27th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

27^th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

 

The Disabled & Over 60's match at Thelwall Station was a disappointing affair possibly due to the fact that all the wild life habitat and fish holding areas have been almost completely wiped out. Alan Brown who was second in last week's match upped his game to take the top spot. He put 3-5-0 of skimmers and roach on the scales taken on the pole using bread and caster. Less than an ounce separated the next three weights.

 

Gary Doherty and his two mates had a good days fishing at Rixton Claypits this week when on Tuesday they set their stall out using waggler tactics and loose-fed maggots. Sport was so good they saw no reason to change. A beautiful sunny day, swims near the car park, and an endless supply of skimmers and roach queuing to take their bait, that's fishing at its best. Add a 5lbs tench and a roach that they weighed at 1.5lbs for good measure and they were more than happy.

 

Neil Plunkett has made the most of a few days rest from slaving away on WAA working parties. His first venue was Ackers Pit where he had twenty four nice roach up to half a pound plus (he stopped counting at two dozen!) Waggler and maggot was the successful method coupled with regular loose-fed micro pellets.

 

He followed this with a pleasant days sport at our Mount Fishery at Buckley where after taking some advice from Brian Jones our resident bailiff he proceeded to christen his new rod and also to try out optonic bite alarms for the first time. His catch of fifteen carp from 2.5 to 6lbs ensured that he was more than happy with his session. Despite getting some grief when we recently heavily stocked this underused fishery the steady stream of new members from the area and members testimonials have confirmed it was the right course of action for the greater good.

 

If any member has any recent catch reports from the River Wyre prior to the end of this coarse fish close season I would appreciate it if you could drop me an email with full details. There has been several seals (now back at sea) that have caused untold damage to fish stocks and in partnership with St Michaels AC we are collating fishery catch details.

 

Several member have been caught on one of our fisheries with alcohol, it is clear enough in our rules that it is banned. I know it is a shame that decent anglers cannot enjoy a couple of beers, but some anglers sadly don't know the difference between a couple and a full case.

 

Don't forget let me have any catch reports either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is now open as usual between 7 & 9pm every Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

 

Frank Lythgoe

COMING EVENTS

MONDAY:

1^st Association Match: Draw 10am Star Inn, Statham. Contact John Dagnall at Cheshire Angling 01925 635486

 

RESULTS

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal)

1)      Alan Brown            3-5-0

2)      Dennis Bates           2-5-2

3)      Bud Lea                  2-4-12

4)      Lennie Dutton         2-4-8

20th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

20^th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

Coarse anglers who targeted our rivers in the few remaining days before the close season descended upon us on the 15^th March were well rewarded for their efforts. Alan Bourne had a personal best barbel from the river Wye that weighed 9-3-0. It was a long fish but stunning nevertheless and would have undoubtedly carried a lot more weight in the summer. Local angler Jin Swale also found the barbel, catching in his case a 'lucky' thirteen fish with the best at 8-12-0. All were taken on what now seems the standard tactics of feeder fished halibut pellet.

 

Glyn Roberts had his last river fling closer to home on the River Dee at Shocklach where he had cracking sport with grayling that were almost crawling up his rod tip in their eagerness to devour his single bronze maggot offerings. He fished my favourite stick float method and included three chub around 2lbs in his thirty eight fish catch but strangely not a single dace. Several of the grayling went up to around the 2lbs mark and were beautiful fish.

 

I have heard a juicy little tit-bit of information about the slender win that nearly wasn't in the Angling Times Supercup Knockout Competition of our Warrington Blue team against Cinderland AC last week. Our team captain Jeff Stoll has admitted to the nightmare happening dreaded by all match anglers, yes as he was drawing in his net for the weigh-in he lost his grip, presumably on the net, and generously tipped back ten of his hard caught twelve fish.

 

On our WAA winter league on the Macclesfield Canal Craig Richie fishing for Cheshire Gold 'ounced out' second placed Neil Buist who had 7-4-0 against his 7-3-0. They fished different tactics and baits; Craig choosing the bread punch approach catching roach and skimmers whereas Neil stuck with worm and caster for quality perch caught down the track and a decent sized bream.

 

The Disabled & Over 60's match saw Dave Blears have a runaway win with over 3lbs to spare over second placed Alan Brown on 5-13-3. Dave took his skimmer and roach net on caster and bread and put 8-13-12 on the scales. Ron Durr had a bonus 4lbs bream that put him in the money.

 

Some ugly news coming from Rixton Claypits this week is that a group of Eastern Europeans have been observed by members stealing fish and taking them away in a bag. To make matters worse they also left a disgusting array of litter and beer cans. There is no place for these people in our sport and they are an utter embarrassment to the many decent Eastern European members of our club. These thieves are fully aware of our Countries laws but choose to blatantly flout them. I have passed a report on the incident to the Environment Agency.

 

I hope to see some of you at our AGM on Thursday, entry by paid up 2012 membership card.

