John Jobson enjoyed a cracking day ticket session on Beatties Lakes inlet swim , sticky krill 16mm over pellet and hemp, common 19lb then two mirrors including a personal best of 28lb 11ozs and then a mirror of 18lb12 oz.
(Below) Wayne Law banked four carp to 19lb 8oz
(Below) Jason Crawford and Alex Cole had nine carp from swims 3 and 4 up on lodge lake . They fished out in the open water and tight off the island with Sticky baits krill boilies.
Above) Paul Baker recently took his son to Anglers Eldorado to show him what a real Catfish looked like up close and they caught this 30lb Wels Catfish from the Bottom Cat and Carp Lake 2 caught on double halibut pellets.
Lovely to see Families on the bank sharing their passion of fishing with siblings – what it’s all about!
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*PB CATFISH FROM NIRVANA**
David Poolman fished Nirvana’s Day Ticket Specimen Cat Lake and managed to catch a personal best 56lb 8oz Catfish in the early hours.
David caught his PB on a soaked halibut pellet/squid pop up combination.
(Above)Angling Guide Julian Chidgey organised a Cat and Carp Camp weekend at Nirvana. The conditions were tough to say the least, they lost a few but Morgan Lloyd from Oxfordshire saved the weekend by catching his 1st ever Catfish at a whopping 60lbs 3oz and a 15lb Common both from the Specimen Cat Lake.
Julian shared –
‘Well what a weekend that was! Winds that threatened to launch bivvies into the lake, and rain that had me contemplating building an ark! The anglers who attended the Carp and Cat Camp stuck at it despite the weather, knowing that it would only take 1 bite to make the session a success. Morgan Lloyd had the first breakthrough after we spotted a 30-40lb carp top between the waves and a single hookbait cast close by soon gave a bite. Unfortunately the fish dropped off before we got to see it.
Richard and Tony also both had big fish top in front of them and the tension was clear as it felt a bite was on the cards. Morgan was the lucky one again as a single hookbait (Tor baits Squido pop up) produced a bite as darkness fell. A modest mid double common was the result but with the temperature falling and the wind having turned to a bitter North-Easterly it was good to see a fish on the bank. As first light came this morning the keen anglers stood over the rods counting down the final minutes of the session. An alarm sounded and Morgan was again the lucky angler, from the outset it was clear this was a special fish and I soon paddling out with my landing net to scoop up a very long catfish.
It was great to see the teamwork and camaraderie as we weighed and photographed the 60lb 3oz monster. As we packed away our wet gear and headed our separate ways it was great to think of the new friendships formed through a great weekend. I will definitely be organising another event for next Spring so please get in touch to reserve your place for a shot at the fish of a lifetime.’
(Above)Ryan Willshire from Bude landed this cracking 21lb 4oz scaley Mirror carp from Upper Tamar lake, near Bude on the Cornwall and Devon border. The fish was stocked in September 2017 as part of the lakes re-stocking policy which included 3 fish over 30lbs and lots of fish over 20lbs. The next stocking is in mid October this year.
(Above) Ashley Bunning had a great session on Upper Tamar Lake, on the Cornwall and Devon border. The venue regular banked 8 carp in his 48 hour session including 2 fish over 20lbs. All the fish were caught on Nashbait scopex squid boilies with the largest being a 22lb 8oz mirror.
There have been some stunning carp catches at Stafford Moor below are just a few caught recently as autumn descends.
(Below) John Jobson banked this personal best mirror carp of 28lb 1oz using Sticky Krill tipped off with sweetcorn.
(Below)Rich Powell who fished on the beach swim on Beatties lake with Andy and had 12 fish out between them up to 26lb 8oz caught out in the middle on single Sticky baits krill hook bait.
(Below)Russ Bending who fished on the summer hut swim on Beatties lake and had 4 fish out up to 28lb all caught on Sticky baits Manilla boilies well done Russ!
(Below) Michael Collyer who had this 25lb Beauty out from Swim 13 on the spit up on Lodge lake at the weekend caught on Cell boilies.
