Carp and cats from Paradise

ELDORADO SUCCESS FOR JOE!
5C’s member Joe Dietrich had a great overnight session on Anglers Eldorado’s Cat and Carp 2 catching 6 Carp to 24lb 6oz and a mid twenty Cat!
Joe shared –
“Was nice to get out on the banks again last night even though it was a very wet one! Had a nice scaley mirror of 21lb 12oz and then a nice common of 24lb 6oz to finish a busy night off nicely! 6 carp and a mid 20 cat. First night for a few weeks! No pics of the rest as was hammering it down and dark!”
Anglers Paradise

Mainline Carp Pair Open Competition Final Results

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💥Mainline Comp Final Results 💥
Well what an end to the final Mainline Comp of the year. Within hours of the final sounding of the horn, six pegs had a chance of winning the top prize of £2000. 15 pairs from the 27 entry recorded fish. Well done to everyone taking part.
Results:
1st: £2000 Peg 19. 46Ib 5oz Matt Pepperel & Chris Hudson.
2nd: £1000 Peg 31. 44Ib 7oz Dan Hole & Jack Chillingworth.
3rd: £500 Peg 30. 41Ib 12oz John Kneebone & Wayne Bateman.
4th: Porth Permits Peg 32. 40Ib 9oz Ashley Bunning & Scott Cooper.
Biggest Fish: Peg 1. 16Ib 15oz Barry Lee & Darren Jeffrey.
Smallest Fish: Peg 24. 6Ib 3oz Harry Miles & George Perkins.
Section 1 Winners: Peg 6. 37Ib 5oz Dean & Dave Willoughby.
Section 2 Winners: Peg 14. 29Ib 11oz Peter Oates & Kris Ingiszi.
Section 3 Winners: Peg 24. 6Ib 3oz Harry Miles & George Perkins.
Section 4 Winners: Peg 28. 10Ib 12oz Paul Hedger & Mark Pallet.
Big thank you to our Sponsor’s, Mainline Baits and John Kneebone.
Big thank you also to our volunteer marshal’s, Gary, Laura, Mark E, Mark B, Ken. Without these people giving up their weekend, this competition could not run.
Also thank you to all the angler’s that took part, you all made it an exciting competition.
Next Comp 21st, 22nd, 23rd March 2025 look forward to seeing you all. Mervyn.

Stafford Moor Carp Catches

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Barry Smyth & Steve banked 14 carp between them  on Lodge Lake swims 2 & 3.  Barry landing new pb 31lb! All caught on Sticky baits Manilla boilies over a bed of house pellets.

(below) Ryan Turner & friends fished up on Lodge lake for 48 hrs lots of fish between them biggest being 31lb 14oz from swim 1 , 3 & 5 all caught on a mixture of Mainline baits & Sticky baits.

(Below) Jack Burrett who travelled all the way from Norfolk to fish Beatties Lake, Jack had 33 Carp from the Inlet Swim over 4 nights, with the biggest being 31lb 2oz.

 

Mainline Baits Pairs competition – Friday 19 July – Sunday 21st July 2024

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Mainline Baits Pairs competition – Friday 19 July – Sunday 21st July 2024 The Mainline Baits Carp Pairs competitions are held at our fantastic 81-acre fishery, Upper Tamar Lake. This is a fun, friendly competition, open to all, with some fantastic prizes up for grabs!  The competition is limited to 34 pairs so book your place now to avoid disappointment 👇https://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/mainline-baits-carp-open-pairs-competitions or 01566 771930 1st Prize – £2000 2nd Prize – £1000 3rd Prize –  £500 There are also prizes for biggest fish and section winners up for grabs.  Each person who enters will get a goody bag with some fantastic Mainline products inside.  All tackle and equipment is transported to and from your swim. There is also a full menu for the weekend with food delivered directly to your swim!

Stafford Moor’s over 50’s Festival 2024

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Stafford Moor’s over 50’s Festival 2024 and the worthy winner was…Doug Richardson with a total of 5 points and a total weight 901lb 4oz!
In 2nd place was Nigel Rhodes with 5 points and a total weight of 834lb 14oz.
In 3rd place was Lee Werrett with 5 points and a total weight of 762lb 5oz .
The winner of the largest bag of the week was Nigel Rhodes with 311lb 10oz on day 4 from peg 20 in Tanners lake.
The winner of the largest silvers bag was Dave Stockton with 68lb 4oz on day 5 from peg 1 on Woodpecker lake.
Jo says “Wow been another fab week, hope everyone enjoyed the week 🙏 thank you for your support as always ❤️
A huge shout out to all the guys who helped weigh in all week who were:
Mark layzell
Lee Werrett
Nick Jones
Nigel Rhodes
And also everyone who helped with the boards your help is soooooooooo appreciated !”

Mainline Baits Carp Open Pairs Competitions

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The Mainline Baits Carp Pairs competitions are held at our 81 acre fishery, Upper Tamar Lake. The competitions are generously sponsored by carp fishing giants Mainline Baits.

There is £3,500 in prize money from South West Lakes Trust for each competition. Each person who enters will get a goody bag with some fantastic Mainline products inside.

This year there is an exciting new rule change regarding the way the final results are taken. This year, instead of all the fish a pair catch being weighed in and this being your final result, the three biggest fish from each pair will be added together and this will be your final result. So, any fish that are smaller than the three biggest a pair has caught already through the competition can be put back straight away and do not require weighing in. But if a fish is bigger than your previous three recorded fish then it will be weighed in. This way it will make the competition more open to anyone winning.

All tackle and equipment is transported to and from your swim. There is also a full menu for the weekend with food delivered directly to your swim!

2024 dates:

  • Friday 19 July to Sunday 21 July
  • Friday 4 October to Sunday 6 October

The competition is limited to 34 pairs. You can book your place online below.

For further information contact us on 01566 771930 or [email protected]

The latest from Bulldog Fishery

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Below is a post from Bulldog Fisherys near Barnstaple  who appear to have been victim to the scurge of keyboard warriors on Social media. The internet and social media spread gossip and false stories rapidly and those who fail to catch often invent the craziest of tales to explain their lack of success. I once fished a lake where nobody caught and was told that the water had been spiked with soap to put the fish off the feed! There are a thousand and one reasons why fish are not caught and the vast majority are simply bad angling.
Clearing up a few rumuors a post from Nigel Early at Bulldog 

Good morning everyone! It has come to our attention that a couple rumours regarding our carp lake have been circulating the local anglers.  Now, we don’t usually pay any attention to the general gossip/drama that inevitably takes place in the industry. However, we have now received contact from several concerned anglers asking what happened. So to avoid having to explain countless times we’d like to set the record straight…

Word has been spread that whilst we drained/netted the lake to extract the bream last month, we had some sort of disaster resulting in a lot of fish dying or not being returned to the lake. THIS IS TOTAL RUBBISH!
Whilst the work was taking place, the only issue we encountered was that the lake didn’t drain out quite as planned, a definite inconvenience at the time but far from a disaster.
We can say with 100% certainty that every carp removed from our lake was returned with ZERO casualties! With the exception of 5 fish that we decided wasn’t up to the standard we wanted for the lake. These 5 fish are being replaced as of November this year.
Please feel free to share this post as much as possible to help squish these daft rumors that I can only imagine have come from an industrial size game of whispers!
We look forward to the constant progress the fishery is on! And can’t wait to see what the future holds 🎣🎣

🎣 Tight lines everyone

( Above) Ongoing improvements
The latest twenty

(Below) there’s plenty of trout between 2lb and 5lb being caught from the trout lakes.