Mistress - Whitby - week end report

[Mistress]

The weather and conditions, as Im sure you all have heard has been extremely disappointing so far this year.
This time last year we were catching fish by the boat load, and had a great start.

This year has to be the worst I can ever remember, saying that, the lads have still been keen to get to sea and try their hand, both saturday and sunday we travelled well off to some distant wrecks in the search of good fishing. Unbelievably the clarity was affected 25 miles + offshore following the last northerly sea. ( thats 25 miles north of whitby, just 20 miles east of sunderland - co-ordinates available on request )

both days saw us get our first mackerel of the season. we caught fish both day but not in any great numbers. sunday saw us boating a lot of mackerel. we still caught cod, pollock and coalie too.
Unfortunately I havent been getting may photos due to the poor fishing, heres a couple of shots anyway, didnt think anyone would be wanting to pictures of mackerel!





On monday I only had a few lads booked on and the forecast was far from brilliant meaning we would have to stay inshore, with this in mind, we planned to uptide fish with the lads (absolutely unheard of by the end of may!) the tide was slack when we headed out so we fished on the soft ground until the tide got away fully, taking lots of dabs and whiting (just to keep the rod tips rattling). we moved as soon as the tide started and we managed a few cod, falling to fresh lug the lads had dug the day before.

the day was slow and we caught codlings most places we stopped on the hard ground, the first push of the flood saw a few codling falling to cart. we finished up with around ten codlings for the day between us hundreds of whiting and few dabs.





the water should clear out soon and the fishing should go ballistic judging by the feed marks everywhere

Rich

Heres a link to a couple of my regular anglers reports:

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=30656.0

Fishing on Mistress yesterday (27.05.13)

[lingking]

nice result/report rich

[kayos]

A few nice fish there Rich. Lynn and I are looking forward to our trip with you during the festival.

[Mistress]

The fishing has been difficult to say the least, its hard not feel demoralised by it all but we have to keep going and try to make a living, as skippers we work our hardest to find the fish for the lads/lasses, its in our own interests to look after our anglers

Thanks for the support guys

[Paul_h]

Well done on the catch, as you say it's been very difficult.

You passed me the other day headin north, you certainly put some miles in.

The water clarity was still rubbish, even 16 mile offshore, I suspect the clarity was was top stuff and still murky in the depths.

Paul

[Mistress]

Well done on the catch, as you say it's been very difficult.

You passed me the other day headin north, you certainly put some miles in.

The water clarity was still rubbish, even 16 mile offshore, I suspect the clarity was was top stuff and still murky in the depths.

Paul

Youre right Paul,
You must have the grey powerglide, bonny looking boat that mate.
The fish are marking but its not clear enough for them to be seeing whats going on, we got a few cod and pollock coalies and a rake of mackys, did you get any mackerel yourself?

It was a lovely day to be at sea, i said to that lads on the long steam home, its could have been worse . . . could have been raining!

still the new lads who had never sailed with me before have rebooked so must be doing something right!

[Paul_h]

Yes that was me in the power glide, the grey is the muck its cream underneath.
only got 1 pollack and 2 whites, no macks.
Didn,t see any bait balls either although plenty showing before that blow.

Considering the number of boats, anglers and amount of marks fished, the results were unbelievably poor to say the least.

Lets wait and see what this weekend brings, looking like another couple of distant offshore trips the way its looking on Sunday and Mondays forecasts.

Paul