News from Clawford Summer 2008.

 Weather.

Click on the map of Devon for the latest weather report.

Predominantly cloudy, Bright with Sunny intervals with a light South Westerly breeze.

Day time temperatures of 19º C. with night time temperatures of 14° C.

Sunrise 05.16 (BST)                                             Sunset 21.28 (BST)

The Clawford fishing festivals.

This year we are running two festivals at Clawford. A Spring festival and a Autumn festival.

If you need any further information on the festivals or you have any questions, you can e-mail John Ray on john.ray@clawford.co.uk.

During the festivals, Rover matches will be held on Sundays and Wednesdays.

The cash prizes are provided by Clawford and will depend on the numbers of anglers taking part.

       1. For every angler fishing the Festival, Clawford will add £50 per angler to the prize money.

       2. i.e. Based on 40 festival anglers, they will be fishing for a share of £2,000.

The 2008 Clawford Autumn Fishing Festival.

The Second Clawford, 'Nutrabaits Fishing Festival' will take place between 13th. & 19th. September 2008.

Presently, with the number of anglers already booked, the anglers will be fishing for the following:-

       1. £ 1,600 cash prizes.

           First prise £ 560, plus a weeks holiday in a duplex luxury S/C unit. (To defend title in 2009).

           Plus a trophy.

           Second prize £ 335

           Third prize £ 225

           Plus four Section prizes of £ 110 / section.

           Special Prize £40

       2.  Share of Pool monies.

       3.  Sponsor prizes. (etc.)

We still have another two months to increase booking numbers, we still have a few units left.

The more anglers taking part, the bigger the prize money.

The prizes will be awarded on Friday night, in the bar at 21.00 hours.

Bookings are now being taken for the 2009 festivals.

The Spring festival will take place on April 11th. to 17th.2009

The Autumn festival will take place on September 12th. to 18th. 2009.

We already have bookings for both these festivals, so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Clawford Nature Watch.

  Major Johns Lake.  

Fishing very well.

Mirror Carp to 27 lbs. showing.

Best baits are Trigga Ice and Techni Spice presented over a bed of hemp.

Tanners Lake. 

Fishing excellent.

A lot of upper teens and 20's showing. Best Carp a 35lb Mirror & a 31lb. Common.

Best baits are Sprayed Nutrabaits Trigga &  Techi-Spice.

Chris Jackway from Bristol set up in the Roundabout swim for a four day session.

After taking few upper teens Chris netted his PB in the shape of a 27lb. 4 oz. Mirror.

He used a Strawberry Cream Boile fished over a bed of Hemp to temp his Carp.

Clawford regular Paul Clarke from Manchester braved the crazy weather we had over the Easter break.

As a reward, he capture his PB 30lb. Common Carp

Watch this space for a photo and an update when i receive it from Paul.

Clawford Carp Club member, Mark Way from Exeter had a two night, three day session in the oak tree swim.

Mark was using his modified version of Trigga Ice with additional ingredients of Red and green lipped mussel.

Fishing to the second crescent island, in 2.5 feet of water with chopped Trigga Ice Red, free offerings, Mark had a screaming run at 6 o'clock early morning.

After a 40 minute tussle he netted a little seen, 34 lb. 12 ozs Mirror.

This Carp beat his PB by 13 lb. 12 ozs.  

Chris Ransted from Sheffield had a three night session in the meadow swim.

Chris was fishing with Nutrabaits trigga ice boilies sprayed with the trigga ice attractor and fishing over a bed of trigga pellets sprayed with the trigger ice attractor.

Chris beat his PB by 4 lb 12 oz. in the shape of a 31 lb. 8 oz. Leather.

He presented his winning bait combination in a PVA bag.

Paul Abrahams from Nailsea, Bristol moved into the Steps swim on Saturday morning for a three day session.

Paul started off small with a 8 lb. Fully Scaled Mirror, and a 14 lb. Common. Then at midnight he was into a big Carp, following a 20 minute tussle he banked a 30 lb. 6 oz. Mirror.

He tempted his 30 using a 6 barbless hook with a a' Cotswold Creations' T2 pop up.

Harvey Rhodes from Manchester fished the meadow swim for a 24 hour session.

Starting off in fine style Harvey banked his PB Carp weighing in at 24 lb 12 oz.

He tempted his PB Mirror carp with a 'xmas tree rig' using Trigga Ice boilies glugged in Trigga Bait Spray Soak.

David Leigh from Belgium set up in the Oak Tree swim for a 3 day and 2 nights session.

