Weekly Reports

Weekly Reports from Angel of the North Fishing Lakes

Weekly report for 07 March 2010

Interesting week water temp reached 3 deg (last year was above 8) but dropped down because of the frosts at night to 2.4, and lakes defrosted on Friday at last! Fish all species have started catching with much better catch rates as long as you do not overfeed, longer daylight hours does make a difference to catch rates.

Bowes Lake
Bowes is fishing interesting since new fish were stocked in it, carp and silvers being caught, with some canny double figures coming out. It has produced on Peg 22 a lovely bream of 9lb 5oz, carp being caught to double figures even in the match on bomb and pellet.

Lookout Lake
Lookout has seen some excellent carp as well as silver catches for 2.4 deg water temp, with all species being caught some excellent tench starting to feed and be caught, even shy biting crucians now coming out. Keep tackle on the lighter side still and get light feed paterns correct and catches will be good. Maggot, pellet and corn as well as worm on the hook and feeding either pellet producing the catches

Bassetts Pond
Fishing is for all species just make sure you fish with lighter tackle, hooks of 18, and smaller bait and you will catch, some good orfe out as well.

Match News
Sunday 7th March 2010 open Bowes Overnight frost, fair and sunny, ambient temp 5 deg, humidity 70%, wind W5 mph, barometer 1032.9 (high), moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 2.4 deg, PH 8.15, DO 8.95, mv 55. 1st Dave Pearson 20lb 9oz peg 3 all Carp on maggot and corn tip toinbetween island 2nd Martin Rowell 19lb 15oz peg 22 (inc a of Bream 9lb 5oz ) 3rd Ray Wallace 13lb 8oz peg 12 Section 1 John Foster Section 2 Alan Mc Guire Section 3 Ian Gillis Section 4 Johnathan Broadbent Sunday 7th March 2010 Big Waters Overnight frost, fair and sunny, ambient temp 5 deg, humidity 70%, wind W5 mph, barometer 1032.9 (high), moon phase waning gibbous Water temp 2.5, DO 9.1, PH 8.20, mv65. 1st Paul O Donnel33lb 3oz peg 25 2nd Steve Knowles 18lb 8oz peg 11 3rd Barry Evans 18lb 3oz peg 27 4th Niel Ripley 17lb 12oz peg 29 5th M Gardner 10lb 12oz peg 28 6th Jeff Webster 10lb peg 12 Wed 3rd March 2010 open Lookout Conditions:- Overnight frost of –4, all lakes froze again, fair with some clouds, ambient temp 3 deg (match started with –2) humidity 75%, wind 2mph, barometer 1023 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 1.9 deg, PH8.48, DO 8, MV 61, had to end up with breaking ice in front of pegs and a float match because of frozen lakes. 1st Dave Jackson 16lb 9oz peg 11 2nd Ray Wallace 11lb 8oz peg 15 3rd Neil Brown 9lb 3oz peg 24 4th Alan Mc Guire 8lb 2oz peg 27 5th Ricky Bennett 7lb 9oz peg 1 6th Jonathan Broadbent 6lb 10 oz peg 23 Tough day all silvers caught, more frost tonight to come! Dave caught on pellet

Weekly report for 28 February 2010

General Water temperatures went up to highest was 3.4 deg on Friday but dropped over 1 deg through the overnight snow on Fri/Sat. Fish are moving now and starting to feed, and perch ready to spawn (first of our species to spawn) Some excellent Fish have been now stocked with the Big Bream from 6lb 7oz to 8lb 9oz went into Bowes so together with the fish introduced from Bassetts and silvers and tench already in it is a great mixed coarse lake now. Bassetts fully stocked also and can be fished from the first week in March after the new fish introduction.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Nice to say that anglers are catching silvers, tench, as well as carp, We decided to put the big bream into this lake as the smallest was 6lb 7oz and biggest 8lb 8oz a lot of stunning bream went into Bowes. Bowes is now a stunning mixed coarse lake and a second quality match lake.

Lookout Lake
Fishing well considering the weather conditions, with matches booked Sunday’s, fish moving now we have over 12 hours of day light, carp now being caught as well as good bags of silvers. Match weight Sunday was Alan Mc Guire 46lb 7oz!

Bassetts Pond
De frosted at last & spring is on its way now fully stocked with Orfe to 3lb 7oz (blue, orange, & white) Ide, Lots of crucians (300) , 500 carp,plus hundreds of Rudd, Roach, Tench The last of the fish stocking went very well and fish settling in well.

Match News
Sunday 28th Feb 2010 open Lookout Conditions:- Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 4 deg, humidity 81%, wind N 8 mph, barometer 989.2 mb, moon phase Full, PH 8.40, DO 8.85, Water temp 2.2 to 2.6 deg, mv55. 1st Alan Mc Guire 46lb 7oz peg 16aaa (Tip & pellet & Maggot) 2nd Anth Richardson 19lb 3oz peg 24 (pole & pellet) 3rd John Foster 16lb 6oz peg 23 1st section T Walker 16lb 4oz peg 5 2nd section Chris Cowling 6lb 11oz peg 22 3rd section Paul O Donald 11lb 13oz peg 28 Spring summer League starts 28th March £20.00 down and 12 matches drop 3 worst scores. Sat 27th Feb 2010 Supercup (Washington & Harrington, Weatherby, Harrogate winners) Overnight Snow, rain and sleet, Wind ENE 8 mph, barometer 992.9 mb (low), moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 2.4 to 2 deg Dropped, (Fri rose to 3.2 to 3.3), PH 8.45, DO 8.2, MV 62 1st team Harrogate 15 points 2nd team Washington & Harrington 16 pts 3rd team Weatherby 18 points Weights:- 1st Dave Pearson 22lb 15oz peg 22 on bomb corn & pellet 2nd S Walker 8lb 15oz peg 11 3rd S Hodgson 6lb 12oz peg 38 Spring summer League starts 28th March £20.00 down and 12 matches drop 3 worst scores. Wed 24th Feb 2010 open Lookout Light Rain, ambient temp 2 deg, wind ESE 9mph, barometer 989.8 mb (low), moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 1.8 deg, DO 8.95 ppm, PH 8.35, mv 49, still partly frozen but Spring is on its way!! 1st Tommy Marshall 19lb 2oz peg 27 pole 11 mtres, maggot on hook & fed angel micros and maggot. 2nd Dave Jackson 12lb 10oz peg 31 3rd Ray Wallace 12lb 4oz peg 29 4th Alan Mc Guire 9lb 7oz peg 25 DNW Most fish caught were good skimmers Spring summer League starts 28th March £20.00 down and 12 matches drop 3 worst scores.

Weekly report for 21 February 2010

A week of exceptional changes in weather again, producing water temperature changes from highs of 2.9 down to lows of 1.1 deg, and ambient temperatures from 6 deg down to –9 deg. This has produced mixed results for anglers with Neil Brown on Wednesdays match catching 32lb 8oz of silvers on peg 15 Lookout, on a frozen lake, with individual pleasure anglers trying out different methods to catch and pole at 11 meters being the most successful this week with pellet, maggot and corn, when free water allows tip worked well with pellet tight to far bank about 1 foot down the bank.

Bowes Lake
Bowes pegs 19 and 20 produced carp well whilst some silvers were caught however frozen most of the week.

Lookout Lake
Lookout has seen some good silver bags and carp starting to be caught, though frozen lake most of week

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts is on rest till March after the new stocking.

Match News
Sunday 21st Feb open Lookout Saturday ambient temp reached 6 deg and water temp went to 2.9 then overnight a –9 severe frost and clear skys produced a very chilly start to the match today it also was snowing at times through it!, and at the start of the match there was an ambient temp of –5. Partly cloudy, wind calm, barometer 991.9 mb (low), moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 1.4 deg (dropped overnight by 1.5deg), DO 7.85, Ph 8.50, mv 75 Anglers had max 11 metres out by 1 to 2 meters wide all rest was Ice, so float was order of the day, anglers had to contend with water surface trying to freeze over again whilst fishing! This has been a long winter! 1st John Foster 9lb peg 22 2nd M Sykes 8lb 7oz peg 6 3rd Tommy Marshall 8lb 1oz peg 21 Section 1 Steve Hodgson 6lb 11oz peg 11 Section 2 T Walker 7lb 15 oz peg 16aa Section 3 P Cowan 7lb 8oz peg 29 John fished pole 11 meters size 18 hook small balls groundbait and maggot on hook. Wednesdayb 2010 open Severe frost of –4.5 deg overnight and Icy Fog at the beginning of the day, produced frozen lakes yet again, we managed to get some free pegs for the match which tried to freeze back over whilst anglers were fishing! The sun broke through the fog at 2pm, ambient temp –1 at start till 2 pm when it changed to 2 deg (warmth eh!), wind calm, barometer 995.1 mb (low), moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 1.1, PH 8.75, DO9.55, mv 51 Anglers had max 11 metres out by 1 to 2 meters wide all rest was Ice, so pole was the order of the day. 1st Neil Brown 32lb 8oz peg 15 all silvers 2nd John Foster 14lb 12oz peg 1 3rd Ted Hudson 12lb 7oz peg 29 4th Ricky Bennett 12lb peg 22 5th Alan Mc Guire 10lb 4oz peg 11 6th Ray Wallace 8lb 4oz peg 25 Neil used small angel pellets and 4mm hook pellet on a 18 hook, great weight for very poor conditions.

Weekly report for 14 February 2010

A week where weather conditions played a big part in shoaling up fish, with ENE winds, overnight frosts, sleet, snow, and some partial ice on the lakes. Fish caught were mostly up of the bottom by 9 inches to avoid colder base level, and they are looking to find any thermals even fractions of degree difference in water temperatures got the fish feeding with longer daylight hours. Water temperature has been up to 1.9 and down to 1.2 deg making fishing very tough, at least the spring is on its way thank goodness, as all the water birdlife are now pairing up. Bassetts got Netted on Monday with all the fish being transferred to the Bowes Lake, these included Ide, Orfe, Skimmers, Golden Tench, Tench, Rudd, Golden Rudd, Roach, Crucians, & Carp, approximately 1200 to 1600 lb of fish being transferred, added to silvers already in this makes the Bowes lake a good mixed course lake added to Lookout and Bassetts. New fish going into bassetts are some stunning Orfe golden, orange and blue and Ide to 3lb plus, we also stocked skimmers, excellent bream rudd, roach, crucians, and 500 carp. We will have a high biomass in Bassetts and need to carefully manage it over the year and feed it as well as aerate it. This should be a fabulous pond to fish in with excellent choice of good sized quality fish which has been stocked.

Bowes Lake
Bowes has fished tough with the weather conditions and low water temperatures however some hardy anglers catching some good carp as well as the odd silver and tench.

Lookout Lake
Lookout has had a strange week with Sunday mainly silvers being caught whilst Wednesday it was mainly carp, and no one caught on the pole on Wednesday all fish caught were on the tip, maggot still working best

Bassetts Pond
is on rest period with just being stocked for a couple of weeks. with new good sized and quality fish being stocked into it.

Match News
Sunday 14th Feb 2010 open Lookout (Happy Valentines Day) Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 2 deg, humidity 81%, wind WNW 5 mph, barometer 1016.9 mb, moon phase New, water temp 1.4 deg, PH 8.25, DO 9.36, mv 65. 1st Gary Pawlet 18lb 3oz peg 23 pole 14 mtres maggot for silvers, bomb tight far side corn for carp 2nd John Foster 17lb 7oz peg 1 3rd Alan Mc Guire 16lb 1oz peg 30 4th Peter Cairns 15lb 12lb peg 31 5th Jeff Lincoln 14lb peg 15 6th T Walker 11lb 15oz peg 28 We had a severe frost overnight Wed 10th Feb 2010 open lookout Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 2 deg (feels like –3) humidity 65% some sleet and snow flurry’s, wind a chilling ENE 15mph (straight into your face), barometer 1022 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 1.3 (dropped with overnight temp and snow and sleet), PH 8 .25, DO 8.98, mv 49 1st Alan Mc Guire 14lb 8 peg 23 (all carp) 2nd Ricky Bennettt 6lb 9oz peg 22 (carp) 3rd Steve Hodson 4lb 7oz peg 28 4th Mel Sykes 2lb 7oz peg 25 5th Tom Hodson 1lb 13oz peg 31 6th Ray Wallace 1lb 5oz peg 21 Tough cold day with only 3 silvers being caught the rest were carp and no one caught on pole.

Weekly report for 24 January 2010

Happy New Year to everyone. From Dec 18th 09 we have had all the lakes frozen over till the first fishing peg to de-frost on Friday 22nd Jan 2010, Wow was this a long spell for the lakes to be frozen and zero income! We have had no opens in this time and the first will be Wednesday 27th Jan then next Sunday 31st Jan. With the partial de frost we are pleased that all fish caught are in excellent condition, this is with the benefit of 6 ft deep lakes, biomass being under risk levels, and controls over which baits are allowed to be fed (only Angels feed pellets, maggot, caster and worm). All these measures have meant no build up of gasses on the bottom of the lakes and allowed oxygen levels to remain high enough during the 6 weeks of being frozen and low water temperatures of .7 whilst frozen have ensured our fish are still healthy. The ice was measured at its thickest at 12 inches thick, however nature is a magical thing and the ducks, moorhens, coots, etc all keep a patch of water ice free to ensure they have drinking and swimming patches of water, which also helped all the other birds to have drinking water available, as well as lots of other animals used the thickness of ice to walk across and drink from the holes. When walking around the lakes in snow one can find great tracks from a huge range of wildlife, and it is amazing what wildlife is in abundance around the lakes. We still have more than half of each lake frozen however at least some fishing can proceed, with silvers –Rudd, Roach, Bream, Skimmers, Ide, orfe and carp all being caught on maggot, with lighter tackle being the order of the day and smaller hooks, fishing dead depth and over depth working best, or up in the water on pole at about 11 metres out. Not a lot of fish being caught in these water temperatures, dusk being the best time for catches. Water temperatures are 1 deg to 1.4 deg through the thermals at present. Although it is now de-frosting well and we anticipate ice-free lakes by mid-week and water temperature to rise a bit this week..

Match News
Sunday 24th Jan Big Waters match Lookout Ambient temperature 2 deg, Mostly cloudy, humidity 93%, wind Calm, barometer 1021mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temperature 1 deg through to 1.4 deg, (with half lake still full of ice), ph 7.65, DO 5.65 ppm, mv 9. Only had 18 pegs free out of 44 more than half of the lake was still frozen so anglers had to go on pegs next to each. 1st Steve Knowles 3lb 3oz peg 26 2nd peg 22 2lb 7oz 3rd peg 21 2lb 4oz 4th John Mitchell 9oz peg 8 5th peg 27 1oz Only fish caught were on white maggot.

Weekly report for 29 November 2009

Weather has been extreame this week with torrential rain, gale force winds, sleet, to calm and sunny spells, dropping water temperature however the lakes have still fished and fish still feeding up. Therefore you need to really take your time when choosing a peg and use watercraft to work out where the fish shoals are. As water temperature drops think about using smaller hooks start at size 16 at this temperature and as winter progresses drop down again and go down on line thickness remembering the fish still fight hard when caught. Also think about bait choosing smaller pellets on the hook or maggot or worm, sweetcorn for back up. Increadibly conker still working which is pellet with paste covering it, and even a few fish have been caught on 10mm pellet and 10mm conker, but that wont be lasting very long. Lee Mitchingson again has had some terriffic days using pellet waggler up in the water with some cracking carp in great numbers. At 4 deg water temperature it is strange but the odd carp are still being caught on 10mm angel pellet banded, some good catches on maggot, and pellet, also shopped worm, sweetcorn is still not doing much yet.

Bowes Lake
Some good catches if you choose the pegs correctly and gauge where the shoals are, tip with bomb and feeder outstripping the pole on this lake. Pellet, maggot, chopped worm and caster doing well. Even 10mm banded pellet still catching some good double figured carp as well as smaller carp, which is strange considering its 4 deg water temperature.

Lookout Lake
Depending on the weather and choice of fishing peg some good catches have been caught including tench still, also carp and silvers with Ide and rudd, Roach, Bream and skimmers also perch catching. Do not over feed very small amounts of maggot about 5 or about 5 x 3mm pellets is all the feed required in 4 deg water temperature and start on the bottom and slowly work work up till you figure what level the fish are in.

Bassetts Pond
Very sheltered in windy weather and some good carp to double figures have been caught, as well as some good rudd, ide, roach and both Golden Tench and Tench.

Club News
Coaching Is one to one during winter months and you need to phone to book. Matches Are Sunday and Wednesday Opens with draw at 9am now the days are getting dark so quick.

Other News
Coaching Is one to one during winter months and you need to phone to book. Matches Are Sunday and Wednesday Opens with draw at 9am now the days are getting dark so quick.

Weekly report for 22 November 2009

Tuesday Lee Mitchinson from Chester le Street fishing 4.5 hours on Lookout had an amazing session on Pellet waggler using 8 mm pellets up in the water caught 50 carp to 6lb, his quote on a text is’ Ann the Angel never fails to amaze me, 4.5 hours of awesome fishing in mid Nov, fished pellet waggler to island, peg 24 Lookout, 50 carp to 6lb many thanks Lee’ Ricky went and sat with him and observed as his catch rate really was awesome and in 2 ft of water, all told he had to have had over 200lb in November! The match weight record on Lookout also got beaten this week well done to Derick Fox on this achievement with 112lb 1oz in five hours. Some torrential rain and some high winds this week making has made anglers really have to use watercraft to work out where the shoals of fish are,. Though from catch rates and observations they still appear quiet tight into margins.

Bowes Lake
Some excellent numbers of fish out with Alan Trent from Newcastle fishing banded 6mm angel red pellets took 56 carp on peg 23 fishing between islands on bomb with a pva bag full of 3mm angel pellets. Depending on conditions and wind direction the carp are following the S and W winds and silvers also. Carp are still feeding well however don’t overfeed but in 7.2 deg water temp they are still feeing up for winter as Brian Hall found out, when he had to keep feed going in to continue to get catches and keep shoals in front of him. Pellet waggler still working and bomb to islands with soft hookers and even conker has worked. Maggot feeder and multiple maggots on hook now also working well. Best carp out was a 25lb 2oz common on conker using a power waggler on peg 1 to the right.

Lookout Lake
Lake records of weight of fish caught has been broken this week which is excellent considering its late Nov, pleasure anglers also getting some high catch rates also.Fish are shoaling and still moving around, so you can get them to move into your fishing peg if you are patient and work at getting them to move and stay in your swim. Fish are feeding well knowing the harsh winter conditions are around the corner, get feed patterns correct and you will be well rewarded, All species including Great carp (avarage 5lb), tench (to 7lb 4oz), crucians and silvers inc big bream still being caught. Best baits on the hook have been soft hooker pellet, maggot, conker still working (pellet covered in paste, normally made from angels pellets), worm, worm cocktail, feed small amounts of angel pellets, mix with boiled hemp and crushed casters to get great catches. Best methods have been pole, bomb, feeder, and waggler even pellet waggler is still working.

Bassetts Pond
Even in high winds this pond has kept very sheltered allowing pleasure anglers some good sport as all species are still feeding and some good cath rates have been obtained on pole and waggler. Good pellet and maggot pond, but don’t over feed, patience is the order of the day to get fish to your swim in November, feed very little and you will be rewarded especially as the day goes into late afternoon when the fish switch on to feed.

Match News
Wed 18th Nov 09 Open Lookout Conditions: - Torrential rain overnight (about 3 inches came down), partly cloudy, ambient temp 5 deg (feels like 1 deg), humidity 93%, wind Calm , barometer 995.1mb (low), moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 6.1 deg, PH 7.15, DO 7.3 ppm, MV17 1st Derick Fox 112lb .1oz In Nov! new Lake Record peg 15 all on pellet 2nd Anth Richardson 48lb 5oz peg 11 3rd Rob Emmery 43lb 4oz peg 2 4th Neil Brown 33lb 10oz peg 29 5th Ricky Bennett 23lb 2oz peg 31 6th Kim Christie 21lb 1oz peg 1 New Lake record and its mid Nov ? and 6 deg water temperature Very well done to Derick Derick fished pole 11 meters out in front, and to his right by white marker tight in. All on soft hooker pellet and cupped in 3mm angel feed pellets. Sunday 22nd Nov 09 open Lookout Conditions, partly cloudy, ambient temp 6 deg (feels like 4 deg), humidity 74%, wind SSW 14 with higher gusts, barometer 984.1 mb (low), moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 7.2 deg, PH 7.34, DO 8.95 ppm, conductivity –35. 1st Alan Mc Guire 48lb 14oz peg 25 2nd Brian Hall 40lb ( was 44lb 14oz all silvers but went over net weight of 40lb) peg 21 3rd Tony Watson 36lb 1oz peg 2 4th Chris Owers 26lb peg 16aa 5th Anth Richardson 21lb 6oz peg 1 6th Jeff Lincoln 20lb 8oz peg peg 4 Alan fished 6mm conker (6mm pellet banded with paste over), wind was so strong he caught the bridge on numerous occassions but that didn’t get weighed in!

Club News
Coaching is one to one through winter please phone to book. Matches are only Sunday and Wed now as the draw needs to be pulled to 9am to ensure fishing is from 10 to 3pm to enable weigh in to be done with some light, as its dark at 4pm.

Other News
Coaching is one to one through winter please phone to book. Matches are only Sunday and Wed now as the draw needs to be pulled to 9am to ensure fishing is from 10 to 3pm to enable weigh in to be done with some light, as its dark at 4pm.

Weekly report for 15 November 2009

Strange weather week with frosts, torrential rains, strong winds and calm spells, overcast and bright sunshine, barometer swinging from highs to very lows, and water temperature dropping to 5 deg then rising up to 6 deg. This all has had effects on the choices of fishing which lake, fishing pegs choice and where in the water to fish. Anglers need to be thinking anglers at this time of year, and have various methods to choose from as the pellet waggler has worked well on some days getting fish up in the water, other times maggot feeder has done well, and even 10mm pellets covered in paste has worked well on some pegs some days, worm and caster doing well, and pellet banded on the bomb also doing well. Sweetcorn has not yet started making any impact as yet but is handy as a back up bait. Vary your feed by the choice of methods used but do not overfeed.

Bowes Lake
The carp are taking their time to come up in the water on most days but if you persevere and have patience it is acheivable and some good catches are being taken. Or decide to go for fishing of the island on the bomb and start at the top and work down to the bottom shelf you will be rewarded once you have worked out which depth the carp are feeding at. Soon carp will be mid water and on the bottom but at the moment they are still quiet tight to margins. Wes Fawcett from Carlisle enjoyed a day out on pole and bomb taking 22 carp with 4 to double figures, he also changed to waggler for silvers and caught ide, skimmers and roach.

Lookout Lake
Lots of species still feeding but shoaled in groups and not moving very far on frosty mornings, when warmer and favourable winds then movement is increased to capture food. Catches have varied from up in the water to dead bottom, from tight to bank to middle water so it is important to use watercraft to study conditions and select your method of fishing to conditions for best chatches. Patience is the winter requiement and getting feed pattern correct for silvers up in water, or to get carp up in water, some great schoals of skimmers and good numbers being caught with Alec Witherspoon taking 34 with an average weight of 1lb 12oz each, plus some excellent rudd, golden rudd and ide plus 2 golden orfe, Alec targeted silvers and had a forchunate carp haul up in the water of 4 carp to 5lb, so ended his day very pleased.

Bassetts Pond
Has been very sheltered this week and fish have been topping all over, Emma and her dad Brian Moore tried this pond for the first time this week and caught uo in the water with ide, rudd, and golden rudd as well as changing to over depth to get some golden tench and roach. Emma changed to margins and caught 4 carp loosing a good sized double in the reeds.

Match News
Sunday 15th Nov 09 open Lookout Conditions: - Partly cloudy and bright sunny spells, ambient temp 7 deg, (feels like 5) humidity 93%, wind S 7 mph, barometer 999 mb (low), moon phase waning crescent, water temp 6 deg, DO 6.8 ppm, PH 7.10, mv 16 1st Chris Owers 28lb 8oz peg 1 2nd Neil Brown 28lb 6oz peg 11 3rd Tony Watson 27lb peg 16aa 4th Paul O Donnel 26lb 10oz peg 5 Section Anth Richardson 19lb 7oz pe 9 Section Jeff Webster 13lb 2oz peg 21 Section Alan Mc Guire 22lb 4oz peg 37 Tough day Chris fished maggot on pole side margin and out 7 metres and tip to back bank Wed 11th Nov 09 open Lookout Conditions: - rain overnight then partly cloudy, ambient temp 8 deg, wind calm, barometer 1006.1 mb, Moon phase waning crescent, water temp 5.5 deg, PH 7.18, DO 6.4, MV 16 1st Ricky Bennett 43lb 8oz peg 1 all carp 2nd Kim Christie 37lb 11 peg 25 3rd Johnathan Broadbent 33lb 10oz peg 15 all silvers 4th John Foster 28lb peg 24 5th Neil Brown 27lb 14oz peg 31 6th Alan Mc Guire 22lb 1oz peg 5 Tip with 10mm pellet covered in paste (conker) across to tight on back bank.

Club News
Coaching is now one to one with groups needing to be pre booked to arrange enough coaches. Matches are Sunday 9am draw on Lookout Wed 10am draw on lookout And Friday 11am draw on lookout ( getting dark sooner) If anyone would like to be videoed fishing to go on our new web site phone up and talk to Ann 0191 4100449

Other News
Coaching is now one to one with groups needing to be pre booked to arrange enough coaches. Matches are Sunday 9am draw on Lookout Wed 10am draw on lookout And Friday 11am draw on lookout ( getting dark sooner) A new blog/newspaper on line web site is being made for us, we are hoping to do lots of video footage please let Ann know if you would like to be videoed fishing

Weekly report for 08 November 2009

General Good weights coming out as fish are still feeding well even though water temperature has dropped considerably this week to 6 deg,. Be carefull choosing your pegs as winds have been unfavourable to fishing with North and East being predominate as well as very heavy rains which the easterly brought pollutants again, choose in N or E winds areas where pockets of calm water are the best fishing to allow fish shelter out of wind and cold thermals. If W or S fish are following the wind, but are shoaling up now and its important to use your watercraft to choose the best spots. Fishing is great at dusk and dawn and its good to watch skimmers oll on the surface in some early mornings. Start being very carefull with feed and hook baits as you can overfeed

Bowes Lake
Some great numbers of fish taken have been caught by anglers being very selected of their choice of pegs to conditions of the day. Fish shoaling and still feeding well but restricting movement around wind conditions.

Lookout Lake
Some cracking weights still coming out with 79lb 6oz in 4 hours on Fridays match by John Foster on peg 25 using pellet banded. Perch of 3lb 2oz and 2lb plus have been caught this week as well as good rudd, roach and 3lb 5oz ide, carp to double figures also caught.

Bassetts Pond
Some good fish caught in the 2lb mark of rudd, roach, ide and carp, as well as smaller tench this has been well used in the bad weather

Match News
Sunday Nov 8th 09 open Lookout Conditions:- Heavy Rain to begin with, ambient temp 7 deg, wind ENE 5mph (poor fishing wind) barometer 1004.1 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp dropped 6 deg, DO 6.98, PH 7.22, MV 14 1st Alan Mc Guire 55lb peg 31 2nd Anth Longstaff 49lb 11oz peg 15 3rd Chris Owers 45lb 13oz peg 33 4th Tony Watson 40lb 13oz peg 2 5th Ricky Bennett 35lb 11oz peg 25 6th Peter Cairns 33lb 6oz peg 6 Alan used bomb with conker on 6mm pellet covered in paste Friday 6th Nov 09, 4 hour afternoon open match Lookout Temperatures dropped after heavy frost, wet and breezy, water temp dropped 3 deg yet some excellent weights coming out 1st John Foster 79lb 6oz peg 25 2nd Alan Mc Guire 54lb 2oz peg 15 3rd Ray Wallace 47lb 2oz peg 1 Wed 4th Nov 09 open Lookout 1st Alan Mc guire 65lb 6oz peg 15 2nd John Foster 41lb peg 1 3rd Ray Wallace 16lb 6oz peg 24 Sunday 1st Nov 09 open Lookout Extreme winds which turned direction and heavy rain 1st Alan Mc Guire 48lb 13oz peg 3 2nd Peter Cairns 39lb 1oz peg 7 3rd Tony Watson 31lb 3oz peg 27 4th Terry Guthrie 21lb 14oz peg 31 5th Johnathan Broadbent 21lb 10oz peg 25 6th Neil Brown 17lb 13oz peg 33 Winter League is best 9 of 12 matches names and deposits being taken now Autumn League winners 1st Tony Watson 2nd Chris Owers 3rd Ricky Bennett

Club News
Coaching is one to one over winter months and does need to be pre booked Matches Sunday opens now on Lookout through winter draw at 9am Wed is draw at 10 am on Lookout Friday is 12 draw and on Bowes Winter League is best 9 of 12 matches names and deposits being taken now

Other News
Coaching is one to one over winter months and does need to be pre booked Matches Sunday opens now on Lookout through winter draw at 9am Wed is draw at 10 am on Lookout Friday is 12 draw and on Bowes Winter League is best 9 of 12 matches names and deposits being taken now

Weekly report for 25 October 2009

General With water temperatures this week holding in the 9 deg bracket it really is between seasons and therefore baits. Paste has worked some, pellet doing very well incredibly even the 10mm banded, maggot doing very well and worm, sweet corn also meat still catching reasonably well, chopped worm mixed with crushed casters and some hemp works well as a feed in very cold months.. Some good success has resulted in using seasonal berries with Carp as well as silvers taking them very well on the hook as long as some of the juices are escaping. Although you should not be overfeeding just small amounts little and often this changes if you are on the shoals when the water is black in front of you with fish, then extra feed is required to keep them in your swim. This is because the fish are still at times during the day switched on to feed up for the winter and cold weather coming up, but also have a switch off time as well. If using flavourings be careful as sometimes winter baits can be so over-flavoured that they turn fish off. Flavouring of baits works but can be a disadvantage where the same bait and flavours have been used too much to keep a real edge then use the flavourings sparingly. Bait which offers a complete balanced diet including amino acids and attractant taste for example angel feed pellets (fish meal based) and break down easily, have an edge to attracting the fish and is easily digestible even in cold water temperatures. This adds a psychological effect and stimuli to the fish especially as they feed up for winter months ahead.

Bowes Lake
Malcolm Rutter on peg 19 took 18 carp to double figures using sweet corn as hook bait on Friday. Keith Brown fishing Q Tip with pellet had a great Saturday with 40 carp on peg 24 although it was windy and rainy. Some good success has resulted in using seasonal berries with Carp as well as silvers taking them very well on the hook as long as some of the juices are escaping. Fish moving still around lake and definitely following warm South winds, as the thermals in the lake are very defined now at this water temperature with the top and bottom layers being the coldest, and margins and middle layers the warmest, this does change dramatically after a frost or prolonged cold spells when the margins become cooler first.

Lookout Lake
Chris Abbott fishing Thursday on 16aaa took carp, good Bream and skimmers on pellet with fish switching of feeding around 12 till 2 and then coming back on to feed again. Fishing very well especially if you get shoals in front of you, as the fish are going into their winter shoals, not tight groups yet but small collective groups. Walk around the lake and watch for the fish movements and feed bubbles, as well as the wind direction and ambient temperatures as this will effect where the fish are, it is critical in winter to choose pegs carefully to ensure good catches.. Some good success has resulted in using seasonal berries with Carp as well as silvers taking them very well on the hook as long as some of the juices are escaping.

Bassetts Pond
Try soaking 3mm pellets for 5 mins drain of excess water and mix in some boiled hemp great for balling in very small balls. On the hook use pellet, maggot or if not going well sweet corn. Some good success has resulted in using seasonal berries with Carp as well as silvers taking them very well on the hook as long as some of the juices are escaping. A trial match for the first time on Friday produced 22lb 10oz with a net of very good 2lb ish Ide and Rudd by Ray Wallace. We thought to try this, as it is so sheltered so if we have any very high winds this pond could be a fall back to match fishing in a smaller number.

Match News
Sunday 25th Oct 09 open Conditions: - Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 82%, wind WSW 17 mph gusting to 30 mph, barometer 997 mb dropped, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 9.8 deg, Ph 7.35, DO 8.95, conductivity 1. 1st Chris Owers 81.00 lb peg 40 up in water pole on pellett caught most in last hour 2nd Tony Watson 48lb 6oz peg 24 3rd Barry Lockey 38lb 2oz peg 25 4th Ricky Bennett 17lb peg 35 5th Nev Langley 14lb 6oz peg 4 6th John Nelson & Terry Guthrie 10lb 14oz pegs 1 and 22 High winds causing presentation problems and hard to fish pole, most fish caught in last hour. . Sunday winter League starts 8th Nov 09 names and deposits taken now fishing 12 matches best 9 out of 12. Friday Afternoon 23rd Oct open Experiment and Trial run of Bassetts pond for a match (first time a match has been on here) Conditions: - Partly cloudy, ambient temp 13 deg, humidity 82%, wind S6 mph, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 9.6 deg, ph 7.30, DO 7.1 ppm, conductivity 8. !st Ray Wallace 22lb 10oz peg 7 2nd John Foster 13lb 5oz peg 4 Wed 21st Oct 09 Open Lookout Conditions: - Overcast and drizzle or heavy rain, ambient temp 10 deg, wind calm the E 5mph, barometer dropped to 994mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 9.4 deg, DO 8.5, PH 7.15 (east rain bring pollutants), conductivity –45. 1st John foster 39lb 3oz peg 25 and golden peg fishing pellet and corn on tip and pole. 2nd Ricky Bennett 38lb 9oz peg 27 . Sunday winter League starts 8th Nov 09 names and deposits taken now fishing 12 matches best 9 out of 12.

Club News
Coaching Coaching is one to one during winter months or groups to be pre arranged so enough angling coaches can be provided. Matches Wednesday open on Lookout island draw at 10am (get the kids to school first) Friday Afternoon Bowes draw at 12 Sunday open draw at 9am all during winter will be on Lookout . Sunday winter League starts 8th Nov 09 names and deposits taken now fishing 12 matches best 9 out of 12.

Other News
Coaching Coaching is one to one during winter months or groups to be pre arranged so enough angling coaches can be provided. Matches Wednesday open on Lookout island draw at 10am (get the kids to school first) Friday Afternoon Bowes draw at 12 Sunday open draw at 9am all during winter will be on Lookout . Sunday winter League starts 8th Nov 09 names and deposits taken now fishing 12 matches best 9 out of 12.

Weekly report for 18 October 2009

General Its change of seasons with bait just at the moment with hook baits, paste is just starting to take now and then, and pellet, maggot, worm, caster, sweetcorn now the best baits for cold water temperature catches although you can still catch on mussel, luncheon meat and prawns. If using flavouring start changing from sweet flavours to winter savoury one’s i.e. Mussel, liquid worm, predator plus etc. Fish are now shoaling tightly and still moving but not as fast as warmer water temperatures, it’s feed lightly and attracts the fish into your swim then feed lightly again to attract more fish. Having had 111lb 1oz out on Wed in the match on peg 15, it proves the fish are still feeding up well for even colder weather to come, and after another frost on Saturday –Sunday morning the water temperature has held well considering that’s our 4 th frost this last week. Getting the feed patterns correct and not overfeeding is the best way to get good catch rates, regardless of the anglers skills, though it does help to have good angling skills and angling knowledge. A lot of skill is developed when fishing through the winter months, which will put you in good stead for the warmer months and enable you to do really well when warm water temperatures are once again with us. Best tips lots of warm layers of clothes, and multiple socks, also start to lighten your end tackle but not to light! Carp are still full of good fighting spirit and you don’t want to snap of.

Bowes Lake
Fridays Match produced 65lb 9oz in 4 hours whilst last Sundays produced 70lb; during the week fishing has been steady if you target the small shoals the carp have started into as colder weather approaches. Make sure you check before choosing a peg to watch the water surface closely for the shoals feeding (bubbles and water swirls), and for the wind (if any) direction as this significantly now affects the areas where fish will patrol to feed as thermal layers of water now are several degrees different from surface to bottom. Before the frosts the margins were the warmest but now we are getting cold nights and frosts we get varying thermal layers of water, and this varies according to wind, night temperatures etc. The weather can actually alter one side or another of the lake by 2 degrees, and cause the fish to move to the warmer pegs to feed. Alan Thompson took a cracking mirror at 27lb 2oz at 6pm his last cast of the day on worm over chopped worm mixed with caster and maggots and soaked angel micro pellets (in a pva bag).

Lookout Lake
Great weight on Wednesdays match by Tony Watson of 111lb 1oz on peg 15, which consisted of 100 lb carp and the 11lb 1oz silvers. Carp caught averaged 4lb 12oz for our original stock carp, and then you have 4 years of home bred carp, so some good variations of carp sizes. The biggest carp taken this year on this lake was 17lb 10oz a common, with others in double figures also being caught, this makes balancing your tackle slightly difficult in colder water temperatures especially if you decide to target silvers and get into a good carp. Some excellent catches of skimmers and bream coming out on red maggot, with stock skimmers averaging 1lb 7ozs, and then you have home bred ones as well. Also some large numbers of rudd and golden rudd which stock originals are now well over 1lb, and then there is the home bred as well. Tench still being caught and the larger tench feeding up well as being caught in good numbers especially on red maggot this week. Roach, Ide, and Orfe are being caught in some good numbers and feeding very well. Some cracking Perch have been caught on worm, and carp including crucians, koi and ghosties are feeding exceptionally well especially from dusk and from dawn. Young 15 yr old Edward Burns from Gateshead had a cracking day on the Island with over 40 1lb + skimmers, 8 carp to 5lb and 4 tench best over 6lb plus some silvers all on pole with maggot, and pellet 6mm and covered in paste.

Bassetts Pond
The Rudd, Roach, Ide and Orfe in this pond have piled weight on with Ide to 3lb plus now, carp also to 10lb plus coming out and it was a great pond and fished very well last Saturday when the high winds were up to 65 mph (calm on this sheltered pon), Fishh are topping very early and very late in the day and best catch rates are at dawn and dusk.

