Ward and Turnbull earn Whitby SAA League victories
This week’s Whitby Sea Angling Association League fishing went from one extreme to the other - flat calm to a growing 6-8ft Northerly swell.
On Wednesday evening numbers were down due to the poor conditions. Hence why only eight fished!
Sea state flat, flooding neap tide (up to HWater), 5mph ESEasterly breeze, heavy cloud cover, and 2.3mm of rain forecast from 8pm.
Drizzle right from the onset soon developed into a downpour at 8pm, which did not let up even into the early hours. At the scales just six had a weigh-in of six codlings, 10 whitings, two 2 bleggs, one rockling, one dab and a flounder, total sum 17lb 5oz.
Man of the Match was Dave Ward, Guisborough, with two codlings and five whitings for 6lb.
Heaviest Fish of the night went to Treasurer Dave Perrett with 2lb 4½oz.
In the Singles Knockouts, Brian Harland beat Peter Horbury and Dave Ward beat Perrett.
On Sunday, Storm Claudia had passed by but increasing Northerly winds, forecasted to top 30+mph were already evident.
Hence a growing Northerly sea-state 4-8ft, thick with colour could produce a few good fish.
Fishing started two hours before low water and being a neap tide, it had hardly ebbed any useful distance.
The surging swells were trying to push back-in before the tide had even turned, fuelled by the increasing wind strength.
Casting and bite detection severely hampered, some weed in the surf made for some challenging conditions.
At the scales, the second-best weigh-in of the season was recorded, 51lb from 31 fish.
Man of the Match was Davey Turnbull, Darlington, with the only ‘double-figure’ bag of 13lb 11oz from three codlings, his best 6lb 13oz - making it the season’s best fish ‘caught in a match’.
Both weights Heaviest bag of Fish and Heaviest Fish now lead in November’s Monthly Sweep. Turnbull has an average fish weight of 3lb 6oz!
Top Five Leaderboard: 1st - Brian Harland - 100 fish 70lb 14oz, 2nd - Dave Ward - 87 fish 58lb 15oz, 3rd - Dave Perrett - 51 fish 52lb, 4th - Peter Horbury - 29 fish 41lb 2oz, 5th - Davey Turnbull - 10 fish 33lb 11oz.