Sunday 10th Aug 08 open Lookout 20
Partly Cloudy and sunny spells, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 78%, wind WSW 17mph, barometer (low) 992.9 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp (up)17.1 deg, DO 14.4, PH 7.56, conductivity -51
1st Eddie Brydon Maver 54lb 13oz peg 40
2nd Chris Owers Angel 45lb 11oz peg 16
3rd Andrew Brown 42lb peg 17
4th Andy Sinclair 40lb 8oz peg 21
5th Chris Pine 39lb 12oz peg 13
6th Ray Wallace Angel 37lb 7oz peg 26
Well done Eddie nice calibre of fish
Washington & Harrington Angling Club Sat 9th Aug 08 Lookout 12
Conditions:- overcast then heavy rain (again), ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 88%, wind calm to 2 mph, barometer 1008.1 mb, moon phase first quarter, water temp dropped 16 .8, DO 14.4, PH 7.49, con -57
1st Neil Middlemiss 44lb 2oz peg 6
2nd Dave Walker 42lb 9oz peg 11
3rd Terry Guthrie 39lb 8oz peg 12
4th Dave Pearson 35lb peg 4
5th Peter Smith 28lb 14oz peg 9
6th Eddie Collins 27lb 9oz peg 5
Neil got carp on the tip fed angel pellets and pellet on hook. Silvers 7mtr on pole with maggot.
Wed 6th Aug 08 open Bowes
Conditions partly cloudy, ambient temp 20 deg, humidity 68%, wind calm to 2 mph, barometer 1008.1 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 18.5 deg, PH 7.55, DO 13.8, conductivity -59.
1st Brian Hall 47lb 4oz peg 40
2nd Alan Hepple 46lb 12 oz peg 2
3rd Eddie Brydon Maver 42lb 3oz peg 6
4th Neil Brown Angel 38lb 4oz peg 16
5th Chris Owers Angel 33lb 15oz peg 34
6th David Pearson 33lb 3oz peg 25
Brian used pole at 4 meters out and in margins on paste and pellet.
General
The weather has been typical British Summer with rain and cloud even cold days, which dropped water temperature 1.4 deg then it crept up again. Fish still feeding excellently even in rain and colder days as the water temperature on some days was warmer than ambient temperatures.
A week of good sized fish being caught Ide at 2lb, orfe at 2lb 1oz, skimmers at around 12oz, lots of bream from 2lb 8oz to 6lb 10oz, rudd in profusion at a good average 1lb, tench of 3lb to 6lb, lots of Crucians around 1lb 8oz, and Lots of Carp in all sizes to 27lb 11oz.
It really is important to get feed patterns for targeted species correct, and size of hook bait if targeting larger specimen sized fish.
Hook baits doing well this week are all forms of pellet, expander, soft hooker, pre-drilled (for hair rigging), paste (try & make it from Angel pellets) sweetcorn, meat, worm, maggot, and caster. Sweet flavours still doing the best ie strawberry, however tuna, halibut, & fishmeal not far behind as water temperatures slowly cool down.
Fish to features all around the margins including island margins.
Lookout
Fantastic week with most anglers producing good bags of fish & thoroughly enjoying the sport with, Rudd on the drop in huge numbers, skimmers from the bottom or mid water in huge numbers, Roach, tench and golden tench, carp to double figures, Ide and Orfe to 2lb plus, Perch to 2lb 12 oz reported, large numbers of Crucians out,
Norman & Chris Eden fishing Monday took over 110 with some good sized crucians, then Fri in a half day session took in excess of 50 fish each with Norman taking an excellent ghostie at 11lb plus all taken on pellet over angel pellets.
Friends Doug Harle and Luke Bruce fishing the margins and also 4 meters out on pellet took over 60 fish each comprising some good mixed bags of good weight fish.
Bowes
Great week for large doubles with one coming out for the first time in 4 years at 27lb 11oz for Owen Moore from Newcastle on angel halibut 25mm pellets over hemp and angel feed pellets mixed with caster and dead maggot.
Alan Straughan using worm on Friday had a great day took 79 carp not 1 under 4lb, on Saturday after another 70 odd fish he took his PB of 24lb 3oz common carp.
Sunday produced several twenties with Sam Cunningham from Ryton taking a 21lb common and many upwards of 5lb.
Diane & Steve Jackson had a great session with Diane getting her PB doubled figured carp out.
Young 9yr old James Wilson is going to be a youngster to watch in the future took 28 carp the next day returning to take 27 carp.
In a 1 ½ hour session Friday Eve Tony Morrow took 21 carp average weight of 5lb
Bassetts
A magical pond very sheltered and gets fantastic results from a wide range of anglers skills, fish are gaining weight and size in the warm water temperatures.
Aiden Young having just bought a pole wanted to try it out and reported catching over 150 fish however most caught in the margins so did not get to fully try out his pole.
Liam Grieves this week fishing friends took a lovely 2lb 1 oz ide, and bags of Rudd, tench and some good golden tench to over 2lb 6oz, his friend taking a good common carp to 4lb 6oz and mixed bags.
Coaching
Please phone if anyone requires to learn to fish or converting from sea or game fishing to coarse, or just want to try out coarse angling. Group sessions are Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am until noon, or one to one through the week.
0191 4100449
www.angelnorthlakes.com
The raffle/fund for 3 youngsters who qualified for the Browning Youth Masters Finals at Cudmore Lakes is progressing a big thank you to everyone will announce how much was raised for them and who has won the raffle prizes on Monday 25th before they travel down to Cudmore. Their parents have to pay for travel, food, accommodation, entrance fees for final and practice sessions, and must buy all the bait there. So a very expensive time for the finalists families.
The prizes are sacks of feed pellets or bait equivalent that we are giving.