Match News
Sunday 18th Oct 09 open Lookout Conditions: - Frost overnight and temp drop to 2 deg, partly cloudy with bright sunny spells, ambient temp 6 deg (cold), humidity 85%, wind calm to S 3mph, barometer 1021 mb, moon phase New, water temp 9.1 deg, Ph 7.35, DO 10.2 ppm, conductivity –35. 1st Ricky Bennett 57lb 1oz peg 27 fished 10mm pellet on bomb not feeding, and 2 on corn 2nd Neil Brown 44lb 6oz peg 25 3rd Anth Richardson 42lb 11oz peg 38 4th Neville Langley 41lb 6oz peg 1 5th Tony Watson 34lb 11oz peg 15 6th Jeff Lincoln 32lb 13oz peg 29 . Sunday winter League starts 8th Nov 09 names and deposits taken now fishing 12 matches best 9 out of 12. Friday 16th Oct 09 open Bowes 4 hours Conditions: - Partly cloudy, ambient temperature 9 deg (feels like 6 deg), humidity 82%, wind cold N 9mph, barometer 1034.9 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 9.6 deg, PH 7.21, DO 9.6, conductivity –45. 1st Ray Wallace 65lb 9oz peg 1 tight to margins on pole and corn on hook. 2nd Nev Langley 39lb 9oz peg 16 3rd Stan Jones 24lb 7oz peg 34 4th John Foster 23lb 8oz peg 40 Rest DNW Cold tough day with North wind and wind chill! Fish starting to turn to winter-feeding. Wednesday 14th Oct 09 open Lookout Conditions: - Light rain/drizzle, ambient temp14 deg, wind calm, barometer 1030.1 mb (high), moon phase waning crescent, water temp 9.2 deg, DO 9.95, PH 7.45 conductivity –25. 1st Tony Watson 111lb 1oz peg 15 all on pole tight in margin on maggot 2nd Alan Mc Guire 79lb 13oz peg 1 3rd Neil Brown 65lb 2oz peg 24 4th Jonathan Broadbent 50lb 12oz peg 25 5th John Foster 40lb 10oz peg 2 6th Ricky Bennett 38lb 13oz peg 6 Well done Tony your 2nd ton up in 2 months! And in October! And lake record!!! Some excellent carp in size and quality coming out

Club News
Coaching Saturday is one of the last group sessions, which after this will be one to one only in the winter months for either beginners or to improve your skills. Matches Wednesday open on Lookout Island draw at 10am (get the kids to school first) Friday Afternoon Bowes draw at 1pm Sunday open draw at 9am alternating between Lookout one week and Bowes the next, this next Sundays match is on Lookout.

Other News
Coaching Saturday is one of the last group sessions, which after this will be one to one only in the winter months for either beginners or to improve your skills. Matches Wednesday open on Lookout Island draw at 10am (get the kids to school first) Friday Afternoon Bowes draw at 1pm Sunday open draw at 9am alternating between Lookout one week and Bowes the next, this next Sundays match is on Lookout.

Weekly report for 11 October 2009

General An interesting week with 3 frosts but still enough length of daylight to keep fish feeding well for the winter ahead with Wednesday match on the Island winning with 53lb 10oz, then 2nd and 3rd also in the 50lb bracket. Mixed baits working with 10mm pellets still catching also paste down to banded 6 mm pellets as well as worm, caster, maggots all catching on all lakes. The best answer is try larger baits and if no results, scale down to smaller and more winter sized baits, if using additives then start changing from the warmer water sweet additives to cooler temperature savoury additives. The same applies to tackle start scaling down however the carp still fighting very well and given excellent sport when caught so we are still in the transition stage. Water has a clarity of 13 inches so keep back of the pegs when fishing tight in margins or you will spook the fish.

Bowes Lake
Some excellent catch rates with Fridays match producing 84lb 1oz and 73lb 3oz second in 4 hours on paste and pellet, also some good catches on worm and worm cocktail has been produced. Carp are feeding up for winter and some known carp have gained some good weight, you can still get carp up in the water if you persevere, they are just starting to come together in small shoals and moving around searching for food so watch for the feeding bubbles to target the shoal. Large carp feeding very well with Ian Blenchinsope from Chester le Street catching a common of 22lb 8oz and a 20lb 10oz on worm cocktail over pellet.

Lookout Lake
Has kept fishing very well after 3 frosts this week, some excellent carp out avaraging 4 to 5lb, and lots of crucians now showing, some exceptional koi and ghosties have been caught but they are not crusing but tight in to reeds as water starts to clear. Skimmers and bream being caught on dead bottom, rudd caught on the drop with pellet or maggot sprayed over the hook, lots of ide, orfe and roach to good sizes being caught. Tench both green and golden feeding of the bottom and perch of all sizes even this years home bred are catching well. Fishing is at an in between stage of pellet and paste working with persistance and winter baits of maggot, worm and caster with water temperatures around the 8 deg mark. The fish are still feeding up well for winter as there is still enough daylight hours to accommodate the feeding, dusk and dawn giving some excellent catch rates.

Bassetts Pond
Some good carp caught this week over the 10lb mark, and 3lb ide, 11/2 lb orfe and skimmers coming on well. Crucians have shown very well this week as have the rudd and ide, not many tench caught however 3lb golden tench catching and some green tench. In the winds this pond has provided great sport when the other lakes where white water tops.

Match News
Sunday 11th October 09 open Bowes Conditions:- Partly cloudy with bright sunny spells, ambient temperature 12 deg, humidity 94%, wind calm then WNW 15mph, barometer 1009.1 mb, moon phase last quarter, water temp 8.2 deg, PH 7.35, DO 8.75, conductivity –20. 1st Alan Mc Guire 70lb 11oz peg 4 2nd Jeff Webster 60lb 15oz peg 21 3rd Johnathan Broadbent 50lb 4oz peg 40 4th Anth Longstaff 50lb 1oz peg 1 5th Ray Wallace 49lb 12oz peg 3 6th Tony Watson 33lb 15oz peg 25 Neil Brown had one net disqualified as he went over 60lb in one net his total weight was 79lb so Neil if he had spread the fish out in both nets he would have won on peg 23. Alan fished on tip with pellet 10mm covered in paste (conker) Friday afternoon 9th Oct 09 open Bowes Conditions:- stunning sunrise then overcast, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 77 deg, wind SE7 mph, Barometer 1014.9 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp dropped 8.1 deg, PH 7.35, DO 9.8 ppm, conductivity –27. 1st Alan Mc Guire 84lb 1oz peg 16 2nd Neville Langley 73lb 3oz peg 1 3rd Ray Wallace 30lb 7oz peg 3 4th John Patterson 23lb 5oz peg 40 5th John Foster 17lb 10oz peg 5 Pellet and paste tip to island and also tight in margins to right of reeds. Wednesday 7th Oct 09 open Lookout Conditions:- overnight frost, fair, ambient temp 7 deg, humidity 76%, wind W 7mph, barometer 1010.7 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp dropped 9.1 deg, PH 7.43, DO 10.1, conductivity –44. 1st John Foster 53lb 10oz peg 15 plus Golden peg 2nd Alan Mc Guire 53lb 4oz peg 13 3rd Neil Brown 51lb 6oz peg 1 4th Ray Wallace 22lb 4oz peg 11 5th Gavin Martin 19lb 6oz peg 6 6th Ricky Bennett 17lb 3oz peg 2 Pole 5 metres down side on paste and two carp on tip on 6 mm pellet, skimmers on maggot.

Club News
Coaching A group of 14 men from Holland on a 3 days holliday came to try out fishing as part of there holiday so we took them onto the Lookout island, and all caught with some great carp showing as well as skimmers, rudd, crucians, and ide, coaches, assistants and the ‘young ones’ as they call themselves all had a great time. Very soon coaching over the winter will just be for one to ones to top up fishing skills, or learn to fish as the winter cuts in as it is hard to get new anglers enthusiastic when ambient temperatures are very low. Matches Wednesday open on Lookout island draw at 10am (get the kids to school first) Friday Afternoon Bowes draw at 1pm Sunday open draw at 9am alternating between Lookout one week and Bowes the next, this next Sundays match is on Lookout.

Other News
Coaching A group of 14 men from Holland on a 3 days holliday came to try out fishing as part of there holiday so we took them onto the Lookout island, and all caught with some great carp showing as well as skimmers, rudd, crucians, and ide, coaches, assistants and the ‘young ones’ as they call themselves all had a great time. Very soon coaching over the winter will just be for one to ones to top up fishing skills, or learn to fish as the winter cuts in as it is hard to get new anglers enthusiastic when ambient temperatures are very low. Matches Wednesday open on Lookout island draw at 10am (get the kids to school first) Friday Afternoon Bowes draw at 1pm Sunday open draw at 9am alternating between Lookout one week and Bowes the next, this next Sundays match is on Lookout.

Weekly report for 04 October 2009

General Fishing is at it utmost best at dusk and dawn with great catch rates at these times, just watch the sunrise and sunset times as the day light is getting shorter! Cooler water temperatures also thermal levels are appearing with top foot and bottom foot of water the coldest. Water starting to clear at the top foot with algae dying back anglers need to be so careful with feed levels and cut back to a very very little feed and often if fish in swims, or to get them to the swim. Fishing is still in good form with Bowes Friday afternoon match of 4 hours producing great weights of 87lb ist and 86lb 4oz second the top five were good weights for the time of year. Lookout on Wednesdays match produced 53lb 6oz 1st and 46lb 4oz second. Some great rudd now shoaled tightly as water temperature drops and are being caught on the drop catching on maggot, caster also punched meat even pellet and feed only a few maggots, caster or Angel pellet micros only about 6 over the top to get some good numbers but try not to spook the shoal, Ide, orfe and roach can be caught in the same way and can be also tempted to feed with a sparing bit of groundbait or very sloppy angel pellets to cloud the water and add caster for great results. . Carp can still be got up in the water on the tip very close and high up the islands or back banks vey tight in, as well as dead bottom of the second shelf, take your time and feed 2 swims, starting to go into winter shoals so target the shoals and make sure you feed enough to get them into your swim but don’t overfeed. You can also still get them at your feet if you feed carefully Tench still in feeding mode with winter coming up, very close to reeds, try dead bottom and if not change to over depth on chopped worm, maggot, sweetcorn on the hook working as well as mussel, prawn, and pellet. Feed chopped worm or maggot. Perch are tight in reeds and as they tend to be solitary when mature or shoaled when young, you need to work for the mature perch, maggot, worm, mussel, prawn work well for the older perch, younger tend to take maggot, and anything they can feed on, Dusk and Dawn are the prime times for catching perch.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Friday afternoon match producing great weights of 87lb ist and 86lb 4oz second the top five were good weights for the time of year. Even on Saturday in the High winds some good catch rates as carp are feeding up for the cold weather ahead. It takes time but carp still can be caught up in the water if you work at it, or tight very tight to the islands in shallower water which retains the warmth. The top foot is becoming clear so sit back of your peg or you will be putting the fish of and spooking them. Alan wright from Whickham targeting carp only had three doubles also 9 carp about 8 to 9llb all on ledger with a bed of angel pellets in a pva bag and 10mm banded angel pellet on the hook.

Lookout Lake
some good results for the time of year lookout on Wednesdays match produced 53lb 6oz 1st and 46lb 4oz second. and as dusk approaches some stunning numbers of fish being caught. Careful with the quantity of feed little and often still is the order don’t overfeed, but feed enough to get shoals of fih into your swim at first. Be patient and don’t change methods to often, patience will come through at this water temperature but would advise feeding two swims. Even on a poor fishing day through winter if you lighten your terminal tackle

Bassetts Pond
This pond in all the winds on Saturday was mill pond calm, just a great pond for windy conditions, fish are still tight in margins but will be moving out to the feature in the centre soon as the water clears more. If all else fails you can go out for gudgeon who feed like made up in water with a preference for tiny pieces of worm. All species still feeding well and carp very hungry feeding up for winter.

Match News
Sunday 4th Oct 09 Open Lookout Conditions:- Fair mostly sunny, ambient temp 13 deg after a cold night temperature, humidity 76%, wind W 10 mph(cold edge to it), baromerter 1009.1 mb, moon phase Full, water temp 11 deg (dropped), DO 12.2 (after high winds yesterday) PH 7.35. conductivity –28. 1st Paul O Donell 56lb 10oz peg 31 (11lb 11oz carp & 44lb 15oz silvers) 2nd Ricky Bennett 41lb 8oz peg 15 (all carp) 3rd Tony Watson 35lb 14oz peg 25 4th Anth Richardson 24lb 15 oz peg 24 5th Johnathan Broadbent 23lb 6oz peg 14 ( 6th Jeff Lincoln 19lb 2oz peg 30 Paul caught on pole fished bottom of 2nd shelf on red maggots at about 4 metres out fish were bottom feeding. Friday 2nd Oct 09 Open Bowes Conditions:- Light drizzle and overcast, ambient temp 9 deg, wind calm then W 2mph, barometer 1014.9 mb, water temp 12.2 deg, DO 8.5, PH 7.45, conductivity –31. 1st Neville Langley 87lb, peg 40 & Golden Peg 2nd John Foster 86lb 4oz peg 1 3rd Alan Mc Guire 46lb 9oz peg 16 4th Ray Wallace 39lb peg 3 5th David Catchyside 35lb 10oz peg 37 Rest DNW Neville fished 9 mtres to left on pole on pellet covered in paste with angel feed pellets sprayed over. Wednesday 30th Sept 09 open Lookout Island Conditions:- Overcast, ambient temp 13 deg, humidity 90%, wind WNW 6 mph, barometer 1016.9 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temperature 12.5, DO 9.3 ppm, PH 7.40, conductivity -35. 1st Alan Mc Guire 53lb 6oz peg 7 2nd Ricky Bennett 46lb 4oz peg 15 3rd Tony Watson 37lb 10oz peg 11 4th Rob Emmery 18lb 3oz peg 1 5th Dave Foster 16lb 7oz peg 5 6th Alan Snailham 15lb 6oz peg 13

Club News
Angling Coaching is on Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till Noon in group sessions or one to one by appointment please phone to book. Open Matches are Sundays draw 9am Wed draw 10am Friday draw 1pm. 0191 4100449 annadlington@btinternet.com www.angelnorthlakes.com

Other News
Angling Coaching is on Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till Noon in group sessions or one to one by appointment please phone to book. Open Matches are Sundays draw 9am Wed draw 10am Friday draw 1pm. 0191 4100449 annadlington@btinternet.com www.angelnorthlakes.com

Weekly report for 27 September 2009

General Some excellent fishing this week as water temperatures stabalised. Bowes producing 76lb 4oz on peg 1 in 4 hours on Friday and peg 40 produced 81lb 11oz in 5 hours on Sunday, as well as John Foster in 4 hours pleasure fishing produced over 150lb of carp fishing shallow on paste. Lookout is fishing well with pegs 1 and 15 doing some excellent weights. Bassetts is fishing best early mornings and evenings, with Ian Webster catching 4 10lb plus carp as well as 18 tench, ide, rudd and roach and 8 skimmers also 2 crucians. Paste is still working on the hook all lakes as well as pellets, maggot, worm caster, and sweetcorn, feed angel pellets mixed with some hemp in a cage feeder and add some casters to the mix to make a great feed bait.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Excellent weights and numbers of fish coming out with 81lb 11oz on Sundays match and 76lb 4oz on a 4 hour match on Friday afternoon being the winning weight byJohn Foster most fish have been caught up in the water and have came out in pristine conditions with several anglers PB being broken. Some anglers have reported their best days fishing ever this week on this lake as fish have put good weights on over the years. Fishing is still at its prime at dusk and dawn with season ticket holders getting some stunning catches. On pole the number of 20s caught have been incredible and the quality of angler getting these doubles in has been exceptional, the quiver tip still reigns supreme for larger carp tight against the island, If Ledgering you need to use watercraft and walk around to choose the best pegs to fish from, pegs 19 and 17 have produced some excellent doubles tight to the island, as has pegs 37 and 1. 3,

Lookout Lake
Fishing very well with some excellent catch rates with 79lb 3oz on Sundays Stanley match, and 69lb 13oz coming out of the match on Wednesday with some good back up weights. Silvers coming out in good numbers and some good sizes in them, tench and carp still feed well preparing and building their body mass for the winter ahead. Use your watercraft to choose your pegs and make sure your method of fishing matches weather conditions to optimise catch rates. Dusk and dawn are still fantastic times for catch rates making season ticket holders crap in by 5 am and again at 5pm then fishing the golden hours.

Bassetts Pond
Great pond with fishing best in afternoons to dusk or very early at dawn. Some double figured carp have been caught as well as good tench and silvers. One angler targeted gudgeon and caught over 80 in a days session as well as silvers he was very happy to have caught the gudgeon as he said there are not many places with them in and they were his favourite fish!

Match News
Sunday 27 Sept 09 open Bowes Conditions:- stunning sunrise then cloudy, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 94%, wind calm then WSW 14 mph, barometer 1025.1 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp held 12.1 deg, PH 7.45, DO 8.95, conductivity –35. 1st Chris Owers 81lb 11oz peg 40 2nd Alan Mc Gurire 42lb 7oz peg 34 3rd Jackie Nelson 30lb 6oz peg 3 Section Tony Watson Section Ray Wallace Section Neville Langley Section Anth Longstaff Chris fished 11 metres out up in water on paste and 7 metres to left tight in Lookout Stanley Angling Club match was won by David Hodgson peg 15 with 79lb 3oz Friday Afternoon 09 open Bowes Conditions:- Partly cloudy with bright sunshine spells, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 88%, wind calm then 10mph, barometer 1022 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp holding at 12 deg, PH 7.45, DO 8.85, conductivity –35. 1st John Foster 76lb 4oz peg 1 2nd Neville Langley 57lb 13oz peg 3 3rd Dave Catcheyside 37lb 1oz peg 5 4th Rickie Bennett 27lb 14oz peg 40 Wed 23rd Sept 09 open Lookout Conditions:- Partly Cloudy and bright sunshine, ambient temperature 17 deg, humidity 52%, wind W 12 mph, barometer 1021 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 12 deg, PH 7.45, DO 9.85, conductivity –30. 1st Jonathan Broadbent 69lb 13oz peg 15 2nd Alan Mc Guire 59lb 4oz peg 13 3rd John Foster 48lb 11oz peg 1 4th Chris Owers 41lb 6oz all silvers peg 9 5th Rob Emmery 22lb 8oz peg 7 6th Alan Snailham 15lb 12oz peg 3 Johnathan used paste 10 metres to right good nets of carp

Weekly report for 20 September 2009

Fish are feeding up gaining body weight for the winter ahead, shorter daylight hours and also water temperatures cooling to 11 deg some mornings, makes the fishing changeable from warm days and favourable winds you can still fish as if Autumn or late summer with less feed but often. Cold days with North or East winds and convert to winter feeding very little and sparingly, also these cold days puts fish on the bottom and you need to work out your method of fishing and feed to bring them up in the water. Baits are in the change depending on weather conditions including overnight temperatures which are cooler. Feed needs to be sparing and very little and often to get the fish to move into your swim as the fish still are moving around the lakes.The shoals on cold days and unfavourable winds tend to get fish to look for warm thermals and sheltered warmer spots in the lakes this is the best pegs to target them. Cooler unfavourable days feed 3mm or micro Angel fishmeal pellets and target specimins with 6 mm Angel feed pellets or if you are after good sized specimins single 10mm banded or hair rigged on the hook, and only 3x 6mm or 1x 10mm to feed changing hook bait after 10 mins max.

Bowes Lake
Some good fishing this week with peg 16 producing 74lb in 4 hours on Friday by Chris Owers including a nice 14lb 9oz mirror carp, all taken on conker (10mm angel pellet covered in paste made from angels 3mm pellets) and catapulted 6mm angel pellets as feed over the hook, very tight to the island on a quiver tip rod the carp were feeding on the pellets and had tails out of the water as Chris had targeted a shallow area tight to the island.. Carp are still moving and looking for warm thermal areas of water so the wind direction and ambient temperatures are making a big difference to which pegs are catching. North and east winds carp shelter and W and South winds carp move well to find food tight in margins or work at getting fish out to 8 metres though at 4 meters of the second shelf carp and tench feed well of this ridge.

Lookout Lake
Has had some cracking fish out with carp, koi and crucians feeding up for cooler times to come, some good catch rates with 66lb winning Wednesdays match by Johnathan Broadbent on peg 1, the opposite end of the island peg 15 Anthony Longstaff caught 52lb. Ian McConville had a great afternoon session with lots of good 1.5lb skimmers, carp, rudd, ide, orfe and tench around 100 plus fish in all. Jonathan Maven 14yrs old fishing Saturday caught lots of carp to 5lb, 10 Roach, Skimmers to 2lb and Golden tench all on maggot and maggot feeder fishing the island peg 12.

Bassetts Pond
Has had the most extream water temperature changes this week, heating up to 13 deg and dropping tto 10.8 deg after the cold nights. This has made fishing much more favourable from mid day onwards and excellent from dusk. Lee Edwards caught over 45 fish including a 10lb 6oz carp from 3pm to 7pm and his return the next day also enabled him to catch well in the dusk.

Match News
Angel Lakes continues to produce! Week report to 20th Sept 09 Sunday 20th Sept 09 open Lookout Conditions:- Fair (stunning sunrise earlyer), ambient temp 12 deg (cold night 5 deg), humidity 87%, wind calm in front of some pegs, NW 9 mph, barometer 1022mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp dropped 11.2 deg, PH 7.45, DO 9.95 ppm, conductivity –35. 1st Chris Owers 48lb 3oz peg 42 2nd Tony Watson 47lb 11oz peg 15 3rd Johnathan Broadbent 43lb 5oz peg 9 4th Neil Brown 38lb 5oz peg 38 5th Jeff Lincoln 33lb 8oz peg 3 6th Ricky Bennett 29lb peg 28 Tough day with water temperature drop, Chris fished paste 4.5 metres, Friday afternoon 18th Sept 09 open Bowes 4 hours Conditions:- Rain overnight and cold day is Overcast, ambient temp 9 deg, humidity 100%, wind calm then S 2mph, moon phase new, water temp dropped 12.7 deg, DO 9.7, PH 7.42, conductivity –31 1st Chris Owers 74lb peg 16 2nd Johnathan Broadbent 39lb 3oz peg 1 3rd John Foster 28lb 9oz peg 3 4th Michael Pelk 17lb 6oz peg 40 5th Scott Howe 16lb 1oz peg 5 6th Jack Hard 4lb 6oz peg 2 Chris used Tip to far bank on conker and fired 10mm pellets over the top. Wednesday 16th Sept 09 open Lookout Island draw 10 am fishing 11am to 4pm. Conditions:- Wet start to day then overcast, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 77%, wind NNE 8 mph (bad fishing wind), barometer 1028.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temperature 13.6 , DO 9.5 , PH 7.41 , condictivity -30. 1st Johnathan Broadbent 66lb 15oz peg 1 2nd Anthony Longstaff 52lb 2oz peg 15 3rd Tony Watson 37lb 13oz peg 2 4th Rob Emmery 22lb 2oz peg 12 5th Kevin Richards 14lb 13oz peg 6 6th Alan Snaitham 9lb 11oz peg 4 Jonathan used tip to far banks, with conker, and tight in margins at 4 to 7 meters on paste

Club News
Angling Coaching is on Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till Noon please phone to book. Open Matches are Sundays draw 9am Wed draw 10am Friday draw 1pm.

Other News
Angling Coaching is on Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till Noon please phone to book. Open Matches are Sundays draw 9am Wed draw 10am Friday draw 1pm.

Weekly report for 30 August 2009

Some cracking catches even though water temperatures are cooling, with fish aware of the shorter daylight and winter approaching as the fish are feeding exceptionally well to get into good condition for winters lower temperatures, The water is still very cloudy from the high numbers bottom and side feeding on the clay and soil bottom, and in the margins, although algie is dying back now temperatures are dropping. High numbers of tench out this week the best reported to 8lb 7oz with golden tench to 3lb 4oz caught on mussel, worm and even caster. Fish tight to the margin of the first shelf as the tench are rooting in the reeds to feed. Rudd on the drop and even roach, orfe and ide are up in the water especially if you spray feed angel pellets over your hook length. Skimmers and bream are feeding dead bottom and of the first shelf or further out, and keep the pellets going in to keep the shoal in your swim best reported bream was 7lb 10oz. Perch are taking any bait but prefering worm, caster, mussel and prawns. Carp, cruciams, ghosies and koi are feeding well on pellet banded, hair rigged or soft hookers on the hook as well as paste and maggot but also worm and caster.

Bowes Lake
Some great carp out this week as they all are feeding well with winter aproaching, very close in and keep the feed of angel pellets going in to keep the carp attracted to your swim. Paste, pellet, mussel, prawn, worm, maggot and caster all have done well this week on the hook and feed angel pellets to keep your swim attracting the fish. Season ticket holders Paul Wood had some excellent days taking 20lb pluses on cubed meat, as well as Ian Dixon continues his excellent record of large doubles every time he fishes, Ian uses cubed meat over angel pellets. Feeding fish are swerling right in front of the anglers so no need to go out far unless on the tip.

Lookout Lake
High match and pleasure anglers numbers of fish caught this week with all species feeding well, still easy to target species by your choice of method of fishing with float and pole in the margins doing very well, or tip rod to the back of the island or far bank also doing well as most species are tight in the margins. Change baits to target for perch worm, caster even mussel or praw, or pellet with angel pellet on the bottom for bream, up in the water for ide, rudd, orfe on the drop spraying angel pellets as feed. Carp very tight in margins of the bottom of the second shelf on paste or pellets with angel pellets as feed to keep them there. Tench are feeding well especially on mussel, prawn and sweetcorn. Young 10 yr old Joe Sinpson (Andy Simpsons son) had a fantastic day with every species being caught and carp over 10lb –see photos.

Bassetts Pond
Some excellent sized ide, rudd, roach, skimmers out this week and tench, crucians, carp and koi are all feeding well tight in the margins. Margaret Ellis 8yrs old from Newcastle fishing with her dad caught 8 tench, 3 carp and rudd also roach with a total of 21 fish on her first fishing session.

Match News
Sunday 30th Aug 09 open Bowes Conditions:- Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 17 deg, humidity 68%, wind SW10 mph, barometer 1011.9 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp dropped 14 deg, PH 7.45, DO 12.5 ppm, conductivity 32. 1st Andy Simpson 37lb 10oz peg 16 & Golden Peg 2nd Paul Tuff 33lb 10oz peg 39 3rd Rob Emmery 30lb 13oz peg 25 Section John Foster 18lb peg 3 Section Tony Watson 22lb 15oz peg 22 Section Steve Matland 23lb 14oz Turned aerator off should have left it on! Friday 28th Aug 09 open Bowes 4 hours! Draw 1pm fishing 2 to 6pm. Conditions:-Light rain and showers, ambient temperature 15 deg, wind W 25 mph, barometer 1002 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp dropped 14.5 deg, PH 7.45, DO 12.9, conductivity 29. 1st Chris Owers 82lb 12 oz (was 87lb 9oz went over in one net) peg 16 2nd Alan Mc Guire 76lb 8oz peg 1 3rd Tony Robertson 70lb peg 34 4th Nevill Langley 51lb 5oz peg 40 5th Rickie Bennett 50lb (was 51lb 6oz went over net weight) peg 3 6th Neil Middlemiss 46lb 3oz peg 2 Fished well with lots catching in the margins very high winds scuppered presentation Wednesday 26th Aug 09 open Lookout Conditions:- Light rain and overcast, ambient temp 11 deg, wind S 18 mph, barometer 1005.1 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp DO PH conductivity. 1st Tony Watson Fishing Republic 66lb 8oz peg 1 2nd Neil Middlemiss 48lb 12oz peg 15 3rd Alan Mc Guire 47lb 9oz peg 5 4th Ray Wallace 12lb 8oz peg 3

Club News
Coaching Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till noon, Angel provides all equipment, rod license, ticket to the water, terminal tackle, bait and an angling coach all for £15.00 for 3 hours per person. Matches Wednesday draw at 10am fishing 11pm to 4pm Friday draw 1pm fishing 2pm to 6pm Sunday draw 9am fishing 10.30am till 4.30pm All have Golden pegs

Other News
Coaching Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till noon, Angel provides all equipment, rod license, ticket to the water, terminal tackle, bait and an angling coach all for £15.00 for 3 hours per person. Matches Wednesday draw at 10am fishing 11pm to 4pm Friday draw 1pm fishing 2pm to 6pm Sunday draw 9am fishing 10.30am till 4.30pm All have Golden pegs

Weekly report for 23 August 2009

Another great week for catch rates, weather has affected the water temperature pulling it down 2 degs, so get your feed patterns correct to catch well. The method you choose to fish will afect your catch rates with pole, and waggler doing well in the margins of the first planting shelf or further out on the 2nd planting shelf. Bomb or feeder on the tip rod will give you good catch rates tight to the far bank or back of the island, dont over feed but feed very regular little and often. Banded pellet, pellet hair rigged or soft hooker pellets doing well, so is maggot, caster and paste doing excellent made out of angel pellets (micro 1.5mm best)

Bowes Lake
Producing excellently if the feed patterns are correct, little but constant is the order as several anglers have found out who have had well in excess of 40 fish to 4lb plus in a half day session, keep feeding the swim and the fish turn up and are feeding very well. pellet soft hooker, banded, and hair rigged, paste on its own and as a conker, maggot, caster, worm and worm cocktail, cubes or punched luncheon meat, mussel, prawns, all working on the hook. Getting the feed patterns correct is esential, angel pellets soaked in a feeder mixed with maggot or caster and used on the tip to the far bank of the top shelf, or keep feeding them in.tight in a marginal swim high up just of the first planting shelf, or go out to the bottom of the second shelf. Margaret Jones had a terriffic day fishing with her husband she took 65 fish in the day session, best to 20lb 2oz but average fish were 4 to 6lb, Margaret fished on the pole tight in the margin of the first shelf on 10mm banded pellet, with 6mm angel pellets as feed, also at 7 metres out in front from peg 4, she caught the double on the tip to the back of the island on 10mm banded pellet and soaked angel pellets in the feeder.

Lookout Lake
Some stunning catch rates and quality of fish are being caught tight in the margins of the first shelf, or further out at the bottom of the second shelf, also on the tip to the back bank or back of the islands. Pellet- soft hooker, banded, and hair rigged, paste on its own and as a conker, maggot, caster, worm and worm cocktail, cubes or punched luncheon meat, mussel, prawns, all working on the hook. Getting the feed patterns correct is esential, little but constant is the answer with angel 3mm feed pellets working well sprayed in over the hook to get fish on the drop, or soaked in a feeder mixed with maggot or caster and used on the tip to the far bank of the top shelf.

Bassetts Pond
This pond has produced some stunning fish this week Ide to 3lb 1oz, Rudd to 1lb 14oz, carp over 10lb, crucians taking meat to 2lb 3oz, Roach to 2lb 1oz, Tench best out 3lb 7oz a golden tench, golden orfe over 2lb, and lots gudgeon and home bred fish. Getting the tackle balanced and feed patterns is critical as water temperatures slowly start to drop. Maggot and Pellet are working best on the hook with tench taking sweetcorn and mussle. Feed angel pellets little but often to keep fish in your swim., Alexander Temple 11 yrs old from Birtley with an ide on his first fishing lesson on Bassetts Pond at the Angel on Saturday 22nd Aug 09.

Match News
Sunday open Aug 23rd 09 Lookout Open Conditions:- Overcast with showers, ambient temp 15 deg, wind S to 18 mph, barometer 1011.9 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp dropped 15.8 deg, PH 7.54, DO 13.1 ppm, conductivity 37. 1st John Foster 51lb 3oz peg 1 2nd Tony Watson 41lb 14oz peg 2 3rd Andy Nelson Browning 40lb 3oz peg 9 4th Andy Simpson Browning 39lb 7oz peg 29 5th Chris Owers 37lb 2oz peg 8 6th Peter Cairns 32lb 9oz peg 27 John fished on Tip 10mm pellets and paste on pole down side. Friday Afternoon 21st Aug 09 Lookout Island Conditions:- Overcast and showers, ambient temp 17 deg, wind WSW 13 mph, barometer 1012.1 mb moon phase waxing Crescent, water temp 16.1 deg, PH 7.51, DO 12.1, conductivity 33. 1st Chris Owers 56lb 12oz peg 5 on paste and pellet silvers maggot. 2nd Tony Robertson 49lb 14oz peg 15 3rd Neil Middlemiss 48lb 9oz peg 1 4th Nevill Langley 35lb 12oz peg 3 5th John Foster 24lb 3oz peg 13 6th Keiran Middlemiss 9lb 10 oz peg 11 Hard going on some pegs only started to fish later on, Wednesday 19th Aug 09 open Lookout Island Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temperature 20 deg, humidity 73%, wind S12 mph, barometer 1010.3 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temperature 16.6 deg, DO 14.9 ppm, PH 7.53, conductivity 41. 1st Chris Owers 72lb 13oz peg 15 2nd Alan Mc Guire 41lb 12oz peg 13 3rd Andrew Brown 36lb 4oz peg 3 4th John Nelson 33lb 4oz peg 1 5th Ray Wallace 28lb 3oz peg 11 6th Tony Robertson 27lb 15oz peg 5

Club News
Coaching Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till noon Matches Wednesday draw at 10am fishing 11pm to 4pm Friday draw 1pm fishing 2pm to 6pm Sunday draw 9am fishing 10.30am till 4.30pm All have Golden pegs

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Coaching Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am till noon Matches Wednesday draw at 10am fishing 11pm to 4pm Friday draw 1pm fishing 2pm to 6pm Sunday draw 9am fishing 10.30am till 4.30pm All have Golden pegs

Joe Simpson 10 yrs old on fishing lesson

Weekly report for 16 August 2009

General Fishing is continuing to be very good if you get the feed patterns correct, little but very often is still the way forward, with fish feeding very ferociously, but put to much in at once and you feed them off. Its been a week the barometer dropped bringing in unsettled weather and winds (good for Dissolved Oxygen however.) but fishing well despite a slight drop in water temperatures, Autumn is just around the corner and fish well aware of this and are feeding well Angel feed pellet (fishmeal ) are doing some stunning business both as feed baits, soaked as a cage feeder feed, also as paste not only at the angel lakes but at several other match venues. The 10mm premium have worked stunning banded and cast out on the tip to the back bank, or back of the islands, with another 10 mm catapulted over the hook bait as feed. You can also use 10mm banded tight in the margins on waggler or top 3 of your pole and feed either size of angel pellets. The tip either bomb or cage feeder methods are very much the best catch rate for good carp on all lakes. With Silvers coming out on the drop or go down dead bottom and feed heavy for bream, tench, and carp on low barometer days, as most days carp also tench, and crucians are well up in the water in the high thermals tight in the marginal reeds.

Bowes Lake
Some stunning catch rates of anglers using tip bomb or feeder and pole who get the feed patterns correct. Season Ticket holder and specimen angler Ian Dixon continues his targeting of the specimen carp after 8pm with some great fish caught all on large cubes of meat, Ian targets the specimens tight in the margins whilst the warmer water temperatures continue. Ian feeds angel pellets often soaked to give a groundbait consistency and balls the feed in. Pleasure anglers spray feeding angel pellets whilst fishing tight in the margins are getting some stunning catch rates especially with the wind in their face. Pellet, Paste, worm cocktail, cubed/ punched meat, and sweetcorn on the hook working well, feed angel pellets or groundbait and hemp.

Lookout Lake
Some stunning weights have been coming out with Wednesdays 5 hour match producing 84lb of the island, and Friday afternoon 4 hour match producing 55lb of the island. Pleasure anglers are having a high catch rate if they get the feed patterns and fishing methods correct. Jon Knox from Carlisle and his 3 friends all fishing for the first time at angel all had in excess of 100 fish each and are returning this week, their catches included Carp, Crucians, Tench to 5lb 10oz a male, Golden Tench, several Bream over 4lb and lots of silvers. Andy Moore from the boarders caught a 12lb 9oz koi as well as silvers, tench and carp to 10lb and managed a brace of crucians. We have matches, which everyone is welcome to join in every Wednesday with a draw at 10am and also a Friday afternoon draw at 1pm on Lookout island as well as alternative Sundays draw at 9 am. All welcome!!

Bassetts Pond
This pond has produced some excellent catch rates with more 10 lb and lots down to 1lb 8oz carp being caught, also crucians, tench, golden tench, rudd to 2lb 4oz (caught by 11 yr old Abby Rutherford on her first fishing taster session on Sunday), golden rudd, roach, gudgeon, & skimmers now averaging 1lb 4oz all catching well. Get the feed and method of fishing correct tight in the margins for maximum catches.Maggot, Pellet, paste, worm cocktail, or sweetcorn on the hook all working, over angel feed pellets or maggots.

Match News
Sunday Aug 16th 09 open Bowes TON UP!!! Tony Watson Conditions:- Mostly Cloudy, ambient temperature 16 deg, humidity 72%, wind WSW 15 mph, barometer 1008.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp dropped to 16.1 deg, PH 7.44, DO 13.0, conductivity 35. 1st Tony Watson Fishing Republic 100lb 10oz peg 5 2nd Rob Emmery 62lb 13oz peg 3 3rd Chris Owers 56lb 12oz peg 33 Sections Ray Hughes 34lb 14oz peg 2 Tony Robertson 33lb 4oz peg 12 Dave Foster 27lb 1oz peg 22 Dereck Fox 40lb 14oz peg 36 Well done on your ton up Tony who used tip to island and feeder with soaked angel pellets in it, on hook 10mm pellet covered in paste and pellets(conker) Aug 14th 09 Friday afternoon open 4 hours Lookout Conditions:- Mostly Cloudy with rain showers, ambient temperature 17 deg, wind SW 15 mph, barometer 1008.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temperature 17.1 dropped, PH 7.34, DO 11.4, conductivity 24. 1st John Foster 55lb 15oz peg 1 2nd Alan Mc Guire 37lb oz peg 12 3rd Tony Robertson 36lb 10oz peg 2 4th Anth Longstaff 34lb 14oz peg 14 5th Nevil Langley 34lb 7oz peg 3 6th Dave Foster 33lb 7oz peg 5 John used tip to far bank on 10 mm pellet, and pole 9 meters out on paste Wednesday 12th Aug 09 day open Lookout Conditions: Partly Cloudy, humidity 68%, wind WNW21 mph, barometer 1014.9 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temperature 18.4 deg, PH 7.45, DO 13.9 ppm. 1st Alan Mc Guire 84lb 10oz peg 5 (80lb of carp) 2nd Mark Wilson 65lb 10oz peg 1 3rd Rickie Bennet 32lb 9oz peg 11 4th Anthony Longstaff 31lb 4oz peg 14 5th Rob Emmery 31lb 13oz peg 8 6th Andrew Brown 29lb 6oz peg 3 Heavy winds at WNW 21 mph make presentation hard, Alan caught his 80lb carp on tip to the back bank and his 4lb 10oz of silvers out in front. Alan used paste covered by pellet as a conker and 10mm banded pellets

Club News
Angling Coaching and Learn to Fish Sessions Whilst the holidays are here we have sessions from 9 am till Noon every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings where Angel provides everything and an angling coach for £15.00 per session per person. For the under 16s it is a great chance to also join the junior club which has meetings with an angling coach in participation. Matches Wednesday open Lookout Island draw 10am fishing 11 to 4pm Friday afternoon open Lookout Island draw 1pm fishing 2pm till 6pm Sunday open alternating from Bowes then Lookout draw 9am fishing 10.30 till 3.30pm

Other News
Angling Coaching and Learn to Fish Sessions Whilst the holidays are here we have sessions from 9 am till Noon every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings where Angel provides everything and an angling coach for £15.00 per session per person. For the under 16s it is a great chance to also join the junior club which has meetings with an angling coach in participation. Matches Wednesday open Lookout Island draw 10am fishing 11 to 4pm Friday afternoon open Lookout Island draw 1pm fishing 2pm till 6pm Sunday open alternating from Bowes then Lookout draw 9am fishing 10.30 till 3.30pm

Weekly report for 09 August 2009

Excellent week for fishing if you get the feed patterns correct, fish have been up in the water with the constant water temperatures of around 18 degs, Pellet has been working well, paste made out of angel pellets works a treat, maggot, worm and caster also doing well, mussel and prawn catching some good tench also carp. sweetcorn and cubed or punched luncheon meat also catching well. Some extraordinary pleasure anglers catch rates and some good high figured carp out also.

