5 Aug 2016

Stafford Moor Match News

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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

5 Aug 2016

HORWOOD LAKES

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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.

2 Aug 2016

UPPER TAMAR CARP COMPETITION

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2 Aug 2016

PARADISE CARP

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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!!

Sue Seton Smith 20lb 10oz common carp — *Sue Seton Smith*
*20lb 10oz common carp*

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.

Carl Cliff Brown - 24lb mirror carp — *Carl Cliff Brown – 24lb mirror carp*

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.

31 Jul 2016

STAFFORD MOOR CARP CATCHES

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Joanne Combes keeps a steady stream of carp captures coming my way with some stunning images of captors and their successes.

Phill Bate with one of his catches a 20lb 15oz beauty fishing BQ Wafters in the dam wall on Beatties — *Phil Bate with one of his catches a 20lb 15oz beauty fishing BQ Wafters in the dam wall on Beatties*

Inch Morgan with one of his many catches from the summerhouse swim on Beattie's lake using sticky baits krill boilies here is his 20lb common (just one of his catches ) — *Inch Morgan with one of his many catches from the summerhouse swim on Beattie’s lake using sticky baits krill boilies here is his 20lb common (just one of his catches )*

*Eddie Scott with just one of his 6 catches from lodge lake peg 14 using shoreline baits protein boilies .*

26 Jul 2016

STAFFORD MOOR – LODGE LAKE SUCCESS

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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.

24 Jul 2016

STAFFORD MOOR CARP NEWS

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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.

*Lily Hammond with her 14lb catch from lodge lake using sticky baits krill boilies. Lily was here with dad Jason Hammond who is a regular here at Stafford moor.*

Scott Vern who had 7 fish out up to 15lb from lodge lake using mainline cell boilies . — *Scott Vern who had 7 fish out up to 15lb from lodge lake using mainline cell boilies* .

Paul Hutchings who had 9 fish out up to a weight 29lb 7oz (pictured) from Beattie’s lake in a 48 hour session using krill & sweetcorn topper.

Adam Price with one of his 4 fish out of 20lb from Beattie's lake using krill — *Adam Price with one of his 4 fish out of 20lb from Beattie’s lake using krill*

Danny Hayman with one of his catches from Beattie's lake a 26lb 8oz using cell over a area of cell & pellet. — *Danny Hayman with one of his catches from Beattie’s lake a 26lb 8oz using cell over a area of cell & pellet.*

24 Jul 2016

Bideford Midweek Result

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Bideford Angling Clubs Midweek Evening Match Tarka Swims saw David Bailey take first prize with 28lb 12oz. Second was Matt Cross with 6lb 15oz and third Martin Hawker with 6lb 12oz. John Lovell forth with 6lb 11oz and Craig Crash Lamey fifth with 2lb 9oz. Winner David Bailey took 5 carp on banded pellet fished on the lead. Second place was secured using pole and paste tactics.

23 Jul 2016

FURZEBRAY CARP

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Furzebray Carp fishery has a well deserved reputation for its big pristine conditioned carp. Here are a few of the latest fish to be tempted from the venue.

*Chris Madden with Angies common at 30+*

*Chris Blythe with a stunning willow ghosty at 20+*

13 Jul 2016

More carp from Trusty waters

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Brad Laughton has been having great success on day ticket venue Jennetts reservoir, just outside Bideford, Devon. Brad recently caught 10 fish over two day sessions all landed using a hinged stiff rig cast tight to the far margin over a bed of QC Baits red candy boilies. The three commons attached weighed 25lb, 22lb 14oz and 20lb. Top Angling Brad!

Brad Laughton

22lb 14oz Brad Laughton

Whilst not North Devon fish I could not resist putting up these fish caught at Old Mill Near Dartmouth a water I fished once twenty odd years a go with some success. The two fish look fitting captures from this Old atmospheric water.

John Kneebone and Amy Maunder had these stunning mirrors from syndicate water Old Mill reservoir Near Dartmouth, Devon, part of the South West Lakes Trust portfolio. Amy’s was 20lb on the nose and John’s 18.04. both fish were caught on Mainline Essential Cell boilies.