Neil Jupp
Secretary
P.O. Box 350, Warrington
WA2-9PL
Telephone (01925) 411774
Fax (01925) 411774
5 September, 2000
It was the turn of member Peter Sawer to land a catfish on Lymmvale; both his friend and his friend’s daughter had already landed fish of 27lb and 19lb respectively. Peter, fishing close to the boathouse, hooked his fish and truly felt that it must have been the big one, due to the long and hard fight it gave. However this was not to be, although he was not too disappointed as his scales registered a pleasing 23lb 9oz.
Making the most of a weeks holiday, river ace Ste Daly made a few trips to the River Severn and turned up a couple of surprises. On his first outing he set out his stall at Atcham to catch chub and barbel, and was soon into them using his beloved trotting methods. However, as darkness fell he hit a bite which was different to the others and latched into what he thought was a lazy chub. It was only when it was ready for the net did he realize what it was when he shined his torch into the water. The torch beam showed his mystery fish to be a bream of 7lb 2oz.
On his second trip to the Severn at Atcham he was, as usual, catching chub, roach, dace and barbel in good numbers. His surprise came as he was playing in a barbel of about 3 1/2 lb, when he was startled by an explosive pike strike which took his fish and snapped his line immediately. A pike taking a fish of this size must be of considerable size, something which some of our pike anglers may wish bear in mind, when considering somewhere different to fish.
Still on the rivers, Committee member Dave Shard reports that the River Dane has been fishing very well, with chub, dace, roach and barbel the species most dominant. However, this river holds one or two surprises, such as the 12.5lb mirror carp landed by bailiff Mike Wilkinson.
Reports for the River Bollin and Wincham Brook have also been very good.
Due to the drawing-in of the nights as autumn falls upon us, bailiffing activities continue to intensify, this extra work has caused the Club to engage in a bailiff recruitment drive. The work undertaken by bailiffs is very simple in principal, and that is to protect the rights of each and every member by discouraging poor behaviour and poaching.
If you can help with such activities, and can work as part of an organized team, some of which is conducted during unsociable hours, then please get in touch with head bailiff Kevin Peers, who can be contacted on 574248 before 8pm each evening.
Neil Jupp
I can be contacted on 01925 411774.
