Thornaby Angling Club

[ashangler]

Anyone out there a member of Thornaby?
What's happened to the Club's wesite it hasn't been available for over a week?

[fortymick]

Yeh i noticed that too mate tried to check if they where any matches on yesterday at croft it was goosed anyway when i went down so fished ascot instead and had my first ever ide about 3lb thought it was a chub at first but its mouth was to small ;-)

[James]

Just joined Thornaby AC. I used to be a member of Yarm but let my membership slip and its a bit expensive to rejoin.  I can't find any info on the website about fish size in the ponds. Can anyone give me a rough idea of fish stocks and size in the three ponds? Has anyone fished the one at Norton? It looks tiny on the picture but i'm particularly interested in the Crucian Carp there. Anyone know what size they go and if they ever get caught?

Cheers..

[fortymick]

Fished it the other day mate had a sackfull of rudd biggest about half pound some lovely golden rudd too, its only a foot deep mate and no one has caught anything but the rudd!! it was a syndicate water before with carp and tench or so they said but no one has ever seen them and i honestly dont think theres anything but rudd and roach bits in there, now faceby (ascott ponds is a different story its fishing its socks of tench to 7lb carp to 25lb perch to 2lb rudd to2lb and roach the same with the odd ide to 4lb bream to 5lb too i had 3 carp of the top on sunday biggest about 10lb and this ghostie of about 6lb, 

[fortymick]

forgot to say those 3 carp where all took within 20mins i had been on the float rod all day with a good mixed bag then switched over for the last 30mins before i went home, this is one of the ide i had out in the winter they are very few of them.

[James]

Nice fish mate! Cheers for that. I had no idea Ascott had 25lb Carp in it! Might have to have a bash with the rod pod . Nortons only a foot deep? Sounds like it needs digging out. How does anything survive the winter? More of a puddle really

[fortymick]

it doesnt fish well at all in the winter mate i think the deep end is about two foot!!! i went down in the winter and it was froze as solid as a brick how anything survived is a miracle to me god knows where those fish go??? its a mystery to me mate 

[James]

Do you know what Gilling West is like Mick? It looks lovely on the pictures, bit of a trek to get there though.

[fortymick]

Gilling has just been restocked with a shed load of bream some 7 and 8lb but i dont fish it that much to be honest, it hasnt been fishing well of late but thats prob down to spawning and they have been reports of dead bream on the banks so they may be a otter problem but its more likely a mink we hope,the top pond there mill lake has been fishing really well to lads on the fly with lads pulling out 30plus trout a day up to 5lb, it is a hike as you say but its probaly worth a go now as the spawning has finished,for me this will be my last weekend on the ponds for a long time as the rivers are about to open and thats where im happiest cant wait to get back to croft for some massive perch and sockburn for the chub and barbel, 

[James]

Yeh i think i'll be on the river next week, probably Croft. Not sure whether to go after the Pike (i've seen the pictures of the huge 20's getting caught there) or maybe go after the Chub, Perch ect. Cant wait!

[James]

Anyone fancy PM me the combination lock number for Thornaby Angling. I've just got my cards and the lock number appears to be missing

[ebygum]

Its on the front of your club card

[James]

Got it mate. 

[fortymick]

Did you see croft in the where to fish section of the anglers mail this week,they give it a hell of a right up and the club,i can see lots of new members joining now and on the down side croft being packed this weekend

[James]

Was that in todays issue? I haven't bought it yet. It'll be full of poachers at the weekend!