Nick Galley landed three fine mirror carp the biggest equaling his personal best at 22:08. The the carp with a distinctive black spot on its shoulder was landed by Nick’s brother Brandon at the end of July at 19:06 so an excellent 3lb growth rate in just under 3 months.
The other two carp scaled 21lb and 20lb. The fish were all caught from the inlet swim and their on their own black magic bait and Gardner end tackle.
Please find the latest catch report for Wimbleball from Danny Ford. Plenty of fish showing in the narrows from the old pontoons down to Bessoms. They are holding off the weed bank 10 yards out. Anglers have been doing well with nymph patterns, Diawl Bach in particular, fisher either on a midge tip or intermediate.
The fish off for the Orvis Boat Pairs was held on Sunday, Steve Ebdon, and Andy Gooding taking 1st place with Pete Kempton and Phil Sharpe runners up. Steve and Andy won a season ticket for 2017 while Pete and Phil take home a lovely Orvis access reel and a £50 gift voucher. Both boats chose to fish the top end of the lake, with Steve and Andy doing particularly well drifting from the old pontoons to the bouy in Bessoms. Well done!
Wimbleball hosted their final competition of the year on Saturday, 4 Anglers attended the boat comp which ran from 10-4.30pm. 18 rainbows were caught with a return of 4.5 per angler!
1st Danny Ford 6 fish for 8lb 1oz
2nd Ed Trickett 5 fish for 7lb 4oz
3rd Dave Ridgway 4 fish for 6lb 1oz
4th Howard James 3 fish for 5lb 9oz
(Comp results will be included in next week’s report)
Wimbleball will stay open for November and fishing will be available from boat and bank at a reduced price. £8.50 for 2 fish, second permits may be purchased. Boat prices TBC.
Match Report No 3
Date: 12-10-2016
Venue: High Hampton Lake 2
Match number three was at the fine venue of High Hampton although it was a strange one as it was on lake 2 which is a lake that fishermen never fish.
It was well under way and with an early push from Mathew Cross who in the first two hours had netted 10 carp, this was much to the surprise of other anglers as they were sitting staring in amazement and wondering what was happening.
Until Thomas Owen had a surge and caught four Carp back to back, a great effort from Tom on the day who won Man off the match as he has transferred over from Carp tackle to pole fishing and showed he was improving weekly.
John Lovell also started to catch, having caught some nice skimmers and a fair size bream on the feeder, we also saw last weeks winner netting some nice carp in an attempt to catch up with Cross who was now standing still as his swim had died
Other fisherman on the lake had also been catching and a wide size and variety of fish was being caught to make the match a close one, Cross had obviously capitalized on that early lead and wasn’t to be caught.
The results:
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1st place Matt Cross – 28lbs 5oz
2nd place John Lovell – 16lb 8oz
3rd place Tom Owen – 14lb .7oz
A total of 12 competed on the day.
Great fishing well done boys off to Stafford next week.
Steve Pinn with his new PB of 23lb 11oz from Stafford Moor’s Lodge lake fishing 18mm Pacific Tuna Boilie’s with mainline tiger nut flavour syrup all purchased from the fisheries.
Steve is a regular at Stafford moor as in every week he loves it here he calls here his second home .
Combe Martin SAC member Ian Laird – 9lb 15oz smoothound
Smoothound have been a regular feature of sea angling catches during the autumn months in recent seasons with hounds landed right through into December. This could be a result of numerous factors including climate change? It is however difficult to speculate. Trigger fish became common for several seasons and this was seen as a clear sign of global warming; they have been virtually non existent this year though?
Jack Lord with his new PB of 32lb 5oz from the last swim on the dam wall on Stafford Moor’s Beatties lake using mainline cell boilies .
Jack had 3 x 20lb plus , 1 x 17lb & 1 x 19lb 8oz too in the same session!
Tony Welch visited Melbury very recently and sent in this catch report to South West Lakes Trust:
‘On my latest trip fishing the Devon South West Lakes Trust waters I decided to head to Melbury Reservoir. I spent two nights on the picturesque lake and struggled on the first night fishing in horrendous rain. After a change in the weather and also a change of tactics I managed 6 takes over the last 18hrs catching a number of nice commons to 19lb 5oz using Mainline Baits Essential Cell with home made Mainline Polaris hook baits over the top. “Melbury is another gem in the Southwest Lakes Trust portfolio, a very enjoyable trip!’
A plea from Nick Hart at Exe Valley!
Do you know any budding young fly anglers that are free this Sunday 23rd Oct? I am running a heat of the Junior Bank National at Exe Valley Fishery and there are some places to be filled. This is a great fun event, see pix from last year. Entry open to anyone aged 17 years or under on the day of the final which is 9th April 17. Prizes by Greys and event supported by the Angling Trust. Please message or call for details. Fishing Permit & Entry is just £5!!!
(Above) kevin Hosie
Big Shout Out and Well Done to Kevin Hosie who caught his 1st EVER 40!! Kevin caught a New Personal Best 45lb 8oz Mirror from the Kracking Carp Lake using Artificial Sweetcorn, his face says it all!!
(Above) Adrian Walker
5C’s Member Adrian Walker from Liskeard had a great session on the Main Carp Lake catching a 26lb and 22lb Mirror within just Minutes apart! Adrian landed the 26lb Mirror and as soon as he finished taking pictures and safely releasing the Mirror, his other Rod Screamed off for him to land a 22lb Mirror!
Adrian used a D Rig with a Snowman Manilla Boilie Presentation to tempt the Stunners.
(Above) Julian Chidgey
Julian Chidgey took some time out to fish for himself on the Specimen Carp Lake and landed this Stunning Scale Perfect 22lb 9oz Linear caught off the top on Dog Biscuits.
(Above) Graham Tasker
A KRACKING BIRTHDAY TREAT! Graham Tasker from West Yorkshire was whisked away by his partner to Anglers Paradise as a Birthday Surprise. Graham decided to give the Kracking Carp Lake a go in the hope of beating his current Personal Best of 24lb 7oz. On his 1st day, he not only beat his PB but he smashed it with a 38lb Mirror!! Graham caught the Whopper from Peg 2, towards the Lillies on a Cog System with Salty Squid Mainline Boilies with just 1 on a Stringer.
