St Claudes Lake

The marked fish is up to a prize fund of £184!

The marked fish prize fund now stands at £178!

As the nights are drawing in earlier, the day ticket for a leisure angler has been reduced to £5.

The marked fish is currently up to £151!

Stuart May landed a 40lb bag of silvers and carp using 10mm pellets on a pellet waggler fished 3 - 4 feet deep.  He landed the silver marked fish and the prize of £145.  Stuart was leisure fishing for the day although he fishes for Stanley & District Angling Club.

Dave Hughes landed the golden fish during the Stonebridge Bank Holiday Open Match on 29 August 2011.  See match result for pictures.

The Tagged fish was landed by Harry Park who won £172.  Harry landed the silver monkfish during the Stonebridge Bank Holiday Monday Open on 30 May 2011.

See pictures in the coarse results added on 8 June 2011.

Neil Middleditch landed the tagged fish at a prize fund of £200 whilst fishing with Hetton Lyons angling Club!

Letter from Neil -

Been down to stonebridge for a couple of practice sessions (thursday april 21nd and thursday april 28th) before our fishing club hetton lyons angling club had our awayday trophy at stonebridge on saturday 30th april.

This was the first time I had ever fished at stonebridge and did not know about the tagged fish so on both thursdays I had not paid the extra money for the tagged fish winnings but on the match day it was different, nearly everybody in the match including me paid into the tagged fish and it was certanly worth it for me.  After two hours fishing for carp and not a bite finally the float went under and it was the orange tagged fish, and after catching another three carp I finally finnished third in the match.

So for me it turned out to be a really good days fishing.
 

Neil Middleditch

The golden tagged fish now stands at a prize fund of £200 and the 2nd tagged fish is currently at £16.

To give a brief idea on how St Claudes lake is fishing at the moment, leisure anglers are catching good bags of fish, however, the club results have been disappionting over the last few weekends.  Carp are showing strong but the silvers are not showing so well at present.

Maggot Drowners will be holding an open competition here at Stonebridge on Friday 29 April 2011.  Please contact us direct or Maggot Drowners if you wish to book.

Stonebridge open matches will be held on the following dates -

25th April 2011

2nd May 2011

30 May 2011

The cost will be £17 per person, which includes peg fee, golden fish and sweeps. 

40 pegs are available.

Meet at 8.30am - peg draw at 9am - fish 10.30am to 3.30pm

Stonebridge will donate £1 per peg to the final prize fund.  The prize currently stands at £24.00.

Please book early to avoid disappointment by calling Richard at Stonebridge on 07850 367713.

The tagged fish was landed by Ray Lang during a match with Langley Park Angling Club.  See match results for further info and photos.  The prize was £171!

The tagged fish is now at £126!

The prize pot for the tagged fish in St Claudes Lake stood at £214!

Alan Hodgson from North Allerton landed the golden carp with £217 on its head!  Three days after, Andrew Archbold landed it again on paste with another £27 on its head.

Letter from Alan Hodgson

Today I gave myself a rest from working and headed off to Stonebridge Fishing Lakes at Little Fencote, North Allerton.  Having caught a number of quality carp on the pole (my next fish I will never forget) as my float shot off, I thought to myself, this is a good fish, I hope this is the tagged fish the owner introduced to the lake as an optional £1 extra on top of the day ticket (if caught the angler takes the pool money).  To my astonishment, as the fish came to the surface, I was gobsmacked.  It was the bright orange ghost carp I had been fishing for.  I said to myself, do not mess this up, there is £217 on its head.  As I netted the fish to my relief and £217 richer, the fish was photographed and released to spend another day with a price tag on its head.  As my wife will be 60 this weekend, I will spend it on a weekend break thanks to Stonebridge Fishery.

We are members of Langley Park Fishing Club and visited Stonebridge from the North East and had a great day fishing from pegs 27 and 28. The weather was bright sunshine with very little wind at first from about 9am to midday. Fishing at 10mts up in the water on maggots, the fishing was instant with carp from 2lb to 4lb and big chub at 4lb.

After midday the bites tailed off and the wind picked up blowing from right to left. They then switched from up in the water to the bottom on corn at 10mts. This was instant and the carp started to feed again. We packed up at 4pm and estimated we had approx 70lb to 90lb each. What a fantastic day! We will be coming back very soon. Thanks to all at Stonebridge for an unforgettable day.

Norman and Raymond Laing

I would just like to thank you for such a great days fishing on St Clauds lake, 6 hours of fishing from pegs 7 and 8, and 23 carp ranging from 3lb to around 8lb, me and phil were astounded with the quality of the fish that came out, fin perfect , however when they take the bait they really do take it, nearly pulling our rods in the water every time, infact phils rod did go in first cast when he landed a 5lb common, the tactics we used were 12ft feeder rods with 6lb line to around 12 inch hook link varying throughout the day as the fish did wise up pretty quickly and a size 16 hook, the bait we started on was just half a worm quickly changing to worm tipped with a red maggot, then three red maggots on a hook, then once they had wised up to that then the sweetcorn came out to devastating effect and to add a bit of a visual attractor tip it again with red maggot, just to say again thanks for a great day see you again soon.

Bash

Regular angler, David Newstead from Guisborough visited and bagged up 100lb plus of carp and ide and the returned to Stronebridge the following week and bagged 140lb of carp and ide.

Julian Brown, Stonebridge regular, enjoys a winter postcard setting on St Claudes Lake