Bowes Lake
Superb fishing but you must feed well little but often to get the fish to stay in your peg, as the fish are feeding ferociously at this water temperature of 18.2 deg, and day light is shorter as if the fish know autumn is on its way. Les Baker from South Shields landed a common (female) 27lb 12oz on large cubed meat from peg 1, Les fed Angel 6 mm betaine pellets. Tony Robertson fishing peg 3 casting to between the islands had a cracking days fishing on 10mm banded angel pellets over angel feed pellet catapulted out getting virtually a fish a chuck. Some good personal best weights of carp coming out for pleasure anglers who get the feed patterns correct.

Lookout Lake
Excellent fishing both for silvers and carp species, with water temperatures remaining constant at 18 deg, fish are feeding ferociously so make sure plenty feed goes in little but often to get lots of catches, remember the larger the hook baits the bigger the fish. This week has seen most species catching up in the water and just of the marginal shelves, or if you want bream go dead depth and feed lots to keep the shoals in the swim. Great numbers of fish are being caught on all methods with tip to island doing well as is float or pole tight in, go out to 6 metres and dead depth for the bream, tench and roach. Best baits for the hook are pellet soft hooker, banded or hair rigged, paste (try making it out of angel feed pellets), maggot, caster, worm and sweetcorn, cubed meat also working. Feed angel feed pellets, hemp, groundbait, maggot, caster, worm is the only feed allowed!

Bassetts Pond
Fabulous catch rates tight in the margins or at 6 metres out, rudd on the drop as well as ide, orfe and even carp well up in the water. Skimmers, roach and tench getting caught dead bottom. Plenty of feed to keep the fish in your swim and keep them interested. Carp, skimmers, rudd, roach, ide, orfe, tench and even gudgeon all catching on pellet, maggot, caster, cubes of luncheon meat and sweetcorn. Feed angel pellets, hemp, or maggots.

Match News
Sunday 9th Aug 09 open Lookout Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 18 deg, humidity 68%, wind calm, barometer 1019 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 18.3 deg, DO 11.4 ppm, Ph 7.34, conductivity 28. 1st Andy Simpson Browning 64lb 9oz peg 6 2nd Tony Robertson 55lb 8oz peg 16aa 3rd Tony Watson Fishing Republic 43lb peg 11 4th Ray Laing 39lb 2oz peg 42 5th Rickie Bennett 37lb 8oz peg 5 6th Alan Mc Guire 29lb 4oz peg 23 Andy fished tip with pellet, or pole 13 metres sweetcorn on hook over angel pellet 6mm. We now have a Wednesday Day open Match Draw at 10 am fishing 11 till 4pm on Lookout island Also a Friday afternoon draw at 1pm fishing 2 to 6 pm on Lookout island Names now being taken Phone 01914100449 or email annadlington@btinternet.com Wed eve 5th Aug 09 Bowes Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 22 deg, humidity 68%, Wind S 7mph, barometer 1013.9 mb, moon phase full, water temp rose 18.2, DO 14.00 ppm, PH 7.63, conductivity 44. 1st Tony Robertson 37lb 12oz peg 3 2nd Tommy Cullerton 34lb 5oz peg 12 3rd Chris Owers 28lb 11oz peg 22 4th Anth Richardson 27lb 1oz peg 4 5th Neil Brown 23lb 10oz peg 40 6th Alan Mc Guire 19lb 8oz Tony used tip to island with 10mm banded angel pellet over 10mm pellet cattyed out

Club News
Angling Coaching is every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday mornings at 9 am till Noon. We supply all the tackle, end tackle, bait, seat box, landing net, unhooking mat, ticket to the water, rod Licence, and qualified angling coach for £15.00 per person per lesson bookings taken by phone. 0191 4100449. Day Matches We now have a Wednesday Day open Match, Draw at 10 am fishing 11 till 4pm on Lookout island Also a Friday afternoon Draw at 1pm fishing 2 to 6 pm on Lookout island Sunday Open Draw 9am fish 10.30 till 3.30pm. Names now being taken Phone 01914100449 or email annadlington@btinternet.com

Other News
Angling Coaching is every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday mornings at 9 am till Noon. We supply all the tackle, end tackle, bait, seat box, landing net, unhooking mat, ticket to the water, rod Licence, and qualified angling coach for £15.00 per person per lesson bookings taken by phone. 0191 4100449. Day Matches We now have a Wednesday Day open Match, Draw at 10 am fishing 11 till 4pm on Lookout island Also a Friday afternoon Draw at 1pm fishing 2 to 6 pm on Lookout island Sunday Open Draw 9am fish 10.30 till 3.30pm. Names now being taken Phone 01914100449 or email annadlington@btinternet.com

Weekly report for 02 August 2009

Fishing is continuing to be excellent with some very high catch rates off anglers who are using pole, tip, and waggler. This week has seen fish up in the water or after the heavy cold rains and evenings, which put the fish down. Bright early mornings have seen fish feeding and playing on the surface at 4 am to 7 am, and swimming and jumping in the tow of the aerators. On the colder days use autumn tactics and baits, which are starting to work when, water temperature drops and develops into several thermal layers. On the hook use Pellet, or paste made out of Angel pellets. maggot, caster, worm, sweetcorn, luncheon meat (bigger for bigger fish), mussel and prawn. Feed Angel feed pellets or soak them and mix hemp and casters, or if cooler try mixing angel feed pellets with some fishmeal to add as an extra attractant. . Lots of variety in fish species feeding which allows you to target silver fish or target carp species with some magical sport.

Bowes Lake
Chris Owers was just 6 oz of a ton on the Sunday match 99lb 10oz well done chris a good 5 hours fishing. Season ticket holder Ian Dixon continues his tremendous catch rates for big carp on evenings, using large cubes of meat over Angel 6 mm fishmeal pellets he rarely catches anything below 10lb. On the hook paste & pellet and especially 10mm hair rigged, maggot also meat, sweetcorn is a good back up but worm and worm cocktail doing excellent. Use angel pellets either soaked and in a feeder with hemp and caster or just plain angel pellets to feed, groundbait works also as an attractant but carp are hungry at the moment knowing the light of the days are getting shorter and feeding well.

Lookout Lake
Some very good bream have been caught to 7lb 1oz and skimmers now averaging 1lb 5oz except the home bred smaller ones, most larger bream coming of the island pegs. Cracking tench both green and golden in good numbers being caught, best carp out was 16lb 2oz which incidentally was one of our stock fish which the average weight is now between 4 to 5lb so a big gain in comparison to its siblings. Loads of crucians being caught especially very tight into the margins, and last Sundays match was won with 96lb of peg 1.

Bassetts Pond
Excellent Rudd to 2 lb has been caught in huge numbers on the drop on this our growth pond, with several carp over 10lb and lots of Crucians now being caught, and tench also feeding and catching well to 3lb 4oz, Ide and golden orfe also catching well. Andy Lowes 15yrs old had a cracking day with over 120 fish comprising 60 rudd, Roach, Ide, Tench best 3lb 4oz (golden tench), crucians and carp.

Match News
Sunday 2nd Aug 09 Open Bowes Conditions:- Mostly cloudy with sunny spells, ambient temperature 15 deg, humidity 77%, wind calm then rising to W 17 mph, barometer 1007.1mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temperature rose to 20.1 deg, PH 7.46, DO 15.2, conductivity 45. 1st Chris Owers 99lb 10oz peg 1 (6 oz off his ton) 2nd Alan Mc Guire 67lb 12oz peg 34 3rd Ray Wallace 48lb 1oz peg 23 4th Andrew Brown 34lb 6oz peg 40 5th John Nelson 30lb 12oz peg 37 6th Tony Robertson 30lb 5oz peg 3 Chris fished tip to island with 10mm banded pellets, and tight to right in margin on pole and paste, Next weeks match is on Lookout! After Wed eve match a day match on Wed following and thereafter. Wed 29th July 09 Open Bowes Conditions:- Partly cloudy with rain, ambient temp 16 deg, wind Calm then S6 mph, barometer 1006.1 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp dropped 15.1 deg, Do 16.9, PH 7.43, conductivity 44. 1st Dave Pearson 42lb 4oz peg 4 2nd John Foster 29lb 14oz peg 16 3rd Alan McGuire 28lb 10oz peg 1 4th Rickie Bennett 27lb 13oz peg 40 5th Nevil Langley 24lb 11oz Peg 3 6th Chris Owers 21lb 4oz peg 14 Dave used feeder with ground bait and pellets and on the hook alternating between worm or pellets.

Club News
Coaching Our first Stag Fishing taster session was on Friday after the lads from Huddersfield had completed the coast to coast cycle ride, then after the fishing taster session headed of to Newcastle for a nights drinking!!! Best wishing for the wedding at the end of August. Coaching will be on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9am to Noon we supply all the tackle, end tackle, bait, seat box, landing net, unhooking mat, ticket to the water and rod license and a angling coach for £15.00 per session. Please phone to book however so we have enough coaches available. Congratulations to Andy Nesbit and Jonathan Burns for passing out of our novice coaching sessions, the first two lads during August. I am pleased to announce we managed to raise £526.45p for MacMillan Nurse charity appeal Thank You All for your help on the Charity Match!!

Other News
Coaching Our first Stag Fishing taster session was on Friday after the lads from Huddersfield had completed the coast to coast cycle ride, then after the fishing taster session headed of to Newcastle for a nights drinking!!! Best wishing for the wedding at the end of August. Coaching will be on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9am to Noon we supply all the tackle, end tackle, bait, seat box, landing net, unhooking mat, ticket to the water and rod license and a angling coach for £15.00 per session. Please phone to book however so we have enough coaches available. Congratulations to Andy Nesbit and Jonathan Burns for passing out of our novice coaching sessions, the first two lads during August. I am pleased to announce we managed to raise £526.45p for MacMillan Nurse charity appeal Thank You All for your help on the Charity Match!!

Weekly report for 26 July 2009

Excellent catch rates this week on all baits with best hook baits proving to be 10mm banded angel pellets over angel feed pellets for good sized carp. Paste still working at these water temperatures just soak angel feed pellets and mould into a firm paste put in fridge overnight and when using mould angel micro pellets around the outside as a conker. Alternatively try soaking angel pellets to a sloppy mix (instead of using ground bait) and add maggot and caster or chopped worm or even hemp to use a cage feeder and try worm and caster on the hook. Mussel and prawn on the hook work well especially for tench, also try cubed or punched meat on the hook.

Bowes Lake
Producing great catch rates with average stocked carp now in the 4lb to 5lb bracket and home bred starting from about 3/4lb upwards, our specimen stocked carp are also putting good weights on. Carp are doing a lot of marginal feeding now seeds are dropping off grasses and reeds and insects breeding in the marginal reeds, great slurping sucking sounds resonating around the margins on all lakes from the carp feeding, its also great to sit and watch the carp at your feet feeding. Pleasure anglers in half day sessions can catch over 150 carp especially if set up for bomb to the island margins, or waggler and pole in the margins by the fishing peg. Getting the feed at little but very often to constant drip feeding gets the best catch rates as the fish are at there hungriest in the year with warm water temperatures.

Lookout Lake
Cracking catch rates of silvers in high numbers and good sized fish are being caught, Freddy Wilson from Durham caught over 200 fish in a day session comprising over 100 skimmers, tench, rudd, roach, carp, golden orfe, also perch all on pole tight in margins or at 6 metres out on pellet, mussel, and worm feeding angel pellets and hemp. Some good weights in match again some excellent carp weights as well as some good bags of silvers, lots of bream out this week to 6 lb and some large numbers of ghosties.

Bassetts Pond
Stunning catches with good sized silvers being caught ie rudd best 2lb 4oz average 1lb 6oz, Young Nathan Anderson aged 8 from Consett, fishing a Angling Taster session on Friday caught a 10lb 4oz common carp as his first fish he ever caught, he now want to go on to a full set of coaching sessions! How many people can say their first fish was 10lb 4oz???

Match News
Sunday 26th July 09 open Lookout Conditions:- Rain, ambient temp 17 deg, wind SSW 12 mph, barometer 1012.9 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 16.7 deg, PHH 7.60, DO 14.1, conductivity 54. 1st Mark Wilson 96lb 2oz peg 1 81lb 13 carp and 14lb 5 silvers 2nd Alan Mc Guire 58lb 15oz peg 16aa 3rd Peter Cairns 49lb 10oz peg 42 4th Dave Pearson 47lb 8oz peg 3 5th Rob Emmery 45lb 1oz peg 11 6th Jimmy Messer 43lb 3oz peg 6 Wed Eve 3 hour Open Bowes July 22nd 09 Conditions:- partly cloudy, ambient temperature 17 deg, humidity 77%, wind SSW13 mph, barometer 993.9 (low), moon phase New, water temperature 16.1 deg, DO 13.7 ppm, PH 7.49, conductivity -45. 1st Chris Owers 50lb 14oz peg 1 2nd Tony Robertson 50.lb peg 2, 3rd Neil Brown 37lb 8oz peg 5 4th Jon Anslow 32lb 10oz peg 34 5th Paul Tuff 31lb 14oz peg 16 6th Tommy Cullerton 25lb 2oz peg 36

Club News
Coaching Learn to fish coaching sessions are available on a Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9 am till noon Angel provides all tackle, end tackle, Rod Licence, ticket to the water, and a angling coach for £15.00 per person. Please phone to book 0191 4100449. Matches Opens every Sunday draw at 9 am and Wed evening draw at 5pm, everyone welcome but names need to down in advance please phone 0191 4100449. Almost fully booked for Sundays on Lookout! WWW.angelnorthlakes.com or contact 0191 4100449

Other News
Coaching Learn to fish coaching sessions are available on a Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9 am till noon Angel provides all tackle, end tackle, Rod Licence, ticket to the water, and a angling coach for £15.00 per person. Please phone to book 0191 4100449. Matches Opens every Sunday draw at 9 am and Wed evening draw at 5pm, everyone welcome but names need to down in advance please phone 0191 4100449. Almost fully booked for Sundays on Lookout! WWW.angelnorthlakes.com or contact 0191 4100449

Weekly report for 18 July 2009

Some excellent fishing before and after the 36 hours of torrential rain from Thursday evening to Sat morning, water levels rose dramatically but our overflow system which was designed for 100 year flood situations did very well, and kept levels of water to 4 inches below pegs. Water temperature dropped to 15.2 deg, DO also dropped to 10 ppm, PH turned acid slightly however with sorter daylight hours fish are feeding well through the day and superbly at dusk and dawn. Hook baits working are paste, pellet, maggot, worm, sweetcorn, luncheon meat, prawns and mussle. Try soaking angel pellets till moist mould into a small ball around hook and add micro pellets around the ball as a conker works great but you need a hook size of 14 or 12.

Bowes Lake
Some good weights coming out both for pleasure anglers and match anglers, carp do need to be kept fed so feed angel pellets, hemp, maggot, worm or caster little but very often to keep fish in your swim - its all about the feeding to catch well. , Alan Mc Guire won the Sunday match with 54lb 10ozon peg 5, even though we had had all that rain previously. Season ticket holder Paul Wood fishing peg 1, caught a lovely common carp 25lb 2oz on large pieces of Luncheon meat over pva bags of angel pellets on Monday evening. Paul caught at 15 ft from the peg to his right.

Lookout Lake
At the moment its fish on the drop with all the water gone in through the torrential rains of the past two days. Some good catches with the Juniors Browning Youth Masters in a 4 hour match was won by Conner Ross with 44lb 3oz who goes on to the final at Moorlands Farm Fishery Kidderminster on the 31st of July well done Conner. Before and after the torrential rain lasting 36 hours fishing was outstanding on pole, rod float, bomb, the full range of species coming out with exceptional bream to 9lb 2oz and some very good crucians best 3lb but lots of them being caught.

Bassetts Pond
Cracking catches on maggot with a 10lb 6oz common caught by Josh Welby 10 yrs old on his first fishing session with his dad at Angel, Tench, rudd, roach, ide, golden orfe, skimmers, crucians all being caught in good numbers. Great when wind gets up as very sheltered

Match News
Sunday 19th July 09 open Bowes Conditions: Partly Cloudy, ambient temperature 18 deg, humidity 59%, wind W12 mph, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 15.2 deg, PH 7.07, DO 8.4 ppm, conductivity -30 1st Alan Mc Guire 54lb 10oz peg 5 Fished 1.5 hours on pole 8 meters out, hair rigged 10mm pellet surrounded by paste, then used tip rod to island pellet and paste. 2nd Andy Simpson 48lb 5oz peg 3 Pole 10 metres out with pellet fed hemp. 3rd Roger Pedleham 46lb 6oz peg 26 tip rod to island pellet 4th Jerry Bowes 44lb 6oz peg 36 pole fished paste 10 to 12 meters out. 5th Neil Brown 43lb 11oz peg 16 tip to island pellet and paste 6th Chris Owers 43lb 7oz peg 24 tip rod to island 10 mm pellet and maggot. Browning Youth Masters Qualifier Lookout Sat 18th July 09 4 hours Conditions : Light Rain, ambient temperature 12 deg, humidity 100%, Wind WNW 10 mph, barometer 1004.1 mb. Moon phase waning crescent, water temperature dropped 15.2 deg, DO dropped 10.2, PH 7.06, conductivity -18. 1st Connor Ross 44lb 3oz peg 5 well done Conner Good luck in the Final 2nd Kieran Yates 40lb 2 oz peg 1 3rd Seadna Finnegan 27lb 3oz peg 2 4th Glen Preston 19lb 8oz peg 6 5th Scott Howe 15lb 15oz peg 8 Very well done to everyone and great work Connor on going through to the final at Moorlands Farm Fishery Kidderminster. Wed Eve 15th July 09 Open Bowes Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, Ambient temperature 20 deg, humidity 64%, wind calm to 2 mph, barometer 1006.1 mb, moon phase last qtr, Water temp 18.2 deg, Ph 7.37, DO 14.2 ppm turned Aerator off!! For match, conductivity -42. 1st Keith Ainsley 46lb 6oz inc a 15lb 15oz common, peg 40 pole top 4 on paste 2nd Chris Owers 44lb 15 oz peg 2 pole top 4 paste, 3rd Paul Tuff 37lb 08oz peg 18 4th Tommy Marshall 29lb 9oz peg 37 5th John Foster 28lb 15oz peg 34 6th Neil Brown 27lb 6oz peg 4 Turned Aerator off for match, and water was still and calm, would have been better to have left the aerator on for water movement and surface ripples.

Weekly report for 12 July 2009

General Some of our anglers best days fishing in their lives is the reports we are getting from anglers so a superb angling week. With the promise of good days on Tuesday and Wednesday, if the moon phases are correct! Cracking carp out with loads of double figures, A Great large double figured leather carp never caught in 5 years came out Friday evening by Paul Wood on Bowes,.

Bowes Lake
Some exceptional fish being caught both double figures and stock carp which have all bred well and gained great weights and piled weights on. Paul Wood caught a large double figured leather carp on Friday night, which is the first time it has been caught since being stocked 5 yrs ago to the best of our knowledge. Great fishing and great sport of the fights the carp put up when caught.

Lookout Lake
Ton up in the match by Chris Owers on Sunday and a fantastic 9lb 15oz Gold Koi by Chris weighed in separately. The lake fished superbly this week, some great crucians being caught as well as some stunning silvers increasing in size all the time and lots of home bred . The stock carp are around 4 to 5 lb now as well as loads of home bred carp from 1lb, Tench are gaining some good weight and lots of home bred as well coming on. In general great fishing!!!!

Bassetts Pond
Some amazing fishing and all species being caught in great numbers, carp fighting well and all silvers gaining weight to specimen sizes as well as many home bred fish being caught.

Match News
Sunday 12th July 09 Lookout Conditions:- overcast and showers, ambient temp 17 deg, humidity 82%, wind WSW 8mph, barometer 100 mb, moon phase waning Gibbous, water temperature 17.5 deg, DO 17.1 Aerators on, PH 7.15, conductivity -30. 1st Chris Owers 102lb 2oz =86lb 6oz Carp and 15lb 12oz silvers peg 16aa. 2nd John Foster 88lb 7oz peg 5 3rd Rob Emmery 78lb 5oz peg 1 4th Anth Richardson 50lb 2oz peg 6 5th Andy Sinclair 46lb 12oz peg 4 6th Derick Fox 45lb peg 30 Well done Chris on your ton up !!! The island fished fantastic as well as lots of other pegs, some good weights thanks lads!! Wed Eve 3 hours open 8th July 09 Bowes Conditions:- Partly cloudy, ambient temp 15 deg, humidity 73%, wind NW 7mph, barometer 1011.9 mb, moon phase full, water temp dropped 18.1 deg, PH 7.23 , DO 12.1 aerators on 24 hours/day., conductivity -33. 1st Alan Mc Guire 53lb 02oz peg 2 2nd Tony Watson 49lb 01oz peg 16 3rd John Foster 38lb 11oz peg 1 4th Billy Ellis 30lb 5oz peg 3 5th Neil Brown 30lb 4 oz peg 12 6th Andrew Brown 20lb 8 oz peg 40

Club News
Coaching Saturday and Sunday morning and will have 2 week mornings through the summer holidays. Angel supplies tackle, end tackle, bait, landing net, unhooking mat, ticket to water, rod licence & fully qualified angling coach for £15.00 per person per session! Bargain! Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout Island on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com

Other News
Coaching Saturday and Sunday morning and will have 2 week mornings through the summer holidays. Angel supplies tackle, end tackle, bait, landing net, unhooking mat, ticket to water, rod licence & fully qualified angling coach for £15.00 per person per session! Bargain! Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout Island on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com

Weekly report for 05 July 2009

General Fantastic quantities and qualities of fish being caught at the years highest water temperatures fish are feeding ferociously and up in the water, all species have spawned and now just feeding up to gain strength and growth. All lakes are fishing exceptionally well for all species, it is the feed, hook bait and set up which will target the individual species. Fish are at their greatest strengths in this water temperature and will produce a great fight when hooked, so be prepared and make sure your equipment and end tackle are set up to take the fight. Remembering never, never leave your rod/pole unattended or out of your hand or it will get taken into the water with the fish fighting so much. The result will be a high risk that the fish will die as it will be tethered to the rig and rod/pole in the water and your rod/pole lost in the lake. When returning fish in the landing net after they have been caught, please give the fish time to recover by leaving the fish in the landing net in the water until it recovers this will only take a minute or so and make sure the fish has started swimming again before you release it back into the water. If you have caught a large Bream please make sure you keep it upright in the landing net when releasing it back. The fish fight so hard in these water temperatures that they need to regain oxygen levels and rest up a bit after the capture, the same as you running a mile in warm temperatures, they get winded!!! Feed little but very, very, often to get maximum catches as you are bringing in your fish put feed back in your swim before you net your fish in.

Bowes Lake
Some exceptional fish and quantities coming out of this lake, fish are spread all over but off the bottom and close to margins and island margins, feed little but often to catch well and expect a good fight of every size of fish, silvers now catching if you want to target them. Carp being caught predominantly early morning or late afternoon /evening in the largest numbers. Large numbers of carp above 15 lb coming out with best at 31lb 12oz a mirror female post spawning so good size (shame she was not caught before spawning would be interesting to see her weight then.) Wed eve match John Foster took 73lb 9oz in 3 hours!

Lookout Lake
Fantastic fishing for all species, the fish are in the margins and up in the water so make sure you get your feed going in little but more often with these hot water temperatures. On the hook paste (made out of angels pellets) try and put angels pellets around the outside (conker) for great results in catch rates. All hook pellets are working well, also cubes of luncheon meat, worm cocktail, multiple maggots (singles will target smaller fish) sweetcorn, make sure you choose bigger baits on the hook to target larger fish. For feed use Angel Feed pellets are outstanding, you can soak and mix some hemp make it sloppy or firm into balls, or add caster or maggot, the colour and fish meal content of angel pellets is an excellent fish attractant. Lots of pleasure anglers catching well over 200 fish in a session and targeting species with certain hook baits, huge bags of Rudd on the drop, ide, golden orfe, skimmers, carp, roach, tench, perch, koi, and ghosties. Peter Richardson from Sunderland took over 200lb on Monday fishing 16aa.

Bassetts Pond
Cracking pond with specimen sized silvers coming out, carp to 10lb 4oz and huge numbers of fish being caught. Carp predominantly in numbers are caught early morning or late afternoon /evening in the largest numbers. High numbers of fish caught Alan Whitehurst from Gateshead took 145 fish in a morning session and got sunburned into the bargain as he took his top of!!!!

Match News
Sunday 5th July Charity Match Mac Millian Nurses Bowes and Lookout Conditions:- Overcast with sunny spells , humidity 88%, ambient temp 18 deg, wind SE 5 mph, barometer 1012.9 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 20.6 to 21 deg, PH 7.24 to 7.52, DO 5.5 to 9.6 conductivity 1st Chris Owers Lookout 70lb 13oz peg 28 2nd Lee Slater Lookout 68lb 11oz peg 1 3rd Steve May Lookout 62lb 12 oz peg 42 4th Dennis Burden Lookout 55lb 5oz peg 11 Lookout Sections 1 pegs 1 to 15 Liam Shilling 45lb 3oz Peg 12 2 pegs 16aa to 24 John Foster 49lb 13oz peg 17 3 pegs 25 to 42 Steve Knowles 49lb 9oz peg 25 Bowes Section 4 pegs 1 to 20 Brian Hall 44lb 1oz peg 12 5 pegs 21 to 40 Colin Pine 50lb 3oz peg 40 Chris fished up in the water at 5 meters out all on maggot or paste made out of Angel Feed Pellets. Next weeks open is on Lookout Lake names being taken now. Wed Eve 1st July Open Bowes 3 hours, Conditions:- Thunder and heavy rain in evening, ambient temp 29 dropped to 23 deg, humidity 81%, wind calm, barometer 1022 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 22.8 deg, Ph 7..95, DO 9 ppm, conductivity -77. 1st John Foster 73lb 9oz peg 1 2nd Chris Owers 52lb 6oz peg 14 3rd Robert Rundel 50lb ( went over net weight) peg 2 4th Alan Mc Guire 47lb 13oz peg 24 5th Lee Mitcherson 39lb 13oz peg 25 6th Dave Barrett 33lb 14oz peg 22 Wet night at the start followed by very muggy weather and still water,

Club News
Coaching Every Sat and Sunday Morning from 9am till 12 noon and will be also on through the summer holidays during the week, please phone to book. Charity Match –Thank You for all anglers who participated and helped with raffle, and help fill some tubs will announce the total raised when we get confirmation from MacMillan Nurses.

Other News
Coaching Every Sat and Sunday Morning from 9am till 12 noon and will be also on through the summer holidays during the week, please phone to book. Charity Match –Thank You for all anglers who participated and helped with raffle, and help fill some tubs will announce the total raised when we get confirmation from MacMillan Nurses.

Weekly report for 28 June 2009

The Full Moon on Monday gave the anglers spectacular fishing on all 3 lakes, with some anglers taking over 200 fish and actually coming to reception for a cuppa to recover and relax, all the lakes fished outstanding with some good specimen sized fish being caught as well on each lake. Water temperatures have rose again with the good weather, and because of this, we have kept aerators on all the time, which has also helped fishing, catches. Next Monday should also produce some good fishing All hook baits are working at this water temperature but remember to get feed patterns correct as all species feeding ferociously after spawning. Try soaking Angel feed pellets for paste, or soak and add caster or chopped worm to form a groundbait to get bottom feeders into your swim. Sweet flavourings now work well in warm water conditions, use scopex, tutti fruit etc, add some to your feed pellets or put a drop on you hook bait. Fish tight in the margins of the first shelf by the reeds both left and right of you fishing peg, and try just out in front of the second shelf plumb up to find your correct depths and some excellent fishing will result. Try out at 6 metres for skimmers and tench at dead depth and rudd on the drop will produce good quantities. The next good moon phase will be next Monday so if you have a few hours spare my advice will be go fishing!

Bowes Lake
Monday was a cracking day for this lake with very high numbers caught as well as some good high weight carp caught, even on Wed evening match the high weight individual carp were caught on pole by Andy Dargue on peg 5. Pleasure anglers have had some excellent numbers of carp out, with the carp moving all around the lake to feed. Great weights out in Wed Eve match this lake does very well dawn and dusk

Lookout Lake
Some outstanding tench caught this week , also a high number of crucians, carp are back on the feed after spawning, so are the koi and ghosties, rudd are being caught in very high numbers on the drop just of the second shelf. Ide, Golden Orfe and even roach are also being caught mid to just of the surface, skimmers and bream are very hungry after spawning and can be caught in good numbers on provision you feed enough to keep them in your swim. A cracking 3lb 3oz perch was caught on worm very tight in the margins in the reeds, and some good numbers of other perch but patience is needed to target this species this week as they have loads of fry to feast on after all the fish species have spawned. Tench to 8 lb have been caught and golden tench above 3lb feeding dead bottom, tench have been our last species to spawn.

Bassetts Pond
Mondays new moon helped this pond produce fantastic catches with every species feeding fiercely, golden orfe over 3lb, Ide over 2lb, Rudd, Roach, tench, carp, koi, skimmers, the only species that seemed missing was gudgeon which is because the anglers were set up for larger fish. Young Lue Deathe 8 yrs old had a great Learn to fis taster session his first with well over 20 fish-well done Lue.

Match News
Conditions:-Light Drizzle and fog then overcast, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 94%, wind calm the N 5mph, barometer 1016.9 mb. Moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 17.3 deg, PH 7.22 (after East rains brought in pollutants) DO low 5.00 aerators on, conductivity -33 1st Rob Emmery 67lb 6oz Shotton peg 1 2nd Chris Owers Angel of the North 59lb 5oz peg 22 3rd Alan Mc Guire 57lb 14 peg 3 4th Tony Watson Fishing Republic 53lb 7oz peg 4 5th Derek Fox 50lb 9oz peg 24 6th Brian Hall 38lb peg 23 3 fish on tip then 5 metres and 11 metres on pole on paste 28 fish total –on our lowest oxygen levels in 6 years! Well done! Wed 17th eve open Bowes Conditions:- Mostly Cloudy, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 88%, wind ESE 7mph, barometer 1023mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temperature rose to 18 deg, PH 7.55, DO 10.1 (aerators on all time) conductivity -52. 1st Andy Dargue 59lb 15oz peg 5 2nd Tommy Marshal 58lb 7oz peg 40, 3rd Chris Owers 45lb 03oz peg 3 4th John Foster 38lb 13oz peg 2 5th Neil Brown 33lb 4oz peg 25 6th John Anslow 32lb 03oz peg 1 Fished well after full moon Monday

Club News
Coaching Is every Sat and Sunday morning from 9am to noon in a group session or individuals can be booked in through the week. Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com Charity Match for Macmillan Nurses is 5th July Names being taken now for the match and places are filling up very fast!! Please phone 0191 4100449 ask for Ann

Other News
Coaching Is every Sat and Sunday morning from 9am to noon in a group session or individuals can be booked in through the week. Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com Charity Match for Macmillan Nurses is 5th July Names being taken now for the match and places are filling up very fast!! Please phone 0191 4100449 ask for Ann

Weekly report for 21 June 2009

General A good week for angling, long daylight hours, and it is fishing excellent after rain and storms, even though water temperatures have dropped and rose a bit, then dropped again. Some excellent specimen fish caught through the day as well as at dawn and dusk. Rudd on the drop on maggots have filed nets up as well as nets full of skimmers on meat cubes, sweetcorn, worm,and also pellet. Carp and tench have been very fussy with hook baits and fresh mussel, prawn and worm cocktail and paste or pellet have been doing exceptionally well. Paste is doing OK, try up in the water for Ide and orfe, Roach will do well fishing mid to just of the bottom on pellet and maggot, Some stunning crucians have came out on maggot and cubed meat however these are tight in the reeds. Perch on worm under overhanging reeds are caught in normally singles, but early and late you will see huge movements of fish and even part shoals coming up out of the water to catch insects-great to see!

Bowes Lake
Some good silvers out in pleasure sessions with carp being very fussy eaters, mussel over angel pellets has pulled in some good catches, carp have been feeding up in margins and up in the water so always bring your tip rod as back up to pole, waggler, or ledger. Eight twenties have been out however only one was a mirror? Best time is dusk and dawn for carp in numbers as well size so season ticket holders gaining an advantage over pleasure day ticket holders.

Lookout Lake
Some good weights both for pleasure and match lads, alter your method to waggler or top 3 in margins, top 4 & waggler for straight in front off the bottom or up in water, quiver tip with bomb or feeder across to far bank tight to margins, ledger make sure you are just of the bottom. Best to feed margins left and right and out in front of second shelf, not forgetting to keep far bank going till fish dry up. Maggot, chopped worm and caster for silvers, try watering down angel pellets and add boiled hemp to make a groundbait base for bream, pellet, paste mussel, prawn, sweetcorn for carp or if this fails go onto multiple maggots on the hook and angel pellets or maggot as feed.

Bassetts Pond
This is a great pond, its rather hot when fishing when the sun is out, but some very good sized silvers, rudd, roach, ide, golden orfe, great skimmers, crucians average a lb, carp to 10lb, koi to 12lb, tench to 3lb, plus gudgeon. This pond is good for fishing when windy or if you want a change of pond to try out. This is a great maggot pond, also pellet, sweetcorn, margins fish great, tight in reeds and get rudd on the drop, roach and tench just of the bottom whilst water temperatures are good.

Match News
Sunday 21st June 09 open Lookout Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 13 deg, wind N 3, then calm then W 3 mph swinging around, humidity 81%, moon phase waning crescent , barometer 1023 mb, water temp 14.1 deg, PH 7.55, DO 10.7, conductivity -50. 1st Tony Watson 58lb 7oz peg 42 2nd Dennis Burden 50lb 1oz peg 25 3rd Chris Owers 43lb 14oz peg 17 4th Ray Laing 43lb 4oz peg 29 5th Andrew Sinclair 40lb 8oz peg 9 6th Rob Emery 38lb 2oz peg 22 Tony used worm & caster fot silvers and paste in margin for carp. Saturday 20th June 09 WAHAC Lookout Conditions:- overcast cloudy and rain, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 88%, wind W 11 mph dropping to WNW6 mph, barometer 1020 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 14.2 , DO 10.3 ppm, PH 7.52, conductivity -54. 1st John Foster 52lb 13oz peg 2 2nd Eddie 27lb 2oz peg 11 3rd Andrew Mac Neil 24lb 14oz peg 1 4th Peter Smith 24lb 11oz peg 8 5th George Mason 18lb 13oz peg 12 6th Tommy Marshal 18lb 5oz 18lb 5oz peg 5 John caught rudd on drop caught shallow on red maggot, on tip far bank for carp on luncheon meat, Wed 17th eve open Bowes Conditions:- Overcast with Rain, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 88% (close), wind SSW 14, barometer 1010.8 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp dropped 15.6 PH 7.49, DO 8.3, conductivity -48 1st Chris Owers 38lb 3oz peg 35 2nd Martin Robson 26lb 8oz peg 1 3rd Andy Dague 22lb peg 12 4th Neil Brown 21lb 2oz peg 23 5th Rickie Bennett 15lb 11oz peg 18 6th Tommy Cullerton 14lb 14oz peg 3

Club News
Coaching Is available every Saturday and Sunday mornings please phone to book 0191 4100449 We can arrange mid week also but need some notice please. Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com Charity Match for Macmillan Nurses is 5th July Names being taken now for the match and places are filling up very fast!! Please phone 0191 4100449 ask for Ann

Other News
Coaching Is available every Saturday and Sunday mornings please phone to book 0191 4100449 We can arrange mid week also but need some notice please. Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com Charity Match for Macmillan Nurses is 5th July Names being taken now for the match and places are filling up very fast!! Please phone 0191 4100449 ask for Ann

Weekly report for 14 June 2009

The fish are back on feeding after an interesting week which saw an almost 8 deg drop in water temp the week before, we now are up to 16 deg water temperature. We have never before ever recorded such a drop in just a few days.The fish went off feed and were slow to catch, but as water temperatures rose so they came back on to feed and started taking a good range of hook baits again. Whilst water temperatures were at 12 deg after the cold 3 days the fish went on to winter baits and would not touch some hook baits eg paste. Some good Moon phases coming up the 15th and 16th then the 19th to full moon on 22nd, the 23rd and 24, 25th to 30th all showing some good fishing ahead. Link this with rising water temperatures and lets hope favourable barometer and weather conditions and some good catches should be forecast. Season ticket holders will be pleased that it is still dusk and dawn for the most catches and for bigger fish go for the 15th and 16th evenings, and plan the eve of the 22nd ( full moon) and 23rd for larger fish catches. Tench still to spawn so they are feeding up well and mussel is bringing in some excellent sized tench to 8lb no sign of the bigger ones however. Rudd on the drop on maggot and pellet doing well again, and fish up of the bottom ( still colder on the bottom) to get some good fish including carp who do prefer foraging in the margins. Worm and caster doing very well for silvers and we are onto pellet and paste again as well as maggot, worm, caster, and luncheon meat. A few good fish caught on cheese this week and what flavourings seems to be working are garlic, scopex, and predator plus.

Bowes Lake
Good weights from match on Sunday so fish starting to acclimatise to lower water temperatures of 16 deg. After spawning and the drop in water temperatures the carp were affected and went of feeding as much, with pleasure anglers getting up to 60 fish in a session depending on what method you were using with tip and pole being the best methods on this lake. Fish tight in the margins for pleasure anglers or tight to the margins of the island on the tip. Carp slowly beginning to feed up after spawning and cold temperatures and are favouring the margins where they are foraging tight in or in the margins of the island. however the hook baits which are now working are paste, pellet, cubed luncheon meat, sweetcorn, mussel, prawn and even cubed cheese working as well,

Lookout Lake
Some good weight out in match on Sunday and pleasure anglers are getting some excellent fish and some good numbers, all fish are moving well around lakes and the lake is not peggy unless you are targeting specific species then ask and we can help you choose what pegs will be best for certain species. Pole and tip rods are doing very well with good fish feeding tight in margins or in the margins at the opposite bank. Wind direction affecting choice of pegs greatly. Get into large shoals of skimmers, rudd on the drop go dead depth for tench, for roach use some groundbait to encourage them.. Carp and crucians are either in margins or up of the bottom foraging into the margins. Perch are favouring worm and caster, Orfe and Ide are favouring red maggot and luncheon meat but do take pellet. If fishing goes slack go onto double or treble maggot to get bites again. All hook baits are back in form with paste made from angel pellets doing very well and feed angel pellets, hemp, caster, try some groundbait targeted to species specific, with chopped worm or maggots to get the biggest fish.

