3 Apr 2017

Latest Carp catches from Stafford Moor

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The latest catches reported to me from Stafford Moor with anglers relishing the warm spring sunshine that is encouraging the carp to feed hard.

(Above) Josh Vernon who fished on Albert square up on lodge lake in under 24 hours . He had 9 fish out up to 20lb fishing with home Krill boilies.

(Above)Maddison Holdsworth with her new pb of 22lb 1oz from the dam wall on lodge lake . Maddison had 4 fish out using Sticky Baits Krill and Sticky Baits Manilla boilie’s. Maddy is only 11 years old and comes fishing with her dad Steve.
(Above) Here are the carp busters Jeff Waring and Chrissy Waring and Julie Carnell with some of there catches up on lodge lake  in a day session. They had 6 fish out today up to 20lb 4oz using good old Mainline cell boilies.

 

29 Mar 2017

New Lake at Furzebray

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At Furzebray Carp Lakes anglers are eagerly awaiting the opening of a third specimen lake at the venue. Copse Lake opens on Friday March 31st  and has an impressive population of quality carp. I asked venue owner Tony Kingdon about the new venue.

“The Copse lake is an acre and a half and stocked with approx 50 fish including 2 over 30lb and at least 8/10 20’s, all the fish have been had picked and are stunning. There is 8 swims with a max of 4 anglers at any one time, the lake can be book exclusively or on a day ticket basis.”

If catches at the Fisheries other lakes are anything to go by we should be seeing some impressive fish in the coming years.

Below are a few recent catches from Island Lake; the pictures really do all the talking of how this fishery has developed since its opening over ten years ago.

(Above) John Rose smashed his pb yesterday by 13lb when he landed Charlotte at 45lb 6oz from the Lawns swim.

(Above) Lee Philips staying in Cherry View lodge has had a great start to his week landing 3 Scales at 33lb+ within hours of casting out.

Richard Turvey enjoyed an action packed session on the venues long established Island Lake landing nine fish in a forty-eight hour session the best fish a carp known as Sovereign at a weight of 33lb.

25 Mar 2017

More carp from the Moor

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Wayne Grinney fished Stafford Moor Fishery and has hoped to catch the venues big ghost carp that has been seen on many occasions and estimated to weigh around 28-30lb but had to settle for the fishes younger brother  instead ! Wayne has been after the big ghostie for some time that appears to live in the back bays of Beattie’s  this beauty weighed 17lb 9oz using Sticky Baits 16mm Manilla boilies,

 Stafford Moor regular Steve Pinn (The BIvvy Tramp) continues to make top catches from lodge lake using good old Mainline cell boilie’s. He also takes some stunning photos of the surroundings!
25 Mar 2017

Black Magic tempts a thirty!

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Latest report from Joanne Combes at the ever prolific Stafford Moor:-

Nick Galley who was fishing here with his dad Lee Galley on the beach swim on Beattie’s this week in a 48 hour session. Nick had a personal best 13 years ago at 22lb 8oz but smashed that 4 times in 2 days here ! First he had a 25lb 8oz then after smashing his record 4 times over ended up with a 30lb 4oz beauty pictured below, using Lees home made BLACK MAGIC BAIT that he has made for years. Between them they had 11 fish out and went home very happy !

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14 Mar 2017

Great Carp sport at Stafford Moor

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The mild conditions have really brought the carp on the feed at Stafford Moor where anglers are enjoying success on both Beatties and recently reopened Lodge Lake.

(Above)Jack Lord with his 25lb 3oz catch from Beatties lake on the inlet swim using Mainline Cell boilies.
(Above)Matt Luscombe  had a new personal best of 27lb 6oz from the dam wall on Beatties Lake Matt had 2 fish out in 24 hours using good old Mainline Cell boilies.

(Above)Simon Jones who comes fishing here with friend Jon Osman. They fished up on the dam wall on lodge lake at the weekend had 6 fish out up to 22lb using Mainline cell pop ups .

Natasha Harrison with her 11lb catch from the spit on lodge lake using sticky Baits Manila boilies. Natasha had blanked at other fisheries for the last 7 times she has gone fishing so was pleased to just catch even if it wasn’t the biggest she still caught !

Steve Pinn “The BIvvy Tramp” sent me this report from the recently reopened Lodge Lake.

“These are the best of last week’s catches on Lodge lake which has been closed for most of Jan and Feb for maintenance work. We were rewarded as the first on there for some time with 21 fish between myself and ‘The Captain’ Keith Maker. I think Keith had more fish but I was delighted to get a cracking fish for Lodge lake and a pb for that lake at 25Ib 14oz plus the beautiful ‘apple slice’ mirror at 17Ib 4oz – a perfect example of how size doesn’t matter when they are that attractive. I also caught the scaley fish during that wonderful purple dawn.  Bivvy Tramp.

9 Mar 2017

Harry’s best from the Moor

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Harry Collins who is a local boy who fishes here regular , this is his new PB of 23lb 10oz caught on mainline cell boilies. Harry had 5 fish out in 24 hours from the summer house swim on Beattie’s lake.

(Below) Steve Pinn affectionately known as the Bivvy tramp enjoyed this wonderful sunrise at Stafford Moor.

7 Mar 2017

Upper Tamar – Quality carp

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(Above) 20lb 2oz common

Upper Tamar lake regular Nigel Woods has been warming up for the £3500 Pallatrax carp Open Pairs at the end of March with some stunning fish from the venue. Over two visits Nigel has banked two commons over 20lbs at 20.02 and 20.04 as well as five other smaller fish including this stunning double figure mirror and a small spawned on mirror. Its fantastic to see some stock coming through with amazing scale patterns. Nigel was using sticky baits Krill and matching wafters.

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