Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Midweek Competition. No4 Results
1st Martin Turner 13lb 3oz
2nd Colin Gorman 6lb 15oz
3rd Peter Slade 4lb 2oz.
15 anglers turned up to fish our regular 3 hour evening comp on the longest day. Martin landed 2 of the larger Tarka carp on a banded 8mm pellet for first place. Colin managed to land one good carp on prawn bait ,whilst Peter caught on bread on peg B. Rhys Eyles still leads the league with 33pts
Luke Potter, 30 from North Tawton, caught this Personal Best 29lb 12oz Mirror from Nirvana’s Day Ticket Kracking Carp Lake caught on a snowman setup, fished over a mix of 12&16mm Manilla boilies. Luke saw lots of Carp crashing up the far end (inlet end) so he set up in the last two pegs and fished very tight to the right hand side of the island. It’s the second time Luke has fished the Kracking Carp and to make the catch even more special, he caught it on the Morning of his 30th Birthday!!
5C’s Member Chris Flook from Ivybridge caught a new UK Personal Best 38lb 9oz Common from the Kracking Carp Lake. Chris caught the Common from Swim 1, 15yds out in a gap in the weed using 20lb line, 2 nr 10mm Duster Matrix pop ups on a hinge rig, size 4 barbless hook. Chris Said –“It was a tense fight with such a fish at short range. Thought I’d lost it at one stage in the weed, but as it was close in I was able to exert pressure from above and it came free and after that scare it came easily to the new net. Not a bad way to christen a new rod and net.I went on the lake hoping for a PB so it was mission accomplished.I have to thank Lee and Frank Hydon, two other anglers who gave me a few of their pop ups to try when they left. Thanks to Zyg, you and Joe and the rest at Anglers Paradise for giving me the chance of catching such a magnificent carp.”
12 Year Old Alfie Bartholomew caught his Personal Best 19lb Mirror from the Main Carp Lake on a White Pop Up!
It’s so great to see the younger generation out there with their Families enjoying it together.
Tom Chambers from Skipton caught a stunning 26lb 8oz Common from the Specimen Carp Lake on Pellet fishing in the margins.
Lee Graver, 45 from Bude, joined his friend for a quick session, this was his 1st time on the Kracking Carp and within just a few hours he landed a New Personal Best 48lb 4oz Mirror beating his previous PB by 10lbs!! Lee used a 3oz inline drop off lead, with inches of esp braid, size 6 barbless hook with 2 grains of fake corn, he fished from swim 3 across the far margin.
Thomas Starbuck, 48 from Croydon, London, caught a Personal Best 25lb Fully Scaled Mirror from the Main Carp Lake using an ARSD rig from CMCR, on a 18mm Essential Cell Wafter.
The hot calm conditions have proved ideal for boat anglers with tope now showing in good numbers off Ilfracombe. Dan Hawkins took these pictures of some of the tope boated on ‘Reel Deal’ today.
1st place Andy Dare with 278lb 2oz peg 9 on Woodpecker
2nd place Martin Heard with 174lb peg 20 on Tanners
3rd place Tim Kinson with 173lb 6oz peg 15 on Woodpecker
4th place Andy Funnylove with 173lb 3oz peg 18 Tanners
5th place Mark Hayman with 158lb 14oz peg 3 Woodpecker
6th place Mark Layzelle with 121lb 13oz peg 16 Tanners
Dan Redmore won Bideford Angling Clubs twenty-four hour rover with a fine specimen plaice of 2lb 4oz. Antony Smith was runner up with a thick lipped grey mullet of 4lb 3oz and Lee Watts third with a plaice of 1lb 12oz.
In the estuaries thin lipped mullet are giving good sport with John Shapland landing a brace of the hard fighting fish weighing 3lb 13.5oz and 2lb 14oz.
Shore fishers have been enjoying some great sport with smoothound from many marks. Combe Martin SAC member Dan Spearman landed a fine hound of 12lb 14oz. Fellow club member Ollie Passmore landed a hound of 12lb 6oz.
Dan West also enjoyed a hectic session with smoothound landing several fish to double figures from his mate Keith Bullards boat whilst fishing in Bideford Bay.
Wistlandpound Fly Fishing Club Members traveled to Blagdon Lake the birthplace of Stillwater Trout fishing in the UK. The day was probably the hottest of the year to that point with a clear blue sky and relentless hot sunshine blazing down upon the mirror calm lake. Far from ideal conditions for trout fishing and I don’t think anyone expected the fishing to be easy.
The fishing did prove challenging but England International Matt Kingdom and I managed five fish each all hard fighting rainbows with full tails.
Dave Mock boated the biggest trout of the day at 4lb 8oz.
1st – Wayne Thomas – 5 Rainbow Trout 13lb 4oz
2nd – Matt Kingdom – 5 Rainbow Trout 11lb 3oz
3rd -Colin Combe – 2 Rainbow Trout – 6lb 2oz
Jennetts Reservoir
1st Christopher Morris 39lb 14oz
2nd James Grogan 33lb 2oz
3rd Martin Turner 30lb 3oz
4th Ben Hathaway 18lb 8oz
In very hot still conditions Christopher took a superb catch of net skimmers and roach on sweetcorn and pellets fished shallow on the pole. James also fished with corn on the pole for a mainly roach net .Third was Martin with an all caster roach net.
Thirty-Eight anglers raised £3156.75 for Appledore Life Boat and Devon Air Ambulance in a charity match at the prolific Stafford Moor Fishery.
The winning pair were Kevin Shears and Scott Bowden (Above) with a stunning combined weight of 198lb 10oz. In runner up spot were Simon McCarthy and Simon Clarke with 157lb third were Phil Jones and Martin Heard with 146lb 11oz. Individual winner on Tanners Lake was Simon McCarthy with 130lb and individual winner on Woodpecker was Paul Ware with102lb 12oz. Match organiser Neilsen Jeffery gave thanks to fishery owners Joanne and Paul Coombes who made all competitors very welcome. Special thanks was also extended to the events sponsors Summerland’s Tackle, Stafford Moor, Martin Cox Angling Supplies and Adrian Marshall who supplied a fantastic array of prizes.
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.
