Combe Martin SAC member Ali Laird has been out on the shoreline enjoying late spring sport with ray and smoothound. He has just registered this specimen small eyed ray of 10lb 5oz and a smoothound of 9lb 13oz.
COMBE MARTIN SAC – Lure Competition Update
Reece Woolgar has extended his lead in Combe Martin SAC’s Lure fishing league catching his second bass of 59cm. Giving him a total of 116cm for two bass. The league winner is the one with the best length for three bass. The competition is sponsored by HIgh Street Tackle Ilfracombe and is free to club members.
At the end of June HIgh Street Tackle are hosting an Open lure fishing competition in conjunction with CMSAC. Further details to be announced soon. See poster below and comment from Danny Watson.
I am really pleased that High Street Tackle are able to be behind this competition again this year….don’t forget to come and see us for all of your needs.
For those that haven’t been before, for a long time or maybe you just didn’t know, from our humble beginnings High Street Tackle is now one of the top bass lure fishing shops in the UK. With even more continuing growth and expansion planned this year.
We stock a massive selection of absolutely everything you need from all of the best European and Japanese brands and for two of them carry the largest selection in the UK. With some items not available anywhere else.
Please feel free to discuss any requirements – we are always happy to open out of hours by arrangement whenever possible.
Follow the High Street Tackle pages on Facebook and Instagram to stay informed of the latest deliveries…
Good luck to everyone that enters and for anyone thinking about it, just do it – this format allows for greater chances of winning than the single biggest fish.
SEA ANGLING HOTS UP FOR SUMMER
Combe Martin SAC Member Shane Pavio Hookway has enjoyed recent success at marks further up the Bristol Channel tempting a fine bass of 9lb 15oz on Teign baits peeler crab and a small eyed ray of 8lb 12oz tempted on Teign baits Pilchard.
( Below) Combe Martin SAC member Reece Woolgar has got off the mark in Combe Martin SAC’s Lure Fishing competition league catching a bass of 57cm.
(Above) Combe Martin SAC Junior member Charlie Stanway caught a fine specimen ballan wrasse of 4lb 15.5oz. He also tempted a 6oz corkwing wrasse (below) both colourful fish were tempted on peeler crab.
Bideford Angling Club Sea May Rover results
1st Stephen Found Smalleyed Ray 10lb 8oz 116.666%
2nd Richard Jefferies Blonde Ray 9lb 4oz 77.083%
3rd Terry Dymond smoothhound 7lb 4oz 72.5%
Appledore Shipbuilders May Rover
11 Anglers fished the May Rover
Jazza John took first place with a Specimen Smoothound of 10lb 14ozs
Second place went to Andrew Atkinson with another Smoothound of 8lb 11ozs.
Third was Terry Dymond with a Smoothound of 7lb 3ozs.
Combe Martin SAC PUTSBOROUGH OPEN 2023 –
Shore Specimen tope and ray
Shore caught specimen fish have been scarce for the past couple of months. Combe Martin SAC member Jamie Steward made the effort to get out and registered a fine tope of 36lb 10oz and small eyed ray of 12lb 13oz. Jamie has been busy raising funds for the Ilfracombe RNLI and has orgnanised two superb raffles for North Devon’s anglers. The second raffle for sea anglers will be announced shortly. The first sold out raffle raised over £250.
Most of our friends and family are aware that Jamie almost lost his life recently (15/10/2022) to the sea whilst out fishing.
If not for the efforts of RNLI Ilfracombe and the Coastguard search and rescue helicopter Jamie would not be here today.
We can not express how thankful we are, and to show our gratitude we will be raising funds for RNLI Ilfracombe by participating in The Lake District 100km Ulitmate challenge on the 10th and 11th June 2023.
We will be walking 100km continuously.
In order to raise as much as possible towards alongside of our challenge we will be doing some fishing related raffles.
The RNLI risk their lives to save ours, please help us raise some money to support them too.
For those not wishing to participate in the raffles but who would like to sponsor us, our just giving page has been added to this fb page.
All proceeds from all raffles will be going to our RNLI just giving page and proof of this will be provided when the money is transferred.
Thank you again RNLI Ilfracombe from the bottom of my heart for saving Jamie, because of you, my children still have their Father, I still have my husband, his brother still has his brother and his parents still have their son
SEA ANGLING RESULTS
Combe Martin SAC Spring Rover competition was won by Martin Hunton who caught a fine specimen blonde ray scaling 17lb 5oz. The fish was the best of several ray caught by members fishing out of Minehead aboard Steve Webbers boat Osprey.
Runner up in the clubs competition was Ollie Passmore with a fine bull huss scaling 9lb 10oz.
The members who fished on the boat caught several ray, including thornbacks and blondes. A few smoothound and plenty of dogfish were also boated.
Bideford Angling Club – 48 Hour Rover
( Below) 1st Stephen Found Small-eyed Ray 9lb 3oz 102.083%
(Below) 2nd Andrew Clements Smalleyed Ray 8lb 9 1/4oz 95.312%
First bass of the 2023 Lure Season
Combe Martin SAC member Mark Jones was pleased to catch his first lure caught bass of the year. The club are working with High Street Tackle to promote a Lure Fishing Competition in Late June when the season will be well underway.
Big huss for CMSAC member
Martin Hunton tempted a specimen huss of 13lb during a recent trip to the shoreline.
SEA ANGLING RESULTS
Bideford Angling Club
March Rover results
1st Andrew Clements Smalleyed Ray 9lb 5oz 103.472%
2nd Nathan Clements Bull Huss 7lb 3 3/4oz 72.343%
Combe Martin SAC
SPRING ROVER
1st Wayne Thomas – Thick lipped grey mullet 3lb
COMBE MARTIN SAC – Six Hour Rover Result
David Brooke secured top spot in Combe Martin SAC’s six hour rover landing a spurdog of 9lb 12oz. Runner up was Daniel Welch with a dogfish of 2lb 6oz. A cold North East Wind made conditions difficult at many marks along the coast. Several Bull Huss and large numbers of dogfish were landed by club members who have their early Spring Rover next weekend.
