19th March 2019 Warrington Anglers Association Guardian Notes
Nothings charged, the olive beauties are still feeding on Grey Mist and new member Tony Rennie made his debut visit to the fishery on Friday in an endeavour to better his tench PB which had not moved forward in 24 years! He was set-up and raring to go at 8am and within the hour a male tench of 6-8-0 lay in his landing net and a new PB. At 10-15 another tench of 6-12-0 was landed and another PB! A further three tench followed to bring an end to a cracking days fishing. It may have been his first visit to the Mist but most certainly not his last. Oh, the successful bait, Tony's home-grown worms. Fellow angler Steve Roffey spent three hours sat in the rain with not a sign of fish and then his mood brightened as he caught five in the next two hours with the best fish 7-8-0. Edvinas Kelbauskas who was targeting tench certainly had a fight on his hands when his maggot bait was taken by a carp of 24lbs that took him 20 minutes to land. He also had three tench for good measure.
Bobby Shaw enjoyed his session on Appleton reservoir when he caught a new PB carp of 22-8-0. Ivan Brookes had quite a busy roach session fishing a small groundbait feeder loaded with a sprinkling of micro-pellets and maggot with double red maggot on the hook catching twenty-three fish to 12ozs.
Our last match before the outdated coarse fish close season on rivers comes into force at midnight on the 14th March took place on Thursday on the River Mersey at Mersey Walk. Derek Bibby ended what was a really successful season for this local angling legend with a winning weight of 13-12-0 made up of two bream for 10lbs plus roach caught on groundbait feeder and maggot. One of his bream weighed in at 7-12-0 and in fact Derek had more that the total of all the other anglers! Second placed Neil Buist put a catch of four small skimmers and six roach on the scales to take second place with 14 ounces. Committee members Mike Dench really thought he was in with a shout when he hooked into a really hard fighting fish on the pole only to eventually land a pike which don't count in matches.
The Monday Disabled & Over 60's match on the Bridgewater Canal at Walton saw a blast from the past, Stu Bryant the winner with a net of roach, skimmers, and small rudd caught alternating between pinkie and caster for a weight of 4-8-2. WAA Vice President Geoff Brooks wasn't far behind taking second place with a similar catch for a weight of 4-1-9. Again, the fish were tightly shoaled and the first three anglers sat on adjacent pegs. On the other side of the bridge anglers really struggled for bites.
Keep those catch reports coming, good, bad, or indifferent as they help follow members to weigh up how waters are fishing to plan their outings. And equally important they give me something to write about! Email frank@warrington-anglers.org.uk or give me a ring on 01928 716238.
WAA Headquarters at 52, Parker Street are open as usual every Friday between 7 & 9pm. New members are welcome to call in and join, current ones can renew their subscription, or night permit.
Frank Lythgoe
RESULTS:
Thursday Last Chance Thursday Mersey Special.
1) Derek Bibby 13-2-0
2) Neil Buist 0-14-0
3) Mike Dench 0-12-0
4) Pete Howard 0-11-0
Disabled & Over 60's Bridgewater Canal, Walton
1) Stu Bryant 4-8-2
2) Geoff Brookes 4-1-9
3) George Barber 3-12-8
4) Ron Durr 3-10-0
COMING EVENTS:
MONDAY:
Disabled & Over 60's draw 10am Trent & Mersey Canal Farm Road
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