Carp anglers leading the way.

While coarse angling is still upbeat, carp anglers are doing particularly well with the TAA's Killingworth Lake producing quality fish while on Crofton, CADCAC bailiff Jim Porter landed a 16lb 2oz common using the pole, after a ten-minute tussle.

Catterick Lakes are still fishing well with recent raids by Newcastle carpers Dave Lee and John Storer proving successful with John going on to catch a superb 22lb specimen.

The carp lake at Aldin Grange is on form too with tench and carp responding well to most baits, and at Bishopton smaller carp have been providing sport on the Horeshoe day ticket fishery.

It has been another good week at Whittle Dene with the best areas being the Northern and Great Southern where most anglers are catching nets weighing into double figures of Roach, Perch, Dace and Gudgeon. Feeder is proving to be the best method of tempting roach at Hury. The feeder should be filled with sweetcorn and also a sprinkling of "Magic Dust" which is basically a ground-up fish feed that has a very strong aroma.

Coarse anglers who visit the NW shop at Grassholme specifically to buy Magic Dust swear by this product as a great attractor to lure the roach close to their main bait. Brian Barker reported a good catch near the Boil Pipe which included roach well over the 1lb mark, using worm.

Lookout Lake continues to yield some exceptional fish with anglers recording ghost carp to 13lb, crucian carp to 3lb, tench to 8lb, and perch to 2lb, while roach, rudd, and orfe, are three species that are being caught in excess of 1lb 8oz. On Bowes some cracking bags of home-grown carp are providing sport. Fish which have been bred last year are now averaging 8oz.

Kevin Taylor fished peg 20 recently and accounted for 51 tench from 10oz to 6lb 2oz using shellfish as bait. Junior Anthony Longstaff also used shellfish to record the best fish of the night during the Junior fishings, a beautiful mirror carp of 7lb.

Sunday's match on Whittle Dene was won by Steve Wood with 7lb 14oz made up of 104 fish.

Sunday's Open on Lookout Lake saw Andy Simpson winning with a creditable 59lb 5oz from peg 29. Mark Arrowsmith was runner-up with 49lb 13oz and Jeff Layton third with 48lb 10oz.

On Bowes, the Bank Holiday Open was won by Derek Fox with 35lb 11oz from peg 17 ahead of Mark Arrowsmith with 25lb 7oz and third was Jeff Layton with 15lb 13oz.

Staff at the Environment Agency Kielder hatchery have successfully reared 15,000 Arctic Charr ( a fish unique to Ennerdale Water in the Lake District. Although the species has existed since the Ice Age, numbers of Ennerdale charr have declined dramatically recently so staff at Kielder worked with their colleagues in the North West after eggs were taken from adults.

Now around 15,000 fish are ready to return to Ennerdale to boost the population. Fisheries officer Suzi Hawkins said: "It is likely that Ennerdale's charr are genetically different because they have long been an isolated population, and they are the only charr population in England which spawn exclusively in the burns that feed the lake."

Saturday: There is an Open on The Angel and Leazes Park AA Juniors fish their Summer Cup Series match. A LPAA carp league match also takes place.

SUNDAY: Middlesbrough AC fish a club match on Maple Lake on Woodlands, Wansbeck and Cramlington AC hold their second Evening Series Match on Horton Grange, while Durham City hold the final match in their Canal series on Brasside and Big Waters fish their Sir David Burnett Cup match on High Stand. Scotts Coarse AC fish their Charity Shield match on Magiscroft. There are stillwater Opens scheduled on The Oaks, Woodlands, Carp Vale and Raker Lakes, while Steve Wood is holding another Open on Whittle Dene.

MONDAY: There is an evening match in the Costcutter Match Series on the Angel at 5pm.

TUESDAY: The Darlington branch of the Pike Anglers Club hold their monthly get-together in the Coxhoe CIU club. An evening match on Whins Pond also takes place and Big Waters re-commence their Evening Series on Marden Quarry, while WACAC hold a work party.

WEDNESDAY: There are midweek Open matches on both Woodlands and The Angel with an LPAA's match taking place on Newcastle's Leazes Park with the draw taking place at 5.45pm. WACAC host a club meeting in Cramlington CIU club.

THURSDAY: There is another Open on the Oaks at Sessay and Big Waters commence their Junior Evening Series on Dissington Pond.

FRIDAY: Aycliffe AC host an Evening Series match on their Aycliffe Pond Fishery and CADCAC fish their Evening Series match on Crofton.