North Devon Tackle Clubs latest Match at Oaktree Fisheries bottom lake saw carp feeding well and providing great sport. Simon Poynter took first place with three fine nets of fish totalling 104lb 7oz. Kevin Wilton was runner up with 56lb 1oz and Pete Seaward third with 41lb 3oz. Simon’s haul is new Match lake record for the bottom lake.
Phil Gilhespy has been among the fish at Upper Tamar Lake recently and proved his skill with both rod and camera sending South West Lakes Trust some fantastic images of fishing, wildlife and Common carp up to 20.02. Phil has had 8 fish in two sessions all caught on homemade boilies over a scattering of the same bait. The images illustrate perfectly the joys of carp fishing.
Mark Mead with his 28lb catch from the Dam wall on Beatties lake using mainline cell boilies.
Dave Morrish with his 28lb 8oz catch from the dam wall on Beatties lake using sticky baits krill.
Mark Grinney and Ellie had 8 fish from the inlet swim on beatties lake up to 29lb 3oz using home made chocolate boilies and strawberry pop ups.
Chrissy Waring who was here with hubby Geoff (AKA 2 of the Carp Busters ) had 10 fish out up to 21lb 8 oz on Beatties lake in a day session using mainline cell and dynamite baits monster tiger nut flavour purchased in the on site tackle shop .
Harris Sawyer who fishing Staffords Woodpecker Lake with regular Jason Hammond who had this fab catch from woodpecker lake today.
Latest match results from the ever prolific Stafford Moor
Wednesday August 3rd Open match at Stafford Moor on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes. Had 32 fishing with a continental payout . Had 6 main payouts plus 4 X section payouts.
Winner of the day was Andy Boffin Tanners peg 6 with 154lb 15oz fishing the conker & paste.
2nd Kev Walters Woodpecker peg 3 with 104lb 6oz
3rd Herbie Tanners peg 3 with 116lb 5oz
4th Tony Nallie Woodpecker peg 32 with 86lb 8oz
5th Ben Evenden Tanners peg 36 with 110lb 4oz
6th Chris Haines Woodpecker peg 10 with 84lb 13oz
Our section winners were:
Tanners steve Kedge peg 32 with 95lb 15oz and Kev Osbourne peg 27 with 61lb 12oz
Woodpecker Rob Hendrick peg 12 with 34lb and Mick Wheatley peg 26 with 43lb 7oz
Friday August 5th residents match Stafford Moor on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes. Weather was sunny most of the day , had a continental payout today , had a great winning weight from Stephen Crocker peg 36 with 132lb 4oz fishing 11mm on the lead, well done Steve ! (Who won it last year too )
2nd Chris Birch Tanners peg 35 with 122lb 5oz
3rd Keith Simpson Woodpecker peg 10 with 51lb 3oz
4th Rob Hendrick AKA MOS Tanners peg 13 with 90lb 12oz fishing 8mm & paste down the edge
5th Mark Betteridge Woodpecker peg 28 with 49lb 11oz
6th Richard Gere AKA Michael Wheatley 😜 Tanners peg 18 with 79lb 3oz
Nielsen Jeffery sent me this report on his latest short evening session at Horwood lakes(2.5 hours) he fished the top lake,and enjoyed some great sport. Landing three nice fish around 5 lb and around twenty pasties of up to 2 lb, plus three lovely tench.
Children under 16 fish for free as long as they are with a paying adult ; day tickets are only available from Summerlands at £5 a head. Both lakes have had an extensive overhaul with twenty nice platforms now in place. Both lakes are well stocked with carp to 12lb and tench.
Sue Seton-Smith, 53 from Southampton, and Friend Petula Little showed the men in their life how it’s done when they both caught Personal Bests! Sue caught a Personal Best 20lb 10oz Common from the Main Carp Lake using a homemade wafter rig with half cell bottom bait and trimmed half cell white pop up with a spread of boilies near to the lillies. Petula caught a personal 21lb 1oz Mirror from Xanadu on an Almond Goo Pop Up over Manilia Boilies. Both Ladies beat all the Men in their party and caught the Biggest Fish out of them all!!
Kieran Evans from Wales had a session with his Dad Mark on the Kracking Carp Lake before his annual week with us at the Main Anglers Paradise Complex in the hope of a New personal best Carp. Well, he did just that and caught a Personal Best 46lb 8oz Mirror on Fake Corn at 6.30am on the last day of his session! It certainly made his week!!
Matt Outen, 25 from Rutland had a 48 hour session to remember on the Main Carp Lake after catching 6 Carp and 4 of them being Stunning 20’s! Matt caught a 20lb 4oz Mirror, 2 X 20lb 12oz Mirrors and a 24lb 4oz Mirror on JH Baits White Pepper Pop Ups presented on Multi Rigs over a spread of the awesome JH Baits KLF and Black Pepper Boilies alongside a large bed of lily pads.
Carl Cliff Brown who caught the Complex’s 1st EVER 50 last year came back to the Kracking Carp to see if his luck would continue and managed to catch himself two Mirrors of 24lbs and 30lbs, and we have to say, we had to do a double take as they look so similar!! Carl caught the Kracking Mirrors using 40 Freebies with a White Pop Up over the top.
Peter Gauci, from Cardiff, headed to our Day Ticket Specimen Carp Lake Xanadu in search of a PB. He picked the right Lake and the right Bait and caught a Personal Best 27lb Common caught on The Twist 18mm Boilies fished on a 6inch Hair Rig with a PVA Bag full of Crushed Boilies.
Joanne Combes keeps a steady stream of carp captures coming my way with some stunning images of captors and their successes.
Lee Galley and his two sons visited Stafford Moor’s Lodge Lake to bank several hard fighting carp all tempted on Lee’s home made boilie’s.
Stafford Moor is in fine form with specimen carp regularly being tempted by visitors to the complex. Here are a few of the latest catches.
