25 Mar 2025

Mainline carp Competition – Final Update

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 Mainline Comp. Final Update 💥
Well what a Competition this turned out to be, within 40 minutes of the horn sounding, Dave Bellew on peg 16 was of the mark with a double take, 21Ib 3oz Common, 11Ib 7oz Mirror.
Then the Bunning brothers Aaron & Ashley, on peg 31 landed a cracking 20Ib 5oz Common.
Peg 32 was of the mark, Pete Oates & Kris Ingiszi 19Ib 3oz.
Pegs 1, 2, 16, 30, 31, and 32 seemed to be dominating the race for the first prize of £2000.
The ever consistent Nigel Woods got of to late start, typical of Nigel landing a 18Ib 3oz Common in the last 15mins of the Comp.
Matt Pepperell & Chris Hudson joined in the race for the prize money, landing a cracking 21Ib 2oz Mirror, with 20mins to go.
Seven 20Ib plus fish were caught during this exciting Mainline Competition.
Competition results below.
1st: £2000 Peg 31. Aaron & Ashley Bunning 61Ib
2nd: £1000 Peg 1. Nigel Woods 55Ib 9oz.
3rd: £500 Peg 30. Matt Pepperell & Chris Hudson, 47Ib 13oz.
4th: £250 Peg 32. Pete Oates & Kris Ingiszi. 42Ib 12oz.
5th: 24hr Permits Peg 16. Dave Bellew.
Biggest Fish. Peg 32. Pete Oates & Kris Ingiszi 23Ib 9oz Common.
Smallest Fish. Peg 16 Dave Bellew 5Ib 1oz Common.
Section 1: Peg 2. Tony Johns & Andy Byrne. 31Ib 8oz.
Section 2: Peg 13. Kris Harrison & Trev Island 20Ib 9oz.
Section 3: Peg 18. Dave & Dean Willoughby. 18Ib 10oz.
Section 4: Peg 26. Rich Harman & Richie Eaton. 10Ib 8oz.
Big thank you to all that took part, thank you John Kneebone and Mainline Baits for once again sponsoring the event.
A massive thank you to our volunteer marshal’s. Ken Sampson, Iain Ross, Matt Bennett, Bob Davey who gave up there time.
Also a big thank you to Dil & Mark who helped with the transport.
Thank you to our Head of Fisheries Leon Fisher, who kept the food flowing throughout the event.
Next Mainline Comp 25th, 26th, 27th July 2025.
21 Jul 2024

The Mainline Baits Open Carp Match at Upper Tamar

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 Final Results July Mainline Competition. 
Friday 11am arrived, the draw for the July Mainline Comp was completed, all anglers were transported to their swims. The mood amongst the anglers was upbeat and raring to go.
The horn was sounded at 2pm for the start of the competition, around 15:45 the phone rang, fish been caught peg 12 Dave Bellew with a cracking 22Ib 6oz Mirror, within minutes the phone was ringing again, this time peg 14 Dan Hole & Jack Chillingworth 18Ib 15oz Mirror.
Things went a little quiet until around 19:00 when peg 14 had another fish, followed swiftly with peg 12 recording its second fish.
Former winner Nigel Woods fishing peg 10 recorded his first fish of the day. The Devon bank seemed to be dominating the competition with peg’s 10, 12, & 14 producing the fish. This carried on into the late evening.
Saturday morning arrived with fish being caught on the Cornwall bank, but still pegs 10,12,14 dominating the leader board.
Saturday evening arrived and the leader board was very close with six pegs recording 3 recorded fish. During Saturday late evening 11 fish were recorded and the leader board was still very close.
Aaron & Liam Jones were on 2 fish and not far behind the leaders.
Sunday morning arrived and peg 14 was in the lead with peg 12 second and peg 10 3rd. Nigel Woods peg 10 starting catching and there was 6oz’s between second and third place.
Aaron & Liam Jones peg 27 were unlucky losing 2 fish in the last hour. With 10 minutes to go Nigel Woods, peg 10, landed 23Ib 14oz fish putting himself into second place 15oz’s behind the leader. Top weights were recorded by 8 pegs making it an exciting competition. Out of the 18 pegs drawn only 2 pegs did not record any fish. Over 50 fish were recorded, all in all a very close contest.
The format of the prizes this year were changed, to give anglers more chances to win prizes. First, second, and third prizes remained the same.
A big thank you to all that took part, thank you John Kneebone and Mainline Baits for sponsoring the event.
A massive thank you to our volunteer marshal’s who gave up their time to help run this event. Gary, Laura, Bob, Ken and Mark, you made my running the event easy. ( Mervyn )
Results below:
1st: Dan Hole & Jack Chillingworth peg14 58Ib 1oz.
2nd: Nigel Woods peg10 57Ib 2oz
3rd: Dave Bellew peg12 48Ib 6oz.
Section winners:
Section 1 Richard Voisey. Tim Frost peg 11.
Section 2 Rod Sanders. Corey Mills peg17.
Section 3 Simon Fowler. Stuart Morrish peg 22.
Section 4 Liam Jones. Aaron Jones peg 27.
Biggest Fish: Craig Hunt. George West peg 21 18Ib 15oz.
Smallest Fish: Simon Fowler. Stuart Morrish peg 22 7Ib 13oz.
27 Jun 2024

