Selfcatering Cottages Catch Reports

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Hello everyone

I have bee a bit tardy with the catch reports recently, so I have included a few in this blog, including the new world record one, well world record for Newbarn Farm selfcatering cottages and angling centre anyway, or maybe its just a Devon record, I don't care it's a record anyway, over 900 lbs.

Self Catering Cottages and Fishing

Newbarn farm self catering cottages and angling centre is still at the fore front of testing fishing equipment. You can see below that we are testing collapsible chairs, so far so good!

Here is the catch report for 3rd March, click on it for a readable size.

Catch report for 16th April




Catch report 28th of April


Catch report

951.92 lbs a record!

13th of May and some photos


Nigel Fear with Casper,

The best of fishing in Devon


Dave Whitfield with Queenie,

come and find holiday cottages and fishing



Don Savage with Queenie,

What Devon fishing holidays are all about

All the best, looking forward to a great summer

Simon

www.newbarnfarm.com

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Sunny Hazy Days - Relax on the Beach - Relax whilst Fishing in Devon

This is Blackpool Sands probably one of the best places to sun yourself on the southern coast of Devon. This last week has seen some wonderful May weather with temperatures reaching as high as 27 degrees centigrade here at Newbarn Farm. Whether it be sunning yourself on the beach or soaking up the tranquil & peaceful rays whilst on a Devon Fishing Holiday, Newbarn Farm can offer you both and so much more!

Stay in one of our luxury 4 STAR self-catering Cottage (& Fishing) - (we can cater for parties as little as one and as large as 35) and then the choice is yours.

Spend the full day fishing on Mirror Lake, probably one of the best specimen Fishing in Devon lakes around and you could be rewarded with Queenie pictured below.

Or a quick dash in the car and you and your family could be enjoying the delights of Goodrington, a long sandy beach, very popular with families with easy access. A wide range of leisure options including the Quay West Water Park. Excellent and safe sunbathing and water sport choices with seaside awards. Plenty of beach shops, pub, w/cs, deckchair & sunlounger hire and boat hire. All just 2 miles away! Pictured below!

Back at Newbarn Farm, a great Devon Fishing Holiday location, after a day relaxing on the beach with the family why not brandish your rods and make your way to the lakes for a spot of fishing whilst everyone else showers and changes ready for that barbie and cold beer. No doubt you will join them later, after you have managed to bag a chappie like Casper here!

Great Holiday Cottages & Fishing with a host of sandy beaches nearby. Want something a little different. Travel 3o minutes in the car and you will reach Blackpool Sands - the most wonderful unspoilt beach around. Privately owned, beautifully kept (cleaned daily), sand pits and bathing raft, Venus Cafe for all meals and even refreshing showers. Never over-crowded as once the private car park is full, that's it no one alse is allowed in! Catch the morning sun and guarantee a place on this fabulous beach. Yes you do need to pay to park - but it's worth it!



Newbarn Farm - Holiday Cottages & Fishing in Devon at it's best.

Fishing in Devon at Newbarn Farm has never been so good!

This is Queenie, our celebrity Mirror carp. She was reeled in by Dave Whitfield from Bath last Sunday much to his delight! Queenie as you can see is in great condition and weighed in at 26lb 4oz. Dave also caught two commons 14lb and 12lb fishing from Hut 6 on the banks of Mirror Lake. Ignore the date on the catch photo, his young grandson had been playing with his camera!

Last week saw a record catch of 957lb 6oz being caught here at Newbarn Farm, a great Devon Fishing Holiday location. Most came out of Mirror Lake, but a few came out of Island and Rosie. For Jonny Davis from Paignton, sweetcorn in the margins rewarded him with three carp caught from our new hut 11. Anglea Graham caught a 22lb 11oz Common which was not bad for her first time fishing whilst on holiday here at Newbarn Farm, proving to be a great Devon Fishing Holiday.

Darren Watt from Brixham, one of our regular chappies pulled out a beautiful Common Carp not recorded before, weighing in at 23lb 6oz he aptly named her 'The Big C', other fish caught by Darren on Sunday were all Mirror Carp - 19lb 4oz, 18lb 2oz, 18lb 4oz, 17lb 40z and 17lb.

