Steve Elsbury, 34 from Holsworthy has been putting in the hours fishing Nirvana’s Kracking Carp Lake in the mission to beat his previous Personal Best 38lb Common that he caught from the Lake back in June…
Well, the saying – “Good things come to those that wait…or bait!!” – is TRUE!!
Steve has only gone and beaten that 38lb Common with a 41lb Mirror known as the ‘Z FISH’ as it has a Z Scar on it’s side.
Steve shared –
“After many a thoughtful night, I finally managed my second personal best carp from Anglers Paradise. The fish fell for a cr1 pop up fished over a large bed of cr1 boilie, hybrid curve shank hooks holding strong as always.”
Steve Pinn (Aka) The Bivvy Tramp combines his hobby of carp fishing with photography and captures some stunning images that are the true essence of the sport.
Fishing Friends Scott Brown, Damien Hicks, Colin, Chris Jones and Girlfriend Leslie came down from different parts of the Country to Fish our Day Ticket Venue Nirvana, let’s just say…there was quite a lot of heavy dew during their session but at least it also rained Cats and Carp for them too!!
Scott Shared –
“All Summer I have been counting down the days for our trip to the Nirvana Day Ticket Complex at Anglers Paradise in Devon. Myself, Chris, Leslie, Damien and Colin arrived and set our traps hoping for a similar outcome to last year’s trip.
Zyg says it never rains in Devon – well on this occasion I’m afraid he was telling porky pies, it chucked it down! But never the less the, Lakes still produced a few corkers!
I managed a 30lb 3oz catfish and a 22lb 5oz mirror as well as three smaller but chunky carp, all my fish coming to Finforce baits. Chris Jones got the biggest of the trip a 51lb 1oz Catfish all from the Specimen Cat Lake and Damien managed a 29lb Common from the Kracking Carp Lake. Leslie and Colin bagged up on Orfe and Rudd whilst trying a bit of float fishing but unfortunately didn’t manage to get amongst the bigger ones this time.
Great trip had by all and I look forward to our next adventure as a group”.
FISHING, FRIENDS AND FUN, ENJOYING THE SPORT TOGETHER – WELL DONE GUYS!
Jason Shipway and his son Liam landed 23 fish in a 48 hour session from the beach swim on Beattie’s lake. They were both using Mainline cell Boilies. Jason had a new personal best 30lb 2oz carp. Liam had a new personal best of 27lb. They both had a fabulous session here.
Zenia at Anglers Paradise is successfully trying to get more women interested in fishing and having some success as can be seen from her latest post below,
ANOTHER NEW LADY ANGLER ENJOYING THE SPORT!
As you know, we LOVE to see more Women on the banks enjoying FISHING!!
Here is a lady that does just that! Emily Wearden, 35 from Abingdon in Oxfordshire has only been fishing for a year and joined us last week with her partner James and caught 2 Personal Bests – a 5lb 11oz Koi from the Koi Lake off the top on Dog Biscuits and a 9lb Mirror from the Beginners Carp Lake on a Pineapple Wafter, her partner James Durkin also caught a Personal Best 3lb 8oz Koi from the Float Lake on a pop up.
Emily Shared –
“We have just come back from a fantastic week at Anglers Paradise. Your family/staff have done a great job on not only the fishing lakes, but also the accommodation. We came down for James 40th Birthday and can’t wait to come back next year.
I have only been fishing for about a 1 year, I am now 35 years old and love fishing!”
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC EMILY – KEEP UP THE GREAT ANGLING AND PASSION FOR FISHING!
(Below)BIGGEST EVER KOI BUT NO SCALES TO WEIGH IT!
Steven Blackburn, 39 from Liverpool joined Anglers Paradise for a week with the lads for some fishing and fun and on their last day they decided to go back to the Koi Lake to see if they could catch one of the bigger ones…
Well Steve did catch one of the bigger ones but he forgot his scales to see exactly how big it was!! But, it definitely looks bigger than 8lb+!!
Steven shared –
“I was free lining using the soft floating biscuits from your tackle shop, I was fishing just a few feet from the bank around the Lillies to the left as you enter the lake from the foot path. After throwing in a few freebies to get them confidently feeding I chucked in my hook bait and next thing I know this massive head slowly comes up through the water and sucks it in. I couldn’t believe my luck. All the way through the fifteen minute fight to get it in I was constantly saying ‘please don’t come off, please don’t come off”
We ended up doing two days on the Koi Lake, easily the best fishing experience I’ve had to date.”
(Below)Oli Dietrich caught this fine carp of 24lb from the complex xanadu on #robinbaits.
Ian Grant fished Stafford Moors Beatties Lake to land 33 carp in a 48hour session up to 28lb 6oz. He tempted the fish using Mainline Cell Boilies. On leaving the fishery he told Joanne Combe that he had never landed so many carp in that space of time and went home cream crackered.
(Above)Paul Evans had a few fish up to 24lb 11oz from the inlet swim on Beattie’s lake using baitworks and Mainline cell & Hybrid boilies.
(Above)Adam Hilton and daughter Isla.(Below) They had 5 fish from the back bays on Beattie’s using Sticky Baits Manilla Boilies.
(Below) Simon Sweet who was here with friend Jeff watts. They fished the first double swim up on lodge lake on the dam wall. They had 4 fish out using Mainline doucey crab and cell.
(Below) Regular Steve Pinn with a fine common carp caught on on the new Uberbait’s Uberkrab.
RAINING CATS AND CARP ON THE SPECIMEN CAT LAKE!
(Above)Adam Hilton and daughter Isla.(Below) They had 5 fish from the back bays on Beattie’s using Sticky Baits Manilla Boilies.
