whitby the best?

[mr motorola]

With respect, I think you are comparing apples with oranges there Carl. Chieftain is a COP cat1 multi day angling specialist. Famous is a COP cat2 single day specialist.

 

Famous will kick the pants off any Whitby boat on a 10 hour trip. But I reckon my old swiftcat could dust anything in the UK Inc Famous.

 

Nostalgia aint what it used to be though Carl. I still reckon your Stu was the best ever twin engined 'tupperware' boat skipper I ever fished with. I still dont know how he did it. He would fly past a wreck at 20kn and stop the boat dead, turn the boat and shout DROP!

 

Thirty seconds later all hell broke loose with rods buckled everywhere. Amazing, and he did it time after time.

 

 

Alan

Stu was unsurpassable , unbeatable if i'm honest but not liked by some , the chieftain is a different style fishing 'untouched' wrecks and a slow chug-chug boat make for quite a fishing experience.

I made a visit up to Stu's house last month , he still looks his old self ; telling it like it is and as big and strong as ever. Whatever your method , whatever your choice , whatever your ...whatever , fishing is great and enjoyed by all who drop a line in the water.

 

Carl.

[wildcard]

Stu was unsurpassable , unbeatable if i'm honest but not liked by some , the chieftain is a different style fishing 'untouched' wrecks and a slow chug-chug boat make for quite a fishing experience.

I made a visit up to Stu's house last month , he still looks his old self ; telling it like it is and as big and strong as ever. Whatever your method , whatever your choice , whatever your ...whatever , fishing is great and enjoyed by all who drop a line in the water.

 

Carl.

 

Had some great days with Stu on the original 'sea trek'. I think you posted a video a few years ago. Can you post it up again Carl?

 

Alan

[mr motorola]

I've a few Alan , check my youtube page.....

 

just ignore the video of the drunk guy dancing around in his underpants , i haven't a clue who he is!!!!

 

Youtube Video ->

[tommy123]

So nice to be able to discuss the good and the not so good things about Whitby as an angling destination without being ridiculed for having an opinion.

Hello Mr Motorola loved your U-Tube links. I have fished with you before on chieftain. A few years ago now but I remember your party as being made up of a great bunch of anglers who had a vast angling experience behind them.

Do you still go on chieftain? It’s good to be able to talk with someone who has actually experienced the different options you have of fishing from Whitby, rather than someone who says that fishing is great inshore of Whitby when they obviously have never experienced what you described in your post above.

Like I said before, it is a plus for Whitby that you have the choice.

Tommy.

[big_cod]

As good as it maybe , i don't think it will kick the pants off some in Whitby Alan.

 

I know some people on here may be getting a little tired of hearing the name "Chieftain" but until you have truely experienced a "white wreck" and anglers who know the boat and skipper know what a white wreck is then it is a claim that will have to go a very long way to state that it is better than anything in Whitby. Wrecks holding 150+ stone of cod are common enough with fish coming up 2-3-4 and even 5 a time. By the way , i'm not knocking the link Alan just putting my word across for my favourite boat , i guess thats why they make different flavoured crisps.....everyone to their own preferences.

Nice video great fun.

 

Carl

 

You are right carl hartlepool hasnt a chance of kicking the pants of whitby there are different types of fishing here at whitby cod .ling, haddock,pollock, shark, there as many plaice in sandend bay as you want if you sat there you would probably catch brill even turbut george on chieftain does the longer trips some people like the excitment of spending a few days at sea its completly different service but for numbers of cod what whitby can throw out iwould challenge any port in uk to beat it we have averging between 150-250 cod per trip over the last month the lads return a lot of fish just where do you get that sort of fishing within 45 miniutes of the harbour its been fishing its tits off recently on the shads i can count on one hand just how many cod have actually come of wrecks the skill is to fish sprat marks uptide tide of the wrecks sometimes 200mtrs away from the wrecks the fish are nowhere near the wrecks you dont learnt this overnight it takes years to work this job out to knows just whats what commercial fishermen know there job get them behind the wheel of charterboat and 99% of the time they are lost if i took pictures of what we have caught put up on the net it would make people sit up as to how good the fishing has been recently there is one thing in this world you get what you pay for alan did bring his cat to whitby if isnt the place to be he wouldnt have brought it here he really does love whitby .

 

 

 

paul.

