Upper Tamar in Fine Form

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Aaron Bunning has been in fine form at Upper Tamar banking plenty of quality mirrors and commons recently. Aaron has had mirrors to 23lbs and commons to 24.08. Some of these fish are newly stocked fish from September 2017, all of which are showing good winter growth rates. All of Aaron’s fish fell to Nashbait coconut creme and scopex squid boilies.

23lb
24lb 8oz
24lb 8oz
22lb 8oz
18lb 15oz
22lb

The Don at 34lb 4oz from Upper Tamar

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Ben Smeeth of South West Lakes Trust is thrilled to announce the first capture of ‘The Don’ from Upper Tamar after it was stocked in September 2017. The fish was banked by Ashley Bunning at 34.04. Ashely had this to say: ‘It went 34lb 4oz, to say i am over the moon is an understatement. Had the fish over a big bed of Burton bait rollers ‘Magnet’ and the new test bait’. Congratulations to Ashley on the capture. The capture was part of a great weekend on the venue with anglers catching multiple numbers of fish and other fish over 20lbs being recorded.

Upper Tamar – Carp Catches

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Graham Wray has targeted Upper Tamar’s new carp in the last few weeks and has been rewarded with three of the newly stocked fish. Its great to see Graham back at the water he fished a lot many years ago. Graham’s fish tipped the scales to 22lb, just over 23lb and a 24lb 8oz lightly coloured fish which was stocked at 21lb10oz only two months ago.

Upper Tamar Thirty!

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Still on a role after winning the £3500 Pallatrax Pairs Open in September Karl Yates has banked one of our newly stocked fish from Upper Tamar Lake. Karl caught the sparsely scaled mirror at 36.08. The fish was stocked in early September along with another 25 Carp including 3 over 30lbs and 15 fish over 20lbs. Its great to see the fish doing so well and it has gained 1lb in weight since stocking. As it stands this is the largest fish caught from Upper Tamar for several years, although there are larger in the lake! It’s a new PB for Karl beating his previous best by over 12lbs. The fish fell to a Mainline wafter with a 4oz Hex lead from Westcountry Leads. Congratulations to Karl who has been rewarded for putting some time in at the venue and well done to his young son Alfie for taking the pictures.

(Below)Jason McEvoy and Leanne Rule have been back on the banks at Upper Tamar lake landing a few fish. Leanne banked the first of their four fish at 16.02 and the Jason managed the next three fish with commons of 10.00 and 14.02 and one of our newly stocked fish, a mirror of 20.02. The fish fell to either mirage baits king crab boilies or Marcus Watts scopex and pineapple.

Pallatrax Carp Open at Upper Tamar – Big Money Winners

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Karl Yates and Allan Jones have stormed the Pallatrax Carp Open at Upper Tamar to win £2000 with 12 fish for 140lbs and 7oz. The lads were second out the draw and fished peg 19 on the Cornwall Bank (the shallow end). They caught fish steadily throughout the comp and their fish included a newly stocked mirror of 20.08 (attached brace of fish). They also lost several fish. Very well deserved and many congratulations…………………. 2nd Place has gone to two time winners Phil and Sam Gilhespy who scoop £1000 with 6 fish for 72lbs and 14oz……………………..3rd place was decided with only 10 minutes remaining and Harry Miles and Joshua Bellew landed a common of 9.12 to clinch the £500 third spot! They had two fish for 25lbs.

Overall 7 pairs caught 26 fish with the largest fish being a 23.03 common caught by Barry O’Connor (a newly stocked fish – attached)

4th Barry and Benn O’Connor 1 fish for 23.03 winning Tamar season permits
5th Jason and Peter Budd with 2 fish for 21.13 winning Tamar season permits
6th Richard Harman and Dean Willoughby with 2 fish for 16.08
7th Aaron Rundle and Mike Toms with 1 fish of 13.12

Smallest fish wining a £50 Pallatrax voucher was Richard Harman with a 6.05 Common. Largest fish was won by Barry O’Connor and he won a £50 Pallatrax voucher

NEXT COMP 23-25 MARCH 2018
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North Devon Match Group Final Summer League Upper Tamar Devon Arm

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North Devon Match Group Final Summer League Upper Tamar Devon Arm

1st Paul Elworthy 39lb 12oz

2nd Neilsen Jeffery 31lb

3rd Andy Seery 25lb 4oz

4th Martin Turner 18lb 12oz .

