Angling

The river was low clear and lacking flow but surprisingly bream showed in B section downstream of Yarm road bridge.

The pegs below the Levenmouth dominated individual placings delivering a tremendous 41.14.8 for Newman Scott ace Derek Fox.

Derek on peg 156 had a single skimmer and a few roach on the pole at ten metres. Going onto the feeder across ten good skimmers came in a hectic opening two hours on the worm. Fifteen perch up to 2.0.0 followed at intervals.

Then in the final 90 minutes the catch rate increased resulting in another ten skimmers up to 2.8.0 responding to three maggots on the hook to leave the rest trailing well behind.

Next Mark Arrowsmith of Anglers Services Durham caught late on. Feeder and worm secured 11 skimmers and the rest perch for 28.5.8 from peg 158 from Phil Arnold of Newman Scott 23.14.0.

Others: Peter Smith (Cleggs) 18.3.0; Ian Bates (Marsh Tackle) 18.0.0; Dave Mills (Marsh Tackle) 15.4.8.

Pairs: 1. Rob Morgan and Andy Hamilton (Cleveland Angling Centre) 92 pts; 2. Dave Smiddy and Phil Arnold (Newman Scott) 85; 3. Mick Lovelass and Peter Close (Darlington AC) 79.

On the River Swale Graham Skirrey of Turners Tackle topped Northallerton's latest open taking 33.3.0 from the Scruton reaches.

Fishing peg 56 upstream of the jetty waggler and red maggot loose feeding casters alongside far bank cover accounted for 8 quality chub backed by chublets and dace.

Runner-up Jeff Herbert of RSPS Tek Neek Trabucco on the run off to Scruton island rolled the bomb and wasp cake through connecting with 13 chub to finish with 27.12.0 from teammate Pat Adams 23.8.0.

The Hutton Beck to Barn Island match length on the River Ure proved hard going by Ripon Piscatorial's very high standards and 21.8.0 was enough for Leeds Albert Heaps to lift the Association's Helmsley Cup.

Upstream of the North Bridge in the willowgarth off peg 212 a combination of caster and bread on the stickfloat resulted in a mixture of chub dace and perch.

A whirlwind finish just two hours to go elevated Bentley AC's Don McAllister into second place. Below the bypass bridge 3 chub to bread and 40 dace to waggler and maggot totalled 16.14.0 from Graham Skirrey of Turners Tackle 15.3.0.

The Boroughbridge Fire Brigade Charity Open on the River Ure fished at Boroughbridge was won with an all chub return when local Kevin Adcock weighed in 18.8.0. Sat 1 below the cow drink on peg 15 Kevin opted for waggler and caster approach despatching 20 specimens into the net.

For Armley's Tony Hewson two bonus chub of 3.0.0 apiece boosted an otherwise roach net off the Hawthorne's peg 28 when stickfloat and maggot brought 11.13.0.

The event raised a creditable £240 towards the Boroughbridge Fire Brigade.

Carp Scene

The top two accumulated 142.8.0 during a spectacular match on Maple Lake at the Oaks Sessay on Thursday and winner local Rab Ogilvy enjoyed a mere 8oz comfort zone.

Rab pole fished pellet at 13 metres of peg five tempting common carp to 7.0.0 on his way to 71.8.0.

Rival Dean Smith of Map Elton did more of the same of peg 43 but a smaller stamp of carp left him agonisingly adrift at the whistle.

Oaks Sunday - Maple Lake: 1 Mark Calvert (Map Elton) 66.12.0; 2 John McGarrell (Map Elton) 61.6.0; 3 Bert Poole (Oaks) 58.12.0.

Saturday's Open at the Woodlands was switched to the island filled Dragonfly Mallard and Swallow lakes and quality carp were the order of the day for the near capacity entry.

Tri Cast Whizzo's John Allerton rattled out 90.15.0 off the island corner from Swallow peg 14 for another memorable day. 'Red' luncheon meat on the pole at 17 metres attracted carp supplemented by over 25.0.0 of small barbel.

Unfancied peg six on Dragonfly came up trumps for Hirst Tackle's Andy Hampson who pushed the pole and sweetcorn out to 16 metres taking a mixed net for an unexpected bag of 71.4.0.

Woodlands Wednesday - Curlew Kestrel Partridge & Skylark (68 rods): 1 G Twohey (E.J Tackle) 75.1.0; 2 R Wilkinson (Newman Scott) 69.14.0; 3 J McGarrell (Map Elton) 69.0.0.

Trout News

Billingham's Ian McQuillan grassed the heaviest rainbow of 7.0.0 during another excellent week at Masham's Leighton Reservoir.

A total of 159 visitors caught 379 trout; over a 100 fish 3.0.0 plus hooked.

Successful patterns Dawson's orange black and green traditional flies daddies and small black flies.

Derwent Reservoir: Rod average 2.6. 1018 fish taken by 380 anglers - best fish of the week a rainbow of 8.8.0 grassed by M Blackburn. Cats whisker red montana green fritz green damsel and Dawsons all successful. Dam Wall hotspot at present.

Scaling Dam: 342 fish by 152 visitors. Mr D Young of Lythe nr Whitby landed the best rainbow of 6.8.0. Small black patterns and black and peacock spiders most popular at present. The reservoir level has been reduced and the south shore is now open again for fishing.

Grassholme: 168 rods recorded 360 fish - 353 rainbows and seven brownies. East end of the reservoir most productive area. Heaviest rainbow of the week fell to A Smith and weighed in at 8.0.0.

Hury: 176 visitors totalled 403 fish. Five limit bags were taken including the heaviest of 15.0.0 by JH Gardiner and included the week's best fish a rainbow of 8.0.0.

Blackton: 81 rods returned 184 fish and the week's biggest rainbow fell to F Thompson with a specimen of 6.8.0.

Fontburn: 471 anglers 1069 fish. Bait fishing dominating catches with the best bait worm or worm and sweetcorn cocktail. Dawson's olive appetizer muddlers and orange fritz best flies. Blyth angler D Fairhurst netted a fine rainbow of 6.0.0 which fell to powerbait and another rainbow of 6.0.0 on worm went to Mr M Oliver.

Kielder: 141 anglers - 368 fish - A Rogerson returned a rainbow of 3.0.0 for the week's largest fish. Fly fishing difficult during the day with bright sunshine but come evening hoppers and daddies on a floating line well worth a try.

FIXTURES

Tomorrow: *Bradford No1 AA Charity Rosebowl River Calder at Brighouse; Tickets on 01274 571175. *Middlesbrough AC Ron Taylor Memorial Middle Swale at Gatenby to Baldersby; (200 pegs) Tickets on 01642 899288. *Woodland Lakes Open.

Sunday: *Idle and Thackley AA Open River Swale Swainby; Tickets on 01274 618569; *Thornaby AA Lol Bulmer Memorial Middle Tees at Sockburn. *Yarm AA Danby Cup Lower Tees. *North Central League Round 3 River Ure at Boroughbridge. *NYSD Federation Norman Dunne Memorial Tees Over Dinsdale; (108 pegs) Tickets on 01325 264213. *River Wear Summer League (6). *Oaks Sessay Maple Lake.