Unfortunately for Mr Taylor and his friend who turned up on Thursday 1st May for a weekend of quality fishing in Devon - not a bite. Naturally they were not too happy and complained to anyone who would listen. Adrian Bailey and his friends who were also staying on the banks of Mirror (a get together before Adrian renewed his wedding vows after 25 years of marriage) put us striaght when he reported that no wonder why the guys weren't catching - they couldn't even be bothered to have any rods in the water!!

So all in all some fantastic fishing in Devon here at Newbarn Farm and for some a memorable Devon Fishing Holiday!

Blondes in High Places & Holiday Cottages & Fishing on a Hill-top!

There have been some ridiculous images of Gwyneth Paltrow splashed over the pages of some national newspapers and in the glossy gossip magazines at the tail end of last week. Admittedly this star looks great for her 35 years, but does she really need to go to such an extreme to court attention! Microscopic dresses and skirts maybe on her would be OK but this coupled with the current fashion of the rich and the famous for squeezing their bunion infested feet into the 7 inch high Christian Louboutin pumps. Well I'm sorry it looks very silly and very impossible. How in the hell do they walk in them? They don't - they get out of their limousine, totter a few yards to the restaurant or function of their choice, plump a table not too far from the Ladies Power room and get carried back to their waiting cars immediately relieving their red pounding feet of these monstroities!

Lovely are they not? What beautiful works of art? They should be at an average price of £600 a pair. 'You must be jealous', I hear you say. Well actually at nearly 45, naturally I wouldn't dream of it - clearly very silly. But in my twenties I was yet another natural leggy blonde standing 5ft 8 in my stocking feet and even then I wouldn't have endorsed them. Can you image people turning up at Newbarn Farm Self-catering Cottage (& Fishing) awkwardly removing themselves from their vehicle and then falling flat on their face, breaking an ankle and sending their precious Christian Louboutins to that cobblers in the sky! And what's more for £600 you could buy a week's Devon Fishing Holiday here, say for example next week a three bedroom luxury 4 STAR Holiday Cottage sleeping 6 would cost £570, fishing in Devon for one person for the week a mere £40.

Maybe the world of glitz and glamour really has sent Gwyneth into another realm of dizzy heights, but here high up on a hill-top at Newbarn Farm we have our feet placed firmly on the ground and will continue too in our quest to provide the best Fishing Holidays in Devon, the best self-catering Cottage & Fishing, just the best Fishing in Devon.

Um! How much were those shoes?

Fishing in Devon not effected by Mortgage Crisis

Fishing lines in Devon don't Tangle


A staggering £50billion cash lifeline has been extended by the Bank of England to help banks and building societies through our current credit crunch - the eventual cost of this lifeline for lenders has been estimated, by experts to pass the £100billion mark. All to be settled and resolved within 3 years. I have to say I'm a little sceptical.

Today the nation's second biggest mortgage lender changed some of it's mortgage policies - from today, it will be impossible to get a tracker mortgage with the Abbey unless you are borrowing 75 per cent or less of the property's values, which will rule out a larger percentage of those wishing to purchase especially those unfortunate would be first time buyers.

All of this is pretty scary, some economists forecast that by the end of next of 2009 property prices could fall by as much as 20 per cent.



And if that wasn't enough we have alledgedly been informed that our yearly food bill will increase by an average of £800 per household over the next 12 months ( just over £15.38 per week).


So some of us if not most us will have to start cutting back to weather out the latest credit crunch! Cut back on expensive restaurant meals, a night out, that second holiday, a day fishing in Devon, the list goes on! Hold on a minute a day's fishing in Devon here at Newbarn Farm only costs £7.00 and that includes free fresh air, peace & quiet, genuine quality thinking time, the get away from it all factor, and a great adrenlian rush when you catch your personal best. That's pretty good isn't it?



Do you get all that from say a bottle of good wine, or one round of drinks for 3, maybe a Sunday carvery for yourself (yes just you on your own) - in monetary terms yes - but in Devon - fishing - possibly on holiday! 'On holiday, fishing in Devon' you ask. 'Cutting back you said', you say. Yes I did. We have luxury 4 STAR self-catering Cottages with fishing here at Newbarn Farm, the kitchens are extremely well equipped - even Gordon Ramsey wouldn't have much to swear about here - cook your own - he would. Saves ££££££££s, even better when you eat alfresco looking over the priceless panoramic view of Dartmoor from the garden of your chosen self-catering cottage (& fishing).



Fishing here in Devon has never been so good at at £7.00 for a full day of peace and tranquillity it really won't break the bank like our current national credit crunch!

