As the rivers drop to summer level and start to show their bones there is still the chance of a salmon or sea trout fishing early or late in the day when the sun is off the water. Eddie Rands visited a middle Taw beat before work and was rewarded with a 10lb silver bar tempted on a little Invicta.
The warm spring weather has truly woken the big catfish in Anglers Paradises Day Ticket Specimen Cat Lake with some awesome cats banked. See report from Anglers Paradise below.
Tony Trenerry from Launceston had a Red Letter session on our day ticket Specimen Cat Lake catching 4 Cats of 46lb 4oz, 48lb, 51lb 8oz and a new PB of 54lb 8oz!! What a session!! Tony also caught another 51lb 3oz Cat on his previous session!
Tony shared with Anglers Paradise –
“Yesterday I had a real red letter day session, the kind of session we fishermen dream of! I did a 24 hour session on the Specimen Cat Lake, and managed to land 4 lovely hard fighting Cats, the biggest was at 54lb 8oz which is now my new PB!
I caught the Catfish with Luncheon meat and fish based boilies, all fish were caught during the day, a true work out, as they all really gave me the run around, and truly put my gear to the test, I need a rest now!”
Also getting in the action was Michael Pearson from Nottinghamshire, who had Cats of 37lb 9oz, 43lb 9oz and finised with a new personal best of 58lb 10oz also from the Specimen Cat Lake! Michael used a Krill boilie with a bag of matching boilies in a pva bag with a 1 foot long hook link to a size 4 barbless wide gape hook KD style.
Lower Tamar Lake is an historic water that often gets overlooked by anglers who hear more about the fabulous catches from the Upper Lake. Lower Tamar has some fabulous carp and a head of bream into double figures along with specimen perch and eels. In the past the water has produced specimen rudd that sadly seem to have all but disappeared.
Lee Graver fished Lower Tamar Lake, on the Cornwall and Devon border, at the weekend and was rewarded with this stunning 23lb 14oz Fully scaled mirror. Lower Tamar is open to everyone for day or 24 hour tickets.
Latest from Zenia at Anglers Paradise
Matthew Colegate, 26 from Leigh in Kent caught some stunning Koi including a Two Tone Koi!! Matthew lost count of the number of Koi he ended up catching, the biggest at 8lb 8oz and 8lb 2oz, I’ve included all the pictures as they are far too good not to share!! All the fish were caught on free lined mixers/A2 baits pellets.
I’m personally extremely envious and I’m sure many of you will be too!!
Daniel Brooks enjoyed a great session on Stafford Moors Beatties Lake landing 12 fish out up to 23lb 7oz all caught on Sticky baits Krill pellets and boilies from swim 1 (Long Island) on the dam wall. 
Rob Harris has landed a huge shore caught smoothound of 21lb 1/2oz to set a new Club record for Bideford Angling Club. The was an easy winner in the clubs 24 hour rover that was dominated by smoothound. The above pictures are not the best but they do give a good indication of the proportions of this very special fish. It has been an unprecedented start to the season with the potential for more outsize specimens over the coming months.
1st – Rob Harris smoothound 21lb 1/2oz
2nd – Lee Watts – smoothound 12lb 71/2oz
3rd – Andrew Clements Smoothound 11lb 73/4oz
All the smoothound were released alive after weighing and photographing.
North Devon Match Group Championship No 5 Killock Lakes. Results
1st Neilsen Jeffery 77lb 14oz
2nd Kevin Shears 47lb 5oz
3rd John Lisle 40lb 5oz
4th Christopher Morris 28lb 12oz
5th John Forster 27lb 2oz .
North Devon Match Group members fished the prolific Killock lake in warm dry conditions , the carp were more interested in spawning than feeding , despite this Neilsen was able to catch steadily on corn on the pole for a convincing win. Second spot was Kevin who used similar tactics and John’s third placed bag fell to paste also on the pole.Next week this venue is being used for the first leg of our annual interclub event against Bude Canal Anglers.
Cameron Atkinson and his boat partners caught around 30 hounds between them with the biggest falling to Cameron a new personal best weighing 16lb 12oz. I have also recieved a report of a huge shore caught hound that I hope to report on later this evening.
Steve Pinn place a bait in the margin at Furzebray and was delighted when an hour or so later this 22lb 7oz ghost carp made off with a CR1 pale yellow pastel over une petit bed of CR1.
Dan Welch enjoyed a Cracking day out on his private boat catching loads of fish, pollack, Huss, smoothies, and ray. Had a couple crackers as well a Blonde ray 15lb 6oz and a smoothie of 14lb 3oz.
