Kevin Saunders from South Wales and a couple of his mates pictured below him.

Graham Smith here with a few of his mates and their fish. Graham is on the far right.

Fred Thornton from Whitby with a couple of his fish.

Bob Wrightson from Harrogate with a lovely cod of 10lbs.............................

.......and his lad Guy showing him how to go on ( for a change !!! )

Paul Pantellerisco with a couple his his best fish for the day. " Spraggy cod" off the rough ground.

Rich Simpson (  C.E.O. caravanning club of Great Britain ) on the left with Paul Pantellerisco on his right. Rich spends more time dreaming of camping than fishing !!!! 

Steve Hoyle from Scarborough with his best cod of the day. A nice 12lb fish.

Pete Atkinson from Bootham Engineers in Scarborough with a nice cod of 9lbs.

Les Duck from Loftus with a cod of 8lbs.

Andy Burnley from Scarborough. Two nice cod of 10lbs and 8lbs.

James Colledge from Guisborough with 2 good cod of around 10lbs each. 

Paul Siddall from Patrington near Hull with a lovely cod of 13lbs.

Paul Siddalls brother Chris from Essex with a good cod of 12lbs.

Pete McKintosh from Durham with a nice cod of 12lbs.

Les Cocker from Whitby with a cod of 10lbs.

Fred Mallender from Chesterfield. Two cracking cod. Best one 13lbs.

Phil Savage (left) and Pete Wood. Both from Chesterfield. All double figure cod.

Dougy Emerson ( left ) and Brian Winson both from Chesterfield with some good cod.

Brian Twigg from Chesterfield with a couple of 8 lb cod.

John Wilcock from Bradford with his festival winning cod of 20lbs 4.5oz caught on a shad on rough ground.

John Wilcock at the weigh in station with his 1st place 20lb 4.5oz cod and one of 17lb 11oz which took 4th heaviest fish in the competition. John collecting £5000.00 for 1st place plus £500.00 for 4th place and also a £500.00 prize for overall heaviest cod. He also picked up various daily cash prizes. Total winnings for his efforts £6220.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Lockers from Whitby. Left to right are Rob, John and his Dad Steve.

John Lockers best fish of the day at 12lbs.

Didn't get this lads name. A nice ling of 14lbs.

Didn't get this lads name either. Ling of 12lbs.

John Neale from Canada here with a lovely cod of 12lbs.

Luke Caswell from Doncaster with a nice fish of 10lbs.

Jim Arthur from Blackburn with his 17lb 15oz ling which won him 3rd place overall heaviest fish of the competition. A very nice £1000.00 plus £50.00 daily prize.

Phil Savage from Chesterfield with a ling of 13lb 5oz.

Missed this lads name from Liverpool.  A very colourful cod of 11lbs!!

I would again like to thank all those who fished with us aboard the Shy - Torque in the festival  this year. Great to see regular faces back again as well as new ones too. Well done to all those who managed prize winning fish. If you didn't get one this year maybe we can get you one next year. 

Thanks again                          Rich.

John Hawksworth from Shipley, West Yorkshire with a good ling of 15lbs.

Dave Crellin from the Lake District.

George March from Stockton with a couple of his fish.

One of Georges mates. Lost his name ! Sorry.

Paul Hough pictured here on the left with one of his mates.

Joe Southern here from Manchester. 9lb cod.

Rob, also from Manchester. Quite rare fish nowadays. Whitby Haddock. 

Dave also from Manchester, with a nice cod of 9lbs.

Rob from Manchester here again with a nice 8lb cod.

Fishing with the lads above from Manchester is Mike, pictured here with a very nice ling of 16lbs. 

Paul Incs (not the footballer!!)  here with a nice mixed double, cod and ling on the same trace!

Regularly aboard the Shy-Torque is Graham Stansfield. Pictured with a  nice ling of 12lbs.

Shane Stevenson from Blackburn here with an 8lb cod. Shane fishes with Festival prize winner Jim Arthur on his trips.

Jim Thompson here with a lovely ling of 15lbs. Heaviest fish of the day.

An ex Bridlington charter skipper pictured here. Ian Taylor with a nice ling of 17lb 8oz.

