Tuesday 26 January 2016

26th January 2016 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Column

26th January, 2015 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes 

Reports of decent roach catches, aside from the Bridgewater Canal Walton length, are being taken at both Woodshaw and Appleton reservoirs. As an added bonus, due no doubt to the crazy weather the Woodshaw tench and crucians are also still looking for food, so worth a visit. Appleton, affectionately known to generations of Warrington anglers as 'The Res' is the home of some of the fastest growing roach according to an old Liverpool University scientific report. There may not be many two pounders but nevertheless if you set your stall out there are plenty of these red fins to keep you busy.

Match organiser Ray Boden decided to give the Sunday Mersey Series another chance but just when a potential win was on the cards he was thwarted by an unwelcome visitor and the honours went to Roy Everson who weighed 1-0-8 of roach taken on groundbait feeder and maggot. Ray used the same tactics and was catching steadily when suddenly from nowhere Sammy the seal surfaced just four metres from the bank and made a grab for a roach he was playing. Luckily the roach was safely landed but the rest of the shoal scattered and it was an hour later that he started getting bites

Our Monday Disabled & Over 60's match continues to please with quite reasonable weights for the time of the year from the Houghs Bridge stretch of the Bridgewater Canal. Derek Bibby enjoyed a comfortable win with 7-6-0 of roach and perch. Ron Durr was in second place with 5-9-8. It is with sadness that one of our regulars at these popular matches, Jeff Clare has died. He was an excellent angler and was often in the prize money. He was quite simply a nice man. The funeral arrangements are Walton Lea Crematorium at 11am Thursday, 4th February, 2016. Our sympathies go out to his family.

Advance notice that Warrington Rowing Club will be holding their 'Head of the Mersey' event on Sunday 7th February 2016. It would be helpful if anglers used the lower Victoria Park section of river whilst the event is in progress.

We should be posting out the 2016 memberships during next week. So if you have any last minute changes of address please drop me a quick email to the address below.

HQ is open as usual on Friday from 7 – 9pm for night permit renewals, subscriptions, new members and any queries. Your catch reports are always welcome, email me details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or you can ring me on 01928 716238.   

Frank Lythgoe  

RESULTS:

Mersey Sunday Series:

1)      Roy Everson     1-0-8

2)      Ray Boden         14-0

3)      Ant Higham       13-0

4)      Ade Green         11-0

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater):

 

 

 

 

1)      Derek Bibby                          7-6-0

2)      Ron Durr                                5-9-8

3)      Dennis Bate                          5-0-0

4)      Stu Patterson                       3-12-0

COMING EVENTS:

SATURDAY

Mersey Sunday Series Draw 10am Mersey Walk

MONDAY

Disabled & Over 60's  Draw 10am Houghs Bridge

 

 

Tuesday 19 January 2016

19th January 2016 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

19th January, 2015 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes 

Many grateful thanks to those who responded to my request for catch shots from around our waters to add to display boards on our stand on the Northern Angling Show. Time is short as the show is being held at Event City, Manchester on the 20th and 21st of February and many of your photographs will need to be enlarged, printed, and mounted, so please search your picture archives and get them to me as soon as you can.

I would remind members that there is no public access whatsoever around the waterside at our Association owned Sandiway Lakes. There are designated public rights of way clearly signed on the perimeter and central roadway and separately by agreement Warrington Anglers allow a permissive path on the large lake along the Oak Tree end. Members should advise persons that they are trespassing and point out that they must stay on the designated paths.  One positive despite the weather is that there are signs that fish are feeding on Big Sandiway.

It is sad but our Sunday Mersey Series has been cancelled until further notice following events over a number of weeks when a seal has put paid to chances of any sign of a bite. I will advertise in this column if the situation changes.

There were good catches at our Monday Disabled & Over 60's match that was held again on the Bridgewater Canal at Houghs Bridge where fish annually shoal during the winter months until they spread out as the weather warms in the search for spawning areas. Jimmy Byrne won the match fishing the pole and bread punch with a weight of 6-7-2. Keith Wernham was in second place with a similar net of fish for 5-11-12.

