Sunday 24th May 09 Open Lookout
Conditions, Fair with bright sunshine, ambient temp 17 deg, humidity 82%, wind W8 mph, barometer 1018 mb, moon phase New, water temp dropped to 13.7, DO 9.6 , PH 7.52, conductivity -49
1st Eddie Brydon (70lb 3oz actual went over in net) 65lb 15oz peg 11
2nd Peter Wadge 61lb 11oz peg 17
3rd Chris Owers (63lb 10oz went over in net) 59lb 13oz peg 16aa
4th Lee Slater 57lb 12oz peg 1
5th Martin Robson 56lb peg 42
6th Andy Dague 52lb 11oz peg 5
Eddie caught mainly skimmers average 1lb on worm and caster
Wed Eve 20th May 09 open Bowes 3 hour match
Conditions Mostly Cloudy, heavy rain during day and at start of match, ambient temp 13 deg, humidity 72%, 14 mphbarometer 1013.2 mb, moon phase waning crescent, DO 12.6, water temp 13.8 mb, PH 7.53, conductivity -52
1st Brain Hall 50lb 3oz peg 40
2nd Davey Pearson 22lb 2oz peg 25
3rd Davey Foster 16lb 9oz peg 1
4th Andy Dague 15lb 11oz peg 23
5th Neil Brown 15lb 5oz peg 36
6th Eddie Brydon 14lb 3oz peg 39
Brian had to go out to 11 metres to get his catches with a few in the margin at 6 metres on paste
Heavy Rain at the early part of the match chilled water down and switched the fish of feeding making it a tough nights fishing.
General
Good start to the week with Ian Dixon taken a 30lb 4oz mirror on Monday evening using float/Power waggler rod feeding angel pellets and large cube of luncheon meat on hook fishing very tight in the margin just off reeds at 6 ft out.
The cold rains put water temperatures down to lows of 10.5 and the sun brings them back up to the highest of 16.4 deg, so fish in a quandary at the moment with no stable water temperatures. However all fish preparing to feed up for spawning so feeding very well especially the silvers, carp feeding best dusk and dawn,
Bait tip soak angel feed pellets add hemp and caster or maggot to form a great groundbait. Use pellet or triple maggot on the hook for good results. Keep sweetcorn for the hook as back up together with caster, meat or worm, mussel and prawn just coming into their own as water temperature rises.
Lookout
All pegs producing very well if you do not overfeed and just trickle feed into two swims, one needs to be tight in margins, the other at about 3 metres out of the bottom 2nd shelf. Having a quiver tip rod to feed of far band tight in is always a great second method of fishing.
Rudd, Golden Rudd, Ide, Golden Orfe, Tench, Golden Tench, Perch, Crucians, Carp, Koi, Skimmers & Bream all catching in good numbers, with tench doing well on caster and hemp, and perch and bream on chopped worm and caster. Alan Brown from Gateshead had 82 fish including crucians, carp, tench, bream, roach and rudd all on sweetcorn over angel pellets.
Bassetts
Rudd, Golden Rudd, Ide, Golden Orfe, Tench, Golden Tench, Gudgeon, Crucians, Carp, Koi, Skimmers, have all caught this week with large numbers of rudd on the drop and Roach, Tench and Skimmers of the bottom, carp have been up at times with water temperature fluctuations this week. Margins have caught well of first shelf tight
to the reeds, and at 3 metres out of second shelf.
Bowes
Good start to the week with Ian Dixon taken a 30lb 4oz mirror on Monday evening using float/Power waggler rod feeding angel pellets and large cube of luncheon meat on hook fishing very tight in the margin just off reeds at 6 ft out.
Jimmy Hagan took 36 carp to 17lb and lost a very large double at the net on pellet over angel pellet, worm cocktails took another 8 and Ide was also caught by Jim on Sunday.
Produced some great match weights with a ton out last Sunday and pleasure anglers need to have patience to get fish to swim with trickling in feed rather than overfeeding, water temperatures have been up and down this week with all the rain, and is fishing much better dusk and dawn. Carp are feeding up getting ready to spawn however they have a siesta at around 12.30pm until around 3.30pm when you will struggle to catch, then they switch on again.
Coaching Saturdays and Sunday also this week during the Holidays we have an additional Wed, Thurs, Fri, Mornings from 9am until Noon. We do need you to phone to book at least the day before 0191 410044