(Below) Alex Charlton fished a quick overnight session on the inlet swim on Beatties lake he had 2 out a 21lb 9oz and 17lb 11pz caught baitwork.
(Below)Mark Downing had 15 fish out up to 26lb 12oz from the inlet swim on Beatties lake all caught on C C Moore live system boilies
Woods and Ford win the Upper Tamar Pallatrax carp pairs and scoop £2000……
Nigel Woods and Richard Ford from Launceston, Cornwall, won the Pallatrax carp pairs competition at Upper Tamar Lake on the 28-30 September. They chose peg 6 which was a shallow peg and fished really well over the weekend to land 5 carp for 72lbs 10oz to scoop the £2000 top prize.
Karl and Alfie Yates (Bude) were second winning £1000 with 4 fish for 52lb 9oz and Allan Jones and Matthew Pepperell (Bude) were third winning £500 with 4 fish for 46lb 8oz.
The largest fish of the weekend was Richard Ford with a 20lb 5oz mirror carp
Jeff Pearce enjoyed a session at Stafford Moors Lodge Lake where he took these atmospheric photos and tempted a carp of 17lb 8oz.
(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.
(Below)Matt Mitchell banked three carp from Lower Tamar Lake. A fully scaled mirror at 23lbs, a common at 21.05 and another common of 16.02. The day ticket water on the Cornwall and Devon border is producing some fantastic fishing with plenty being caught….
(Below)Adrian Morgan caught this cracking 26.04 common from Melbury reservoir, near Bideford Devon, at the weekend. Adrian Found a nice hard gravel patch about 17 wraps out and baited the swim fairly heavily with a mixture of sticky baits Manila and retro baits meaty garlic/squid and octopus. A Ronnie rig with a Manila pop up soaked in king crab goo did the business.
(Above) Alex Blackburn fished up on Lodge Lake swim 3 (spit bay) and caught 14 fish all caught on Mainline cell boilies over a bed of monster particle on a snowman rig.
(Above)Michelle Truman who fished Stafford Moor with her Husband Jason who fished on the inlet swim on Beatties lake, they had 6 fish out with Michelle smashing her personal best twice ! First Michelle had a 19lb mirror then smashed it again with a 23lb 4oz beauty all caught on Mirage baits king crab tipped with fake corn.
(Below) Stuart Hutchings fished with his brother Chris on the Beach swim on Beatties lake. Stu had a few 20’s out photos below all caught on C C Moore Pacific tuna boilies 
Steve Pinn sent me this report of his success at Lakeside
LAKESIDE FULLY SCOOPS A GRAND
I’d never fished Lakeside View before so enlisted good buddy Haribo (Harry Collins) to show me around and pass on a few hints and tips.
It’s a lovely looking, reed lined lake of around 10 acres near Collumpton in sunny Devon. Had a walk around and settled on 2 neighbouring swims, 13 and 14. Not a lot was showing but a few had been out.
We settled up in the shop and added £2 each to the bill as part of the sweepstake for catching either a 30Ib common, a 35Ib fish or the ‘Big Fully’. I was expecting a new venue blank but parted with the extra dosh nonetheless.
Rods out, social on. Harry was in to fish straight away, all stunning fish from low to high 20s.
The order of the day was “dark baits tight to the island” so I HAD to have one rod on a bright peach pastel pop up about a rod length off, just to see what happened, if anything, on the first night.
We’d been getting liners all evening and after about an hours kip (with one eye open to the sound of bleeps) my peach pastel rod tore off at 2.15am.
After a lengthy, solid tussle a very scaled fish appeared on the surface in the torch light. In a daze, I said “oh, it’s a fully” to which Harry replied “It might be THE fully…..it is THE fully…..it’s the money fish….it is !!……that’s a thousand pounds!!!” That was it, we were in raptures.
The owner (Peter) comes out at all hours for ‘special’ fish and was there for the weighing and to verify that it was THE fish. It was, 28Ib 10oz of stunning fully. At first light he was back for pics and congrats.
I was in a daze for the rest of the night as the social continued. It turned out to be my only fish of the session but what a fish and what a memory.
