Jason McEvoy finished his first Melbury session with this stunning 24lb common carp!
Melbury Carp Session
Tim Thornton sent South West Lakes Trust this cracking catch report from his recent session at Melbury (happy birthday Tim).
‘Birthday session at Melbury Reservoir in Devon. The session started off very promising with the ghost koi low double being the first capture.
Then disaster struck and I pulled out of three decent carp on the trot. One was a chunk. That’s fishing.
Then at midnight my middle rod ripped off and a pristine hard fighting twenty common was later in the net. Another of 18+ followed. A great venue in fantastic surroundings.
All the bites came to either DNA baits SLK wafters or milky malt dumbell wafters over a bed of SLK boilies
Great to share the session with my mate Terry Reed.
Thank you South west lakes, I will Definitely be back!’
North Devon Tackle AC Match at Melbury
North Devon Tackle AC Match at Melbury
Andrew Gratton won the Match with corn/feeder tactics for 34lb 5oz,
Norman Martin was 2nd with 31lb 8oz on maggot feeder…Wayne Mitchell 3rd 15lb 2oz..Pete Seaward 4th 13lb 12oz….
Norman Martin banked 3 roach over 1lb… biggest 1lb12oz
Stunning carp from trusty waters
Some stunning carp from North Devons trusty South West Lakes carp waters!
(Below) Carl Watkins had this beauty from Lower Tamar yesterday. ‘25.2 caught with a single 14mm vitalbaits kraken pop up over 18mm kraken freebies soaked in vitalbaits robin red and black squid, and salmon protein hydrolysate‘.
(Below)Karl Yates had a cracking session on Melbury at the weekend. 6 fish to 23.10 with three over 20lb!
(Below)Mervyn Beale has been back on Upper Tamar and rewarded with this lovely 21lb Mirror and 16lb Common yesterday. 20mm Nash Scopex Squid boilie doing the trick for Merv with a 5 bait stringer.
(Below) Tim Surridge has this 20lb common from Upper Tamar on his first visit to the venue. Tim also caught two more to just over 16lbs. Fishing the lookout swim with Cornwall Baits red seed and special occasion boilies.
MELBURY CARP CATCHES
Aaron Jones! Aaron sent this catch report to us. ‘cracking 24 hour session on Melbury ended up with a 16lb common and a target fish “the Crafthole Common ” at a great winter weight of 24.5lb. Fished over a kilo of 20mm Scopex squid and Lee’s Leads’.
More Melbury Gold for Lee Watts
Lee Watts has been at it again at Melbury, this time catching this beautiful mirror at 23lb 9oz. Successful tactics included his own Lee’s leads and a test bait fishing at 23 wraps on a multi rig.
Trusty Waters have much to offer – Upper Tamar and Melbury producing some stunners.
It’s been a relatively mild winter so far and this has ensured consistent action with the regions carp. South West Lakes Trust waters have much to offer the keen angler who relishes the slightly wilder feel of these waters that hold some stunning carp. In contrast to many of the smaller commercial lakes anglers have the opportunity to choose their swims and fish without the competition for swims often experienced on popular heavily stocked commercials.
Ryan Willshire banked this 20lb14oz mirror from Upper Tamar in the last 24 hours. Great way to start 2020! Mainline Baits IB boilie over monster particle was the successful combination.
(Below) Lee Watts sent us in this catch report from the last couple of days: ‘Great session on Melbury with Aaron Jones nice way to finish the year with a few crackers, great to see Arron using a new cog lead to great affect at 180 yards! I also managed catching on a new test bait. My two mirrors were 24lb and 19lb and Aaron had 5 fish with 4 low double commons and cracking 13lb mirror!
Melbury Carp
Aaron Jones continues his fine run of form on Melbury with this 19.06 common. Nash scopex squid doing the business again!
MELBURY RESERVOIR CARP
Aaron Jones sent us in this catch report from Melbury at the weekend. ‘After work session on melbury Friday night produced these 4 lovely carp to 18.14lb, all caught using Nash scopex squid off of the pre baited spot. 2 large hand fulls of 18mm baits over the spot after each capture kept them feeding’. Nice one Aaron…
Aaron Jones did a quick overnight session at Melbury and had been hauling again!!! Aaron said ‘After my Friday night session I decided to have another go last night and again they kept coming, all fish caught off the same pre baited spot of Nash scopex squid again topping up after each fish with 2 large handfuls of 18mm baits’. Aaron’s fish were 20lb 3oz, 17lb 4oz, 17lb and a low double.
TRUSTY WATERS YIELD CARP A PLENTY
Ben Smeeth Updates from trusty waters.
Update from Sam Gilhespy on his Upper Tamar campaign… cracking stuff thanks Sam…
Well at the beginning of August Jordan John Marsh & I decided to do a year campaign on Upper Tamar lake….
So far the campaign has got off to an absolute flyer, resulting in 43 fish 14 of which were 20s and one very special Upper Tamar gem!!
We never imagined 2 sessions would have kicked off and produced the amount of fish we have had so far. After putting a lot of time and effort into the lake, Me & Jordan have located some very frequently visited feeding spots which have produced fish that I have been waiting for, for over 10 years.
The variety and quality of the fish we have caught over these recent sessions are , in our opinion, second to none . Let’s hope there are plenty more surprises to come in the months ahead. Majority of fish have been caught on Nash scopex squid boilies.
Winter opening hours Tamar tackle shop.
From now till mid March our well stocked on site shop will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 8 AM- 4:30 PM
(Above) Aaron Jones had an Epic 12 hour session after work on Melbury Friday night in the storm packing up at 6am before getting blown away!
Aaron caught single scale at 24.8lb and a mint common at 22lb and also lost 2.
All fish taken off a pre baited area on Nash 20mm scopex squid.