Jansen Teakle manager at Veal’s Mail Order made a trip from the Bristol area to fish the North Devon coast and was rewarded with a fine tope off 37lb 10oz. The fish was successfully landed using Varivas catfish hooks as featured in my recent news story regarding Kevin Legge.
Jack Pike landed this stunning 52lb tope whilst fishing with his father Kevin who boated a 45lb 8oz that was reported on here yesterday. The fish sets a new boat record for Appledore Shipbuilders beating the old record of 46lb that was caught by the late Ralph Atkinson.
Kevin Pike fished Morte Bay in his own boat to land ten tope in three hours. All of the fish were tempted on pollock hook baits the biggest a fine hard fighting fish of 45lb 8oz.
Ammo baits and Veals mail order gear at work on Reel Deal Charters a tope estimated at 40lb made a great start to a recent day afloat.
Sarah Towel landed this cracking tope estimated at 45lb when fishing on Ilfracombe Charter Boat ‘Reel Deal’ skippered by Dan Hawkins.
Cameron Atkinson won Appledore Shipbuilders latest Boat Competition with a fine tope of 35lb 4oz. In runner up spot was Michael Hammett with a tope of 33lb. Third place was taken by Michael Toogood with a bull huss of 10lb 4oz.
Anglers have been enjoying some rod bending action off Ilfracombe and Combe Martin with tope,conger and bull huss.
Anglers have been enjoying some fine sport with tope numbers increasing as mackerel shoals move into the Bristol Channel. Dan Hawkins took a part of anglers into Combe Martin Bay as a strong westerly blew up Channel and managed to find several quality tope.
Summer boat sport is on the up Off Ilfracombe where Dan Welch and Ross Stanway enjoyed some superb fishing relishing the calm conditions with North Devons spectacular coastline as a backdrop. Many thanks to Dan for sharing these stunning images.
Tope are starting to show in increasing numbers offshore. To target these hard fighting fish book a trip aboard Reel Deal as Chidgy did recently when he boated this hard fighting tope.