Battery & not Battered - Fishing in Devon?

We like a nice piece of battered cod and chips here at Newbarn Farm, especially from Rio's in Brixham, by far the best you get around here these days. Well actually that's not true Richard my husband likes it but not me - I like the fish and I like the chips (occassionally) but I don't much care for the batter!

In fact we don't much care for batter used in a different context here at our Devon Fishing Holiday location - battered this, battered that, battery this, battery that. What about battery hens? Now I believe I cannot be alone in thinking that the subject of battery hens and indeed forced fed young chicks conjure up images beyond our acceptance of 'human 'rights.

If it is not alone enough for the consumer to say that actually eggs and indeed meat taken from a forced fed chick in inhuman conditions taste of well actually nothing - well maybe a bit of watery cardboard isn't sufficient in this argument (probably not dissimiliar to the pampas grass around our Devon Fishing Holiday lakes) . Incidently don't get me started on the global food price rises - how in the hell did our world get into such a mess? Greed, more greed and oh what a surprise more greed! Let's clarify that - not the let's fill my tummy I'm hungry bit - no, no no let's take what I can when I can and I don't give a diddle about anyone else's bit!

We are aware that different cultures have different culinery delights - and in some the taste of muddy waters can be a Wigilia delight! But not from our Lakes from our Holdiay Cottages & Fishing in South Devon.

Sorry I digress, battered, not battered, battery or not battery - we were talking chickens weren't we?

We have rescued 12 battery hens from a mid Devon rescue centre - and goodness me that was a good six weeks ago and they have had to stay mainly in the barn not because of the unpredictable weather but because most have only less than half the covering of feathers they should have. So they are scrambling around, in the protection of the warming hay, and in the Barn! Some of them were virtually bald - normal apparently for birds from this dark unnatural world!

But another six weeks and they will be foraging free within our 42 acres of pasture and woodland, plump, healthy and 100% feathered, they will be supplying you with your free range eggs when you stay at one of our Self-catering cottages & fishing holidays here at Newbarn Farm.

And we will be able to relax just a little that we have done a little bit to helping some battered creatures in our universe and indeed supplying a little food in the way that it was first intended.

It is only a little gesture in this odd world of cruelty fueled by price wars and something maybe a little more sinister! But we feel we do our upmost, we try with a recylcing centre, composters, energy saving bulbs, looking after our wildlife, rescuing some doomed chickens and supplying some great self-catering cottage & fishing for you here in England.

Beautifully refurbished Self-catering Cottages with Fishing in Devon

It has taken a while, blood, sweat and tears! But wow it has been worth it! We have transformed Newbarn Farm's Cottage Terrace into the 'Ritz' of self-catering. All four cottages are now of a similiar calibre to Pheasants Hide and Badgers Holt - our deluxe four star self-catering cottage - very much favoured by Simon & Yvonne (the delighted owners!).

The picture above is the first floor double bedroom which interconnects Anglers Rest and Oaktree to make up Oakrest our largest cottage which can sleep upto a maximum of 12 people. The two images below are Oaktree's master bedroom and Oaktree's dining/kitchen area.

Even Poachers, a great cottage for couples who love to take Devon Fishing Holidays as there is a huge porch to store all your fishing gear and Buzzards Bough, a firm favourite with those with dogs (large garden and conservatory all to yourselves!) are looking pretty good these days - and we haven't even started on them! Take a look below, Poachers lounge to the left, Buzzards Bough's bedroom centre and Buzzards Bough lounge right.

And do remember that you don't have to want a Holiday Cottage & Fishing in Devon to enjoy the luxury our self-catering cottages. No no no, a good 50% of our customers have never fished in their lives! And some of them don't ever want to! But plenty do for the first time when staying here as the lakes are so beautiful, calming and serene, it really is difficult not to give Fishing in Devon a go when staying in one of our luxury self-catering cottages (& Fishing) here at Newbarn Farm in Devon.

And after a long day out and about in South Devon or after a successful day fishing in Devon what better than sinking into a comfortable sofa and watching the sun set over Dartmoor from the comfort of your self-catering cottage, with beer or wine if you prefer in hand! Below:- The sun setting over Dartmoor viewed from the Cottage Terrace and Dartmoor View's Lounge - perfection!

Newbarn Farm offering you probably the best Holiday Cottages & Fishing in South Devon!