BINGLEY ANGLING CLUB

Coppice was stocked this week with 45-50 2-3lb carp, members are asked not to target these fish or retain them in keep nets to give the fish time to settle.

Pike and Perch anglers are enjoying good sport on the canal especially around the boats at Crossflatts where the silverfish have started to shoal up for the winter.

LEEDS & DISTRICT ASA

A working party was out last weekend, on the River Wharfe at Linton.

The rivers are expected to be at their best fishable levels this weekend.

The match at Kippax park on November 9 was won by A Middleton 83lb 2oz, 2 J Redmond 58lb 2oz, 3 P Kidd 43lb 8oz.

On Tuesday, November 12, the winner was P Beedle 51lb 15oz, 2 S Holmes 21lb 9oz.

Last Saturday's match result: P Silman 29lb 14oz; 2 T Hewson 27lb 4oz; 3 P Kidd 26lb 4oz.

At Moor Monkton pools, the following match results: Sunday, November 10: 1 B Fisk 90lb 9oz; 2 M Wade 63lb 11oz; 3 G Boardly 57lb 5oz.

Wednesday, November 13: 1 S Pearson 71lb; 2 M Gallagher 57lb 10oz; 3 G Wright 55lb 6oz.

Sunday, November 17: 1 L Smith 105lb 10oz; 2 B Fisk 86lb 9oz; 3 M Green 58lb 9oz. A pike weighing 25lb 12oz was caught from Linton-on-Wharfe.

LISTERHILLS ANGLING ASSOCIATION

Once again there have not been many rods over the last week.

The canal continues to produce small pike to lure anglers. The roving approach seems to be the best policy. Roach have taken up their usual winter quarters, opposite moored boats.

Bread punch being the standard bait in these circumstances.

SKIPTON ANGLING ASSOCIATION

Another large brown trout caught in the district has come to my notice, but this time it was not as far back as the 7.5kg (16:8:0) fish from Elslack Reservoir landed in 1999.

This time the specimen brownie was caught in Malham Tarn in early September by a regular at the water, Stephen Broadbent, and the fish took the scales down to 6.14kg (13:8:0) which is believed to be a record for the water.

Broadbent was fishing loch style with a floating line in a cold north easterly wind near the east bank when the trout took a snot point fly at the end of a drift.

Taking line off the reel almost to the backing, the fish had to be followed on the engine before it was ready to be landed at the third attempt.

Earlier in the season, in May, Broadbent had landed fish of 3.86kg (8:8:0) and 2.27kg (5lb) from the tarn on the same day.

The tarn is a rare alkaline lake at an altitude of 1,237 feet that is highly fertile with a prodigious population of caddis, midge and olives.

Besides the large trout that it obviously holds, the tarn is also well known for producing specimen perch to over the 1.8kg (4lb) mark.

Skipton AA member, Philip Mawson, likes to get among the specimens from time to time and this week he has enjoyed an excellent bag of three pike from the local length of the canal a short distance from the basin.

Using half a sardine on 3.5kg line to a wire trace, Mawson landed three pike that weighed 5.4kg (11:14:0); 4.69kg (10:5:0) and 2.2kg (4:14:0).

Other anglers fishing in the vicinity also encountered some decent pike on spinning tackle, but unfortunately did not have a working balance between them.

After another bank topper last week, the River Aire had managed to fall sufficiently to allow some fishing at the weekend, but only the odd angler was in action and sport was apparently poor.

Weekend prospects may have improved with less rain forecast but night time frosts may have affected still water fishing.