Mainline Baits Pairs competition – Friday 19 July – Sunday 21st July 2024

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Mainline Baits Pairs competition – Friday 19 July – Sunday 21st July 2024 The Mainline Baits Carp Pairs competitions are held at our fantastic 81-acre fishery, Upper Tamar Lake. This is a fun, friendly competition, open to all, with some fantastic prizes up for grabs!  The competition is limited to 34 pairs so book your place now to avoid disappointment 👇https://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/mainline-baits-carp-open-pairs-competitions or 01566 771930 1st Prize – £2000 2nd Prize – £1000 3rd Prize –  £500 There are also prizes for biggest fish and section winners up for grabs.  Each person who enters will get a goody bag with some fantastic Mainline products inside.  All tackle and equipment is transported to and from your swim. There is also a full menu for the weekend with food delivered directly to your swim!

18 Feb 2024

UPPER TAMAR CARP

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Aaron Bunning’s has enjoyed success on trips to Upper Tamar banking several fine carp including fish of   20lb 14oz, 19lb 14oz, 19lb and 18lb 12oz. All fish were caught using Nash Bait scopex squid. Great result Aaron!

A good stamp of fish are being caught from the venue at the moment, with the first South West Lakes Trust Mainline Baits pairs competition of the year next month, I don’t think many would argue if they managed to get these fish in the competition.

Places are still available for the March competition. With £3500 worth of prize money and Mainline Baits goodies available, visit our website to book a place:

The Carp Fushing removal project is also being repeated at Roadford this coming season!

13 Dec 2023

WINTER PERCH

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Jamie Steward kick started his perch fishing campaign in style on Upper Tamar by landing these two cracking perch of 3lb 8oz and 3lb 3oz feeder fishing prawn.

The lake has great form for big perch and its great to see some quality fish still getting caught on the lake. Two 3lbers isn’t a bad way to start your campaign, best of luck to Jamie for the rest of the winter.

29 Jun 2021

MAINLINE CARP COMPETITION RESULT – UPPER TAMAR

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South West Lakes Trust hosted Mainline Baits Upper Tamar Carp Open Pairs Match with the £2000 first prize taken by John Kierle and Sam Fowler who banked nine carp for a total weight of 117lb. In runner up spot were Karl Yates and Allan Jones with four carp for 56lb 5oz winning £1000  and in third David Bellew and Josh Bellew with four carp for 51lb 15oz receiving £500.

 

 

18 May 2021

UPPER TAMAR- Garbolino UK FEEDER CHAMPIONSHIPS (15/5/2021)

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UPPER TAMAR- Garbolino UK FEEDER CHAMPIONSHIPS (15/5/2021)
QUALIFIER 1 – Results
Great day had by all on Saturday:
With every section being won with over 25lb there was 700lb+ of silvers between 39 anglers.
Winner on the day was Paul Purchase, Paul was on peg 20 on the Cornwall bank, Paul fished for everything, caught a few nice perch, skimmers and roach (around 100 fish) for a 32lb 4oz total. Well done Paul.
Section Winners:
Cornwall Bank
1-7: Garry Thornton 27lb 7oz
8-14: Scott Russell 28lb 5oz
15-21: Paul Purchase 32lb 4oz
Devon Bank
1-7: Nick Chedzoy 28lb 4oz
8-14: Nigel Garrett 25lb 13oz
15-21: (joint winners) Chris Ware & Graham West 25lb 14oz
Top 2 in each section book a place on the TWO DAY GRAND FINAL in August, please see qualifiers below:
Nick Chedzoy
Alex Murray
Nigel Garrett
Stuartshelley Burridge
Chris Ware
Graham West
Garry Thornton
James Carty
Scott Russell
Christian Whitfield
Paul Purchase
Jack Jones
Congratulations to all of the winners.
Massive thanks to Simon Poynter for running this great competition series.
8 Apr 2021

Upper Tamar Thirty

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Aaron Bunning fished overnight session at Upper Tamar Lake between work and had this report for us: ‘I had a 31lb common and 19lb 8oz mirror, part of a 4 fish catch I had sunday night. All fish fell to Nashbait Citruz pop ups over Scopex Squid. I am over the moon to have now had a 30+ common and mirror from Upper Tamar!’

29 Nov 2020

Upper Tamar Carp

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Daniel Scranage has recently put in a bit of time on Upper Tamar. This weekend his efforts have been rewarded with mirrors of 25lb and 23lb, these were backed up with commons of 18lb and low double.

The South West Lakes  well stocked shop at Upper Tamar is open Friday, Saturday and Sundays 8am-4:30pm. If you have any enquiries please give us a call on 01288 321 712