Bassetts Pond
Fishing very well on maggot and corn on the hook,pellet also doing well, feeding maggot and angel pellets, best catches were up in the water with some well over 1lb rudd on the drop, some nice crucians and tench coming out, lots of ide, skimmers, roach, and some lovely Golden Orfe, even gudgeon with carp just switching back on to feed after spawning.

Match News
Sunday June 14th 09 open Bowes Conditions:- Slightly overcast with sunny spells, ambient temp 19 deg, humidity 60%, wind WNW 8mph, barometer 1016.8 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp rose to 16.3 deg, DO 11.ppm, PH 7.61, conductivity -55. 1st Malcolm Dunlop 65lb 8oz Browning peg 2 2nd Tommy Marshall 45lb 15oz peg 40 3rd Mark Wilson 43lb 14oz peg 23 4th Alan Mc Guire 43lb 12oz peg 24 5th Brian Hall 39lb 10oz peg 36 6th Tony Watson 35lb 4oz peg 25 Pole 13 meters and tip to island Sunday June 14th 09 Big Waters AC Lookout Conditions:- Slightly overcast with sunny spells, ambient temp 19 deg, humidity 60%, wind WNW 8mph, barometer 1016.8 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp rose to 16.2 deg, DO 11.1 ppm, PH 7.65, conductivity -43. 1st B Evans 58lb 7oz peg 6 2nd N Beardsley 58lb 6oz peg 29 3rd J Webster 40lb peg 32 4th J Bull 25lb 12oz peg 5 5th T Smith 25lb 3oz peg 5 6th G Rutherford 21lb 2oz peg 15 Wed eve 10th June 09 Open Bowes Conditions:- Partly Cloudy with some rain, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 59%, wind E 5 mph)fish feed least when wind from the East), barometer 1011.9mb, moon phase waning gibbous, sunrise 4.28am, sunset 9.44 pm, water temperature rose to 14 deg, PH 7.84 (east wind and rain again bringing in pollution), DO 11.2 ppm, conductivity -60. 1st Tommy Cullerton 29lb 4oz peg 1 2nd Eddy Brydon 27lb 8oz peg 23 3rd Ray Wallace 23lb 9oz peg 39 4th Andy Dargue 23lb 4oz peg 37 5th Rickie Bennett 20lb 6oz peg 16 6th Neil Brown 19lb 2oz peg 9 Tommy caught on paste and pellet tight in margins and 6 meters out

Club News
Coaching Once again in the coaching sessions regardless of age of students every one caught good numbers of fish and a good range of species. Rudd on the drop, some nice crucians and tench coming out, lots of ide, skimmers, roach, and some lovely Golden orfe, carp are just switching back on after spawning. News Don’t Forget!! Charity Match open is on 5th July 2009 for Macmillan Nurses names being taken 0191 4100449 everyone welcome Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com

Other News
Coaching Once again in the coaching sessions regardless of age of students every one caught good numbers of fish and a good range of species. Rudd on the drop, some nice crucians and tench coming out, lots of ide, skimmers, roach, and some lovely Golden orfe, carp are just switching back on after spawning. News Don’t Forget!! Charity Match open is on 5th July 2009 for Macmillan Nurses names being taken 0191 4100449 everyone welcome Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on Lookout on 18th July 09 to book please call 01525 714012 or email youth@familyfishing.co.uk or visit www.zebco-europe.com

Weekly report for 07 June 2009

Sunday 7th June 09 Wed evening we had 19 deg water temp however by Thursday morning we dropped to 16 deg and dropped again by Friday morning to 12 deg after 2 cold nights, cold North winds and cold rain combined with day temperatures of 7 to 9 deg produced the drops. However, with such dramatic water temperature drops you need to be very careful on feeding, choose to feed a little but and not so often so you do not feed off the fish in your swim just keep the fish there by little and now and then feeding. At these water temperatures you are almost back into winter baits of maggot, worm, pellet and sweetcorn etc as fish do not like such a dramatic change downwards in the water temperature. Carp started spawning on Saturday at 9 pm linking to moon phases and water temperatures above 18 deg and spawned until Wed afternoon. So now, the fish are starting to feed again to gain condition post spawning. All silver fish and carp are finished spawning and just tench yet to spawn. Wed eve we had 19 deg water temp however by Thursday morning we dropped to 16 deg and dropped again by Friday morning to 12 deg after 2 cold nights, cold North winds and cold rain combined with day temperatures of 7 to 9 deg,. However, with such dramatic water temperature drops you need to be very careful on feeding, choose to feed a little but and not so often so you do not feed off the fish in your swim just keep the fish there by little and now and then feeding. At these water temperatures you are almost back into winter baits of maggot, worm, pellet and sweetcorn etc as fish do not like such a dramatic change downwards in the water temperature. Bait tips:- soak angel feed pellets till quite wet allow to soak for 10 mins until sloppy, use in pole cup instead of groundbait, the colour and flavour of the angel fishmeal feed pellet when soaked clouds on the way down and when settled on the bottom is a great attractant for carp and bream. Alternatively using a cage feeder just dampen the pellets so they expand and try adding casters to make a great attractant to bring fish into your swim. On the hook try banding or hair rigging angel red carp pellets to bring in some good carp. Try soft hooker pellets either fishmeal to match angels fishmeal feed pellets or super g soft hookers to match angels betaine feed pellets. Maggot doubles to multiples on maggot clips, caster and worm, meat cubed or punched, mussel, and prawn all catching good fish. Paste made out of angel feed pellets for the pole works a treat.

Bowes Lake
Carp switched back on to feed post spawning on Wed afternoon and carp were well spread out on the lake for the evening match with 41lb 10oz, taking the winning spot. Water temperature dropped by 3 deg on Wed eve together with cold NE winds then torrential rain Friday eve and Saturday morning combined with 9 deg ambient day temperatures took water temperatures down to 12 deg, this made for angling sessions very uncomfortable and very hard to get good presentation. Best fish out was a post spawned female of 28lb 4oz a mirror with several scales missing after spawning through thrashing on the hard surfaces to discharge her eggs, two good sized doubles were caught on pole in the match on Wed evening.

Lookout Lake
Some excellent numbers and quality of fish caught even though carp were spawning from last Sat eve to Wed afternoon, tench came on to spawning but stopped when water temperatures dropped over 3 deg overnight on Wednesday evening. Then water temperatures continued to drop to 12 deg on Sunday. Norman Eden continues his great catch rate on his half day sessions with over 60 fish caught. Been a busy week with silver and tench catching in high numbers and carp starting to feed after spawning.

Bassetts Pond
Great pond with some excellent sized silvers in it and some double figured carp we use this as our growth pond and make sure every fish is healthy for 2 years prior to moving them to the other ponds. This week has seen it busy with the winds as it is the most sheltered pond, again be careful with quantity of feed going in with the water temperatures plummeting this week, as you will feed of the fish. Go back to winter hook baits of maggot, worm , caster pellet, sweetcorn for good catches in these water temperatures. Norman and Chris Eden took over 60 fish each on Monday for their half day sessions.

Match News
Sunday 7th June 09 Open Lookout Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 11 deg, humidity 71% (rain at beginning of day), Wind E 13 mph, barometer 1008.1 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temperature dropped to 12.to 12.3 deg (from 19 deg Wed), DO 8.8 ppm, PH 7.31, conductivity -39 1st Jimmy Messer 42lb 1oz peg 4 2nd Peter Wadge 39lb 14oz peg 17 3rd Peter Rambo 33lb peg 16aa 4th Liam Shilling 31lb 1oz peg 7 5th Chris Gowling 29lb 13oz peg 38 6th Dave Pearson 25lb 2oz peg peg 27 Jimmy used pole and chopped worm and caster with red maggot. Some good large bream came out across the lake today. Wed eve 3rd June 09 open Bowes Conditions:- Mostly cloudy, Ambient temperature 12 deg, humidity 67%, wind NE 12 mph (not a favourable wind for fishing) barometer 1025. 1mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temperature 19 deg, DO 9.6 ppm, PH 7.30, conductivity -38. 1st Martin Robson 41lb 10oz peg 12 2nd Lewis Macintosh 34lb 5oz peg 5 3rd Tommy Cullerton 32.00 peg 34 4th Brian Hall 29lb 13oz peg 37 5th Neil Brown 27lb 10oz peg 3 6th Ray Wallace 25lb 14oz peg 1 Interesting night as fish started to feed after spawning for five days, NE wind had a very cold chill to it, well done Martin.

Club News
Charity Match for everyone is July 5th please contact Ann 0191 4100449 for names to go down. Charity we are supporting is macmillan nurses

Other News
Coaching Qualified Licensed Angling Coaches hold learn to fish sessions every Saturday and Sunday Mornings for group sessions, and one to one can be booked through the week. If any group wants lessons through the week this can be arranged, please just phone Ann on 0191 4100449 for bookings or enquiries. Charity Match for everyone is July 5th please contact Ann 0191 4100449 for names to go down. Charity we are supporting is macmillan nurses

Weekly report for 31 May 2009

General Mixed weather this week including sun, cloudy, winds, high and low barometer readings, as well as rain and even a hailstone showers proves nothing is settled with water temperatures which have been up and down, therefore making the fishing switch on and off several times in a day depending on weather conditions. The end of the week however has seen water temperatures rise to 18 deg, and this means lower Dissolved Oxygen so aerators are now on all the time. Some excellent catches this week some days much better than others Bait tips Feed:- soak angel feed pellets and mix caster, or maggot or chopped worm and use fishmeal soft hookers or natural fishmeal jellets pellets on the hook, alternatively on the hook use sweetcorn, luncheon meat, or worm for some high catch rates, prawn and mussel also cheese is also doing some great catches. . Do not overfeed your swim but little and very often now at this water temperature to keep the fish in your swim. Don’t forget to try and feed at least 2 swims so as one dries up you can switch to a second. Fish like shelter so the margins is the place to feed very tight in next to the reeds off the first shelf at 2ft 6inches deep, or of the second shelf at 6 ft deep, don’t forget to go out also for rudd on the drop..

Bowes Lake
Some good catches and yet some hard days as carp prepared to go into spawning waiting for the magic 18 deg water temperature to switch their spawning cycle on, which started Saturday evening after 9pm. Peter Wilson on Friday morning fishing a short half day session took 47 carp to 5lb Peter was practising for the match on Sunday. Season ticket holders have found it is later in the evening almost past dusk before the lake totally switches on to feed and some high double figured carp have been caught in good numbers. Saturday evening triggered the start of spawning lets hope the water temperatures keep high enough to get them through. Best hook baits have been maggot, worm and caster, soft pellet, or banded or hair rigged, Paste (angel Best hook baits have been maggot, worm and caster, soft pellet, or banded or hair rigged, Paste (angel feed pellets make great paste try adding some banana or mashed strawberries to give it an edge), mussel and prawns also doing great. Feed angel pellets and add some hemp together with caster to see some great results in getting fish into your swim. feed pellets make great paste try adding some banana or mashed strawberries to give it an edge), sweetcorn with mussel and prawns also doing great. Feed angel pellets and add some hemp together with caster to see some great results in getting fish into your swim.

Lookout Lake
Mark Smith snr fishing Lookout peg 1 using maggot and caster caught 119 rudd, roach, and bream, then the carp moved into peg and caught 4 carp to 6lb getting snapped of by a ghostie. Using pole & 12 elastic Norman Eden on half day caught 55 fish in total which comprised 18 carp, 28 tench, 6 golden tench, and silvers all on cubes of luncheon meat on hook over angel pellets on peg 25. on a full day Norman caught over 100 fish 19 carp, 25 tench, 10 golden tench, 3 crucians then skimmers and silvers. Has fished excellently this week with good specimen sized fish feeding prior to spawning, most of the silvers are now through spawning and just carp and tench to spawn yet as water temperatures rise above the 18 deg. Best hook baits have been maggot, worm and caster, soft pellet, or banded or hair rigged, Paste (angel feed pellets make great paste try adding some banana or mashed strawberries to give it an edge), sweetcorn, with mussel and prawns also doing great. Feed angel pellets and add some hemp together with caster to see some great results in getting fish into your swim.

Bassetts Pond
This pond is fishing very well with angling coaching on all week has seen some excellent new anglers with good catch rates for example 6 yr old Rafe Clark on Sunday caught 23 fish, his brother James on Saturday caught 35 fish. Regular Paul White from Gateshead in a half day session caught 126 fish with a 7lb 3oz common carp his largest. A great bait for this pond is maggot, followed by pellet, then sweetcorn. Feed maggot or angel pellets.

Match News
May 31st 09 open Bowes Conditions:- Bright sunshine, ambient temperature 21 deg, humidity 49%,(dew this morning) Wind calm then E 9mph (fish feed least in a East wind), barometer 1030.1mb (high), moon phase first qtr, water temp 18 deg, PH 7.22, DO 9.5, conductivity -64. 1st Brian Hall 40lb 3oz peg 39 and golden peg 2nd Lee Slater 35lb peg 22 3rd Tommy Cullerton 33lb 8oz peg 23 4th Colin Pine 31lb 2oz peg 37 5th Jeff Lincoln 27lb 12oz peg 40 6th John Foster 25lb 07 peg 3 Pole and paste 9 metre out Wed Eve Open 27th May 09 Bowes Conditions:- Overcast with showers, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 88%, WNW 17 mph, barometer 1010.2 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 14.7 deg, DO 9 ppm, PH 7.22, conductivity -34 1st Chris Owers 37lb 12oz peg 23 2nd Andy Dargue 27lb 13oz peg 5 3rd Alan Mc Guire 25lb 6oz peg 1 4th Andrew Brown 25lb 2oz peg 4 5th Neil Brown 17lb 10oz peg 25

Club News
Angling Coaching A good week for learning to fish with the youngest being Rafe Clark 6 yrs old from Birtley who had a great first days fishing coaching on Sunday catching Some really good new anglers in the making coming through the coaching sessions both junior and our oldest novice is 83 yrs old! Never to old to learn! Please phone 0191 4100449 for bookings for angling coaching

Other News
Angling Coaching A good week for learning to fish with the youngest being Rafe Clark 6 yrs old from Birtley who had a great first days fishing coaching on Sunday catching Some really good new anglers in the making coming through the coaching sessions both junior and our oldest novice is 83 yrs old! Never to old to learn! Please phone 0191 4100449 for bookings for angling coaching

Weekly report for 24 May 2009

Good start to the week with Ian Dixon taken a 30lb 4oz mirror on Monday evening using float/Power waggler rod feeding angel pellets and large cube of luncheon meat on hook fishing very tight in the margin just off reeds at 6 ft out. The cold rains put water temperatures down to lows of 10.5 and the sun brings them back up to the highest of 16.4 deg, so fish in a quandary at the moment with no stable water temperatures. However all fish preparing to feed up for spawning so feeding very well especially the silvers, carp feeding best dusk and dawn, Bait tip soak angel feed pellets add hemp and caster or maggot to form a great groundbait. Use pellet or triple maggot on the hook for good results. Keep sweetcorn for the hook as back up together with caster, meat or worm, mussel and prawn just coming into their own as water temperature rises.

Bowes Lake
Good start to the week with Ian Dixon taken a 30lb 4oz mirror on Monday evening using float/Power waggler rod feeding angel pellets and large cube of luncheon meat on hook fishing very tight in the margin just off reeds at 6 ft out. Jimmy Hagan took 36 carp to 17lb and lost a very large double at the net on pellet over angel pellet, worm cocktails took another 8 and Ide was also caught by Jim on Sunday. Produced some great match weights with a ton out last Sunday and pleasure anglers need to have patience to get fish to swim with trickling in feed rather than overfeeding, water temperatures have been up and down this week with all the rain, and is fishing much better dusk and dawn. Carp are feeding up getting ready to spawn however they have a siesta at around 12.30pm until around 3.30pm when you will struggle to catch, then they switch on again.

Lookout Lake
All pegs producing very well if you do not overfeed and just trickle feed into two swims, one needs to be tight in margins, the other at about 3 metres out of the bottom 2nd shelf. Having a quiver tip rod to feed of far band tight in is always a great second method of fishing. Rudd, Golden Rudd, Ide, Golden Orfe, Tench, Golden Tench, Perch, Crucians, Carp, Koi, Skimmers & Bream all catching in good numbers, with tench doing well on caster and hemp, and perch and bream on chopped worm and caster. Alan Brown from Gateshead had 82 fish including crucians, carp, tench, bream, roach and rudd all on sweetcorn over angel pellets.

Bassetts Pond
Rudd, Golden Rudd, Ide, Golden Orfe, Tench, Golden Tench, Gudgeon, Crucians, Carp, Koi, Skimmers, have all caught this week with large numbers of rudd on the drop and Roach, Tench and Skimmers of the bottom, carp have been up at times with water temperature fluctuations this week. Margins have caught well of first shelf tight to the reeds, and at 3 metres out of second shelf.

Match News
Sunday 24th May 09 Open Lookout Conditions, Fair with bright sunshine, ambient temp 17 deg, humidity 82%, wind W8 mph, barometer 1018 mb, moon phase New, water temp dropped to 13.7, DO 9.6 , PH 7.52, conductivity -49 1st Eddie Brydon (70lb 3oz actual went over in net) 65lb 15oz peg 11 2nd Peter Wadge 61lb 11oz peg 17 3rd Chris Owers (63lb 10oz went over in net) 59lb 13oz peg 16aa 4th Lee Slater 57lb 12oz peg 1 5th Martin Robson 56lb peg 42 6th Andy Dague 52lb 11oz peg 5 Eddie caught mainly skimmers average 1lb on worm and caster Wed Eve 20th May 09 open Bowes 3 hour match Conditions Mostly Cloudy, heavy rain during day and at start of match, ambient temp 13 deg, humidity 72%, 14 mphbarometer 1013.2 mb, moon phase waning crescent, DO 12.6, water temp 13.8 mb, PH 7.53, conductivity -52 1st Brain Hall 50lb 3oz peg 40 2nd Davey Pearson 22lb 2oz peg 25 3rd Davey Foster 16lb 9oz peg 1 4th Andy Dague 15lb 11oz peg 23 5th Neil Brown 15lb 5oz peg 36 6th Eddie Brydon 14lb 3oz peg 39 Brian had to go out to 11 metres to get his catches with a few in the margin at 6 metres on paste Heavy Rain at the early part of the match chilled water down and switched the fish of feeding making it a tough nights fishing.

Club News
Coaching Saturdays and Sunday also this week during the Holidays we have an additional Wed, Thurs, Fri, Mornings from 9am until Noon. We do need you to phone to book at least the day before 0191 410044

Other News
Coaching Saturdays and Sunday also this week during the Holidays we have an additional Wed, Thurs, Fri, Mornings from 9am until Noon. We do need you to phone to book at least the day before 0191 410044

Weekly report for 17 May 2009

General Some good catches especially after the rains even though water temperatures dropped with all the rain and east winds this week but this did not stop Bowes producing 109lb 8oz in the 5 hour match on Sunday. Some major PH changes with the rain coming from the east and bringing in pollutants from Europe, however fishing has been outstanding for overnight season ticket holders. Bait tips Feed angel pellets mixed with maggots in pole cup or feeder to get some good fish into your swim, keep trickling some feed going into your swim and try pellet on the hook, if that does not work give maggots on the hook a try and have sweetcorn and luncheon meat as hook baits back up. Methods working are tip, pole, waggler with some success with ledger.

Bowes Lake
A ton up bag of 109lb was caught on Sundays match all on pole and bait was paste by Brian Hall, whilst hair rigged, banded and soft hooker pellets also caught well this week. Chris Owers in a 3 hour match on Wed evening caught 52 lb of carp on paste, and Ray Wallace landed a 14lb 14oz carp on pole during the evening match. By adding caster and maggots to Angel feed pellets some good carp were brought into swims and kept there as long as you fed small amounts very often best out 21lb 6 oz common.

Lookout Lake
Some cracking bream & skimmers out this week on pellet and they are feeding very well, there are signs of them getting ready for spawning soon. Tench were caught on hemp and caster as feed and triple maggot on the hook. Chopped worm encouraged the perch to feed and worm and caster on the hook. George Mulcroft from Manchester catching 16 carp, tench, skimmers with his best 9lb 2oz.also a Koi of 6lb 9oz (his first Koi), Rudd and golden Rudd in good shoals can be caught on double maggot whilst feeding maggot. Carps preference this week has been banded pellets over angel feed pellets, although paste is working also. Ide, Crucians all feeding

Bassetts Pond
has had good Rudd, Roach, Ide, carp, koi, skimmers, crucians, tench, and gudgeon all caught well this week, keep trickling in the angel feed pellets or maggots to get the fish in the swim and some good catches have resulted. One junior angler Lee Wakefield from Gateshead had a good day beating his dad with 65 fish caught whilst dad only had 52, Lee also had the biggest fish a carp of 7lb 4oz.

Match News
Sunday 17th May 09 Open Bowes Partly cloudy, ambient temperature 13 deg, humidity 77%, wind S6 mph, barometer 1006.5 mb, Moon phase last quarter, water temp 12.1 dropped, DO 7.8, PH 7.09 (after east rain and pollutants brought in from Europe) conductivity -26. 1st Brian Hall 109lb 8oz peg 40 2nd Eddie Brydon 42lb 3oz peg 3 3rd John Foster 30lb 14oz peg 22 4th Chris Owers 30lb 5oz peg 37 5th Tony Watson 26lb 13oz peg 2 6th Keith Ainsley 26lb 01 peg 23 Well done Brian on your Ton Up Spring League Winner Dave Pearson 1st Lee Slater 2nd Well Done Lads Summer League starts next Sunday alongside opens Wed evening 13th May 09 open Bowes Lake Conditions:- Partly cloudy, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 55%, wind E15 TO 19 mph, barometer 1020mb, moon phase waning gibbous, PH 7.55, DO 8.96, water temp rose to14.1 deg, conductivity -55. 1st Chris Owers 52lb 8oz peg 12 2nd Tommy Cullerton 28lb peg 2 3rd Peter Wilson 25lb 1oz peg 37 4th Neil Brown 23lb 7oz peg 24 5th John foster 21lb 15oz peg 18 6th Ray Wallace 21lb 12oz peg 9 Pole 6 metres and margin on paste Wed evening Summer League starting next week 20th May 12 matches drop worst 3 names being taken on 0191 4100449 this is along side the open on Wed evenings draw 5pm, fishing 6 till 9 pm. www.angelnorthlakes.com

Club News
Coaching is on through the holidays most mornings from 9am till noon just phone 0191 4100449 to book a place.

Other News
Coaching is on through the holidays most mornings from 9am till noon just phone 0191 4100449 to book a place.

Weekly report for 10 May 2009

General A week of fish feeding very well with long day light hours, despite cold winds gusting to 37 mph which has raised the Dissolved Oxygen to good highs, however combined with the cold ambient temperatures has dropped water temperatures to 10 deg. Anglers struggled with presentation with the high winds however some exceptional catches in the circumstances with one or two brollies ending up very poorly through the gusts, best tip is keep brollies for rain. The tip, feeder and bomb working well with winds so high and getting some anglers high catch rates. The good thing is the winds are forecast to drop at last, so pole and waggler will be back in use for good presentation of baits. Fishing is great at early and late part of the day and anglers need to get correct feeding patterns to keep fish in their swims through the day. Plumbing up correctly and feed tight in margins 6 metres out and far bank to get maximum catch rates. Tench and skimmers also roach have been caught in good numbers with anglers feeding over depth. Carp have been up in the water in the warm thermal layers, whilst rudd on the drop is easily achieved. Red maggots, hemp and caster, worm cocktail –worm tipped with caster, maggot or sweetcorn, paste and pellet, as well as luncheon meat (size depending on size of fish you want to catch) prawns and mussels wll working as hook baits. Feed angel pellets and try groundbait with a few chopped worms or maggot and caster to get fish to your swim (no groundbait allowed on Bassetts pond however only on Lookout and Bowesl). Hemp mixed with red maggots and caster also working well but do not overfeed in this water temperature.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Some consistent catches on prime pegs especially when getting the feed pattern correct, season ticket holders coming in at 4am or after 9 have had good success with large double figured carp, as well as good numbers of fish. Pegs 1, 40, 23, 3, 4, 36, 17, 18, have really produced this week very well. Luncheon meat hot and spicy is doing well as a hook bait as well as worm cocktail, mussel, caster, sweetcorn, prawn, pellet direct on hook, banded and hair rigged, and paste all catching though paste not as well with water temperatures dropped. Feed angel pellets mixed with maggot, or caster to give an edge to other anglers, or try groundbait with chopped worm, caster or red maggots.

Lookout Lake
Lookout Some dedicated anglers out in the high winds have had great catch rates with skimmers, carp, bream, rudd, roach, perch, ide, golden orfe, crucians, koi, & tench all feeding well as the fish build their bodies up to get ready to spawn when water temperatures rise. Longer daylight hours mean the fish have longer to feed well so do not over feed but feed little and often to keep them in the swim. Change tactics and depth as well as baits to target different species, tench doing well on hemp with red maggots and caster, or angel pellets mixed with hemp with a fishmeal pellet on the hook. Maggots target the silvers as well as chopped worm and caster, carp love punched or cubed luncheon meat over angel pellets as feed.

Bassetts Pond
This has been a busy pond this week with the pond being so sheltered, tench have been caught in good numbers as well as carp, rudd on the drop, roach, skimmers, crucians, ide, golden orfe, and koi (a lovely 10lb 6oz). Use maggots on the hook or sweetcorn, pellet, and feed maggots or angel pellets, alternatively try feeding hemp with caster mixed in to get fish to your swim. Fish tight in margins of first shelf, or out 3 metres of second shelf but plumb up each swim to find shelves for highest catch rates.

Match News
Angel open and spring League Lookout May 09 Conditions:- Partly Coudy, ambient temp 13 deg, humidity 58%, wind calm then ESE 9 mph, barometer 1021 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp dropped to 10.1 deg, DO 8.2 ppm, PH 7.24, conductivity -45. 1st Rickie Bennett 64lb 9oz peg 16aa 2nd Peter Wadge 48lb 9oz peg 12 3rd Ray Laing 46lb 6oz peg 3 4th Ken Golightly 39lb 13oz peg 33 5th Mark Arrowsmith 39lb 7oz peg 11 6th Peter Cairns 36lb 5oz peg 31 Pole 8 metres and 11 metres tight in by reeds on his left on paste Also Golden Peg well done Rickie! Names being taken for Summer League Wednesday Evening matches start this week draw 5 pm fishing 6 until 9pm

Club News
Names being taken for Summer League Wednesday Evening matches start this week draw 5 pm fishing 6 until 9pm

Weekly report for 03 May 2009

General Some outstanding catches this week with certain methods working far better than others, for pleasure anglers tight in margins either of first shelf or at the bottom of the second shelf this applies both at the far bank or of the islands as well as close in either side of your peg by the reeds. Go out 7 meters to get bream and skimmers keep enough feed going in to keep the shoal but not to much to feed them off. Baits feed Angel feed pellets to bring fish to your swim, whilst on the hook :-very traditional worm and caster outshining every other bait at this water temperature, followed by maggot, pellet, paste and sweetcorn, prawn and mussel as well as luncheon meat also catching well. Anglers can target species specific with some excellent crucians, tench, ide, rudd, roach, perch, skimmers, bream, koi, carp, all at good weights coming out.

Bowes Lake
Is the lake for thinking anglers who study the watercraft and feed correctly as well as use different methods eg tip rod to back of island and waggler or top sections in margin of first shelf and second shelf and at 7 metres out. Ian Dixon (season ticket holder) fishing late nights and very early mornings once again has had some excellent doubles on 1 inch meat cubes over angel pellets Ian has great skills on catching large carp. Marc Smith Jnr fishing pellet waggler has had several short sessions fishing taking in excess of 50 fish per time.

Lookout Lake
Exceptional in its consistent catch rates of very good quality and size fish for pleasure anglers and match anglers. Good weigh of silvers out in the match 57lb 4oz and pleasure anglers catching some good bream and skimmers as well as perch, tench and golden tench, ide, rudd, and golden rudd, roach, koi, crucians, and carp. Choose baits and methods of fishing to target species specific on this lake for example Nigel Beardson on peg 12 Friday had in excess of 100 skimmers average weight was over 1lb per fish on a good practice session, Nigel fished the match on Sunday and won from peg 30 with 57lb 4oz of silvers.

Bassetts Pond
Excellent fishing with some good specimen sized silvers in this pond which is used to feed up and mature fish prior to moving them in the winter to the other lakes, as well as ensure they are healthy prior to moving to the lakes. Alan Todd from Gateshead fishing tight in margins on top 3 of pole using angel feed pellets and maggot on hook caught 127 fish in a day session with fish slowing down mid afternoon and switching on again late afternoon. Stunning Ide, rudd, roach, tench, skimmers, koi, carp and even gudgeon being caught.

Match News
Sunday 3rd May 09 Open Bowes Conditions:- Partly cloudy, ambient temp 10 deg, humidity 82%, wind WNW 20 mph with gusts wind spoiling presentation, barometer 1022 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 11.9 deg, DO 11.8 ppm, Ph 7.54, conductivity -59. 1st Martin Watson 72lb 13oz peg 40 all carp 2nd Derek Fox 68lb 2oz peg 24 all carp 3rd Chris Owers 41lb 9oz peg 25 all carp 4th Tommy Cullerton 31lb 6oz peg 4 all carp 5th Steve Mc Court 28lb 10oz peg 3 all carp 6th Dave Pearson 24lb 3oz peg 34 all carp Martin fished pole left margin on paste, lost loads, then 7 metres out on pellet Sunday 3rd May Lookout Blyth AC Conditions:- Partly cloudy, ambient temp 10 deg, humidity 82%, wind WNW 20 mph with gusts, wind spoiling presentation, barometer 1022 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 11.7 deg, DO 11.1 ppm, Ph 7.44, conductivity -45. 1st Nigel Beardson 57lb 4oz all silvers Nigel fished pole at 5 metres all on maggots Wed evening matches start 10th May draw at 5pm fishing 6 till 9pm

Other News
Coaching next coaching group session is on Sat 16th May. Charity maatch for Cancer Research soon to be announced

Weekly report for 26 April 2009

General Water temperatures climbed to 12.5 deg by Thursday dropped to 11.6 by Sunday Some records being broken both in catch rates and numbers of anglers this week with all having a great time fishing and great numbers and quality of fish caught. Feed little and often to get fish into your swim and don’t overfeed once in just feed enough to keep you catching however it is worth keeping another swim fed in case fish dry up in the one swim. Some excellent fishing on all lakes and best bait has been feeder with angel soaked pellets with added fishmeal and pellet banded or hair rigged. Using top 3 on pole or using float tight in margins just of reeds at first shelf has anglers catching high numbers of fish in excess of 50 carp in half-day sessions, plus great numbers of silvers. Paste now working as is pellet, maggots, worm cocktail is better than just worm, luncheon meat cubed or punched is working well. Several season ticket holders coming in at 5 am or evenings have bagged some quality specimen fish. After work evening ticket from 4pm till 8pm proving very popular with some tremendous late catch rates

Bowes Lake
Bowes Pleasure anglers are finding this fishing exceptional early and late in the day, depending on wind and light conditions. Ian Dixon having had large double carp each night at approx 9 pm right on dusk for 3 nights in a row, and Paul Wood also taking large doubles on Bowes at 9 pm in the evening. Pellet Waggler has produced very well with Mark Smith catching over 70 carp to 7lb on this method, also several silvers. Angel pellets soaked to form paste or pellets and maggot added also Groundbait feeder with maggot and caster really pulling carp to swim.

Lookout Lake
Lookout. A very busy week with some angler having their best days fishing they can remember and water temperatures have not rose that much yet in fact dropped from Thursday! Jimmy Hagan at 5 am produced a fish a chuck until 9 am on Lookout. Norman Eden catching 79 fish in his half day session on Pellet and maggot over angel pellets including carp, tench, good skimmers, Golden Tench and Rudd. Anthony Longstaff fishing up in the water had a great day and even managed to catch a 3lb tench at 18 inches of the surface on maggot feeding angel pellets over the top!

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts Has produced some good ide, rudd, roach and orfe to in excess of 2lb 10oz and carp to 7lb 3oz in good numbers, tench also golden tench, Norman Eden caught 78 fish a 5lb carp, 35 tench, 15 golden tench to 3lb, 15 Rudd, and 12 Roach all on pole and pellet over angel pellets.. 10 yr old Joe Slater from Westerhope on his first fishing lesson with his dad caught his first carp –see photo Maggot, Pellet, sweetcorn and paste great hook baits on this sheltered pond.

Match News
Open Match Lookout 26th 4 09 Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, Ambient temperature 15 deg, Humidity 45%, wind SSW15 mph, barometer 1007.2mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp (dropped from 12.6 on Thursday) to 11.5 deg, PH 7.32, DO 11.02, conductivity -45. 1st Tommy Marshal 51lb 8oz silvers 6lb 2oz carp total 57lb 10oz peg 37 2nd Dave Pearson 50lb 13oz peg 16aa 3rd Dennis Burdon 47lb 5oz peg 1 4th Peter Wadge 45lb 4oz peg 3 (lost 9lb 13oz overfilled silver net had 55lb 1oz) peg 3 5th Ken Golightly 42lb Peg 25 6th Brian Avery 40lb 12oz peg 2 Tommy used pole 7 metres with worm & caster

Other News
Coaching is at the moment every Saturday morning with school or block bookings taken mid week.

Weekly report for 19 April 2009

General A week of dull, cold weather with fogs, cold winds, and at last Sunday we had some sun, water temperatures across lakes have dropped by at least half a degree, despite this there has been some cracking fishing on all lakes, fishing very well on tip with maggot, pellet, and corn across to islands. Waggler or pole into margins or try at bottom of second shelf at 3 metres out, or try 6 metres out try paste, pellet, worm cocktail and maggot. All species feeding very well and its easy to target species specific with correct methods and baits. Fish moving all around the lakes generally following favourable winds but not obviously E or N. .

Bowes Lake
Pleasure anglers have had a great week with pegs 12, 16, 18, 36, 37, 40, 1, 2, 3, 23 all doing very well, Tip working well with pellet, sweetcorn and maggot, pole with paste, pellet and maggot. If waiting for a bite feed angel pellets or try groundbait feeder with maggot or caster. Fishing Float tight to margins just at edge of the Reeds at first shelf about 3ft deep or off second shelf about 3 meters out. William Green from Gateshead had two good 20s on peg 18 ledgering with 25 mm Pellet tight to island one a common at 21lb 6oz and one a mirror very deep at 23lb 10oz Bill also had 8 other good carp around the 10lb mark but did not weigh these.

Lookout Lake
Some great catches out with Rudd on the drop, Skimmers, bream, tench and carp on the bottom, come up a bit and roach also carp, perch and Ide feeding very well. All methods working but float or pole tight in of first and second shelves and tip to back of island or far bank working well. Pellet on the hook or banded and hair rigged doing well, over angel pellets, maggot and feed maggot, sweetcorn and paste also doing well. Jimmy Hagan fishing peg 24 caught Carp on the bomb using pellet hair rigged, then changed to pole mid way along the feature of the bridge using maggot and feeding angel pellets catching 23 carp, rudd on the drop, went dead depth and caught skimmers, roach, Ide, Tench and perch.

Bassetts Pond
has been fishing exceptionally well with all novices and competent anglers catching well on pole, elasticated whips, and float rod. Durham County Football Club had a very successful morning on Friday with Rudd, Roach, Ide, Carp, Tench being caught best fish was a carp at 4lb 6oz.. Maggot working the best then pellet and sweetcorn over angel feed pellets.

Match News
Sunday 19th April 09 open Bowes Conditions:- Mostly Cloudy with sunny spells, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 76%, wind calm rising to E 2 mph, barometer 1026.1 mb, moon phase waning crecent, water temperature dropped to 9.1 to 9.6, DO 16.1, PH 9.46, conductivity -40 1st Lee Slater 35lb 8oz peg 2 2nd Peter Wadge 17lb 5oz peg 18 3rd Chris Owers 16lb 2oz peg 37 4th Dave Hammel 15lb 6oz peg 40 5th Dave Pearson 15lb 4oz peg 3 6th Dave Foster 13lb 15oz peg 23 Next weeks match on Lookout is already fully booked.

Other News
Coaching is at the moment on Saturday mornings from 9am till noon please phone to book, next weeks match on Lookout is already fully booked.

Weekly report for 12 April 2009

General A week of mixed weather, from still calm waters, to winds, heavy rain, thick fog, severe frosts, and glorious sunny days, all affecting the fishing in different ways. Fishing generally later in the afternoon has seen the best catches or on none frosty days very early prior to sunrise. Calm water or Sunny conditions producing less fish caught, but get a ripple and some cloud and some very high catch rates have been produced. Fish in margins of 1st and 2nd shelves and across to margins of islands or 6 metres on dead bottom and feed angel pellet for good results. Water temperatures have dropped during the night after frost slowing fishing down during the day and as water temperatures rise through the day up go the catch rates with after 3pm being exceptional. Hook baits working are:- Maggot, Castor, Pellet banded, hair rigged or straight on hook, sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up. Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring of liquid mussel.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Water coloured heavily now carp are feeding well, not heavily shoaled and freely moving following the wind most days, so choice of peg critical for good catches. Silvers starting to catch if targeted with skimmers tightly shoaled and rolling on the surface early morning when no frost. Season ticket holder Ian Dixon fishing late evenings has had some stunning double figured carp out this week on meat cubes over angel fed pellets. Hook baits working are:- Maggot try maggot clips to target larger carp, Castor, Pellet banded, hair rigged or straight on hook, sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up. Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring of liquid mussel also tutti fruitie.

Lookout Lake
Lookout Some consistent catches of good silvers this week, all species now feeding some good tench, crucians, rudd, roach, perch, orfe, ide, bream and skimmers all pilling weight and size on, as well as angel bred silvers some now 4 yrs old being caught. Carp and Koi catching early and later in day with double figured carp being caught on meat cubes. Jimmy Hagan on peg 16aa fishing dibber down side had 19 common carp to 7lb, 2 mirror, 1 koi on meat and paste as well as numerous silver fish most caught in the afternoon. Hook baits working are:- Maggot, Castor, Pellet banded, hair rigged or straight on hook, sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up. Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring of liquid mussel or predator plus.

