Rolfslake Easter Festival 2014. Day 3.

Day 3 report.

On a thrilling last day down the lake anyone from 8th upwards were in with a shout of winning this years Rolfslake festival and you could feel the tension as the draw was called. With the leading three anglers after two days Steve Waters, Mick Lane and Mark Newbold fishing different sections { the dreaded A section for Steve, B section for Mick and the consistent C section for Mark } it was imperative that they avoided a poor performing peg and luckily they did that with Steve drawing peg 4 in the small lake and Mark peg 18 on the motorway bank in the big lake but Mick had drawn not a great peg in peg 28.

The rest of the anglers thought that the result was a done deal between Steve and Mark but how wrong they were as both the anglers struggled during the first part of the match whilst the chasing pack were closing in with Jon Walker leading the way in A section on peg 38 , Malc Doyle was way ahead  in B section with Mick Lane struggling and in C section Andy Quarmby was dominating this section with a great display of shallow fishing and at this point Mark was way down in the section as both Phil Powell on 22 and Micheal Corsini on 25 were also putting together ton plus catches from their pegs.

At the half way point it was too hard to call as Liam Bough and Jon Walker were both ahead of Steve in A section ,Mick Lane was well down in B section and Mark was lying at least 4th in C section so the winner could come from the remaining 6 anglers so a tense last half was to reveal all.

The final part of the match saw the the lake change again as the weather turned cooler and suddenly a switch by Steve to add a few silvers to his catch whilst the rest went all out to catch carp was a master stroke as he reeled in both Liam and Jon and Dave on peg 5 to win the section by 2lb and claim that magical 1 point for his total of 4 points. Mick Lane the only other angler on 3 points had to win his section to tie with Steve but alas he came 4th giving him a total of 7 points with Mark in C section overhauling both Phil and Micheal to come second and claim two points giving him a total of 6. The dark horse on day 3 was Malc Doyle who after his section win on Saturday had a tough draw on Sunday costing him 5 points but a brilliant recovery on Monday gave him a section win and a total of 7 points.

After all the weights were checked and verified the outcome was a deserved win and Rolfslake Champion for Steve Waters who fished very well over the three days with his combined weight of 371-10 and 4 points closely followed by Mark Newbold with 355-12 and 6 points and in third place and well deserved was Malc Doyle and his weight of 404-07 and 7 points.

Rolfslake 2014 Easter Festival Champion. Steve Waters.

From left to right MicK Lane 4th, Champion Steve 1st, Mark Newbold 2nd, Jon Walker 5th and finally Malc Doyle 3rd.

John has asked me to appologise to the anglers who were waiting for the food at the end but with the distractions of the morning this was overlooked and John will sort the anglers with a bag of pellet to cover the £2 that was collected per angler for food..

The future of next years Festival is under review but I would like to say a MASSIVE thanks to John and Pauline for hosting the event and their hospitality during the 4 days and for Paul Jay for his help in helping John prepare the cabin for the festival and his help with weighing in fish and marshalling the event.

Also a big thanks to Ann and Annette for their help in helping with the breakfast in the morning.

John hopes to see the visiting anglers soon.

A Section

Place Angler Peg Weight  Points
 1st  Steve Waters  4  76-13  1
 2nd  Jon Walker  38  74-13  2
 3rd  Liam Bough  34  68-02  3
 4th  Dave Whiteman  5  63-12  4
 5th  Andy Johnstone  36  46-14  5
 6th  Johnny Broadbent  40  40-13  6
 7th  Dai Thomas  7  32-06  7
 8th  John Bennett  2  26-07  8

B Section

 Place  Angler  Peg  Weight  Points
 1st  Malc Doyle  8  118-00  1
 2nd  Frank Hardie  32  75-07  2
 3rd  Dan Deakin  10  68-01  3
 4th  Mick Lane  28  65-02  4
 5th  Justin Macabe  31  50-10  5
 6th  Anthony Flint  9  35-15  6
 7th  Ernie Malyon  13  13-08  7
 8th  Paul Newbury  29  DNW  8

C Section

 Place  Angler  Peg  Weight  Points
 1st  Andy Quarmby  23  165-02  1
 2nd  Mark Newbold  18  136-11  2
 3rd  Micheal Corsini  25  134-06  3
 4th  Chris Telling  17  122-10  4
 5th  Phil Powell  22  117-12  5
 6th  Ian McCullough  15  65-13  6
 7th  John Draper  14  39-01  7
 8th  Geoff Edwards  26  34-13  8

Top 6

 Angler  Points  Weight  Sponsor
 Steve Waters  4  371-10  Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths
 Mark Newbold  6  355-12  Rolfslake
 Malc Doyle  7  404-07  Jinx League
 Mick Lane  8  294-10  Rolfslake
 Jon Walker  9  270-01  Walker Floats
 Frank Hardy  9  237-06  Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths

 Some pictures of big units from the day.