Don't forget let me have any catch reports either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is now open as usual between 7 & 9pm every Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

 

Frank Lythgoe

COMING EVENTS

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's Draw 10am Star Inn, Statham. Contact John Dagnall at Cheshire Angling 01925 635486

 

RESULTS

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal)

1)      Dave Blears            8-13-12

2)      Alan Brown            5-13-3

3)      Ron Durr                5-9-12

4)      Jimmy Byrne          4-8-5

Warrington AA Winter League:

1)      Craig Richie (Cheshire Gold)        7-4-0

2)      Neil Buist (Warrington Red)         7-3-0

3)      Alan Faulkener (Warrington Red) 6-2-0

4)      George Barber (Assi)                    4-4-12

Teams: Cheshire Gold 24points, Warrington Red 21

13th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

13^th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

Our last match of the coarse fish season was held on the River Mersey on Sunday and Jimmy Gannon finished the season in style following up his win last week with an impressive 16-8-0 of bream and roach taken on a maggot feeder. He lost a large fish that he had played from across the river when his line became entangled with a boat. The weights then plummeted and Lee Clarke needed only 2-7-0 for runner-up spot.

 

As regards the coarse fish close season on rivers I think it is high time that the Environment Agency got its act together and canvassed every angler who purchases a mandatory licence to fish. It would cost hardly anything and the matter could then be concluded fairly by a democratic majority vote and its current closure not remain reliant on an unrepresentative survey that was so secretive nobody was aware it had happened. There is no close season on the majority of stillwaters, lakes, and canals, and also no known scientific reason for it to be retained on rivers.

 

Gary Hughes had a session on High Legh Pools and had six mirror carp from 1.5lbs to 4lbs plus a few small roach. The good news no evidence of cormorants or damaged fish.

 

Ackers Pit was the choice venue for Ian Heesom where in a four hours session he had a couple of 4lbs plus mirror carp, three quality crucians, and plenty of good sized roach. Fishing waggler he took the carp on pellet and the roach alternating maggot and pellet. And everyone was telling me all the roach had vanished.

 

Laurence Pearson was hoping for a few tench on Rixton Claypits but in their absence wasn't too disappointed with nineteen skimmers up to 2lbs. All were caught on the tip and red maggot.

 

Well done to both our teams who got through to the next round of the Angling Times Supercup competition this past weekend. Geoff Stoll's team was drawn away and Warrington Black was drawn home against Lymm. Geoff's ended up with both teams on equal points and just secured the win on a count back on weight. Warrington Black had 14points against Lymm's 10. The dread is now that both teams could actually draw against each other.

 

I would welcome any catch reports either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is now open as usual between 7 & 9pm every Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

 

Frank Lythgoe

COMING EVENTS

WAA Local Winter League: Please Note draw is at 8-30am McDonalds, Congleton.

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's Draw 10am Star Inn, Statham. Contact John Dagnall at Cheshire Angling 01925 635486

 

RESULTS

Mersey Series

1)      Jimmy Gannon      16-8-0

2)      Lee Clarke              2-7-0

3)      Bob Clough            1-12-0

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal)

1)      Alan Brown            7-4-0

2)      Bud Lea                  6-1-8

3)      Lennie Dutton         3-5-4

4)      George Barber        2-10-0

6th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

6^th March 2012 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

There were some pretty good match results this past week on our canal venues, the best came from our Disabled & Over 60's match where veteran member, George Barber followed up his win in this event last week to put an impressive 10-13-0 on the scales for another win. George had skimmers and roach on pole-fished bread and caster. Dave Blease was runner up with a similar net of fish for 9-10-0. Again the fish were tightly shoaled in two clearly defined areas.

 

Our popular WAA winter league saw Warrington Red increase their overall lead by another three points with only a couple of matches remaining in the series. The Cheshire Gold team member Ros Whiteman took the individual honours with a mixed net for 6-14-9 followed closely by his fellow team member Craig Richie who eerily put the sign of the devil on the scales 6-6-6.

 

New member Rickie Jones tried a spot of pike fishing on the Bridgewater Canal at Grappenhall and was rewarded with a near double on his first cast. His wobbled dead bait under a float tight to the near bank had only been retrieved 10 to 15metres when the fish struck. However it was his only fish of the session but in those immortal words "I'll be back."

 

Bailiff Steve Kemble made some time to actually go fishing on Grey Mist last week and on the Tuesday caught five carp including one of the new fish, a mirror of 20-3-0 that had lost 5ozs since being stocked followed by a three fish catch on Thursday which included a 22lbs mirror that had put on a pound since being released in January 2012. He has been awarded our Fish of the Month prize of over £100 of Baitech products plus a Korda carp care kit.

 

I really hate that minority of members who call themselves anglers and think it is fine to leave their rubbish for decent members to pick up in their wake. What beggars belief is that these morons take more trouble to try and hide their rubbish than it would take to simply take it home. We have a cracking team of member volunteers working hard to improve Grey Mist and this sort of behaviour is an outright insult to their efforts.

 

I would welcome any catch reports either by phone Tel 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is now open as usual between 7 & 9pm every Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

 

Frank Lythgoe

COMING EVENTS

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's Draw 10am Star Inn, Statham. Contact John Dagnall at Cheshire Angling 01925 635486

 

RESULTS

WAA Local Winter League

Individuals:

1)      Ros Whiteman (Cheshire Gold)    6-14-9

2)      Craig Richie (Cheshire Gold)        6-6-6

3)      Graham Belton (Warrington Red) 5-15-0

4)      Bob Campbell (Bob's Lot)            5-11-15

Teams: Warrington Red 24points, Cheshire Gold 21, Bob's Lot 20

Mersey Series

1)      Jimmy Gannon      6-9-0

2)      Eddie Frangleton  2-3-4

3)      Roy Everson         1-10-5

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal)

1)      George Barber       10-13-0

2)      Dave Blease            9-10-0

3)      George Hollis         8-15-8

4)      Bud Lea                  8-2-4