29th April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

29th April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

Our Spring League is still headed by Bob Campbell who clocked up another section win on the Sankey St Helens Canal to give him a running total in six matches of seven points. With only two matches remaining it looks as though it is going to be a two horse race against ever consistent Phil Cross who also added a section win to his score putting him on eight points. The nearest to them is Martin Griffiths on thirteen. Guest angler Bob Clough took the individual honours with 8-11-0 made up of a mixed bag of rudd, roach, skimmers, and an eel.

Fish on the Bridgewater Canal are shoaling ready for spawning which is evident by the poor results of our Disabled & Over 60's match on Monday where Mike Daniels although in a similar situation to his other competitors with not too many bites one of his resulted in a big bonus bream to which he added a few small roach for a winning weight of 4-6-8. Trev Bainbridge followed in runner-up spot with 1-5-6.

It was an entirely different story for Ian Thomas however as on his visit to the Bridgewater Canal at Agden he enjoyed hectic action from his first put in. Loose feeding maggot he pole fished against the far shelf to catch roach, skimmers, and five bream of around 3lbs. Luckily after countless last casts the session ended abruptly when he ran out of bait otherwise there was a real danger that his dinner would have been in the dog.

As regular readers will know I very rarely report on my own angling trips, well on Saturday afternoon I managed to escape to Moore Quarry for a few hours, result a blank; not to be water licked a rematch the following evening made it a combined zero score. However I will be back because the setting on this fishery located just outside Warrington is magnificent and I know it carries a head of quality fish because I could see them, just couldn't connect. Speaking to members a few tench, bream, and the occasional carp are being caught but some members I understand have been targeting the large roach but are keeping the results close to their chest. Everyone was full of praise for the newly constructed pegs courtesy of our band of intrepid volunteers, well done lads your labours are appreciated.

I haven't had many members send me their catch details from our Offa's Dyke Fishery so our local fishery volunteers' team have taken it upon themselves to put the matter right by holding their own fish-in. I am holding my breath that there will be some results to report next week. Also this week we will be planting marginal and other native plants purchased from the Liverpool National Wildflower Centre.

Please keep those catch reports coming in as they are invaluable to this column and fellow members planning fishing trips. Either ring me on 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is open as usual between 7 & 9pm on Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

Frank Lythgoe

 

RESULTS:

Spring League (round 5)

Individuals:

1. Bob Clough                     8-11-0

2. Phil Cross                        6-6-4

3. George Barber               5-10-6

Points to date: Bob Campbell 7, Phil Cross 8, Martin Griffiths 13, George Barber 14

 

Disabled & Over 60's

1. Mike Daniels                   4-6-8

2. Trev Bainbridge              1-5-6

3. John Dagnall                    1-1-8         

4. Jeff Clare                            15-4         

    

   COMING EVENTS:

   Saturday:

   Cheshire Spring League, Macclesfield Canal, draw 9am McDonalds Congleton.

   TUESDAY:

   Disabled & Over 60's, Bridgewater Canal, draw 10am Gun Club car park. Contact John Dagnall at Cheshire Angling 01925 635486.

    

    

    

22nd April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

22nd April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

Growing numbers of our members are gradually discovering the cracking sport that can be had at our Worthington Reservoirs complex. Although the smallest one is closed until the 16^th June the middle reservoir provides fishing to suit a variety of tastes be it carp, bream, or roach action.  Lee Camsey set his stall out for bream on Good Friday and using a groundbait feeder set-up with floating maggot on the hook. He ended his session with fifteen bream over 3lbs with the best at 5lbs plus lots of good sized roach and a few perch. Oh, and mega sunburn in the bargain.

I have been itching to get out for a tench session on Grey Mist Mere so last week I actually managed a three hour stint. Between members phone calls I landed a cracking brace caught on maggot feeder with the best around 7lbs. And whilst there was no action whatsoever on my carp rod Phil Lindley on the next peg was well pleased with his brace of mirrors weighing in at 19-4-0 and 17lbs on only his third trip to the Mist. His last visit resulted in four tincas with which he was equally happy. Successful method was homemade boilie tipped with sweetcorn.

