28th February 2017 Warringtton Anglers Association Guardian Notes

28th February, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

It is really great to take your kids fishing, even though they beat you! See below Leon Preston aged 6 years with his older brother Marley on Sunday at Grey Mist Mere. Leon in the centre of the picture is holding his PB from Grey Mist Mere, 'Shoulders' weighing in at 24-10-0. The fish fell for a single Nash pink boilie from the Railway Post swim. Leon fished about thirty yards out using a 1.5oz lead and size 8 Fox hook set up stiff rig style. As for his dad, well Mark couldn't buy a bite.

 

Don't forget this year in an effort to get more youngsters into angling senior members can take anyone 12 years and under on a one to one basis to four designated fisheries, Woodshaw Reservoir, Bridgewater Canal, Ackers pit, and Offa's Dyke (recently stocked). 

Arley Reservoir (the middle one) at Worthington has produced a few roach and bream this past week despite the change in conditions. I know that it is a bit of a hike but if you take a trolley it is flat going and worth a visit.

One member decided to go 'off piste' on Sandiway small lake on Monday and paid the price when he became stuck to his axles. It cost him a hundred and eighty quid to be exact for a tow out. A lesson there somewhere, stay on the car parks and access routes provided.

Jimmy Byrne added to his last week's Sunday Mersey Match Series success notching up another win with 1-11-4 made up of a small eel and ten roach taken on ground bait feeder and maggot. Mersey devote Paul Harding needed only 14ounces for second place. Bites were at a premium!

Our Bridgewater Canal Disabled and Over 60's match on Monday was held again at Preston Brook where due to run-off from field the water was almost chocolate brown which gave fish some cover. Lenny Dutton put together a net of skimmers and roach for first place with 4-10-0 taken on the pole using bread and pinkie. George Hollis was in second place with 4-2-8. 

Many members like to take pictures of their fish and it is catered for in our rules but they must be taken at the time of capture, on no account must a fish be sacked or retained. Members should have their unhooking mat wetted, container of water standing by, and camera at the ready. A member who shall be nameless actually rang home a couple of weeks ago, for his father to bring a camera!

Whilst on the subject of rules if you are not booked on for night fishing then you cannot go onto a fishery until one hour before sunrise and must be off one hour after sunset. 

WAA Headquarters at 52, Parker Street are open as usual every Friday between 7 & 9pm for new members, subscriptions, night permit renewals, and any queries. Please email catch details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or give me a ring on 01928 716238.

Frank Lythgoe

RESULTS:-

Mersey Sunday Series: 

1) Jimmy Byrne              1-11-4

2) Paul Harding              0-14-0

3) Jim Gannon                0-10-6

4) Ray Boden                   0-9-4                              

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal) 

1) Lenny Dutton             4-10-0  

2)  George Hollis             4-2-8

3) Alan Brown                 3-11-2                

4) Graham Belton           2-15-4                                            

Coming Events:

SUNDAY:

Mersey Series: Draw 10am Kingsway Allotments

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal) draw 10am Jack's Bench, Grappenhall

21st February 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

21st February, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

On Saturday, our netting team were out just over the border into Wales where with the help of local syndicate members we removed 750lbs of mixed roach, skimmers, and hybrids. The craic was great and despite some of our guys keeping their brewing gear top secret at least I shamed one of them into sharing a chocolate biscuit. Anyway, the fish were shared between our Offa's Dyke pools where this year adult members can take a youngster twelve years and under for free in an effort to bring more into our sport. On the way home I really enjoyed the quick pint with the team after a long hard day (well, I did all the brain-work).

