Heavy Snow showers started after a beautiful stunning sunrise and calm waters and boy did it snow, Ambient Temp 4 deg (feels like -4), snow all day, partly cloudy, humidity 69%, wind WNW 10 mph changed to N 10mph, Barometer 1007.1 mb, Moon phase new moon. Water temperature dropped to 6.1 deg, Ph 7.89, DO 17.4 ppm, conductivity -69.
1st John Foster Angel 14lb 14oz peg 11
2nd Neil Brown Angel 12lb 13oz peg 25
3rd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 8lb 12oz peg 31
4th Ray Wallace peg 4
5th Terry Guthrie peg 9
6th Darrin Ferguson Monklands Scotland peg 5
John Fished Waggler at 11 meters & 15 meters and Pole at 11 meters, maggot on hook over angel feed pellets
What a day our anglers looked like snowmen at different stages of the day horrible conditions to fish in well done for sticking the match out in these conditions.
General
The Water temp held at 4 deg until Wednesday 2nd, then rose to 6 deg Thursday, Friday it hit 9.7 deg. Snow at 5am on Sat dropped water temp to 9.1 with sleet then heavy overnight frost at -7, the water temp on Sunday water temp dropped to 6 deg.
The Best day of the week weather and fishing wise was Thursday with all lakes fishing extremely well, and anglers gaining great catches from a 24lb carp to good mixed bags.
Anglers using pole realy did well, as did the tip to the back banks both on maggot and groundbait feeder. Paste also started to worked as water temperatures crept up and pellets especially Angels RS expanders hair rigged took some good fish. Maggot, Worm, Sweetcorn and meat also producing catches.
Observation:- This area historically had 78% West winds yet this past 8 months we have been dominated by Northerly winds and more swirling wind direction changes than I can remember
Lookout
Has seen some great activity in quality of fish being caught, some of the summer pegs starting to catch well as fish move around when the water temperature was up. Pole, Tip, and waggler doing well and baits maggot, sweetcorn, pellet, paste at the higher water temp started to work.
Ian Dixon pulling in some stunning carp on waggler to back bank bottom ridge about 1ft up.
Chris Pine enjoyed a great mixed bag on Saturday with
Bowes
Some excellent catches and night fishing producing some excellent sized carp both Mirrors and commons.
Colin Pine and son Chris had some cracking catches on Sunday evening with a fish a chuck almost,
Chris returning on Thursday using a pole at 10 metres out, fed Angel Pellets and used corn, also maggot on the 18 hook with a KC Carpa float 4×14, and changed to top two in the margins fed angel pellet with meat on the 16 hook and used 4×12 float had another corker of a day catching all day.
Season Ticket holders coming in at dawn are having some superb bags of carp then going of to work some returning after work to fish till well after sunset.
Bassetts
This pond is so good in windy and harsh weather conditions and produces all year round, regulars often give the big lakes a miss to fish this pond.
Coaching doing well even in snow and hail our new anglers are wanting to learn and are catching well. Golden tench feeding as well as is Rudd, golden Rudd, ide, roach and carp to 4lb 2oz all caught.