Adie Paddock fished the same venue on Saturday and caught eight tench to 6lbs and returned for more of the same on Easter Monday when he caught another five of the red eyed beauties. The icing on the cake however was a 17lbs mirror carp which took a lot of playing to the net on his 0.18 hook length.

Rixton Claypits have been producing rewards aplenty in the form of bream and tench for several members who have put their club first and collected rubbish left by both anglers and others. They know who they are so I will not name and embarrass them but on behalf of the majority of our decent members a sincere thanks. There is now a growing swell of members who are quite prepared to report bad behaviour and litter louts.  

A set of keys has been found in our gate lock at Appleton Reservoir. If the person contacts me with a detailed description and membership number I will re-unite him with his property. For the record the fishery has been producing some carp action and decent roach on groundbait feeder tactics.

Please keep those catch reports coming in as they are invaluable to this column and fellow members planning fishing trips. Either ring me on 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is open as usual between 7 & 9pm on Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

Frank Lythgoe

 

RESULTS:

Disabled & Over 60's

1. Jimmy Byrne                    5-1-0

2. George Barber                2-8-0

3. Alan Brown                     2-0-10          

4. G Brooks/T Bainbridge 1-12-4          

    

   COMING EVENTS:

   TUESDAY:

   Disabled & Over 60's: Bridgewater Canal, draw 10am Star Inn Contact John Dagnall at Cheshire Angling 01925 635486.

15th April, 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

8th April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

Well done to our Woodshaw Junior Team on Saturday who added another CADG Series win to their previous one at Boggatt Hole Clough. This time they were on home ground at Woodshaw Reservoir and ended the match with a tie on 7 points with Ramsbottom but narrowly won the day on a weight count back by just under a kilo. Jake Parkinson topped the individual leader board.

Many thanks to the volunteers who turned up to both Moore Quarry and the Mount working parties on Sunday which enabled a lot of essential improvement work was done on both fisheries. On the quarry the group which included several new members installed four cracking pegs with another couple planned. My sympathies definitely went to the two guys on the rock-pile who were virtually mining the stuff to infill the pegs from a load we had delivered a couple of years ago. The Mount team built a new peg within the flooded area plus cleared overhanging trees to create a number of new fishing areas.

Neil Plunkett fished the small Lake at Sandiway on Sunday and following a not too good previous result when he targeted large fish he decided to change his tactics. He scaled down his end tackle to a finer hook-length and 16's hook with double red maggot and used both a groundbait or maggot feeder tactics. Thirteen was lucky in his case as he ended his session satisfied with exactly that number of prime roach to 1lb. This small lake is also producing more carp action, albeit much smaller fish than the adjacent much larger sister fishery, but I am informed that a few quality fish have been caught.

Phil Hancox couldn't get a peg on Grey Mist Mere so made a swift deviation to nearby Rixton Claypits where using a groundbait feeder and sweetcorn hook bait he ended his short morning session with fifteen bream all around 1.5lbs plus one tench around the 4lbs mark.

Derek Bibby weighed in 5-1-12 to win our weekly Disabled & Over 60's match held on the Bridgewater Canal on Monday. In a hard match where bites were scarce he was helped massively by a bream of 4lbs to which he added a few silver fish. Match organiser John Dagnall was fourth (I have to mention him because it is so rare that he frames).

The Appleton Reservoir Mini-Festival was won by Kev Green who first floated the idea with a combined weight of 26-8-0. A number of carp were caught during the event but were weighed and returned to the water immediately. The roach shoals proved to be conspicuous by their absence despite being caught in good numbers during practice sessions.

A reminder to all members that all Association owned fisheries are strictly private property and anyone found with non-members on their pegs will risk losing their membership. Similarly only those members with night permits who are booked on are allowed on our waters at night, definitely no unauthorised visitors. Likewise no dogs are allowed under any circumstances.

