The Boilie Mad Man brought this stunning porbeagle to the side of Reel Deal, she was 223lb tagged and released all in the water. An awesome catch who knows what else will show this coming summer!
ITS MORE REEL DEAL SHARK ACTION
Fishing at 90 years young!
1ST EVER CAT AT 90 YEARS OLD!!!
To see kids fish and get the buzz for fishing it’s pretty special but at the other end of the scale, when you hear a 90 year old man has caught his 1st Ever Catfish – now thats VERY SPECIAL!!
Here’s John Coates, who at an amazing age of 90 Years, has just caught his 1st ever Catfish from the Easy Access at 20lbs!!
WELL DONE JOHN – THIS IS WHAT MAKES THIS SPORT SO GREAT – FISHING FOR ALL AGES!!
Stunning Carp from South West Lakes Trust Water
Ben Smeeth of South West lakes Trust sent me these stunning pictures of carp from Squabmoor Reservoir near Exmouth. Whilst its not North Devon they are stunning images that I couldn’t resist posting.
Terry Reid has been in the action at Squabmoor reservoir near Exmouth, Devon, with this fantastic fully scaled mirror at just under 30lbs. Terry used a Pallatrax crave double pop up fished in 14 feet of water on a size 6 Korda Kurve hook with a stringer over a bed of crushed crave boilies. Top angling Terry! What a fish!
Kind regards
Ben Smeeth
Angling Technical lead for South West Lakes Trust
Countryside and Angling Manager – Cornwall
Squabmoor Reservoir, Budleigh Salterton, Devon EX9 7AS
Squabmoor is one of the leading specimen waters in the South West. It is situated on Woodbury Common which is a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). There are lily pads situated around the lake and the depths vary greatly from one end of the lake to the other. There are 15 immaculate swims, many of which have been created by the bailiffs. The main target are carp to 36lbs which are truly stunning with the average size around the 20lb mark. The mirror carp are the original old style fish with a really dark complexion and large scales. 17 carp to 23lbs were stocked in 2015 from Lana Springs Fish Farm. Whilst carp are the main target there is a real mix of other specimens with Tench to 6lbs, Bream to 10lbs, Roach over 2lbs, eels to 6lbs and Perch to 3lbs.
SPRING BROWNS AT BLAKEWELL
David Flynn from Bickington fished at Blakewell to land a fine brace of handsome brown trout scaling 4lb and 4lb 8oz.
Furzebray – Three superb lakes
We are certainly spoilt for choice when it come to carp fishing in North Devon and Furzebray has matured into a fine carp fishery with three fine lakes to fish, Below are a few pictures to whet the appetite!
Some nice fish coming out the Copse lake, Arron Rundal had a cracking session on there landing 9 fish in total between 5lb and a lake record at 31.08
(Above) Copse Lake Fish caught by Arron Rundal
(Above)And from Island Lake Tom Collingridge landed his new PB this weekend!!!! Blackspot at a great weight of 37.06
(Above) A Copse lake beauty for Paul Holmes
KRACKING CARP FROM PARADISE!
The latest new from Zenia at Anglers Paradise. A chance to bank a huge carp on a day ticket!
HAT TRICK FROM THE KRACKING Carp Lake!
Graham Kelly, 36 from Tiverton joined us for the 1st time to fish the Kracking Carp Lake.
AS many of you know, this Lake is challenging but to come here for the first time and to catch all 3 bites (let alone get 3 bites) is not something we hear often!!
Graham had one hell of a session, resulting in him catching a hat trick of Mirrors – 20lbs, 25lbs and 35lbs!!
Graham fished from Peg 2, used sweetcorn and pellet with a simple in-line lead set up, and the moral of the story is – keep it simple – it works!
HUGE CONGRATS GRAHAM!!
SPURDOG PACKS STILL PROWLING THE DEEPS
Andrew Atkinson landed the biggest spurdog of the day at 15lb 6oz when Appledore Shipbuilders fished on John Barbeary’s Bluefin off Ilfracombe. The spurdog packs are still present in good numbers providing welcome sport.
Appledore Shipbuilders – Easter Competition
Andrew Atkinson won Appledore Shipbuilders Easter Competition fished at Appledore Rocks in the lower estuary with a flounder scaling 1lb 41/2oz.
Stafford Moor – Sunday Open – Double Ton
Stafford Moors Open match on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes, had a continental pay out . The day commenced with glorious sunshine and then bitter cold and cloudy in the afternoon Despite this lakes fished well especially Woodpecker !!!! A big well done to Phil Hardwick who bagged a fabulous weight of 255lb 6oz from peg 17 on Woodpecker fishing 8mm pellet fishing the Pole up the edge.
2nd place was: Martin Heard (Mosella) peg 11 Tanners with 124lb 4oz
3rd place was : Mark Layzelle peg 11 on Woodpecker with 190lb 4oz
4th place was : Tim Hagg peg 20 on Tanner with 91lb
5th place was :Paul Morris peg 1 on Woodpecker with 139lb
6th place was: Boz Phillips peg 25 on Tanner with 86lb 14oz
Our silvers winner of the day was Peter Randall with 31lb 8oz from peg 34 on Tanners
Spring Ray dominate Rover
James Thomas won Combe Martin Sea Angling Clubs Spring Rover with a specimen small eyed ray weighing 11lb 13oz. James father Wayne Thomas took second and third places with a small eyed ray scaling 9lb 10oz and blonde ray of 14lb 2oz. The fish were all caught off Minehead aboard Steve Webber’s boat Osprey. The clubs party landed around 25 ray, small eyed, thornback and blonde ray. They also landed smoothound, bull huss and dogfish.
Shore anglers in the competition landed several quality fish the best and fourth place in the competition went to Daniel Welch who landed a small ray of 9lb 5oz. This bodes well for the clubs open competition at Putsborough beach next month.
