1 Aug 2018

Stafford Moor – Sixty Carp Haul!

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(Below)Wayne Grinney & his wife Jenny Grinney had an amazing 60 fish out from the inlet swim on Beatties lake. the fish were tempted  with Nash Scope. squid and Sticky baits krill boilies.

(Below) Stan Robinson fished  on Lodge lake swim 11 (beach 2) for the first time. He had 6 fish plus a new personal best of 20lb 10oz fishing with Nash coconut cream and strawberry crush as a snowman over a bed of 4mm sticky baits pellet all purchased from Stafford Moors on site tackle shop.

(Below) John Lean Jnr fished  on lodge lake  and  banked four carp using DNA S7 bait.

29 Jul 2018

SEA ANGLING LATEST

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(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!

Triple Hook Club – Shaun Foster Cup –  Woolacombe Beach

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.

 

 

 

 

 

29 Jul 2018

LADIES GET THE BLUES – Its the Reel Deal Birthday off Ilfracombe

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(Above)Stacey Bayldon – Fine Birthday present

Ladies day aboard Reel Deal (Dan Hawkins) off ilfracombe resulted in fabulous Blue sharks up to 90lb. Stacey Bayldon landed the first blue shark of the day, followed by Jade Jemmett, Michelle Bayldon and Sharon Feakes landing the biggest at 90lb. A truly amazing experience, life long dream achieved! A massive thank you to Daniel Hawkins and Archie Porter aboard Reel Deal for an amazing day, to Dave Stenson for embracing our madness and our helping hand and huge thank you to Phil Lewis for the best birthday present ever!

Many Thanks to Stacey for sending this report to North Devon Angling News

(Above) Jade Jemmett
(Above) Sharon Feakes

(Above) Michelle Bayldon

28 Jul 2018

Final Midweek Comp Tarka Swims & Junior Event

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Summer is passing by all too quickly  and Bideford’s Evening League coming to an end is an indication of this. I have enjoyed receiving weekly updates from Martin Turner on this and must thank him for all the reports and images. Its also good to see the Junior events being well supported.

1st Ian Owen 28lb 1oz

2nd Martin Turner  17lb 14oz

3rd Cavan Patterson 13lb 15oz

4th joint Ron Rhoads  Colin Gorman 10lb 1oz

6th Martin Hawker 8lb 8oz

18 fished. Another warm summer evening was enjoyed by our members.Ian landed 3 large carp on the pole on float fished caster on peg U for top weight on the night and in the series, Ian finished the league in joint 4th place. Martin’s second place was secured with 2 carp and some skimmers on peg Q , this ensured that he retained the overall league title with 85 points, Cavan landed a single carp of 13lb 15oz on peg I for 3rd spot.

The final league positions are :

Martin Turner 85pts

Stephen Craker 79pts

Peter Slade 70pts

Keith Copland & Ian Owen 64pts

  Junior competition /teach in event.

1st Adam Wheeler 7lb 10oz

2nd Tom Scott 5lb 2 1/2oz

3rd Tyler Scott 4lb 12oz

4th Will 1lb 2oz 5th Maya 1lb

6th Brooke 7th Grace .

The decision to use the deeper pegs ,for our second Junior event, proved right, as some nice bags of fish were landed by our enthusiastic younger members.Adam was top weight with a lovely net of skimmer bream caught on the pole on red maggots of peg P. Second ,on the next peg Q, was younger of the Scott brothers ,Tom with a similar bag taken on a 4mtr. whip. In 3rd place on peg N was Tyler with another bream net taken on the long pole, Back up weights were roach and perch Brooke, unluckily, lost a winning carp after a 10 min battle on a whip.The 3 hour event was fished in blazing sunny conditions.The current league table ,with , one match remaining is a dead heat for 1st spot, on 21 points, between Adam  Tom ,and Tyler. Many thanks to all the helpers and to Summerlands Tackle for their generous help with prizes.

 

27 Jul 2018

Long Dry Summer Brings Temporary Closure at Exe Valley

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Nick Hart posted this message today. Hopefully autumn will see the reopening of the fishery when conditions have improved. This long dry summer is certainly bad news for the game angler.

Unfortunately I am sad to report that I have had to close the fishery today. Huge thanks to Blair Woodland, Simon Autton, Chris Guest, Andrew Berwick, Daniel Osmond, Terry Humphries & John Ackhurst for all your efforts & strong arms.

 

We were close to sorting it and even as recently as this last weekend fish like this 7lb 8oz fin perfect Rainbow were being caught. However in the circumstances I am not prepared to stock fish into these conditions and due to the reoccurrence of algae, which has accelerated during the last week, the lake is unfishable.

I apologise for the inconvenience and hope to have the venue back up and running when the weather improves.