Halo is out for South Devon anglers

Torquay’s Silver Halo continues to produce Pollack and the odd Cod over distant wrecks, whilst boat anglers fishing the murky waters of the Bristol Channel are being rewarded with plenty of Rays, Spurdogs and some nice early Smoothhounds.

Shore fishing is beginning to pick up at last with Dan Patrick finding Thornback Rays in one of our estuaries. Slapton produced an early contender for our fish of the month competition for Newton Abbot angler Tristan Rowe in the form of a 16lbs 14oz Blonde.

Newton Abbot FA waters are beginning to fish really well with a couple of good carp being reported. Tim Frost landed a 38lbs 8oz common, known as Patches, on a Max Attract ProFish white pop-up and Andy Shoer landed a massive 39lbs 4oz ghost carp.

Their latest match fished on Bradley Oond was won by Gary Webber with a bag weight of 20lbs 1oz fishing a feeder. The next two spots were taken by Tony Potter and Mike Hadley with 12lbs 13oz and 12lbs 12oz respectively.

At Rocombe’s Spring Ponds, an unnamed angler was pleasure fishing and landed a Chubb estimated at over 4lbs. Plenty of good Carp have come out of Newbarn this week with Steve Allen landing a nice Mirror carp and Daniel H-Keay a 21lbs Mirror also.

The fly-fishing season has started off with all South-West Lakes being stocked and our nearest reservoir, Kennick, is fishing well with members of Kennick Fly-Fishers taking fish from all parts of the water. Fish up to two and a half pounds are being reported with intermediate line and lures being the best tactics.

Please keep emailing your reports and pictures to johnsherlockfish@gmail.com for our fish of the month competition kindly sponsored by Newbarn Angling Centre and Sidewinder Lures, alternatively I can be contacted on Messenger.