off wrecking yesterday had struggled so Uptiding it had to be.
We made our [...]

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 [...]