Rolfslake Wednesday Open 19th May 2010.

May 20, 2010 Eddie Leave a comment

The Cartel Fight Back episode 2.

Firstly i would like to thank all my fishing buddies for their kind birthday wishes as it was my birthday down on the lake yesterday. In a dream that i had a few days earlier i was to catch carp after carp on my birthday and not only win the match but i was to beat all the cartel members { Bennett, Powell and Lane } and my Nemesis Jeff Edwards and Paul Jay, so one out of five was not be considered a good days fishing.

As we waited for the draw to commence i could see the pleasure anglers catching along the car park bank on the small lake so this was looking promising for a good days fishing, and as a nice suprise John and Paul had decorated the lawn mower with a happy birthday sign , a birthday candle on top {not good on a petrol mower} and the keys to have a ride around the lake {they certainly know how to push the boat out}.

As the draw took place i was hoping to draw the car park bank from pegs 26 to 32 and as i opened my hand lucky peg 7 was in it leaving John Bennett the last peg and with it newly pruned peg 9, so i was going to receive plenty of abuse from him and also Phil Powell on peg 6 brilliant.

As the all in was called i was into a fish straight away on my 12 metre line but this was to be a false dawn as i managed to perfect the art of foul hooking fish for the first two hours, and from were i was i could see the anglers on the car park bank all catching so hopefully a good bagging day was awaiting us. Phil Powell on peg 6 was tying with me for the first two hours then his up in the water roach line all of a sudden turned into a carp line and he just pulled away from me bummer !.

As i was restricted with my view of the match all i can tell you is that the winner of todays match was Mick {David Guest} Lane who was to be spoilt for choice on peg 16 on the motorway bank. Today Mick fed three lines, one to his right one to his left and one a little further straight out. Mick fed pellet and was fishing with paste as hook bait and he tells me that the carp were up on the silt bank very quickly today but he had to resist the temptation to go on it early as if he spoked one early they might of disapeared, so a combination of fishing the two margin swims kept the fish coming. At the end of five hours Mick had caught fish to 15lb in his final weight of 191-08 and only one fish off the double ton but at least he got his name on the peg kings board { well done Mick }.

Todays winner Cartel member Mick Lane.

In second place and on a good run of form was Pat Pritchard who was fishing current form peg 26 on the car park bank. Pat today was having a real ding dong battle with Liam Barry on peg 28 and after catching fish for fish on shallow rigs Pat decided to add more sections of pole to fish further out and by doing so stole the fish away from Liam which managed to keep him ahead. Pat used banded pellet as hook bait feeding regular to keep the fish active and after an enjoyable match put 182-08 on the scales and only one fish off victory.

Completing the frame and getting very close to his fish as he played them in my peg was Phil Powell on small lake peg 6, who started off fishing on the bottom with pellet switching to up in the water fishing at depths between 2 and 4 feet and ended up fishing the margins with paste { god Phil is good }. Phil caught fish to double figures from both his shallow and edge pegs and ended with 170-04 and only three fish off victory.

The amazing thing about today during the weigh-in was the amount of anglers happy to see me fail today especially the Cartel and Paul Jay as they kept reminding me every time someone beat me. Also today i found out that Jeff Edwards needs more maths tuition as he certainly can’t count because he told me he was struggling with about 85lb only to end up with 144-02 and another place down the line i went. The person that was giving me the most stick was John Bennett followed by Paul Jay but as John was fishing flyer peg 9 i was always going to struggle against him put i smashed Pauls weight to leave him second last after his victory last week.

The new visiting anglers had a great day and promised to return, and just as the terminator would say I WILL BE BACK to battle again against the Cartel in my quest to be one of the first anglers to top 400lb this year. The score now stands at John Bennett 4 me 2 so until our next report tight lines Eddie and Simon.

**Results**
Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Method	Sponsor
1st	Mick Lane	16	191-8	Paste ML 1 down the right edge	Rolfslake
2nd	Patrick Pritchard	26	182-8	Shallow 14.5 mtrs	Rolfslake
3rd	Phil Powell	6	170-4	Shallow, Paste down the edge	Rolfslake
4th	John Bennett	9	167-8	Pellet, paste .	Rolfslake
5th	Malc Doyle	14	164-4		Jinx league
6th	Liam Barry	28	163-4	Pellet shallow.	Rolfslake
7th	Gary Haisman	4	160-8	Banded pellet right hand edge.	Bag-Up Angling.
8th	Geoff Edwards	13	144-2	Pellet, paste right hand edge	Reading Angling Centre
9th	Mick Jones	22	142-8	Meat.	Rolfslake.
10th	Rich Lovering	32	141-8		Rolfslake.
11th	Eddie Taylor-Green	7	120-8	X4 paste, 8mm banded pellet	Rolfslake / Walker Floats.
12th	Mark Ponting	18	118-4		Rolfslake.
13th	Paul Jay	24	82-0	Pellet ,paste .	Rolfslake.
14th	Steve Barker	8	48-0	Bush to the right.	Rolfslake.