25th July 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

25^th July, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes[f1] 

Mike Dench enjoyed a salmon fishing session on our stretch of the Ribble over the weekend that saw him lose a really good fish at the start but he was finally rewarded with a grilse of 5lbs. His trip was slightly marred by two members who managed to 'misplace' the carpark key that saw kind hearted Mike make a return trip from Warrington to rescue the two embarrassed members. A few decent barbel are showing with Joel Rees-Jones reporting fish of 8-2-0 and 8-14-0.

Neil Plunkett was looking forward to a return trip to Rixton Claypits after a couple of months absence and decided on a swim at the far end on the car park side where he had never fished before with the secondary objective of being sheltered from the wind and rain. He was not to be disappointed, although it took a couple of hours for the baiting up to get some attention, but he left happy having caught a nice 7.5lbs common carp and 14 cracking bream from 2.5 to 4 lbs.  

Eric J Smith has had a few sessions on Wide Hole of late where he has caught perch to over 2lbs on lobworm. He was pleased with himself until another angler showed him photos of stripeys from the venue around the 5lbs mark. Now there is something to aim for! Sunday saw him on a visit to Cicily Mill Pool with his fishing mate Fishless Fletcher. Eric only caught three bream all day but Fishless blanked and brightened up Eric's day when he fell in!

Our Disabled & Over 60's match on Monday was back on the Bridgewater at Acton Grange Bridge where it was won by George Hollis with a roach and perch catch for a weight of 3-6-14. In the runner-up spot with less than an ounce adrift was Lennie Dutton with a net of roach and small skimmers for 3-6-10.  

Barry Chambers was the winner of our Saturday Mersey Series match with a weight of 15-5-8 which included a bonus bream of 5lbs to add to his net of roach, perch, and small chub taken on pole and maggot. Dave Brooks was second with 13-6-0 of roach, perch, plus a couple of decent skimmer bream taken on the same tactics.

On our Sunday Mersey Series event Martin Lenihan managed to catch exactly the same weight of fish that saw him take third the day before but this time the 9-7-0 saw his take the winner's purse. Martin used ground bait feeder and maggot tactics. Derek Bibby was second with 7-4-0.

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

MATCH RESULTS:

Disabled & Over 60's

1)      George Hollis          3-6-14

2)      Lennie Dutton        3-6-10

3)      Graham Belton       2-8-13

4)      Roy Rogers              2-2-7

Tuesday Series

1)      Ray Boden                 8-3-0

2)      Derek Bibby              7-13-0

3)      Alan Smith                2-15-0

4)      Jim Gannon              2-12-0

Saturday Series (River Mersey).

1)      Barry Chambers      15-5-8

2)      Dave Brooks             13-6-0

3)      Ray Boden               12-12-0

4)      Martin Lenihan        9-7-0

Sunday Series (River Mersey).

1)      Martin Lenihan       9-7-0

2)      Derek Bibby            7-4-0

3)      Ray Boden               7-3-0

4)      Bob Clough              4-12-0

COMING EVENTS:

SATURDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Kingsway Allotments.

SUNDAY:

Tom James Open River Mersey, draw 9am Victoria Park

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10am Woodshaw Reservoir.

TUESDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Kingsway Allotments

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18th July 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

18^th July, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes[f1] 

The big event this weekend is the Adlington Angling Centre/Shimano FREE Carp and Coarse Academy Saturday 22nd July 2017 starts at 9am. It is being held in the North West for the very first time and also the first time in the UK that Shimano have done this event as a joint Carp & Coarse event which is a huge coup for the area.
The event will be held at Worthington Lakes, Chorley Road, Standish WN1 2XN thanks to Warrington Anglers Association so get down there and make sure you don't miss out. Everyone will be able to get FREE 1 to 1 tuition, FREE expert advice on baits, rigs and set up's plus much more.
The Carp section will be hosted by Mike Dagnall & James Young who will helping put those extra yards on your casts with the TX2,TX5,TX9 rods
Learn how to approach commercials with Shimano Match Ace Nick Speed who be demonstrating all the match gear as well as giving advice.
We will have our complete range of products with us on the day in the marquee with Simon Bates, Nick Worrell & Robert Milne giving you all the technical info as well David Fuidge doing his popular Rig Clinic
If you want more information ring Adlington Angling Centre on 01257 474823. 

