The anglers are still landing
DESPITE the onset of the autumn weather and overnight temperatures of just above freezing , local specialist anglers have still been landing personal bests.
As reported last week Mark Cook of Nunn's Taxis Specimen Hunters bagged a common carp which took the scales around to 27lb from peg 5 on the carp pond at Lakeside Fishery, Ranskill.
Mark informs us that he was using a hair rigged tiger nut boilie that he had been glugging in liquor for over a month.
He was also awoken in his bivvy at 2am the following morning when an even larger lump was hooked but in true angling tradition it managed to escape and a disappointed Mark will never know the size of the 'one that got away'.
Whitwell rod Dave Waddingham has up until last weekend been fishing his favoured method of popped up bread crust on one rod and a glugged halibut pellet on the other on the first lake at Shireoaks Hall, tempting fish in excess of 20lb and losing larger unseen lumps.
Dave also informs us that on a recent holiday with his lovely wife Jilly to Lake Garda in Italy he used floating bread to capture koi carp to around 8lb in crystal clear water on a telescopic holiday rod.
Over at Woodsetts quarry pond there have been rumours of double figure bream being caught on carp baits but the most astounding catch has to be David Keep's common carp in excess of 25lb.
It was caught under the rod tip in a swim along the middle of the main bank on a cube of luncheon meat presented not on a hair rig, but in the traditional way (pushing the hook through twisting it around and putting a short length of reed between the bend of the hook and the meat).
It took dave over 15 minutes to land this specimen after it made several runs past the middle of the lake and he was mightily relieved to slip the landing net under it.
Responding to a high level of enquiries we have decided to look at booking another deep water wrecking trip in the late spring/early summer of 2010.
This year's trip is not going to be as adventurous as last year's 18 hour jaunt to the dogger bank and will be fished over six or eight hours from Whitby.
Anyone interested please contact Roger on the above number, although the exact date cannot be verified until next year's tide tables are available.
We would like to wish local angling character Ian Mellish, lovingly known as Smerrie, a speedy recovery from his ongoing health problems.
John Hayward of the Worksop & DAA and everyone at Redlands School would like to thank McDonalds restaurant at high grounds for their generous sponsorship of their recent annual school competition.
CLUB RESULTS
THE members of the Stanley Street Sports and Social AC fished their penultimate match of their summer series on the Newark length of the River Trent on the Winthorpe rack on 4th October.
On a low and clear river, the going was very hard for the 21 anglers who didn't manage a bite of any description.
A total of nine fish were caught, with Roy Ayto showing his river craft in snaring a pike when everybody else in the match was trying for bream, chub, roach etc.
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