Paul drew on the entrance of the Devon Arm and fished the open end feeder with corn to amass almost 40lb of skimmers, Neilsen fished on the next peg with a 3.5mtr whip, for second spot and took over 300 small perch and roach, Andy had a similar net on a 4.5 mtr using maggot and groundbait for 3rd. Conditions were rather challenging with strong winds and constant rain , The Summer League concluded with this match Neilsen ran out the winner on 122pts 2nd Paul Elworthy 110 3rd Martin Turner 105 4th Chris Morris 90

 

UPPER TAMAR SUCCESS

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23lb Mirror

SMASHING UPPER TAMAR……….Upper Tamar regular Aaron Bunning has been in great form landing 27 fish in just 4 nights!! Aaron has landed 8 mirrors and 19 commons with the largest fish being a 23lb mirror which was stocked only a few days before he caught it! The fish has been named ‘Single scale’. The biggest common was 16lbs but only five fish were under 10lbs. Aaron also caught a 19.09 mirror which he has had three times in two weeks and amazingly the same fish he caught 8 years ago at low double figures!! All the fish have been caught on premier baits matrix bottom baits with matching freebies. Awesome stuff Aaron!

13lb 2oz

19lb 9oz

15lb 2oz

Two – four pound perch highlight of Lure fishing day at Upper Tamar!

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An excellent report from John Deprieelle on the recent lure competition at Upper Tamar.

 

Upper Tamar kayak comp

 

The first kayak event on Upper Tamar reservoir has been and gone and despite all attempts from mother nature, the event was a success.

 

When fishery manager Ben Smeeth gave me the thumbs up to organize a kayak comp on the stunning venue set in Cornwall near Bude, I was delighted. This 80 acre reservoir is home to some of the biggest Perch in the Southwest but locating them can be tricky at times. With Kayak lure fishing becoming increasingly popular this was the perfect opportunity to get afloat and see if we could find a few of the dark destroyers.

 

The eve of the comp wasn’t looking good though as 50mph plus winds howled across the venue. That night I lay in the tent worrying that all my plans might be shot down in flames. As expected some people cried off as for some it was a long journey to just turn around and go home but the die hard anglers were there on time and it was left to the group to decide what to do. We decided to at least head out and give it a shot and test the water so to speak. I might add at this point that Savage gear had kindly donated free goodie bags consisting of T tail fat minnows and cannibal shads for all entrants. On top of that there was a prize for the biggest fish caught on one of the said lures.

We all launched into the white water being blown around like paper hankys but just 10 mins into the comp Bristol angler George Osborne hooked into a fish that not only smashed his previous PB but also caught it on the cannibal shad. The fish weighed in at 4lb 5oz and 44cm. One very happy angler and an incredible fish to set the pace. From there on people started to catch steadily and fish of almost every size graced the boats from just ounces going up in every pound class right up to another fish of 4lb 4oz caught by Lee Garner.

It wasn’t all fun and games though as the weather did claim some of us and over a thousand pounds worth of fishing tackle now sits at the bottom of Tamar reservoir. Four rods and reels, a box of lures, a set of car keys and lots of tears(mainly mine) were the price to pay but everyone took it in good spirit and the fish gods returned us with big fish as compensation.

As the afternoon came the winds finally gave up and for an hour we sat on a flat calm lake as if nothing had ever happened. The fishing slowed up but one final fish just under 4lb marked the end of an enjoyable, eventful day. We ended with two fish over 4lbs, ten fish over 3lbs and loads of fish over 2lbs.

I had hoped for a fun event which wasn’t too competitive with a lot of laughs and I think I achieved just that.

The biggest single fish of the day went to Tony Chesworth with a massive spawned out fish of 47cm(3,14).

The biggest fish caught on a Savage gear lure went to George Osborne measuring in at 44cm (4lb,5oz).

Dom Garnett kindly donated a signed copy of his book for the smallest fish and this was also caught by George Osborne at 14cm.

In 3rd place was George Osborne who looked like he was going to clean up.

In 2nd place was Adam Moxey with a string of fish to low 3’s

And 1st place went to Lee Garner who certainly had the lions share .Everyone who placed went home with goodies from Savage Gear, Costa, Cash and vouchers from Culm Valley angling.

Plans are already in place for an autumn event but these competitions can only exist with your support so watch this space. Massive thanks to Ben and Gary at SW lakes, Richard Taylor at Savage gear, Danny Parkins for the Costa prizes and Culm Valley angling.

John Deprieelle

(Northern John)

Competition Organiser