Sunday 28th Oct 08 Open Lookout
Conditions:- Cold night followed by overcast, & 11 deg (nippy), humidity 82%, wind W 5 mph, barometer 1026.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 12 deg dropped, PH 7.55, DO 14.4, conductivity -65
1st Dave Hodgson Angel 72lb 1oz peg 15
2nd Jeff Lincoln 35lb 7oz all silvers in 2 nets peg 7
3rd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 30lb 10oz peg 11
4th Terry Guthrie Angel 29lb 1oz peg 1
5th Chris Pine 27lb 8oz peg 6
6th Ben Huggins 25lb 8oz peg 2
Dave Pole tight in margin using top four on paste (he lost more than he caught) well done Dave
Dave Hodgson winner with one of his nets and a nice leather
Dont forget £150.00 Golden Peg and 5 £50.00 Golden pegs still to be won.
Winter League names being taken also opportunity for named pairs
Saturday 27th Sept 08 Open Bowes
Conditions:- Bright sunshine, ambient temp 17 deg , humidity 66%, wind calm then E 6 mph, barometer 1026.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 12.1 deg dropped , PH 7.55, DO 14.1, conductivity -57.
1st Billy Mc Crowley 50lb 12oz, peg 40
2nd Brian Hall 45lb, peg 23
3rd Dave Pearson 24lb 1oz peg 34
4th Alan Mc Guire 22lb 10oz peg 36
5th Tommy Marshall 22lb 8oz peg 37
6th Steve Shilling 19lb 4oz peg 24
Billy used pole, paste 13 metres out and margins.
General
Some good catches when overcast the sun making fish stop feeding as much with best catches from dawn to around 11am also from 4 till dusk and through the night.
A week where cold nights dropped water temperature, fishing now going into Autumn methods and baits.
You need to try and have a variety of baits including paste, pellet, sweetcorn, worm (both on its own and as a cocktail tipped with sweetcorn, maggot, or caster) maggot, and caster. Feed Angel pellets sparsely and every five minutes, for the feeder use maggot feeder or groundbait with maggots in mixed with fish meal.
Savoury flavourings now holding there own and will all through the autumn & winter flavours like chilly, paprika, garlic, liquid worm, mussel, predator plus and minnging fish all doing well.
Fish shoaling into species and sizes shoals for example carp up to 2lb are together then 5lbs etc, Large bream keeping together and skimmer shoals now very large. Tench feeding very well ready for winter with some excellent numbers coming out. Crucians also being caught in good numbers and Ide piling on weight and lots of 2lb plus out on both mixed coarse lakes.
I would recommend if fishing waggler or pole to always have the tip road with you on Bowes and Lookout as water temperature drops.
Lookout mixed coarse
Catches are now about choosing pegs according to watercraft, weather, wind direction and barometer, still large catches are possible but most pleasure anglers doing 25 to 30 fish in a day unless you get into good shoals then anything is possible.
Bill Wayne from Blyth and his friend had a great day on pegs 1 and 2 between them taking over 145 fish. Comprising carp to 6lb 8oz, Ide over 2lb, Crucians average 2lb, skimmers, 4 good bream above 5lb, rudd, roach, and tench both Golden and green best to over 3lb. they used pole and tip to back bank with cubed meat on the hook, maggots, and worm and also pellet.
Ironically no reported perch this week have been caught, and some of the large bream over 5lb have gone into spawning mode again with their modules very prominent in the males which is strange with it so late in the year and considering water temperatures. Some superb silver fish coming out as well as lots of carp who are shoaling up in groups and not moving as much around the lakes.
Bowes Carp
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atches are now about choosing pegs according to watercraft, weather, wind direction and barometer, still large catches are possible but most pleasure anglers doing 25 to 30 fish in a day unless you get into good shoals then anything is possible including some excellent 20s out again this week as carp are feeding up for their winter rest.
Season ticket holder Paul Gibson is now getting used to the lake & was fishing at dusk and targeting large carp has had some excellent lumps out this week. Paul tends to not spend long hours fishing but gets to know the best times of the day to target the lumps and may only spend 4 hours at a time.
Pleasure anglers catch numbers are around 10 fish in a half a day right up to 62 depending on getting the peg correct.
Bassetts Mixed coarse
Catches are now about choosing pegs according to watercraft, weather, wind direction and barometer, still large catches are possible but most pleasure anglers doing 25 to 30 fish in a day unless you get into good shoals then anything is possible.
Some good Ide coming out up to 2lb and in mint condition, carp, crucians, tench and silvers with skimmers proving some larger numbers caught.
Coaching
Coaching is still ongoing as catch rates are still there, but making students really understand cold water fishing conditions which is critical to getting good catch rates.
