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Rolfslake Wednesday Open 18th January 2012.

2 weeks ago

by Eddie in 2012, Match Reports

Cold day down at the lake today.

John tells me that on arriving at the lake today the anglers were greeted with a frozen lake, so the first order of the day was to get out the little used ice breakers to cut each others swims out to a distance that would enable them to have half a chance of catching some fish. As i was busy this morning it meant that i could not fish but i was coming up later to see the guys only to be told the match had only just started and it was 11.30 and the guys were today only going to fish 4 and a half hours.

The pleasure anglers were catching in the ice free small lake as there was a breeze to keep the water moving but no such luck in the big lake as quick as you made a hole to fish the floating ice wanted to close it back up and by the amount of ice on the bank that must of been alot. The story of the match was that most anglers opted to fish the bomb or feeder on the edge of the ice floes hoping that the carp would eventually come out from under the ice which they did not.

8 fantastic carp for 85-04 for todays winner John Bennett.

The winner of todays match was lake owner John Bennett who used both the long pole and bomb/ feeder but caught all his 8 carp on the tip casting as far out of into the lake as he could and by using a combination of corn and 8mm puched meat managed to keep the bites coming but by no means was it frantic. The first 5 carp were caught by John very early in the match but as soon as the ice melted out in the middle John made a longer cast and the fish were there waiting [the other three that was } and after a very cold 5 hours put a very hard earned weight of 85-04 for the win { well done John }.

Kev Dolton with a 18-08 common.

Always playing catch up today was Kev Dolton on cold peg 13 on the motorway bank and by half way was already 5 carp down to John, but a brilliant last two hours saw Kev catch 8 carp to 18-08 fishing a straight out line on the pole at 13 metres fishing corn on the deck feeding micros which caught him his first 5 fish and a switch to the 16 metre line to the boat saw him catch the last three and in the end fell just one small carp short of John’s weight with his 81-04 ,but still a great effort Kev.

Kev also had 8 carp for 81-04.

Completing the frame was John Draper who was trapped with a 7mtr swim on peg 19 as this was where the ice was the most thickest, and after a quick 3 carp had to wait for his remaining two by fishing the pole to the bush to his right fishing corn on the deck and feeding micro. He was fish for fish with John for the first 5 but they were a lot smaller and in the end John weighed a hard earned 35-08.

John with his 5 carp.

Results

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	John Bennett	16	85-04	Rolfslake
2nd	Kev Dolton	13	81-04	Rolfslake
3rd	John Draper	19	35-08	Rolfslake
4th	Phil Powell	28	20-08	Rolfslake
5th	Graham Ridgley	24	9-04	Rolfslake
6th	Barry	26	7-04	Rolfslake

9 anglers fished.

Some photos from the day.

Paul Jay one of the anglers that DNW.

John Draper stuck in the corner on peg 19.

Only three carp and silvers for Phil Powell today.

Always make sure you have a variety of baits.

I will be posting the details for the forthcoming pairs match tomorrow so please come back and have a look.

Thanks for reading Simon , Eddie and John.

2012 open match

Rolfslake Saturday Open 14th January 2012.

3 weeks ago

by Eddie in 2012, Match Reports, Open Match

First frosts kill the sport in today’s open match.

John tells me that after the previous nights temperature reaching as low as -7 it affected the weights in today’s match with many anglers struggling to get bites and catch any quantity of fish. After the previous weeks good weights the seven anglers were hoping for a few fish and on approaching the lake today could see plenty of carp topping in the small lake where John had been feeding them earlier. It was decided to fish the big lake today as the small lake had fished poorly on Wednesday and the anglers were drawn between peg 28 and peg 16.

Todays winner Derek Hammond.

The winner today was Derek Hammond who was fishing car park peg 26 and managed to catch 3 carp on his favoured waggler fished on the deck for 29-08 followed by Mark Newbold with one carp for 13-04 and third was Mick Chappell also with one carp for 11-04 in what was a very hard and very cold match.

