High Street Tackle have been running a lure fishing competition over recent weeks and have announced the winners of the latest.
Olly Larvin and Peter Hayes both landed bass of 70cm tempting them on Size 4 Fillish Black Minnows.
Combe Martin SAC are still competing in their own lure fishing competition sponsored by High Street Tackle but so far despite catching plenty of bass there are three members on 55cm. With three weeks to go I am sure this will be beaten!
Ollie Passmore targetted trigger fish hoping that the warm summer weather had brought these tropical visitors close inshore he was delighted to land the above trigger fish of 2lb 13oz. His friend Alex Milton landed a trigger of 1lb 6oz.( Below)
Adrian Pegg had a first visit to Upper Tamar he wont forget with two fish, a mirror at 23lb 4oz and common at 20lb. The mirror was stocked at 22lb 2oz in September 2017.
Horwood Lakes
1st Neilsen Jeffery 85lb 8oz
2nd John Lisle 64lb 2oz
3rd John Forster 34lb 3oz
4th Paul Ware 24lb
5th Paul Elworthy 23lb.
The great weather continues and the latest round of the summer league was fished on the 2 carp lakes at Horwood , in hot conditions. Neilsen Jeffery has caught a great net from peg 5 ,mostly on the pole on paste over hemp , John Lisle ,on the next peg, also used paste for his second placed bag. Third placed John Forster was also on the favoured early pegs on the first lake. On the top lake, travelling partners Paul Ware and Paul Elworthy fought a close match for 4th and 5th, separated by a mere pound after 6 hours.
Bideford monthly rover results
1st Stephen Found thick lipped grey mullet 3 lb 13 1/4oz
2nd Graham Snow thin lipped grey mullet thin 3 lb 8oz
3rd Andy Sanders mackerel 1 lb 13/8oz
Appledore Shipbuilders Rover
1st – James Atkinson – smoothound 13lb 8.1/4oz
2nd – James Atkinson – smoothound12lb 75/8oz
3rd – Josh Atkinson – smoothound 12lb 3/4oz
Matthew Woods fished on swim 6 on lodge lake (the outlet) and had 5 fish out fishing with Atlantic heat boilies.
(Above)Rich Powell fished on the Rhodi Bush swim 6 on Beatties lake with Andy. He had 6 carp to 24lb 5oz all caught on Sticky Baits Krill wafters topped with a little fake corn.
(Above) Callum Gardiner who had 5 fish out including this 20lb beautiful common from swim 3 (small island) on Beatties lake this weekend.
(Above)Simon White had 22 fish out from swim 12 (The Spit) on lodge lake this weekend. Simon was here with his dad Patrick they fished with Mainline Link boilies.
(Above) Roundelay and Woodrow Van Koutrik who fished up on lodge lake with dad Andrew van Koutrik on swim 1 on lodge lake fishing with C C moore Live system 24mm boilies. They had 5 fish up to 22lb.
Congratulations go to Bideford angling Club for organising a series of Junior Angling Matches on their home water Tarka Swims. The future of angling rests with these young people who will hopefully embrace a pastime that will bring a lifetime of enjoyment. Many thanks to Martin Turner for the report.
Results @ Junior match/coaching session No.3
1st Ruari Hewitt 8lb 2oz
2nd Will Richards 6lb 6oz
3rd Brooke Copp 3lb 9oz
4th Adam Wheeler 2lb 14oz
Ruari has fished with maggots on peg P for a nice bag of bream. Will, on the next peg, fished with a ledgered pellet and caught a lovely mirror carp for second place. Brooke fished with a feeder and landed a fine bream for third on peg R. 11 different young anglers have fished the, closely contested, 3 match series and Adam Wheeler has come out winner of the Junior Cup,with a points total of 30 ,in 2nd spot Tyler Scott on 29, 3rd Brooke Copp on 28, 4th Ruari Hewitt 24 5th Tomas Scott 22. Thank you all ,helpers and fishers, and Summerlands Tackle for your support.
Kevin Pike has set a new Appledore Shipbuilders Club record boating a huge tope of 58lb whilst fishing from a Private boat off the North Devon Coast. Kevin also boated a tope of 41lb 8oz. Jack Pike fishing on the same trip boated a personal best of 47lb and Cameron Atkinson a tope of 45lb. The trip saw four tope boated for a total weight of over 186lb! It is also good to hear that mackerel were plentiful.
Scott Andries, Matt Jeffery and his son Joshua enjoyed a mullet fishing session in the estuary where they all enjoyed success with baited spinners. Joshua landed his first of the species a specimen of 4lb 6oz that stands a good chance of winning a Junior trophy with Combe Martin SAC. Matt Jeffery’s best mullet of the session scaled 4lb 5oz and Scott Andreis’s mullet 3lb 4oz.
