By PAUL ARMSTRONG AS the first cold breaths of winter came to the region last week, sport on the whole has remained upbeat with both rivers and stillwaters providing good action.

By David Houghton RIVER DANE: The higher reaches will be best at places like Holmes Chapel, Swetten-ham, Byley and Croxton Lane, where barbel, chub, dace and roach, are expected to provide lots of action.

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.

A LAKE, which once supplied fish to the monks at Gisborough Priory, has been restocked. Pollution had wiped out 62,000-worth of fish. Now, after considerable restoration work, one tonne of assorted rudd, roach and crucian carp have been placed in the lake. (c) 2007 Northern Echo.

THOUSANDS of fish have been delivered to a lake, s