At 03.15 hours on his first night David had a screaming run, resulting in him banking a 30 lb. 13oz. Scale perfect Common Carp.

He tempted his 30 by using two 20mm boilies (Tutti Fruiti and Techni Spice) on the same hair mounted as a xmas tree, over a generous offering of chopped boilies.

Bill Bowker from Sheffield dedicated a few hours per morning fishing with Nutrabaits 3D boilies.

In a three day session  bill landed (amongst others) an 18lb. Common a 24lb. 8oz Mirror and a 24lb. 12oz Common.

Martin Whitehead from Westward Ho!, Devon had a good two day session in the meadow swim using Carp Addicts bait.

Martin netted his UK PB Common at 24lb. 4oz. and a 20lb. 4oz. Fully scaled mirror.

He saved the best till the last in the shape of a 26lb. 12oz. Mirror.

Fletchers Lake.

Fishing Well.

Ghost Carp to 23 lbs. showing, plenty of 20 lb. scrapers and upper teens showing. 

Best fish are being taken on drilled halibut pellets and carp pellets.

Roy Norris from Cheddar fished an afternoons session on the Bridge Swim.

Roy had over 40 fish on the bank, five different species, 'all in immaculate condition'.

Fishing a size 8 barbless hook with a worm/sweet corn cocktail, he tempted several +1.5 lb Roach, half a dozen Alabaster White Ghost Carp and three Barbell up to 3.5 lbs.

Two angling friends T. Wright and P. J. Jackson from London had a two hour session on Fletchers Lake on their way to fish JR's Lake.

In the two hour session Tom Wright over 100 lb. of hard fighting Ghost Carp. His fishing pal Peter had over 120 lbs. of Ghost Carp the biggest being his PB of 17lb.

Michael and Julie Wallin from Dunstable, Bedfordshire were determined to catch a 20 from Fletchers Lake.

After a day of netting lower teens and Roach, Mike was just about to pack up at 17.00 hours when his rod bent double and a Common Ghost Carp took his line and shot down the lake.

After a dogged 25 minute struggle, Mike brought his first 20 lb. 8 oz. Ghost Carp to the net.

Julie said, after the weigh in, it wasn't the fish that was hooked, Mike is now hooked on catching his first 30 lb. ghost carp from Fletchers Lake.

Ray Sanders from Worcestershire fished the Monk swim for a two day session.

 Fishing a pop up glugged Pineapple and Banana boillie Ray banked a 23lb. 2oz. scale perfect Ghost Mirror, beating Rays PB by 2lbs.

Husband a wife team, Lynette and Steve Welsh from Fleetwood, Lancashire followed their impressive session on Wanda's Lake by spending a day on Fletchers Lake.

Lynette insisted on setting up in the swim on the north bank between the two islands, she chose the swim nearest to the bridge and unknown to Steve, found the deep trench just to the right of her swim.

As a result Lynette banked +250 lbs. of the Clawford Ghost carp with three pure white Koi.

Both anglers were using Trigga, Paste and worms.

Lynette also netted the biggest Carp. A 14 lb. 12 oz. Common Ghost Carp.

Wanda's Lake.

Fishing very well. 

Fishing like a typical Tench Lake. Tench showing in numbers the first thing in the mornings and late evenings.

Tench to 8.5 lb. showing as well as Good Roach to 1.5 lb, Bream to 6 lbs.

Best baits are worm, flavoured luncheon meat, paste and mini boilies.

The best fish are being taken on paste and mini boilies.

Bill & Virginia Rushmer from Ashford, Middlesex had a 4 hour session on their favourite Clawford lake.

The Rushmer's were both keen to test the fish ability of the lake in the wake of the three day, cold spell and the snow fall experienced on Saturday.

Virginia came up trumps with a 9 lb. 2 oz. Tench followed by a nice 1.5 lb. Roach.

Bill responded by banking six Tench between 5 and 8 lb. twenty five bream between 2.5 and 3.75 lbs. and half a dozen good stamp Roach between 1 and 1.25 lbs.

The best fish are being taken on a flavoured paste and flavoured carp pelletts.

Tom Graney from Coventry had his first week on holiday at Clawford.

With 16 lakes to choose from, Tom was besotted with Wanda's Lake and spent the whole week fishing it. 

Tom had a lot of big Tench, averaging 7 to 8lbs., big Bream to over 4.5lb. and well over 50 Crucian Carp +2.5lbs. A bonus for Tom was a lot of scale perfect, hard fighting Roach to +2.25lb.

During his session Tom had two, double figure Green Tench.

