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Lake Semerwater, Wensleydale, 13th November 2022

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After a very enjoyable trip in May and Jack wanting to learn a bit of feeder fishing together with the weather for November looking pretty good, our little fishing group headed back to Wensleydale and the fantastic Lake Semerwater.  The only one missing was Mr Curry who was on a promise?!   Watching the weather in the lead-up to the weekend it was looking like a great day ahead, overcast, no rain, constant air pressure however maybe a little windy. The Sunday morning drive to get to the lake for first light was very foggy with some rain, had the weather got it wrong? The Pegs Arriving at the lake, it looked fantastic, the water level was a lot higher than the May trip and there was a clear “tide” mark higher up the bank where the level had been some days before.  There was already a pike angler in the area that we wanted to fish however enough room between him and the river inlet for us to get two boxes in the water without disturbing each other.  Set-up When I gr

Passing it on, Tees Valley Lakes, 4th September 2022

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A session I finally get to take our daughter out fishing!  Well she wasn't too fussed about going fishing with her dad to be honest however she came along none the less to keep me happy as I was the excited one. We also took along good friends and neighbours Mike and Finlay to add to the experience. Of course the venue had to be Tees Valley Lakes as you are guaranteed many bites during the session from plenty of different types of fish. The Peg Arriving at Yarm Lake, there were a couple of anglers across the lake, one in the area I'd planned to fish with Mike and the kids so we picked Peg 2 to the left of the car park for our 3 hour evening session. Set-up Applying the keep it simple approach, two of the new Guru A-Class whips both at 3 metres together with a couple of pints of mixed maggots and plenty of hook lengths! The Session We plumbed up both Maude and Fin's swim to start on the bottom and purposely fed nothing to show the kids what the effect feeding would hav

Margin Munters, Tees Valley Lakes, 24th August 2022

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Another evening outing with the work crew, this time we would be targeting the margins with proper gear.  One member of the team was missing however, Foxy, the tench tamer couldn't make the evening.  He did miss the action that was for sure! The Pegs Our normal pegs over the back of the lake which is mainly sociable and helps my "gilly" duties. Set-up I'd brought my carp top kits with elastic rated 14-16 coupled together with some proper carp rigs, 0.4g on 0.2 diameter line and size 12 hooks to a 0.17 hook length. Bait was a simple dead maggots and sweetcorn and I'd mixed up about 5kg of groundbait. The Session Jack arrived first and had set up his waggler rod and of course as Tees Valley doesn't disappoint was straight into fish. I set Aimee up with a top kit and dropped some groundbait into the edge with no loose offerings and put around 8 dead maggots on the hook.  It was taken straight away with an angry carp however it turned out to be foulhooked and

Whiptastic, Tees Valley Lakes, 6th July 2022

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In the project team there are a few anglers: Old Skool - Foxy, not fished for over 10 years Nails - Aimee, fly fisher and shooter extraordinaire Padawan - Jack, new to the sport and is totally "hooked" and of course, me... I'm now officially an old guy! We had been talking of an evening session somewhere local to us all, where better than Tees Valley Lakes, guaranteed bites and fish for few hours after work. The date was set, the temperature wasn't quite to Foxy's requirements but he was excited and had removed his vintage gear from his carer's garage (circa 1981 box), re-elasticated his whips, grabbed some new line and rigs in readiness. Jack had purchased a new elasticated whip together with his guru whip, re-tied the rigs he had busted up on his last outing and had grabbed 4 pints of maggots for us all. Aimee, went to co-op, grabbed some food (I missed the text, otherwise I'd have requested chocolate bars!) and was borrowing gear from us all. The Pegs