(Above) Cory Mckay has landed Charlotte from Furzebray Carp Lakes at a massive 47lb 12oz to set a new venue record.
(Above) Jamie Moxey landed the mirror carp known Pearly at a new top weight of 32lb.
Upper Tamar Pallatrax carp pairs
Woods and Ford win the Upper Tamar Pallatrax carp pairs and scoop £2000……
Nigel Woods and Richard Ford from Launceston, Cornwall, won the Pallatrax carp pairs competition at Upper Tamar Lake on the 28-30 September. They chose peg 6 which was a shallow peg and fished really well over the weekend to land 5 carp for 72lbs 10oz to scoop the £2000 top prize.
Karl and Alfie Yates (Bude) were second winning £1000 with 4 fish for 52lb 9oz and Allan Jones and Matthew Pepperell (Bude) were third winning £500 with 4 fish for 46lb 8oz.
The largest fish of the weekend was Richard Ford with a 20lb 5oz mirror carp
Autumn Carp at Stafford Moor
Jeff Pearce enjoyed a session at Stafford Moors Lodge Lake where he took these atmospheric photos and tempted a carp of 17lb 8oz.
Plenty of twenty’s at Stafford Moor
(Below) Lee Jordan fished up on swim 2 (the sunset swim) on Lodge Lake had seven fish out up to 27lb all caught on Lees home made baits well done Lee fab session.
(Below) Ryan Welch and his friend Andrew Turner fished on swims 1 (Long Island) and swim 2 (the Triangle) on the dam wall on Beatties lake. They had 14 fish five of which were 20 plus all caught on nut crunch from RJL baits all caught in the open water.
(Below) Steve Wright and friends Rich Greene and Mike Groves fished up on Lodge lake on the dam wall. Steve caught on mainline spicy crab over a bed of hemp and maize, Rich and Mike were both on Mainline Cell boilies, had 18 carp out up to 26lb , 8 of these were 20 plus weights.
(Below) Alex Blackburn fished up on swim 3 (spit bay) and had himself 14 fish ! all caught on Mainline cell boilies over a bed of monster particle on a snowman rig.
Splendid Carp from trusty waters
(Below)Matt Mitchell banked three carp from Lower Tamar Lake. A fully scaled mirror at 23lbs, a common at 21.05 and another common of 16.02. The day ticket water on the Cornwall and Devon border is producing some fantastic fishing with plenty being caught….
(Below)Adrian Morgan caught this cracking 26.04 common from Melbury reservoir, near Bideford Devon, at the weekend. Adrian Found a nice hard gravel patch about 17 wraps out and baited the swim fairly heavily with a mixture of sticky baits Manila and retro baits meaty garlic/squid and octopus. A Ronnie rig with a Manila pop up soaked in king crab goo did the business.
KRACKING PERSONAL BEST MIRROR
Luke Siddle, 19 from Hull, decided to give Nirvana’s Kracking Carp Lake a try on the last night of his annual holiday to us. Well, within just 5 hours of fishing it was worth it and he landed a 31lb personal best Mirror.
Luke shared –
“After an extremely tough weeks fishing, I went into my final night on Kracking Karp on a bit of a downer, I just wasn’t expecting this! My rods were set at 5pm and in my head I knew what I was doing was right, it was up to the fish at this point. Come 10pm my right rod screamed off on a near enough locked up reel so I was on it in seconds, what a buzz that was! After an intense 5 minute battle in the pitch black I got it free of the lily pads and securely in my net, what a result!
I fished Peg 1 using a solid bag presentation consisting of a wide gape pattern hook on a 3″ hook link and a 3oz inline lead. In terms of bait I used a mixture of krill boilies, krill pellets, cloudy krill liquid and sweetcorn.
Perfect way to end another great week at Anglers Paradise! Thanks again, we will be returning for sure!”
