Lee Watts followed up his recent success with a 36lb 8oz mirror carp at Colebrooke Lake near Collumpton with this stunning common carp of 25lb.
Junior Event @ Tarka Swims George’s Lake results:
1st Tyler Scott 11lb 7oz
2nd Charles Evans 4lb 9oz
3rd Thomas Scott 3lb 13oz
Our 3 hour junior event was the third in the summer series, Tyler Scott has fished peg U and landed a near 10lb carp early in the match, this specimen plus some smaller fish secured victory. Young Charles on the adjoining peg, V has pole fished to a very respectable 2nd spot. Thomas Scott put together a good net for third.
Bass and ray from North Devon Rock Mark
Rob Scoines enjoyed success on his latest visit to North Devons rocky shoreline tempting a 7lb bass and 2lb 8oz spotted ray.
Gilt Head Bream
David Jenkins fished mark in the Lower Taw & Torridge estuary to tempt this gilt head bream of 2lb.
Dave followed up success with another gilt head of 1lb 12oz
Steve Ford of Mosella put together an impressive catch totalling 487lb 8oz !
Amazing weights in the latest matches at Stafford Moor with the carp feeding with gusto in the hot weather. The Coombes family have certainly worked extremely hard to provide anglers with one of the countries top fisheries for both Match fishing and carp angling.
The latest open/ practice Match on Tanners & Woodpecker Lakes saw anglers take some amazing weights.
Steve Ford of Mosella put together an impressive catch totalling 487lb 8oz a new record for the venue and not far off 500lb!In fact check out the back up weights too !!!
Had a continental payout.
2nd place was Des Shipp peg 10 on Tanners lake with 259lb 14oz
3rd place was Chris Davis peg 11 on woodpecker lake with 234lb 15oz
4th place was Andy Edgington peg 14 on Tanners allenwith 238lb 8oz
Section winners :
Phil Hardwick peg 15 Tanners with 172lb 14oz
Anton Page peg 2 Tanners with 191lb 7oz
Rich James peg 2 woodpecker with 186lb 11oz
Christopher John Lovell peg 18 woodpecker with 196lb 2oz
Jennetts Common
Paul Blake caught this 17lb 14oz common carp from Jennets Reservoir on a surface bait.
Stafford Moor Carp –
(Below)Paul Blake banked this 21lb 13oz mirror from Stafford Moor’s Lodge Lake.
(Below) Wayne Grinney & son Jack who fished on the summer hut swim on Beatties lake and had 11 fish out up to 29lb 8oz caught on Sticky Baits Krill boilies & house pellet caught out in the open water and a couple in the margins.
Variety on Ilfracombe Pier
Combe Martin SAC hosted an LRF float fishing social on Ilfracombe Pier where several species of fish were landed including black bream, wrasse, pollock, bass and garfish. 
(Above)Jake Moule fished Ilfracombe after dark to land a 10lb 12oz conger. Several spotted ray have been tempted from the pier on sandeel bait.
Hinkley Threat to Fish Stocks in the Bristol Channel
The building of Hinkley Point Power Station will undoubtedly have an adverse effect upon the Environment but as with all things there is a bigger picture and I am not qualified to know whether nuclear power is better overall than alternative sources of energy production. The financial cost is undoubtedly enormous. I read in The Times on Saturday how it is predicted that the cooling water intake could kill many thousands of fish each day potentially decimating fish stocks. This is obviously extremely worrying not only from an angling perspective but also from a conservation angle.
In addition to the many species of sea fish within the area there are also migratory fish that pass this point including threatened species including, salmon, shad, lamprey and eels. I am sure that measures can be put in place to minimise the impact on fish but it would seem that cost cutting could sacrifice these measures. The Short term savings could lead to the long term extinction of some species with irreparable damage to the marine eco-system.
Below are links to the EA consultation documents. I urge those who care to take a look and respond.
Tope sport off Ilfracombe
Tope and bass are providing sport of Ilfracombe with Wild Frontier delivering for this angler.
