9 Jul 2018

Boat News – Snippets

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(Above) Thirteen Year old Eden Thomas from Hele Bay Ilfracombe enjoyed a boat fishing trip on a Private Boat and hooked a fine smoothound estimated at over 14lb whilst fishing just off Capstone Point.
(Above) Kevin Goodman has sent me reports of a thornback of 14lb caught off Combe Martin and pollock to almost 10lb. The Boat was I believe Jay Jay.
A party of North Devon Anglers enjoyed an away day to Weymouth where the fished from Charter Boat ‘The snapper’ Top fish was this fine 3lb 7oz black bream to the rod of MarcusHorrell.

 

9 Jul 2018

Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition Result

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Tarka Swims

1st Martin Turner 43lb 2oz

2nd John Lisle 13lb 8oz

3rd Steve Bailey 11lb 8oz

4th Ian Sedgewick 10lb 15oz

4th Keith Copland 8lb 1oz

5th Ian Owen 6lb 11oz

12 fished . Another weekend of scorching temperatures saw some good sport , Martin Turner landed 17lb of bream and 4 carp for a winning total on favoured peg I , he caught on pellet waggler and long pole shallow with maggot. John had a good bream and a carp on peg Q for second , club secretary Steve landed a nice net of small bream and one carp off peg S for third , fourth spot was filled by Ian who lost several carp but landed 2 on bread from peg X. Keith’s all bream net won the silvers pot.The halftime icecreams from Reg Sutton were most welcome ! Due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ the evening match on Wednesday will be postponed and re fished on the evening of the 1st August.

8 Jul 2018

NORTH DEVON TACKLE CLUB – AWAY WEEKEND

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BAKE TWO DAYER 2018

Looks like North Devon Tackle Club and a great weekend at Bake Lakes. Many thanks to Barry Lee for sending this excellent summary. The images are great and give a good idea of what a fun weekend it was!

What a great weekend, maybe not so much on the fishing front, but the company, banter & beer made up for that!!!

It was good to see some of the anglers that normally struggle to catch a few, Mick Seward weighing in 70lb+ over the two days and in particular Terry Ramsden who went on to win his 2nd ever fishing match yesterday with 77-14…. well done chaps!

A big “thank you” to Andy Seery for supplying us all with prizes…. in fact this years top 2 were using So Simple pellets & groundbait.
If you ever want any So Simple products, take a look at Andy’s facebook page or send him a message.

So Simple Bait Company “Home of the Gonut”

Team results:

1st – 28 points
Kevin Wilton
Baz ‘no longer the 4th’  Barry Lee
Mick Seward

2nd – 45 points
Norman Martin

Terry Ramsdan
Mark Seward

3rd – 54 points
Simon Poynter
Andrew Haynes
Peter Seward

4th – 56 points Dean Vickery
Andy Grattan
Kev Grant

5th & wooden spoon – 57 points
Gord Maeers
Jim
Dion Martin

Individual Overall

1st Barry Lee 144-1
2nd  Gord Maeers 135-2
3rd Norman Martin 101-10
4th Terry Ramsden 85-6
5th Simon Poynter 81-2
6th Mick Seward 70-15
7th  Kev Grant 64-6
8th Kevin Wilton 61-1
9th  Dean Vickery 45-15
10th  Andrew Haynes 40-8
11th Mark Seward 33-8
12th Dion Martin 29-0
13th Andy Gratton 26-1
14th Peter Seward 22-10
15th & Boobie Prize Jim 16-2

Best Match Weight
Gord Maeers 81-8

Biggest Fish
Kevin Wilton 12-15 (Ghost Carp)

Best Silvers Weight

Simon Poynter 10-5 of lovingly caught pairs of eye’s, only to be beaten by Peter Seward with 10-6 of mistakenly caught skimmers!!!! (i’m not bitter!!!!!)🤣

Biggest Hangover

Dion Martin

Best Battle Scar
Peter Seward

Best Joe Pasquale Impersonator
Also winning Best Belly Slide, Most Drunk, Most Helium Consumed, Best Elvis, Most Shots Purchased….. and many more!!! 😂
Norman Martin

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8 Jul 2018

Bideford Host Junior Fishing Event

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Bideford Angling Club hosted the first of three Junior Events at their Tarka Swims Lake. many Thanks to Martin Turner for his report below and for his efforts in introducing a future generation to angling. Further events take place on July 21st and August 4th.