Great bunch of lads here from Manchester. Pictured from left are Daz, Joe, Johnny (back) Mike and Martin. Bad weather was forecast for the next day so I had to go down town and show them all how to drink !!!!!!!!

Bill Storey from Manchester with a couple of his dozen or so cod.

John Wilcock ( crew ) from Bradford with 2 lovely ling both in the top teens.

Stuart Nash. Prime Whitby cod. Chips are waiting !!

Oh dear J.P, one too many last night me thinks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A couple of Simon Askews mates from Northants here. Dave ( puker ! ) and Bob on the right. Had to watch myself that day as they were all prison warders!

Andy Marsh's team from Sheffield here with a few of their fish. Left to right are Dave ( Middlesborough) John, John, Andy and Adrian.

Dave from Middlesborough. Nice Pollock of 8lbs.

Adrian from Sheffield with his best of the day. Cod 9lbs.

James from Fylingthorpe nr Whitby.

Paul Pantellerisco from Southport.

Chris Maltby from Guisborough with his two best fish.

John Davison from Guisborough with two of his best fish of the day. John outfished everyone this day !

16 year old Arron Sanderson here with a lovely ling of 20lb 8oz.

Kev Mason here on the right with his mate Dave Hutchinson from Co Durham. Fishing between Xmas and New Year.

Malcolm Evett from Down South somewhere! ( can't remember! ) fishing in between Xmas and the New Year.

Rich Saurez here from Meltham Nr Huddersfield. Nice Xmas cod of 10lb.

Steve Greenhalgh from Beverley here with a nice Xmas cod of 7lbs.

Carl Dunbobbin from Scarborough with a couple of his fish.  Fishing between Xmas and New Year. ( Santa looking a bit poorly on his right !!! )

Dave Hare from Harrogate here with a couple of nice cod. The best being just over 10lb.

After a shakey start to the day Haydon Jones ( left ) and Ian Atkinson, both from Stockport managed a nice few codling to around the 6lb mark.

Nigel Steer from Sheffield.

Ben Steer from Sheffield.

Nick Denmark from Northallerton.

Doug Howser from Stockton.

Sam Anderson from Beverley East Yorks.

Dave Robbie from Beverley.

Elliot Spicer from Beverley.

Steve from Beverley.

Dave Leeman from Beverley.

Eddie Reilly from Bradford.

Mark Errington from Darlington.

Ben Watkiss from Nottingham.

Chris Wake from Kilnsey, Yorkshire

Jim Arthur from Blackburn.

Bob Woodrup  from Blackburn.

Crew member Mal Greenley from Whitby with a nice cod of 12lbs.

Tom Richters from Stockton.

Gary from Stockton.

Ben Hargreaves from Derbyshire ( originally from Whitby)

Chris Wake from Kilnsey North Yorks with a nice cat fish.

Ben French from Nottingham.

Good Whitby cod for Mick Nottley from nottingham.

Anne Tindall back again with a nice cod of 10lbs.

Mike Thompson from Manchester.

Left to right are Colin, Jack and Mike all from Manchester.

Tommy from Manchester with a couple of lovely Whitby cod both just into double figures.

Colin from Manchester with a nice cod of 8lbs.

Jack from Manchester.

Pete and Trevor from Manchester.

Pete and Trevor from Manchester.

John Briggs from Manchester.

Lee Johnston from Rotherham.

Les Johnston from Rotherham.

Ian Macklam from Stockton. Best fish 13lb.

John Banforth from Kippax in Leeds.

Simon-Rice-Birchall from Ilkley, Yorks.

John Hawksworth from Bingley West Yorks.

Chris Spargo from Leeds.

Nat Davidson from Allwoodley in Leeds on his maiden voyage. Nice cod od 13lb 8oz.

A team here from South Shields. Left to right are: Royce, Dave Flood, Dave, Stevie ( loony! ) Paul,  Mick ( loony 2 ), Ken Flood and Jimmy.

Anne Tindall from Scarborough. 22.5lb ling.

Duncan McKinnon from Sunderland, 22lb 5oz ling.

Bob Peel from Leeds  20lb 4oz ling.

Colin Rutland from Whitby 10lb cod.

Nigel Steel from York. 10lb 8o cod.

Ted Sabin from Doncaster. Whitby cod.