Jinx Series, Round 1. 2011. 14th May 2011

Today saw the Jinx Squad return to the lake for their first match of the year. The Jinx Series is in it 10th year. Malc Doyle who runs the series as a bit of fun mainly and tries to make the matches more about having a laugh than big money payout. This year there are 27 angler fishing the series. Malc splits them up in to 3 section’s of 9.

Just so people don’t have too much fun and relax too much Malc’s daughter Gem fishes too. If you get beaten by her your name is added to her impressive MINX list. Not only that….. If she beats you you are eligible to be picked for the new 2011 MINX hat 🙁

For the first match Gem drew a peg from the bag and whoever drew that peg in the match would wear the hat…Simple. She pulled out peg 40 and Neil Riddy drew peg 40 so got to wear the hat. I think secretly he wanted to wear it anyway lol 😀

 

The draw was done almost on time, not bad for Malc really. The only reason it was nearly on time was he was at the lake having previously fished helped with the weigh in on the Night match.

On to the match. First off a major photo explosion with all the runners and riders from this years series.

 

 

The all in was sounded at 1pm and fishing got underway. I could only see the little lake today. Neil Riddy on peg 40 had landed his first carp before everyone else had finished feeding their swims and it wasn’t before Pete on peg 4 was walking past with a weigher. Mitch over on peg 34 was having a few fish too. I could not buy a bite and Malc and Ade were also the same.

Within 20 minutes I knew I was going to have a struggle along with the rest of the lads in the little lake. This was not helped by the Scream we all fear…… Gem had landed her first fish and it was a 14lb’er too.

After the first 2 hours Malc had managed to get a carp on the paste feeder so it was only me and Ade who were fishless in the little lake. I fed my lines and went to see how the big lake was doing.

It was like a different match in the big lake. There was elastic streaming from top kits and rods bent double :O 😀 (see first picture in this report) I sat behind Gem and watched in envy 🙁 Gems float sailed away and she hooked in to another fish, shame it was up the arse. After a lengthy fight she had landed another 14lb’er. Things were not looking good. Paul on 15 was also in to plenty of fish fishing the feeder, he would have had one more but was put off by my picture taking and lost the carp that would have took him over the magical 100lb…..oooops sorry mate 😀

 

I went back to my peg hopeful for a fish and sure enough I hooked into and lost my first fish 🙁 Straight back out and hooked one in the gob. As I netted it I gave a loud roar in relief 😀

Malc also managed his second and last fish of the match. Mitch was catching a mixture of carp and silvers, Tony and Dave on 7 and 8 were having a few fish as there was plenty of splashing coming from that direction.

John Bennett had been away all afternoon and got back gagging for a cuppa tea so turned the generator on. Normally there is nothing wrong with doing this but unknown to John the aerators were still plugged in……………………… Malc was fishing to his aerator on peg 36 and nearly fell off his box when it fired up 😀 I didnt laugh too much. Also Dave Moore on peg 31 got a similar surprise 😀

I only caught 3 fish today but one of them made my match.

 

Not long after a very excited Jon Hatch came and asked me to take a picture of his new PB carp.

 

With the all out sounding at 6pm I knew I had been Minxed as gem had 5 fish to my 3. The little lake had fished poorly so we were all going to be candidates for the new hat with the exception of Mitch who managed to equal Gems weight and avoid the dreaded MINXING 😀

 

On to the results.

Results

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Mitch Auger	34	67-8	1
2nd	Tony Roberts	8	58-0	2
3rd	Pete	4	50-8	Guest
4th	Dave Collier	7	48-12	3
5th	Simon Mound	5	43-8	4
6th	Alex	2	38-8	5
7th	Neil Riddy	40	35-8	6
8th	Ade Williams	38	31-4	7
9th	Malc Doyle	36	12-0	8

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Dai Thomas	32	122-8	1
2nd	Clive Pritchard	28	107-8	2
3rd	Mat Edwards	13	65-12	3
4th	Jon Hatch	10	40-4	4
5th	Terry Goff	26	30-0	5
6th	Rod	9	24-0	Guest
7th=	Nick Watkins Price	29	17-0	6
7th=	Dave Moore	31	17-0	6
9th	Geoff Palmer	11	10-8	8

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Paul Roberts	15	96-12	1
2nd	Steve Wilson	22	69-4	2
3rd	Gem Doyle	14	67-8	3
4th	Marcus Burgess	25	49-0	4
5th	Dave Webster	18	45-8	5
6th	Nick Williams	19	29-12	6
7th	Pete Morton	20	29-4	7
8th	Kev Lovelock	23	27-0	8
9th	Al Loader	17	20-8	9

 

 

Great match (for some 😀 ) The next match in the series is on 4th June so Gem will have plenty of time to pick out of the 21 people who will wear the hat next year.

Well done to all the winners today, well deserved on a hard day (sulky Saturday as Malc calls it) at the lake.

Thanks for reading. Si, Eddie and John.

If anyone wants full sized pictures please email me @ si@rolfslake.com as I have had some requests already, thanks.

Malcs Blog report can be found here

Peters Blog can be found here