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts Fishing very early and very late for quantity of fish feeding, a ripple on surface is required to get sustainable catch rates, young Alice Newton from Newcastle fishing with her dad caught 17 fish in less than 2 hours then decided she wanted to go home for her Easter Eggs! Hook baits working are:- Maggot, Castor, Pellet sweetcorn, worm or worm cocktail, paste and cubed meat starting to work as water temperatures warm up. Feed angel pellets. Tip of week make paste out of angel pellets for great results add flavouring.

Match News
Sunday 12th April Open Lookout Conditions:- Heavy frost early morning, fair, ambient temp 13 deg, humidity 44%, calm then wind rising to 8 mph doing a full 360 deg, barometer 1013.4 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 9.7 to 9.8 dropped overnight, DO 8.7, PH 7.37, conductivity -31, 1st Peter Wadge 36lb 15oz peg 29, 2nd Ray Laing 35lb 15oz peg 32 3rd Lee Slater 34lb 12oz peg 25 4th Tony Watson 34lb 6oz peg 11 5th Colin Pine 32lb 5oz peg 16aa 6th Jeff Webster 31lb 5oz peg 16 When calm difficult to catch switched on in last hour of match. Saturday 11th April 09 Washington and Harrington Match Lookout Conditions:- Overnight rain, Partly Cloudy with Sunny spells, ambient temperature 10 deg, humidity 66%, wind calm rising to W 3mph, barometer 1007.4 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 9.6 to 9.8 deg, PH 7.32, DO 8.4 conductivity -37%. 1st John Foster 31lb 3oz peg 1 2nd D Mc Neil 27lb 2oz peg 3 3rd Tommy Marshall 21lb peg 27 4th S Cairns 20lb 5oz peg 2 5th K Handley 20lb 3oz peg 14 6th D Walker 18lb 15oz peg 30

Other News
Coaching Bookings taken for Saturday mornings from 9am till 12 noon, seat box, all equipment, end tackle, landing net, unhooking mat, rod licence, bait, ticket to water and angling coach are provided by Angel for £15.00 per group session. one to one can also be arranged at £20.00 per hour. 01914100449 or email annadlington@btinternet.com www.angelnorthlakes.com

Weekly report for 05 April 2009

Some excellent days fishing with favourable weather conditions and baromerter readings with water temperatures rising some good days fishing ahead. Hook baits working well are maggot, pellet, sweetcorn, worm cocktails, and paste coming on now.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Has seen some excellent catch rates with Mark Smith Jnr taking over 50 carp per day on both days he fished this week, Friday his best was 9lb and smallest 4lb, Mark also had silvers and Ide alongside his carp. Need tip and pole or waggler to fish well on this lake. Best hook baits paste just starting to work, maggot, pellet, sweetcorn and worm cocktails (using caster, sweetcorn, or maggot) over angel feed pellets.

Lookout Lake
Lookout Some good tench to 7lb 1oz coming out as well as some good crucians best 2lb 10oz, best bream 6lb 8oz, Rudd, Roach, Ide, Orfe, Perch, Koi, and carp all catching very well. Ian Welby from Scarborough on peg 2 the island had 37 carp to 9lb, and 35 mixed species including a 5lb 2oz tench and a 4lb 14oz bream, on his first visit to the lakes using tip and alternating with pole. Norman Eden on Wed took 79 carp, 28 Tench, 30 skimmers, 19 golden Tench, 1 Rudd on a half day session on pellet over Angel feed pellet. Best hook baits paste just starting to work, maggot, pellet, sweetcorn and worm cocktails (using caster, sweetcorn, or maggot) over angel feed pellets.

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts fished very well this week with Lee Anderson taking over 20 carp to 9lb 4oz, plus Ide, Rudd, Roach, Golden Orfe, tench and skimmers. Norman Eden on 31st March had 50 carp , 16 skimmers, 24 Tench, 1 Roach, 3 Golden Tench, all on pellet over Angel feed pellet in a half day session. Best hook baits are maggot, pellet, sweetcorn over feed Angel pellets.

Match News
Sunday 5th April 09 Big Waters Club Lookout Conditions-overnight touch of frost till 4am, Fair, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 47%, Wind WSW to 12 mph, barometer 1021.1 mb, moon phase waxing Gibbous, Water temperature 9.1 to 9.6 deg, PH 7.65, DO 14.9 ppm, conductivity -47% 1st Nigel Ripley 43lb 3oz peg 1 2nd John Reynolds 34lb 5oz peg 28 3rd Tony Watson 33lb 1oz peg 5 4th Mal Gardner 29lb 5oz peg 4 5th Dave Jobes 27lb 15oz peg 38 6th Geoff Lincoln 26lb 8oz peg 42 www.angelnorthlakes.com Sunday 5th April 09 Open / Spring League Bowes Conditions-overnight touch of frost till 4am, Fair, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 47%, Wind WSW to 12 mph, barometer 1021.1 mb, moon phase waxing Gibbous, Water temperature 9.00 to 9.5 deg, PH 7.15, DO 15.2 ppm, conductivity -24% 1st Anth Richardson 27lb 15oz peg 2 2nd Martin Watson 14lb 1oz peg 40 3rd Gordon Robson 13lb 3oz peg 4 4th Steve Mc Court 13lb 1oz peg 23 5th Ben Huggins 12lb peg 1 6th Neil Brown 9lb 3oz peg 22

Club News
Angling Coaching has commenced now water temperatures have risen please phone 01914100449 or email

Other News
Angling Coaching has commenced now water temperatures have risen please phone 01914100449 or email

Weekly report for 22 March 2009

General Fishing has been excellent on most days, good weather conditions, favourable barometer and wind directions and rivers closed season bringing out lots of anglers, The tip has proven best method and pellet waggler also doing very well, pole and ledger doing ok. Getting Feeding correct is very important; do not overfeed at this water temperature. go sparingly with feed. Hook baits working well are pellet, maggot, sweetcorn, worm and worm cocktail, paste (use our feed pellets for great results) just starting to work at this water temperature,.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Mark Smith jnr on Friday had a good day taking 47 carp from 1.5 lb to best at 13lb as well as silvers on peg 14 tight to island 18 inches deep on fishmeal pellet using pellet waggler. Fishing has been good this week with some days fish feeding later in the day. Best fish out this week 20lb 6oz Common Carp by Marc Brydon from Gateshead on double sweetcorn hair rigged.

Lookout Lake
Lookout Fished great this week with good weather conditions bringing out lots of anglers, some consistant catches whilst barometer and wind were favourable, anglers are able to target species specific now all species catching. Some nice crucians have been caught and tench showing well, Ide to plus 2lb also Golden Orfe, skimmers and bream as well as rudd, golden rudd, perch,ghosties,koi and carp all catching well. Norman Eade had 3 good half day session catching over 30 fish per session.

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts Fab pond with great stock levels and good fishing, some good catches this week with best fish out a carp at 9lb 2oz, a 2lb Ide golden tench 2lb 10oz,, skimmers, crucians, rudd, golden rudd, tench, carp and koi also gudgeon all caught this week. Use maggot and pellet on the hook and feed over maggot or angel pellets to do well.

Match News
22nd March 09 Open Lookout Angel of The North Fishing Lakes Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 81%, after a calm week the day started calm then the wind changed to W 15mph with gusts up to 35 mph, barometer 1028.1 mb dropping, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 9.1 to 9.2, DO 15.5, PH 7.56, conductivity -56. 1st Ray Laing 38lb 8oz peg 2 2nd Tony Watson 29lb peg 12 3rd Ben Huggins 28lb 14oz peg 16aa 4th Steve Kean 28lb 4oz peg 25 5th Norman Laing 27lb 8oz peg 31 6th Terry Guthrie 26lb 12oz peg 9 Spring league starts Sunday as well as opens one week on Lookout and one week on Bowes.

Club News
Calling all 16 and under anglers!!!!! Browning Youth Masters 2009 Qualifier at Angel is on 18th of July participants must be 16 or under by 31st July please phone Browning 01525 714012 to put names down All participants receive Browning gifts, and the overall winner of the final at Moorlands Fishery Kidderminster, receives £1500.00 of angling equipment, and a years sponsorship! Tickets cost £12.00 per Junior entrant.

Other News
Calling all 16 and under anglers!!!!! Browning Youth Masters 2009 Qualifier at Angel is on 18th of July participants must be 16 or under by 31st July please phone Browning 01525 714012 to put names down All participants receive Browning gifts, and the overall winner of the final at Moorlands Fishery Kidderminster, receives £1500.00 of angling equipment, and a years sponsorship! Tickets cost £12.00 per Junior entrant.

Weekly report for 15 March 2009

General Water temperatures have held despite a frost very early on Wed morning and rose to 8.1 to 8.3 on Sunday, fish feeding well, & moving and getting some good colour to the water. Some very good catches out all around the lakes and choices of methods for choice of target species to gain high rates of catch is now essential. Feed very little and every now and then Best baits Maggot, maggot feeder, pellet over angels feed pellets, groundbait, sweetcorn on hook, Luncheon meat cubes, and paste (try make it out of angel pellets) just turning on with water temp going above 8 deg.. Methods Pole, waggler, tip, ledger,

Bowes Lake
Bowes Mark Smith Jnr on Thursday caught 39 carp to 7lb, together with Ide, Roach and Rudd, all on waggler fishing peg 3, on Friday Mark caught 33 carp together 11 silvers on pole at depth and came up to 20 inches 16 mtres out on peg 40 Best baits Maggot, maggot feeder, pellet over angels feed pellets, groundbait, sweetcorn on hook, Luncheon meat cubes, and paste (try make it out of angel pellets) just turning on. Methods Pole, waggler, tip, ledger,

Lookout Lake
Lookout Some excellent weights of 58lb, 57lb and 56lb on Wednesdays Army match and all around lake had good weights. One angler had 17 tench as well as carp also silvers, a good few anglers had some nice sized Crucians so all species are now on to feeding. Fishing and catch rates very good for March Best baits Maggot, maggot feeder, pellet over angels feed pellets, groundbait, sweetcorn on hook, Luncheon meat cubes, and paste (try make it out of angel pellets) just turning on. Methods Pole, waggler, tip, ledger,

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts Following the trend of the other two lakes all species are now feeding and some good catches being caught. Alan Edwards from Washington caught a lovely Golden Orfe at 2lb 8oz as well as smaller crucians, ide, rudd, roach, and numerous carp to 3lb 5oz. Ted Fuller had 14 carp between 3lb to 5lb, as well as smaller carp, and good bag of silvers. Some good sized fish as well as good numbers being caught. Best baits Maggot, maggot feeder, pellet over angels feed pellets, groundbait, sweetcorn on hook, Luncheon meat cubes, and paste (try make it out of angel pellets) just turning on. Methods Pole, waggler,

Match News
Army Fishing Wed 11th March Lookout Mostly Cloudy, ambient temperature 12 deg, humidity 72%, Wind calm rising to W 7 mph, barometer 1019.4 mb dropping, moon phase Full, water temp 7,3 deg, DO 15.9, PH 7.55, conductivity -65. 1st M Leck 45lb 11 carp, 12lb 12 silver total 58lb 7oz peg 6 2nd G Evans 38lb 6 carp, 19lb 1oz silvers total 57lb 7oz peg 26 3rd Craig Kent 46lb 6oz carp, 10lb 2oz silver, total 56lb 8oz peg 12 4th I Mc Gray 36lb 10oz peg 14 5th O Dawson 33lb 11oz peg 24 6th M Sharpe 31lb 8oz peg 1 Maggot with maggot feeder, pellet over pellet fed, and sweetcorn well done lads nice weights for March. Sunday 15th March 09 Open Lookout Mostly cloudy with some sunny spells, ambient temp 11 deg, humidity 71%, wind W11 to 13 mph, barometer rose to 1027.1 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 8.1 to 8.3 deg, PH 7.55, DO 15.1 ppm, conductivity -65 1st Tony Watson 40lb 3oz peg 1 2nd Tommy Marshall 30lb 1oz peg 5 3rd Anth Richardson 23lb 8oz peg 39 4th John Foster 22lb 3oz peg 26 5th Terry Guthrie 22lb peg 32 6th George huscroft 21lb 4oz peg 6 Tony alternated between bomb and feeder to far bank used corn and maggot on hook. Sunday 28th March is the Start of a 8 match Spring league alternating between Lookout and Bowes drop worst 2 matches, names and deposits being taken now 0191 4100449

Club News
July 5th Is a Charity match names are being taken now

Other News
Coaching bookings now being taken please phone 0191 4100449 Sunday 28th March is the Start of a 8 match Spring league alternating between Lookout and Bowes drop worst 2 matches, names and deposits being taken now 0191 4100449

Weekly report for 08 March 2009

General Some very still days early in the week followed by Two very heavy frosts Wed and Thursday Evenings and very low barometer pressure put the fish down this week but fishing picked up towards weekend, water temperatures have remained steady in the 7 degs, despite snow on Sunday.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Carp turned back on to feed after the 2 heavy frosts this week with a lovely 22lb 5 oz mirror coming out on Wednesday Evening by Edwin Granger from Portsmouth on Mussels, whilst Dave Potter taking 12 good Carp on Wednesday on Cockles with chilli powder. Best baits have been maggots, sweetcorn, pellet, worm and worm cocktail, meat cubes, cockles and mussels.

Lookout Lake
Lookout Some good carp to 14lb 7oz, bream to 7lb 4oz, tench to 8lb 5oz, plus rudd, roach, ide, skimmers, tench and perch all feeding well Best baits have been maggots, sweetcorn, pellet, worm and worm cocktail, meat cubes, cockles and mussels.

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts Some good numbers of Tench both Golden and Green coming out with John Nelson of Washington catching double numbers of tench on Sunday despite snow showers, Rudd, Roach, Ide carp, all feeding. Best baits maggot, sweetcorn, pellet, worm and worm cocktail.

Match News
Sunday 8th March open Lookout Partly cloudy , with some snow showers, ambient temperature 5 deg feels like 1 deg, humidity 57%, wind WSW 23 mph gusting to 36 mph, barometer 991.1 mb dropping fast, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temperature 7.1 to 7.3 deg, PH 7.55, DO 15.7 ppm, conductivity -45. 1st Derek Fox 43lb 12 oz equal silvers and carp peg 31 also £150.00 GP 2nd Colin Pine 41lb 13oz all carp peg 1 3rd Nick Gilbert 37lb 7oz peg 14 4th Norman Laing 31lb 2oz peg 2 5th Dave Hodgson peg 28lb 12 oz all carp peg 11 6th John Foster 25lb 2oz peg 23 Derek used Bomb with corn on hook for carp, and pellet over pellet for skimmers on pole. Spring League starting in 3 weeks time names taken for this, alternating between Lookout and

Club News
Coaching starting again and phone for bookings 0191 4100449

Other News
Browning Youth Trials is on 18th July at Angel taking names for places 0191 4100449

Weekly report for 01 March 2009

An excellent week as water temperatures came up slowly to 7 deg, some good catches considering its still winter and the lakes have been frozen more than unfrozen in the last few months. Carp catching well, as well as Ide, Rudd, Roach, Perch and some good Tench out.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Carp starting to feed very well coming out of winter in good condition, still shoaled but moving around well. Best baits maggot, pellet, sweetcorn and worm and worm cocktail. Maggot feeder, groundbait feeder, bomb all working. Best fish out this week was 18lb 2oz common and some good numbers of carp out on feeder and bomb to the island. Silver fish not being targeted

Lookout Lake
Lookout fishing well with some excellent carp numbers being caught to the back of the island, or back of the far bank, silvers all catching and feeding well tighter in. best baits maggot, sweetcorn, pellet, worm and worm cocktail.

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts fishing very well with 7 year old Martin Fletcher taking 52 fish whilst fishing with his dad. Great sheltered pond Best baits maggot, sweetcorn, pellet.

Match News
Sunday 1st March Open Lookout Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 8 deg feels like 4 deg, humidity 71%, wind SW5 mph, barometer 1004.1 mb (dropping), moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 7,3 deg, PH 7.65, DO 15.6 ppm, conductivity -69. 1st Gavin Martin 23lb 12oz peg 2 2nd Norman Laing 22lb peg 3 3rd Ben Huggins 19lb 7oz peg 5 4th Chris Pine 18lb 5oz peg 6 5th Terry Guthrie 15lb 10oz peg 11 6th Neil Brown 14lb 6oz peg 29 Gavin use maggot tip to back bank for carp

Club News
All welcome to put names down forCharity Match on July 5th!

Other News
Charity Match is on July 5th for Cancer Research Coaching starting fron Sat 7th March weather permiting!

Weekly report for 22 February 2009

We defrosted on Monday after being frozen for 2 weeks and a day what a winter as we have been frozen more than not! Well spring is on its way at last! And fishing is picking up well.

Bowes Lake
Bowes carp feeding and starting to move slowly out of shoals fish of the bottom to catch, Maggot Sweetcorn and pellet working

Lookout Lake
Lookout now starting to fish well, carp, skimmers, rudd, Roach, ide, tench being caught, Maggot Sweetcorn and pellet working

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts fishing excellent in 6.7 deg water temp, Maggot Sweetcorn and pellet working

Match News
Sunday 22nd Feb 09 Open Lookout Partly cloudy, ambient temp 8 deg, wind WNW 10 mph rising at times to 15 mph, barometer 1023 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 6.6. to 6.7, PH 7.53, DO 15.4 conductivity -60 1st Rob Emmery 25lb 7oz peg 29 2nd Derek Fox 25lb 4oz peg 30 3rd Neil Brown 23lb 15 oz peg 31 4th Terry Guthrie 14lb 6oz peg 3 5th Ray Wallace 11lb 4oz peg 6 6th John Foster 10lb 5ox peg 5 Rob used pole, tip, fished for Carp, Derek fished for Carp and Neil had all silvers.

Club News
Not a lot doing whilst frozen

Other News
As weather picks up so does the fishing

Weekly report for 01 February 2009

Cold week but some good catches on all lakes considering weather conditions

Bowes Lake
Pegs 20 to 27 doing the best with Dereck Potter getting 11 good carp on Sunday in baltic conditions

Lookout Lake
Silvers showing with carp on island pegs

Bassetts Pond
Fishing very well all species caught except crucians

Match News
Sunday 1st Feb 09 open Lookout Light snow showers and hail, bitterly cold, ambient temp 1 deg feels like -2, humidity 65%, wind E14 mph, barometer 1016.9 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 4.4 deg,PH 7.46, DO 15.2, conductivity -41. 1st Ricky Bennett 11lb 8oz peg 31 2nd Anth Longstaff 6lb 6oz peg 28 3rd Anth Richardson 4lb peg 23 4th Ray Wallace peg 29 5th John Foster peg 2 6th Steve Mc Court peg 30 Baltic Cold, wind in face snow & hail tough day fishing!

Club News
will be starting again in March for juniors and matches

Weekly report for 04 January 2009

Cold weather dropping temperatures including water temperatures Fishing is best Dusk and Dawn Maggot proving best bait followed by sweetcorn, worm, worm cocktail,& caster.

Bowes Lake
Best out this week was a common carp double figures on triple maggot Finding the shoals is important to catches in cold weather conditions

Lookout Lake
Ide, Rudd, Roach, Tench, skimmers, bream and carp out this week,

Bassetts Pond
Mixture of Carp,Koi Ide, Rudd, Roach, Tench, skimmers, out this week,

Match News
Sunday 4th Jan 09 Open Lookout Mostly Cloudy, ambient temp 2 deg, humidity 81%, wind calm then W5 mph, barometer 1020 mb, water temp 3.9 to 4.1, PH 7.55, DO 15.5, conductivity -53. Fish only started to bite at 2.30 pm Bream, tench, Ide, Roach and carp taken today. 1st Anthony Longstaff peg 7 2nd Neil Middlemiss Peg 29 3rd Ben Huggins Peg 31 4th Ray Wallace Peg 11 Winter League starting next Sunday 11th Jan 09 anyone wanting to put names down please phone 0191 4100449. Happy New Year There Wont be any reports for a couple of weeks as on hols in warmer climates

Club News
Happy New Year to everyone!

Other News
Wont be any reports for a couple of weeks as off to sunny climates Winter League starts alongside opens this Sunday 11th Jan anyone wanting to put names down please ring 0191 4100449 Happy New Year to everyone

Weekly report for 28 December 2008

Using the bomb has proved most successful, lack of any ripples on the water surface and flat calm conditions together with a very high barometer has not aided fishing this week. Happy New Year to everyone!

Bowes Lake
Some good bags of carp best being 48lb 13oz and 43lb 9oz in the Saturday match, Fish are well shoaled up so choice of pegs is critical to get good catches. Maggot working the best followed by sweetcorn and worm & casters, pellet working now and then.

Lookout Lake
Ide, Roach, Rudd, Crucians, Perch, skimmers, bream, tench, koi, carp, all catching on maggot, with sweetcorn, worm, caster then pellet doing some catches. Best bag out this week was John Foster with 35lb 15oz.

Bassetts Pond
Some excellent quantities of fish out since the new stocking, Ide, Roach, Rudd, Carp, Crucians, tench and Koi all have been caught, some happy people trying out new Christmas presents from rods to poles. Maggot working the best followed by sweetcorn and worm & casters, pellet working now and then.

Match News
Saturday 27th Dec 08 Pairs Match Lookout & Bowes Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 2 deg (frost overnight but cleared early), humidity 87% Damp, wind calm (to calm need a bit of a ripple), barometer 1041mb (very high! optimum is 1012 to 1022 for coarse angling), Moon Phase New, water temp 3.7 to 3.9 deg, PH 7.52 -56,DO 15.1 conductivity -51. 1st Pair 55lb 10oz pegs 3 best bag Carp Marc Carlin 48lb 13oz Bowes maggot on bomb 2nd Pair 50lb 4oz pegs 24 best bag Carp 43lb 9oz Rickie Bennett Bowes maggot on bomb 3rd Pair 44lb 13oz pegs 16 best bag Carp John Foster 35lb 15 Lookout Maggot on bomb Sunday 28th Dec 08 Open Lookout Mostly Cloudy, rain showers, ambient temp 4 deg, humidity 70%, barometer 1034.5 high, wind calm , moon phase New, water temp 3.7 to 3.8, DO 15.5, PH 7.54, conductivity -45. 1st Tommy Marshal 23lb 3oz peg 16aa 2nd John Foster 14lb peg 1 3rd Liam Shilling 13lb 14oz peg 2 4th Gavin Martin 12lb 5oz peg 13 5th Ray Wallace 10lb 15 peg 14 6th Dave Hodgson 9lb 5oz peg 7 Maggot on hook & maggot feeder, hardly any silvers showed in today match a tough days fishing

Club News
Happy New Year to everyone

Other News
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Weekly report for 21 December 2008

Week in general New Fish in Bassetts good stocking of Rudd, Roach, Ide and Gudgeon, which is in addition to the carp, rudd, roach, tench, ide, crucians already in it, this pond is kept as our stock pond to make sure every fish is health before transferring to Bowes or Lookout, so we have a high biomass in this pond which is a great pond for fishing on a windy day or for training/coaching. New silvers in Bowes also with more to be going in up to March which will make this a mixed coarse lake as well, all carp will remain in it as well, so ensuring every angler can catch on this depending what species they are targeting.

Bowes Lake
had a silver fish stocking on Wednesday and more will be going in prior to end of March making this another mixed Coarse Lake all the carp will also be left in, best out this week was a 13lb 4oz common and some good single figured carp also were caught. Maggot best bait, pinkies producing smaller fish, although pellet also now producing some fish.

Lookout Lake
Has produced some good catches this week considering the water temperature with John Foster taking 25 carp on double maggot and spaying maggot as feed, as well as Rudd, Roach and Ide all good sized fish. Other anglers are having some very good days with catches including carp, rudd, roach, ide, skimmers, tench and some good bream. Maggot best bait, pinkies producing smaller fish, although pellet also now producing some fish.

Bassetts Pond
Has fished very well especially after the new stock went in with everyone catching good numbers, this pond is highly stocked and will be nurtured and monitored very closely. It is classed as our stock pond to make sure all new fish are very health before moving to the other two ponds, as well as a great pond in winds and our training & coaching pond. Maggot best bait, pinkies producing smaller fish, although pellet also now producing some fish.

Club News
Pairs match on Saturday 27th Dec and Junior matches to start at Easter again.

Other News
Don’t forget last minute Christmas presents can be Gift Vouchers for Angling, Coaching or Season Tickets. Happy Christmas to You All. Closed on Christmas Day only!

Weekly report for 14 December 2008

Well after 3 weeks of being frozen then partially de-frosted water temperatures are very low 1.3 deg, the coldest on our records. However 20lb 8oz was John Fosters winning weight Sunday 14th and Terry Guthrie took 163 silvers Jan and Feb we are told will be warmer than Dec so lets hope water temperatures come up

Bowes Lake
Occasional carp being taken patience and lighter tackle required and correct feeding for the water temperature

Lookout Lake
Has its good and bad days in between total freeze or odd pegs being fishable Sunday produced 20lb 8oz and all together Bream, Skimmers, Rudd, Roach, Ide and carp were caught, so good mixture to target up of the bottom however

Bassetts Pond
Has been mainly frozen for 3 weeks but a couple of pegs freed of on Sunday for some anglers to get their first chance to fish for 3 weeks

Match News
1st John Foster 20lb 8oz peg 15 Bream & skimmers 2nd Terry Guthrie 17lb 12oz peg 31 All mixed silvers 3rd Peter Smith 11lb 4oz peg 13 4th Tommy Marshall 10lb 10oz peg 29 5th Ray Wallace 8lb 12oz peg 27 6th Chris Pine 6lb 5oz peg 22

Club News
Winter League winner was Dave Hodgson 2nd was Terry Guthrie 3rd was Ray Wallace

Other News
Happy Christmas to all and we hope Santa is good to you.

Weekly report for 23 November 2008

Sunday 23rd Nov 08 A Cold week with water temperatures dropping to 3.8 deg, most pleasure anglers lasting several hours and only a few managing to stay for their full sessions due to cold ambient temperatures, those stopping later finding catches coming on well at dusk also those season ticket holder choosing before dawn having the most catches. Some successes on Waggler, Pole, Tip and Ledger with lighter tackle for the colder water temperatures, fish topping before dawn on all lakes so still feeding. Carp well shoaled together with best out 14lb 2oz, Ide, Perch, Roach and Rudd and Bream best to 4lb 9oz and Skimmers all caught in colder conditions this week. Maggot, Pinkies, pellet have all caught as well as sweetcorn all as hook baits worm taking bigger perch. Feed little only a couple of pellets or maggots and groundbait as a cloud enhancer and sensor with top of the water clearing now to 2 foot. Fish have moved of shelves except in sunny conditions and are best targeted 6 to 8 meters out or back of far banks as they are keeping to the warmest thermals in the water. All lakes have had various success depending on choice of pegs to wind conditions with wind this week swinging from a very cold Northerly around to westerly and both Southerly and South westerly in a week with strengths varying from 23 mph down to 3 mph. Saturday night was the coldest this week with -5 deg registered at Angel, and sleet and snow both Friday and Saturday, which settled and dropped water temperature.

Bowes Lake
Bowes, Lookout and Bassetts all have had anglers catching however much slower with the drop in temperature anglers really need to be set up for the extreme weather conditions we have experienced this week.

Lookout Lake
Bowes, Lookout and Bassetts all have had anglers catching however much slower with the drop in temperature anglers really need to be set up for the extreme weather conditions we have experienced this week.

Bassetts Pond
Bowes, Lookout and Bassetts all have had anglers catching however much slower with the drop in temperature anglers really need to be set up for the extreme weather conditions we have experienced this week.

Match News
1st Ray Wallace 4lb 9oz peg 26 2nd Chris Pine 3lb 14oz peg 15 3rd Gavin Martin 2lb 10oz peg 14 4th Brian Hall 2lb 5oz peg 6 4th Dave Hodgson 2lb 5oz peg 24 6th John Foster 2lb 3oz peg 1 Very cold tough day with water temp dropping most fish caught as darkness approached at end of match, Ray caught 2 carp on worm & maggot on tip.

Club News
Dont forget Sat 27th Dec Pairs match names being taken

Other News
Coaching is advised as one to one with such extreme cold conditions to help develop skills in winter angling. Christmas gift ideas are:- season tickets, membership, coaching vouchers, gift vouchers or tackle.

Weekly report for 16 November 2008

Week ending 16th Nov 08 Water temperature just on 6 deg so shy bites, lighter tackle combined with good presentation is working with winter conditions and wind direction changing to N making fishing very challenging. Best fishing is dusk and before dawn, or overcast days even in windy conditions some good catches coming out you just need to use watercraft to choose pegs and get your swims correct for species targeted. Mixed lakes are producing carp, ide, perch, skimmers and rudd with the odd tench, roach and crucian. Bowes best out 28lb 10oz a mirror and some good bags if patience. Feed very little and have patience will gain rewards, red maggots, red and yellow sweetcorn Also pellet working on the hook, meat should be presented in small punched sizes, half prawn and mussle bringing in some nice fish also.

Bowes Lake
Brian hall trying tip on Saturday took 21 carp Brian was trying out maggot and maggot feeder, groundbait and pellet and also worm for best results which were red maggot. Edwin Marley trying out Angel for the first time whilst visiting relatives in Newcastle took a lovely 28lb 10oz mirror on pellet presented in PVA bag and 8 mm pellet on the hook he also had 4 other fish going to 25lb in weight. Two anglers practising different winter hook baits tried out cheese with only 2 fish on this, meat with some success, maggot with better success, prawn producing larger fish, and pellet all produced fish. Peg 3, 1, 23, 19 34 all productive this week.

Lookout Lake
Chris Pine Saturday on peg 21 trying out different winter methods and baits took 50 Skimmers average 13 oz, 10 carp, 2 tench all on Jellets pellet over angel feed pellet most coming from 8 metres out left and right Anglers are having mixed catches depending on their choice of peg, Pegs 16a and 16, together with 1, 21, 24, 25, 39, 15 have all had some good results from pleasure anglers this week.

Bassetts Pond
Mark Smith Snr chose this pond on a windy Day taking a lovely 7lb Koi on maggot over a few maggots for feed, as well as ide, rudd and skimmers. Some good catches still coming out

Match News
Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 6 deg (feels colder), humidity 78%, wind NW10 swinging to NE 14 mph, barometer 1027.6, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 6 deg, PH 7,65, DO 12.2, conductivity -65. 1st Geoff Lincoln 23lb 2oz peg 23 all silvers, Groundbait and red maggots at 6 meters 2nd Steve Knowles 21lb 9oz peg 14 3rd Dave Hodgson 17lb 9oz peg 15 4th Dennis Burdon 17lb 4oz peg 2 5th Dave Hammel 17lb 3oz peg 30 6th Ray Wallace 14lb 8oz peg 24 A tough day with a NE wind Geoff was on a £150.00 golden peg well done Geoff.

Club News
Coaching Anyone wanting one to one or a group session please phone 0191 4100449

Other News
Christmas gift ideas from Angel:- gift vouchers, season tickets, membership, fishing reels, fishing rods, landing net, unhooking mat, bait tub, floats. Etc

Weekly report for 09 November 2008

Week ending 9th Nov Another wet cold and windy week has not deterred anglers who are keen to try out winter tactics by trying out pole, feeder, waggler and ledger. I would advise always to bring your tip rod as a good back up for all weather conditions and some remarkable catches of good specimen fish. Some good results have been produced with a high 20/30lb coming out together with good doubles and smaller also being taken on Bowes. On Lookout and Bassetts changing tactics, bait and targeting species specific has also been successful. Water now starting to clear down to 10 inches as water temperatures drop and sunlight lessens making plankton etc die off for winter. High winds are producing warmer thermals up in the water with surface and bottom being up to 1 deg colder than middle layer.

Bowes Lake
Saturday on in wet and windy conditions Peg 3 Brian Hall using a maggot feeder with maggot on the hook had a great session catching 25 carp all of good calibre. Brian’s catches comprising 4 at 10lb, 5 at 8lb, all rest 4lb plus, the first 2 hours Brian did not catch he persevered and then this changed to a steady catch rate. Some good very high weight carp to high 20s have been taken with big carp anglers settling down in their bivies to keep the weather out.

Lookout Lake
Targeting tight shoals has proved successful with Dave Hodgson on Sunday managing to get both carp and bream with some other silvers to win the match on peg 26. Anglers using the tip to far bank with both groundbait and maggot feeders doing well and best hook bait is maggot. Fish are still feeding though lighter tackle for winter water temperatures now needed, as is the use of watercraft for identifying the best pegs to fish from. A windy wet week has seen fish jumping out of the water at dawn and topping well looking for seeds and floating berries blown in. Some lovely Ide and crucians being caught to good 2lb plus, ghosties and carp feeding early on, with silvers later on in day.

Bassetts Pond
Lots feeding at dawn with topping fish and good movement early on, shorter daylight getting fish started moving and shoals of skimmers and carp can be seen also very early, some nice carp out this week and tench slowing feeding down. Remarkably some good catches in students learning to fish even in the inclement weather conditions well done.

Match News
Pairs match is planned for Sat 27th Dec if anyone would like to put names down just phone 0191 4100449 Sunday 9th Nov 08 Open Lookout Overcast with light showers, temp 5 deg feels like 1 deg, wind SSW 14 mph, barometer low 998 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 6.00 deg, PH 7.55, DO 12.7 ppm, conductivity -55, water levels high after all the rain this week 1st Dave Hodgson 33lb 5oz peg 26 tip and maggot 2nd Terry Guthrie 23lb 2oz peg peg 22 3rd Chris Pine 16lb peg 2 4th Steve Knowles 14lb 10oz peg 6 5th Ray Wallace 14lb 3oz peg 3 6th Neil Brown 10lb 3oz peg 30 Dave used ground bait feeder to far side and maggot on hook for carp, skimmers and silvers on pole at 14 metre using maggot, feeding pellet with maggot. Golden pegs £150.00, £132.00, 2x £50.00.

Club News
A Pairs match is planned for Sat 27th Dec 08 just let me know names to arrange juniors welcome as well

Other News
Dont forget gift vouchers, for presents or membership and season tickets with Christmas around the corner. We have some excellent reels on offer at £19.99 and a wide selection of rods and tackle for presents.

Weekly report for 26 October 2008

General As water temperatures go down it is critical to lighten up on terminal tackle and use lighter tips, follow watercraft including wind direction for choice of pegs, as well as make sure you understand where the warmer thermals are in the water. There is still seeds on aquatic plants and berries on bushes allowing for extra feed for the fish as they blow off the plants specially in margins. Some good catches obviously not in quantities of the Summer warmer water temperatures but some very good specimen size fish Good Carp to 28lb 4oz, Koi to 8lb 9oz, Ide, Rdd, Roach, Bream and Skimmers, Crucians and Perch also some nice tench both green and golden still getting caught.

Bowes Lake
Some nice fish coming out with best at 28lb 4oz a male common in stunning deep winter golden colours, smaller carp being caught now averaging 20 in a session to a good angler. Maggot, Caster, pellet, doing the best on the hook with paste catching also pinkies bring in smaller fish. Choice of pegs to watercraft and wind direction needed to be very selected now water temperature is lower.

Lookout Lake
Some good catches obviously not in quantities of the Summer warmer temperatures, but some very good specimen size fish. Good Carp to 11lb 2oz, with lots of 4 to 5lb also coming out, Koi to 8lb 9oz, Ide, Rudd, and golden Rudd, Ide, Orfe, Roach, Bream and Skimmers, Crucians and Perch also some nice tench both green and golden still getting caught. Maggot, Caster, pellet, doing the best on the hook with paste catching also pinkies bring in smaller fish. Choice of pegs to watercraft and wind direction needed to be very selected now water temperature is lower.

Bassetts Pond
This sheltered pond is producing some cracking Ide, Orfe and rudd to over 2lb, carp at 5lb 2oz out this week, rudd, crucians, tench and skimmers still are being caught in smaller numbers than the warm summer. Maggot, pinkies, pellet working well with paste still doing some good on the hook.

Match News
Sunday 26th Oct 08 open Lookout Conditions:- Partly Cloudy with sunny spells, ambient temp 11 dropped to 5 deg, humidity 71%, wind WSW 9mph GUSTING TO 18 MPH, barometer 1008.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent , water temp 8.9 to 9 deg, PH 7.53, DO 12.2, conductivity -51 1st Dave Hodgson Angel 38lb 3oz peg 31 plus on a Golden peg 2nd Geoff Lincoln 29lb peg 2 3rd Neil Brown Angel 25lb 15oz peg 13 4th Steve Knowles BIGW 25lb peg 7 5th Chris Owers Angel 24lb 4oz peg 15 6th Ted Hudson 23lb 4oz peg 27 Dave used groundbait feeder with maggot on hook to far bank, and pole 6 mtre maggot on hook. From a still morning, the wind started through the match with gusts spoiling presentation. Golden pegs are £150.00, £106.00, 2 x £50.00. so get your name down for next week!!!

Club News
Anyone interested in a Pairs match on Sat Dec 27th please forward names to go down.

Other News
Coaching is all about winter fishing and targeting species specific in cold water temperatures.

Weekly report for 19 October 2008

General In to Autumn Fishing conditions so scale down as water temperatures now at 9 deg Some great catches still achievable, on the hook use maggot is doing great, pellet and meat, worm also and caster doing well. If after skimmers you need to still keep the feed going in or else they will move off, some of the larger bream have spawning tubercles and just finishing yet another spawning strange I would presume this phenomenon is due to the excessive dark and rainy past 4 months well that is my theory.

Bowes Lake
Some good calibre carp who are in dark golden winter colours have been caught up to large doubles 28lb 4oz, again on smaller hook sizes and maggot, also worm cocktails, pellet also working . Sunday was the most productive for doubles

Lookout Lake
In the match Crucians, tench, good rudd and roach, ide, and skimmers growing well averaging 14oz and turning golden ,all being caught also some stunning golden orfe and koi, and ghosties also some good bream, Carp of excellent calibre also being taken average 3lb to 4lb per fish

Bassetts Pond
proving very productive and is very sheltered in windy conditions.