Stafford Carp catches latest
(Above) Alex Blackburn fished up on Lodge Lake swim 3 (spit bay) and caught 14 fish all caught on Mainline cell boilies over a bed of monster particle on a snowman rig.
(Above)Michelle Truman who fished Stafford Moor with her Husband Jason who fished on the inlet swim on Beatties lake, they had 6 fish out with Michelle smashing her personal best twice ! First Michelle had a 19lb mirror then smashed it again with a 23lb 4oz beauty all caught on Mirage baits king crab tipped with fake corn.
(Below) Stuart Hutchings fished with his brother Chris on the Beach swim on Beatties lake. Stu had a few 20’s out photos below all caught on C C Moore Pacific tuna boilies 
Steve Pins down £1000 Carp
Steve Pinn sent me this report of his success at Lakeside
LAKESIDE FULLY SCOOPS A GRAND
I’d never fished Lakeside View before so enlisted good buddy Haribo (Harry Collins) to show me around and pass on a few hints and tips.
It’s a lovely looking, reed lined lake of around 10 acres near Collumpton in sunny Devon. Had a walk around and settled on 2 neighbouring swims, 13 and 14. Not a lot was showing but a few had been out.
We settled up in the shop and added £2 each to the bill as part of the sweepstake for catching either a 30Ib common, a 35Ib fish or the ‘Big Fully’. I was expecting a new venue blank but parted with the extra dosh nonetheless.
Rods out, social on. Harry was in to fish straight away, all stunning fish from low to high 20s.
The order of the day was “dark baits tight to the island” so I HAD to have one rod on a bright peach pastel pop up about a rod length off, just to see what happened, if anything, on the first night.
We’d been getting liners all evening and after about an hours kip (with one eye open to the sound of bleeps) my peach pastel rod tore off at 2.15am.
After a lengthy, solid tussle a very scaled fish appeared on the surface in the torch light. In a daze, I said “oh, it’s a fully” to which Harry replied “It might be THE fully…..it is THE fully…..it’s the money fish….it is !!……that’s a thousand pounds!!!” That was it, we were in raptures.
The owner (Peter) comes out at all hours for ‘special’ fish and was there for the weighing and to verify that it was THE fish. It was, 28Ib 10oz of stunning fully. At first light he was back for pics and congrats.
I was in a daze for the rest of the night as the social continued. It turned out to be my only fish of the session but what a fish and what a memory.
“Some stunning carp caught at Stafford Moor”
There have been some stunning carp caught at Stafford Moor over past week with plenty of fish topping twenty pounds. Below are a few of the fish reported.
(Above)Darren Rundle caught 2 carp from swim 3 on lodge lake using Sticky Baits Krill boilies in a day session
(Above) Paul Dunn and Tyler Bell caught twenty carp between them in a 48 hour session on swims 2 (sunset) & 3 (spit bay) up on lodge lake 6 of there fish were 20 + all caught on CC Moore live system boilies.
43lb Mirror known as Parrot from Nirvana’s day ticket Kracking Carp Lake!
FISH OF THE WEEK WINNER 31ST AUGUST IS…
David Trethewey who caught a personal best
David’s Story –
“On what was my 3rd ever night on Kracking Carp and I was lucky enough to have the Parrot grace my net! Being a regular to Anglers Paradise for 19 years now, and I’ve caught 14+ twenties to 29lb 8oz from the Specimen Carp Lake, but I had never managed a thirty plus from the complex till now…
I fished with boilie tipped with corn to the far margin and with the rods being out for over twelve hours, I thought my chance had gone, till Parrot woke me at first light…The best wake up call ever!! Many thanks, already looking forward to next year.”
CONGRATULATIONS DAVID – WHAT A CATCH AND A VERY WELL DESERVED WINNER!
Here he is with his Winning Fish and being presented his prizes by Zyggy and Zenia with special thanks to PB Products UK.
**FISH OF THE WEEK IS SPONSORED BY PB PRODUCTS UK – GREAT TACKLE – GREAT PRODUCTS**