6th April 2010 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes
Junior member Mike Spavin reports catching a cracking mirror common carp from Rixton Clay Pits last week. The fish weighed in at 23lbs exactly and took four hair rigged worms in a savage take. It is his second carp from this popular fishery the previous also a common was 15lbs. Good mixed catches of skimmers and roach reported over the Easter weekend taken mainly on maggot. A few tench are showing but nothing like the numbers that the fishery is capable of producing.
Old news I know but definitely worth a mention is that a little over a week ago Tom Thornton had the big mirror from our Sankey St Helens Canal fishery. This fish seems to have taken up residence at the Spike Island end of the canal and has been caught a number of times lately. It weighed in at 32-6-0.
Member Ian Royce has been targeting Worthington Lakes for the past eighteen months and just fancied a session on a smaller water. In contrast his chosen venue of the D fishery at our Fosters Pools mini-complex was a mere puddle, but as Ian discovered size isn't everything. He reckons that he had his best days fishing in many years with roach, rudd, chub and carp literally crawling up the rod from the start of his session. Waggler and loose-fed maggots was the successful method.
Worthington Lakes are pretty quiet at present and the best catch I have heard was eight carp, but small roach and a few bream are still responding to small groundbait feeder tactics. As a matter of interest as the tale is told there are supposed to have been barbel stocked into Worthington Reservoir (the one near our car park) many years ago. Has anyone caught one and when?
Thanks to those members that responded positively regarding the unauthorized introduction of golden orfe into Woodshaw Reservoir that I mentioned in last weeks column. Their actions minimized the probability of them interbreeding with our resident fish stocks although members should remain alert and retain any such fish contacting me immediately.
Our team of volunteers was out in force over the weekend at Phoenix Park Lake clearing swims and removing masses of weed and water borne litter. It was great to see that there was very little of the latter that is largely due to the positive actions of our bailiffs and park rangers. Spring also has seen our ongoing peg reconstruction work under way again after the winter period. The loss of the gudgeon bank area was a blow but as more pegs are re-stoned and improved it will redress the balance. Our bailiff reports good numbers of pike are being caught but they are generally single figure fish.
Please keep sending in your catch reports as they help both fellow 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 is open as usual on Friday evening between 7 & 9pm for subscriptions, new members, etc. Also new memberships can be purchased from any of our tackle shop outlets (see our website for your nearest).
Frank Lythgoe
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