Shads Now Catching Fish On Sea Otter 2
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 way down [...]
January Wreck Fishing At Whitby On Sea Otter 2
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 [...]
Jigging For Cod – An Old But Not Forgotten Method
With the growing popularity of “shad” fishing, use of a pirk has fallen out of fashion to a degree. Nevertheless, pirking (jigging or ripping), remains a very effective method of catching cod, ling and other local species. Over the years, I’ve had some belting pollack, loads of ‘nuisance’ whiting, coalfish and even had occasional wrasse [...]