Rudd wins summer league match
Last updated 13:14, Friday, 13 June 2008
Thursby's Neil Rudd won Carlisle and District Coarse Angling Club's first Summer League match of the season at Crofton Lake.
Neil's 19lb 10oz bag consisted of five bream and one roach caught using 11 metres of pole and worm from peg 41.
John Brooks was second with two pole caught carp for 17lb 12oz on paste and pellet from peg 22.
Third was Andy Davidson who alternated between feeder and pole tactics to take one carp, skimmers and roach for 14lb 13oz from peg 38. Section winners were Peter Wilson who used pole, feeder and waggler tactics with worm to take three bream and one perch for 12lb from peg 40 and Ian Nevitt with 7lb 7oz of skimmers and roach from peg 17.
Carlisle fire-fighter Mike Clusker secured his third win in four weeks at Whins Pond on Tuesday.
Fishing peg three with maggots and feeder at about 30 yards, Mike landed skimmers and one decent bream then his last two casts produced a 5lb bream and a 10lb carp.
Mike's total of 19lb 9oz puts him top of the league for the first time this year. Mike Smith on peg seven opted for the long pole, alternating between 10 and 12 metres he found two good bream on sweet corn for 11lb and second place.
Phil Ramsden on peg five stuck with his usual carp tactics with boilie and PVA bag landing three bream for 9lb 13oz and third place.
Instructor Glyn Freeman landed a 10lb salmon from the lower Eden on Friday, Glyn was using a single handed trout fly rod and an Autumn Boyo fly.
Paul Little of Workington also used an Autumn Boyo fly to good effect, Paul fishing the lower Eden on Saturday hooked a fresh run 15 pounder which gave a good account of itself taking him some 20 minutes to land.
From Monday anglers are no longer compelled by the spring salmon by-laws to return all salmon caught and where the rules permit, anglers can fish for salmon with worm, shrimp and prawn as well as fly and lure.
In terms of the average size of salmon caught we have had a fantastic start to the season, we are only half way through the season and there have been more 20 pounders caught so far this year than for many years. To allow this to continue in the future you may like to consider voluntarily returning larger fish after June 16, it has always seemed strange to me that we bemoan the fact that there are not as many large salmon around these days, then when we catch one we kill it.
There are many other factors influencing the size of returning salmon, sea temperatures and availability of food, but why not consider the voluntary return of any salmon over say 33 inches to assist preserving stocks of spring fish.
This would mean returning any salmon over around 15lb, which if you want one for the pot is big enough.
The trustees of the Eden Rivers Trust invite you to a summer evening by the river and hog roast to be held at Warwick Hall, Warwick on Eden from 6pm onwards next Friday June 20. Tickets cost £10 each, all proceeds going to the Eden Rivers Trust and the North West Cumbria Branch of the Salmon and Trout Association.
Tickets are available from James Carr c/o Ann-Marie McMillan, Estate Office, Brackenburgh Estate, Calthwaite, Penrith, CA11 9PW. Tel. 01768 885253.
Volunteers are welcome to ERT's Himalayan balsam pulling days at Blacksykes Bridge near Calthwaite on the River Petteril on tomorrow, meet at 10.30am to help eradicate this invasive alien, for more details phone 01768 866788.
Whitehaven’s Steve Smith landed the heaviest bag at Maryport Sea Angling Club’s open. His catch of two flounder, two plaice, two dab and a bass for 8lb 2oz just edging Wigton's Steve Litt with his catch of four flounder, one eel and one bass for 8lb ¾oz into second place.
However roles were reversed in the heaviest fish competition with Litt taking first, with a bass of 4lb 9¾oz and Smith second, with a bass of 2lb 10oz. In the junior section, host club member Ricky Holt had the heaviest catch, with two dogfish and a plaice for 4lb.
