****Santa & Angelina's Star Performance****

'You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why, because Santa Claus (and 1000's of friends) are coming to town!'

On Sunday 9th December 2007, The Great English Riviera (commonly known as Torbay) is open to absolutely everyone and will see 1000s of people dressed in Santa suits running/walking/staggering/skipping along the seafront of Torquay. Everyone is invited including you to take part in the biggest seasonal charity event to ever take place on the English Riviera. Forget the running on bulls in Pamplona - we will be having the running of the Santa's in Torbay, South Devon! Raising money for the charity 'When You Wish Upon A Star' - a fantastic organisation that makes dreams come true for children with life threatening illnesses from around the UK.

To take part it really is quite straightforward wherever you may be. It costs just £10 for adults (over 15) to enter, which includes your Santa suit and a medal at the end. Santa's Little

Helpers (under 15) can also take part. For just £5 entry, they get a Christmas hat to run in and receive a medal at the end. All profits go to 'When You Wish Upon A Star' Charity.

Possibly a little far to travel for the day - why not book up tickets to see Angelina's Star Performance at the Princess Theatre, Torquay ( http://www.princesstheatre.org.uk/ ) and make a weekend of it! And if you still have Christmas Shopping to do there are plenty of wonderful shops to choose your nearest and dearest gifts, with the Dartington Centre definitely being the first port of call.

Book a short break in one of our luxury self-catering cottages here at Newbarn Farm for the weekend of the Santa Run and participate and we will deduct the entry fee of the event from the cost of your stay and donate this to the charity. Book any other dates before Christmas and we will donate 5% of your booking fee to 'When You Wish Upon A Star' Charity, quoting Ref:SCR12.

Christmas Shopping

Christmas at Newbarn Farm

I don't know about you but at this time of year I come out in a cold sweat - just thinking about all that Christmas shopping and having to locate the best tasting Turkey sometimes gets a little too much!

Do you sometimes feel the same? Do you still have a ton of Christmas preparation to do? If the answer is yes to either of the above questions - we may just be able to help.

For as little £172 for a weekend break (3 nights) or £260 for a full week, you could treat your loved one to a fantastic holiday in a beautiful rural retreat here at Newbarn Farm in South Devon. Torbay commonly known as the English Riviera is less than 10 minutes away by car - with plenty of things to do and fantastic restaurants for gourmet meals or a light lunch! Or simply take in the abundance of fresh air at the farm - take gentle strolls through 42 acres of pasture and woodland, read a novel or two. Just unwind and relax in one of South Devon's most peaceful and tranquil locations.

And for those who like a spot of coarse fishing we can offer you so much more - not just a holiday but a 'FISHING HOLIDAY'. One day's coarse fishing for £6.00, a three day ticket for £16 and for a full week just £40. For any keen carp anglers out there, I'm sure you will agree a fishing holdiay or short break would make an ideal gift. And for those who live in the locality why not buy a copy of your loved ones favourite angling magazine and pop a three, five or seven day fishing ticket inside and gift wrap ready to put under the Christmas tree.

These tickets can be used on any day of the year on any lake (unless a lake has been closed for a match) and will be valid for a full year.

Happy Christmas Shopping!

Catherine

FREE OFFER FOR ALL OUR HOLIDAY GUESTS!

Hi

Here at Newbarn Farm we are AGAIN experiencing some fantastic weather for this time of year, we can hardly believe that coats are not required and that our sweatshirts are neatly folded on the shelf gathering dust!

The guys here spent last week and will again this week putting up 6 large wrought iron repro Victorian Street Lamps, they will look fantastic when all up and working and as the nights close in will add warmth to Newbarn Farm's rustic exterior charm! Another project in the pipeline is to light up the majestic Oak Tree at the entrance of the Cottage carpark - which I am sure will create a mysterious aura just in time for the ghouls and ghosts on the night of Halloween!

Just a couple of the planned improvements which will add to the ambience of our luxury self-catering cottages and fishing lakes. And with the weather continuing to surprise us after such a dismal summer we have decided to offer all our guests staying in our holiday cottages not only an opportunity to experience all our latest developments first hand but also an offer of FREE fishing* - YES THAT IS FREE FISHING for an entire week's stay!

Hurray whilst the offer lasts!

* Offer only available for weekly bookings does not apply to short breaks.

South Devon Fishing at Newbarn Farm Selfcatering Cottages and Angling Centre

Hi everyone

I have the catch report for last week and what a report, excellent numbers and some excellent pictures, well done everyone.
The carp fishing and silver fishing has been excellent and without any fishing tournaments, get your fishing license and come and get some fishing tips.

Click on the pictures for a larger size.



















Some excellent pictures,

Ian Chick's 18 lb Mirror

















Jack and Darren's triple

















Jack and Jay's double

















Jack Lord's Common, Steady Jack your making a pig of yourself

















Jack Lord's Leather Carp, stop it Jack!
















And here we have a pair of Queenies, no not you lads!

Justin Burgoyne
















Peter Tamplin
















You have all done extraordinarily well, South Devon fishing is great, Carp fishing is great, come to Newbarn Farm Selfcatering Cottages and Angling Centre for Fishing tournaments, get your fishing license and come and get some fishing tips.