Our Disabled & Over 60's match on Monday had a change of venue to the River Mersey at Kingsway where it was won by veteran all-rounder Derek Bibby with a nice net of skimmers, roach, and perch for a weight of 8-2-0. Barry Chambers showed he can still catch a fish or two by coming second with 5-3-0 of roach and perch taken on pole and maggot.

It's a double win for Mersey Master and match organiser Ray Boden who started of his weekend with a win on our Saturday Mersey Series and followed this up with another by winning our Briars Cup Open on the same venue the following day. On Saturday Ray showed his mastery of the pole on this venue with a roach and perch catch 0f 11lbs taken on maggot. Chris Ray in Runner-up spot weighed in 8-5-0 that included a bonus 5lbs bream taken on groundbait feeder and maggot. 

The same tactics on Sunday for the Briars Cup open saw Ray with 10-14-0 followed by Neil Buist who also fished the pole and maggot for 9-13-0.  

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

MATCH RESULTS:

Disabled & Over 60's

1)      Derek Bibby            8-2-0

2)      Barry Chambers     5-3-0

3)      Eddie Frangleton   3-12-0

4)      Roy Rogers              3-7-0

Saturday Series (River Mersey).

1)      Ray Boden              11-0-0

2)      Chris Wray                8-5-0

3)      Jimmy Byrne            6-13-0

4)      Norman Gannon     3-12-0

Briars Cup Open (River Mersey).

1)      Ray Boden            10-14-0

2)      Neil Buist                9-13-0

3)      Jimmy Byrne          8-15-0

4)      Jim Gannon            8-9-0

COMING EVENTS:

SATURDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Victoria park.

SUNDAY:

River Mersey, draw 9am Kingsway Allotments

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10am Acton Grange Br. Hollybush lane.

TUESDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Kingsway Allotments

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11th July 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes

11^th July, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes[f1] 

The ink was hardly dry on new member Tony Koziol's membership book when he made his debut visit to one of our fisheries. He chose the picturesque Cicily Mill Pool where despite an initial dodgy car park key experience he went on to enjoy a full day's fishing catching lots of roach, a few perch and the odd skimmer. He didn't keep a tally but reckons that he must have caught in excess of eighty fish. The majority came to maggot, odd fish to caster and bread; but all the better roach in the 6 to 8-inch range were caught on sweetcorn. Unfortunately, he missed out on his target fish of crucians and tench, but as he said, "That's for another day".  

Our Disabled & Over 60's match on Monday was fished this week on the Bridgewater Canal at Pickering's Bridge which used to be my favourite stretch of the canal, that is until it was dredged and marginal aquatic plants removed. It's been a good number of years but the length has strangely never regained its former form. Warrington AA Vice President Geoff Brooks put together a net of small roach to add to a bonus 2lbs bream for a winning weight of 3-8-6. Alan Brown repeated his last week's performance and took second place with 2-14-3.

Committee member Ade Green has been knocking on the door for sometime, well this week was the week it opened with a well deserved Mersey Series win. Ade put together an all roach catch on pole and maggot for 7-7-0. Local match ace and all-rounder Jimmy Byrne took the runner-up spot with a roach and perch catch on the same method for 6-13-0.

Our regular Mersey Sunday Series was won by, need I say it….Ray Boden who put 10lbs of mainly roach plus twelve perch on the scales for exactly 10-0-0. Ray stuck to his winning formula of pole and maggot. Jim Gannon took second place using a groundbait feeder and maggot and boosted his net of small roach and perch with a very welcome bonus 5lbs bream for a total weight of 7-3-0.

On the Tuesday Mersey match Ray Boden again took the money with a weight of 5-2-0 made up of roach, perch, and a welcome sight of 2oz skimmer bream amongst his catch. Jim Gannon was in second place with 4-15-0 taken on feeder and maggot.

