David Flynn from Bickington fished at Blakewell to land a fine brace of handsome brown trout scaling 4lb and 4lb 8oz.
Furzebray – Three superb lakes
We are certainly spoilt for choice when it come to carp fishing in North Devon and Furzebray has matured into a fine carp fishery with three fine lakes to fish, Below are a few pictures to whet the appetite!
Some nice fish coming out the Copse lake, Arron Rundal had a cracking session on there landing 9 fish in total between 5lb and a lake record at 31.08
(Above) Copse Lake Fish caught by Arron Rundal
(Above)And from Island Lake Tom Collingridge landed his new PB this weekend!!!! Blackspot at a great weight of 37.06
(Above) A Copse lake beauty for Paul Holmes
KRACKING CARP FROM PARADISE!
The latest new from Zenia at Anglers Paradise. A chance to bank a huge carp on a day ticket!
HAT TRICK FROM THE KRACKING Carp Lake!
Graham Kelly, 36 from Tiverton joined us for the 1st time to fish the Kracking Carp Lake.
AS many of you know, this Lake is challenging but to come here for the first time and to catch all 3 bites (let alone get 3 bites) is not something we hear often!!
Graham had one hell of a session, resulting in him catching a hat trick of Mirrors – 20lbs, 25lbs and 35lbs!!
Graham fished from Peg 2, used sweetcorn and pellet with a simple in-line lead set up, and the moral of the story is – keep it simple – it works!
HUGE CONGRATS GRAHAM!!
SPURDOG PACKS STILL PROWLING THE DEEPS
Andrew Atkinson landed the biggest spurdog of the day at 15lb 6oz when Appledore Shipbuilders fished on John Barbeary’s Bluefin off Ilfracombe. The spurdog packs are still present in good numbers providing welcome sport.
Appledore Shipbuilders – Easter Competition
Andrew Atkinson won Appledore Shipbuilders Easter Competition fished at Appledore Rocks in the lower estuary with a flounder scaling 1lb 41/2oz.
Stafford Moor – Sunday Open – Double Ton
Stafford Moors Open match on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes, had a continental pay out . The day commenced with glorious sunshine and then bitter cold and cloudy in the afternoon Despite this lakes fished well especially Woodpecker !!!! A big well done to Phil Hardwick who bagged a fabulous weight of 255lb 6oz from peg 17 on Woodpecker fishing 8mm pellet fishing the Pole up the edge.
2nd place was: Martin Heard (Mosella) peg 11 Tanners with 124lb 4oz
3rd place was : Mark Layzelle peg 11 on Woodpecker with 190lb 4oz
4th place was : Tim Hagg peg 20 on Tanner with 91lb
5th place was :Paul Morris peg 1 on Woodpecker with 139lb
6th place was: Boz Phillips peg 25 on Tanner with 86lb 14oz
Our silvers winner of the day was Peter Randall with 31lb 8oz from peg 34 on Tanners
Spring Ray dominate Rover
James Thomas won Combe Martin Sea Angling Clubs Spring Rover with a specimen small eyed ray weighing 11lb 13oz. James father Wayne Thomas took second and third places with a small eyed ray scaling 9lb 10oz and blonde ray of 14lb 2oz. The fish were all caught off Minehead aboard Steve Webber’s boat Osprey. The clubs party landed around 25 ray, small eyed, thornback and blonde ray. They also landed smoothound, bull huss and dogfish.
Shore anglers in the competition landed several quality fish the best and fourth place in the competition went to Daniel Welch who landed a small ray of 9lb 5oz. This bodes well for the clubs open competition at Putsborough beach next month.
Bideford – Monthly Coarse Match
Bideford And District Angling Clubs monthly competition saw 14 anglers compete at Tarka Swims, where they were reminded that we are still in early spring by the cool breeze, despite this some large fish were prepared to feed. Pete Slade landed a common carp of nearly 15lb, after an arm aching battle of well over an hour ,this secured victory. Most fish fell to pole fished maggot. John Lisle still leads the league with 70 points Steve Bailey 2nd on 58 April monthly comp
Tarka Swims
1st Pete Slade 14lb 13oz
2nd Steve Bailey 12lb 6oz
3rd John Lovell 12lb 3oz
4th Stuart Bailey 11lb 15oz
Where to for carp? Stafford Moor a pretty good bet!
(Above)Richard James and Jason Norris who had 16 fish out between them up to 28lb from the inlet swim on Beattie’s lake this week fishing with mainline cell and squid Boilies.
(Above) Jack Griffiths who had this 26lb 2oz mirror from the 2nd swim on the dam wall up on lodge lake using Mainline cell & Sticky Baits Manilla boilies.
(Above) The ‘carp busters’ fished the summerhouse swim On Beattie’s lake . They had 17 fish between them up to 21lb 6oz using good old Mainline cell boilies.
Specimen Small eyed ray for young Ollie Laird
Young Ollie Laird landed a fine specimen small eyed ray of 11lb 10oz whilst fishing on Steve Webbers boat Osprey off Minehead. Bagged on his 12-20lb Ugly stick & Abu seven that he won last year for a fish also boated on board Osprey.
