Dan Spearman visited the South Wales Coastline ( Before the local lockdown) to target the fantastic ray fishing on offer. His journey was rewarded with this fine specimen blonde ray that pulled the scales to 17lb 5oz. The welsh coastline seems to be far more productive than the North Devon coast in recent seasons with ray, tope and smoothound fishing all making the headlines. Is this in part due to more anglers fishing or is it a better fishing area to due a healthier fishery environment?
Carp anglers are enduring stormy conditions at Upper Tamar Lake fishing the Upper Tamar Mainline Baits Carp Pair Competition.
The gale force winds and heavy rain are proving to ideal catching competitions with a succession of good fish coming to the bank. The competition ends on Sunday when I imagine the competitors will all be a little weary and weather warn. Modern clothing and quality bivvies ensure that fishing in such extreme weather is viable.
Callum Gardiner Caught this common carp over the weekend at lower Tamar weighing 25lb 6oz also had a smaller common at 15lb. And two bream to 9lb. Caught on 12mm pop ups at range.
Jamie Stewards efforts were rewarded when he landed this specimen shore caught tope of 47lb 13oz. Tope are one of the shore anglers greatest challenges and often require many hours of dedication to hook and land. The landing of such fish is often a team effort as in this case with Jamies good friend Chay Boggis lending a hand at the critical moment.
Bude Canal Angling Club v North Devon Match Group . Bude Canal Overall
1st Adrian Hill 13lb 2oz
2nd Simon John Allen 10lb 8oz
3rd John Forster 10lb 3oz
4th Stuartshelley Burridge 10lb
5th Ryan Wiltshire 8lb 2oz
6th Nathan Underwood 5lb 6oz
7th Christopher Morris 5lb 2oz
8th David Allen 4lb
Many thank’s again to Martin Turner for his weekly Match Fishing Reports.
24 fished, BCAC 163:5 NDMG 136:5 Brisk northerly breeze and bright conditions proved challenging for most but the Bude anglers adapted best and came out deserved winners. Top weight on the day went to Arnie on the bottom basin his catch of skimmers fell to bread on the feeder, Bude’s captain ,Simon put on a master class on the long pole for 2nd place, top weight for NDMG was John 3rd overall on the bottom basin. Thanks to Bude for hosting the event and we hope to hold the return leg on Tamar Lake in October.
North Devon Tackle AC Match at Melbury
Andrew Gratton won the Match with corn/feeder tactics for 34lb 5oz,
Norman Martin was 2nd with 31lb 8oz on maggot feeder…Wayne Mitchell 3rd 15lb 2oz..Pete Seaward 4th 13lb 12oz….
Norman Martin banked 3 roach over 1lb… biggest 1lb12oz
Twelve year old Wilder Van Koutrik enjoyed recent success tempting this fine tench of 4lb 12oz whilst fishing a private North Devon Stillwater. He also caught a beautiful crucian carp of 1lb 12oz whilst fishing a local club water.
With no significant rain in the last weeks of the season salmon fishing has been slow. A few salmon were tempted from the Torridge as anglers visited the river for the last time. One salmon was also tempted from a very low River East Lyn.
Little Warham regulars – David and Stuart.Were both determined to fish before the end of season on their annual visit to Warham; let’s just say their 5hr plus journey paid dividends
Several fiesty wild brownies seized my nymphs before a better fish took hold in a deep pool, a crimson spotted brown of over 10″.
Crimson spotted beauty returned.
Posted by Wayne Thomas on Sunday, 27 September 2020