Tomorrow’s final winter league match will be a very tight and tense affair as almost all the teams can win the league as there are only 7 points separating the top 4 teams ,so it will be important that all team members catch tomorrow especially in the dreaded A section. John also tells me that there were plenty of silvers topping in the big lake so hopefully everyone has brought their maggots.

The current league champions Walker Floats.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Derek Hammond	26	29-04	Banbury Gunsmiths and Tackle
2nd	Mark Newbold	16	13-04	Rolfslake
3rd	Mick Chappel	18	11-04	Rolfslake
4th	John Bennett	22	10-04	Rolfslake

John has asked my to ask any angler wishing to fish or enter a team in the spring league which starts in a couple of weeks to please contact him on 07774618688 as soon as possible to register thank you.

Thanks for reading Simon, Eddie and John.

Wednesday Open Match. 11th January 2012

3 weeks ago

by Eddie in 2012, Match Reports, Open Match

On arriving at the lake today you could of been forgive to think you had turned up for an open in the summer as there were 17 anglers and 4 pleasure anglers at the lake making for a very cosy day. The great thing about big turnouts is that we get to use both parts of the lake and as the pleasure anglers were already catching the omens were good.

With the weather starting off sunny with a gentle breeze but still fairly cold ,colder than last Sunday the anglers were hoping that the good weights from last Sunday continued but in todays match it fished very different. The pegs the anglers wanted were end pegs 2, 18, 22 and with the draw being called there was a rush to the bag but the 3 most wanted pegs went to Geoff Edwards who had drawn peg 22, Mick Chappel had drawn peg 18 and John Daper amazingly had not drawn peg 9 but this time peg 2 on the far bank of the small lake.

The story of the lake as i was hidden on peg 5 in the small lake was the fishing in the big lake was much better than the small lake with many carp caught and in total there were 71 carp caught for 735lb at an average of 10.35lb per fish which was incredible for this time of year, and there were fish caught today any specimen carp angler would of been proud of with many carp caught between 10 and 20lb but not many stamp 5lb ders so strong gear was the order of the day. Even John Draper on peg 2 managed to smash a top 3 which went down to the bottom of the lake so 1- nil to the carp.

Today's winner Geoff Edwards and nearly king of the lake.

In first place today was Geoff Edwards ,who was fishing corner peg 22 in the big lake and Geoff was fishing the bush by peg 20 using corn hookbait feeding micro pellet fishing on the deck. Geoff was flying for the first 4 hours catching and losing loads of fish and the lake king was within his grasp but a very poor last hour put paid to that dream, but he still ended up with a great winter weight of 169-04 which conprised of some very big fish to nearly 20lb but due to a flat camera battery i did not get that shot but very well done Geoff you at least get peg king for peg 22.

The hottest swim on the lake peg 22.

Two ton weights in a week for inform angler Pete Arnold.

In second place was Pete Arnold who was fishing hot winter peg 24 on the car park bank, and today Pete opted to fish the bomb to about midway across the lake using a combination of corn and meat hook baits to catch his 13 carp which like Geoff’s went to close to 20lb and in the end was only 3 big carp behind first place with his weight of 130-12. Completing the frame was Stuart Yeomans on peg 14 and after catching 1 fish on the pole swapped to the bomb and caught more carp for a weight of 87-08.

Some more monster fish from todays match.

Dangerous Dave with a 18lb mirror from peg 10.

Graham Ridgley with a 14lb mirror from peg 13.

Wez with a 17lb common from peg 26.

Paul Jay with a 19lb common from peg 9 .

Results

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Jeff Edwards	22	169-04
2	Pete Arnold	24	130-12
3	Stuart Yeomans	14	87-08
4	John Draper	2	58-04
5	John Bennett	7	56-00
6	Paul Jay	9	45-01
8	Mick Chappel	18	44-08
9	Graham Ridgley	13	42-06
10	Wez	23	37-00
11	Dangerous Dave	10	36-00
12	Eddie Taylor-Green	5	12-04
13	Barry	4	9-00
14	Neil Riddy	8	7-00
15	Kev Doulton	28	DNW
16	Russell	26	DNW
17	Ben	16	DNW

17 Anglers Fished

John 2

Eddie 0

Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John

2012 open match

Winter League Round 5. 8th Jan 2012

3 weeks ago

by Eddie in 2012, Match Reports

Some of the cracking carp caught today.