Match News
Sunday 19th Oct 2008 Open Lookout 23 anglers Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 77%, wind SSW12 mph, barometer 1009.1 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp dropped to 9.4 deg, ph 7.65, DO 13.5, conductivity -49. 1st Anth Richardson 55lb 15oz Stanley peg 3 2nd Steve Knowles 30lb 6oz BIGW peg 29 3rd Andy Simpson 30lb Browning 36 4th Geoff Lincoln 29lb 12oz peg 9 5th Chris Owers 29lb 6oz peg 26 6th Dave Walker 27lb 8oz peg 12 Anth used tip maggot for carp and tight in heavy feeding to keep them there Sunday 12th Oct 08 Open Lookout 21 anglers 1st Lee Slater 30lb 7oz peg 40 2nd Terry Guthrie 28lb 3oz peg 28 3rd Jeff Lincoln 27lb 13oz peg 12 4th Liam Shilling 25lb 2oz peg 31 5th Anth Richardson 23lb peg 32 6th Chris Pine 20lb 12oz peg 37 Sunday 5th Oct 08 Open 1st Anthony Longstaff 51lb 5oz peg 15 2nd Neil Brown 42lb 13oz peg 5 3rd Chris Pine 31lb 2oz peg 2 4th Dave Hodgson 27lb 6oz peg 9 5th Geoff Lincoln 20lb 13oz peg 3 6th Lee Slater 18lb 10oz peg 14

Club News
Coaching continues on Saturday and Sunday mornings great to help get into winter fishing conditions.

Other News
Sorry for delay in reports we have been on holiday

Weekly report for 28 September 2008

General Some good catches when overcast the sun making fish stop feeding as much with best catches from dawn to around 11am also from 4 till dusk and through the night. A week where cold nights dropped water temperature, fishing now going into Autumn methods and baits. You need to try and have a variety of baits including paste, pellet, sweetcorn, worm (both on its own and as a cocktail tipped with sweetcorn, maggot, or caster) maggot, and caster. Feed Angel pellets sparsely and every five minutes, for the feeder use maggot feeder or groundbait with maggots in mixed with fish meal. Savoury flavourings now holding there own and will all through the autumn & winter flavours like chilly, paprika, garlic, liquid worm, mussel, predator plus and minnging fish all doing well. Fish shoaling into species and sizes shoals for example carp up to 2lb are together then 5lbs etc, Large bream keeping together and skimmer shoals now very large. Tench feeding very well ready for winter with some excellent numbers coming out. Crucians also being caught in good numbers and Ide piling on weight and lots of 2lb plus out on both mixed coarse lakes. I would recommend if fishing waggler or pole to always have the tip road with you on Bowes and Lookout as water temperature drops.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Carp Catches are now about choosing pegs according to watercraft, weather, wind direction and barometer, still large catches are possible but most pleasure anglers doing 25 to 30 fish in a day unless you get into good shoals then anything is possible including some excellent 20s out again this week as carp are feeding up for their winter rest. Season ticket holder Paul Gibson is now getting used to the lake & was fishing at dusk and targeting large carp has had some excellent lumps out this week. Paul tends to not spend long hours fishing but gets to know the best times of the day to target the lumps and may only spend 4 hours at a time. Pleasure anglers catch numbers are around 10 fish in a half a day right up to 62 depending on getting the peg correct.

Lookout Lake
Catches are now about choosing pegs according to watercraft, weather, wind direction and barometer, still large catches are possible but most pleasure anglers doing 25 to 30 fish in a day unless you get into good shoals then anything is possible. Bill Wayne from Blyth and his friend had a great day on pegs 1 and 2 between them taking over 145 fish. Comprising carp to 6lb 8oz, Ide over 2lb, Crucians average 2lb, skimmers, 4 good bream above 5lb, rudd, roach, and tench both Golden and green best to over 3lb. they used pole and tip to back bank with cubed meat on the hook, maggots, and worm and also pellet. Ironically no reported perch this week have been caught, and some of the large bream over 5lb have gone into spawning mode again with their modules very prominent in the males which is strange with it so late in the year and considering water temperatures. Some superb silver fish coming out as well as lots of carp who are shoaling up in groups and not moving as much around the lakes.

Bassetts Pond
Catches are now about choosing pegs according to watercraft, weather, wind direction and barometer, still large catches are possible but most pleasure anglers doing 25 to 30 fish in a day unless you get into good shoals then anything is possible. Some good Ide coming out up to 2lb and in mint condition, carp, crucians, tench and silvers with skimmers proving some larger numbers caught.

Match News
Sunday 28th Oct 08 Open Lookout Conditions:- Cold night followed by overcast, & 11 deg (nippy), humidity 82%, wind W 5 mph, barometer 1026.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 12 deg dropped, PH 7.55, DO 14.4, conductivity -65 1st Dave Hodgson Angel 72lb 1oz peg 15 2nd Jeff Lincoln 35lb 7oz all silvers in 2 nets peg 7 3rd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 30lb 10oz peg 11 4th Terry Guthrie Angel 29lb 1oz peg 1 5th Chris Pine 27lb 8oz peg 6 6th Ben Huggins 25lb 8oz peg 2 Dave Pole tight in margin using top four on paste (he lost more than he caught) well done Dave Saturday 27th Sept 08 Open Bowes Conditions:- Bright sunshine, ambient temp 17 deg , humidity 66%, wind calm then E 6 mph, barometer 1026.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 12.1 deg dropped , PH 7.55, DO 14.1, conductivity -57. 1st Billy Mc Crowley 50lb 12oz, peg 40 2nd Brian Hall 45lb, peg 23 3rd Dave Pearson 24lb 1oz peg 34 4th Alan Mc Guire 22lb 10oz peg 36 5th Tommy Marshall 22lb 8oz peg 37 6th Steve Shilling 19lb 4oz peg 24 Billy used pole, paste 13 metres out and margins.

Club News
Any members wanting to join in open matches just need to phone names in

Other News
Coaching Coaching is still ongoing as catch rates are still there, but making students really understand cold water fishing conditions which is critical to getting good catch rates.

Weekly report for 21 September 2008

General A week of exception catches or hard work depending on wind, moon phases, and angling skills, equipment used, also of the use of anglers knowledge of watercraft. The tip this week has outshone every method of angling followed by pole, waggler & ledgering. Angel pellets doing very well as feed and mixed into paste, or micros as a groundbait (full of fish meal), try mixing chopped worm or casters or maggots with groundbait to get fab results. Hook baits working are paste, pellet, worm both on its own and as cocktail, maggot, caster and sweetcorn, hair-rigged or banded pellet to 15 mm bringing out some good lumps to 29lb 10oz, and cubed or punched luncheon meat also doing the business.

Bowes Lake
A week of exception catches or hard work depending on wind, moon phases, and angling skills, equipment used, also of the use of anglers knowledge of watercraft. Loads of Lumps out this week with 3 in one hour for 14 year Liam Adams from Darlington fishing with his Dad. Gary Mulholland got a superb 23lb Mirror carp on Sat evening, Match on Saturday produced 64lb 4oz on a still, sunny, tough day. 9 yr old Hanna Jane Butter from Stanley had a terrific day catching 30 carp best to 7lb 8oz –well done Hanna! Anthony Longstaff fishing peg 26 took 36 carp best to 10lb 2oz with good average of 5lb stamp of carp taken on pellet over angel feed pellet. Regulars Doug Harle and Luke Peel took 25 and 31 carp respectively on pegs 8 and 9 both using pellet and paste. Season Ticket Holder Ian Dixon continues to cat his lumps the smallest was 15lb his best well very big but not the biggest in the lake, Ian takes his carp on rod with cubes of luncheon meat over angel pellet. Young Keiran James Renwick 9 yrs old took a good 7lb carp and 3lb and other carp.

Lookout Lake
A week of exception catches or hard work getting depending on wind, moon phases, and angling skills, equipment used, also of the use of anglers knowledge of watercraft. Tip and pole working very well this week however some very still calm water this week has not helped fishing, once a ripple occurred fishing much better. Paul Withey from Gateshead returned this week after his excellent days fishing last week which landed him in hospital again, and continued his fishing run of great catches with25 carp, tench to 4lb, 5 bream to 4lb, loads of skimmers, and 24 roach to 2lb 2oz and Ide. Norman & Chris Eden fishing peg 16a and 16 took 3 big bream, carp, golden tench, tench and lots of skimmers plus some excellent crucians. John Watts decided to target rudd and ended his day with in excess of 200 he lost count after 150, best was to 2lb 3oz a good fish scale and fin perfect.

Bassetts Pond
A week of exception catches or hard work depending on wind, moon phases, and angling skills, equipment used, also of the use of anglers knowledge of watercraft. Fishing far better at dusk through to dawn, but some good catches still coming out. Dave Evans trying out a pole for the first time took 82 fidh, carp to 6lb 2oz, Crucians, Rudd, roach, skimmers, tench and golden tench and a lovely 2lb 3oz golden orfe after fishing for 40 years on rod and reels he was surprised at how good the presentation is on a pole. Kieran Murphy from Stanley fished a half day session and enjoyed 16 crucians, 5 carp, 5 tench, 8 roach, and a mix of ide, skimmers, and rudd all taken on paste and pellet.

Match News
Sunday 21st Sept 08 open Lookout Conditions:- overcast, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 88%, wind calm, barometer 1027.1mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 13.5 (after cold night), Ph 7.55, DO 13.9, conductivity -55. 1st Chris Owers Angel 81lb 3oz peg 42 2nd Tommy Cullerton 48lb peg 2 3rd John foster Angel 39lb 1 oz peg 28 4th Neil Brown Angel 38lb 13oz peg 36 5th Tommy Marshall 36lb 1oz peg 14 6th Anth Richardson 29lb 2oz peg 12 Chris used pole 5 meters to right with paste made from angel pellets Saturday 20th Sept open Bowes Conditions:- Sunny Spells then mostly cloudy, ambient temp 20 deg, humidity 64%, wind calm most SW 2 deg, high barometer of 1028 mb (fishing optimum is 1012 to 1024) , moon phase wanning gibbous, Water temp 13.9 deg, PH 7.65, DO 13.9, conductivity -51. 1st Rob Emmery 64lb 4oz peg 21 2nd Mark Wilson 45lb 11oz peg 29 3rd Andrew Brown 40lb peg 23 4th Dave Pearson 32lb 3oz peg 16 5th Peter Smith 31lb 6oz peg 18 6th Tommy Marshall 29lb 3oz peg 14

Club News
Christmas / Birthday / Anniversary Gift Vouchers available Any members wanting to apply for season tickets especially as Christmas Presents please let us know your names, these can be paid by Credit Card if required.

Other News
Coaching We still have coaching sessions on a Saturday and Sunday morning for groups, these will be finishing in several weeks normally end of Oct as water temperature drops , after October we then just give one to one sessions through the Autumn and Winter. Please phone to book.

Keiran James Renwick 9 yrs old with Mark Smith

Weekly report for 14 September 2008

Week ending 14th Sept 08 Water temperatures have dropped to 13 deg however with day light hours still long the fish are feeding exceptionally well you do need to now plumb up spot on for each swim and read the watercraft to choose the pegs which will be fishing best. Some exceptional weights out of carp lake on Saturdays match with great back up weights, all carp up of the bottom with the quantity of water in torrential rains again this week and Friday evening as warmer water is about a foot of the bottom and marginal swims catching very well. Paste made for Angel pellets doing exceptional in these water temperatures, pellet and maggot also producing well but smaller stamp of fish. Meat working in cubes on hook, worm cocktails, sweetcorn, and hair rigged pellet also producing. Try soaking angel feed pellets in juices from sardines for savoury, or tinned fruit for sweet and make a paste then chill in fridge overnight works great!

Bowes Lake
Some great catches coming of this lake both pleasure and in the matches with 87lb 7oz in the match on Saturday with our original stock carp pilling on the weight, and some good mix of commons and mirrors (who fight much harder than commons when caught) being caught. A good week also for some stunning lumps with lots of high 20s being caught especially at night by season ticket holders. See photo of Ian Dixon with his specimen catch at night. Watercraft is critical to choose your peggin to get great catches with water temperatures down to 13 deg, but fish a chuck is still possible. Important to get your feed patterns correct little and often as water cools down its 13 deg at the moment, fish still feeding very well tight in margins or on the tip to back of island in the margins.

Lookout Lake
Some exceptional catches with Paul Withey from Gateshead taking over 200lb consisting of 167 Bream, 24 roach, 4 tench and 3 good carp of about 4lb, all on pellet over angel feed pellets, using pole and a KC carper margin float, on peg 18 a disabled peg. Paul not long recovered from a heart attack ended back in hospital the next day with tightness of the chest, however it was just strained muscles from his great days fishing. Fishing best at Dusk and through to Dawn however some good weights can be obtained if you use watercraft skills, still tight in margins best just of first shelf or at base of second shelf.

Bassetts Pond
Some great catches mainly on maggot with pellet a good second, a lovely 2lb 4oz golden orfe and a roach of 2lb 1oz out this week, with Ide, Carp, Skimmers, Tench and Golden Tench, Rudd and Golden rudd, also ghosties and koi all still feeding well. Drip feed to get rudd on the drop and you will also get carp up in the water in warmer thermals, but keep in the margins at 3 metres out for best results. Great Pond for windy conditions

Match News
Sunday 14th Sept 08 open Lookout Conditions Fog early, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 94%, wind calm, barometer 1025.1mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 13.8, DO 13.3, PH 7.57, conductivity -58 1st Neville Langley on pole, paste, fished right 8metres tight to reeds 57lb 3oz peg 42 2nd Chris Pine Angel 46lb 4oz peg 2 3rd John Foster Angel 31lb 5oz peg 4 4th Neil Brown Angel 26lb 15oz peg 30 5th Terry Guthrie 24lb 3oz peg 11 6th Tony Watson Fishing Republic 24lb 1oz peg 11 Fished best in the last hour when slight breeze rippled the surface after a calm day. Golden pegs are 1 x £150.00, 4 x £50.00 so get your names down for next Sundays match! Saturday 13th Sept 08 open Bowes Conditions Fog & Misty rain early, ambient temp 15 deg, wind E 7 mph, barometer 1013.9 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 13.9, DO 13.2, PH 7.52, conductivity -56 1st Tommy Marshall 1x net 43lb 13oz & 1x net 43lb 10oz = 87lb 7oz on paste, pole 6 mtres peg 1 2nd Brian Hall 1x net 47lb 13oz 1 x net 25lb 8oz total 73lb 5oz pole paste peg 25 3rd Dave Pearson 56lb 7oz peg 3 4th Rob Emmery 54lb 15oz peg 27 5th Andrew Brown 50lb 8oz peg 32 6th Stan Jones 46lb 8oz peg 6 Tommy used pole at 6 metres either side and out in front on paste Good weights considering we had torrential rain yet again last night! Saturday 13th Sept 08 Blyth AC Lookout 1st Jeff Webster 38lb 13oz peg 11 2nd Kim Christie 30lb 3oz peg 1 3rd Davey Job 19lb 8oz peg 7 Jeff used pole 4 meters out, and either side, maggot and pellet Winter League names beining taken and also pairs opportunity on each match

Club News
Anyone wanting a Christmas match over the holiday period eg dads and lads, or mums and daughters, or pairs or junior matches just let us know and we will organise it.

Other News
Coaching Learn to fish or just a taster sessions to see if you want to learn to fish, right up to specialised coaching please phone for bookings 0191 4100449 www.angelnorthlakes.com Please note:- We do not with to offend however Begginners, Sea and Game anglers are asked to take some coaching lessons till competent before you are allowed to fish on the lakes

Weekly report for 07 September 2008

Week ending Sunday 7th Sept 08 Even in the highs of torrential rains anglers caught very well and enjoyed some productive fishing in very bleak weather conditions getting soaked to the skin even in waterproof clothes. It has been difficult to say which days were better than others for catch rates, but reports of 30 carp caught by one angler Alan Stranghan in the first hour from 7am till 8am on Bowes on Sunday catching on worm cocktails using the tip to the island. , Also 18 Rudd on the drop in an hour in the middle of a torrential rain fall on Lookout just goes to show the fish are still feeding very well for the anglers who are prepared to go fishing in all weathers, fish still following wind so fish into wind for good catch rates.

Bowes Lake
Bowes has been showing great results with Alan Stranghan taking over 200lb carp using worm cocktails on Sunday, plenty of large doubles coming out with a mirror of 15.5lb taken by Rodger Jackson of Scots a.c in the match on Sunday. Large bags carp averaging 3-4lb being taking on waggler, pole and tip but most of larger bags being taking on waggler with worm and corn cocktails. Paste is still working on the pole but only with the feed used little and often. Triple maggot on feeder to the island is working well when fish start to back off on the pole/ waggler. For the pole best results are being taking by using either a kc carpa paste / porth 4x16 which is bulk shotted 8 inches from hook a size 12 if using paste 16 if using pellet corn etc. Pellet is consistent with larger carp being taken on hair rigged or banded.

Lookout Lake
Lookout has produced good mixed bags of both carp and silvers , carp to 7-8lb and range from 8oz to 2lb for silvers including rudd, roach, orfe, and ide. Good head of skimmers to 1lb +, large bream to 6lb, Tench green best out 8lb 1oz a male, and 3lb golden tench, also some stunning Ghosties. Regulars are getting large numbers of fish and targeting species by alternating methods, feed patterns and hook baits. Steven Overton fishing peg 1 on the island took 8 tench to 7lb 4oz, 6 golden tench, several perch best to 2lb 8oz, 2 ghostie’s over 7lb, 14 carp to 5lb, then targeted rudd, roach, ide and orfe at 4 metres out ending his day with 73 fish.

Bassetts Pond
For all the quantity of water changes due to rain there are still good bags of green and golden tench being caught. Ide, rudd, golden rudd, on the drop with double maggot using size 16 hook on the waggler, some nice skimmers, roach also carp to 3lb on pellet fishing over depth on the pole. Maggot both as hook bait and feed works well as does pellets over angel feed pellets, or try worm cocktail or meat cubes on the hook over angel pellets. Stunning pond in bad weather conditions inc wind as so sheltered.

Match News
Sunday 7th Sept 08 Open Lookout After a week of torrential rain Sunday produced an Ambient temp of 15 deg, foggy, muggy & close early on, humidity 94%, wind start NE 3mph rising to 8 mph (poor direction for good fishing) barometer 1001.1 mb, moon phase first quarter, water temp, 14.7, DO 13.6, PH 7.58 conductivity -56. This is good water conditions considering we have had enough water this week to change all lakes water twice over, thank goodness we have built in 100 year flood defences and boy did they work this week!! 1st Peter Wilson 69lb 12 oz peg 38 2nd Neil Brown Angel 66lb 15 oz peg 42 3rd John Foster Angel 54lb 13oz peg 2 4th Dave Pearson 35lb 4oz peg 4 5th Andrew Brown 28lb peg 5 6th Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 27lb 11oz peg 8 Some great weights considering the quantity of rain gone into the lakes Saturdays match on Bowes cancelled due to torrential rain

Club News
Matches opens are on Saturday and Sundays draw at 9 am fishing 10 till 3pm Wednesday matches will commence once we get enough names to progress them Names are being taken for the winter league and pairs

Other News
Coaching Everyone catching well with some cracking rudd, and golden orfe to 2lb plus being caught and a good common carp to 6lb 8oz Saturday morning was rather wet with the torrential rain soaking everyone but they caught well.

Weekly report for 31 August 2008

Week ending 31st Aug 08 Some excellent fishing on most days however if still water and very still air then the fishing goes off but does come back on when a ripple on the water develops, and is fishing fantastic at dusk, overnight and dawn. Water temperature has held at 15 deg this week so nice and stable, but is lower than should be for August. Lots of regular anglers trying out different methods and reporting back with mixed results from one day to the next. The tip is proving to be the most successful with pole next then waggler float but plumbing up each swim is critical for good results. Hook baits working at 15 deg water temp are :- paste, which can be great then the fish go off, pellet seems to be a constant success working well both as a hook bait and hair rigged. Caster & maggot both have success but do attract smaller fish as well as larger fish, worm on its own is working but it becomes great when tipped with either sweetcorn, caster or maggot, mussle & prawn have had good success, so has cubed luncheon meat.

Bowes Lake
The tip is working very well on this lake with pole next, then waggler. Colin Thompson fishing less than 3 hours using meat on the hook and fed very well angel fed pellets took 28 carp to 5lb. Dave Hodgson on tip, pole and pellet waggler had a great day trying out different methods and baits took over 70 carp a good average of 5 lb. Jimmy Hagan on peg 19 using tip and pole (but smashed a section on his pole) tried paste, pellet and most success was on worm cocktails with his day ending early with a broken pole section catching in excess of 50 carp getting snapped on two lumps. Some good doubles coming out with season ticket holder paul gibson getting his PB, Ian Richardson taking three doubles inside half an hour

Lookout Lake
Pegs which have been fishing very well are the ones facing the wind direction with pegs 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 14, 15,16aa to 16, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 33, 37,38, 40. 41, 42 doing very well. Plumbing up is critical to success with feed patterns and hook baits chosen for the species targeted very important. Fish tight in margins up on the edge of the planting shelf at 3ft out 3 ft deep, or try 6 ft out and 6 ft deep for the edge of the second shelf, alternatively try 6 metres out and go for rudd on the drop, go down slightly over depth for skimmers, keep the feed going in to keep them in the swim. Colin Gowan on his first visit to angel was amazed at the variety of species he managed to catch with his first ever golden rudd and golden tench he ended the day with 53 fish including carp to his guess over 100lb fish. Ray Wallace had two exceptional ghost carp on Sunday, Norman Eden using pellet flavoured with garlic liquid had crucians, lots of carp to 4lb, tench and golden tench, roach, and skimmers around 35 fish on a half day session.

Bassetts Pond
Some exceptional catches with all species being caught including good sized roach to 1lb – 1 ½ lb and ide to 2lb 2oz, crucians to 2lb, golden tench to 2lb 9oz, and carp to a lovely 9lb 7oz common carp, the rudd and golden rudd have piled weight on with a 1lb 10oz being caught, skimmers also to 1lb being caught. All pegs have been fishing well but remain tight in the margins for some great numbers of fish,

Match News
Saturday 30th Aug 08 Bowes open Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 19 deg, Humidity 88%, wind SSW 3 mph, barometer 1013.9, moon phase New, water temp 15.7 deg, DO 13.1, PH 7.54, conductivity -56 1st Peter Smith 75lb 6oz peg 28 2nd Dave Pearson 57lb 6oz peg 1 3rd Billy Ellis 55lb 9oz peg 26 4th Tommy Marshall 47lb 11oz peg 36 5th Ray Wallace 34lb 4oz peg 40 6th Terry Guthrie 30lb 8oz peg 34 Well done Peter good weight Sunday 31st Aug 08 Open Lookout 23 anglers Conditions Mostly cloudy with fog early, rained at weigh in! again, ambient temp 17 deg, humidity 88%, wind calm, air very still , water smooth not even a ripple, barometer 1010.2 mb, moon phase New, water temp 15.7 deg, PH 7.53, DO 13.2, cond -62 1st John Foster Angel 57lb 3oz peg 3 2nd Neil Brown Angel 37lb 14oz peg 4 3rd Steve Knowles 37lb peg 2 4th Dave Walker 34lb 11oz peg 26 5th Tony Watson Fishing Republic 34lb 3oz Peg 6 6th Nathan Patterson 27lb 14oz peg 39 John produced a carp net just on the limit of 50lb WOW well done John, Today was a tough day with not even a ripple on the water and a very still muggy airless day until weigh in when it rained and we had a slight breeze. Matches Sept on :- Saturday Bowes and Sunday Lookout Draw 9 am please phone to put names down. Names are being taken for the winter league starting Oct. A week day match can be arranged through winter if required. Browning Youth Masters at Cudmore Fisheries may we congratulate Ryan Baker who won with 116lb Ryan is only 13 years old! a great future in store for this young lad in angling well done Ryan.

Club News
Matches Sept on :- Saturday Bowes and Sunday Lookout Draw 9 am please phone to put names down. Wednesday a day match will start soon. Names are being taken for the winter league starting Oct both individual and a pairs A week day match can be arranged through winter if required.

Other News
Coaching Lots of people of all ages and both sexes are joining in our sport and learning to coarse fish with some excellent successes, please book in advance for lessons both Sat & Sun morning group sessions from 9 am until 12, or for one to one weekdays. Some good progression to tip and pole sessions and during Sept some lessons on Rudd on the drop and Carp are being delivered please phone for enquiries 0191 4100449 www.angelnorthlakes.com Browning Youth Masters at Cudmore Fisheries may we congratulate Ryan Baker who won with 116lb Ryan is only 13 years old! a great future in store for this young lad in angling well done Ryan.

Weekly report for 24 August 2008

General Lots of rain again but water temperature has held in the 16 degs, not sure how as some cold ambient temperatures this week. Fish genetically know shorter day light hours mean autumn and winter around the corner so are feeding very strongly, and looking for proteins and feed to form amino acids to get them through the long cold days ahead. Some very good catches with more good sized specimens coming out in all species, angel stocked fish have spawned successfully for four years and the original fish have lots of their young surviving this years carp are now past 6 oz last years over 1lb etc. It is critical to make sure you use larger hook baits or you will get angel home bred youngsters in all species. Best bait on hook are pellet all forms and try paste made from angel pellets-works a treat, meat cubes dried slightly but must be still juicy to attract fish or soaked in a flavouring overnight and placed in poly bag in fridge to absorb flavouring. We are still in warm water temperatures so sweet food does the best, strawberry, Brasem, pineapple, etc. Feed angel pellets (only feed allowed) and try soaking some in matching flavours to the flavours of hook baits. Soak angel pellets to use as a groundbait adding caster or maggot or even chopped worm, or feed and plop in pellets well above water level to attract fish by the noise, which emulates us feeding lakes. Get Feed patterns correct and you will bag up all day.

Bowes Lake
Carp are moving according to wind feeding well on insects etc, water temp is warmest off the bottom and in margins (which warm quickest WHEN we get sun light). Carp feeding very well at dusk and dawn, Our largest fish and many 20s out this week the highest proportion from the margins, who take the bait and take of up the lake and they go like a sprinter in the Olympics! Colin Thomson fishing peg 17 on luncheon meat over angel pellets (fed well) in a short session 20 past 4 to 10 past 7 took 28 carp. Jimmy Hagan trying out several bait methods found paste or pellets were Ok but a worm tail tipped by sweetcorn worked the best, worm on its own or sweetcorn on its own did not produce the quality or quantity of fish the worm cocktail provided.

Lookout Lake
Lots of Crucians being caught some to 3lb but average is 2lb, tench also are feeding up very well, carp are moving in shoals in their size range (which is linked to age range also) so if you get carp in your swim they tend to be the same size and weight range. This applies to skimmers and bream these also like to be in shoals of equals and huge quantities coming out, you need to be careful with shoals as foul hooking is a good possibility in shoals as they are so tight together feeding. Some stunning Rudd and Golden Rudd on the drop best weight over 2lb, Ide and Roach also growing well and caught in good numbers, Perch are caught in numbers if targeted with correct baits but the larger perch are elusive at the moment. Norman Eden fishing 16aa Took carp, crucians, tench, golden tench, skimmers, and mixed silvers all on pellet soaked with garlic flavouring.

Bassetts Pond
Great pond fishing very well and some nice size and quality of fish being caught, Rudd, golden rudd, Ide and Roach to plus 1lb 8oz, crucians, tench and golden tench, also some good carp out to 9lb 2oz this week. Some very promising new anglers coming into the sport with Alex Weatherly catching a stunning carp of 9lb and a good Ide of 2lb Alex is progressing so well and enjoys his sport. Maggot is proving best hook bait with pellet a good second,

Match News
Sunday 24th Aug 08 open Conditions :- mostly cloudy with sunny spells, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 88%, wind SSW6 mph , barometer 1006 mb, moon phase last quarter, water temp holding at 16. deg, DO 13.2, PH 7.56, conductivity -54 1st Neil Brown Angel 53lb 10oz peg 40 2nd Peter Smith 51lb 5oz peg 5 3rd Nick White Warehal AC Dorset 48lb 7oz peg 13 4th Andy Brown 40lb 14oz peg 8 5th Tony Watson Fishing Republic 40lb 9oz peg 2 6th Chris Owers Angel 35lb 12oz peg 6 Pole tight in margins on Paste Wed 20th Aug 08 open Bowes last eve match. Partly cloudy, shower spells, ambient temp 16 deg, wind calm, barometer 1006.1 mb, humidity 64%, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp held at 16.2 deg, PH 7.73, DO 13.8, cond -65. 1st Tommy Marshall 51lb 14oz peg 2 2nd Alan Mc Guire 31lb 14oz peg 37 3rd Chris Owers 30lb 12oz peg 18 4th Ray Wallace 29lb 12oz peg 40 5th Eddie Brydon 29lb 3oz peg 25 6th Anthony Longstaff 26lb 6oz peg 23 Strange calm night and a dry weigh in at last! Last Wed eve match Names and deposits for the winter league are being taken. –

Club News
Angel Youth:- Browning Youth Master Final is on Sat 30th Aug 08 may I thank everyone who has helped raise funds total £225.00 by buying raffle tickets for the 3 youngsters going to Cudmore from Angel Lakes, Winners of a 20 kilo bag of Angel pellets are No 19 Steve Preece sheet 1 and no 40 sheet 2 Jimmy Haghan Thanks again. GOOD LUCK for the three Angel Juniors who qualified for the FINAL of Browning Youth Masters on Saturday 30th Aug at Cudmore Lakes they are:- Chris Faill, Liam Shilling Anthony Longstaff Good Luck Lads –remember to make it fun and enjoy yourselves.

Other News
Browning Youth Master Final is on Sat 30th Aug 08 may I thank everyone who has helped raise funds total £225.00 by buying raffle tickets for the 3 youngsters going to Cudmore from Angel Lakes, Winners of a 20 kilo bag of Angel pellets are No 19 Steve Preece and no 40 Jimmy Haghan Thanks again. GOOD LUCK for the three Angel Juniors who qualified for the FINAL of Browning Youth Masters on Saturday 30th Aug at Cudmore Lakes they are:- Chris Faill, Liam Shilling Anthony Longstaff Good Luck Lads –remember to make it fun and enjoy yourselves.

Weekly report for 17 August 2008

Sunday 17th Aug 08 week ending Fishing excellent despite some heavy rain this week, with some excellent examples of specimen size fish of all species being caught in mint condition. Water temperature has been down and crept up again to hold in the 16s warm enough to keep fish feeding very well however dusk & dawn fishing stunning on all lakes. Strangely enough rain overnight produced some heavy surface pollution and altered PH will be interesting to see what the week produces in PH and pollution swings. Fish tight in to the features which are reeds all around the edges including island, produces best results. Hook Baits:- pellet, paste and corn doing well. Use worm and tip with corn, pellet, meat, etc as cocktails to increase range of species targeted and to add variety when swim’s goes off.

Bowes Lake
Some great numbers out by pleasure anglers Neil Brown taking over 200lb on a couple of separate days during the week when enjoying a change whist on holiday. Some good double figures showing heavies landed on pole this week was 25lb 8oz, whilst Ian Dixon fly fishing on the evening session had some excellent doubles. Adam Kent from Yorkshire targeting larger carp took three 20s and 8 over 10lb. Wed eve match Tommy Marshall his last cast produced a lovely 16lb 2oz leather which has never been reported out since stocking four years ago.

Lookout Lake
A lot of very happy anglers this week with lots of new faces including many river anglers who have caught species they have not caught before ie Koi, Ghosties, golden tench and golden rudd, orfe. From peg 20 around bankside to 34 on Sunday a big head of crucians came out. Norman Eden close in on peg 16aa, using pellet took 35 fish in a half day session 11 carp to 4lb, 2 crucians, 2 golden tench, 3 tench average 3lb and skimmers. Best fish out a Koi of 11lb 3oz, and lots of ghostie’s out including a stunning silver ghostie caught by Diane Jackson which weighed in at 7lb 7oz.

Bassetts Pond
Fished tight in to reeds this pond produces so well,stunning 1lb 8oz Ide and Rudd coming out. Amy white 9 yrs old took 18 fish with her best a 3lb 6oz carp which Amy managed very well, just needing a bit of help with the netting of the carp. John and Jordan Carson had a half day and took 56 fish and 63 fish respectively their dad was thrilled for them. Mark Smith taking a half day session to chill out but didn’t chill as he never stopped catching and had to put his road out of the water to get a cuppa.

Match News
Sunday 17th Aug 08 Lookout Heavy rain overnight, then mostly cloudy rain early part of match caused a tough match, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 88%, Wind SSE6 mph, barometer 1002 mb. Moon phase full, water temp 16.4, PH 7.88 (rain bring in pollution overnight), DO 13.4, cond -60 1st David Hodgson angel 40lb 3oz peg 11 2nd Chris Pine 31lb 6oz Peg 8 3rd Peter Wilson 25lb 13oz peg 32 4th Dave Walker 25lb 12 oz peg 3 5th Neil Middlemiss 24lb 11oz peg 26 6th Steve Hern 22lb 15oz peg 2 Well done Dave, yet more rain what a summer for quantity of rain. Wed eve 13th Aug 08 open Bowes 20 Conditions:- Partly cloudy after torrential rain through day then torrential rain from 8pm for the weigh in, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 64%, wind calm to NNW6mph, barometer 997 mb (low), moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 17.1 deg, PH 7.65, DO 14.8, conductivity -65. 1st Tommy Marshall 47lb 10oz (inc a great Leather of 16lb 2oz) peg 18 2nd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 43lb 6oz peg 40 3rd Alan Hepple Angel 43lb 4oz peg 2 4th Brian Hall Angel 42lb 5oz peg 22 5th Chris Owers Angel 41lb 15oz peg 38 6th Steve Preece 27lb 9oz peg 1 A horrible wet night and getting dark early, well done to Tommy who on his last fish was a leather of 16lb 2oz. Autumn Matches Last Wed eve match this coming week then we will add a Saturday match on Bowes and Sunday match on Lookout for the Autumn and Winter. A week day match could be added if demand is there. Autumn/ Winter Leauge fixtures to be announced soon

Club News
The Raffle Fund for Angel Juniors to go to the Browning Youth Masters Final is coming on well. The draw for prizes will be on Sunday Thanks everyone for supporting the Juniors Chris Faill, Liam shilling, Anthony Longstaff

Other News
Angling Coaching Learn to fish, or conversion sessions from sea or game or specialist ie learn pole, feeder, right through to specialist ie carp, tench etc . Group sessions are available Saturday or Sunday mornings 9am till noon, or one to one through the week.

Weekly report for 10 August 2008

Week to 10th Aug 08 The weather has been typical British Summer with rain and cloud even cold days, which dropped water temperature 1.4 deg then it crept up again. Fish still feeding excellently even in rain and colder days as the water temperature on some days was warmer than ambient temperatures. A week of good sized fish being caught Ide at 2lb, orfe at 2lb 1oz, skimmers at around 12oz, lots of bream from 2lb 8oz to 6lb 10oz, rudd in profusion at a good average 1lb, tench of 3lb to 6lb, lots of Crucians around 1lb 8oz, and Lots of Carp in all sizes to 27lb 11oz. It really is important to get feed patterns for targeted species correct, and size of hook bait if targeting larger specimen sized fish. Hook baits doing well this week are all forms of pellet, expander, soft hooker, pre-drilled (for hair rigging), paste (try & make it from Angel pellets) sweetcorn, meat, worm, maggot, and caster. Sweet flavours still doing the best ie strawberry, however tuna, halibut, & fishmeal not far behind as water temperatures slowly cool down. Fish to features all around the margins including island margins.

Bowes Lake
Great week for large doubles with one coming out for the first time in 4 years at 27lb 11oz for Owen Moore from Newcastle on angel halibut 25mm pellets over hemp and angel feed pellets mixed with caster and dead maggot. Alan Straughan using worm on Friday had a great day took 79 carp not 1 under 4lb, on Saturday after another 70 odd fish he took his PB of 24lb 3oz common carp. Sunday produced several twenties with Sam Cunningham from Ryton taking a 21lb common and many upwards of 5lb. Diane & Steve Jackson had a great session with Diane getting her PB doubled figured carp out. Young 9yr old James Wilson is going to be a youngster to watch in the future took 28 carp the next day returning to take 27 carp. In a 1 ½ hour session Friday Eve Tony Morrow took 21 carp average weight of 5lb

Lookout Lake
Fantastic week with most anglers producing good bags of fish & thoroughly enjoying the sport with, Rudd on the drop in huge numbers, skimmers from the bottom or mid water in huge numbers, Roach, tench and golden tench, carp to double figures, Ide and Orfe to 2lb plus, Perch to 2lb 12 oz reported, large numbers of Crucians out, Norman & Chris Eden fishing Monday took over 110 with some good sized crucians, then Fri in a half day session took in excess of 50 fish each with Norman taking an excellent ghostie at 11lb plus all taken on pellet over angel pellets. Friends Doug Harle and Luke Bruce fishing the margins and also 4 meters out on pellet took over 60 fish each comprising some good mixed bags of good weight fish.

Bassetts Pond
A magical pond very sheltered and gets fantastic results from a wide range of anglers skills, fish are gaining weight and size in the warm water temperatures. Aiden Young having just bought a pole wanted to try it out and reported catching over 150 fish however most caught in the margins so did not get to fully try out his pole. Liam Grieves this week fishing friends took a lovely 2lb 1 oz ide, and bags of Rudd, tench and some good golden tench to over 2lb 6oz, his friend taking a good common carp to 4lb 6oz and mixed bags.

Match News
Sunday 10th Aug 08 open Lookout 20 Partly Cloudy and sunny spells, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 78%, wind WSW 17mph, barometer (low) 992.9 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp (up)17.1 deg, DO 14.4, PH 7.56, conductivity -51 1st Eddie Brydon Maver 54lb 13oz peg 40 2nd Chris Owers Angel 45lb 11oz peg 16 3rd Andrew Brown 42lb peg 17 4th Andy Sinclair 40lb 8oz peg 21 5th Chris Pine 39lb 12oz peg 13 6th Ray Wallace Angel 37lb 7oz peg 26 Well done Eddie nice calibre of fish Washington & Harrington Angling Club Sat 9th Aug 08 Lookout 12 Conditions:- overcast then heavy rain (again), ambient temp 12 deg, humidity 88%, wind calm to 2 mph, barometer 1008.1 mb, moon phase first quarter, water temp dropped 16 .8, DO 14.4, PH 7.49, con -57 1st Neil Middlemiss 44lb 2oz peg 6 2nd Dave Walker 42lb 9oz peg 11 3rd Terry Guthrie 39lb 8oz peg 12 4th Dave Pearson 35lb peg 4 5th Peter Smith 28lb 14oz peg 9 6th Eddie Collins 27lb 9oz peg 5 Neil got carp on the tip fed angel pellets and pellet on hook. Silvers 7mtr on pole with maggot.

Club News
The raffle/fund for 3 youngsters who qualified for the Browning Youth Masters Finals at Cudmore Lakes is progressing a big thank you to everyone will announce how much was raised for them and who has won the raffle prizes on Monday 25th before they travel down to Cudmore. Their parents have to pay for travel, food, accommodation, entrance fees for final and practice sessions, and must buy all the bait there. So a very expensive time for the finalists families. The prizes are sacks of feed pellets or bait equivalent that we are giving.