Lorraine Thomas from Warmley, Bristol braved the wet and windy weather to fish her favourite lake.

In a days session Lorraine brought to the net sixty Green Tench ranging from 4.25 to 7.75 lbs.

Lorraine was using a variety of baits but the two which worked the best were Paste and Coarse fish pellets.

The bait which accounted for the largest Tench were glugged banded trigga mini boilies.

John Newman and Peter Alberti from Aylesbury set up swims in the reed Warbler and Monk swims.

Both men had a good day fishing their favourite lake.

Amongst the afternoons catches were a 'few good Tench', 'a lot of good Roach to 1 lb' and  'loads of hard fighting Bream' between 2.5 and 4 lbs.

John said he has never seen anything like it, Bream tail walking! on the line.

Peter said he was using several baits throughout his session.

The Tench preferred the Halibut Pellets, the  Roach were coming out on Glugged Boilies and the Bream were taking Strawberry or Vanilla flavoured sweet corn. Small pieces of Halibut Pellets were also taking small Perch.

Husband and wife team Lynette and Steve Welsh from Fleetwood, Lancashire set up next to the tall reeds on the North bank.

On this occasion Steve won the day with over 100 lb. of Bream and six large Tench from 3 lb.

Steve was using worm and paste to tempt his catch.

Throughout his session Steve said his +100 Bream was regularly punctuated with 1 to 1 1/4 lb. Roach.

Edward's Lake.

Fishing Very, Very well. Exceptional bags being taken.

Ghost carp to 14lb., Koi Carp to 14lb., Nice bream to 4 lb,  Green Tench, Barbel & Roach showing.

Best baits are worm, swee tcorn and hookable pellets.

Terry Gilpin from Birmingham set up in the Willow swim to target his favourite fish Tinca Tinca.

Terry banked over 36 tench between 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 lbs during his 4 hour session.

Just before Sun Set, Terry netted a hard fighting 7 lb. 2 oz. Male Green Tench, beating his PB by over 3 lbs.

He tempted his Tench on a Worm/Sweet corn cocktail.

April 9th.2007.

Garry Spratt from Leeds and Paul Aveston from Doncaster wanted to see from them selves the fishing stories from residents fishing Edwards Lake.

The fishing duo set up shop on the north bank fishing to the Y shaped island.

In a seven hour session Garry netted over 110 lbs. of fish where Paul captured over 60 lb.

Amongst the days catch was 17 Roach over 1.5 lbs., Blue Orfe to 2.25lb,. Green Tench to 3.75 lbs. and plenty og Ghost Carp. The best Carp was a Alabaster White colored Koi.

Plenty of Ghost carp to 15lb., Koi Carp to 15 lbs, Bream to 7lb., Green Tench to 6.5 lb, Blue Tench to 3 lb. Blue Orfe, Roach and Rudd showing.

Best baits includes worm, luncheon meat and glugged Trigga mini boilies.

  JR's Lake.

Fishing very, very well.

Carp showing to over 23lbs. 350 lb. Bags being taken.

Plenty of Carp, Bream, Roach and Rudd showing.

Best baits are worm, maggots and flavoured luncheon meat, fished over a bed of hemp.

Jon Brampton from Tamworth, Staffs set up shop on the East bank in the left corner swim.

Using bunches of dead red maggots on a size 8 hook and using a small method feeder, Clive managed to capture over 240 lbs of Carp, Bream, Roach and Rudd.

August 5th. 2007.

Tom Wright from London set up in the scare crow swim.

In a five hour session he netted a mixed bag of Carp, Bream, Roach and Rudd weighing in at 175 lbs.

Tom was using hookable pellets, Paste, sweet corn and Worm.

Paul Herbert from Western Super Mare had a three day session, fishing a different swim each day.

Paul had an impressive +225lbs. of fish out every day. A total bag of over 700 lbs. over his three day period using Hookable Pellets, Sweet Corn and Paste.

For the seventh consecutive year the Birmingham Postmen from Yardley returned to their favourite venue for a weeks well deserved holiday.

On May 30th, the boys held their 7th. annual match on JR's Lake.

First place was taken by Peter Hill with a bag of 73 lbs. Pete said he had another +100 lb. of fish after the match had finished.

Geoff Franklyn from Yardley, Birmingham has built up a reputation of producing some single amazing catches over the history of the past 7 matches.

This year was no different.

Geoff netted a 4 lb. 7.5 oz. (04-08-08) Super Perch on a Vanilla flavoured Sweet Corn bait.

Clawford Lake.

