25^th May 2010 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

Adam Whelan was more than happy with his catches this past week from two of our fisheries, namely Sandiway Lakes and Rixton Claypits. At Sandiway he has beaten his personal best tench three times with fish of 8-1-0, 8-4-0, and 9-0-0 amongst a catch which included three over 7lbs as well as one over six. Not to be outdone his dad Paul also had a PB of 8-8-0. At Rixton in addition to tench he had two common carp both doubles, the best weighing in at 22-8-0.

Paul Wynne and his brother in law Phil Hancock also got amongst the tench at Grey Mist Mere on Tuesday when after a first light start Phil opened his account with a 6-2-0 fish closely followed by one of 5-2-0. 

After a change from the float to a maggot feeder Paul lost two large fish at the net before landing his first at 4-12-0 beating his PB by 4ounces. It then just got better as he followed this by six further fish each increasing in size to a specimen of 7-7-0. 

Contrary to rumour there is life at Appleton Reservoir and very much so according to regular Brian Gavin who has had some cracking success using either the waggler or maggot feeder. This past week Brian had quality roach, rudd, small tench, and three bream taking the majority on the feeder method. The bream are a rare catch although many years ago the fishery was stuffed with them.

The Disabled & Over 60's match this week saw some close results with less than two ounces separating winner Lennie Dutton with 5-3-2 of skimmers and roach from runner up Brian (the bread man) Pilkington on 5-1-3. The lowest section weight was 3-2-0 won by match organiser John Dagnall by a triple default, although he had some decent caster roach.

I realise that this recent hot weather has seen an influx of swimmers trespassing on our fisheries but I would advise against direct confrontation and would ask members to ring the Police immediately and let me know of the incident number and outcome. Many fish have recently spawned and persons swimming or wading through weed are potentially causing untold damage to the future stocks.

Please continue sending in your catch reports as they are valuable to both your fellow members and your committee. Contact me either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk.

HQ Parker Street is open as usual on Friday evening between 7 & 9pm for subscriptions, night permits, and new memberships (these can also be purchased from any of our tackle shop outlets listed on our website www.warrington-anglers.org.uk )

Frank Lythgoe

RESULTS:

Junior Summer Series:

1)      Tom Oliver         3-9-0

2)      Emma Bellis       1-14-0

3)      Morgan Adawee 1-5-8

4)      Daniel Burton        7-14

Intermediates

1)      Jake Fowles        11-1-0

2)      Jon Andrews        2-7-7  

3)      Luke Bowden      1-15-12

4)      Nathan Rowles    1-2-0

Briars Cup Open:

1)      Phil Cross           6-3-0

2)      Martin Lenihan  3-2-0

3)      Geoff Stoll         3-0-0

Disabled & Over 60's

1)      Lennie Dutton     5-3-2

2)      Brian Pilkington  5-1-3

3)      Dennis Bate        4-6-8

4)      Geoff Brooks      4-6-4

COMING EVENTS:

SATURDAY 5^th June

John Leigh Trophy (Juniors/Minnows) Draw 12noon Pickerings Bridge car park (pegs 670-710)

MONDAY

Junior & Intermediate Summer Series draw 6pm Euclid Avenue. Contact Helen Dagnall 01925 635486

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10-30am Stockton Heath British Legion. Contact John Dagnall 01925 635486

TUESDAY

Minnows Summer Series draw 6pm Euclid Avenue. Contact Helen Dagnall 01925 635486

National Squad Fund Match draw 5-30pm M/way Bridge Preston Brook  (pegs 1-50)

18^th May 2010 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

Many is the time that members give me catch reports in confidence which in every case I maintain irrespective of how tasty a morsel of information is involved. The only difference is that once it enters the public domain as secrets inevitably do then it is 'game on'. Consequently I can now report the capture of a massive bream of 18lbs from Sandiway which is the hottest news from this big fish venue for a while. Word is that the specimen was not even carrying spawn which is absolutely mind blowing.

More good news for the future of this venue is that I have now had our order confirmed for eight 20 to 22lbs mirrors from VS Fisheries. They are all C6 fish that are bred and raised by this reputable company and they will add variety to the existing stock sometime in November. Fish are already on order for other fisheries.

