Town Parks Fishery Catch Report w/e 15/4

Good catches were reported from the Specimen Lake at Town Parks Fishery this week.

Catfish came to the bank in numbers and Carp and Tench readily took anglers baits.

Fishing peg 6 local rod Mark Bielby had a great overnight session banking four Carp, including three personal best’s, a first Catfish of 19lbs 1oz and tipped the session off with a good Tench of 6lbs 8oz. Cell boilies tipped with artificial sweetcorn and offered in various locations around the peg proved successful although a very large Catfish did run Bielby all the way to the main island before snapping off!

Matty Feakes made his first visit to peg 10 for a while and was rewarded with a good Common of 21lbs 3oz and a large Catfish although no weight was reported.

Regular John Webster tried peg 2 for a change and ended his day banking a nice Common of 16lbs 4oz.

Plenty of good sized Carp came to the bank, too many to list individual catches!

Meanwhile the top Match Lake also saw many Carp come to the net, pegs 10 and 14 to 20 producing the better multiple catches!

With school holidays it was nice to see so many juniors enjoying the sport and banking some good sized fish!

Silvers continued to take maggot and castor at varying depths depending on the air pressure that saw some dramatic changes as heavy thunderstorms passed nearby. Fish that had happily fed near the surface disappeared towards the bottom as the storms passed!

Tench have also been taken although they have fed sporadically at times.

With warmer weather setting in fishing conditions should continue to improve over the coming weeks/months!

Town Parks Fishery Catch Report w/e 8/4

Another good week of catches on both lakes at Town Parks Fishery saw many anglers enjoying excellent sport.

The upper Match Lake produced good bags of Carp many of which fell to coarse pellet offered on the waggler up in the water.

Excellent bags of Silvers were reported from many pegs with nets to just under the 100lb mark coming from some of the deeper water pegs.

Maggot and caster on size 16 hooks worked particularly well.

Pupils from Paignton College enjoyed one of their regular tutored sessions with all participants taking Roach, Rudd and Perch which fell to maggot offered up in the water!

 

On the lower Specimen Lake, Catfish were very active with many anglers reporting “hectic” sport!

  Fish to the high twenty’s came to the bank many falling to luncheon meat or worm  offered in the margins.

Some very nice Carp were also taken from many pegs around the Lake – fish seem to be feeding freely in both deep and shallow water.

Town Parks Fishery Catch Report w/e 1st April

With the unseasonably warm weather continuing excellent catches have been reported from both lakes at Town Parks Fishery this week.

On the lower Specimen Lake regular Bob Ineson had one of his best ever sessions from peg 1. Fishing a white chocolate boilie towards the main island Ineson hocked nine fish!  Best of the bunch a fine fully scaled platinum koi which was in excellent condition and tipped the scales at 22lbs 2oz.

Ineson’s session also saw a heavy grade hook being fished for Catfish straightened and snapped.

Over on peg 7, first timer Mark Sturdy honed his skills learnt on the Match Lake.

Shortly after dawn Sturdy banked a nice common of 14lbs 1oz this was quickly followed by a fine mirror of just under 20lbs! Both fish fell to small bloodworm boilies offered tight in the margins and near the waterfall.

Regular Match fishermen Mark Sturdy fished his first Carp session on the Specimen Lake at Town Parks Fishery. Sturdy was rewarded with two Carp, the best this Mirror of just under 20lbs.

 Earlier in the week local rod Aaron Warner fished the same peg this time using homemade boilies. During the early hours Warner’s alarms screamed off and after a battle of over 40 minutes a fine Catfish of 27lbs 2oz came to the net.

Aaron Warner chose peg 7 at Town Parks Fishery to test his new homemade bait and was rewarded with this fine Catfish of 27lbs 1oz

 

On the adjacent peg Aarons dad Graham banked two nice Commons using the same bait.

Dave Osmond had success during a couple of stalking sessions taking Carp, mainly from the margins to the 20lbs mark.

Regular Jack Roberts fished a three and a half hour float session from peg 6. Fishing double maggot he eventually netted 58lbs 4oz of Rudd!

On the top Match Lake, sport has been excellent with large bags of Silvers to the 90lbs mark commonplace. Carp have also shown in numbers with 10-12 fish per session coming to pellet. Bream have continued to show particularly in front of peg 3 where fish to 5lbs were reported falling for corn.