If you fancy a piking session on the canal you could do far worse than follow the example of Alan Dillon who quite simply followed my silver fish catch reports. Work it out for yourself,  there's no need to print the location as it's a no brainer. Alan landed four fish, nothing massive with the best at just touching the 8lbs mark, but good sport nevertheless. Fish all fell to rubber drop shot lures.

HQ is open as usual on Friday from 7 – 9pm for night permit renewals, subscriptions, new members and any queries. Your catch reports are always welcome, email me details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or you can ring me on 01928 716238.   

Frank Lythgoe  

RESULTS:                                       

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater):

1)      Jimmy Byrne                         6-7-2

2)      Keith Wernham                    5-11-12

3)      Derek Bibby                           4-9-10

4)      John Barton                           3-14-8

COMING EVENTS:

MONDAY

Disabled & Over 60's  Draw 10am Houghs Bridge

 

Tuesday 12 January 2016

12th January, 2016 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

12th January, 2015 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes 

We will be having a stand as usual at the Northern Angling Show that is being held on the 20th and 21st February 2016 at Event City, Manchester. So I am here again asking members to send me some of their catch pictures to include on our display. It is your club so let's showcase it at the only angling show in the Northwest. I really could do with them as soon as possible.

A few positive catch reports from Small Sandiway are filtering through where the mild weather has kept fish feeding with one member reportedly having caught ten carp during a day session. On Saturday Andy Hall had two carp, best a seventeen pounder plus a bream that fell for bird-food boilies presented in solid bags of crushed bait. No news from our much larger lake next door.

Even a shallow fishery such as Cicily Mill Pool where winter is usually the kiss of death has produced a few fish, mainly tench and bream but there have also been a few carp out to 26lbs over the past number of weeks. Would the member who rang me over the weekend regarding shot raining down in his peg please give me a call.

It was the third successive week of disaster on our Sunday Mersey Series when the only 'angler' to catch a fish was a marauding seal which I dearly hope is pining for his mates out in the estuary and will soon return. The problem is that the short stretch of river bounded by Woolston and Howley Weirs is virtually akin to an enclosed fishery and there is little chance of fish migration from the tidal waters or elsewhere to replenish the stock of brood fish that are being steadily depleted.

Thankfully on our Monday Disabled & Over 60's match there were no such problems as the Bridgewater Canal at Houghs Bridge fished well on the whole. Derek Bibby put together a winning weight of roach and perch for 7-9-10 taken using pole, punch, and worm tactics. Second placed angler Lenny Dutton weighed 6-3-4 and the lowest catch was 3-11-0 between the thirteen anglers on the right of the bridge whereas those unlucky enough to draw on the other side struggled for a bite. It doesn't matter how good you are especially at this time of the year when you really need to draw on fish to be in with a chance.

Members cannot book night sessions with 2015 night permits as they expired on the 31st December. Also remember you will need two new colour passport type photographs.

HQ is open as usual on Friday from 7 – 9pm for night permit renewals, subscriptions, new members and any queries. Your catch reports are always welcome, email me details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or you can ring me on 01928 716238.   

Frank Lythgoe  

RESULTS:                                       

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater):

1)      Derek Bibby                          7-9-10

2)      Lenny Dutton                        6-3-4

3)      George Barber                      5-12-5

4)      Jimmy Byrne                         5-7-10

COMING EVENTS:

SUNDAY

Mersey Sunday Series: draw 10am Victoria Park (weather permitting).

MONDAY

Disabled & Over 60's  Draw 10am Houghs Bridge

Tuesday 5 January 2016

5th January 2016 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes


 

 5th January, 2015 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes 

Recent new member and re-born pike angler, Tony Williams posted me his first (hopefully of many) catch report having spent a morning on the Bridgewater Canal on Sunday between Pickering's Bridge and Thelwall Station. Fishing a small silver and gold spinner he ended his session with a tally of seven small pike to around 7lb. All were in tip-top condition with the majority coming from the moored boats adjacent to Pickering's Bridge. Thanks Tony, and welcome to Warrington Anglers association.

