Sunday 9th Nov 08 Open Lookout
Overcast with light showers, temp 5 deg feels like 1 deg, wind SSW 14 mph, barometer low 998 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 6.00 deg, PH 7.55, DO 12.7 ppm, conductivity -55, water levels high after all the rain this week
1st Dave Hodgson 33lb 5oz peg 26 tip and maggot
2nd Terry Guthrie 23lb 2oz peg peg 22
3rd Chris Pine 16lb peg 2
4th Steve Knowles 14lb 10oz peg 6
5th Ray Wallace 14lb 3oz peg 3
6th Neil Brown 10lb 3oz peg 30
Dave used ground bait feeder to far side and maggot on hook for carp, skimmers and silvers on pole at 14 metre using maggot, feeding pellet with maggot.
Golden pegs £150.00, £132.00, 2x £50.00.
General
Another wet cold and windy week has not deterred anglers who are keen to try out winter tactics by trying out pole, feeder, waggler and ledger. I would advise always to bring your tip rod as a good back up for all weather conditions and some remarkable catches of good specimen fish.
Some good results have been produced with a high 20/30lb coming out together with good doubles and smaller also being taken on Bowes. On Lookout and Bassetts changing tactics, bait and targeting species specific has also been successful. Water now starting to clear down to 10 inches as water temperatures drop and sunlight lessens making plankton etc die off for winter.
High winds are producing warmer thermals up in the water with surface and bottom being up to 1 deg colder than middle layer.
Bowes
Saturday on in wet and windy conditions Peg 3 Brian Hall using a maggot feeder with maggot on the hook had a great session catching 25 carp all of good calibre. Brian’s catches comprising 4 at 10lb, 5 at 8lb, all rest 4lb plus, the first 2 hours Brian did not catch he persevered and then this changed to a steady catch rate.
Some good very high weight carp to high 20s have been taken with big carp anglers settling down in their bivies to keep the weather out.
Lookout
Targeting tight shoals has proved successful with Dave Hodgson on Sunday managing to get both carp and bream with some other silvers to win the match on peg 26.
Anglers using the tip to far bank with both groundbait and maggot feeders doing well and best hook bait is maggot.
Fish are still feeding though lighter tackle for winter water temperatures now needed, as is the use of watercraft for identifying the best pegs to fish from. A windy wet week has seen fish jumping out of the water at dawn and topping well looking for seeds and floating berries blown in.
Some lovely Ide and crucians being caught to good 2lb plus, ghosties and carp feeding early on, with silvers later on in day.
Bassetts
Lots feeding at dawn with topping fish and good movement early on, shorter daylight getting fish started moving and shoals of skimmers and carp can be seen also very early, some nice carp out this week and tench slowing feeding down. Remarkably some good catches in students learning to fish even in the inclement weather conditions well done.
