Sunday 12th April Open Lookout
Conditions:- Heavy frost early morning, fair, ambient temp 13 deg, humidity 44%, calm then wind rising to 8 mph doing a full 360 deg, barometer 1013.4 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 9.7 to 9.8 dropped overnight, DO 8.7, PH 7.37, conductivity -31,
1st Peter Wadge 36lb 15oz peg 29,
2nd Ray Laing 35lb 15oz peg 32
3rd Lee Slater 34lb 12oz peg 25
4th Tony Watson 34lb 6oz peg 11
5th Colin Pine 32lb 5oz peg 16aa
6th Jeff Webster 31lb 5oz peg 16
When calm difficult to catch switched on in last hour of match.
Saturday 11th April 09 Washington and Harrington Match Lookout
Conditions:- Overnight rain, Partly Cloudy with Sunny spells, ambient temperature 10 deg, humidity 66%, wind calm rising to W 3mph, barometer 1007.4 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 9.6 to 9.8 deg, PH 7.32, DO 8.4 conductivity -37%.
1st John Foster 31lb 3oz peg 1
2nd D Mc Neil 27lb 2oz peg 3
3rd Tommy Marshall 21lb peg 27
4th S Cairns 20lb 5oz peg 2
5th K Handley 20lb 3oz peg 14
6th D Walker 18lb 15oz peg 30
General
A week of mixed weather, from still calm waters, to winds, heavy rain, thick fog, severe frosts, and glorious sunny days, all affecting the fishing in different ways.
Fishing generally later in the afternoon has seen the best catches or on none frosty days very early prior to sunrise. Calm water or Sunny conditions producing less fish caught, but get a ripple and some cloud and some very high catch rates have been produced.
Fish in margins of 1st and 2nd shelves and across to margins of islands or 6 metres on dead bottom and feed angel pellet for good results.
Water temperatures have dropped during the night after frost slowing fishing down during the day and as water temperatures rise through the day up go the catch rates with after 3pm being exceptional.
Hook baits working are:- Maggot, Castor, Pellet banded, hair rigged or straight on hook, sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up. Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring of liquid mussel.
Lookout
Some consistent catches of good silvers this week, all species now feeding some good tench, crucians, rudd, roach, perch, orfe, ide, bream and skimmers all pilling weight and size on, as well as angel bred silvers some now 4 yrs old being caught. Carp and Koi catching early and later in day with double figured carp being caught on meat cubes.
Jimmy Hagan on peg 16aa fishing dibber down side had 19 common carp to 7lb, 2 mirror, 1 koi on meat and paste as well as numerous silver fish most caught in the afternoon.
Hook baits working are:- Maggot, Castor, Pellet banded, hair rigged or straight on hook, sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up.
Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring of liquid mussel or predator plus.
Bowes
Water coloured heavily now carp are feeding well, not heavily shoaled and freely moving following the wind most days, so choice of peg critical for good catches. Silvers starting to catch if targeted with skimmers tightly shoaled and rolling on the surface early morning when no frost.
Season ticket holder Ian Dixon fishing late evenings has had some stunning double figured carp out this week on meat cubes over angel fed pellets.
Hook baits working are:- Maggot try maggot clips to target larger carp, Castor, Pellet banded, hair rigged or straight on hook, sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up.
Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring of liquid mussel also tutti fruitie.
Bassetts
Fishing very early and very late for quantity of fish feeding, a ripple on surface is required to get sustainable catch rates, young Alice Newton from Newcastle fishing with her dad caught 17 fish in less than 2 hours then decided she wanted to go home for her Easter Eggs!
Hook baits working are:- Maggot, Castor, Pellet sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up.
Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring.
Coaching
Bookings taken for Saturday mornings from 9am ’til 12 noon, seat box, all equipment, end tackle, landing net, unhooking mat, rod licence, bait, ticket to water and angling coach are provided by Angel for £15.00 per group session. one to one can also be arranged at £20.00 per hour.
01914100449 or email annadlington@btinternet.com www.angelnorthlakes.com