Please keep those catch reports coming in as they are invaluable to this column and fellow members planning fishing trips. Either ring me on 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is open as usual between 7 & 9pm on Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

Frank Lythgoe

 

RESULTS:

Appleton Reservoir Festival:

1. Kev Green            26-8-0

2. Martin Lenihan   14-15-0

3. Martin Griffiths     8-8-0

4. Dave Brooks          6-2-0

Disabled & Over 60's

1. Jimmy Byrne                 5-1-12

2. George Barber             

   Bud Lee                         1-13-10

3. John Dagnall                 1-12-4           

 

COMING EVENTS:

TUESDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's: Bridgewater Canal Draw 10am on bank Hilltop Road. Contact John Dagnall at Cheshire Angling 01925 635486.

 

8th April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

8th April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

Swift justice was meted out at our committee meeting this week for the two anglers who were caught on our waters last week fishing at night without a Night Permit. One was banned from our club and his mate banned from night fishing for twelve months. It’s just not worth it.

Many thanks to the volunteers who turned up to the Grey Mist working party last weekend when they removed enough rubbish to fill a large skip from out of the Woolston Cut and hidden around the fishery. There is still peg repair work and fallen trees to be removed so we will be looking at a day closure following the Easter Holiday. This is one of the North Wests’ iconic fisheries and our members are determined it stays that way.

Phil Hancox initiated his newly joined mate Ian McCarthy to the joys of Grey Mist Mere tench fishing on Friday. They shared a twenty fish catch with Ian breaking his PB on three consecutive casts and the best fish weighed out at 5-8-0 with Phil also adding two carp of 13 and 14lbs for good measure. All fell to maggot feeder tactics with two on the hook. Phil made a return morning visit on Monday and in his haste left his maggots at home. He improvised with a method feeder and sweetcorn to end his session with five tench from 5lbs to 6-14-0 plus a common of 14lbs.

Neil Plunkett enjoyed both his best and worst ever sessions in the space of a week. Last week on Grey Mist he had his best ever tench session netting nine olive beauties between 5 and 6.5lbs and lost three in a snag. Whereas early this week he fished at our new Offa’s Dyke Fishery and blanked with no movement of the float whatsoever. That’s fishing for you. More reports needed from this fishery please.

Young member Lewis Harmes landed two carp of 10-2-0 and a smaller fish of 6lbs from our Mount fishery at Buckley. Our local management team are currently looking at opening up more of this fishery which has been adversely affected by high water conditions. And a reminder that there is no night fishing due to the resultant shortage of pegs until this is resolved.

John Arkwright made his new member debut on Rixton Claypits this last week and was well pleased with his catch of a dozen decent bream plus a tench of 3.5lbs. All fell to his method feeder and pellet approach.

Our first and what turned out to be the last round for this year of the Supercup Competition took place on Saturday at Border Fisheries between Bay Malton and our Warrington Red Team. Although both teams drew on points Bay Malton comfortably beat us in a count up on weight. They were worthy winners and our team wish them every success in the competition. The next day our Blue Team battled it out against Lymm AC in the same competition on their Chester Lakes Fishery. The result was more decisive at 16 points to our 8 so well done to Lymm and our team wish them success in their next round of the competition.

George Barber weighed in 5-1-0 of roach and small skimmers in our weekly Disabled & Over 60’s match held on Monday on the Bridgewater Canal.  It proved to be a decisive win and doubled Lennie Dutton’s runner-up weight of 2-4-0.

Please note that Woodshaw Reservoir is closed until 3pm on Saturday 12^th April for a Junior inter-team CADG match.

Also there is a working party on Sunday 13^th April at Moore Quarry so the fishery is closed. Any member who fancies helping build and improve the pegs just turn up on the day around 10am and you will be more than welcome.

