Sunday 24th Oct 2010 open / League Lookout
Conditions:- Overnight cold and heavy rain (again), then partly cloudy, ambient temperature rose to 8 deg, humidity 66%, wind at first was calm, then changed to NW the N 12 mph, barometer 1016.9 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 6.1 deg, PH 7.15, DO 7.9, MV29
1st Tony Watson 34lb 10oz peg 31 inc 2lb 7oz perch on maggot
2nd Geoff Lincoln 23lb 1oz peg 15 on white maggot
3rd Neil Brown 14lb 9oz peg 23
4th Ian Gillis 12lb 15oz peg 1
5th Jonathan Broadbent 12lb 12oz peg 29
6th John Foster 8lb 4oz peg 12
Tony Watson, Sunday’s match winner
Wednesday 20th October 2010 Open Bowes
Conditions:- Heavy overnight frost (again), then partly cloudy, ambient temp rose to 5 deg, humidity 81%, wind NW 8 mph, barometer 1016.8 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp dropped to 8.1 deg, PH 6.95, DO 7.10, mv 33
1st Ricky Bennett 24lb 8oz peg 24 all 10mm conker on bomb
2nd Dave Jackson 5lb 14oz peg 2
Rest DNW
General
Weather this week has varied from overnight frosts, to overnight rain and cold days together with rain, the frosts turned the sunrise into spectacular sights with the evaporation of the lakes reaching 6 ft and as sunrise started on the clear mornings rainbows and light refraction produced some stunning sights. The rain and frosts have however knocked the water temperature down to 6 degrees, and tightened the fish’s shoals, they are feeding still but are far more gentle bites and very little feed is required to get the catches. Choose very carefully where you are going to fish with a walk around first being advisable to look for the tell tale signs of feeding fish, also sheltered spots away from the wind where fish will avoid cold thermals. Maggot is at the moment the lead bait, white catching more fish than other colours.
Lookout
Walk the banks before choosing your pegs as this week’s weather has shoaled fish up tight. Some good bags of silvers as well as carp have been caught if you get into the shoals. Don’t overfeed keep it very sparing and very little, but the fish are still feeding. If into a shoal you will need to increase the feed slightly or add some additives or groundbait to keep the fish in the swim. Pellet is working for carp even covered in paste as an attractant, and silvers on maggot, chopped worm and caster. Fish are tight in margins and some excellent perch to 2 lb being caught as well.
Bowes
Colder water temperatures have shoaled up both carp and silvers, follow watercraft to choose your peg, all fish still feeding however getting into the shoals is critical for good catch rates. Carp have been caught on conker with the paste around the pellet acting as an attractant but they are very tight to the island sheltering in warmer thermals. Silvers have favoured multiple maggots on the hook and feed has been maggot or micro pellets but not very much remember as water temperature took a big drop to 6 deg this week.
Bassetts
Carp feeding up very well with some great catch rates as well as silvers and we even had tench and crucians out. Feeding patterns need to be minimal about 4 maggots or 4 pellets every 5 mins and it is advisable to keep 3 swims going to get fish to other areas in your peg.
Best hook baits this week has been maggots, soft hookers, and sweetcorn.
Best feed this week has been angel micro pellets 1.5mm and maggots.
Angling Coaching
Bassetts again proved very good sport on Friday when a school group started their first learn to fish programme before half term, all the youngsters caught at least multiple carp on their three hour visit.
