Sunday 20th June 2010 open Lookout

Conditions:- Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 10 deg, Humidity 71%, Wind N 7mph, barometer 1021 mb, moon phase waxing gibbous, water temp dropped (4.3 deg) to 13.6 deg, DO 8.05, PH 8.04, MV 36

1st Dave Jackson 41lb 4oz peg 1

2nd Chris Gowling 35lb 5oz peg 12

3rd Peter Cairns 30lb 8oz peg 8

3rd Jonny Madison 30lb 8oz peg 8

Section 1 Jeff Lincoln 22lb 8oz peg 16aaa

Section 2 Ricky Bennett 28lb 9oz peg 30

Summer Matches Opens
Wed Eve draw 5pm Bowes 3 hour match

Friday afternoon 1pm Draw 5 hour match Lookout

Sunday 9am draw 5 hour match Lookout

Friday 18th June 2010 Afternoon 1pm draw open Lookout

Conditions:- Partly cloudy, ambient temperature 14 deg, humidity 63%, Wind NNE 14, barometer 1023, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 17.8 deg, DO 10.2, PH 8.93, mv 87

1st Graham Skirrey 74lb 4oz peg 15 all silvers

2nd Dave Catchyside 64lb 9oz peg 24 all carp would have been over 70lb but went over his net.

3rd John Foster 64lb 7oz peg 1 half silvers half carp

4th Ray Wallace 30lb 4oz peg 16

Wed 16th June 2010 open Bowes 3 hour match

Conditions:- Fair, ambient temp 19 deg, humidity 60%, wind calm to 2mph, barometer 1027.1 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temperature16.5 deg, DO 10. ppm, PH 8.21, mv45

Carp started spawning again! So tough night fishing.

1st Alan Mc Guire 23lb 12oz peg 40

2nd John Foster 22lb 5oz peg 34

3rd Tony Watson 19lb 13oz peg 23

4th Ricky Bennett 19lb 10oz peg 16

5th Paul Tuff 18lb 14oz peg 4

6th Neil Brown 8lb 1oz peg 24

Summer Matches Opens
Wed Eve draw 5pm Bowes 3 hour match

Friday afternoon 1pm Draw 5 hour match Lookout

Sunday 9am draw 5 hour match Lookout

The weather has been altering water temperatures to massive swings, dropping as much as 8.1 deg in cold days then rising up again to 20 degs, the silvers are through spawning however carp and tench are not all through yet with the drops in water temperatures i.e. from Friday water temp was 17.8 to Sunday Morning 12.9 a drop of 4.9 deg in water temp happened –fish do not know if they are coming or going with these large temperature fluctuations, catches are better after the water has warmed up at the end of the day before any chilly nights drop water temperatures. If you are a season ticket holder take advantage of the light early mornings and light evenings to bag up when the fish feed very well.

When the fish are switched on to feed some excellent catches are being produced, and its tough when not switched on but silvers are a good option to go for when carp switch of feeding.

Lookout

Lookout has produced some good weights with 74lb of silvers on Fridays match also 70 lb of carp in the same match. Some high numbers of very good crucians being caught as well as tench that have yet to spawn, big bags of skimmers and also big bags of rudd, are also being caught, Ide, Orfe, Perch, Roach, and some exceptional bags of Carp.

Methods and baits need to be varied if one method stops catching, change to another.

Pellet waggler has done very well with 10mm angel pellets fed and 10mm banded on the hook. On the bomb use conker a 10mm angel pellet banded and covered in paste made from 3mm angel pellets to far bank start high and tight then move down band till you get catching. Chopped worm and chopped caster are working wonders at the moment, Paste made out of angel 3mm pellets doing well as is pellet on the hook as well as feeding pellets (angel only allowed.) Cubes of luncheon meat on the hook and feed pellets, and mussel, prawn, cheese, also berries all working well at the moment, sweetcorn on the hook works at times and not at other times. Make sure you have a range of baits and its warm enough for liquid additives to enhance flavours and attract fish. For float rod try tight in margins of the first shelf and about 10 ft out of the 2nd shelf at dead bottom, or at 15 ft straight ahead try up in the water for rudd, on pole try margins, 2nd shelf or out in from even the to