Catch Reports
Goose Green
James King fished Lake 2 at Goose Green on the 29th December along side Graham Knight , Steve Moulding and Jacky King Knight the quartet of anglers caught a mixed bag of Skimmers, Roach & Gudgeon to single white maggot.
Moor Farm
No reports received this week
River Arun
Mark Dibble fished the Arun on the 28th December and by all accounts had a good day, but in Mark’s own words ” potentially it could have been a real red-letter day”. The river was perfect with good colour & pace, but unfortunately the weather which has been nice & mild for the last couple of days let Mark down. It was blowing a hooly which made float fishing virtually impossible & forced him to fish a heavy maggot feeder, he also shot myself in the foot by only taking small barbless hooks which cost Mark a lot of fish in those conditions!
It was an hour before Mark’s first fish, but after that he had bites all day long, the bites only slowing when the tide turned to run in. Mark caught 37 Roach, a couple of Skimmers & a chunky Dace. Most of the Roach were between 3-6oz & he weighed the best one at 1lb 4oz. I managed ten Roach on the float before being blown onto the feeder with single/double maggot the hook baits.
Mark said in his email that he honestly thought with less wind & better hook patterns he would have caught 20lb plus as he never had so many bites on the Arun in Winter, unfortunately he has also never missed so many bites, bumped so many fish off the strike or had so many come off on the retrieve! Despite that Mark still enjoyed a good day winter river fishing. No mistakes there.
Mark also met three Pike anglers on the bank during his stint. One was fishing a lure & the other two were dead-baiting but they all blanked. The lure angler did land a traffic cone though! Happy new year!!
River Adur
No reports received this week
Fishery News – Goose Green
None this week
Fishery News – Moor Farm
Please note that our Moor Farm Fishery will be closed from Monday 14th January 2008 and will re-open Saturday 1st March 2008. This is to give the fishery a rest and to enable any necessary work to be carried out.
Junior Scene
No reports this week
Match Results
No matches this week .