Other News
Coaching Please phone if anyone requires to learn to fish or converting from sea or game fishing to coarse, or just want to try out coarse angling. Group sessions are Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am until noon, or one to one through the week. 0191 4100449 www.angelnorthlakes.com

Weekly report for 03 August 2008

Week ending 3rd Aug 08 Some outstanding days fishing this week on all lakes and wind direction helping very well on some days, rain dropped water temp with rainy days fish going of feed for spells then coming back on well, the sunny spells brought temp back up therefore continuing fish feeding well. Pellet, and paste proving the best hook baits with sweetcorn, worm, shrimp, mussel and maggot next. Sweet flavoured additives also proving good, both for hook baits and as addition to Angel Pellets for feed try Tutti Fruit or Strawberry. If making paste out of angel pellets try soaking the flavourings onto pellets in a poly bag and put in fridge over night to get flavour to soak through prior to soaking pellets fully for paste.

Bowes Lake
Reported good weights both in numbers of fish and specimen sized have been spread out on all pegs this week, I presume this is because of good S and W warm winds and a favourable high barometer reading most day’s between 1009 and 1021 mb. Brian Hall fishing pole with paste on the hook took 62 carp with 6 of them a good 10lb, on Sunday Afternoon on peg 40. Craig Smith from Washington on Monday using Carp Waggler rod and meat on hook had a lovely 22lb common and smaller carp. Ian Dixon Sophie Mc Dowell 15 years old had a good 6lb 8oz mirror out. Steven Mac Milan as part of his number took a 12lb 12oz mirror.

Lookout Lake
Fishing very well with everyone who’s set up correctly catching at almost fish a chuck, some good reported catches even on very wet days. Ian Dixon in a two-hour session took 9 carp to 8lb, and 56 skimmers, Rudd and Roach all on pellet, fishing peg 23. Karl Redhead in a 4 hour session took 54 fish best was 5lb. Norman Eade Monday fishing peg 16aa took 7 carp to 4lb, 6 Crucians, 8 golden tench, plus Skimmers, Rudd, totalled over 60 fish. On Thursday Norman had 95 fish from peg 25 a good mixed bag best weight was over 4lb. both half day sessions.

Bassetts Pond
Paul Heptinstall in a morning session had 60 mixed fish fishing peg 9. Andrew Bay fishing peg 7 had over 40 fish on pole using meat or corn on the hook in a half day session. Everyone on coaching this week caught exceptionally well.

Match News
Wed Eve open 30th July 08 Conditions:- Partly cloudy, ambient temp 20 deg, humidity 68%, Wind S9 with gusts then calm, barometer 1014.6 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 19.3 deg, PH 7.65, DO 13.ppm, conductivity -55 1st Chris Owers Angel 36lb 9oz peg 25 2nd Brian Hall 35lb 1oz peg 2 3rd Chris Faill Angel Jnr 34lb 13oz peg 13 4th Neil Brown Angel 34lb 8oz peg 18 5th Alan Hepple 33lb 10 oz peg 1 6th John Foster Angel 23lb 5oz peg 33 Chris used pellet & Paste on pole fish very spread out close reults

Club News
Lots of new anglers of all ages coming into the sport with young females asking parents who don’t fish to let them learn-YES things are changing at last in our sport!!!!!!

Other News
Great temperatures producing some excellent fishing. Anyone who is first time at Angel please feel free to ask for best pegs for that day and any other help we can give.

Weekly report for 27 July 2008

Week ending Sunday 27th July General What a difference in the weather at last we have the sun, warming water temp to 19.5 deg making fish feed furiously, in cloudy conditions and dusk and dawn have seen fantastic pleasure catches both in numbers also quality and size of species. But saying that the barometer has been snuggled between optimum fishing range of 1012 to 1024 mb. In these water temperatures all hook baits are doing well, but the larger the bait the larger the fish is very true in warm water temperatures (rare in the north). Get your feeding patterns correct little but very often and you will bag up big time. Hook baits:- Pellet soft hooker, hair rigged, & expander all producing, Paste try using angel pellets soaked to form paste and chill in fridge overnight. Worm as a cocktail with sweetcorn, maggot or caster doing well, as is maggot (multiples) & caster (multiples) producing well, meat cubes, & sweetcorn also working well. Feed angel pellet (be sure to plop them to sound as if we are feeding to attract the fish to your swim) or soak and mix with maggot, caster or chopped worm. Balling in groundbait also mixed with maggot, caster or chopped worm works a treat.

Bowes Lake
Getting your method and feed patterns correct will give you tremendous sport and choosing pegs according to wind. Season ticket holders coming in early morning or doing an overnight stay are producing excellent bags with specimens mainly being targeted. Ian Dixon catching doubled figured carp to 26lb this week with early morning spells. Colin Thompson in an afternoon session from peg 16 to still water at the back of the island had fish a chuck until he left, his average weight of a fish was 6lb. Mark Smith Snr & Jnr have had Many doubled figured carp coming out with some 20s not seen since stocking them, and pleasure anglers having exceptional days.

Lookout Lake
Magic to see all the big carp and Koi’s cruising the surface taking fly’s and insects from the reeds, you need to wait for some cloud cover to get them back down feeding on the bottom. All the fish species feeding at their best in the year because of water temperatures with some good Rudd, Golden Rudd, Golden Orfe also Blue Orfe and Ide as well as Roach, Perch (loves worms). Our stock skimmers just turning golden and will be mature next year, lots of bream to 8lb 3oz out, tench best reported 6lb 8oz, and Golden tench to 2lb plus, Crucians in huge numbers, as well as Koi to 9lb 10oz, and double figured carp. All species feeding like there is no tomorrow. Best reported bag was 216 fish in a session by Alan Hedley from Gateshead who has not fished this year since becoming a dad he loved his day. Most pleasure anglers should be averaging a 100 plus fish with rudd on the drop

Bassetts Pond
Outstanding fishing on this pond at the moment with Rudd, Roach, Ide and Orfe to well over 1lb being caught, Tench and Golden tench to 2lb 8oz, as well as lots of Crucians to 1lb, Carp to 4lb 2oz . All baits working well and all pegs fishing outstandingly.

Match News
Sunday 27th July 08 open Lookout 20 fishing Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 94%, wind calm, barometer 1018 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 19.5 deg, DO13.5, PH 7.56 conductivity -53. 1st Chris Owers Angel 73lb 4oz peg 5 2nd Tony Watson Fishing Republic 70lb 10oz peg 42 3rd Jeff Layton Angel 58lb 12oz peg 36 4th Dave Hodgson 44lb 9oz peg 37 5th Tommy Cullerton 41lb 14oz peg 6 6th Dave Walker 38lb 6oz peg 3 Chris fished pellet and paste and gets feed patterns spot on well done Chris Wed eve open match Bowes 23rd July 08 17 anglers Conditions :- Bright sunshine, ambient temp 22 deg, humidity 69%, wind ESE 7mph, barometer 1023 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp 19 deg, DO 14 ppm, PH 7.65, conductivity -45 1st Tommy Marshall 32lb 2oz peg 4 2nd Steve Priece 26lb 13oz peg 40 3rd Brian Hall 24lb 11oz peg 17 4th Alan Mc Guire 22lb 15oz peg 36 5th Neil Brown 20lb 1oz 6th David Pearson 20lb peg 3 Most fish caught in last hour obviously to bright till then, .

Club News
Juniors –Fund Raising We are running a raffle to raise funds for the 3 finalists of the Browning Youth Masters qualifiers from Angel Lakes to help with their costs to go down to Cudmore Lakes and compete in the Finals. Anyone wishing to donate or buy a raffle ticket (prizes are bait varieties ) please forward it to us saying Cudmore fund for Juniors.

Other News
Coaching Continues with group lessons on a Saturday and Sunday morning, 9am till noon, £15.00 per person which includes fully Licensed and qualified coach, seat box, rod & Reel, pole, end tackle, bait, Rod License, and ticket to the water but please phone to book to ensure we have enough coaches available. One to one through the week can also be arranged. National Fishing Week Newcomers to the sport have all caught double figures this week as part of National Fishing Week with the youngest being 4 years old Amy White who caught 27 fish, News Our first fishing Bachelor party was also a success on Saturday, with everyone catching well and had the coaches run ragged netting and unhooking the fish good luck to Adrien Morris on his future wedding.

Weekly report for 20 July 2008

Week to Sunday 20th July 08 General Wet, wet, wet week, yet again and a very cold night last night dropping water temperature to 15.7 deg. Some good sized specimen fish of all species have been produced with one angler getting a brace of 15 lb carp in two chucks on meat and a bag full of good 10lbs, sticking out for a twenty plus did not happen however. Best carp out was 23lb 4oz a common very dark almost winter colours, best tench 7lb 10oz, best golden tench 2lb 6oz, with some excellent rudd, golden rudd, ide, perch, orfe, roach to good sizes being caught. Baits on hook- pellet has been the most successful this week, paste, worm cocktails with sweetcorn, maggot or castor, mussel all working, Feed - try soaking angel pellets to a paste adding caster, or maggot and ball in or feeder in. Or use dry make sure you allow pellets to plop on surface as if we were feeding the lakes to attract fish to your swim by the noise.

Bowes Lake
Getting fish to peg by feed patterns is critical to ensure excellent catch rates, meat cubed, pellet, paste, sweetcorn all working well, worm cocktails work excellent. A brace of two 15lb plus carp were caught on the first two chucks in and the day ended with a successful 21 plus good fish to 3 to 5lb, by Joseph Forth from Hetton on a half day session on Sunday using meat on the hook. The day ended with 17 doubles being taken and many many fish to 10lb some good fishing days this week. Wed evenings 3 hour match was won with 52lb 10oz by Brian Hall with good back up weights.

Lookout Lake
Fishing for silvers rudd, golden rudd, roach, ide, orfe, perch, tench, golden tench all have been catching at excellent rate, Young Anthony Longstaff winning the Brownings Youth Master Qualifier on peg 8 on the island took 40lb 7oz of silvers to win using pole with pellet and paste on hook. Carp mirror, common, leather, crucian and Koi all catching well, meat on the hook being there favourite with pellet next, mussel also working well. Season Ticket holder Young 15 yr old Marc Gibson caught ‘The Pig’ a 10lb 4oz ghost carp on Friday evening using meat and a good bag of carp on meat and angel hair rigged pellet. Oliver Justine from Wales fishing tight in the margins caught over 100 fish best to 4lb 2oz, using pellet, over angel feed pellet and sometimes feeding maggot.

Bassetts Pond
Rudd, Roach, Orfe and Ide are piling weight on in this pond also starting to average 1lb 8oz, carp, mirror, common, leather, Koi, and Crucians all growing great, Tench and Golden tench to 2lb being caught in good numbers. Soft hooker Pellet, maggot, caster, paste, sweetcorn are all-successful on this pond. Catch rates of 150 fish per day normally have achieved on good days this week.

Match News
Browning Youth Masters Qualifiers 4 hour match 1st Anthony Longstaff Angel 40lb 7oz peg 8 2nd Ryan Middleton 24lb 2oz peg 11 3rd Ryan Rowley 16lb 5oz peg 13 4th Anthony Birch 10lb 6oz peg 2 5th Alex Weatherby 6lb 4oz peg 4 6th Jordan Pearson 5lb 8oz peg 22 Well done Anthony who goes through with Liam Shilling and Chris Faill the previous 2 qualifiers winners, and Hard lines everyone else good Washington & Harrington Angling Club 1st John Foster 43lb 5oz peg 33 2nd Peter Smith 41lb 15oz peg 27 3rd Terry Guthrie 32lb 6oz peg 28 4th Dave Walker 30lb 10oz peg 36 5th Neil Middlemas 29lb 6oz peg 30 6th Andy Mc Neil 26lb 7oz peg 31 Pairs won by Terry Guthrie and Dave Walker Well done lads

Club News
Junior club members who want to go into the junior matches these holidays please phone 0191 4100449. Matches Sundays draw at 9am Wed Eve draw at 5pm Winter League dates will be announced soon

Other News
Matches Sundays draw at 9am Wed Eve draw at 5pm Winter League dates will be announced soon

Weekly report for 13 July 2008

Week ending Sunday 13th July 08 Fishing very well despite the weather which has been very wet this week and dropped water temperature. Fish are still feeding ferociously and high catch rates are being reported by pleasure anglers. Pellet soft hookers, expander and hair rigged and paste working over angel pellets (feed), Worm tipped with two sweetcorn getting bottom feeding carp, tench, & roach fished dead bottom, or fish up and get rudd and golden rudd and even perch. Ide and orfe also taking all baits including sweetcorn. Hair rigged halibut pellets red, black and up to 25 mm doing the business for larger carp. Mix maggots or casters with groundbait or soaked angel pellets to form a good feed in feeder or ball in and use larger hook baits to get some good specimens.

Bowes Lake
Fishing very well with some nice specimens coming out mainly commons, as well as some good numbers of under 10lb. Four twenties out 3 commons and one mirror, as well as in excess of 15 above 12lb not a bad week for doubles. Chris Faill fishing peg 25 in the wed eve match took a nice 12lb 14oz on pole helping him to take second place in the wed eve match. Jimmy Hagan fishing peg 34 on pole using paste, worm tipped with sweetcorn doubled took 45 carp above 4lb as well as numerous under 4lb. Brian Hall fishing pole enticed a 15lb 14 oz common on Saturday as well as carp to 8lb his arms were aching as the common did not want to come to the net. Clive Brown fishing peg 36 took over 30 carp in a part morning session on paste and pellet over angel feed pellets.

Lookout Lake
Fishing exceptionally productively this week, loads of skimmers, some nice bream to 8lb, tench best to 6lb, Golden Tench in huge numbers to 2lb plus, Lots of Golden Rudd, & Rudd on the drop, Roach, some nice Ide, perch, some lovely orfe. All fish have pilled weight on but if using smaller baits you will get Angel bred fish (which have now bred for 4 years in a row) better in these water temperatures to go for 6mm pellet at least if targeting larger fish. Kit Steele in a half day took 87 fish on feeder and waggler all on maggot and meat. James cutting using meat took carp all day long and also some cracking bream. Liam Shilling fishing the match Sunday took a good 4lb 4oz bream post spawning and a female on peg 6.

Bassetts Pond
Fishing at a great rate at times constant fish a chuck. Fish dead depth for roach, carp and tench and up in the water for rudd, fish close to margins tight to reeds or off the bottom shelf at 6 ft. Maggot, paste and pellet working well. Mix casters and with angel pellets soaked and get bags of skimmers. Arron Whitehouse fished a full day getting soaked into the bargain but took well in excess of 150 fish best to 3lb.

Match News
Sunday 13th July 08 Open / Pairs Lookout After a week of persistent rain which dropped water temperature, we had some sun, and it was partly cloudy, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 88%, wind NW 2mph, barometer 1010.8 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 16.2 deg, DO 13.6, PH 7.56 conductivity -53 1st Chris Owers Angel 53lb peg 32 2nd Liam Shilling Angel Jnr 44lb 14oz peg 6 3rd Peter Wilson 44lb 6oz peg 4 4th Lee Slater Fishing Republic 34lb 12oz peg 31 5th Eddy Brydon Maver 34lb 2oz peg 29 6th Ryan Middlemass 32lb 1oz peg 37 Chris used paste on pole straight out up in water Wed Eve 9th July 08 Conditions Partly Cloudy, then rain, ambient temp 16 deg, humidity 78%, wind calm to 2 mph, barometer 1010.2 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 17.3 deg Ph 7.98 DO 9.4 con -79 1st Neil Brown Angel 41lb 7oz peg 40 2nd Chris Faill Angel Jnr 24lb 14oz peg 25 3rd Ray Wallace Angel 24lb 2oz peg 14 4th Dave Walker 20lb 1oz peg 2 5th Dave Foster 18lb 14oz peg 18 6th Eddie Brydon Maver 18lb 13oz peg 3 Well the height of summer and it rained constantly last night, wind got up and turned direction several times not great conditions for fishing. Well done Neil who fished in margins and had a good night.

Club News
Coaching Every new angler caught at least double numbers in our 3 hour sessions on Saturday, and Sunday please phone if you want to learn or are sea or game anglers converting to coarse angling please phone 0191 4100449 for bookings. Week days can also be arranged for groups or one to one Club members who want to pull together any competitions please contact Ann. Fishing clubs bookings for next years matches now being taken a deposit of £5.00 per person fishing is required.

Other News
Browning Youth Masters Qualifiers July 19th on Lookout All 17 year olds and under wanting to test their skills can enter this with the winner going through to the final at Cudmore Lakes. Phone 0191 4100449

John foster with nice tench and good bag of Carp on Lookout

Weekly report for 06 July 2008

A great week of exceptional catches and catch rates, anglers need to choose correct pegs according to weather conditions, quality fish in size and condition and also quantity have been caught this week. Evening and Dusk producing some stunning specimen species. Fish tight in the margins and feed often as fish are very hungry with water temperatures around 18 deg, excellent sport is being produced and some good fights being put up on capture by the fish. Hook baits:- Pellet (soft hooker, expander, and hair rigged) Paste, Corn, meat, mussle, prawn, worm, maggot all working well. Feed Angel Feed Pellets.

Bowes Lake
A great week fishing and water temp going over 18 deg started the carp spawning again plus an algae bloom on Wed however the heavy rain Wed night and Sat stopped the bloom and also stopped the spawning. Alan Straughan from Houghton Le Street took 71 carp, to 4lb also a great 17lb 4oz all on Worm tipped with maggot. Ian Dixon on Thursday Eve fly fishing for carp took a stunning over one meter long common carp a female post spawning see photo. Jimmy Hagan using pole had a magical day on Sunday with all carp caught above 3lb mark to 10 lb using a hook bait of worm and double sweetcorn tipped as a cocktail.

Lookout Lake
Lookout every peg has caught at fish a chuck this week with well in excess of 100 fish in a days session and several anglers reporting over 200 fish, We even had anglers complaining it was fishing to well on Friday as they could not get a cuppa or a ciggie as they were catching at fish a chuck!!! Jimmy Hagan fishing pole with paste took over 100 fish on peg 34 including 17 tench best at 5lb 1oz, 14 carp best 4ln 2oz, the rest silvers inc a lovely orfe. Norman Eden Monday morning caught 30 fish 13 carp to lb 8oz, 7 Tench and 10 skimmers on peg 16aa. Tuesday morning he caught 29 fish, 4 carp to 5lb, 2 golden tench and 5 tench, 2 rudd, and 16 skimmers. All on pellet with garlic flavouring added and meat cubes. Friday Normans Son Chris's Catch Approx. 80. 4 carp to 3lbs, 12 crucians, tench to 3lbs, golden tench skimmers, roach and rudd. Baits: pellets, corn and meat. Normans catch Approx 100. 10 carp to3.5 lbs, 2 crucian, 12 golden tench, tench, skimmers, roach and rudd. Baits: pellets and meat

Bassetts Pond
Exceptional catches coming of this pond with carp, crucians, tench, golden tench, ide, rudd, roach, orfe, all feeding well. Jason Henry had an excellent mornings session with 79 fish to 1pm best was a carp to 4lb and a golden tench to 2lb. Father and daughter Chris and Lisa Johnston (9 yrs old) gave this pond a try for the first time at Angel and got 66 fish and 32 fish respectively both very pleased with the half day session and Lisa’s smile was fabulous.

Match News
Wednesday 2nd July Eve open Bowes Conditions – Partly cloudy, ambient temp 18 deg, humidity 56%, wind S7 mph, barometer 1006.1 mb, moon phase waning Crescent, water temp 18.3 deg, ph 7.98, DO 12.7, conductivity -78 , 1st Ray Wallace Angel 38lb 7oz Peg 3 2nd Eddie Douglas Langley Park 22lb 3oz Peg 1 3rd Peter Smith 19lb peg 35 4th Dave Hudson Langley Park 17lb peg 37 5th Chris Owers angel 14lb 11oz peg 21 6th Dave foster 12lb 9oz peg 18 Well done Ray on a Tough night with fish spawning again with water temperature over 18 deg, and water going into a Plankton algae bloom which pulled the DO down to 12. Heavy rain later on Wed eve might alter the plankton bloom. Mostly Cloudy, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 88%, wind 3 mph, Barometer 1001 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 17.7 deg after rain Sat, DO 14.5, PH 7.80, con -52. 1st Chris Owers Angel 76lb 15oz peg 2 2nd Dave Hudson Langley Park 54lb 9oz peg 14 3rd Tommy Cullerton Angel 53lb 7oz peg 5 4th Andrew Brown 51lb 4oz peg 8 5th John Foster Angel 44lb 11oz peg 6 6th Chris Pine 44lb peg 32 Chris used pole 5 meters out on pellet and paste

Club News
Coaching Any Sea or Game or Begginners wanting to Coarse fish please book onto the coaching session phone 0191 4100449.

Other News
Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on July 19th on Lookout Island any junior wanting to participate please ring to put your name down.

Weekly report for 29 June 2008

Fishing on all lakes is cracking the best of the year with all species spawned and feeding up again to gain strength and stature. Young fingerlings spawned in early May showing in shoals getting chased by fish. Feed patterns getting and keeping the hungry fish in your swim, feed more and often now the water temperature is up, and with larger baits you catch larger fish. Waggler or pole close by reeds at about 3ft or go off the 2nd shelf at 6ft deep, keep a swim fed at 6 meters out if fishing close in, pole or feeder to the back bank again close in all producing well. Keep 2 /3 swims fed to keep the fish feeding in at least one swim, then if swim dries up switch to your second or third swim and feed the first. Just keeping a constant rotation as each swim dies off .

Bowes Lake
Choose pegs well according to wind and you will have a large haul of fish, Jimmy Hagan produced a great 6lb 8oz young carp as well as 67 others average weight 2lb 8oz. Chris Abbott fishing Peg 1 took a fish a chuck on Saturday and his reasoning is it is all in getting the feed patterns correct. Large doubles favouring the 25 mm Halibut pellet and 10mm hair rigged fish meal feed pelt, Best Fish out was 21lb 4oz a common and Alan Straughan did well with a lovely 17 lb 4ozcarp on worm and maggot as a cocktail.

Lookout Lake
Monday Norman Eden catch on peg 16 aa his daily quota of 100 fish when he then goes home including 11 tench to 5lb, 2 golden tench to 2lb loads of skimmers and mixed silvers all on soft hookers with garlic flavouring Tuesday Doug Peel hit his target of 100 fish including including 23 carp, tench and a good mixed bag, Luke Bruce produced mixed bags including lots of Carp to 4lb, Tench to 3lb and some good crucians to a total of 67 fish.

Bassetts Pond
Great catches on here and great shelter in winds correctly tackle up and plumb up and constantly drip feed and you achieve fishing at fish a chuck. Adrian Scott produced a cracking days catch with over 145 fish, carp, crucians, tench, ide, orfe, rudd, roach, best was a carp at 3lb.

Match News
Browning Youth Masters Qualifier is on July 19th clubs please get your junior names down as well as any junior wanting to participate. Please phone 0191 4100449 Well done to Chris Faill (1st qualifier match) & Liam Shilling (2nd qualifier match) who go through to the Final at Cudmore Lakes for the Browning Youth Masters Final.

Club News
Last Saturday in the Month is the Junior club members match

Other News
Coaching Lots of new adults and juniors coming into the sport anyone wanting to learn to fish or convert from sea or game fishing to coarse please phone 0191 4100449

Weekly report for 22 June 2008

General Week to June 22nd 08 Some cracking catches this week despite a week of very heavy rains ending in severe winds and gales, thus dropping water temperature down to 14 deg but raising Dissolved Oxygen to good highs. Fish feeding well with lots of surface activity taking insects blown into the water, Some cracking green Tench have been caught in good numbers this week with prawn, mussle and chopped worm on the hook really doing the business, large numbers of golden tench to 2lb coming out. Worm taking good numbers of perch to 2lb 10oz, also some good carp to 12lb 5oz caught on worm and caster cocktail, Paste & pellet doing great, use maggots in groundbait balls to get the fish attracted to your swim, and mix caster with angel feed pellets soaked to make a riveting paste. Large bags of Skimmers & Bream. Ide, Orfe, Rudd, Roach being caught with one angler catching almost 30 Crucians in one day.

Bowes Lake
Great Fishing with specialist anglers choosing species specific to target as well as pleasure anglers going for mixed bags. Jimmy Hagan had his shelter collapse on him in the gales on Sunday but continued fishing to catch 18 carp to 6lb 8oz, 21 Skimmers to 1lb 4oz, and a good bag of 27 tench to 4lb, Jimmy used prawn and paste on his hook and fed 4 pts of angel pellets. Chris Faill on Saturday using paste over angel feed pellets had 20 tench to 4lb, carp, Rudd, Roach and Skimmers totalling over 70 fish. Doug Peel caught 33 fish his best was 5lb and Luke Bruce caught 18 fish both were fishing Tuesday

Lookout Lake
Great Fishing with specialist anglers choosing species specific to target as well as pleasure anglers going for mixed bags. Jimmy Hagan had his shelter collapse on him in the gales on Sunday but continued fishing to catch 18 carp to 6lb 8oz, 21 Skimmers to 1lb 4oz, and a good bag of 27 tench to 4lb, Jimmy used prawn and paste on his hook and fed 4 pts of angel pellets. Chris Faill on Saturday using paste over angel feed pellets had 20 tench to 4lb, carp, Rudd, Roach and Skimmers totalling over 70 fish. Doug Peel caught 33 fish his best was 5lb and Luke Bruce caught 18 fish both were fishing Tuesday

Bassetts Pond
This has fished at fish a chuck to those whose method and set up is chosen correctly, young Adam Scott on a morning session took 41 fish his dad hardly had time to fish himself because he was helping Adam.

Match News
Sunday 22nd June 08 open Bowes Horrendous winds & heavy overnight rain, mostly cloudy, ambient temp 14 deg, humidity 67%, wind SW 35 mph gusting 50 mph upwards , barometer 997 mb, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp dropped to 14.2 deg, DO 16.2, PH 7.55, cond -45. Well done to all anglers for managing these weights in gales! 1st Neil Brown Angel 63lb 6oz peg 6 2nd John Foster Angel 21lb 11oz peg 37 3rd Dave Walker 18lb 8oz peg 35 4th Ray Wallace 17lb 10oz peg 4 5th Peter Wilson 15lb 14oz peg 3 6th Keith West Langley Park 12lb 14oz peg 5 Neil caught on paste well done Neil Scott Angling Club Sunday 22nd June 08 Lookout 1st Roger Jackson 49lb 5oz peg 6 2nd Bob Painter 33lb 10oz peg 10 3rd Andrew Mc Gee 26lb 10oz peg 2 4th Martin Rayner 26lb 5oz peg 8 5th Linda Shaw 7lb 10oz peg 4 6th Dereck Shaw 1lb 12oz peg 12 Wed Eve Open 18th June 08 Bowes Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 17 deg, humidity 59%, wind SW 13 mph, barometer 1002mb, moon phase New Moon, water temp 17.4 deg, PH 7.45, DO 7.95, conductivity -49. 1st Chris Owers Angel 33lb 8oz peg 33 2nd Eddie Brydon Maver 27lb 4oz peg 25 3rd Alan Mc Guire 22lb 3oz peg 40 4th Dave Foster 19lb 9oz peg 6 5th John Foster Angel 18lb 3oz peg 23 6th Neil Brown Angel 17lb 14oz peg 14 Chris fished 8 meters on pole on paste well done Chris 2nd win in 4 days

Other News
Coaching Several more students on the coarse angling course have passed out and now come to fish on day tickets, with several trying their hand at competitive angling and entering the Browning Match this week-end (Saturday 28th) Please phone for details for Saturday and Sunday mornings and week-day coaching sessions. Browning Youth Masters June 28th 08 and also July 19th 08 come on clubs get your youth to enter the competition.

Weekly report for 15 June 2008

General A brilliant week with almost a fish a chuck, then going to quiet spells for an hour and then switching back on to great fishing again. Best catches at dusk and dawn so season ticket holders in force fishing these times with some coming in at 3am to get the best fishing. Pellet is proving the best hook bait on all lakes with angel expanders RS 4.5, 6, and 10 really doing well. The bigger the bait the bigger the fish is very true, feed angel pellets or catapult maggots to get fish up in water, Maggot, caster, worm, paste all doing well or try hair rigging angel 10mm feed pellet and be prepared for the results..

Bowes Lake
Keith Little had a good short afternoon with 16 carp to 5lb and a surprise of a good tench. Steve and Diane Jackson had some excellent fishing and Steve took a PB with a 15lb carp a common, he is trying to catch Diane’s PB out of Bowes. Eric Nelson from Summerset up visiting his relations in Newcastle had a great session on Bowes fishing with 25mm pellet and pva bag filled with angel 6mm pellets he pull out several doubles and complimented his day with a 25lb 4oz mirror a female not yet spawned. Season Ticket holder Chris Abbott had in excess of carp making a great days sport

Lookout Lake
Norman Eden fishing 16aa has had several excellent days this week with Monday in excess of 100 fish caught between 8.30am and 4pm, including 4 carp to 3lb plus, 2 good Crucians to excess of 1.5lb , and a mixed bag but no perch. On Tuesday morning Norman took 66 fish till 12.30pm including 8 carp to 4lb, 1 tench to 3lb plus, 2 Crucians to 1.5lb plus, again another mixed bag made up the rest. Brian Matheson & Alan Rixon have had some great sport with Brian taking a good 6lb plus tench, carp to 7lb, Crucians to 3lb, rudd and roach also ide to 1lb + and loads of skimmers to 1lb4oz., Neil Brown had a corker of a Friday with 26 carp, 89 skimmers and over 30 tench he fished till 3.30 pm as he had ran out of feed and hook bait.

Bassetts Pond
Peter James has had some excellent catches on this pond with in excess of 100 fish caught Peter was so tired he stopped to have some coffee to recover from the great fishing. Andrea Stephenson aged 6 had a great session with her grandad on an afternoon 2 hour session she caught her first carp, rudd, ide and tench she was a very happy girl. Fishing at fish a chuck and some great sport.

Match News
Sunday 15th June 08 Open Lookout Partly Cloudy, ambient temperature 14 deg, humidity 82%, W 2mph, barometer 1010.2mb, moon waxing gibbous, water temp 18.2 deg, DO 7.4, PH 7.38, conductivity -41. 1st Chris Owers Angel 63lb 12oz peg 28 2nd Mark Carlin Langley park 37lb 9oz peg 37 3rd Dave Hodgson Angel 35lb 7oz peg 3 4th Brian Hall Angel 34lb 6oz peg 29 5th Tommy Cullerton 33lb 14oz peg 32 6th Peter Wilson 32lb 5oz peg 27 Chris fished 6mm Angel RS pellets and fed angel feed pellets at 6 meters out on pole Wednesday Eve 11th 2008 Open on Angel Bowes Conditions Overcast and Rain Moon Phase Waxing Gibbous, ambient temp 12 deg, water temp 18.4 deg, PH 7.36, DO 6.8, Barometer 1012.4, Wind 12 mph, 1st Eddie Brydon Maver 34lb 8oz peg 25 2nd Alan Mc Guire 26lb 10oz peg 26 3rd Peter Smith 25lb 10oz peg 16 4th Mark Carlin 23lb 11oz peg 22 5th Tony Robson 22lb 9oz peg 4 6th John Foster Angel 22lb Peg 14 Good match by Eddie well done

Club News
Some excellent adult and junior novice anglers coming into the sport who are thoroughly Enjoying both the thrill of the catch as well as the peace and tranquillity of the environment and wildlife. One to Ones are also available through the week and group sessions on a Saturday and Sunday from 9am to noon Angel supplies fully qualified and Licenced coaches, rod licence, seat box, rods, poles, terminal tackle and bait for £15.00 for 3 hours, anyone interested phone 0191 4100449.

Other News
Browning Youth Masters Qualifiers is on Sat 28th June (not 29th) and July 19th Calling all 17year old and under now is your chance to enter a very prestigious qualifier to go forward to the final and first prize is a sponsorship by Browning and £1000.00 worth of tackle.

Weekly report for 08 June 2008

Fishing exceptionally well especially towards the weekend and the warmer weather & warmer water temperatures but needs some cloud for best fishing. Fish a swim quite tight to margins just of the first shelf at 3 ft, also fish and keep second swim fed at the bottom of the second shelf at 6 ft, pole try out at 8 meters and take rudd on the drop spraying out maggots also pellets. Try feeder to back banks just of shelf but tight in to margin. Best bait for consistency has been pellet, even Crucians coming in on fishmeal pellet, paste working on pole, maggot, caster, worm, corn all doing well on the hook. Feed angel feed pellets little but very often, almost constant drip feeding to get great catches and fish a chuck.

Bowes Lake
Great fishing with early and late at dusk or dawn producing great fishing in low light conditions, all hook baits doing well with pellet from 6mm to 25 mm on hook or hair rigged doing the business, worm, paste or maggot clips all working. Alan Mc Guire fishing peg 1 had a great Saturday with stunning carp, Alan Smith on Wednesday took a nice Carp of 14lb 8oz, John Rogerson on Friday took four twenty pound plus carp two mirrors and two commons all on angels 25mm black pellets with angels 10mm banded took six other doubles.

Lookout Lake
Rudd, Golden Rudd, Tench, Golden Tench, Crucians, Ide, Skimmers, Bream, large and medium Koi, Carp mirror, common, leather , Perch, Orfe, all catching very well. Your method & terminal tackle just needs set to the species required tench at over depth, carp at dead depth also up in the water fishing 2ft with size 16 hook and double maggot. Norman & Son Chris Eden had a great days fishing on Friday this week catching in excess of 80 to 100 fish each with Norman catching 10 carp, 8 Crucians, 3 good tench above 3.5 lb, lots skimmers, Golden tench, tench, rudd, roach and Ide. Fished garlic pellets on hook then feed 3mm angle pellets over making a good bed of feed at 3ft out on first self, son Chris had a bag all silvers and no carp all averaging three ¼’s of pound plus, all tempted by the trusty old maggots just trickling them in the margins. Steve Shilling on Saturday fishing peg 16aa took tench to 3.5lb, had a great Ghost Carp to 7lb, lots of Golden Tench 20 Carp to 5lb, and mixed bag of silvers all on 6mm expanders and fed angel Pellets.

Bassetts Pond
Some cracking catch rates especially on Saturday for Juniors with high catch rates. Adam Scott aged 12 on Saturday morning caught 33 tench using green soft hooker pellets and soaked them in liquid worm, on a 5m whip whilst feeding white maggot over the top.

Match News
Sunday 8th June 08 Fair sunny spells, Ambient temp 20 deg, ambient temp 20 deg, Humidity 88%, W 5mph, barometer 1023.1 mb, Water temp 17.8, DO 7.9, PH 7.45, cond -35 Lookout –Stanley & District Angling Club 1st Stewy May 51lb 13oz peg 41 2nd Dennis Burdon 45lb 1oz peg 38 3rd Eddie Hern 33lb 7oz peg 11 4th Tony Richardson 27lb 3oz peg 4 5th Chris Walker 25lb 9oz peg 8 6th Dave Hodgson 23lb 3oz peg 2 Stewy fished worm on hook over angel pellets well done some excellent carp Bowes Open 1st Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 27lb 10oz peg 40 2nd Eddie Brydon Maver 27lb 1oz peg 37 3rd Andrew Mc Neil 21lb 10oz peg 21 4th John Foster Angel 18lb 6oz peg 16 5th Brian Hall 14lb 7oz peg 22 6th Ben Huggins 11lb 6oz peg 23 Anth fished pole in margins and at 5 meters out, used paste

Club News
Now with the first qualifiers over with Chris Faill an Angel Jnr Club member going through to final we are looking forward to the 2nd qualifier at Angel on June 29th 2008 so all Juniors please put names down for this. 0191 4100449.

Other News
While the first qualifier browning youth masters took place on Saturday 31st may Some new and maybe soon to be young stars kept bagging up on Bassetts lake during coaching lessons.(sat & sundays 9am till 12pm) with an over all catch rate of about 20 to 50 fish each all tempted by maggot and corn up in the water and dead bottom. Large ide and golden tench to 1lb1/2,& carp, which are providing good sport for the youngsters.

Weekly report for 02 June 2008

The Week General Best tips on hook use Pellet (all sizes, all flavours, bigger bait bigger fish), paste, sweetcorn, worm tails and maggots also castor, Feed angel pellets Fish close to margins close to reeds, off first shelf at 3 ft 6 in deep or go for bottom of second shelf at 6ft deep still close in, Great catches this week, and exceptional catches on warm days when fish are well of the bottom, fish spawning well carp and tench yet to spawn.

Bowes Lake
Fishing exceptionally well with carp feeding ready to spawn. Regulars Luke Harle and Doug Peel fishing Tuesday had a great days fishing with Luke catching 18 common carp and Doug 10 Mirror carp and 15 common carp all on soft hooker pellets 6mm over angel pellets fed very often, James Thompson and Ryan Rowley have had several good days fishing with some excellent carp being caught numbering in excess of 60 fish. Alan Straughan on peg 1 took 48 carp to 8lb in a short session on Thursday fishing worm tail with maggot or castor tipped as cocktail. Season Ticket Holders brothers Marc and Paul taking some nice doubles during evening and early morning sessions.

Lookout Lake
Norman Eaden fishing 16aa had a great morning on Friday with over 50 fish inc tench, skimmers, and 9 carp fishing pole with pellet flavoured with garlic. Alan Thompson on Friday fishing peg 16 a took over 20 bream, and 7 perch on maggot. Paul swift fishing peg 24 took in excess of 70 fish including golden tench, tench, perch, rudd, roach, crucians, and carp. Martyn Searle also had a great session this week catching 31 bream best to 6lb, 28 tench inc golden tench, rudd and carp.

Bassetts Pond
Great pond with some great catches out including some carp to 4lb with Greg Wallace from Hendon taking over 80 tench in a day session as well as carp, roach, rudd, Ide all on maggot over angel feed pellets.

