The first catch report from Upper Tamar since re-opening. There have been a huge amount of fish caught! Roger Maher and his sons had an amazing session catching 29 carp between them with 15 over 20lbs including ‘The Peach’ at 30.06 and ‘Leanne’s mirror’ at 28.08.
Chris Ayre fished a 48 hour session on the Inlet swim on Beatties lake and had 9 fish out including a new lake record of 36lb along with other carp of 31lb and 29lb. All the fish were tempted using Mainline Hybrid boilies.
(Below) Nigel Bassett fished on swim 2 (sunset swim) on lodge lake. Nigel had out 14 Carp to 29lb 12oz. Nigel was fishing with Sticky baits Manilla 12mm wafters.
(Below) Clive Ashford who has had 7 carp out up to 27lb 13oz from swim 14 (beach 1) on lodge lake yesterday . Clive was fishing with Sticky baits krill and CC moor pacific tuna boilies.
(Below)Ian Geary with banked this stunning 26lb 8oz carp from Lower Slade near Ilfracombe.
Dave Bellew (Below) fished Upper Tamar and banked this amazing mirror at 18lb and followed it up with a new 30 at 32lb 4oz! This common was stocked 18 months ago at 26.02lbs.
Lewis Jones and his Dad with a pair of cracking commons at 29lb & 30lb respectively from Jennetts Reservoir in North Devon.
The Combes family at Stafford Moor are delighted to be open again for fishing with carp anglers returning to the venue to enjoy the superb sport on offer. ,
Got some fab photos below of just a few catches over the past few days from our specimen lakes. Including Joey Gould, Jack Cook, Harry Burslem, Billy Knowels , Jason Hammond, Wade Holmes, Chris Ayre just a few names of our carp guys .
Norman Martin fished at Oaktree Fishery where he banked six carp between 10lb 2oz and 20lb 5oz. All were tempted using Tom Thick Baits Super Sausage.
Simon Hill fished for a few hours at Lower Slade landing five carp off the surface with the biggest being a fine 25lb common. Stuart Wade has been among the fish again landing a cracking mirror carp at just over 20 lb Kevin Geary doing a session landing 3 carp all mid doubles Toby Bassett has also been on the carp with a fine 19 lb fish caught with in the first 20 minutes being in the swim.
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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!!
