12 Apr 2017

Stunning Carp from South West Lakes Trust Water

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Ben Smeeth of South West lakes Trust sent me these stunning pictures of carp from Squabmoor Reservoir near Exmouth. Whilst its not North Devon they are stunning images that I couldn’t resist posting.

Terry Reid has been in the action at Squabmoor reservoir near Exmouth, Devon, with this fantastic fully scaled mirror at just under 30lbs. Terry used a Pallatrax crave double pop up fished in 14 feet of water on a size 6 Korda Kurve hook with a stringer over a bed of crushed crave boilies. Top angling Terry! What a fish!

Kind regards
Ben Smeeth
Angling Technical lead for South West Lakes Trust
Countryside and Angling Manager – Cornwall

Squabmoor Reservoir, Budleigh Salterton, Devon EX9 7AS
Squabmoor is one of the leading specimen waters in the South West. It is situated on Woodbury Common which is a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). There are lily pads situated around the lake and the depths vary greatly from one end of the lake to the other. There are 15 immaculate swims, many of which have been created by the bailiffs. The main target are carp to 36lbs which are truly stunning with the average size around the 20lb mark. The mirror carp are the original old style fish with a really dark complexion and large scales. 17 carp to 23lbs were stocked in 2015 from Lana Springs Fish Farm. Whilst carp are the main target there is a real mix of other specimens with Tench to 6lbs, Bream to 10lbs, Roach over 2lbs, eels to 6lbs and Perch to 3lbs.

 

11 Apr 2017

Furzebray – Three superb lakes

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We are certainly spoilt  for choice when it come to carp fishing in North Devon and Furzebray has matured into a fine carp fishery with three fine lakes to fish, Below are a few pictures to whet the appetite!

Some nice fish coming out the Copse lake, Arron Rundal had a cracking session on there landing 9 fish in total between 5lb and a lake record at 31.08

(Above) Copse Lake Fish caught by Arron Rundal

(Above)And from Island Lake Tom Collingridge  landed his new PB this weekend!!!! Blackspot at a great weight of 37.06

(Above) A Copse lake beauty for Paul Holmes

11 Apr 2017

KRACKING CARP FROM PARADISE!

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The latest new from Zenia at Anglers Paradise. A chance to bank a huge carp on a day ticket!

HAT TRICK FROM THE KRACKING Carp Lake!

Graham Kelly, 36 from Tiverton joined us for the 1st time to fish the Kracking Carp Lake.

AS many of you know, this Lake is challenging but to come here for the first time and to catch all 3 bites (let alone get 3 bites) is not something we hear often!!

Graham had one hell of a session, resulting in him catching a hat trick of Mirrors – 20lbs, 25lbs and 35lbs!!

Graham fished from Peg 2, used sweetcorn and pellet with a simple in-line lead set up, and the moral of the story is – keep it simple – it works!

HUGE CONGRATS GRAHAM!!

Anglers Paradise
10 Apr 2017

Stafford Moor – Sunday Open – Double Ton

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Stafford Moors Open match on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes, had a continental pay out .  The day commenced with glorious sunshine and then bitter cold and cloudy in the afternoon  Despite this lakes fished well especially Woodpecker !!!! A big well done to Phil Hardwick who bagged a fabulous weight of 255lb 6oz from peg 17 on Woodpecker fishing 8mm pellet fishing the Pole up the edge.

2nd place was: Martin Heard (Mosella) peg 11 Tanners with 124lb 4oz

3rd place was : Mark Layzelle peg 11 on Woodpecker with 190lb 4oz

4th place was : Tim Hagg peg 20 on Tanner with 91lb

5th place was :Paul Morris peg 1 on Woodpecker with 139lb

6th place was: Boz Phillips peg 25 on Tanner with 86lb 14oz

Our silvers winner of the day was Peter Randall with 31lb 8oz from peg 34 on Tanners

9 Apr 2017

Spring Ray dominate Rover

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(Above) James Thomas – small eyed ray 11lb 13oz

James Thomas won Combe Martin Sea Angling Clubs Spring Rover with a specimen small eyed ray weighing 11lb 13oz. James father Wayne Thomas took second and third places with a small eyed ray scaling 9lb 10oz and blonde ray of 14lb 2oz.  The fish were all caught off Minehead aboard Steve Webber’s boat Osprey. The clubs party landed around 25 ray, small eyed, thornback and blonde ray. They also landed smoothound, bull huss and dogfish.

 

 

Wayne Thomas – small eyed ray 9lb 10oz
(Above) Wayne Thomas – blonde ray 14lb 2oz
(Above )James Thomas brace of blondes 12lb 15oz and 11lb 13oz

Shore anglers in the competition landed several quality fish the best and fourth place in the competition went to Daniel Welch who landed a small ray of 9lb 5oz. This bodes well for the clubs open competition at Putsborough beach next month.

 

(Above)Daniel Welch – small eyed ray -9lb 5oz

9 Apr 2017

Bideford – Monthly Coarse Match

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Bideford And District Angling Clubs monthly competition  saw 14 anglers compete at Tarka Swims, where they were  reminded that we are still in early spring by the cool breeze, despite this some large fish were prepared to feed. Pete Slade landed a common carp of nearly 15lb, after an arm aching battle of well over an hour ,this secured victory. Most fish fell to pole fished maggot. John Lisle still leads the league with 70 points Steve Bailey 2nd on 58 April monthly comp

Tarka Swims

1st Pete Slade 14lb 13oz

2nd Steve Bailey 12lb 6oz

3rd John Lovell 12lb 3oz

4th Stuart Bailey 11lb 15oz

9 Apr 2017

Where to for carp? Stafford Moor a pretty good bet!

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(Above)Richard James and Jason Norris who had 16 fish out between them up to 28lb from the inlet swim on Beattie’s lake this week fishing with mainline cell and squid Boilies.

(Above) Jack Griffiths who had this 26lb 2oz mirror from the 2nd swim on the dam wall up on lodge lake using Mainline cell & Sticky Baits Manilla boilies.

(Above) The ‘carp busters’ fished the summerhouse swim On Beattie’s lake . They had 17 fish between them up to 21lb 6oz using good old Mainline cell boilies.