Combe Martin SAC – Mebers Lure Fishing Competition.
Shaun Quartly has registered three bass measuring 72cm, 60.5cm and 56cm for a three fish total of 188.5cm.
This puts him into second place behind Mark Jones who has three for 193cm.
Mark Jones. 3 bass 193.5
Shaun Quartly 3 bass 188.5
Reece Woolgar 2 bass 116
Mark Tossel 1 bass 69
A reminder that the Open Lure competition hosted with CMSAC and High Street Tackle commences on Thursda, June 29th at 00:00am.
Some absolutely amazing nets of fish at Stafford Moor where Ben Evenden took first place in last weekends open match with 293lb 12oz. In runner up spot was Nick Jones with 268lb 2oz and third Mark Cullerton with 249lb 8oz. Nick Jones won last week’s midweek Open Match at the Moor with 251lb 12oz. Runner up was Dave Parry with 221lb 4oz.
Jay Thurstans and his friend Paul fished on Beatties lake on the dam wall and inlet swim where they banked 52 fish between them up to 35lb 3oz the guys caught on CC Moore live system boilies the fish are on the munch now after all the spawning is over with !
1st Antony Smith Smoothhound 12lb 2 1/2oz 121.250%
2nd (junior) Jenson kiff Smoothhound 8lb 2oz 81.250%
3rd Richard Jefferies smoothhound 8lb 1oz 80.625%
4th (junior) Jenson kiff smoothhound 7lb 70%
Well done guys especially well done to jenson are first junior we have had In a sea competition for a long time.
Daniel Welch has been some superb boat sport off Ilfracombe ctaching some stunning wrasse using lure fishing tactics. Dans best wrasse a stunning ballan of 5lb. The sport was shared with his good friend Ross Stanway and son Solly Welch.
Combe Martin SAC member Kyle Bishop has caught a stunning thin lipped grey mullet of 5lb 3oz from the Taw estaury using fly fishing tactics. The fish is superb specimen in its own right but even more special having being tempted on fly fishing tactics pioneered by Colin Macloud.
“Great day on my boat with Craig Crafty Mcloughlin 
Sun flat sea & no easterlies for a change
Had 3 shark trips now but doing more lure fishing as well in between sharking
Landed this beauty 70cm plus & it went like hell on my slash 28g lure rod what a fight won’t forget that in a hurry!!!! C&R”
Mark now has three bass totalling 193cm
Reece Woolgar has two for 116cm
Mark Tossel one for 69cm
Oli Dietrich enjoyed a succesful recent trip to Lower Tamar lake where he tempted two 20lb+ carp and a stunning 12lb personal best bream on his home made baits.
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Inspired by tales of the past gleaned from old fishing books, the author sets out to fish those same waters, to cast the same flies on the same pools, to explore how fishing the streams of Exmoor might compare with fishing them over a century ago, whether those streams have changed and how they might be faring today. Exmoor rivers and streams appear pristine, barely changed since Claude Wade described them in his 1903 book Exmoor Streams, yet the numbers of trout he and other long-ago writers reported catching seem unbelievable today. Those streams must once have held an astonishing abundance of fish.
Modern problems affect even upland streams, yet many good folk are dedicated to their restoration and there is much we can do to help. River conservation work can be fascinating and rewarding as we develop a deeper understanding of river habitats through, for example, managing a balance of light and shade, monitoring aquatic invertebrates and cleaning riverbed spawning gravels then watching for their use when migratory salmon return home from the sea.
Those nail-booted, greenheart wielding fishermen of the past have gone but the streams still run on their wild ways, singing their endless songs to the moor. This book is for all who share concern for the wellbeing and conservation of our rivers and streams as well as those entranced by the rise of a trout to a well placed fly.
