WHINNYGILL Reservoir appears to be the Skipton Angling Association’s top water at the moment judging from recent member’s reports.

The fish of the week fell to Dave Fenn and took the ide record from Craig Hartley by a narrow margin of only 30g.

Dave’s fish weighed 1,300g and in the same session he landed a couple of orfe, a dozen quality roach and plenty of perch all estimated to weigh a total of approximately 11 kilos.

Alan Williams also caught a good ide which tipped the scales at 1,220g.

Events secretary, Simon Chenier, has also been among the fish at three of the Skipton waters recently.

At Whinnygill he had a good bag of roach and perch on the pole using a number eight elastic and a size 18 hook baited with a single red maggot.

His session finished with a splendid brown trout of approximately 1,400g that took 15 minutes to land.

Simon’s next venue was the River Aire where recent spells of rain have produced a strong flowing water for most of July and August.

Trotting down a float fished maggot on a centre pin reel, Simon landed three 230g chub, a grayling, two brown trout and a magnitude of minnows.

Embsay Reservoir was Simon’s third water and the event was the fly only match which only attracted a small entry of four anglers.

Fishing turned out to be rather poor in spite of the recent stocking with quality rainbow and tiger trout plus decent fishing conditions.

John Waterhouse won the match with two trout whilst Simon managed just a single fish.

On other days the fishing on the reservoir has been much better with some good bags of rainbow, tiger and brown trout on both the fly and the worm.

The rainbows and tigers have run to over the 900g mark with the odd fish approaching 1,360g.

The final water on which the fish have been responding well is the Association’s length of the canal down Broughton Road where sport has been down in the dumps until recently.

Kenny Wright and Dave Fenn fished it last week and reported catching good roach, perch and skimmers until the appearance and finally the capture of a small pike put the fish off the feed.