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

MATCH RESULTS:

Disabled & Over 60's

1)      Geoff Brooks          3-8-6

2)      Alan Brown            2-14-3

3)      George Hollis         2-8-12

4)      Bernie Lea              2-4-6

Saturday Series (River Mersey).

1)      Ade Green              7-7-0

2)      Jimmy Byrne          6-13-0

3)      Ray Boden              6-3-0

4)      Steve Brooks          5-0-0

Sunday Series (River Mersey).

1)      Ray Boden            10-0-0

2)      Jim Gannon            4-15-0

3)      Dave Hill                 6-13-0

4)      Paul Harding          5-0-0

Tuesday Series.

1)      Ray Boden            5-2-0

2)      Jim Gannon          7-3-0

3)      Alan Smith            4-5-0

4)      Barry Chambers  4-0-0

COMING EVENTS:

SATURDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Kingsway Allotments.

SUNDAY:

Briars Cup Open, River Mersey, draw 9am Victoria Park

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10am River Mersey at Kingsway.

TUESDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Victoria Park

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4th July 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Column

4^th July, 2017 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes[f1] 

Wow, a rare report indeed, in fact I cannot remember when I last received a report from the stretch of the Trent at Alrewas. Well, Ron Wade after first having to cut out a peg as the river had obviously not been fished for some time, didn't have a lot of fish but included in his catch two chub over 4lbs taken on legered bread flake and a brown trout of around 1lb taken on worm.

Our Disabled & Over 60's match on Monday was fished this week on the Bridgewater Canal at Stage lane. Lenny (End peg) Dutton put together a net of small roach for a winning weight of 4-7-0. Alan Brown took second place with 3-14-0. Catches were mainly small roach from under far bank trees, nothing to write home about, but still a competition nevertheless.

It's getting repetitive, but the man is a Mersey expert, so no surprise that match organiser Ray Boden clocked up another win on our Mersey Saturday Series when he weighed in a nice net of roach and perch taken on pole and maggot for a weight of 11-4-0. Jimmy Byrnes was the runner-up fishing the same method with 7-1-0.

Our Sunday Sid Jones open was won by Dave Hill who had a bonus bream of 4lbs that boosted his weight to 8-2-0 all taken on pole and maggot. Paul Harding was the second placed angler who caught six skimmer bream, best around 1lb, plus small roach taken on ground bait feeder and maggot for a weight of 7-1-0. I don't know if anyone has spotted it but local match ace Jimmy Byrne framed in all three events.

I really cannot believe the disgusting habits of a minority of member that if caught will definitely be ex-members….permanently! This is the situation at our picturesque Mount Fishery at Buckley where our local team of volunteers put in countless hours of work to improve the access and angling opportunities for everyone. I am talking about those uncaring and selfish individuals who despite our strict rules on toilet requirements take it upon themselves to behave like animals and deposit their human waste on the bankside. Well, it's high time decent anglers stood up to be counted and report such persons because if the situation isn't immediately remedied the water will be closed for night fishing, which is a shame, for yet again the majority suffer for the antics of a few morons who we can well do without.

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

MATCH RESULTS:

Disabled & Over 60's

1)      Lenny Dutton         4-7-0

2)      Alan Brown            3-14-0

3)      Roy Rogers             2-13-0

4)      Jimmy Byrne          2-2-0

Saturday Series (River Mersey).

1)      Ray Boden              11-4-0

2)      Jimmy Byrne           7-1-0

3)      Jim Gannon             3-9-0

4)      Alan Morris             2-15-0

Sid James Open (Sunday,River Mersey).

1)      Dave Hill                8-2-0

2)      Paul Harding         7-1-0

3)      Ade Green             4-3-0

4)      Jimmy Byrne         4-2-0

Tuesday Series.

1)      Ray Boden          8-12-0

2)      Ade Green          5-1-0

3)      Martin kettle      4-3-0

4)      Jim Gannon         3-10-0

COMING EVENTS:

SATURDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Victoria Park.

SUNDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Kingsway Allotments

MONDAY:

Disabled & Over 60's draw 10am Bridgewater Canal, Pickerings Bridge.

TUESDAY:

River Mersey draw 9am Kingsway Allotments

 

 

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