The results are on the results page. Click above.

With the winter league reaching round 5 and nearly all teams still in with a chance to win the title it was important that all sections fished well today and that all team members managed to catch to contribute to their teams total.

With a day off today i arrived after the second hour to see Simon, Mick Lane and Ian McCulloch all into fish ,which was better than last Wednesdays match. With Jon Walker missing today from A section it was left to Ian McCulloch to deputise for him and as luck would have it he had drawn peg 2 at the back end of the small lake.

The story of the match was that the lake fished the best it has in a winter league round 5 match and that there were 6 weights over a hundred pounds and two of them came from A section 1 from B section and 3 from C section . There were also some fantastic big fish caught topped by Neil Riddys 22-08 common and at least 3 other 18lb ders caught by Ian, Mick Chappel and Andy Raymond and there also many other doubles with all the anglers catching between them at least 100 carp in what was a most enjoyable match to watch.

The winner overall today came from Walker Floats super sub Ian McCulloch who fished a combination of bomb and pole fishing around peg 2 using a combinaion of expander pellet and corn to catch his fish { all 17 of them } and many were around the 10lb mark and some above, and after 5 hours caught a fantastic 175-12 for the win and maximum points for the team.

Today's winner Ian McCulloch .

In second place was Andy Rayment who was fishing peg 22 in C section and Andy fished by the bush on peg 21 fshing corn and pellet fished on the deck to catch his carp, which like Ian’s were big and in the end put 143-08 to also record maximum points for his Misfits team.

Second place Andy Rayment.

Completing the top three was Pete Arnold on peg 34 in the dreaded A section and Pete used a combination of pole and Bomb to catch his fish which were surprisingly big for this peg and again corn was Pete’s main bait to catch his weight of 123-08 for second in section. There were also ton plus weights for Neil Riddy { 112-08 } on peg 13, Phil Powell { 111-12 } and Derek Hammond { 120-08 } on Peg 18 to complete a really good day for the anglers.

Top silver weight of the day went to Steve Walters who on struggling to catch carp decided to go for the silvers but also hooked a carp which he had on for 15 minutes but lost it at the net.

Carp on a silver rig oops.

After all Steve’s efforts on silvers ,he managed to not only win the silver pools but also took the top siver weight of the year with 19-12 { well done Steve}.

King of the silvers Steve Waters.

Some more photo’s from the day.

Neil Riddy and his beautiful 22-08 Common

Mick Lane on peg 7.

Neil bagging on peg 13.

At the end of the match it was very close in the team results with Walker Floats winning the day on 11 points, Misfits came second with 10 points on weight and Rolfs Team Gold third also with 10 points but with a lower weight ,so all i to play for in round 6 next week.

Results

A Section		Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Ian McCulloch	2	175-12	Walker Floats
2nd	Pete Arnold	34	123-8	Misfits
3rd	Mick Lane	7	41-0	Rolfs Gold
4th	Mick Chappell	5	38-0	Drawbags
5th	Paul Jay	40	36-0	Crabtree’s

B Section		Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Neil Riddy	13	112-8	Crabtree’s
2nd	John Bennett	10	47-8	Rolfs Gold
3rd	Frank Hardie	9	22-12	Drawbags
4th	Steve Waters	29	19-12	Walker Floats
5th	Dave Wightman	32	4oz	Misfits

C Section		Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Andy Rayment	22	143-8	Misfits
2nd	Derek Hammond	18	120-8	Walker Floats
3rd	Phil Powell	16	111-12	Rolfs Gold
4th	Roger Young	24	81-12	Drawbags
5th	Simon Mound	26	61-0	Crabtree’s