These fine carp where tempted from Hacche Moors Botton Lake. At this time of year many believe carp look their best.
CARRY ON FISHING
Thanks to extensive efforts by the Angling Trust angling can continue throughout lock-down as an outdoor recreational activity providing anglers only meet up with one other person. This is a common sense approach as individual angling is COVID safe and is recognized as having valuable benefits for participants mental well being. Individual fisheries will continue to implement all relevant guidelines to ensure anglers safety. Match Fishing is unfortunately the inevitable casualty of lockdown but hopefully this can resume next month enabling a little festive cheer.
For full details please visit the Angling Trust Website:- https://anglingtrust.net/covid-19/
Melbury Carp Brace
Jason McEvoy enjoyed a session at Melbury and has caught these two beauties! The first a 28lb mirror and the second just under 18lb.
Stafford Moor Carp – Latest Catch’s
Darren Barkle caught a new personal best 22lb 4oz mirror carp from lodge lake on a pink pineapple pop up in a day session.
(Below) David Hughes fished on the beach swim on Beatties lake and had 5 fish out up to 26lb all caught on Mainline cell boilies and pellets.
(Below) Tom Downing fishing from Cherry lodge (One of our new specimen lodges). Tom had 4 fish out up to 25lb 14oz caught on bait tech triple N boilies & krill & tuna oil.
(Below) Paul Summers fished on swim 1 on lodge lake and had 6 fish up to 32lb all caught on Sticky baits krill and house pellets.
A Kracking Carp from Paradise
Dave Gorry who has caught a personal best 37lb 4oz Common from Nirvana’s Kracking Carp Lake!
Dave caught the Common from peg 1 using a 16mm Krill boilie topped with pop up corn.
Melbury – Stunning Common
Jason McEvoy finished his first Melbury session with this stunning 24lb common carp!
Melbury In Fine Form
Melbury has been in fine form over the last couple of months. Neil Harvey sent a report to SWLT after a recent visit. ‘Single Scale’ at 26lb 8oz was the highlight of all the fish.
‘Cracking session on Melbury. Done Thursday morning to Saturday lunchtime. I had 15 runs and landed 12 carp. I had 5 fish in the night last night and I’m shattered!’
(Below) Jason McEvoy. His first visit to Melbury resulting in this 21lb fish. A swim move paid off for Jason when he saw a fish roll.
Upper Tamar Thirty plus common
Rich Harman banked this stunning 31lb 2oz common carp from Upper Tamar Lake.
Furzebray 40s 30s and 20s!!!
Chris Williams enjoyed a great session on Furzebrays Island lake banking Charlotte at 45lb, Star at 40lb 8oz Angies Common at 38lb and a string of upper 20’s.
Melbury Carp Session
Tim Thornton sent South West Lakes Trust this cracking catch report from his recent session at Melbury (happy birthday Tim).
‘Birthday session at Melbury Reservoir in Devon. The session started off very promising with the ghost koi low double being the first capture.
Then disaster struck and I pulled out of three decent carp on the trot. One was a chunk. That’s fishing.
Then at midnight my middle rod ripped off and a pristine hard fighting twenty common was later in the net. Another of 18+ followed. A great venue in fantastic surroundings.
All the bites came to either DNA baits SLK wafters or milky malt dumbell wafters over a bed of SLK boilies
Great to share the session with my mate Terry Reed.
Thank you South west lakes, I will Definitely be back!’
