Easter Festival 2015. Day 3 Results. 6th April.

Day Three report {Eddie}

The final showdown.

Today saw the anglers return for the grand showdown to see who would claim the title Rolfslake Easter Festival Champion 2015. There were at least 8 anglers in with a chance today and it would be interesting as three of these Phil, Anthony and Andy on 4 points were all fishing the same A section so two of these were going to be counted out. Defending Champion Steve Waters {Drennan] was fishing tricky B section with John Draper who was in with a real chance after his performance yesterday, and with C section having Micheal Corsini and current leader after two days Geoff Edwards {Colmic Reading} in was going to be a close tense affair.

The story of the day was that the lake fished quite hard and thus making it a challenge for all the anglers as they could see lots of cruising carp that would not feed properly .

In A section there were three anglers with a great chance of catching Geoff Edwards as they were only 1 point behind but with Andy on peg 2 and Phil on peg 5 it left the door open for Anthony to win the section ,but a great performance by Dai Thomas on peg 34 took the section win from the three of them with his weight of 47-12. In second place and upsetting the peg form from the previous two days was Andy Quarmby {Middy} who had a frustrating day as he was only 8lb behind Dai but lost over 11 carp which ended up being costly in the end.

Over in C section Festival leader Geoff Edwards {Colmic Reading} had drawn peg 14 and started well leading the section but the breeze picked up blowing into peg 18 and with that the fish moved out of range as he could see them but could not reach them. This left the door open for the anglers down the bottom end of the section and they made no mistake. The winner of the section was Micheal Corsini who was making a valiant effort after his poor day 1 result and by fishing shallow at long range was able to pick off the cruising  carp in his final weight of 76-06 and more importantly 1 point. Second in section was Mick Chappell on peg 22 who was specimen fishing today as he had carp to 19-14 well 5 fish for 59-09 but lost at least two huge fish that would of got him closer to 100lb.

Finally in B section there was that important question whether Steve could win his section from car park bank peg 28 . The leader in the first part of the match was Mark Sawyer who had caught a couple of quick carp to take control of the section but as the match wore on Mick Lane put himself in pole position with two big fish for nearly 30lb leaving Steve at best in 4th place but a switch to his 2 plus 2 short line pulled him back in the game as he caught 4 smaller carp late in the match and the weigh in was going to be close. Steve was first up and he put 36lb on the scales and when Mick Lane put his two carp for 29lb it was all going to come down to silvers who was going to be champion. Micks silver net was raised from the water and after being placed in the weigh sling the scales settled on 3-14 leaving Steve the section winner and overall Rolfslake Easter Festival Champion 2015 and retaining the title he won in 2014 {very well done Steve}.

A special thanks go to Peter Drennan and his team at Drennan International for their kind supporting of the Festival and the bait packs and bait boosters given to all competing anglers .

For more information on the great Drennan range of products please go to the website.

www.drennantackle.com

A Section
Peg	Angler	Weight	Position
34	Dai Thomas	47-12	1
2	Andy Quarmby	39-11	2
7	Anthony Flint	23-7	3
36	Andy Johnstone	20-6	4
4	Dave Whiteman	20-3	5
38	Pat Pritchard	14-2	6
40	Kev Simpson	14-1	7
5	Phil Powell	13-3	8

 

B Section
Peg	Angler	Weight	Position
28	Steve Waters	36-0	1
31	Mick Lane	32-14	2
8	Mark Sawyer	29-7	3
10	Chris Telling	27-3	4
29	Charlie Bishop	21-6	5
13	Malc Doyle	17-5	6
9	Ernie Malyon	10-3	7
32	John Draper	DNW	8

 

C Section
Peg	Angler	Weight	Position
17	Michael Corsini	76-6	1
22	Mick Chappell	59-9	2
25	Dave Wilsdon	45-12	3
15	Steve Stayte	42-9	4
14	Geoff Edwards	38-7	5
18	Paul Newbury	33-13	6
23	John Morgan	23-6	7
26	Wez Hillier	15-11	8

Total Points
Angler Top 5	Points After Weight
Steve Waters {Drennan}	5
Andy Quarmby {Middy}	6 {2nd on weight count back}
Micheal Corsini {Rolfslake}	6
Anthony Flint {Rolfslake}	7
Geoff Edwards {Colmic Reading}	8
Dave Wilsden	9
Chris Telling {Colmic}	11
Mick Lane {Rolfslake Elite}	11

 

I  would like to thank on behalf of the anglers the following people who have helped make the Festival another successful event.

Firstly John and Pauline Bennett for organising the event being great hosts for the visiting anglers and providing the food during and after the event.

Dai and Anne Thomas and Micheal and Paul Corsini for preparing the lake ready for the visiting anglers and to Anne for helping Pauline prepare breakfast and the event food.

To Steve and Peter Drennan for supporting the event.

To Simon Mound and Chris Telling for posting the results and the taking of the photos.

I would like to personally thank Steve Waters for generously giving me his bait prize it was very kind Steve {thankyou}.

Cheers For Reading. John, Eddie and Simon.