Edited June 21, 2010 by big_cod

[biggacod]

You are right carl hartlepool hasnt a chance of kicking the pants of whitby there are different types of fishing here at whitby cod .ling, haddock,pollock, shark, there as many plaice in sandend bay as you want if you sat there you would probably catch brill even turbut george on chieftain does the longer trips some people like the excitment of spending a few days at sea its completly different service but for numbers of cod what whitby can throw out iwould challenge any port in uk to beat it we have averging between 150-250 cod per trip over the last month the lads return a lot of fish just where do you get that sort of fishing within 45 miniutes of the harbour its been fishing its tits off recently on the shads i can count on one hand just how many cod have actually come of wrecks the skill is to fish sprat marks uptide tide of the wrecks sometimes 200mtrs away from the wrecks the fish are nowhere near the wrecks you dont learnt this overnight it takes years to work this job out to knows just whats what commercial fishermen know there job get them behind the wheel of charterboat and 99% of the time they are lost if i took pictures of what we have caught put up on the net it would make people sit up as to how good the fishing has been recently there is one thing in this world you get what you pay for alan did bring his cat to whitby if isnt the place to be he wouldnt have brought it here he really does love whitby .

 

 

 

paul.

as you say paul ware else do get cod,ling,haddock,pollock,turbot,sharks, ect, ect

all withing 45 minutes of the harbour.

HARTLEPOOL thats ware paul

in fact we had some cracking cod withing 2 mile last week

now the boats, i think if every skipper had the means they would buy a cat

stable fast and plenty of room

for those anglers that have fished a cat can tell you

cracking boats

[Brian Carragher]

Don't need to go to hartlepool either, I get plenty from Redcar in my own little boat and thats not a cat either, nice of you to join though Dave, hope you'll put up a few catch reports from your boat the "Famous", which incidently is a cracking boat

[biggacod]

Don't need to go to hartlepool either, I get plenty from Redcar in my own little boat and thats not a cat either, nice of you to join though Dave, hope you'll put up a few catch reports from your boat the "Famous", which incidently is a cracking boat

good crack brian keep it up.my name is not dave its gary mate

[wildcard]

I am in 100% agreement Paul, Whitby is a great fishing port but in the swings and roundabouts I would only put it on par with Hartlepool. Neither port would be the nr1 charter port in the UK - in my opinion.

 

I hate the lock situation in Hartlepool. Whitby juts 20 miles out further East than Hartlepool, so it is further to travel to any decent fishing grounds. With a fast boat though it is no big deal.

 

There is a misconception that I moved my cat out of Whitby because I fell out with my skipper Mike. Not so, I could have got another skipper easily enough and bigcod actually recomended one.

 

The reality is my insurance company insisted I moved it, so it was gone overnight. The mooring I was given had a boat sunk on it, I was told and another one badly damaged. The rubber rubbing strake on one of the mooring pillars was 12in short of the water on some low tides. This meant the mooring line could become trapped underneath it. When the tide rose again it could pull the bow under. Also, I had to go and shorten/lengthen the moorings twice a day on biggish tides or she would float on top of the pilings and get damaged.

 

The harbour office were unable to offer a pontoon mooring, even though I was promised one. I thought it best to inform my insurer, who told me either move it or risk the loss myself.

 

It didnt matter to me where she was berthed as she was coded for 60 miles anyway.

 

It is nice to have an adult discussion about such things on a big forum like this. I am afraid I have given up on WSA due to the pathetic moderation.

 

Alan

[barry luxton]

quote:

 

............its tits off recently on the shads i can count on one hand just how many cod have actually come of wrecks the skill is to fish sprat marks uptide tide of the wrecks sometimes 200mtrs away from the wrecks the fish are nowhere near the wrecks you dont learnt this overnight it takes years to work this job out to knows just whats what commercial fishermen know there job get them behind the wheel of charterboat and 99% of the time they are lost

 

Three skippers to qualify to charter boats where all under 19 when they suceeded. Richard English, Steve West, now the latest Lyle Stantiford, 17 he was. Fished many times with Steve West, both at anchor for the conger and ling and on the drift for the cod and pollock fishing. As the famous Paul Whittall reminds us, it's just like driving a bus, with the added advantage of the electronics in front of you with the marks in the computer. All it takes is two or three drifts to sus out where the fish lie in relation to the wreck. Would i fish with lyle, not half he has taken delivery of a new cat this year, his fishy foto's are looking ok, fairplay to the man.

 

It was one commercial guy at brixham who started to put the conger fishing on the map, when decca was in use, instead of the commercials using decca to miss the wrecks, they started fishing them and found good eel on them. Then they could earn dosh taking anglers out. Can't remember the name of the first 'conger' boat at brixham, however it's still around as it was up for sale in the last year or so. Remember going on ex commercial trawlers for a very long time fishing for the conger and ling and the cod for that matter, good fun.