Rolfslake Easter Festival 2014 Day 1

 

 

Today saw the start of the Rolfslake 3 day Easter Festival and with a sellout 24 anglers were hoping to be crowned2014 champion which was won last year by Middy sponsored angler Andy Quarmby.

Before the start John read out all the rules and one major change was that all fish were to be retained in the keepnets with a maximum 100lb net limit and any angler exceeding this would be deducted a penalty weight by how much you were over deducted from the weight limit of 100lb.

With draw called all the anglers made their way to the random draw which would decide the sections for the next three days and quite quickly the anglers called A section the section of death as it had all the big weight specialists in this section so they would be taking points of each other. As for the other two sections B and C it also had class anglers in them but were deemed to be more fairer so this was going to be a great battle.

The winner of A section today was Mark Newbold on peg 34 in the small lake and Mark had an eventful match but softened with a massive carp of 20-04 in his eventual weight of 161-06. B section was a very close battle by two of Rolfslake’s serial match winners Steve Waters and Dave Whiteman which would be eventually won by Dave with his weight of 112-11 to Steve’s 110-01 but Steve will rue the many lost fish on peg 9 today.

Mark Newbold with a common of 20-04

The star angler of the day was Malc Doyle on little favoured peg 17 and Malc put on a master class of short range paste fishing on his top kit to record the top weight of the day with 244-01 topped with a big common of 20-09 amongst his many othe big doubles.

Malc Doyle with his common carp of 20-09.

Tomorrow the anglers move to the next section in their sequence hoping to either repair the damage caused by todays results or push forwards for another good days fishing.

Come back tomorrow for days 2 results.

Also i will be posting some more photo’s from todays match.

Chris Telling with his common of 18lb.

 

Anthony Flint with a mirror carp of 17-08.

 

A Section

Place Angler Peg Weight  Points
 1st  Mark Newbold  34  161-06  1
 2nd  Chris Telling  5  121-11  2
 3rd  Phil Powell  7  88-09  3
 4th  John Draper  40  62-05  4
 5th  Ian McCullough  38  54-01  5
 6th  Micheal Corsini  36  53-11  6
 7th  Andy Quarmby  4  45-04  7
 8th  Geoff Edwards  2  31-01  8

B Section

 Place  Angler  Peg  Weight  Points
 1st  Dave Whiteman 29  112-11  1
 2nd  Steve Waters 9  110-01  2
 3rd  Johnny Broadbent 13  99-00  3
 4th  Jon Walker 32  80-10  4
 5th  Liam Bough 28  65-13  5
 6th  John Bennett 8  57-10  6
 7th  Andy Johnstone 31  35-07  7
 8th  Dai Thomas 10  27-11  8

C Section

 Place  Angler  Peg  Weight  Points
 1st  Malc Doyle  17  244-01  1
 2nd  Mick Lane  18  166-03  2
 3rd  Anthony Flint  26  128-13  3
 4th  Frank Hardy  25  106-03  4
 5th  Dan Deakin  23  104-02  5
 6th  Ernie Malyon  15  83-11  6
 7th  Paul Newbury  22  59-4  7
 8th  Justin Macabe  14  45-03  8

Top 6

 Angler  Points  Weight  Sponsor
 Malc Doyle  1  244-01  Jinx League
 Mark Newbold  1  161-06  Rolfslake
 Dave Whiteman  1  112-01  Hydro 2000
 Mick Lane  2  166-03  Rolfslake
 Chris Telling  2  121-11  Colmic
 Steve Waters  2  110-01  Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

One comment

  • Thanks to all the anglers for making this another great festival. Great banter and a reasonable amount of stretched elastic! Congratulations to Steve Waters for a very impressive festival win and the other ‘framers’. For me, its a case of must do better and can’t wait ’til next year. Best wishes, Andy Johnstone.

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