15 Apr 2025

The Waters Of Exmoor Spring Conference 2025

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http://www.lance-nicholson.co.uk

 

Next month you will find Seven Fables at The Exmoor Society and Exmoor National Park Authority Spring Conference. This year their focus is on rivers and among the invited speakers are nature writer Professor Charles Foster, Mark Lloyd ~ CEO of the Rivers Trust, Professor Sir Dieter Helm and Toby Diggens of Dig & Co.

 

15 Apr 2025

Bideford and District Club Coarse Section Monthly competition – April

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Bideford and District Club
Coarse Section Monthly competition
Results:
1st Kevin Shears 48lb 2oz
2nd Keith Mountjoy 46lb 9oz
3rd Colin O’Hagan 36lb 5oz
4th Richard Jefferies 29lb 11oz
5th Darren Polden 28lb 13oz
6th Antony Bentley  26lb 13oz
7th Paul Elworthy   19lb 12oz
23 members fished.
Kevin, our league leader, has further extended his lead to 8 points , with the match win on peg 13 ,he fished the pole with maggot over groundbait.
Second in the league and second on the day was Keith
with another pole caught net on peg 19 , using soft pellets.
Third of off peg 10 was Colin, he has fished the straight lead and hard pellets.
Richard has fished the pellet waggler for the fourth.
spot.
15 Apr 2025

Early Season Lure Sport on Predator 2

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Dan Welch has treated anglers to some exciting lure fishing trips on Ilfracombes latest charter boat Predator 2. Good numbers of colourful wrasse and pollock have put welcome bends into anglers rods over the calm settled weather leading up to Easter. Prospects for the coming season are excellent to book trips visit the Predator 2 website : –

https://www.boatfishingdevon.co.uk/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJrAe9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHg7sULdVWXxi8-AOvi498bL77IHah1zbd9JN_wAemrDTxQ5jziDEVGOb7Xc4_aem_9ZckyS0xcEgppGxb-Pyntw

Click on links below to book a trip :-

 

15 Apr 2025

Combe Martin SAC Lure League – Seth takes early lead

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Seth Tuson has taken an early lead in Combe Martin SAC’s members lure fishing league registering bass of 67.5cm and 57cm he now has three bass for a total length of 182cm. Both fish were tempted using soft plastic shad lures. Robert Daniel Hurst is on two bass for 121.5cm.

Below is the shad lure that tempted the larger of the bass.

The event is sponsored by High Street Tackle, Ilfracombe with first and second prize plus biggest bass. First or second prize cannot win biggest bass prize.

 

9 Apr 2025

Lure Season off to an early start

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Combe Martin SAC member Robert Daniel Hurst has registered two early season lure caught bass into the clubs Lure Fishing league. The bass of 61cm and 60.5cm are cracking bass and are a good omen for the coming months. Both bass were tempted using a megabass spindle worm.  The prolonged spell of settled weather has resulted in excellent water clarity and warm temperatures. Entry into the league is free to club members that is sponsored by High Street Tackle, Ilfracombe.

7 Apr 2025

Appledore Shipbuilders @ Bulldog

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Bulldog Trout Fishery had the pleasure of hosting the Appledore shipyard Fly Fishing competition! 🎣
After attending one of our earlier comps Graham decided to get the lads together from work and book a day on the bank, these competitions are certainly growing in popularity! 😁
On arrival it was clear by the general atmosphere today was going to be a good day! After a bacon roll and a coffee the boys were itching to get started. Bright sunshine and a strong Easterly wind had some worried, however the worries were soon forgotten as a steady flow of fish were hooked and landed!
Lunch time came with the requested roast pork bap and roasties on the menu 🐖
Slowly but surely, fish by fish anglers started getting close to their limit! A big scene was caused as ‘fly’ had his 6th fish on the line and it was a biggen! Unfortunately the 6th fish that surely would have bagged him first place managed to slip the hook after a lengthy tussle.
Results for the day:
1st – Jake England – 19lb13oz 🐟
2nd – Graham Turner -19lb10oz 🐟
3rd Colin Eastern – 18lb14oz 🐟
Biggest fish of the day: Paul Baglole -5lb9oz 🐳
A lovely sunny day to be on the bank with plenty of fish landed! It was a pleasure to host this comp, couldn’t have asked for a better bunch of blokes

7 Apr 2025

Slade Reservoir – First carp visit pays dividends.

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Many thanks to Nick Woodger for allowing me use his write up on a first successful trip to Slade Reservoir.

Done My First 24hrs At Slade Reservoir On Saturday Got There About 2.15pm Went For A Walk About. I Decided To Fish The Road Side Of The Lake Close To The Shallows As The Sun Was Shinning And The Wind Pushing Down To That Corner Of The Lake. Hoping that the Fish Would Be Following The Wind. Got The Rods Set Up And Out Into The Lake About 2.50pm. Had My Left And Right Hand Rods Both In The Margins, But The Left Hand Rod Was Out A Rod Length And A Half Up Tight To A Weed Bed. Had My Middle Rod Out In Open Water In Front Of Me. On All Three Rods I Was Using A Ronnie Rig With Remix Baits Tuttle-Tigers On The Left. Purple Secrets On The Middle And Pink Secrets On The Right All With A Tiny Mesh Bag Of Mainline Pellets. Traps Are All Set. At 5.50pm The Left Hand Rod Screamed Off I Was Into My First Ever Fish At Slade. What Resulted In A Stunning Mirror Weighing In At 24lb4oz I Was Over The Moon What A Carp Like This One For My First Fish. Put Rod Back Out On The Same Spot. The Hours Went Bye With No More Action. 11.00pm My Alarm Screamed Off Again But This Time It Was The Middle Rod The One In Open Water. I’m Into My Second Fish Of The Trip. I Seen The Carp Roll In The Light Of my Head-Torch And I Was Like Oh My God This Is A Big Carp. I Finally Got Her In The Net And Had A Closer Look, It Was A Beautiful Common I’m Stood There Looking At Her In The Net Thinking Can This Session Get Any Better But My God It Did When I Weighed Her And To See The Scales Go Upto 26lb8oz I Was Buzzing, I Have Only Gone And Smash My PB Common Witch Was 19lb7oz. All I Can Says Is What A Session And I Can’t Wait To get Back Out Onto The Bank Of Slade Reservoir Again.
6 Apr 2025

Smoothound Dominate Appledore Shipbuilders Match

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Six Appledore Shipbuilders fished in their April Rover. Most reported plenty of tiny Dogfish taking the baits. Michael Hammett fishing his 3rd venue of the day finally managed to catch a weighable smoothound of 6lb scraping in on the 60% rule. This looked like the only fish that was going to make the scales until the last cast when a fish on both rods changed the picture.
2 more Smothounds of 8lb 5oz and 7lb 15ozs. giving him 1st, 2nd and 3rd.