Winter uptide results
December 7th, 2009 | 
Author: Thanks to all the anglers who supported this years uptide festival as well as me and the boat, this year we won two daily events with Russel an angler from Mattlock taking the boats first daily prize with a ling of 6lb 12 oz which won him £50 he also won the heaviest any other species overall £100, and Karl Reid from Pickering came third overall with a nice cod of 9lb 3.5oz which also won him a daily prize of £50 as well as third place overall £200 total prize money £400 well done to you all.
the fishing was Hard this year with unpredictable unsettled weather most of the week although we had a decent number of cod each day nothing bigger than Karl’s 9lb 3.5oz cod could be found all week and looking at the final results you can see only oz’s separated the first three places anyway some days were more productive than others but that’s fishing everyone had a good time and I enjoyed everyone’s company so thanks again for getting the sea urchin II up on the leader board once again, here are a few pics I took during the week please feel free to send me your photos I will be happy to post them up for you Mick.
Day 1 – Monday 30th November Results From www.wcsa.co.uk Cancelled due to weather
Day 2Geoff Drake – 6lb 2oz Shytorque
Day 3Russel A Keymer - 6lb 12 oz Sea Urchin II
Day 4Rob Wadsworth 9lb 6.5 oz Shytorque
Day 5 Karl Reid – 9lb 3.5 oz Sea Urchin II
Day 6 Hugh Jones – 9lb 4oz sea otter II
Day 7 K Davies - 6lb 14oz sea spray
Final placings
1st Rob Wadsworth cod 9lb 6.5oz SHYTORQUE £1000
2nd Hugh Jones cod 9lb 4oz SEA OTTER II £300
3rd Karl Reid cod 9lb 3.5oz SEA URCHIN II £200
Heaviest other species
Russel A Keymer ling 6lb 12oz SEA URCHIN II £100
Karl's 9lb 3.5oz cod
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Had my first crack at uptiding today on board Seaurchin, after a very wet steam down to the south hard we dropped anchor and cast out our baits ,I decided to start with big baits of lug and squid and was first in with a fish of about 5lbs then I had another about the same size on cart and squid by this time the other 2 anglers on board were pulling in fish as well, then it died off but Mick the Skipper said that’s what happens and get ready for the fish to come back on and sure enough after a short while rods were jumping again I seemed to be doing better than the other rods, was it something to do with the extra large baits I was putting out or just beginners luck I dont know anyway I had 9 fish out and had lost a couple of what felt like bigger fish by the time the tide went slack by which time the fish had stopped as well and we were waiting for what seemed like a lifetime for the Flood tide to get underway but the fish never came back on and so that was it for the day. I had a very enjoyable day and Mick the skipper is a top bloke, very friendly and knows his stuff. If anyone was thinking of having a go at uptiding I Highly recommend a day on Sea urchin with Mick.