Match News
Sunday 1st June 08 Open Lookout Mostly Cloudy with rain, ambient temp 11 deg, Wind N 15 mph, barometer 1016.9 mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 15.9 deg, DO 9.6, PH 7.51 conductivity -49 1st John Foster Angel 45lb 13oz peg 26 2nd Steve Chant 41lb 12oz peg 6 3rd Peter Wilson 35lb 3oz peg 27 4th Eddie Brydon Maver 33lb 11oz peg 14 5th Terry Guthrie (would have been 3rd on 39lb 1oz but over filled silvers net by 6lb 7oz )32lb 11oz peg 12 6th Andrew Brown 32lb 4oz peg 3 John used paste 4 mtres out in margins and also pellet up in water Browning Youth Masters Qualifiers Saturday 31st May 08 Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 16 deg, Humidity 68%, Wind N13 mph, moon phase waning crescent, water temp rose to 16.2 deg, PH 7.31 DO9.5 aerators on, conductivity -49 1st Christopher Fail Angel Jnr 23lb 1oz inc 2lb 15oz bream, peg 14 2nd Anthony Longstaff Angel 12lb 9oz peg 3 3rd Liam Shilling Angel 12lb 5oz peg 5 4th Arron Deas 10lb 1oz peg 7 5th Daniel Smith Angel 7lb peg 6 6th Alex Burdon 3lb 7oz peg 13 Well done Chris who goes through to the final at Cudmore where 100 young anglers will fish against each other to win a years sponsorship including tackle etc. Wed Eve 28th May 08 Bowes Overcast, ambient temp 11 deg, water temp 14 deg, DO 8.4, PH 7.66 1ST Chris Owers Angel 35lb 1oz peg 36 2nd Eddie Brydon Maver 33lb peg 4 3rd Mark Carlin 32lb 5oz peg 2 4th Peter Wilson 16lb 10oz peg 37 5th Andrew Brown 16lb peg 16 6th Ray Wallace 13lb 10oz peg 5 Chris fish pole 10 meters pellet over Angel feed pellets

Club News
Calling ALL Junior Anglers from the North East Names taken for the next Browning Qualifier at Angel on June 29th 08 for the Browning Youth Masters any Junior aged 17 and under is eligible to go through to final. Chris Fail an Angel Junior was 1st in the Browning Youth Masters Qualifier on Saturday, Well done to Chris who goes through to the Final

Other News
Coaching Is Very Busy with excellent adult and junior attendances with loads of new anglers coming into the sport. Please book for taster sessions or courses to learn or convert from sea or game. Coming up a session on:- feeding to catch Carp anyone interested please phone Ann to Book

Chris Fail on Saturday at Browning Youth Master Qualifier on Angel

Weekly report for 19 May 2008

An excellent week for all lakes with the rise in water tempetature especially at dusk and dawn fish are jumping for insects –excellent sights, All lakes have produced outstanding results on warm days, Saturday water temperature dropped producing less catches but still some outstanding quantities and sizes of fish. Silvers well are into spawning with Bream with spawning nodules all over, Hook Baits Pellet both on the hook, Worm tails topped with caster worked well in the Supercup, sweetcorn, maggot, caster, worm, paste all working well if swim is fed often, remember fed only Angel Pellets.

Bowes Lake
Season Ticket Holder Junior Marc Gibson had a corker of a day Saturday with several good 20lb plus carp out very early on in the morning, Jon Jordan from Carlisle fishing peg 17 had in excess of 100 fish best to 8lb fishing tip with groundbait and pellet in feeder, 8 mm pellet on hook Choice of peg makes the difference on the day

Lookout Lake
Fishing very well from every peg, fish close in up in water off second shelf or dead depth off second shelf at 6 foot out. Fish tight to merging at edge of reeds at 3ft on first planting shelf for great success. Daniel Smith Fishing Monday took 90 fish 15 carp, 20 plus tench, then skimmers, rudd, roach on peg 9 on island.

Bassetts Pond
Goes from strength to strength with exceptional days ie Monday Norman Eaden taking well in excess of 100 tench plus silvers & carps in a half day session. Little Sarah Milligan 4 yrs old had her first fishing lesson with 24 fish caught on Wednesday. Aaon & Colin Deas fishing Saturday had a cracking day with Colin taking approx 150 fish with a good 7lb 9oz Mirror & 6lb 11oz Common Arron aged 14 had over 100 fish lots of golden tench to 1lb 8oz, and two good mirror carp plus skimmers, ide and rudd. Arron is just learning pole and fished with double maggot and pellet.

Match News
Wednesday Evening 14th May Open Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 9 deg, humidity 66%, wind NE7mph, barometer 1018mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 17.4 deg, DO 17.9, PH 7.88, conductivity -81. 1st Peter Wilson 24lb 09oz peg 17 2nd Mark Carlin 24lb 5oz peg 40 3rd Chris Owers 23lb 14oz peg 21 4th Andrew Brown 18lb 1oz peg 14 5th Steve Kean 17lb 3oz peg 4 6th Gav Cummings 14lb 4oz Peter pole and paste also pellet Saturday 17th May Lookout Lake Supercup 2nd leg competitors:- Angel, Monklands (Scotland), Langley Park. Drizzle and mostly cloudy, ambient temperature 8 deg, humidity 93%, Wind ENE 7 mph, barometer 1010.8 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temperature dropped to 16.0 deg, DO 18 ppm, PH 7.56, conductivity -73. Section 1 Dave Hudson 41lb 12oz (L), Alex Napier 28lb 13oz (M), Neil Brown 24lb 8oz (A) Section 2 Keith West 8lb 9oz (L), David Mc Auley 25lb 14lb (M), Dennis Burden 20lb 15oz (A) Section 3 Lee Slater 32lb 5oz (L), David Anderson 19lb 9oz (M), John Foster 12lb (A) Section 4 Gerry Bowes 19lb 1oz (L), Dougie Garmory 10lb 3oz (M), Andy Simpson 25lb 6oz (A) Section 5 Alfie Snowden 17lb 7oz (L) Darren Fergurson 27lb 4oz (M) Eddie Hern 29lb (A) Section 6 Norman Laing 27lb 14oz (L) Mike Shaw 27lb 8oz (M) Chris Owers 45lb 6oz (A) Section 7 Ray Laing 33lb 13oz (L) Ian Whitson 32lb 01oz (M) Craig Kent 28lb 9oz (A) Section 8 Steve Kean 28lb 9oz (L) Stephen McGavery 35lb 1oz (M) Dave hodgson 26lb 14oz (A) Supercup Points 1st Langley Park B 17 points, weight 209lb 6oz 2nd Monklakes 16 points, weight 206lb 5oz 3rd Angel 15 points, 212lb 14oz Individual Winners 1st Chris Owers 45lb 06 peg 21 Angel 2nd Dave Hudson 41lb 12oz peg 1 Langley 3rd Stephen Mc Gavery 35lb 01 peg 31 Monklakes Well done Langley and hard lines Monklakes & Angel a close match Sunday 18th May 08 Open Bowes Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 9 deg, humidity 66%, Wind NNE10 mph, barometer 1016.9mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp 16.01 deg, DO 18.1, Ph 7.80, conductivity -78 1st Neil Brown 28lb 11oz Peg 3 Angel 2nd Dave Hamm 25lb 12oz peg 24 3rd Chris Owers 17lb 11oz peg 38 Angel 4th Colin Thompson 13lb 7oz peg 5 Angel 5th Andrew Brown 12lb 6oz peg 34 6th Terry Guthrie 10lb 15oz peg 35 Neil used pole at 10 meters also margin swim, paste also pellet over angel pellets.

Club News
In the Supercup Congratulations to Langley Park B Team who won the second leg at Angel Hard Lines to Monklands (Scotland) who together with Angels team all put in an excellent match with the final person being weighed in actually giving the result - it was that close Angel Juniors Browning Youth Masters qualifiers are being held on Angel give us a ring to put names down first one is 31st May 08

Other News
Browning Youth Masters Qualifiers dates on Angel are:- May 31st - Lookout Island June 29th - Lookout Island July 19th - Lookout Island Final is held at Cudmore Fisheries on Aug 30th 2008

Weekly report for 27 April 2008

General Fishing very well with milder weather allowing water temperature to creep up to 11.5 deg and wind direction turning more favourable for angling with South or Westerly wind direction. Fish are moving around now and feeding Angel pellets mixed with maggot or mix ground bait mixed with caster on the hook use paste, pellet, maggot, caster, worm tails, mussle all doing well, sweet flavourings i.e. scopex, strawberry, pineapple as well as savoury garlic etc, also work well. Pole presentation has been very productive, feeder also working well, pellet waggler now coming on brilliantly, ledger is slow as fish are not on the bottom but up in warmer thermals. Rudd on the drop can be fish a chuck, carp given enough feed pellets are very productive, silvers are feeding well to start spawning as soon as water temperature dictate.

Bowes Lake
Some excellent numbers of carp being caught with Eric Nelson from North Shields catching over 60 carp to 4lb on pole and pellet on hook over angel feed pellets it was Eric’s first visit and he went home pleased with his day. Chris & Colin Pine had a carp a chuck almost and a good days fishing Pole and feeder on pellets over angel pellets.

Lookout Lake
Tuesday Ian Mc Conville had a great four hour session catching some stunning condition and size Rudd and Golden Rudd 25 in total, also Bream to 2lb 8oz, all on waggler at 20 meters out, on maggot. Anthony Longstaff 15 yrs old fishing Thursday half day had 38 carp to 4lb, 10 skimmers av 1lb, and 4 tench to 3lb on pole 10 meters and 6 mm angel rs expander pellets on hook over 3mm angel feed pellets. Season Ticket Holder Ian Dixon on Tuesday had a great 4 hours with 26 carp and one tench at 5lb all on waggler with meat on the hook. Brian Hall on Friday fishing shallow on pole at 13 metres out using banded pellet over angel feed pellets, caught 44 carp tp 4lb, 27 rudd to 1lb 4oz, and 14 skimmers to 1lb 5oz, he had a great time. Alan Hepple also Friday had 19 carp, 26 skimmers, 2 good crucians, 9 tench, 4 golden tench on paste and expander pellets, on pole 11.5 meters out.

Bassetts Pond
Fished very productively this week as water temperatures rose (at last) Norman Eaden fishing Friday morning had over 50 fish including Rudd and Golden Rudd to 1lb, Roach, Ide, Tench and Golden Tench, and Carp to 2lb 8oz.

Club News
Full House on Sunday Open with all 3 teams practising for the Supercup which is on Angel on 17th May

Other News
Coaching is every Saturday and Sunday and all other times must be pre booked please phone 0191 4100449 to book Corporate days or school trips please phone to book or arrange 24 Students from Newcastle University Animal Science dept had a good hour fishing session on Thursday, catching Rudd, Roach, Tench, Golden Tench and Carp as part of a half day education visit to the lakes. Coaching is every Saturday and Sunday and all other times must be pre booked please phone 0191 4100449 to book Corporate days or school trips please phone to book or arrange Birthday fishing parties doing well with Connor Mc Carthy having his 12 th Birthday Party Fishing on Bassetts pond with his chums and our coaches getting all catching. Connor has gone through coaching previously and is doing excellently he is also learning fly fishing and got a Hardys Fly Rod as his Birthday Present. Which he can use on the Carp Lake through July and August.

Weekly report for 20 April 2008

General A week of Ground frosts, rain, wind swinging to Northerly and North Easterly, to Easterly not wind directions for productive angling! But the weather is forecast to change at last in the week ahead !! Water temperatures have varied up and down again, but daylight longer hours are getting fish to start feeding as spawning is due to start so they need to get weigh on and fit for spawning. Catches have been methodical with a good tench of 8lb a male and large bags of golden tench, carp have been very prevalent on a good selection of baits, some extremely good Rudd, Roach, Ide and Orfe being caught to around 2lb, Bream to 7lb and Skimmers in large numbers, no Crucians, or Perch reported caught this week. Feed angel pellets or maggots, or chop caster or maggots mixed with groundbait or pellet, hook baits that are working are pellet, hair rigged angel pellets both RS 4.5 , 6 & 10mm, sweetcorn, worm, caster, however maggot being the best with water temp drop. Methods – tip and maggot feeder doing the job, good days with little wind pole excels.

Bowes Lake
With the water temp drop and wind changing direction to N & NE it has been critical to choose your peg wisely to get good catches, some catch rates of 60 plus carp in half day sessions have been possible,. Dave Hodgson had 10 carp for 44lb, good average weight of 4lb 4oz per carp. Strangely almost all carp caught were commons, depending on bait and peg choice were the key to size of the carp caught. Jimmy Hagan had a good day on Sunday with 21 carp to 5lb on maggot feeder and worm tails on hook. Start using larger hook baits or multiple maggots, feed angel feed pellets or maggots to get carp into your swim.

Lookout Lake
Stev Shilling had a good 3 hour session on the island peg 15 with 25 carp and 2 tench all good fish on pole, 3 meters out on hook 6 mm pellet over 6mm feed pellet. Paul and Eddie Burton from Peterlee had a good but very wet session on Wednesday with Carp to 4lb, Tench, an excellent golden Orfe of 2lb plus, Ide, Lovely large Bream, and Skimmers, Rudd & Roach on pellet and maggot.

Bassetts Pond
Great pond steady catches even though wind direction has been bad for angling N NE & E and water temp drops & Rises, some good numbers of smaller fish under 1lb and quite a few well above 4lb including some excellent carp, Ide, Rudd to over 1lb, Roach, Tench, Golden Tench, Skimmers,Golden Orfe.all catching this week.

Match News
Saturday 19th April 08 open Bowes Conditions -Heavy rain through night, mostly Cloudy, ambient temp 6 deg, horrible wind direction for fishing ENE 18 mph, humidity 81%, barometer 1006.1 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp dropped overnight to 6.3, PH 7.81, DO 16.4, conductivity -87 1st Dave Hodgson Angel 17lb 13oz peg 25 2nd Ant Richardson 11lb 14oz Peg 3 3rd Neil Brown Angel 10lb 4oz Dave fished 10 ft carbon active bomb rod tight to island. Bomb & maggot feeder and white maggot on hook 16 808, 0.16 line had to wait for bites.

Club News
Practice goes on for the adults match team in preparation for the 2nd round of the Supercup at Angel against Langley Park and Monklakes (Scotland) on May 17th The juniors are still fishing Saturday but the weather has not been helpfull to the kids and they get so cold so quick.

Other News
Coaching is progressing well at week ends and mid week it does need to be booked to sort out angling coaches.

Weekly report for 13 April 2008

A week of water temp dropping and rising as low as 4.1 rising to 7.8 with mixed weather yet again of rain, hail, snow, frost , winds and also calm, and sunny days, making water temps go up and down, and not allowing water temperature to stabilise for fish to get used to. Fish responding to all hook baits however and to feeding angel pellets, some excellent numbers being caught on triple maggot, sweetcorn, & pellets both angels RS expanders as soft hooker and banded or hair rigged.

Bowes Lake
Fishing very well with a 19.15lb carp on Thursday a mirror and a long 23lb 2oz common, and plentiful smaller carp and double figured carp. Match weight on Saturday was 44lb 11oz in cold wet windy conditions, watch the wind on the day you fish and choose your peg on the day according to conditions. Some cracking numbers for pleasure anglers coming out, Season Ticket holders taking advantage of night fishing even though we have had several frosts brrrrrr!

Lookout Lake
Brian Hall on Thursday had a cracking day using sweetcorn on the pole at 10 meters out, 27 carp to 3lb, 15 tench, 10 skimmers, 4 rudd close to 100lb, Steve Kean on Friday fishing a short session from 1 pm to 5 pm on island peg 1 took 57 carp to 3lb, and 4 tench on pole well in excess of 100lb. Ian Dixon had a great short afternoon Tuesday session with 37 carp & Sunday took skimmers, tench, carp, Rudd. Daniel Smith 16 yrs took his PB a 13lb 2oz Carp on maggot over groundbait on Friday.

Bassetts Pond
Fishing well, with species easy to target according to method and bait. Great tench, Ide to 1lb 10oz, ( on coaching) Rudd, roach, carp, and first crucian out this week. Chris Pine doing well again having some great pleasure angling on pole, and taking all species of fish on corn and pellet.

Match News
Saturday Open Bowes 12th April 08 Overnight Frost then Mostly cloudy, wind WNW 10 mph (with wind chill factor) ambient temp 6 deg feels like 2 deg, humidity 81%, barometer 998 mb, moon phase first quarter, water temp dropped to 5.6 deg, ph 7.88, DO16.8ppm, conductivity -85 1st Dave Hodgson Angel 44lb 11oz peg 4 2nd Neil Brown Angel 25lb peg 23 3rd Dennis Burden Angel 21lb 11oz peg 34 Dave used maggot feeder tight to island, white maggots on hook, preston carbon active 10 ft bomb rod, 0.16 line to 16 808 hook. Sunday 13th April 08 Open Lookout Heavy overnight frost and a stunning sunrise and blue sky’s started the day, then it became Overcast, Ambient temp 6 deg, humidity 83%, calm then NW 3 mph changing to ENE 6 mph with a chill factor, barometer 1006.3 mb, moon phase first quarter, water temp 7.3 deg, DO 17.1 PPM, PH 7.76, Conductivity -84. 1st Dave Hudson Langley Park 48lb 12oz peg 38 2nd Tommy Cullerton 28lb 10oz peg 29 3rd Ray Laing 27lb 11oz Langley Park peg 26 4th Andy Simpson 27lb 9oz Angel peg 30 5th Mark Carlin Langley Park 25lb 6oz peg 39 6th Keith West Langley Park 15lb 6oz peg 2 Dave fished 13 metres into open water used pellet and corn over angel 3mm good bag carp 44lb 0oz rest silvers. Matches next Saturday Bowes Lake and Sunday Lookout Lake

Club News
Plenty of anglers from monklakes Scotland and Langley Park have been practising for the second round of the Supercup which is to be held at Angel on May 17th Angel club anglers also putting in the effort to practice a lot for the match. Junior and intermediate club members starting to fish more often on warmer days -although we have not had many of these good days yet this year -must be just around the corner though.

Other News
Coaching Saturday and Sunday mornings 9am until 12 noon Please phone to book 01914100449 Matches Saturday Bowes Lake, Sunday Lookout Lake, Wed eve to start from 14th May Please put names down in advance please. Still having some problems with human visitors overnight and even though night watchman, CCTV and others on lakes they try their best to get fish, please if passing at night let us know if cars parked on parimeters or up road towards Wrekenton 0191 4100449 Just poped a photo of the latest new born foal on this if anyone is interested the photo shows her (filly) at 2 hours old Arrrr factor.

Weekly report for 06 April 2008

General The Water temp held at 4 deg until Wednesday 2nd, then rose to 6 deg Thursday, Friday it hit 9.7 deg. Snow at 5am on Sat dropped water temp to 9.1 with sleet then heavy overnight frost at -7, the water temp on Sunday water temp dropped to 6 deg. The Best day of the week weather and fishing wise was Thursday with all lakes fishing extremely well, and anglers gaining great catches from a 24lb carp to good mixed bags. Anglers using pole realy did well, as did the tip to the back banks both on maggot and groundbait feeder. Paste also started to worked as water temperatures crept up and pellets especially Angels RS expanders hair rigged took some good fish. Maggot, Worm, Sweetcorn and meat also producing catches. Observation:- This area historically had 78% West winds yet this past 8 months we have been dominated by Northerly winds and more swirling wind direction changes than I can remember

Bowes Lake
Bowes Some excellent catches and night fishing producing some excellent sized carp both Mirrors and commons. Colin Pine and son Chris had some cracking catches on Sunday evening with a fish a chuck almost, Chris returning on Thursday using a pole at 10 metres out, fed Angel Pellets and used corn, also maggot on the 18 hook with a KC Carpa float 4x14, and changed to top two in the margins fed angel pellet with meat on the 16 hook and used 4x12 float had another corker of a day catching all day. Season Ticket holders coming in at dawn are having some superb bags of carp then going of to work some returning after work to fish till well after sunset.

Lookout Lake
Lookout Has seen some great activity in quality of fish being caught, some of the summer pegs starting to catch well as fish move around when the water temperature was up. Pole, Tip, and waggler doing well and baits maggot, sweetcorn, pellet, paste at the higher water temp started to work. Ian Dixon pulling in some stunning carp on waggler to back bank bottom ridge about 1ft up. Chris Pine enjoyed a great mixed bag on Saturday with

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts This pond is so good in windy and harsh weather conditions and produces all year round, regulars often give the big lakes a miss to fish this pond. Coaching doing well even in snow and hail our new anglers are wanting to learn and are catching well. Golden tench feeding as well as is Rudd, golden Rudd, ide, roach and carp to 4lb 2oz all caught.

Match News
Heavy Snow showers started after a beautiful stunning sunrise and calm waters and boy did it snow, Ambient Temp 4 deg (feels like -4), snow all day, partly cloudy, humidity 69%, wind WNW 10 mph changed to N 10mph, Barometer 1007.1 mb, Moon phase new moon. Water temperature dropped to 6.1 deg, Ph 7.89, DO 17.4 ppm, conductivity -69. 1st John Foster Angel 14lb 14oz peg 11 2nd Neil Brown Angel 12lb 13oz peg 25 3rd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 8lb 12oz peg 31 4th Ray Wallace peg 4 5th Terry Guthrie peg 9 6th Darrin Ferguson Monklands Scotland peg 5 John Fished Waggler at 11 meters & 15 meters and Pole at 11 meters, maggot on hook over angel feed pellets What a day our anglers looked like snowmen at different stages of the day horrible conditions to fish in well done for sticking the match out in these conditions.

Club News
Monklands fishing club Scotland, lads have been traveling over 300 miles in a round trip to fish practice sessions on the lakes for the second round of the supercup and Sunday the weather was horrible snowing all throught the open.

Other News
Observation:- This area historically had 78% West winds yet this past 8 months we have been dominated by Northerly winds and more swirling wind direction changes than I can remember Some hardy anglers turning up for coaching sessions even on Sunday in Snow! and they are catching!

Weekly report for 30 March 2008

General All lakes fishing better later in the day with the longer hours, if sunny fish are coming up to warm and topping both early morning and late evening as water temp still at a low with all the rain and winds. Maggot, Sweetcorn, Pellet and worm working well. Angels red and black pre-drilled pellets doing well, over betaine feed pellets.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Dave Foster fishing through the week on peg 22 using maggot feeder to island took over 20 good carp. Brian Hall on Thursday using tip, & triple maggot on 16 hook and no feed on peg 23 took 42 carp Alan Hepple on Thursday on maggot feeder fishing peg 3 took 27 carp. Chris Pine and Ben Huggins enjoyed a very productive Sunday Afternoon using hair rigged Angels black halibut pellets, and corn on the hook. Carp coming of the bottom and feeding up in the margins of island and banksides.

Lookout Lake
Some great catches depending on peg and weather conditions, in the match Andy Mc Neil took 13lb 10oz of stunning Golden Tench , Kim Christie had an excellent green tench, Skimmers, Rudd, Roach, Ide, Tench and Carp feeding this week. Steve Kean on Thursday fishing 11 metres out on pole on peg 26 using 4mm expander on hook over angel feed pellets took skimmers and carp Maggot, Pellet, Worm Sweetcorn all working over angel feed pellets.

Bassetts Pond
Chris & George Fail had carp to 4lb, Rudd, roach, ide and skimmers on Sunday. Some nice fish with Golden Orfe to 1lb 10oz being caught, tench and Golden Tench.

Match News
Mostly Cloudy, ambient temperature 9 deg, Wind WSW swinging to SW 22mph & gusting, humidity 71%, Barometer 992.9 mb, Moon Phase Last quarter, water temp 4.7 deg, PH 7.86, DO 17 conductivity -82. 1st Ralph Naylor Washington & Harrington17lb 13oz peg 16aa 2nd Andy Mc Neill Team Metro 13lb 10oz peg 11 3rd Steve Kean Langley Park 12lb 14 oz peg 4 4th Norman Laing Langley Park 12lb 2oz peg 24 5th John Foster Angel 10lb 14oz peg 23 6th Lee Slater Langley Park 10lb 5 oz peg 3 Ralph used maggot feeder 6lb main 4lb hook length triple maggot on 16 wide gape kamasan hook

Club News
. Supercup 2nd round is at home @ Angel on May 17th. Jnr club meeting Sat mornings

Other News
Coaching intermediate group moved up to learn ledger feeding and next week use of the centre pin. Novice coaching on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Phone to book first

Weekly report for 24 March 2008

This was a very different Spring Equinox on Thursday from previous years, & a very hard Easter with such adverse weather this week, however some rather good size fish have been caught in very harsh weather. Conditions showing fish are feeding and adapting to lighter daylight for longer periods, and brave anglers not only locals but visitors as well trying their hand to catch. . Bream to 6lb 2oz, skimmers now averaging 1lb 3oz, Golden Orfe to 1lb 7oz (Terry Guthrie), Roach & Rudd to 1lb 10oz (John Foster), Carp to 21lb ( Billy Evans), Ide to 1lb 8oz, no reported Crucians, perch, Koi or tench caught this week.

Bowes Lake
Brian Hall had a cracking day caught 32 fish also on last Monday also Alan Hepple on last Monday using pole at 10mtrs he ended up with over 14 carp nearly all caught in the later part of the day. Water temperature dropping proved tough for catches later in the week, Billy Evans using hair rigged pellet 10mm caught a common Carp at 21lb 1oz in excellent conditions he just decided on the spur of the moment to go fishing and was well rewarded.

Lookout Lake
Fishing with the wind, fish moving even though the big drop in water temperature, some cracking size and condition fish being caught even though not in massive numbers. Lots of smaller Angel bred fish of all species are also being caught which holds well for the future and shows aquaculture is well balanced.

Bassetts Pond
Fished well this week until it partial froze on Monday it then recovered in the afternoon when it melted and fished exceptionally well again. With water temperatures so low it was a surprise to see fish topping on Monday morning in the unfroze half.

Match News
Sunday 23rd March 08 Open Lookout Conditions: Hard overnight frost, then Sunny and calm then Sleet, Snow then Partly cloudy, Ambient Temp: 5 0C, Dew: -2 0C, Humidity: 61%, Wind: Calm to snow blizzard NNW 22 mph, Barometer: 999+ mb (low) Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous, Sunrise: 6.00 am, Sunset: 6.26 pm Water temp dropped to 3.6 to 3.9, DO16.1, ph7.86, Conductivity-87 1st John Foster Angel 16lb 13oz Peg 27 2nd Terry Guthery 14lb 4oz peg 29 3rd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr 12lb 2oz peg 8 4th Neil Brown 12lb 1oz Angel 12lb 1oz peg 1 5th Richard Crabtree 6lb 5oz peg 13 6th Ralf Nailer Washington 4lb 2oz peg 4 John fished feeder first, then pole @ 9 mtres using micro pellets, maggots, groundbait then double white maggot on hook. Water temperatures dropped considerably with all the sleet, snow, and hailstones also high winds this week, and today’s (Easter Sundays) weighing in was done in a white out snow storm. Monday 24th Pairs Bowes Conditions -5 heavy overnight frost, Partly Cloudy then sunny, then snow, and repeating sun, cloudy and snow all day. Ambient Temperature 2 deg (wind chill feels -3 deg), Dew -4deg, Humidity 65%, Wind NW15 mph, Barometer 998 mb (low), Moon Phase waning gibbous, sunrise 5.58am, Water temp 3.7 deg, to 3.8 deg, PH 7.83, DO 16.1 ppm, conductivity -85, . !st pair Steve Mc Court & Gordon Robson 2nd pair Andrew Mc Neil & Terry Guthrie 3rd pair Dave Foster & Keith Fenwick 4th Pair Derek & David Potter Match won on Bomb Maggot to island

Club News
Coaching Coaching has started up on Saturday and Sunday Mornings brave souls turned up in poor conditions anyone wanting other times please phone to arrange times and which coaches. Junior Club & Intermediate Club Junior club also is Saturday mornings at 9am till 12 noon coaches present, The Snr club match team are waiting for the final date for the superleague second round dates we have been placed at home and have given the other 2 teams 2 dates to choose from.

Other News
Fisheries Accreditations We are exceptionally Proud to announce we were awarded the top accreditation a fishery can get of a GOLD award. The Stillwater Fisheries Accreditation Scheme CRITERIA: The criteria for meeting the accreditation standard are based on eight assessment areas, focusing on different aspects of the fishery. These are habitat, nutrition, stocking, water quality, fish health, predation stress, competition angling and exploitation rates. Each of these aspects is carefully assessed and an action is agreed with the fishery to either improve or maintain standards. Physical Habitat: The habitat of stillwaters should be as natural and diverse as possible and include: submerged water plants; emergent and marginal vegetation; overhanging trees and bushes; wood in margins and sunk in deep water (out of fishing range) for added cover; deep water (>2m) to provide sanctuary for temperature extremes; shallow water for spawning and as fry habitat. Nutrition: Plant presence in the margins, bait and fish diet, over/under feeding of the fish are all assessed. Stocking: The assessment encompasses species suitability to the habitat, the stocking policy of the fishery and compliance with legislation and bio-security. Water Quality: Water quality criteria to be considered include dissolved oxygen content, ammonia concentrations and aeration techniques, monitoring and record keeping. Fish Health: This section covers bio-security measures, species suitability, stock introduction and water quality monitoring. Predation Stress: The fishery must provide adequate cover and refuge for fish from avian, mammalian and other fish predators. Competition Angling: It will be necessary to have a competition policy in place, if appropriate, covering the equipment in use and other fish-related welfare matters. Exploitation Rates: The fishery owner or manager must be able to make good estimates of exploitation rates based on records of angler visits, stock density and average catches. This will help in assessing standards based on good record keeping. Securing fish welfare by raising fishery standards

Weekly report for 16 March 2008

Some excellent catches considering weather conditions demonstrating some excellent angling skills, fish moving according to wind conditions and sheltering in calmer waters behind islands, around & below features to keep in warmer thermals Water temperatures have held well this week in the 6 deg range, however very low barometer pressure and gales with high gusts up to 65mph making fishing very, very difficult, with presentation out the question. Winds then turning to come from North and North East making fish feed the least and going forth,. Choose your pegs Daily according to weather, winds and barometer pressure there is a need to feed several swims to catch well. Fish feeding later on in the day on bright days through Water colouring. Maggot, corn, pellet, caster, worm working on hook, maggot feeders, and angel pellets as feed working in small quantities.

Bowes Lake
Choice of peg and method of fishing has been critical this week, as fish are moving around although they are very tight to margins both on the bankside or islands, normally around 6 ft deep and at end of second marginal shelf about 4 ft out. Best bags were 39 fish by season ticket holder Ian Dixon with an average size of 4 lb his best fish on this session was 8lb common. Jim Nicholson from Newcastle took a lovely 26lb 10oz mirror a female on korum maggot clip, he also had sixteen smaller on maggot clip and pellet hair rigged flavoured with garlic, all in an evening after work session. Anthony Longstaff 15 yrs old from Sunderland on Friday caught 21 carp to 3lb in just 5 hours fishing up the channel on maggot feeder.

Lookout Lake
In Wednesday’s Army qualifiers match fishing in gales gusting up to 55 mph in white water conditions with waves breaking banks and spraying over the land, Tony Scott took 25lb 12oz of carp, congratulations to Tony also to everyone who fished in these conditions and stuck the whole match, I would say the worst winds of this winter. Fish off the second shelf at 4 ft out and 6ft deep both in margins and of back banks and island. Tench, Golden Tench, Rudd, Golden Rudd, Orfe, Ide, Skimmers, Bream, Crucians, Perch, Roach also Carp all feeding and catching. Coaching both Beginners, and intermediate starts Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday at 9am Happy Easter to everyone

Bassetts Pond
Fished well especially when high winds were hitting top lakes, good range of species feeding now water is warming slowly. Fish tight in right up to marginal plants, feed very little every 5 mins, maggots work a treat both on hook and as feed, Sweetcorn, worm, & pellet also working. Daniel Smith 16yrs old from Dunston took 22 fish on Saturday a mixture of Carp, Tench and Rudd, on green sweetcorn and maggot on hook, and feeding maggot, although all species now feeding .

Match News
Sunday 16th March 08 Open Lookout Mainly Overcast, ambient temperature 7 deg, Humidity 81%, Wind NE12 mph, Barometer 1009.1 mb, Moon Phase Waxing Gibbous, water temp 6.3 to 6.5, Do 15.8 ppm, PH 7.85, conductivity -87. 1st Anthony Longstaff Angel JNR 13lb 11oz peg 31 Well done to Anth! 2nd Dave Hodgson Angel 11lb 14oz peg 12 3rd Terry Guthery 8lb 4oz peg 8 4th Eddie Hern Angel 7lb 11oz peg 2 5th John Foster Angel 5lb 15oz peg 4 6th Dennis Burden Angel 5lb 14oz peg 29 Very well done to Young 15 yr old Anthony !!! Anthony fished pole out 4 mtrs to right, using Carpa 1 float, Bulk shot 12 inches from 16 hook, fed maggot used maggot on hook. All silvers taken on pole, Carp caught using maggot feeder on tip.

Club News
Angel Junior Anthony Longstaff won today's open match VERY WELL DONE ANTHONY!! Angel Jnr Club meeting Saturday mornings We are still waiting for fixture for the second round of the supercup

Other News
Happy Easter to everyone Coaching both Beginners, and intermediate starts Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday at 9am News on Theives Camera data and correspondence from customers passing at night times to early mornings has been put together. Thanks to everyone please phone 0191 4100449 at any time if you spot any strange goings on

Weekly report for 09 March 2008

Overview of week ending Sunday 9th March 08 News on Fish Thieves We had an amazing response to last weeks announcement about intruders with night lines, spikes and rings, with emails and telephone calls, so a big thanks to everyone. We have been able to run cameras back to times and days stated by the different correspondence and cut onto disc happenings for the police as evidence. We will keep you posted on progression and still ask everyone to keep an eye on the lakes if passing. A night watchman is due to start soon so offering even more security as well as Ann & Arty living on site and the CCTV cameras, and season ticket holders doing night fishing will obviously be on the lakes also. Many Thanks keep an eye on your waters as fish theft’s is happening all over the country. NB I apologise but I will not be stating best pegs or size of fish caught because this then gives the thieves knowledge of where to target. I will try to keep anglers informed but information that is more general. General Some good days fishing in the past week as water temperatures crept up to 6.7 deg, warming fish & getting the fish feeding however the winds spoiling presentation, Best hook baits maggot, worm, pellet, and sweetcorn.

Bowes Lake
Bowes Some excellent catches this week with Alistair Locke using 2 rods one ledger and one tip using 10mm pellet on hook, over angel feed pellets took an estimated 80lb carp, he also caught two double figured carp on cheese on the hook and a pva bag with angel pellets mixed with fishmeal and maggots as feed.

Lookout Lake
Lookout John Atton had 20 carp in a morning session on Sunday on Ledger feeding pellet and pellet on hook, average size 2lb, the day started as calm as a mill pond then deteriorated by 1pm with winds picking up. Rudd on the drop, Roach, Ide, Skimmers, Bream, Perch, Carp and Tench all caught this week .

Bassetts Pond
Bassetts Mark smith Snr had a great ½ day fishing Saturday with 20 Rudd plus Roach and 3 Ide. This has been a busy pond this week with the high winds making Lookout and Bowes uncomfortable to get presentation correct, this pond just keeps fishing well. Rudd, Roach, Ide, Carp, Tench and Skimmers all catching.

Match News
Partly Cloudy, ambient temperature 7 deg, Humidity 71%, calm the wind rising to W 14 mph (gales forecast tonight) very low barometer 989.6, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp rose to 6.3 to 6.7, DO 15.4, PH 7.87 conductivity -91. 1st Dave Hodgson Angel peg 1 31lb 1oz all carp 2nd Dennis Burden Angel peg 12 3rd Anthony Longstaff Angel Jnr peg 6 4th Neil Brown Angel Peg 10 5th Chris Owers Angel peg 5 6th Steve Mc Court Angel peg 14 Dave started on pole with no fish, then wind got up turned to tip & maggot feeder to far bank and took 15 carp. Matches Open Sundays on Lookout Island Easter Sunday open Lookout Easter Monday will be a pair’s match on Bowes Wednesday Evenings starting after Easter weekend Sunday Spring League will be starting up alongside the Opens from 6th April

Club News
We are awaiting news of the second round draw of the supercup Junior section meeting is Easter Saturday at 9am

Other News
Angling Coaching is starting up on Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday at 9am till 12 noon Please phone 0191 4100449 for bookings www.angelnorthlakes.com

Weekly report for 02 March 2008

Mixed weather with gales and strong gusts this week, chilled evenings have dropping water temperatures, affecting fishing but some good catches achieved

Bowes Lake
Carp moving and following wind, so choice of pegs depends to the direction of the wind that day Some good catches this week on maggot, sweetcorn,

Lookout Lake
Wind has ruined presentation skimmers, rudd, roach, perch, ide, orfe also carp all feeding well and tench also starting to feed, the first crucian out this year shows spring is on its way

Bassetts Pond
This pond is a gem in winds very sheltered and some great catches

Match News
Next weeks open on Sunday 9th March will be on Lookout as snow and heavy frosts foretold for this week,target species if water temp dropped further would be skimmers, ide, orfe, rudd, roach, also carp

Club News
Congratulations to Angel Fishing Club For winning the first round of the Supercup against Langley Park A team.

Other News
Coaching is to be restarted on Easter Saturday mornings 9am to 12 noon. Anyone interested please book by phoning 0191 4100449 ask for Ann

Weekly report for 17 February 2008

Water temperatures plummeted this week to 1.2 deg, with frosts down to -7, lakes partially froze but a lot of pegs were free to fish from. Cold weather has kept Dissolved Oxygen very high and ice is not affecting the PH, therefore fishing is hard with water temperatures so low. Todays match on Lookout pulled a 11lb plus bag of carp as well as a good bag of silvers.

Bowes Lake
Some good carp have been caught by season Ticket holders overnight in hard frost conditions. Maggot, & sweetcorn doing well. Ian Dixon producing on Spam cubes. Best winter, pegs 17 to 19 doing well, and peg 38, 3, to 5, 22, 25 producing.

Lookout Lake
Sunday produced well considering the water temperature of 1.2 deg, with carp as well as silvers including Ide, bream and skimmers, rudd up in the water, & roach all in the nets, green tench and golden tench were even caught? Best winter pegs this week 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 38, 40, 1, 2,8,14.

Bassetts Pond
Because this pond is so sheltered it is the one to freeze and has been frozen all week.

Match News
Super cup first round takes place on 1st March all the best to Angels team competing away to Langley parks A team.

Club News
Angel fishing club junior section memberships are due on April 30th just a reminder for members.

Weekly report for 30 September 2007

A strange week with 2 frosts bringing water temp down yet again, but some excellent large fish coming out, also good range of species with several Double figured carp being taken and even match lads bring in some large fish in practice sessions, on Bowes Carp lake. Silvers depending on time of day coming out in good numbers, and some lovely tench being caught.

Bowes Lake
Diane Jackson picked up several nice double figured carp her biggest 17lb Mirror also a leather on Strawberry Jellets hair rigged on peg 23 (see photo). Carp have switched on very well by Saturday with some good numbers as well as sizes coming out.

Lookout Lake
Good days and some colder days after frosts anglers having to work hard for fish. However 6pm till 8 am doing excellently at present. Fish very much in margin on bottom shelf as they are still in warmer thermals.

Bassetts Pond
Tight to bottom shelf about 6 inches up and rudd on the drop working well on this pond, coaching on Saturday produced some excellent and some hard catch rates, excellent for bad weather conditions and great variety of species.

Match News
Angel Charity Match on Sunday 30th. Take a look at the match reports page for full details of the charity match results.

Steve Shilling with winning bag carp on Charity match day