Lots of Rain, rain and more rain this week, which dropped water temperature from 17.7 deg on Monday 10th June down to 12.7 deg on Saturday, yet despite this all lakes, has fished exceptionally well.
Lookout mixed coarse
Anglers who have fished have had stunning catches with Crucians being one of the most prolific fish this week, followed by bream and skimmers best bream 6lb 4oz by George Todd who was a visiting angler from Doncaster.
Rudd, Golden Rudd, Roach, Golden and Blue Orfe & Ide being caught in excellent numbers and some lovely sized ones now being caught over 1 ¼ lb.
Carp have moved around a lot and anglers have had to work hard to catch them, presentation and feed being the critical criteria to get good quantities, but get the feed right and a fish a chuck is easily possible. Ghostie are catching well and many double figured ones have been caught, as well as some large Koi.
A huge number of Tench are being caught both by pleasure anglers and by match anglers, the best golden tench was 2lb 9oz and the best green tench was 6lb 2oz.
Perch have also been caught in good numbers with the weather dropping the water temperatures they are showing well, best-reported perch was 2lb 1oz, and they show better in cooler water temperatures than in the warmer water temperatures.
Float fishing in the margins works great, all pegs are working exceptionally well.
Baits working are Pellet, Paste, worm tails, maggots, casters, sweetcorn not doing so well.
Bowes carp
Carp have changed times for optimum catch rates catching from 4am through to 11am then from 7pm until 11pm have proved the best catch rates. The drop in water temperatures and the Northerly winds have made them move around in search of food and warm thermals.
Interestingly they are topping well for insects every day and rummaging in the margins for natural feed, the water temperatures have not yet been constant at above 18 deg to allow any carp to spawn yet so the carp are carrying lots of extra weigh in eggs and sperm ready to spawn.
Largest carp out was 27lb 8oz caught on peperami, with many doubles but caught late at night.
Worm, maggots on maggot clips, pellet and paste plus peperami as baits doing well.
Bassetts mixed coarse
As always this pond just keeps fishing well, with large catch rates over 100 fish in a days session even in torrential rain, some good sized golden tench to 2lb 8oz and Crucians over 1lb, as well as some excellent Golden and Blue Orfe and Ide, smaller Rudd, roach and some large numbers of green tench to 12oz. A good 2lb 10oz carp being caught by Shaun Mc Carthy on his 7th Birthday who also caught 36 fish on his first fishing lesson.
Coaching
Many Dads getting gift vouchers for fathers day presents to learn fish so we are keeping busy for adults and juniors.
The new Education centre is now completed and the ONC in angling and the environment will start in the holidays.
The café opens next Saturday so breakfasts will be available to early start anglers.
Junior club meets every Friday evening everyone 16 and under is welcome to get some coaching to develop their skills. Wherever they normally fish.
Matches
Matches Participants please note the slight change
Saturday and Sunday matches
We request names down by 5pm the previous Friday Evening
Draw at 9am fishing 10 am until 3pm
Cost £16.00 ticket £7.50, Pools £7.50, Golden Peg £1.00 (Golden peg pots to £50.00)
Monday evening cost cutter ticket £6.00, pools optional £5.00, Golden peg £1.00 optional.
Wednesday Evening £12.00 Ticket £6.00, Pools £5.00, Golden Peg £1.00.
Junior club meets weekly and once a month a match between the jnrs
Sunday 17th June 07 Lookout open
Mostly Cloudy, Humidity 94%, wind NNW calm as a millpond to 2mph, barometer 1002mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temperature 13.5 deg rising after all the rain dropped the temperature, PH 7.78, DO 8.1.
1st Jeff Layton Angel 46lb 11oz peg 7 Rob
2nd Emery Shotton Metro Mail 40lb 3oz peg 11
3rd Peter Wilson 38lb 15ox peg13
4th Keith Ainsley Angel 32lb 15oz peg 12
5th Roger Pedleham Angel 30lb 06oz peg 4
6th Alan Brown 29lb 01oz peg 15
Jeff used Tri cast pole at 10m out, used paste and pellets, over angel feed pellets,
Saturday 16th June 07 open
Cloudy with rain later, ambient temp 10 deg, humidity 88%, wind calm the rising to NE12mph, barometer 1004.1mb dropping, moon phase new, water temp 12.6 deg dropped dramatically this week, DO 8.00, PH 7.84 questionable quality of the heavy rain this week .
1st Keith Ainsley Angel 49lb 11oz peg 2
2nd Eddie Hern Angel 33lb 05 peg 17
3rd Dennis Burdon 20lb 10oz peg 4
4th Chris Owens 16lb 05oz Peg 37
Pellet worked better than paste today, sweetcorn was not a contender either maggot produced some good fish also.
Wednesday Eve 13th June 07 open
Ambient temp 11 deg, Mostly cloudy, humidity 88%, persistent rain, wind ENE 1 to 7mph, barometer 1008.1mb dropping. Moon phase waning crescent, water temperature 13.4 deg (dropped after last nights torrential rain) PH 7.85 (rose after the rain �”suggests not pure water fell?) DO 8.8. Drop in water temperature and rain put fish off feeding NE wind direction did not help either.
1st Tommy Cullerton 18lb 6oz peg 10
2nd Keith Ainsley Angel 10lb 9oz peg 18
3rd Davie Foster Angel 9lb 11 oz Peg 14
4th Matty Shanley Angel 9lb 9oz peg 16
Rest DNW
Tried to get most anglers with wind on backs as a cold rainy NE wind, which moved fish around looking for warmer thermals?
Monday 11th June 07 cost cutter match
Haze and sunny spells, Ambient temp 21 deg, humidity 73%, wind calm then N4 mph swinging to S4mph then calm , barometer 1016.9mb dropping , moon phase waning crescent, water temp 17.7 , DO 9.00, PH 7.55
Bowes after fishing excellently all day it suddenly changed and it was a strange night for fishing, with thunder rumbling from the start. The ozone smell perpetrating the air was incredible as was the lakes steaming & mist drifting of the water during the match very mystical.
When the water was calm not one person had bites, the wind slightly got up then after an hour swung 180 deg. However just half an hour after the match finished there was torrential rain almost the equivalent of a tropical rain storm and a heavy storm followed together with lots of electrical interference �”the fish knew this was about to happen.
1st Jeff Layton Angel 24lb 8oz peg 6