This afternoons junior event took place at Tarka Swims in hot conditions. Rory took the honours with 2lb 14oz of roach and perch on peg D,joint second Tyler and his French exchange student Martin both on 2lb, joint fourth went to Brooke and Thomas, on 1lb 14oz ,nets in this 3 hour event were mainly made up with roach perch and rudd .Thank you to Summerlands Tackle for providing the prizes and bait.

 

7 Jul 2018

Bream Show Off Ilfracombe

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Kevin Goodman sent me these images of fish caught on Jay Jay off Ilfracombe the appearance of black bream is a great sign and bodes well for the rest of this scorching summer. As water temperatures start to rise we could well see an influx of species migrating into our waters. Trigger fish and black bream are both species that have been caught in good numbers from the Bristol Channel. Pollock fishing can aslo be excellent on lures in the crystal waters that we are enjoying.

5 Jul 2018

Bideford – Midweek Series No.8 Tarka Swims results

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Midweek Series No.8 Tarka Swims results

1st Keith Copland 20lb 5oz

2nd Stephen Craker 13lb 7oz

3rd Pete Slade 11lb 7oz

4th  Rob Rhoads 6lb 15oz

5th Martin Turner 6lb 8oz .

12 anglers fished this match, conditions were a little cooler than of late and the carp were a bit more obliging , for some ! Keith drew the corner peg L and lost the first tussle with the beasts in the weed , but managed to extract the next two for just short of 20lbs ,both took maggots fished on the pole. Stephen had the early lead with a good carp from peg U plus some tench and skimmers ,but came in second . Pete drew on peg I and found a late carp on luncheon meat plus some skimmers for third . Ron also fished with meat on peg M for 4th spot.

 

5 Jul 2018

OPEN WEEK FISHING COMPETITION – UPDATE Monday Evening

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This Fishing competition commences at Midnight on Friday so if your in for a bit of action book in ASAP details above. I will be keeping a regular update on this page with catches and images. The prize giving will be at Lynmouth at the Ancient Mariner at 9.00pm. As its the culmination of the Lynmouth Regatta and Maritime Festival it should be a good atmosphere so bring the family and join in the festivity’s.

If you contact Wayne Thomas or Nick Phillips above you can pay entry by BACS Transfer.

Lets hope this summer weather continues!

Fishing started early in the competition with a party of boat anglers off Lynmouth dropping their lines as midnight struck.

Alex Mcleish boated one of the first fish in the Lynmouth Fishing Festival a hard fighting conger 0f 22lb 2oz.

Dan Welch and Ross Stanway enjoyed a hectic days boat fishing though the specimen fish proved elusive.

John Shapland has got off to a good start with the first 100% plus specimen of the competition so fat a thin lipped mullet of 3lb 10oz.

 

LEADER BOARD SO FAR

Dan Welch pollock – Boat 8lb 66.667
spotted ray – Boat 4lb 8oz 90
Smoothound – Boat 12lb 4oz 81.667
238.334
Ross Stanway Dogfish 2lb 5oz 77.083
bull huss 8lb 10oz 63.889
140.972
John Shapland thin lipped mullet 3lb 10oz 103.571
James Gubb Fradgley 102.5 tope 41lb
Alex Mcleish conger 22lb 2oz
73.75

 

 

5 Jul 2018

BIg Carp and Cats from Paradise Lakes

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PB MIRROR FROM THE SPECIMEN CAT LAKE!

Richard Mason, 35 from Newquay joined us for a session on Nirvana’s Specimen Cat Lake and caught this stunner of a Mirror weighing 38lb 7oz making it a new UK Personal Best for him!

Richard shared –

“I was in peg one fishing for cats down each margin, during the day baiting up to the point of the island and at about 6pm lots of carp started topping so I changed one of my rigs to pallatrax stone leads simple snow man rig with mackerel Xt 15mm and sticky baits white pop up.”

 

**PERSONAL BESTS FOR 2 BROTHERS**BROTHERS THAT FISH TOGETHER STAY TOGETHER!**
Brothers Simon and Chris Rhodes joined us for their annual holiday in search of a personal best Catfish and that they did! Simon landed a PB 66lb Cat on his last day on the Main Carp Lake and Chris caught a PB 50lb 10oz Cat from the Specimen Cat Lake. They used 20lb line size 4 barbless hooks and polish garlic luncheon meat as bait.
Simon shared –
“Last day on the Main Carp Lake, I fished on the famous Nev’s Point and caught a personal best 66lb Wels Catfish! I had 8 powerful runs and 25 mins later taking two nets to land it!!
The perfect end to a great week!”

Anglers Paradise