Please keep those catch reports coming in as they are invaluable to this column and fellow members planning fishing trips. Either ring me on 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is open as usual between 7 & 9pm on Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

Frank Lythgoe

 

RESULTS:

 

Disabled & Over 60’s

1. George Barber             5-1-0

2. Lennie Dutton              2-4-0

3. Bud Lee                         1-11-8

4. Graham Belton             1-6-10          

    

   COMING EVENTS:

   MONDAY:

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

1st April 2014 Warrington Anglers Guardian Notes

1^st April 2014 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes.

A number of anglers were caught on our waters last week fishing night sessions when either not booked on or without a Night Permit. This is not only against our rules but it is selfish and prevents members who adhere to them from making full use of pegs that should be available. It should be borne in mind that any member subsequently banned from our club for a serious breach of rule may now be banned from other clubs.

Additional to this we do allow Junior Members to fish at night when they are accompanied by either a parent who must be a member, hold a night permit, and be appropriately booked on. Additionally parents can opt to apply and sign up for another member whom they deem appropriate to accompany their child, but that person also must comply with our conditions and rules. On no account must a junior be on our fisheries at night without being accompanied as above or the privilege to fish at night will be immediately withdrawn.

The fourth round of the Cheshire Spring League was fished on the Macclesfield Canal at on Saturday and although Bob Campbell who was top of the leader board had an abysmal match only scoring three points so did his arch rival Phil Cross who only managed four. So the upshot is that despite failing to maintain his perfect score he still leads the pack with 6 points and Phil next on 8. Following is Martin Griffiths on 11 who won on the day with 5-10-0 that included a 1lb skimmer and some chunky perch. Although I suspect the win hardly compensated for his pole that he broke in three places during the last twenty minutes of the match.  Graham Belton was runner-up with an all roach net for 4-7-0.

Barry Chambers had his first taste of success since early October last year by winning our Disabled & Over 60’s event on Monday with 4-12-8 which included a bream of 1.5lbs taken on his first cast with his next cast snaring its similarly sized mate. Rarely out of the frame and this week’s runner-up is George Barber with 3-14-10.

Match organiser John Dagnall who was pegged next to the winner had yet another pole related nightmare. Following last week’ destruction derby when he smashed his butt section and two others he opted to borrow his daughter’s pole of a similar lineage. Thinking the top kits were interchangeable he decided in the interests of potential damage limitation to use his own.  Now you are ahead of me because nothing fitted and he was forced to fish the whole of the match by adapting his cupping kit!  

Rixton Claypits is consistently producing skimmers and bream along with a few tench to mainly maggot however the carp are now starting to feed according to our bailiff with fish reported to 20lbs. At Grey Mist Mere on Friday I took a picture of Brian Yardley holding a quality tench that he just happened to catch as I was passing, this was followed by three more weighing in at 5lbs, 5-3-0, and 5-6-0. He tempted all the fish using a maggot feeder and lost an even bigger fish.

Please note that Grey Mist Mere is closed on both Saturday and Sunday, 5^th & 6^th April for both peg maintenance and the removal of litter left by a moronic minority. Working party starts each day at 10am. Those who turn up and help can fish after we wind up. It is really sad that we need to go to such extremes such that the decent majority suffer for the disgusting habits of a few who we definitely do not want as members.  Leaving litter is an automatic ban.

Please keep those catch reports coming in as they are invaluable to this column and fellow members planning fishing trips. Either ring me on 01928 716238 or email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk. HQ 52, Parker Street is open as usual between 7 & 9pm on Friday, for subscriptions, new memberships/night permits, or any queries.

Frank Lythgoe

 

RESULTS:

Spring League (Macclesfield Canal)

1. Martin Griffiths     5-10-0

2. Graham Belton      4-7-0

3. Jeff Stoll                  3-12-2

4. George Barber       2-14-0

 

Disabled & Over 60’s

1. Barry Chambers          4-12-8

2. George Barber            3-14-10

3. Derek Bibby                 3-7-12

4. Stan Charnock             3-1-11           

    

   COMING EVENTS:

   MONDAY:

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