Sunday 17th Aug 08 Lookout
Heavy rain overnight, then mostly cloudy rain early part of match caused a tough match, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 88%, Wind SSE6 mph, barometer 1002 mb. Moon phase full, water temp 16.4, PH 7.88 (rain bring in pollution overnight), DO 13.4, cond -60
1st David Hodgson angel 40lb 3oz peg 11
2nd Chris Pine 31lb 6oz Peg 8
3rd Peter Wilson 25lb 13oz peg 32
4th Dave Walker 25lb 12 oz peg 3
5th Neil Middlemiss 24lb 11oz peg 26
6th Steve Hern 22lb 15oz peg 2
Well done Dave, yet more rain what a summer for quantity of rain.
Wed eve 13th Aug 08 open Bowes 20
Conditions:- Partly cloudy after torrential rain through day then torrential rain from 8pm for the weigh in, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 64%, wind calm to NNW6mph, barometer 997 mb (low), moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 17.1 deg, PH 7.65, DO 14.8, conductivity -65.
1st Tommy Marshall 47lb 10oz (inc a great Leather of 16lb 2oz) peg 18
2nd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 43lb 6oz peg 40
3rd Alan Hepple Angel 43lb 4oz peg 2
4th Brian Hall Angel 42lb 5oz peg 22
5th Chris Owers Angel 41lb 15oz peg 38
6th Steve Preece 27lb 9oz peg 1
A horrible wet night and getting dark early, well done to Tommy who on his last fish was a leather of 16lb 2oz.
Last Wed eve match this coming week then we will add a Saturday match on Bowes and Sunday match on Lookout for the Autumn and Winter. A week day match could be added if demand is there.
General
Fishing excellent despite some heavy rain this week, with some excellent examples of specimen size fish of all species being caught in mint condition. Water temperature has been down and crept up again to hold in the 16s warm enough to keep fish feeding very well however dusk & dawn fishing stunning on all lakes. Strangely enough rain overnight produced some heavy surface pollution and altered PH will be interesting to see what the week produces in PH and pollution swings.
Fish tight in to the features which are reeds all around the edges including island, produces best results.
Hook Baits:- pellet, paste and corn doing well. Use worm and tip with corn, pellet, meat, etc as cocktails to increase range of species targeted and to add variety when swim’s goes off.
Lookout
A lot of very happy anglers this week with lots of new faces including many river anglers who have caught species they have not caught before ie Koi, Ghosties, golden tench and golden rudd, orfe. From peg 20 around bankside to 34 on Sunday a big head of crucians came out.
Norman Eden close in on peg 16aa, using pellet took 35 fish in a half day session 11 carp to 4lb, 2 crucians, 2 golden tench, 3 tench average 3lb and skimmers.
Best fish out a Koi of 11lb 3oz, and lots of ghostie’s out including a stunning silver ghostie caught by Diane Jackson which weighed in at 7lb 7oz.
Bowes
Some great numbers out by pleasure anglers Neil Brown taking over 200lb on a couple of separate days during the week when enjoying a change whist on holiday. Some good double figures showing heavies landed on pole this week was 25lb 8oz, whilst Ian Dixon fly fishing on the evening session had some excellent doubles.
Adam Kent from Yorkshire targeting larger carp took three 20s and 8 over 10lb.
Wed eve match Tommy Marshall his last cast produced a lovely 16lb 2oz leather which has never been reported out since stocking four years ago.
Bassetts
Fished tight in to reeds this pond produces so well,
Amy white 9 yrs old took 18 fish with her best a 3lb 6oz carp which Amy managed very well, just needing a bit of help with the netting of the carp.
John and Jordan Carson had a half day and took 56 fish and 63 fish respectively their dad was thrilled for them.
Mark Smith taking a half day session to chill out but didn’t chill as he never stopped catching and had to put his road out of the water to get a cuppa.
Angling Coaching
Learn to fish, or conversion sessions from sea or game or specialist ie learn pole, feeder, right through to specialist ie carp, tench etc .
Group sessions are available Saturday or Sunday mornings 9am till noon, or one to one through the week.
Autumn Matches
Last Wed eve match this coming week then we will add a Saturday match on Bowes and Sunday match on Lookout for the Autumn and Winter.
A week day match could be added if demand is there.
