Great week with water temperature coming up to 13. deg, good fishing days with slight ripple on water from SW 2 to 4 mph winds. Most days warm & slightly overcast, some excellent barometer readings and good lunar moon phases has helped some good catches by pleasure anglers this week.
Fish tending to be into early/late/ overnight feeding patterns, however still some excellent day bags to be had. Use watercraft to pick pegs and method to use, be cautious with feed and selective with hook baits (remember water temp is cooler) bites are very much knocks so skill in the strike needs to be developed to cold water conditions as fish feeding but slower and shyer.
Lookout
Some excellent tench to 8lb 4oz and golden tench to 3lb 2oz, carp, ghosties, and koi to 10lb 9oz, skimmers and bream feeding constantly, rudd on the drop,and roach feeding well.
, Josh Edwards from Doncaster using pole had a great day on Thursday with every species caught using a variety of methods and baits, his best of the day a tench at 8lb 4oz.
Maggot, pellet, worm also sweetcorn good hook baits, about 3 to 5 Angel 3mm feed pellets fed in 3 different swims gets the fish to the swim. If tough catching go to rudd on the drop to ensure catches or get shoals of Skimmers to catch bream all day or maggot and go for Perch.
Bowes
Neil Brown on peg 36 had some great catches 92 carp to 5lb on peg 36 from 8.30am till 4pm
Young Anthony Longstaff in a short session Friday evening on peg 1 using pole fishing 5 mtres out, hook bait corn had a fish a chuck for the whole session fish averaging 2.5lb.
Best out this week on hair rigged corn was a 19lb 3oz common (female) followed by a mirror of 18lb 11oz (female)
Pellet , paste, maggot, corn, worm also mussel good as hook baits, predator plus as the additive doing the business this week, Angel feed pellets in tiny numbers sprinkled on top to give a noise works well.
Roger Pedleham 19lb 10oz mirror
Bassetts
One angler had 82 fish in a morning practice session with a new pole he was trying out, the time of day to catch best on here is early morning and late afternoon –evening.
Coaching is now developing cold water fishing for our students with bookings right up to the end of Oct including one to ones and groups,
Joeseph Maler 11 yrs old on Sundays coaching session landed the biggest fish a carp to 3lb.
Maggot is still brilliant as hook bait as well as corn, pellet, if tough catching go to rudd on the drop to ensure catches or get shoals of Skimmers to catch bream all day.
Match
Sunday 14th Oct 07 on Bowes,
Sunny spells, Ambient temperature 16 deg, humidity 88%, wind S2mph, barometer 1024mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 12.9 deg to 13 deg, DO 6.9, ph 7.62, conductivity -.21
1st Steve Kean Langley Park 31lb 6oz peg 4 (Steve also won 1 of the 3 golden pegs)
2nd Keith West Langley Park 27lb 6oz peg 35
3rd Dave Hodgson Angel 23lb 3oz peg 24
4th Ray Laing Langley Park 20lb 7oz peg 25
5th Dave Foster Angel 20lb 3oz peg 38
6th Ray Underwood 18lb 7oz peg 2
S teve fished pole between 9 & 11 mtres, 4×14 Carpa 2 float, 0.14m Silk Shock, 16 b911 hook, feed Angel 3mm pellets, 4mm ringers expanders. Groundbait feeder to corner of island 0.16m Silk Shot line, 16 B911 hook, with maggot on it.
Next weeks open / League is on Lookout on Sunday
