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Weekly Reports from Angel of the North Fishing Lakes
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
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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.