Over the weekend Jerron Lloyd who is barely seven years of age made her angling debut in good style when she visited Grey Mist Mere accompanied by two very experienced carp anglers, one being her grandfather keen to get her into our sport. Fresh from a productive French carping trip and armed with a vast knowledge of catching fish at the Mist it was then to say the least embarrassing when both experts blanked and Jerron landed her first ever fish an unforgettable tench of 5lbs. My lips are tightly sealed as to the identity of the two anglers concerned. 

As the carp action on Grey Mist Mere has eased up this past week the slack has been taken up at Rixton Claypits. Baileys Tackle based Bernard Anderson had a hectic three hour session catching countless perch which snatched his carefully lowered lobworm before the carefully stalked carp had half a chance. Nevertheless he was rewarded with two commons and a mirror, all lower doubles. Tench and skimmers are still feeding well.

Just another reminder that our popular Junior/Intermediate Summer Series is back again again on Monday draw 6pm at Euclid Avenue all welcome. The Minnows starts the following evening on Tuesday draw 6pm. The Minnows is an ideal opportunity to introduce newcomers and improvers to the sport with the added benefit of a teaching element included throughout the series. Further details from Helen Dagnall on 01925 635486.

Please continue sending in your catch reports as they are valuable to both your fellow members and your committee. Contact me either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk.

HQ Parker Street is open as usual on Friday evening between 7 & 9pm for subscriptions, night permits, and new memberships (these can also be purchased from any of our tackle shop outlets listed on our website www.warrington-anglers.org.uk )

Frank Lythgoe

RESULTS:

Junior Summer Series:

1)      Tom Oliver        2-1-1

2)      Connor Higham 1-3-3

3)      Ryan Brown       1-2-1

Intermediates

1)      Nathan Rowles  2-1-5

2)      Luke Bowden    2-0-12

3)      Jack Bellis         1-14-6

Disabled & Over 60's

1)      Harry Morris    4-2-3

2)      Harold Gaskill 3-13-2

3)      Ron Durr         3-11-8

4)      Geoff Brooks  3-6-4

COMING EVENTS:

SATURDAY

Briars Cup Open (Bridgewater Canal) draw 9am on bank Red Lane (pegs 350-410)

MONDAY

Junior & Intermediate Summer Series draw 6pm Euclid Avenue. Contact Helen Dagnall 01925 635486

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10-30am Stockton Heath British Legion. Contact John Dagnall 01925 635486

TUESDAY

Minnows Summer Series draw 6pm Euclid Avenue. Contact Helen Dagnall 01925 635486

National Squad Fund Match draw 5-30pm London Bridge Tip

Honorary & OAP's (Woodshaw Reservoir) draw 11am on bank

11^th May 2010 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

Our popular Junior Summer Series starts again on Monday 17^th May, draw 6pm at Euclid Avenue all welcome. The Minnows starts the following Tuesday 25^th May draw time/place same as above. Further details from Helen Dagnall on 01925 635486.

Regular contributors to this column Ernie Hutchinson and his mate Dickie Wernham aka the 'dynamic duo' report some decent sport on our Macclesfield Canal fishery at Congleton wharf. Fishing with waggler and alternating between caster and maggot both had a good mixed net of bream, skimmers, perch, and gudgeon. The roach which are usually the main species are obviously spawning as they were absent save for one solitary fish.

It was a similar tale on our weekly Disabled & Over 60's match on the Bridgewater Canal where Barry Owen put 5-8-3 of skimmers and perch on the scales to take the top spot. Only ounces separated the next three in the money but the common theme was the absence of roach.

Rixton Claypits is exactly the same with skimmer bream dominating most catches although anglers targeting the tench report fish to over 6lbs. After weighing a few fish Brian Jones reckons that he had well over 40lbs in his dozen fish all taken on legered hair rigged corn.

Just when I thought that nothing was happening at Moore Quarry I have been told by a reliable source today that the fabled 'forty' has been out again, but this time with a slight increase at 41lbs. You can say or think what you like but this fish has been out previously both weighed and witnessed.

A few members have contacted me regarding the sudden explosion of weed on Grey Mist Mere which at the moment is confined to the car park half of the fishery. The weed is curled pondweed (Potomogeton crispus) and the EA have been contacted regarding effective control methods. Currently tench are still the main species being caught and on my Saturday visit I spoke to two anglers who were fishing maggot but regularly catching tench plus a carp of 21lbs which certainly put some strain on the lighter tackle.

