Sunday 18th April 2010 Open/League Bowes

Conditions:- Overcast with light rain, ambient temp 5 deg, wind calm to NE 10 mph, barometer 1015.9 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 10.5 deg, PH 7.83, DO 8. ppm, MV 23
Weather deteriorated very much from 1pm with cold rain and wind picking up and ambient temp dropping to 3 deg.

1st Neil Brown 35lb 1oz peg 40
2nd Tony Watson 34lb 8oz peg 16 inc 3 bream best 9lb 9oz
3rd Chris Gowling 26lb 5oz peg 22 inc 3 brem best 7lb 6oz
1st Section Neville Langley 25lb 3oz peg 10
2nd Section Tommy Marshall 19lb 8oz for 3 bream best 7lb 4oz
3rd Section Ian Gillis 11lb 9oz peg 26

Altogether 14 large bream weighed in best to 9lb 9oz.
Neil had to try different methods to catch pellet up in water at 13 metres on pole, paste down side at 7 metres, tip with conker to far side.

Sunday 18th April 2010 Bigwaters Lookout

Conditions:- Overcast with light rain, ambient temp 5 deg, wind calm to NE 10 mph, barometer 1015.9 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 10.4 deg, PH 7.55, DO 8.1. ppm, MV 29
Weather deteriorated very much from 1pm with cold rain and wind picking up and ambient temp dropping to 3 deg.

1st Paul O Donnell 41lb 12oz peg 6
2nd Jeff Lincoln 40lb peg 12
2nd Steve Knowles 40lb peg 38
4th Dave Hambleton 36lb 2oz peg 1
5th Malcolm Gardner 35lb 6oz peg 27
6th Scott Miller 32lb 14oz peg 30

Paul fished tip to far side with 10mm pellet, and maggot and caster on pole 6 metres out.

Wednesday 14th April 2010 open Bowes

Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 7 deg feels like 3 deg, humidity 62%, wind ENE 10 mph, barometer 1026.1 mb, moon phase new, DO 8.2, Water temp 9.3 deg, PH 8.14, mv 41

1st Neil Brown 23lb 11oz peg 34
2nd Ricky Bennett 22lb 8oz peg 24
3rd Alan Mc Guire 16lb 9oz peg 16
4th Dave Jackson 16lb 6oz peg 22
5th Graham Skirrey 11lb 4oz peg 4
6th Ray Wallace 8lb 11oz peg 11

Fished hard and carp started to switch on to feed from 3pm match finished at 3.15pm, horrible fishing wind of ENE.

General

We hit 10 deg water temp for first time this year then on the same day the weather deterioates dramatically to cold winds and frost in the morning, so no doubt water temperatures will drop.
Silvers feeding up for spawning, whilst carp have shoaled and sheltered from cold winds in thermal warm layers.
Lookout

Lots of silvers being caught with carp shoaling out of adverse winds and you need to be on pegs which hold them to get good numbers they still get caught continuously at early morning and later afternoon on.

Bowes

Large bream and silvers very much showing with carps best times are early morning and later afternoon on. Carp shoaling out of adverse winds and keeping in warmer thermals.

Bassetts

Carp tight in margins in warmer thermals, silvers of the first shelf , some good orfe and ide also being caught.