Stuart Taylor caught a fine 10lb 2oz bass from a North Devon shore mark and registered the fish at Summerlands Tackle shop, Westward Ho ! . Stuart had already had a photo on the shop wall with a bass caught in his whilst in his twenties. Heather at Summerlands said “it was nice to have another photo to put up… If you are keeping a bass to eat and it is photo worthy we would love to see it and photo you with it…”
Combe Martin SAC member Daniel Welch has been enjoying some great summer sport from both boat and shore. Fishing from his private boat he has boated several tope to forty pounds along with some quality Huss. He also scaled down to apply a little more finesse tempted a thick lipped grey mullet of 4lb.
1st Mike Toogood Tooe 39lbs 8 oz
2nd Kev Pike bull Huss 13lbs 2 oz
3rd Mike Toogood Tope 32lbs 4 oz
Some stunning carp from North Devons trusty South West Lakes carp waters!
(Below) Carl Watkins had this beauty from Lower Tamar yesterday. ‘25.2 caught with a single 14mm vitalbaits kraken pop up over 18mm kraken freebies soaked in vitalbaits robin red and black squid, and salmon protein hydrolysate‘.
(Below)Karl Yates had a cracking session on Melbury at the weekend. 6 fish to 23.10 with three over 20lb!
(Below)Mervyn Beale has been back on Upper Tamar and rewarded with this lovely 21lb Mirror and 16lb Common yesterday. 20mm Nash Scopex Squid boilie doing the trick for Merv with a 5 bait stringer.
(Below) Tim Surridge has this 20lb common from Upper Tamar on his first visit to the venue. Tim also caught two more to just over 16lbs. Fishing the lookout swim with Cornwall Baits red seed and special occasion boilies.
The Oaktree catfish was first caught back in the late 90’s and I received this fascinating account of this first capture from Andy Sanders.
I’ve just been reading the article about the oak tree catfish and found this photo for u. I was the first person to catch the catfish way back in the late 90s at a weight of 17lb. I was fishing with friends and had a drop back at 6.30 in the morning. I was yelling to my friends that I’d caught the catfish but neither belived me and would not come out their bivvies. I caught it on a cranberry boilie. Hope this is of interest. Andy.
Ian Laird was targeting gilt head bream with crab bait when this handsome bass seized his offering!
Dan Spearman tempted this stunning thin lipped grey mullet of 4lb 15oz whilst targeting the species in a North Devon Estuary.
Combe Martin SAC Member Jack Phillips boated this fine thick lipped grey mullet of 3lb 15oz whilst fishing from the families moored boat. The fish was tempted using good old bread flake.
North Devon Match Group Summer league No.5 Lakeview Morchard Road,
1st Tom Downing 76lb 8oz
2nd Andrew Gratton 59lb 5oz
3rd Kevin Shears 52lb 9oz
4th Stephen Craker 51lb 1oz
5th Martin Turner 44lb 15oz
6th Paul Morris 42lb 10oz
16 fished , Thundery conditions , Tom scored his 4th victory in a row, his 25 carp proved a decisive winning net, after a slow start he caught well in the latter stages on hard pellets in the margins from peg 17 , Andrew was best of the rest from peg 1, facing Tom , most of his catch fell to method feeder in open water, 3rd and 4th places came off the road side , .