July 1st. 2008.

Fishing Extremely well when the right baits are chosen.

Sixty Carp in a days session being reported. Carp to 25 lb showing.

Best baits are Carp Pellets, hookable pellets, Worms and glugged Trigga.

September 5th. 2007.

Clive Woodall from Tamworth, Staffordshire set up a swim on the North bank across from the Water lily's.

In a comfortable days session Jon netted well over 200 lbs of pristine carp.

He float fished with a size 8 barbless hook, using scopex flavoured Luncheon meat.

August 5th. 2007.

Mr. P. J. Jackson from London had an afternoons session on Clawford Lake.

Peter had over 250 lbs. of hard fighting carp in six hours.

He tempted his fish using a size 8 barbless hook and popped up banded Clawford pellets, in the water lily swim fishing tight to the island.

Nick Townend and his son Matt from Harpenden, Herts set up swims on the Northern side of the East bank.

In a four hour session both anglers had over 350 lbs. of Carp.

Nick over his four hour stint accounted for 27 carp up to 16 lb. with a lot of doubles

Matt had ten Carp in only a 2 hour session.

Best baits were flavoured Luncheon Meat and Glugged Trigga Boilies.

April 9th. 2007.

Paul Clarke from Sutton, Surrey,  fished from the South bank in front of the water lily swim.

In an seven hour session he banked over 25 carp.

His best fish was an 18 lb. Mirror.

Paul was fishing with floating dog biscuits and popped up, Luncheon meat and worm to net his +320 lbs bag of 'super fit' Clawford Carp.

  Gregory's Lake.

July 1st. 2008.

Fishing well. 

Plenty of Koi, Golden Carp, Golden Orfe and 1.5 lb. Roach and Rudd showing.

Best baits are Worm, sweet corn and luncheon meat.

John Shepherd from Stains, Middlesex set up a swim on the peninsular on the Wets bank.

Using mini boilies, hookable pellets and Worm John had plenty of big Golden Orfe between 3lbs. and 4lbs.

Amongst his 50lb. Golden bag John had Golden Tench to 5lb. and plenty of Gold Carp and Koi, Gold Rudd and Roach.

On her visit to Clawford, Sara Rossiter from Gloucester fancied fishing the golden lake.

Float fishing from the West Bank, she netted Golden Tench, Gol Orfe and Golden Carp up to  6 lbs.

Emery's Lake.

July 1st. 2008.

Fishing Reasonable.

Carp to 21 lb., Koi Carp to 12lb. and good Roach and Bream to 6lb. showing. 

Best baits are worm, pellet, Paste and glugged Trigga Boilies.

July 9th. 2007.

Sally Poynter from Gatwick, London has been intending to fish Emery's Lake for the past four years but never got around to it.

This year she did and wasn't disappointed.

Sally stayed on this lake fishing for two and a half days.

The first day her first bite took her Halibut Pellet hook bait and 'shot off at 100 mph' and threw her hook in a bed of reeds.

 Sally was targeting the Prettiest Carp on the Complex but landed several other species on her pellets.

She banked 'about 12 carp' , totalling 140 lbs. in the first days session all between 7 and 16 lbs.

These were made up of Koi, Ghost Carp, Blue Carp and Peach coloured Carp.

  Pinney's Lake.

July 1st.2008.

Fishing really well.

Plenty of Carp to 19lb. showing.

Best baits are Pop up Trigger Boilies, Carp Pellets and Expandable Carp Pellets.

Poynter's Lake.

June 27th. 2008.

Fishing steady.

Good Perch to 4lb. and Chub showing.

Best baits are paste and pellets.

Julies Lake.

July 1st.2008.

Fishing steady.

Grass Carp to 4 lb., Green Grass Carp to 7lbs,. Tench & Silver Bream showing.

Best bait is Worm, Green hookable Pellet or flavoured luncheon meat.

Pole Fishing Lake 1.

May 27th. 2008.

Fishing very well since the lakes were stocked with Carp.

Bags of +55lb being taken from the east and West banks.

Carp to 3 lbs. Good Roach, Rudd, Golden Orfe, Crucians and Bream showing.

Best baits are Maggot, worm, Castors and pellet.

Pole Fishing Lake 2.

May 28th.2008.

Fishing well. 

Good Bags +60 lbs being taken.

Carp,  Roach, Rudd, Tench and Golden Orfe showing. 

Best baits are worm, Hook-able Pellets, castor and paste.

Kingfisher Lake.

June 17th. 2007.

Fishing steady, Small Crucian Carp and Tench showing.