Over the last two or three years, I’ve trialled a few areas with Dave Brown on his Bridlington based boat Lizzard with the intention of targeting porbeagles. Whilst having good weather and tide conditions, on more than one of those experimental trips, we’ve struggled to get enough bait for the day, and in truth, didn’t [...]

Report By Rupert Drury – June17th 2009. The original report can be read at :
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10257.0
This was the earliest I’d booked a shark trip from Whitby and though all the captures from the port have been from July onwards, previous sightings reported to me over the last 2 years in June led me to believe that [...]

A Lucky angler onboard Trot On managed to hook and land a porbeagle shark in the Whitby angling festival. As Sharks are not allowed to be weighed in during the festival for conservation reasons, the fish was returned to fight another day.