Steve Pinn’s latest catch from Stafford Moors Beatties Lake the white mirror at 23Ib 4oz.
Stafford Moor – Carp on the feed!
(Above)Paul Evans had a few fish up to 24lb 11oz from the inlet swim on Beattie’s lake using baitworks and Mainline cell & Hybrid boilies.
(Above)Adam Hilton and daughter Isla.(Below) They had 5 fish from the back bays on Beattie’s using Sticky Baits Manilla Boilies.
(Below) Simon Sweet who was here with friend Jeff watts. They fished the first double swim up on lodge lake on the dam wall. They had 4 fish out using Mainline doucey crab and cell.
(Below) Regular Steve Pinn with a fine common carp caught on on the new Uberbait’s Uberkrab.
(Above) Another fine carp for Steve Pinn
FURZEBRAY on top form with Forties topping catches
Furzebray’s Island Carp Lake certainly hit top form last week with two carp banked at over forty pounds and numerous thirties. Above is Josh Jones with Clover at a weight of 41lb 6oz.
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Andey Massey banked Dropscale at a weight of 40lb 6oz. Andy also landed Star at a weight of 35lb 4oz and several other 20lb plus carp.
The fish was stocked in 2007 and the capture of this fish and other huge fish from the venue are testament to years of hard work and development from father and son team Martin and Tony Kingdom
James Stanford had a fantastic weekends fishing on Willow Lake landing this cracking 33lb mirror and a 22.12 ghost common!!The mirror sets a new Lake record for Willow Lake.
I visited Furzebray myself at the weekend for a day session and succeeded in putting one carp onto the bank a lumpy mirror known to regulars as ‘Quasimodo’. Due to a fault with my scales I cannot register the weight but it weighed over twenty on its last five visits to the bank! The fish was tempted on Sticky Baits Krill purchased from North Devon Tackle. Many thanks to Jamie who gave welcome advice to an occasional carp dangler. I have not invested much time in carp fishing over recent years and browsing through the shelves of technical tackle on display is mind blowing. Whilst there is a huge array of tackle and bait available these days little has really changed since the early eighties when I indulged in a period of relatively intense carp fishing. Basically standard carp fishing revolves around bolt rigs and hair rigs presenting a boilie on the hook. Catching big carp is still hard work and above all tends to demand the investment of time. Good water craft and careful thought can of course shorten the odds of connecting with a specimen. The first step in catching quality carp is of course to fish water where they are present and Furzebray is certainly a great place to target. Carp anglers in the South West have never had it so good with waters containing fish over twenty pounds and even thirty pounds now very widespread.
One of the joys of carp fishing is the opportunity to just sit and observe the wild life that abounds around our lakes. As a strong wind swept over the lakes at Furzebray yesterday swallows and martins were swooping over the water feasting before leaving on their migration to warmer climes. Autumn is certainly here.
In the weedy shallows of Copse Lake I glimpsed several good carp and enjoyed a few hours stalking with one rod before moving onto Willow Lake.
Stunning Carp from Melbury Reservoir
Ashley Bunning has been hauling in some superb carp at Melbury reservoir recently with seven carp to 26lb 2oz. All fish fell to a snowman with Burton Bait Rollers new test bait with a Scopex pop up. Ashley put about 30 freebies on each spot of the new test bait and ‘Magnet’. And also used Lakebed Leads 4oz distance leads. Ultima XR 14lb main line with Entity hook lengths.
Upper Tamar – A Lurking Secret!
More Paradise carp
TWELFTH TWENTY 8 YEARS IN A ROW FROM THE SPECIMEN CARP LAKE
Well Done to David Tretheway for catching his 12th 20lb+ Carp from the Specimen Carp Lake 8 years running, this year in the shape of this 23lb 8oz Common!
David Shared –
“For 8 years running now, I have caught a 20+ from the Specimen Carp Lake, at least 12 different 20’s in total… This year’s 20 was a 23lb 8oz Common, caught on boilie in my usual swim, and I will be back next year for number 13!”
Capturing carp and images
Carp In Paradise
Jack Siddle, 21 from Hull, East Yorkshire caught a Personal Best 29lb Mirror from the Main Carp Lake beating his previous PB of 26lbs!
Jack’s Story –
“Holiday made in the first 10 minutes’ – The first session of the holiday was on the Main Carp Lake as I really wanted to catch one of the huge, original, scaley mirrors that I have seen many pictures of, on instagram. I set up on a swim called ‘snags’ next to the boat house and decided to pre bait during the day across to the lily pads with no lines in the water to gain the fish’s confidence. Come 6pm , I cast my rods out fishing locked up, I couldn’t believe my eyes when after 10minutes my right rod burst into action. After a short but intense battle, I landed one of the fish I was aiming for, one of the large heavily scaled mirrors!
I used Sticky Baits Krill 20mm boilies on a blow back rig consisting of Korda N-Trap semi stiff braid and a Nash Fang twister size 4 barbless hook.
Thanks again to Zyg, Zenia and the team at Anglers Paradise for another amazing week, I will definitely be back but next time in pursuit of one of the huge residents out of Kracking Carp”.