High Street Tackle have been running a lure fishing competition over recent weeks and have announced the winners of the latest.
Olly Larvin and Peter Hayes both landed bass of 70cm tempting them on Size 4 Fillish Black Minnows.
Combe Martin SAC are still competing in their own lure fishing competition sponsored by High Street Tackle but so far despite catching plenty of bass there are three members on 55cm. With three weeks to go I am sure this will be beaten!
Ollie Passmore targetted trigger fish hoping that the warm summer weather had brought these tropical visitors close inshore he was delighted to land the above trigger fish of 2lb 13oz. His friend Alex Milton landed a trigger of 1lb 6oz.( Below)
Bideford monthly rover results
1st Stephen Found thick lipped grey mullet 3 lb 13 1/4oz
2nd Graham Snow thin lipped grey mullet thin 3 lb 8oz
3rd Andy Sanders mackerel 1 lb 13/8oz
Appledore Shipbuilders Rover
1st – James Atkinson – smoothound 13lb 8.1/4oz
2nd – James Atkinson – smoothound12lb 75/8oz
3rd – Josh Atkinson – smoothound 12lb 3/4oz
Kevin Pike has set a new Appledore Shipbuilders Club record boating a huge tope of 58lb whilst fishing from a Private boat off the North Devon Coast. Kevin also boated a tope of 41lb 8oz. Jack Pike fishing on the same trip boated a personal best of 47lb and Cameron Atkinson a tope of 45lb. The trip saw four tope boated for a total weight of over 186lb! It is also good to hear that mackerel were plentiful.
Scott Andries, Matt Jeffery and his son Joshua enjoyed a mullet fishing session in the estuary where they all enjoyed success with baited spinners. Joshua landed his first of the species a specimen of 4lb 6oz that stands a good chance of winning a Junior trophy with Combe Martin SAC. Matt Jeffery’s best mullet of the session scaled 4lb 5oz and Scott Andreis’s mullet 3lb 4oz.
Chris Allin enjoyed an awesome days fishing in Combe Martin Bay catching mackerel, cuckoo wrasse, scad, codling to 3lb and a stunning 8lb pollock.
Ollie Passmore has been enjoying some superb estuary sport with thin lipped mullet banking these two spcimens of 4lb 5oz and 4lb 8oz in the past few days.
Ollie Passmore enjoyed a ray fishing session to remember beaching seven small eyed ray to 8lb 11oz and three spotted ray to 2lb 9oz.
(Above) Ollie Passmore tempted this fine specimen thin lipped grey mullet weighing 4lb 8oz on a baited spinner in the river Taw Estuary.
Ollie Passmore with a stunning wrasse caught on a recent session. I suspect wrasse fishing will slow down for a few days after the rough and windy weekend. I suspect we will see a few big bass, smoothound and huss in the coloured water, don’t be afraid to use a big bait oozing plenty of scent!
Dennis Toleman secured top spot in Triple Hook Clubs Shaun Foster Cup beaching a fine small eyed ray scaling 9lb 4oz in runner up spot was Kevin Hancock with a small eyed ray of 4lb 6oz.
