Sunday 27th July 08 open Lookout 20 fishing
Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 94%, wind calm, barometer 1018 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 19.5 deg, DO13.5, PH 7.56 conductivity -53.
1st Chris Owers Angel 73lb 4oz peg 5
2nd Tony Watson Fishing Republic 70lb 10oz peg 42
3rd Jeff Layton Angel 58lb 12oz peg 36
4th Dave Hodgson 44lb 9oz peg 37
5th Tommy Cullerton 41lb 14oz peg 6
6th Dave Walker 38lb 6oz peg 3
Chris fished pellet and paste and gets feed patterns spot on well done Chris
Wed eve open match Bowes 23rd July 08
17 anglers
Conditions :- Bright sunshine, ambient temp 22 deg, humidity 69%, wind ESE 7mph, barometer 1023 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 19 deg, DO 14 ppm, PH 7.65, conductivity -45
1st Tommy Marshall 32lb 2oz peg 4
2nd Steve Priece 26lb 13oz peg 40
3rd Brian Hall 24lb 11oz peg 17
4th Alan Mc Guire 22lb 15oz peg 36
5th Neil Brown 20lb 1oz
6th David Pearson 20lb peg 3
Most fish caught in last hour obviously to bright till then, .
General
What a difference in the weather at last we have the sun, warming water temp to 19.5 deg making fish feed furiously, in cloudy conditions and dusk and dawn have seen fantastic pleasure catches both in numbers also quality and size of species. But saying that the barometer has been snuggled between optimum fishing range of 1012 to 1024 mb.
In these water temperatures all hook baits are doing well, but the larger the bait the larger the fish is very true in warm water temperatures (rare in the north). Get your feeding patterns correct little but very often and you will bag up big time.
Hook baits:- Pellet soft hooker, hair rigged, & expander all producing, Paste try using angel pellets soaked to form paste and chill in fridge overnight. Worm as a cocktail with sweetcorn, maggot or caster doing well, as is maggot (multiples) & caster (multiples) producing well, meat cubes, & sweetcorn also working well.
Feed angel pellet (be sure to plop them to sound as if we are feeding to attract the fish to your swim) or soak and mix with maggot, caster or chopped worm. Balling in groundbait also mixed with maggot, caster or chopped worm works a treat.
Lookout mixed coarse
Magic to see all the big carp and Koi’s cruising the surface taking fly’s and insects from the reeds, you need to wait for some cloud cover to get them back down feeding on the bottom.
All the fish species feeding at their best in the year because of water temperatures with some good Rudd, Golden Rudd, Golden Orfe also Blue Orfe and Ide as well as Roach, Perch (loves worms). Our stock skimmers just turning golden and will be mature next year, lots of bream to 8lb 3oz out, tench best reported 6lb 8oz, and Golden tench to 2lb plus, Crucians in huge numbers, as well as Koi to 9lb 10oz, and double figured carp. All species feeding like there is no tomorrow.
Best reported bag was 216 fish in a session by Alan Hedley from Gateshead who has not fished this year since becoming a dad he loved his day.
Most pleasure anglers should be averaging a 100 plus fish with rudd on the drop
Bowes Carp
Getting your method and feed patterns correct will give you tremendous sport and choosing pegs according to wind.
Season ticket holders coming in early morning or doing an overnight stay are producing excellent bags with specimens mainly being targeted. Ian Dixon catching doubled figured carp to 26lb this week with early morning spells.
Colin Thompson in an afternoon session from peg 16 to still water at the back of the island had fish a chuck until he left, his average weight of a fish was 6lb.
Mark Smith Snr & Jnr have had
Many doubled figured carp coming out with some 20s not seen since stocking them, and pleasure anglers having exceptional days.
Bassetts mixed coarse
Outstanding fishing on this pond at the moment with Rudd, Roach, Ide and Orfe to well over 1lb being caught, Tench and Golden tench to 2lb 8oz, as well as lots of Crucians to 1lb, Carp to 4lb 2oz . All baits working well and all pegs fishing outstandingly.
Coaching
Continues with group lessons on a Saturday and Sunday morning, 9am till noon, £15.00 per person which includes fully Licensed and qualified coach, seat box, rod & Reel, pole, end tackle, bait, Rod License, and ticket to the water but please phone to book to ensure we have enough coaches available. One to one through the week can also be arranged.
National Fishing Week
Newcomers to the sport have all caught double figures this week as part of National Fishing Week with the youngest being 4 years old Amy White who caught 27 fish,
News
Our first fishing Bachelor party was also a success on Saturday, with everyone catching well and had the coaches run ragged netting and unhooking the fish good luck to Adrien Morris on his future wedding.
Juniors –Fund Raising
We are running a raffle to raise funds for the 3 finalists of the Browning Youth Masters qualifiers from Angel Lakes to help with their costs to go down to Cudmore Lakes and compete in the Finals. Anyone wishing to donate or buy a raffle ticket (prizes are bait varieties ) please forward it to us saying Cudmore fund for Juniors.
