Hot catches on Angel’s cold waters
Oct 23 2009 The Journal
THE autumn season when pellet, maggot, worm and sweetcorn now become the best baits for cold-water catches is starting to take place on The Angel complex.
Some excellent catches of skimmers and bream have been coming out of Lookout Lake with cracking perch being caught on worm.
Fifteen-year-old Edward Burns from Gateshead had more than 40 llb of skimmers, carp to 5lb and a quartet of tench best over 6lb, all taken while fishing the pole.
On Bowes Lake, Alan Thompson took a cracking mirror of 27lb 2oz at 6pm, his last cast of the day, while Bassets has seen an impressive growth rate take place and carp to 10lb and ide to 3lb are now known to be present.
It has been a good week at Whittle Dene too, with several good catches being recorded despite the dip in temperatures.
Alan Robson had a net of 13lb 8oz of roach, gudgeon and dace from the lower lake, while Keith Brown also caught roach, gudgeon and dace for a total weight of 11lb 9oz.
Sunday’s North East Winter League match on The Oaks was won by Mark Arrowsmith of Newman Scotts with 61lb 14oz of carp ahead of Mark Calvert with 53lb 14oz and John Maddison with 38lb 9oz. Browning Quaker were top team on the day ahead of Newman Scotts, and those two teams take up the same position in the league to date with Daiwa Cleveland Angling Centre third.
Sunday’s match on The Angel was won by Ricky Bennett with 57lb 1oz ahead of Neil Brown with 44lb 6oz in second and Anth Richardson with 42lb 11oz in third.
Ray Wallace with 65lb 9oz won Friday’s four-hour match on Bowes, with great weight coming on Wednesday, when the match was won by Tony Watson with 111lb 1oz which consisted of 100lb of carp plus11lb of silver fish.
Mark Allinson of Chester-le-Street landed superb perch to 3lb when he won Sunday’s match on the Swale at Swainby with 10lb 9oz.
Dave Summers of Mary’s Tackle was second with 7lb 12oz while another Chester-le-Street angler George Huscroft was third with 7lb 8oz.
Elsewhere on the Swale, the Northallerton match was won by Neil Nicholson of Hetton-le-Hole with a superb catch of 17 chub for 54lb 11oz below Bramper Farm.
Martin Chandler included a 4lb 8oz bream in his weight of 11lb 2oz when he won the first CADCAC Winter League match on Crofton.
Meanwhile young Alex McAlister triumphed in CADCAC’s junior match on Sunday and picked up a £12 Eddies Tackle voucher, while runner-up Leonie Brooks received a £5 tackle bundle from Eddies Tackle
Brian Stephens with 18lb won the first match of the season on Cumbria’s Killington Lake on Sunday, where small perch as well as quality roach featured.
An Environment Agency questionnaire distributed to tackle shops in the North East asking for feedback from anglers on how they can improve coarse fisheries on the River Wear met with a poor response. Only 11 questionnaires were returned from around 400 distributed.
Some interest was shown when the project was highlighted on the NE-fishing Forum web site, but only one reply was received from 507 hits.
Despite the poor response, a project group has been established from coarse fishery interests and the Wear Rivers Trust and will be responsible for taking the project into a wider audience.
For more details, contact paul.frear@environment-agency.gov.uk.
