Lance Appleton fished on Stafford Moors Albert Square Swim on Lodge Lake to land this 25lb beauty fishing with Mainline pineapple pop ups.
Nathan Oliver (Above) with a 22lb 7oz common from the inlet swim on Beatties lake using a stiff hinge rig and 12mm urban baits nutcracker boilies soaked in Almond Goo and a Mainline Milky toffee pop up.
Tanya Chater caught this pleasing mirror from Lodge Lake using with robins bait tangerine & tuna.
Jack Gabriel caught a fine brace of twenty pound carp from Jennetts reservoir, near Bideford. The commons went 21.00 and 22.00. Chris McCarthy has also been in action at Jennetts with this 17.12 Mirror and 16.09 common.
Jack Gabriel
Chris McCarthy
There not from North Devon but if you fancy a trip down to Cornwall these would be ample reward. A brace of commons caught from Argal Reservoir near Falmouth by Marlon Weyeneth the below brace lovely commons from part of the South West Lakes Trust portfolio. Both fish were 25lbs and caught during short day sessions.
Kyle Rundle banked this fine 21lb mirror carp on cold winters day on the summer hut swim fishing with Spotted Fin Catalyst and Mainline cell snowman style.
Martyn Green banked five carp during a session in swim 2 of Stafford Moor’s Lodge lake using Mainline cell & Essential cell boilies
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Matt Luscombe caught 13 carp up to 23lb 8oz from swim 3 on the dam wall of Stafford Moor’s Lodge lake fishing with munch bait Cream seed and good old Mainline cell boilies.
Ben Smeeth of South West Lakes Trust is thrilled to announce the first capture of ‘The Don’ from Upper Tamar after it was stocked in September 2017. The fish was banked by Ashley Bunning at 34.04. Ashely had this to say: ‘It went 34lb 4oz, to say i am over the moon is an understatement. Had the fish over a big bed of Burton bait rollers ‘Magnet’ and the new test bait’. Congratulations to Ashley on the capture. The capture was part of a great weekend on the venue with anglers catching multiple numbers of fish and other fish over 20lbs being recorded.
Steve Pinn gives an account of his second session on Willow Lake. Almost a blank until the sun came out on the last day. This was when the larger fish came out, just before an amazing Devon sunset (only 17Ib but another willow, mint beauty). Had to wait until an alarm call at dawn on the last day when the smaller fish of the 2 woke me with a screaming run, I’d had similar runs from a swans leg but this time it was for real. I emerged to temps of -4, a heavy frost and the smaller of the 2 fish which wasn’t weighed but was a beautiful linear. You can tell by my disheveled appearance that I have literally just woken up in the picture!! Both fish were had on a new delivery of 12mm nuts tipped with a very chopped down fake corn and a red hair stop on a bed of red maggots and freeby 12 millers. A memorable second session of 2018 not just for the fish but also the wonders of nature. Angling Artist Thanks to David Blackaller for supplying the good luck, the sunshine and the camera skills.
Adam Atkins and dad John caught ten carp up to 21lb 14oz from swims 2 & 3 on lodge lake using Sticky Baits Buchenberry pop ups and Manilla all caught on Gardner Ronnie Rigs size 6 bought from the on site tackle shop.
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(Below) Leon Vledder fished on swim 6 the Rhododendron Bush swim on Beattie’s lake to land a 23lb mirror fishing with Sticky Baits 16mm Manilla boilies.
(Below)Jason shipway caught six carp out up to 19lb from the inlet swim on Beattie’s lake using Mainline cell Boilies.
(Below) Lewis clarke had this 19lb 14oz catch from the beach swim on Beattie’s lake using
C C Moore live system 10mm pop up it was Lewis’s first time here. Lewis was here with dad Alan Clarke.
