Day: 22 May 2011

Boxmore Sports and Social Club Match 23rd May 2011.

2 comments

 

Rolfslake switches on for Boxmore Sports and Social Club .

Today Rolfslake welcomed Boxmore sports and social club down to the lake for their regular annual visit and for a change the fish were willing to have a go. The weather today was sunny but very windy which it made difficult at times for the anglers who were fishing the pole.

The 16 anglers were spaced around both the small and big lake with the ones in the small lake having a bit of choice in choosing their pegs, and i was more than happy to see at long last that my favourite peg 3 was in today as it would show John what the anglers had been missing recently.

John tells me the story of today was that all of the anglers enjoyed carp action from all pegs with the lowest weight today was 50lb and there were plenty of big doubles caught with Stuart Twine on peg 32 having 11 doubles on the board before the weigh-in.

In first place today was Roy Miller who was on car park bank peg 26, and Roy started on the tip caught a few carp then switched to the waggler and caught a few more but when Roy switched to a short line his catching increased by using meat as hookbait feeding pellet . Roy managed to keep the fish coming and after 5 hours put 243-08 on the scales to win the match and claim the peg king off John Bennet { double well done Roy }.

In second place was Richard Furham fishing motorway bank peg 16, and Richard managed to catch fishing mainly the bush to his left and he also caught fish to double figures in his weight of 174-02 and continued the run of frames this peg has produced recently.

Completing the frame was Ken Smith who was fishing yesterdays winning peg 18 and John tells me that Ken caught most of his fish fishing down the edge to his left both long and short to record his weight of 170-08 and the second big weight off this peg this weekend.

But what of PEG 3 i hear you ask.

Well today it had Del Smith fishing it and after catching his first small fish of 20lb off it the peg got stronger as the match went and in the end Del recorded 166-12 to prove my point that the corners do hold plenty of fish on them {well done Del}.

Ps Del also claimed the peg king for peg 3.

Results.

16 fishing the match.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Roy Miller 26 243-08
2nd Richard Furham 16 175-02
3rd Ken Smith 18 170-08
4th Stuart Twine 32 170-00
5th Del Smith 3 166-12
6th Micheal Twine 34 156-14
7th Owen Smith 22 114-12
8th Glynn Smith 8 112-01
9th Brian Beasley 10 107-09
10th Adele Beasley 24 105-12

John and Pauline would like to thank all the anglers and hopes to see them again soon.

Thanks for reading Simon, Eddie and John.

Saturday Open Match. 21st May 2011

9 comments

 

A fine sunny day at the lake. Wind blowing from big lake down to little lake

 

Another open match at the lake and 13 anglers turned up to fish. Pegs in the hat today were 34,38,40,2,4,6,7,8,9,13,14,16,18. With the wind blowing hard down into the little lake I think most people wanted a peg down in the little lake.

 

Waiting for the draw

Weather was nice for a change

Down in the little lake. Peg 3

Pegs 7 and 8. Good pegs if you can draw them

Mr 200lb (Mark Newbold) and his mate Dean

Stragglers in the car park

Justin Watkins on Facebook

John and Paul sorting the bait out

With the draw out the way Everyone set off to their pegs to set up. The match was started by Pauline ringing the bell at 1.15pm. Down in the little lake everyone except John on peg 2 had a carp right away but to their dismay that was most of the action as everyone pretty much struggled for the rest of the match.

In the big lake it was a slow start for eveyone also. I had started on a 5 meter line in front of me and was getting indications and a lot of liners indicating the fish were not on the bottom. I looked out and the top end of the big lake was black with fish cruising around like normal so I threw the pellet waggler out to see if they would bite and to my surprise without feeding I had a fish on. With plenty of feed making a noise on the water I managed 10 fish in the first hour. Justin on peg 16 had also switched to the pellet waggler and managed to hook a carp too. My bites were taking too long to come so I left the waggler line.

I rang John and he said the little lake was not fishing well at all. Mark on peg 40 was bagging up but not with carp, he was catching 2-3lb bream on his carp rigs. Just goes to show these fish are not shy 😀

Doug on peg 13 had found the carp and was catching well. Mick on 14 and Michael on 9 had also started catching well. I had caught 1 carp from each of my bush lines (4m and 11m) but after each carp the float was motionless, crazy. I then went out with the pole at 13m and started catching shallow but the fish were a lot smaller. At 2.5 hours in to the match all my swims had dried up.

It was a different story for Justin on peg 16 though. After only one fish in the first 2.5 hours he had moved to his margin swims and was catching regularly. So now it was the other way round, I was watching him catching 😀

 

Justin Watkins on peg 16

 

One of Justins margin Munters

 

I had only managed 4 carp in the last part of the match from my 5 meter line whilst Justin was catching very well so Knew it was going to be tight between me and him. John on peg 2 had managed to hook in to his first carp of the match a 5.45 with only 30 minutes of the match remaining. Pauline rang the bell for the all out at 6.15pm.

Onto the weigh in and the it was soon clear how hard the little lake had fished again. Dave Whiteman on one of his many visits to peg 6 had done a good weight of 58lb but Mark on 40 had caught 4 carp and a massive bag of bream, 46lb to be precise.

 

Mark Newbold with one of his many bream
The rest of Mark’s fish
Dave Whiteman had also caught a nice bag of bream
The rest of Daves fish

More bream came from peg 9 and 13. Amazing amount snotties caught today. The first ton of the day came from Doug on peg 13 (who also took the peg king title, well done) but was overtaken by Justin on 16 with 150lb and for the first time ever I had guessed my weight near enough perfect, I had guessed 170lb and put 173lb on the scales 😀

Results

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Simon Mound 18 173-4
2 Justin Watkins 16 150-0
3 Doug Richardson 13 110-0
4 Michael Corsini 9 87-12
5 Mick Hughes 14 87-0
6 Mark Newbold 40 84-8 inc 46lb of bream
7 Jack 7 60-8
8 Dave Whiteman 6 58-12
9 Dean 8 24-8
10 Paul Jay 4 24-0
11 John Bennett 2 19-4
12 Fred 38 12-0
13 Colin 34 DNW

Dont forget there is another open match on the 30th May which is also a Bank Holiday. Call John Bennett to book in please…. 07774 618688

Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John.