Members are really missing out on the excellent sport coupled with great scenery on our river fisheries. This week for example Steven Brookes decided to have a day off from struggling on the Mersey Sunday series and visited our stretch of the Dane at Holmes Chapel. Using a roving approach, he fished six swims, never taking longer than five minutes to get a bite before moving on after half an hour. He had a good day catching eight chub between 2 and 4 pounds, a grayling, and a two-pound brownie, all on luncheon meat and a light lead. On the same day, yours truly made a return trip to the Dee at Worthenbury where I also took advantage of the milder weather and was rewarded with a hard fighting grayling at least every other trot down my swim. Simple stick-float fishing using around half a pint of bronze maggots. You don't need gallons of bait at this time of the year and I bet Stevens and my joint bait bill came to not much over  a couple of quid.

Last week some person(s) threw bundles of the leftovers from their illegal crop of cannabis (skunk) into the Bridgewater Canal at Houghs Bridge, needless to say the police were informed as this is obviously connected to the bags of the 'stuff' that our members removed from Appleton Reservoir before Christmas. If anybody has any ideas of the culprits please let me know.

Whilst in the vicinity I chatted to Stu Roberts who despite trying everything but the kitchen sink had not even had a sniff of a bite (just the floating 'weed' aroma). Anyway, after a chat he moved less than a few hundred yards and fishing bread punch he had a roach on his first cast. They were mainly small fish but a bite a chuck and definitely better than watching a stationary float.

Thank goodness sport on the River Mersey took an upturn this week when local match ace Jimmy Byrne weighed in twenty roach for 2-13-13 all taken on maggot and ground bait feeder tactics. Martin Lenihan had the same number of fish but less weight for second place with 2-10-4.

Likewise catches were improved on our Bridgewater Canal Disabled and Over 60's match on Monday where Bernie Lea led the field with 5-2-12 of roach and skimmers from Preston Brook. Second placed Roy Rogers caught small roach and a skimmer for a weight of 2-15-4. Needless to say, the lads are back there on Monday.

WAA Headquarters at 52, Parker Street are open as usual every Friday between 7 & 9pm for new members, subscriptions, night permit renewals, and any queries. Please email catch details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or give me a ring on 01928 716238.

Frank Lythgoe

RESULTS:-

Mersey Sunday Series:

1) Jimmy Byrne              2-13-13

2) Martin Lenihan          2-10-4

3) Jim Gannon                2-7-8

4) Ed Frangleton            1-14-4                              

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal)  

1) Bernie Lea                  5-2-12    

2) Roy Rogers                 2-15-4

3) George Hollis             2-12-4                

4) Graham Belton          2-8-0                                           

Coming Events:

SUNDAY:

Mersey Series: Draw 9am Kingsway Allotments

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal) draw 10am Preston Brook

14th February 2017 Warrington Anglers association Guardian Notes

14^th February, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

Whenever I can escape for a few days fishing I invariably head for the River Dee which is like a magnet to me and that is where I spent three days last week fishing my favourite method. I enjoy all types of angling but there is nothing more satisfying than trotting a stick-float through the swim and waiting for your float to dip. The first two days were spent on our Worthenbury stretch targeting the resident grayling and they did not disappoint with a fish on my first cast. The odd fish were up to 1.5lbs, but the majority were in the 6 to 12ounce bracket. On the final day following a discussion at HQ on Friday evening with a member who guaranteed 'to put me on big chub' I visited a stretch not controlled by WAA and blanked! There must be a moral here somewhere, 'stick with what you know.'

This is by far the worst result from the River Mersey when Alan Morris needed only one fish, a small skimmer bream weighing 0-7-0 to win our Sunday match series. Roy Everson was in second place with 0-4-8. I realise that we have had a cold snap but I fear predation by increasing numbers of cormorants and the odd seal that comes over the weir in exceptional high tides have taken their toll. I dearly hope to be proven wrong as this river has produced much better results under similar conditions in previous years.

It was even worse on the Bridgewater Canal Disabled and Over 60's match on Monday, and although there are no seals on this fishery there has been a massive increase of cormorants. Anyway, winner George Hollis needed only two small perch weighing 0-1-8, I think that they were almost transparent. Match ace Jimmy Byrne with a solitary perch for 1-0-4 was in runner-up position, no other anglers even had a bite so it was a raffle for third and fourth, not the best way to settle a competition.

