With the uptiding festival just around the corner, the winter uptiding season has kicked off big style at Whitby with cod into double figures already coming from the inshore grounds. Today saw Paul Kilpatrick fishing 3/4 of a mile off Sandsend and the lads onboard who travelled all the way from Coventry were certainly not disappointed with cod into double figures and some big coalfish as an added bonus.

In his report to the Whitby Fishing Forum, Sea Otter 2 skipper Paul Kilpatrick said :

With the tides being bang on for uptiding and to much wind forcast  to go offshore today, we decided we would going to give the uptiding a bash.

The lads came up from Coventry and they werent disappointed, one of the lads getting his personal best cod nudgeing over the 10lb mark. Worm and squid were the magic baits today but frozen cart wasn’t far behind. Fresh cart today  really fished well well, but in the next couple of weeks frozen cart will start to take over.

We also had  a coalie which went over 5lb plus an odd ling  but at the end of the day the lads enjoyed themselves it started windy but as the day went on it fell away  leaving a lovely afternoon. Here are some pictures from the days fishing, I hope you all enjoy looking at them

One of the lads gets the first cod on the boat.

The next fish on the boat a cod about 4lb.

My lads got this coalie it went 5lb.

Up comes this 6lb to the surface.

My lad gaffs the fish .

Lee the organizer gets a nice 5lb cod

Big smiles for this man first time on a boat and he took the sweep was he happy with his 10lber

You could here a pin drop now serious or what the sweep was till to play for.

Paul.