Last week Ste Wharton aka bigtreeste the tree surgeon finished the old year with a flourish on Small Sandiway during a session that started an hour before dawn. At the start little was happening, in fact nothing for the next three and a half hours, but his spirits lifted when at 11am he spotted showing fish in his swim and it was game on. He soon landed his first carp which kicked off the start of a purple patch that fizzled around 3pm but not before eleven carp, three bream, and a lone tench had graced his unhooking mat. All were caught on Solar Baits white dairy cream boilie over a bed of hemp and chopped boilies.

It is now official, yes the cat's out of the bag, there is a seal chomping on our fish brood stocks on the river Mersey. Trapped between two weirs it must be like a kid in a sweet shop and for the fish little chance of escape. All we can hope for is a large flood to enable its return to Hilbre Island.

The Mersey was again unfishable on Sunday and our weekly match Series was cancelled. Next week weather permitting draw 10am Mersey Walk.

Our bailiff on the Dee reports that the area is completely flooded and unsafe for angling so it is advisable to give it a miss until conditions improve.

Weights were down on our Monday Disabled & Over 60's match held on the Bridgewater Canal at Walton where Stu Patterson clocked up his first win of 2016. Stu fished the pole and bread punch to weigh in 2-8-10 of small roach. Alan Brown was runner up fishing the same method with 2-4-2.

HQ is open as usual on Friday from 7 – 9pm for night permit renewals, subscriptions, new members and any queries. Your catch reports are always welcome, email me details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or you can ring me on 01928 716238.   

Frank Lythgoe  

RESULTS:                                       

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater):

1)      Stu Patterson                       2-8-10

2)      Alan Brown                           2-4-2

3)      Barry Chambers                   2-1-2

4)      Trev Bainbridge                    1-14-14

COMING EVENTS:

Mersey Saturday Series: Please note match series will resume in New Year

SUNDAY

Mersey Sunday Series: draw 10am Mersey Walk (weather permitting).

MONDAY

Disabled & Over 60's  Draw 10am Houghs Bridge

5th January 2016 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

5th January, 2015 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes 

Recent new member and re-born pike angler, Tony Williams posted me his first (hopefully of many) catch report having spent a morning on the Bridgewater Canal on Sunday between Pickering's Bridge and Thelwall Station. Fishing a small silver and gold spinner he ended his session with a tally of seven small pike to around 7lb. All were in tip-top condition with the majority coming from the moored boats adjacent to Pickering's Bridge. Thanks Tony, and welcome to Warrington Anglers association.

Last week Ste Wharton aka bigtreeste the tree surgeon finished the old year with a flourish on Small Sandiway during a session that started an hour before dawn. At the start little was happening, in fact nothing for the next three and a half hours, but his spirits lifted when at 11am he spotted showing fish in his swim and it was game on. He soon landed his first carp which kicked off the start of a purple patch that fizzled around 3pm but not before eleven carp, three bream, and a lone tench had graced his unhooking mat. All were caught on Solar Baits white dairy cream boilie over a bed of hemp and chopped boilies.

It is now official, yes the cat's out of the bag, there is a seal chomping on our fish brood stocks on the river Mersey. Trapped between two weirs it must be like a kid in a sweet shop and for the fish little chance of escape. All we can hope for is a large flood to enable its return to Hilbre Island.

The Mersey was again unfishable on Sunday and our weekly match Series was cancelled. Next week weather permitting draw 10am Mersey Walk.

Weights were down on our Monday Disabled & Over 60's match held on the Bridgewater Canal at Walton where Stu Patterson clocked up his first win of 2016. Stu fished the pole and bread punch to weigh in 2-8-10 of small roach. Alan Brown was runner up fishing the same method with 2-4-2.

HQ is open as usual on Friday from 7 – 9pm for night permit renewals, subscriptions, new members and any queries. Your catch reports are always welcome, email me details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or you can ring me on 01928 716238.   

Frank Lythgoe  

RESULTS:                                       

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater):

1)      Stu Patterson                       2-8-10

2)      Alan Brown                           2-4-2

3)      Barry Chambers                   2-1-2

4)      Trev Bainbridge                    1-14-14

COMING EVENTS:

Mersey Saturday Series: Please note match series will resume in New Year

SUNDAY

Mersey Sunday Series: draw 10am Mersey Walk (weather permitting).

MONDAY

Disabled & Over 60's  Draw 10am Houghs Bridge