There are certainly some stunning carp being caught from North Devon waters with Stafford Moor undoubtedly one of the most consistant.
Callan Shipway landed a stunning 31lb 14oz Mirror carp from the beach swim on Beattie’s lake today fishing with Mainline cell boilies.
Joel Davis who had 11 fish in 24 hours up to 24lb on the inlet swim on Beattie’s lake using Mainline cell boilies.
Tom Downing(Above) and friend Andy Sanders(Below) with a couple of there 6 catches up on lodge lake in a 24 hour session using bait tech triple N15mm & 10mm boilies.
Toms fish was 20lb 10oz and Andys was 18lb 7oz
(Above) Jason Shipway had 6 fish out up to 26lb from the beach swim on Beattie’s lake using Mainline cell boilies .
(Above)Jason Barrett and friend Neil Duckett who fished up on the dam wall on lodge lake , they had 63 fish out between them in 4 days up to 24lb 3oz using Sticky Baits krill and also Manilla boilies.
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!!
(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.
Stafford Moor is in fine carp form with stream of reports coming to North Devon Angling News below is a collection of images showing off some superb catches of carp.
(Above) Nik Slater fished Stafford Moor to land four quality carp to 16lb.
(Above) Brandon King who is only 13 years old and came fishing to Stafford Moor with dad Barry. They fished on the dam wall on Beatties lake and had 4 fish out , Brandon caught a 23lb mirror (below) using good old cell boilies and squid supreme bait smoke.
(Above)Craig Lacey who had 7 fish out up to 22lb 10oz using jungle squabs. Craig had 2 fish form the back bays , 3 on the inlet and 2 from the dam wall all on Beattie’s lake.
(Above)Matt Luscombe who had 12 fish out in 24 hours up on the spit on lodge lake fishing cell boilies and Sticky Manilla.
(Above) Lee Mccrum with this stunning 24lb common form Beattie’s lake today on the dam wall, caught on cell boilies.
A cold North East wind made fishing difficult for competitors in South West Lakes Trust’s Pallatrax Carp Open at Upper Tamar Lake where Chris Hudson and Adam Martin secured the top prize of £2000 with five carp for a total weight of 43lb 12oz. Runners up were Alan Jones and Karl Yates who banked five carp for 39lb 15oz to win £1000. Third place and £500 was secured by David Bellew and Steve Lovell with three fish for 31lb 3oz. Fourteen fish were landed from four of the twenty five pegs a clear illustration of that old saying “when the wind is in the East the fish bite the least’. South West Lakes Trust were grateful to their sponsors Pallatrax, Anaconda Unlimited systems and Saengar Top Tackle System.
The latest catches reported to me from Stafford Moor with anglers relishing the warm spring sunshine that is encouraging the carp to feed hard.
(Above) Josh Vernon who fished on Albert square up on lodge lake in under 24 hours . He had 9 fish out up to 20lb fishing with home Krill boilies.
(Above)Maddison Holdsworth with her new pb of 22lb 1oz from the dam wall on lodge lake . Maddison had 4 fish out using Sticky Baits Krill and Sticky Baits Manilla boilie’s. Maddy is only 11 years old and comes fishing with her dad Steve.
(Above) Here are the carp busters Jeff Waring and Chrissy Waring and Julie Carnell with some of there catches up on lodge lake in a day session. They had 6 fish out today up to 20lb 4oz using good old Mainline cell boilies.
At Furzebray Carp Lakes anglers are eagerly awaiting the opening of a third specimen lake at the venue. Copse Lake opens on Friday March 31st and has an impressive population of quality carp. I asked venue owner Tony Kingdon about the new venue.
“The Copse lake is an acre and a half and stocked with approx 50 fish including 2 over 30lb and at least 8/10 20’s, all the fish have been had picked and are stunning. There is 8 swims with a max of 4 anglers at any one time, the lake can be book exclusively or on a day ticket basis.”
If catches at the Fisheries other lakes are anything to go by we should be seeing some impressive fish in the coming years.
Below are a few recent catches from Island Lake; the pictures really do all the talking of how this fishery has developed since its opening over ten years ago.
(Above) John Rose smashed his pb yesterday by 13lb when he landed Charlotte at 45lb 6oz from the Lawns swim.
(Above) Lee Philips staying in Cherry View lodge has had a great start to his week landing 3 Scales at 33lb+ within hours of casting out.
Richard Turvey enjoyed an action packed session on the venues long established Island Lake landing nine fish in a forty-eight hour session the best fish a carp known as Sovereign at a weight of 33lb.
Harry Collins is a regular visitor at Stafford Moor and comes from the nearby village of from Dolton. He landed six fish during his latest 24 hour session topped by this fine mirror of 25lb 15oz. The fish was tempted from the inlet swim on Beattie’s using Sticky Baits Manilla boliies.
Wayne Grinney fished Stafford Moor Fishery and has hoped to catch the venues big ghost carp that has been seen on many occasions and estimated to weigh around 28-30lb but had to settle for the fishes younger brother instead ! Wayne has been after the big ghostie for some time that appears to live in the back bays of Beattie’s this beauty weighed 17lb 9oz using Sticky Baits 16mm Manilla boilies,