Regards Simon

www.newbarnfarm.com
www.newbarnfarm.org.uk

Spoding for Devon fishing at Newbarn Farm Selfcatering Cottages and Angling Centre

Spoding

Spoding is a method where you can set a bed of bait at a long distance quite useful on all types of lake. A useful tool when you have time to prepare your swim, limited for fishing tournaments, used favourably at Devon’s Newbarn Farm Cottages and Angling Centre for Carp fishing, all in all a very useful fishing tip.

The Spod is shaped like a rocket and is weighted at one end so that when it hits the water it will turn up and release the bait.

The preferred baits for the Spod are particle baits, such as Sweet corn, Hemp, Pellet, Maggots etc.

The idea of the Spod is to fill the Spod with what ever you like, cast to an area and continue to do so until you have developed a bed of ground bait and then proceed to fish on top with preferred hook bait.

At Newbarn Farm Cottages and Angling Centre the method is used and will bring fish on to the feed. Some prefer to use bait boats, saying that you can be concise everytime with a bait boat, against casting a spode, sometimes complaining about the cost of spode tackle. We think that if casting inaccuracy is a problem you probably should be using the spode more and improving your casting, home made spodes are not expensive and can easily be made out of crafted, small water bottles, remember a spode cast is not a strange, expensive piece of electronic equipment. We will come onto bait boats later when we bring you more fishing tips.

Here is an example of an additive that is available for your Spod, but don’t forget your own concoctions can be more fun to research and sometimes amazingly effective. The description below is Sensas description, not mine.

Sensas Carp Spod Booster - Salty Sauce

Spod boosters increase the effectiveness of any spoding mix by adding nutritional feed inducing signals. By adding to both the pre soaked spod mix and the soaked spod mix these spod boosters will constantly leak off a complex of high mineral feed inducing signals over a greater period encouraging investigatory responses from cruising carp.

Also add spod boosters to both groundbaits and method mixes to again increase the effectiveness of the bait mix. When used as a spod additive it is impossible to over load the spod boosters into the mixes but 50ml to a kilo of mix is a good starting point.
The spod boosters can be used straight from the pot as a rig dip or put straight into a solid PVA bag for liquid baiting.

Salty Sauce- is a liquid feed additive primarily based on the mineral content in both salt variants and molluscs within the lake environment. It is often noted that carp are seen picking up and sucking stones and pebbles present within certain areas of the lake, these often transpose into catching hot spots. This is due to the carp attempting to find and ingest essential salts and minerals for the necessary growth and reconstruction process. Carp find salt and minerals by the change in water PH around the necessary salts and minerals, now we have it in a bottle. An accelerated PH adjuster.

And there are many more.

This should be a useful Devon fishing tip for carp fishing and some fishing tournaments, so get out your fishing license and go fishing.

Have a go and see how you get on

www.newbarnfarm.org.uk

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TIME TO TAKE A BREAK

With the autumn nearly upon us, it looks like the summer is about to say a final farewell by providing some beautiful sunny days. So there is still time to make the most of the weather with a late break. Holidays are a great opportunity to carry out those trips and activities we have been dreaming about at work.

Living at Newbarn Farm, here in South Devon means we are spoilt for choice for activities. Packing a picnic, towels, bucket and spade and heading of to the beach remains a firm favourite with the majority of us. It is never too late here in the Torbay area to take to the water - whether fishing, water-skiing, sailing, canoeing and whatever takes your fancy really!

Those of you who prefer to keep your feet dry have lots of other options. Great days out include some of the magnificent houses, gardens and grounds open to the public here in South Devon, going for a stroll in forests or woodland, or even jumping on the saddle of your bike and going on a cyle ride all of which you can do from your base here at Newbarn Farm. You could take a gentle stroll around our 6 fishing lakes, put your feet up and relax, perhaps with a good book or even just have a gentle snooze in the self catering cottage of your choice.

Here at Newbarn Farm we can offer you the freedom to do just as you please for your late break away this year. All you have to do is book and you can be sure a relaxing time lies ahead!

Selfcatering South Devon Catch Report

http://selfcateringcottages.blogspot.com/google9ae923ee60002300.html

Hi Everyone

I have attached last weeks catch report for our Selfcatering Holiday Cottages
Don't forget to ask the lads about fishing tournaments, fishing tips, carp fishing and fishing licenses.


























Here is a little article on fishing stalking from Darren

Stalking

A Carp anglers favourite way to fish, well it is mine.

Stalking is a great way to fish, on the move and keeping an eye out for that tell tail sign that a Carp is feeding.

All that is needed is a good rod small float, you can also free line.

When you are stalking it is vital that you are very very quite as not to spook the fish, always check that your shadow dose not cast onto the water and that your approach is very silent. Camouflage gear is useful to, if you have non dark colours work. And try to blend with your back ground, keep low and try not to be spotted because as soon as you are seen the fish will spook and go.

Gently lower your bait into the water and wait!!

I find this a great way to fish but always respect other anglers and do not stalk were there bait lies. Have ago and see what you think it’s good. Here at Newbarn it is a very effective method.

Hope you all enjoyed that article.

Best of luck with all your South Devon Fishing


Regards Simon

www.newbarnfarm.org.uk