Jeff Pearce enjoyed a session at Stafford Moors Lodge Lake where he took these atmospheric photos and tempted a carp of 17lb 8oz.
Triggers offer touch of the tropical
Ollie Passmore enjoyed a great session at a North Devon rock mark landing several trigger fish to 2lb 6oz. The previous night Ollie landed a fine bass from a local beach of 5lb 14oz. Trigger fish are likely to be around at least another month providing temperatures do not plummet. These fish of warmer climes are often found washed up on beaches early in the winter as water temperatures drop.
BIg tope on Bluefin
(Above) A fifty pound plus tope for first timer Colin.
Bluefin will be running fishing trips out of Ilfracombe throughout the winter months at present there are still a few tope being caught and bass from the reefs. With the new that anglers can now retain one bass per day trips to reefs will be popular with option to keep the occasional fish for the table.
Spectacular Shark Fishing off North Devon
Dan Hawkin’s has been taking anglers to fishing grounds far off the North Devon coast on his boat Reel Deal where they have made some spectacular catches of shark not seen off North Devon since the 1970’s. The party of anglers set a boat record of 28 blue shark up to 97lb on the first day. On the second day of their charter Jason Heenan boated a superb blue shark of 133lb.
The anglers boated 38 shark over the two days with Ammo Baits Chum attracting the fish and Penn Rods and reels from High Street tackle taming the fish.
The fishing is strictly catch and release with circle hooks ensuring that the majority of shark are hooked in the jaws where hooks can be easily removed. Fortunately the days of slaughtering these beautiful fish has been consigned to the history books where such practices belong.
Dan has enjoyed considerable success over past couple of years with anglers boating huge porbeagle shark, a thresher shark and blue shark with catches unheard of in recent years. The success has come on the back of significant investment and effort with the will to travel long distances with no guarantee of success. The future is exciting and expect Dan’s diary to be filling already with booking for next year.
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Autumn Trout at Blakewell
As the river season closes its time to start thinking of Stllwater trout to keep in practice.
Its been a challenging summer for still water trout fishery’s and fish farming with high water temperatures and prolific weed growth causing many problems. At Blakewell the Nickel’s have as always endeavored to keep the fishery ticking over offering anglers a special ticket option of an open ticket entitling the angler to keep visiting as many times as they like until their bag limit has been completed. This offer continues until the end of October when normal operation resumes.
Early in October a specialist weed cutting company will be visiting the fishery to eradicate the problematic weed in preparation for the winter season when trout fishing is at its best.
The imminent closure of the Barnstaple to Muddiford Road is no obstacle to visiting Blakewell as a short diversion around Shirwell will only delay arrival by ten minutes.
The lake at present at the end of September has weed covering 50% of the lake but as you can see from these pictures I took today large areas are weed free allowing plenty of water to cast a fly. At this time of year a bushy daddy long legs imitation will produce exciting takes on most days. A muddler minnow stripped across the surface could also work well as will all the normal buzzers and nymphs. Plenty of trout were showing as I walked around the lake with anglers telling of of browns to over six pounds in recent weeks. If your on holiday and have no tackle with you this is no obstacle to enjoying a day fishing as top quality Snowbee Fly Fishing tackle is available to hire.
Fun fishing is also available for children with a heavily stocked trout pond where children can catch the families supper.
The cafe offers a delightful place to call in for a coffee or cream tea with a tasty looking array of hot for to choose from. On a sunny day sit beside the stock ponds or on cold day sit beside the wood-burner!
Steve gets to 68 species!!!!
I really enjoy reading Steve’s blogs on his species hunt and will miss the regular updates when his years quest is over. I reckon he needs to go past 100 before he contemplates stopping!!!!
https://stevedawe189.wixsite.com/fishtytwochallenge/single-post/2018/09/22/Mini-monsters-make-my-day
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.
Rain Brings hope of silver tourists
Heavy rain has brought a welcome rise in river levels that could bring in a run of fresh salmon and sea trout to save what has been a dreadful season as a result of drought conditions throughout much of the summer. The final week of the season will see fish just a couple of months away from spawning and it is is imperative that angers follow good practice in practicing catch and release the following link give information and advice regarding C & R.