Martin James is looking for volunteers to help in the ongoing planting work at Ackers Pits. The idea is to eventually have an established bed of aquatic plants between each peg which will not only stabilise the bank but give cover to fish and more importantly mop up the nutrients helping to control algal growth. Interest? Please give me a ring.

Please continue sending in your catch reports as they are valuable to both your fellow members and your committee. Contact me either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk.

HQ Parker Street is open as usual on Friday evening between 7 & 9pm for subscriptions, night permits, and new memberships (these can also be purchased from any of our tackle shop outlets listed on our website www.warrington-anglers.org.uk )

Frank Lythgoe

 

RESULTS:

Disabled & Over 60's

1)      Barry Owen       5-8-3

2)      Lenny Dutton    3-6-4

3)      Harry Morris     3-1-8

4)      Graham Belton  3-1-4

COMING EVENTS:

MONDAY

Junior Summer Series draw 6pm Euclid Avenue. Contact Helen Dagnall 01925 635486

 

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10-30am Stockton Heath British Legion. Contact John Dagnall 01925 635486

4^th May 2010 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

It was a pleasure to watch member Dave Iceton give a class demonstration of distance waggler fishing at Ackers Pit on Thursday evening putting to shame two well known anglers who shall remain anonymous. Loose feeding maggot Dave had a mixed catch of roach, rudd, and perch including tench to 1lb which were only stocked over 12 months ago at 3 to 4ozs. A regular he averages 25 to 30 fish a session. A few crucians also reported. I am really pleased that anglers are back on this fishery and catching after a long absence. Work is ongoing to establish marginal aquatic plant growth which will eventually improve not only the visual aspect but also your sport.

Keith McCulley who has been a member of WAA for forty seven years was certainly pleased with his biggest fish from our waters to date when he banked a mirror of 27lbs exactly from Grey Mist Mere. The fish was in excellent condition and fell for Alpha Baits monster crab boilies. The only down side was that as he set up his camera shot his batteries died. More good news is that thanks to members we have now identified the two anglers responsible for taking two pike as reported in my column last week.

Bank Holiday Monday saw Cicely Mill specialist Jeff Mowbray on the bank side at his favourite fishery targeting the carp population. On this occasion he sent me some great pictures of a mirror of 21-3-0 which he has now caught three times. Not to be outdone his nephew, junior member Andrew Lamb had a 9-4-0 common. Plenty of tench now showing and Ian Smythe reports catching a crucian of 4-2-0 on ledgered red worm.

Pheonix Park Lake at Runcorn was packed over the Bank Holiday weekend and understandably so as the sport at present is exceptional. Over twenty carp have been out this weekend, best 17-8-0. Our bailiffs report members catching bream and tench both to 8lbs with phenomenal roach and skimmer action fishing the short pole with maggot and caster. Night permit holders please note only one night is allowed on this fishery which must be pre-booked.

Mike Burdock our local bailiff at Wide Hole reports good bream catches with fish to 3lbs most sporting their full spawning nodules. The Dynamic Duo comprising Ernie Hutchinson and Dickie Wernham even paid a visit with the latter as I understand it having the better catch and losing a really good fish, more likely a carp on light tackle. Jason Crisp also got amongst the bream with all fish being returned to the water immediately.

Tench to 5lbs plus bream to 6lbs and skimmers reported from Rixton Claypits, although carp anglers are stressed somewhat by the numbers of skimmers with committee member Ian Clutterbuck reporting catching one of 6ozs that took double boilie on a 4's hook. It looks likely that we can expect a bream bonanza in the next year or so. A word of warning to members who are placing neatly bagged rubbish by our cabin please take it home, it's yours and we definitely do not want it. Our bailiffs are not responsible for removing your litter but certainly will relieve those responsible of their membership books.

Please continue sending in your catch reports as they are valuable to both your fellow members and your committee. Contact me either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk.

HQ Parker Street is open as usual on Friday evening between 7 & 9pm for subscriptions, night permits, and new memberships (these can also be purchased from any of our tackle shop outlets listed on our website www.warrington-anglers.org.uk )

Frank Lythgoe

RESULTS:

Honorary & OAP's

1) Ian McLean 5-2-0

2) George Wilkinson 3-10-7

3) Arthur Sylvester 2-5-5

4) Alan Brown 1-11-0

COMING EVENTS:

MONDAY

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10-30am St Heath British Legion. Contact John Dagnall 01925 635486