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Old River Match Record Broken

August 3, 2019 by admin 1 Comment

We held a match on the Old River Irwell in Irlam this evening to have some fun and raise funds for the Friendly Anglers Fund

1st Chris Fletcher – 16lb 12oz (5 tench) a new match record !

2nd Gregg Garbett – 6lb 8oz (2 tench plus bits)

3rd Paul Nelson – 6lb (2 tench)

4th Mike Duddy – 1lb 12oz (1 tench)

5th Mike Clare – 1lb 10oz

6th Mike Cootes – 1lb 9oz

7th Brian Donaghy – DNW

Well done Chris – you smashed it this evening

A really encouraging set of weights with fish being caught all over the lake…. great news that the Old River is in full recovery mode after the big pollution event of a few years ago.

We are holding another match on Saturday evening the 17th August – draw 4pm fish until dusk – £10 all in.

Please book on in advance by sending £10 to admin@salfordfriendlyanglers.co.uk via paypal

Plenty of room for everyone – lots of fish coming out, and good company

The new total raised for our Friendly Anglers Fund now stands at £275..

If you can’t make it to one of our fishing matches and would like to donate to The Friendly Anglers Fund…. you can do so by sponsoring 4 of our club members in the 13 Arches Half Marathon via this link

Filed Under: Old River Irwell, Tench

Restocking Our Waters

June 12, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

We’ve put together a few clips of us restocking our clubs waters……

Enjoy the fishing….. take your children/grandchildren with you – its your duty as an angler and as a good parent

Take you litter home with you when you’re finished

Filed Under: Agecroft Pond, Barbel, Carp, Chub, Dace, drinkwater park, Family Fishing, Fishing, Irwell, Old River Irwell, Restocking, restoration, Tench

Restocking Drinkwater Park Lake And Agecroft Pond

December 14, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

We are delighted to share with you the videos and photos from today’s’ restocking of Drinkwater Park Lake and Agecroft Pond by the Environment Agencies Fisheries Team.

These two lakes are extremely popular with young anglers from the local housing estates, and todays restocking will ensure their popularity for years to come.

We had no idea that these fish were on the way to our lakes until Monday — with the fish arriving today Friday… a great Christmas present from the EA. We were initially informed that the EA had a few hundred fish to help our existing restocking efforts on these lakes, and were gobsmacked when they turned up this morning with 7,500 fish of the highest quality.

A mixture of Tench, Rudd, Bream and Roach – the fish which are only a year old have already reached a good size… helped by this years long hot summer.

We are continuing our fundraising efforts – to enable us to add a few new carp to these lakes to help stir up the bottom, which we hope will hinder blanket weed growth which has plagued the lakes in recent years, and also to colour the gin clear water as a deterrent to predation from above.

Take a look at these videos and pictures below

Salford Friendly work very hard to improve fishing in Greater Manchester – if you would like to know what makes us buzz – take a look at these two pages “Awesome Fishing In Greater Manchester” and “Family Fishing With David and Emily”

Wonderful young bream from the EA National Fish Farm

Young Tench

Restocking Agecroft Pond

Restocking Drinkwater Park Lake

EA Restocking

Please enjoy the fishing, respect other park users, and take your litter home with you

Again – Many thanks to the Environment Agency Fisheries Team and the National Fish Farm at Calverton – you have made a lot of young anglers (and old uns) very happy indeed.

Filed Under: Agecroft Pond, drinkwater park, Family Fishing, Fishing, Restocking, Tench

Restocking The Old River

March 29, 2017 by admin 1 Comment

Over the last 18 months we have been making a big effort to improve the fishing on the Old River Irwell in Irlam.

In addition to renovating/replacing most of the pegs – we have been hunting down grants and other sources of funding to spend on fish.

Our original restocking during 2013/14/15 saw us stocking nearly 4500 bream, 1000 rudd, 1800 roach and 500 fingerling tench.

This seemed to make little to zero impression on catch returns – as they were a mere drop in the ocean in comparison to the area of the lake.

Fast forwards to spring 2016 and a fantasticly generous grant from The Hamilton Davies Trust saw us changing our restocking policy and instead of stocking large numbers of small fish, we decided to go for lower numbers of bigger (more expensive) fish. So using the grant from HDT we bought 350 x 1lb tench.

Cracking new tench for the Old River Irwell in Irlam

It took 10 trips with the bin to and from the pick up truck – great to see so many big fish being stocked

We then spent the rest of the year improving pegs and building access steps.

This winter, we have stocked 75 2lb+ common and mirror carp – see video below

And then followed this up with another 15o tench between 10 inches and 2lb see videos below

At long last – anglers are now beginning to enjoy great sport again on the Old River – go down give it a try and then tell us how you get on.

Filed Under: Fishing, Old River Irwell, Tench

Vote For Fish !

December 5, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

It’s voting time again – please click this link to the Salford Council Recycle and Reward Scheme and vote for Salford Friendly Anglers Society.

If we get enough votes – then we can get £1,000 to purchase fish for the Old River in Irlam

Filed Under: Fishing, Old River Irwell, restoration, Tench

Old River Restocking March 2016

March 4, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Thanks to a very generous grant from The Hamilton Davies Trust we have been able to stock 300 10inch+ tench into the Old River in Irlam.

We are going to be spending considerable time, energy and cash on this venue during 2016 and hope that the work we do will finally bring the place back to life as a fishery.

As you can see from the pictures below – we have gone for quality rather than quantity – and have bought fish that are 4+ years old in the knowledge that they will be ready to spawn this summer.

Cracking new tench for the Old River Irwell in Irlam

Pleased to see you !

Many thanks to Tony Prescott and Hamilton Davies Trust for listening to us and then agreeing to help

It took 10 trips with the bin to and from the pick up truck – great to see so many big fish being stocked

Our plan for the Old River this year includes replanting the floating islands, taking 18 inches off the depth of the lake by cleaning out the outflow channel, removing the old failing wooden platforms and replacing them with new pegs, rebuilding the disabled fishing pegs, constructing new steps down to some of the less accessible pegs, stocking more fish, planting new reed and lily beds, refurbishing the floating islands………the list seems endless but we are 100% committed to restoring this fishing gem to its former glories.

There will be lots of skills needed, and lots of opportunities for you to take part in our work parties – the dates of which will be announced at the end of this month.

We’re going to be busy !!

Many thanks Hamilton Davies Trust

Filed Under: Fishing, Tench