Licences are being posted out this week and our regular team of volunteers are busy at HQ as I type enveloping, licking and sticking. I have done this annual task for over thirty years and the banter is relentless but I wouldn't miss it for the world.

WAA Headquarters at 52, Parker Street are open as usual every Friday between 7 & 9pm for new members, subscriptions, night permit renewals, and any queries. Please email catch details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or give me a ring on 01928 716238.

Frank Lythgoe

RESULTS:-

Mersey Sunday Series:
1) Alan Morris                      0-7-0

2) Roy Everson                     0-4-8

3) Ray Boden                        0-2-8

4) Ant Higham                      0-2-2            

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal)  

1)  George Hollis                   0-1-8                

2)  Jimmy Byrne                    0-1-4                                              

Coming Events:

SUNDAY:

Mersey Series: Draw 10am Kingsway Allotments

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal) draw 10am Preston Brook

 

 

7th February 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

7^th February, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

Last year our members removed bags of floating cannabis plant, the waste product from skunk cultivation from Appleton Reservoir. This week our volunteers were in action again removing bags of litter from every area of bank, thanks lads. The discarded items even included a bike frame and a car tyre along with some real disgusting stuff. The amount was so great that it filled the load space on our Ford ranger pick-up. I have to hold my hands up and admit that some was attributable to anglers at specific locations but the vast majority was most certainly not. Our members face immediate expulsion from the club but we have no Jurisdiction over others.  Anyway, it is a clean as a new pin just how it should be.

The 2017 membership books have been delivered from our printers and should be posted out towards the middle of next week so if you have moved house this is your last chance to let me know in order that your membership record can be updated to be included on the postal list.

Around our fisheries, I believe a few carp have been caught at Grey Mist Mere over the past weekend so good news indeed. The Bridgewater Canal produced a brace of pike for new member Sean Oriain to dead bait; also, Ian Rogers reports a catch of three small jacks and two perch taken on a small Mepps. Plenty of roach action it appears at Statham pool which at this time of the year is a real bonus.

Roy Everson won this week's Mersey Series match fished held at Kingsway allotments using a ground bait feeder and maggot catching ten small roach for a weight of 1-1-7. The runner-up spot was taken by Martin Lenihan with an identical catch but weighing less at 1-0-11.

To these anglers no matter what you are catching, a match is a match and with the majority of large fish taken by seals it is a battle for bites from small fish that are hardly worth the effort of these animals hunting. People talk about endangered species but absolutely no consideration is given to our native fish stocks which in effect are captive to a large degree between the two weirs. Years of stocking this river that not too many years past was an open sewer have gone down the drain just when the efforts of the Environment Agency Fisheries and ourselves were bearing fruit.

The Disabled & Over 60's match on the Bridgewater Canal at Houghs Bridge was another tough event with the vast majority of the field failing to weigh. Winner was George Barber (The Breadman) fishing pole and punched bread for a weight of 1-12-10 of small roach. Committee member Graham Belton (Magnum) was second off the adjoining peg with 1-0-11.

WAA Headquarters at 52, Parker Street are open as usual every Friday between 7 & 9pm for new members, subscriptions, night permit renewals, and any queries. Please email catch details to frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or give me a ring on 01928 716238.

Frank Lythgoe

RESULTS:-

Mersey Sunday Series:
1) Roy Everson                       1-1-7

2) Martin Lenihan                  1-0-11

3) Alan Morris                         0-13-3

4) Ray Boden                           0-10-1            

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal)  

1)  George Barber                   1-12-10        

2)  Graham Belton                  1-0-11                

3) Derek Bibby                         0-12-5

4) Dickie Wernham                 0-9-5                                    

Coming Events:

SUNDAY:

Mersey Series: Draw 10am Weir Lane

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's (Bridgewater Canal) draw 10am St Peters Church (Walton Arms)