Stafford Moor in fine Form

Aaron Rundle (Below) who fished  swim 4 on Lodge Lake this weekend and banked 6  carp on pink pop ups.

Jacob Bracken (Above) fished  Beatties lake for the first time and used Sticky Baits Manilla and cell boilies to tempt three carp up to 23lb from end of the dam wall.

Here is John Atkins(Above) and son Adam Atkins who fished on Lodge Lake  for 48 hours had 13 fish between them John had the biggest out which scaled 24lb 2oz. They used Sticky Baits Manilla 16mm boilies and also sticky baits Buchenberry pop ups on a Ronnie rig.

Stafford Moor Twenties

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Lance Appleton  fished  on Stafford Moors Albert Square Swim on Lodge Lake to land this 25lb beauty fishing with Mainline pineapple pop ups.

Nathan Oliver (Above) with a 22lb 7oz common from the inlet swim on Beatties lake using a stiff hinge rig and 12mm urban baits nutcracker boilies soaked in Almond Goo and a Mainline Milky toffee pop up.

South West Lakes Trust Waters give up some superb carp

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Jack Gabriel caught a fine brace of twenty pound carp from Jennetts reservoir, near Bideford. The commons went 21.00 and 22.00. Chris McCarthy has also been in action at Jennetts with this 17.12 Mirror and 16.09 common.

Jack Gabriel

 

Chris McCarthy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There not from North Devon but if you fancy a trip down to Cornwall these would be ample reward. A brace of commons caught from Argal Reservoir  near Falmouth by Marlon Weyeneth the below brace lovely commons from part of the South West Lakes Trust portfolio. Both fish were 25lbs and caught during short day sessions.

 

 

 

 

The Don at 34lb 4oz from Upper Tamar

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Ben Smeeth of South West Lakes Trust is thrilled to announce the first capture of ‘The Don’ from Upper Tamar after it was stocked in September 2017. The fish was banked by Ashley Bunning at 34.04. Ashely had this to say: ‘It went 34lb 4oz, to say i am over the moon is an understatement. Had the fish over a big bed of Burton bait rollers ‘Magnet’ and the new test bait’. Congratulations to Ashley on the capture. The capture was part of a great weekend on the venue with anglers catching multiple numbers of fish and other fish over 20lbs being recorded.

Steve Pinn Enjoys a frosty session

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Steve Pinn gives an account of his second session on Willow Lake. Almost a blank until the sun came out on the last day. This was when the larger fish came out, just before an amazing Devon sunset (only 17Ib but another willow, mint beauty). Had to wait until an alarm call at dawn on the last day when the smaller fish of the 2 woke me with a screaming run, I’d had similar runs from a swans leg but this time it was for real. I emerged to temps of -4, a heavy frost and the smaller of the 2 fish which wasn’t weighed but was a beautiful linear. You can tell by my disheveled appearance that I have literally just woken up in the picture!! Both fish were had on a new delivery of 12mm nuts tipped with a very chopped down fake corn and a red hair stop on a bed of red maggots and freeby 12 millers. A memorable second session of 2018 not just for the fish but also the wonders of nature.  Angling Artist Thanks to David Blackaller for supplying the good luck, the sunshine and the camera skills.