SKIPTON AA

Last week’s snow, followed by a good spell of heavy rain, brought the River Aire over its banking and created some extensive flooding down the Aire Valley.

The river level soon fell down to allow some angling to take place although not many anglers have been seen in action so far this season.

The upper reaches on Heslaker Lane are popular with Ovenden angler, Darryl Benn, and fishing the worm he landed a couple of specimen brownies in no time at all.

The first fish came from the Funkirk Farm length and measured 48cm in length and weighed 1350g.

Fishing higher up the river, Benn at first thought he was stuck on the bottom as the fish did not want to move until it shot off downstream, removing many metres of line from his reel.

Eventually the fish was successfully brought to the net where it was found to be a trout in excellent condition measuring 53 cm in length and weighing 1880g.

Simon Chenier has been amongst the trout again at Embsay Reservoir using worm and waggler tackle to fish on the bottom. In one session he had over a dozen tiger and rainbow trout to 900g, plus a good perch of 680g.

Coarse fish are beginning to move at Whinnygill Reservoir following some warmer rain and higher daytime temperatures.

Dave Fenn has enjoyed taking a good bag of roach, skimmers and even a small perch on the pole, at the rate of one fish to every three bites. Mark Bradley has caught roach and rudd but was smashed by a very big unknown species.

BRADFORD PALS AC

The result of our first match at Lindholme on Bennys Lake was 1 Barry Franklyn 19lb 15oz, 2 Paul Whitehouse 16lb 15oz, 3 Pete Milner 4lb 12oz and 4 Bernard Hook 2lb 1oz.

The result of last Sundays match at Messingham on Big Swan was 1 Bernard Hook 109lb 13oz, 2 Keith Turner 43lb 11oz, 3 John Charles Foreman 33lb 5oz and 4 Andy Clough 32lb 4oz.

This was also the first round of the club knockout so there were 16 anglers who got through to the next round.

Our next match is this Sunday at Birkwood Farm on the main lake. Anyone who will not be fishing this match must have notified the match secretary or you will be charged a peg fee.

LISTERHILLS AA

The last members match was held on Wednesday March 21 on the bottom pond at Gilmores. It is exposed to the elements and as a result weights were low in the silverfish match.

The results were: 1 J Harrison 4lb 3oz 2 G Kitchen 2lb 3 E Harrison 1lb 11oz 4 G Reeday 11oz.

This was the final fixture of the winter series and the leading positions were: 1 E. Harrison 33lb 14oz (97 points) 2 D. Jackson 18lb 13oz (73) 3 G.Kitchen 15lb 1oz (57).

The next Sunday match is at Kippax Park on April 15 while the first of this year's Saturday canal opens on April 2 at Rodley. Contact 07518721051 for more information.

Since the trout season opened there have been no reports of outstanding catches, due to the unstable water.

A reminder that Pilley's dam is still a club water and is not free fishing.

LEEDS AND DISTRICT ASA

The results for the match fished at Kippax park on Saturday March 31 are as follows: 1 M. Carr 113lb 6oz 2 L.Wilshaw 56lb 3oz 3.E. Storey 45lb 2oz.

The results for the match fished on Tuesday April 3 were: 1 T Hewson 88lb 11oz 2 L Wilshaw 70lb 12oz 3 A Rymer 51lb 4oz.

The match at Moor Monkton Pools held on Sunday April 1 had the following results: 1 T Hewson 29lb 15oz 2 D Wright 21lb 4oz 3 M Green 19lb 14oz.

On Wednesday April 4, the results were: 1 S Mazza 68lb 4oz 2 S James 51lb 15oz 3 D Wright 48lb 3oz.

Weights at all venues are expected to increase as the temperatures rise. Once again, river anglers struggled over the Easter weekend as river levels rose to flood levels.

At Knotford lagoon, pike anglers have recorded fish up to 14.5lb. The polo pond at Kippax has started to fish better with skimmers and one angler having a bream of well over 5lb.

BRADFORD & DISTRICT SEA AC

Whitby boats are still producing fish, mainly codling on the offshore marks. Cod up to 12lb and also ling.

The Spring fish festival has started for two weeks at Whitby, with daily prizes of £1,000 for the heaviest fish of the day. So well worth a try.

Our next Gen. meeting is on Tuesday April 17 in the New Inn, East Bierley comm. at 8pm. Potential new members will be made most welcome.

BINGLEY ANGLING CLUB

The next scheduled match will be April 22 on the canal with the exact venue yet to be decided, contact Adi Newman on 077830332705 to book on. Another work party for Coppice pond is planned for April 29 at 10am.