Its not a North Devon carp but thought it worth sharing as its a superb West Country Specimen!
Massive well done to Wayne Bateman for catching ‘the secret’ from Argal reservoir at 40lb 2oz! Argal, part of the South West Lakes portfolio, has been in really good form recently.
Wayne caught it on a very big bed of mainline fibre boilies fished snowman rig style along with a 3.5oz Westcountryleads flat pear. Congratulations Wayne!
Oli Dietrich decided to give Nirvana’s day ticket Lake Xanadu a go at the weekend and landed this stunning 25lb 4oz Mirror. Oli used a Crafty Bait and Tackle red alert boilie over a bag of pellets in the margins.
ELDORADO PRODUCING THE PERSONAL BESTS!
Dave King fished at Anglers Eldorado at the weekend for a Day and Night fishing session and managed to catch 2 personal bests, a 20lb 5oz Common and a 20lb 8oz Mirror both from the Bottom Cat and Carp Lake. He also caught a 16lb Common and a 23lb 10oz Catfish in the night!
Dave caught the beauties using Sticky Baits Krill topped with a Sea Monster or a Hell pop up from Baitworks.
GREAT ANGLING DAVE AND CONGRATULATIONS!!
Aaron Jones! Aaron sent this catch report to us. ‘cracking 24 hour session on Melbury ended up with a 16lb common and a target fish “the Crafthole Common ” at a great winter weight of 24.5lb. Fished over a kilo of 20mm Scopex squid and Lee’s Leads’.
(Below) Liam Brookes fished on the inlet swim on Beatties lake and had 3 fish out . All fish were caught on Sticky Baits Manilla sizes 12mm, 16 & 20 all soaked in Manilla liquid Liam used a max of 20/30 Baits which he scattered over the top with a throwing stick.
(Below) Neil Harvey and his friend Simon Allsop fished the Dam wall on Lodge lake and banked three carp., Simon had a 28lb 8oz mirror , Neil had 2 fish out up to 27lb 8oz a new pb for Neil caught on cell glugged in cell hookbait dip also added a few sticky baits Manilla boilies & crushed cell , Korda almond goo.
(Below)Lee Roper fished up on lodge lake and had 2 fish out up to 30lb on the nose ! Lee caught on banoffee flavoured boilies from Outlaw Pro Baits.
(Below) Andrew Van Koutrik and his friend Darren had one fish out each from lodge lake in a Day session Andrews fish was a 25lb 15oz and Darrens was a 21lb 10oz caught on Sticky’s baits Manilla boilies.
(Below) Kevin Waldron had five fish out from the inlet swim on Beatties lake all caught on DNA secret 7 plum flavoured boilies.
I am so excited and honoured to be asked to be the host and presenter of the 1st ever South West Angling Show which will take place at Newton Abbot Racecourse on Saturday 2nd May and Sunday 3rd May.
We will be fronting some of the biggest brands from across the country offering great deals and offers on great tackle at the show and also showcasing some fantastic talks on the main stage of influential Anglers interviewed by myself.
We are very excited about bringing an Angling Show to the South West and hope to see everyone join us to celebrate it and make it a success to continue in the future.
(Below)Kevin Waldron banked five carp from the inlet swim on Beatties lake all caught on DNA secret 7 plum flavoured boilies a fabulous winter result.
(Below)) Nicholas Billett caught two carp 2 including this 30lb 2oz beauty from swim 14 up on lodge lake plus a 25lb 14oz. Both fish were caught on Responsive baits CSL soaked in responsive CSL liquid.
(Below)Liam Brookes and his friend Josh caught 5 fish out up to 25lb 5oz from the beach swim on Beatties lake using Sticky baits Manilla boilies heavily glutted in Manilla glug scattered with a throwing stick and used 2/3kg in 48 hours , fishing 17 wraps out.
PERSONAL BEST FOR 9 YEAR OLD JACK AND LOTS OF OTHER ELDORADO BEAUTIES FOR THE PAINTER FAMILY!
Paul Painter and his sons Harry 16 and Jack 9 decided to brave the weather and have a weekend fishing at Anglers Eldorado – and it certainly paid off seeing the youngest of them Jack catch his personal best at 27lbs 8oz!
Paul shared – “Myself, Harry, and Jack, had a good 48hrs on the Eldorado complex even though the weather was very rough!! We had quite a few Carp out of the bottom lake and had a few hours float fishing on the top lake which produced some lovely carp including Koi. Jack had a really memorable session when he smashed his Carp PB by 7 and a half pounds when he caught a 27lb 8oz Mirror on Saturday morning!!! He also managed to stalk out some Koi on floating crust from the Koi pond.”
MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS JACK – TO CATCH A FISH OF THAT SIZE SO YOUNG IS PRETTY AWESOME!! GREAT TO SEE YOU HAVING QUALITY FAMILY TIME ON THE BANK!
Alan Clarke fished from the Dam Wall on Lodge to tempt this beauty weighing in at 27lb 12oz caught using DT baits blend white pop up.
(Below) Mike Hardy caught pleasing brace from swim 14 on lodge lake caught on Nash coconut cream boilies.
(Below) Oliver Kind had 2 fish out from the Dam Wall on lodge lake up to 27lb caught on Pineapple & almond goo over Sticky Baits krill pop ups.
( Below) Tom Downing popped out to Stafford Moor on with Antony Grigorjevs to shoot a where to fish feature to go in the March edition of Improve Your Coarse Fishing. Was a good day even though storm Ciara tried putting a halt on things!
Lee Watts had a good session on his winter ticket water Colebroke last weekend landing 3 fish first of 18lb 10oz then another of 16lb then a 29lb new lake record common and a personal best.
