Town Parks Fishery Catch Report w/e 11/8

Catfish dominated the catches on the Specimen Lake at Town Parks Fishery this week.

Some cracking fish came to the net in the low to mid 30 pound bracket!

Exeter rod Lawrence Jones had a good session on peg 12 banking four Cats to 33lbs 2oz and three double figure Carp to 22lbs 4oz! All the fish fell to halibut pellet offered in the reeded margins.

Local 11 year old James Tippler also had a great session fishing with his dad from peg 9.

After losing a very large fish during the afternoon, (which he blamed his dad for!!!) Tippler fished through the night and, after plenty of bites hooked into his first Catfish.

After an extended battle with the fish, which took a Wild Berry boilie, it hit the scales at a fantastic 21lbs 2oz! Tippler was elated and vowed to return for something bigger!

Local regular Anthony Smith fished Halibut pellet from peg 10 and banked seven good doubles. Three Cats came to the net to 28lbs 3oz and four Carp to 19lbs 8oz also fell for the bait which was offered mid water!

Sid Trebell was going to fish from peg 5 but, at the last minute changed to peg 4 which was a wise move. During the night Trebell netted 5 Catfish to 23lbs 4oz and followed this by taking another three Cats during the day! Once again Halibut Pellet tipped with pop up sweetcorn proved effective!

Many other fish, too many to list individually, came to the net during the week that saw most pegs filled to capacity.

Several nice Tench to 7lbs 3oz were also reported from various pegs.

On the Match Lake Carp continued to fish well.

Regular Rod Metcalfe took 28 on a visit to peg 10 alternating between the waggler and bomb as the fish moved around! Coarse pellet tempted the fish.

Conor Nettleton lost count of how many Carp were netted during a 48hr stint with some very nice doubles reaching the net!

Silvers continued to take maggot and Castor.

A group of students for Paignton Sports and Community College enjoyed great sport taking Roach to the 2lbs mark as well as some decent Rudd and some very nice Perch.

The students offered maggot from 4 metre Whips around the 3 foot deep mark on size 16 hooks.

With ideal weather conditions great sport should be had from both lakes.