27th October 2009 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

It's been a funny sort of a week plenty of fish being caught on most venues with the weather continuing to remain un-seasonably mild. Member Bernard Anderson has certainly found the conditions conducive to good catches. After pre-baiting a peg he fancied on the Mersey with all the dregs of old bait he had hanging around combined with some out of date baits which couldn't be offered for sale in the shop he managed a session last Wednesday. The result eight nicely conditioned river carp all in fine fettle and giving a good account of themselves. A decent river catch by any standards.

Friday tea time saw Bernard on Grey Mist for a planned night session the result seven nice fat carp all upper doubles and twenties no pre-baiting involved or required this time just 1.5 kilos of 10ml Nash Scopex squid liver boilies all were caught between 3am and early morning when he had to leave for work!

The Mersey wasn't at its best last Sunday although as one member commented considering how high and fast the water level rose during the match was it didn't fish too badly at all.

The Bridgewater is still fishing pretty well with good catches of small fish all along with pike showing in the usual areas. One of the competitors on Monday's match got a decent pike right to the net on light tackle only to have hook ping out at the last second.

There have been plenty of pike showing on venues from Statham Pool where one member was exasperated at being pestered by a cheeky pike lying in the margins snatching roach as he reeled them in to the Bridgewater. Several decent fish have been caught by anglers specifically targeting these predators but as these specialist anglers put a lot of time and effort into locating the exact whereabouts of the bigger specimens they don't disclose the exact locations so I would not repeat them here in case I am leading anyone astray!

Again if you fancy targeting these fascinating predators turn up to the PAC `Pike Anglers on tour' day on the Bridgewater canal on Sunday 15^th November at Statham.

Find out how the experts find the pike, how to rig up and fish for them and most importantly how to handle pike safely without damaging them and without falling victim to the razor sharp teeth yourself .

Dickie Wernham and Ernie Hutchinson who incidentally will be celebrating his 77^th birthday today (Happy Birthday Ernie) went up to Wide Hole on Sunday and had excellent sport much to the disgust of match anglers on the opposite side of the canal who had to endure watching the pair catching all day while their own floats for the most part stay stubbornly still. Ernie had a nice bream of 1.5lb snatched from his hook by a big pike and Dickie had the best perch of the day which was a good 2lb+ among their catch.

We always welcome your catch reports which are really useful to both other members and your management committee in their continuous fishery evaluation. Tel. 01928 716238 FAX 01928713898 or e-mail frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk.

HQ Parker Street will be open on Friday evening as usual between 7 & 9-30pm for subscriptions, new members, etc.

Lynda Lythgoe

Results:

Warrington Local League

1 Alan Faulkner 4-2-0 War Red

2 Graham Stokes 4-1-0 Cheshire Angling

3 Geoff Wyatt Black 3-10-9 Claggers

4 Mike Chung 3-9-0Warrington Youth

Teams on the day

1 Cheshire Angling 19pts

2 Warrington Red 18pts

3 Joint Clampits, Assi &Black Claggers 17pts

Mersey Series

1 Lenny Dutton 4-9-0

2. Paul Harding 4-2-10

3. Jimmy Gannon 3-14-8

4. Helen Dagnall 3-2-6

Disabled & over 6o's

1) Ronnie Durr 2-10-4

2) George Barber 2-9-1

3) Bud Lea 2-7-0

4) John Dagnall 2-6-6

Coming Events:

SUNDAY

Mersey Series draw 9a m Weir Lane pegs 73 up

MONDAY

Disabled & Over 60's Draw 10-30am Stockton Heath British Legion

(Contact John Dagnall 01925 635486)