Sunday 18^th April 2010 Open/League Bowes

 

Conditions:- Overcast with light rain, ambient temp 5 deg, wind calm to NE 10 mph, barometer 1015.9 mb,  moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 10.5 deg, PH 7.83, DO 8. ppm, MV 23

Weather deteriorated very much from 1pm with cold rain and wind picking up and ambient temp dropping to 3 deg.

 

1^st Neil Brown 35lb 1oz peg 40  

 2^nd Tony Watson 34lb 8oz peg 16 inc 3 bream best 9lb 9oz 

 3^rd Chris Gowling 26lb 5oz peg 22 inc 3 brem best 7lb 6oz

 1^st  Section Neville Langley 25lb 3oz peg 10

2^nd  Section Tommy Marshall 19lb 8oz for 3 bream best 7lb 4oz

3^rd Section  Ian Gillis 11lb 9oz peg 26

 

Altogether 14 large bream weighed in best to 9lb 9oz.

Neil had to try different methods to catch pellet up in water at 13 metres on pole, paste down side at 7 metres, tip with conker to far side.

 

Sunday 18^th April 2010 Bigwaters Lookout

 

Conditions:- Overcast with light rain, ambient temp 5 deg, wind calm to NE 10 mph, barometer 1015.9 mb,  moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 10.4 deg, PH 7.55, DO 8.1. ppm, MV 29

Weather deteriorated very much from 1pm with cold rain and wind picking up and ambient temp dropping to 3 deg.

 

1^st Paul O Donnell 41lb 12oz peg 6

2^nd Jeff Lincoln 40lb  peg 12

2^nd Steve Knowles 40lb peg 38

4^th Dave Hambleton 36lb 2oz peg 1

5^th Malcolm Gardner 35lb 6oz peg 27

6^th Scott Miller 32lb 14oz peg 30 

 

Paul fished tip to far side with 10mm pellet, and maggot and caster on pole 6 metres out.

 

Wednesday 14^th April 2010 open Bowes

 

Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 7 deg feels like 3 deg, humidity 62%, wind ENE 10 mph, barometer 1026.1 mb, moon phase new, DO 8.2, Water temp 9.3 deg, PH 8.14, mv 41

 

1^st Neil Brown 23lb 11oz peg 34

2^nd Ricky Bennett 22lb 8oz peg 24

3^rd Alan Mc Guire 16lb 9oz peg 16

4^th Dave Jackson 16lb 6oz peg 22

5^th Graham Skirrey 11lb 4oz peg 4

6^th Ray Wallace 8lb 11oz peg 11

 

Fished hard and carp started to switch on to feed from 3pm match finished at 3.15pm, horrible fishing wind of ENE.

 

 

General

 

We hit 10 deg water temp for first time this year then on the same day the weather deterioates dramatically to cold winds and frost in the morning, so no doubt water temperatures will drop.

Silvers feeding up for spawning, whilst carp have shoaled and sheltered from cold winds in thermal warm layers.

Lookout

 

Lots of silvers being caught with carp shoaling out of adverse winds and you need to be on pegs which hold them to get good numbers they still get caught continuously at early morning and later afternoon on.

 

 

Bowes

 

Large bream and silvers very much showing with carps best times are early morning and later afternoon on. Carp shoaling out of adverse winds and keeping in warmer thermals.

 

Bassetts

 

Carp tight in margins in warmer thermals, silvers of the first shelf , some good orfe and ide also being caught.