Malc Doyl with his two units.

Ian with his big common.

Colmic’s Chris Telling with his big double common.

Burt Bait sponsored angler Micheal Corsini with his small carp of 17lb.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

Rolfslake Easter Festival 2014. Day 2.

Day 2 report . Today the returning 24 anglers were greeted with a much colder day with wind and rain also expected so talking to John he tells me that the catches were much lower than yesterday with the exception of Steve Waters on peg 18 who put together a great weight of 184-12 from peg 18, John Bennett on peg 22 with 150-07 and Jon Walker who also caught over a ton with his weight of 114-10 from peg 23. The current leader of the festival is Steve Waters with 3 points but has to fish the dreaded A section tomorrow with Mick Lane also on 3 points but has a better chance as he is fishing B section but they are hotly pursued by 5 other anglers who are are 2 and 3 points behind so it should be an exciting day 3 down the lake tomorrow. Come back to see who will be crowned Rolfslake Easter Festival 2014 Champion. I will be posting more photo’s as they become available.

Current Festival leader Steve Waters.

A Section

Place Angler Peg Weight  Points
 1st  Mick Lane  38  63-05  1
 2nd  Anthony Flint  34  63-05  1
 3rd  Frank Hardie  4  55-12  3
 4th  Ernie Malyon  5  47-09  4
 5th  Malc Doyle  36  42-06  5
 6th  Dan Deakin  2  39-09  6
 7th  Paul Newbury  7  39-05  7
 8th  Justin Macabe  40  9-06  8

B Section

 Place  Angler  Peg  Weight  Points
 1st  John Draper  8  91-03  1
 2nd Geoff Edwards 28  81-11  2
 3rd Mark Newbold 32  57-11  3
 4th Chris Telling 29  55-11  4
 5th Andy Quarmby 13  55-10  5
 6th Micheal Corsini 31  49-00  6
 7th Phil Powell 9  46-04  7
 8th Ian McCullough 10  45-13  8

C Section

 Place  Angler  Peg  Weight  Points
 1st  Steve Waters  18  184-12  1
 2nd  John Bennett  22  150-07  2
 3rd  Jon Walker  23  114-10  3
 4th  Liam Bough  15  93-15  4
 5th  Johnny Broadbent  25  89-06  5
 6th  Any Johnstone  17  79-05  6
 7th  Dai Thomas  14  76-14  7
 8th  Dave Whiteman  26  61-00  8

Top 7

 Angler  Points  Weight  Sponsor
 Steve Waters  3  294-13  Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths.
 Mick Lane  3  229-08  Rolfslake
 Mark Newbold  4  219-01  Rolfslake
 Anthony Flint  4  192-02  Rolfslake
 John Draper  5  153-08  Rolfslake
 Malc Doyle  6  286-07  Jinx League
 Chris Telling  6  177-06  Colmic

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

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.

EASTER FESTIVAL 2014 APRIL SAT 19 SUN 20 MON 21 (POLE ONLY)

 

ROLFS 3 DAY FESTIVAL OPEN AND PRACTICE DAY ON FRI 18TH APRIL.

THIS YEAR I WILL BE TAKING A NON REFUNDABLE £30,(THIS MONEY MUST BE PAID 10 DAYS BEFORE THE EVENT,)

THE DEPOSIT WILL BE TO COVER DAY TICKETS AND FOOD ON THE FINAL DAY, ANY EXTRA FUNDS GENERATED BY THIS AFTER

DEDUCTIONS ( ie. day tickets and food cost of £2-00 per person)  WILL BE ADDED TO THE OVERALL PAYOUT.

THE MONEY THIS YEAR IS £120. DEPOSIT 30 +90 = 120, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN RUNNING THE FEASTIVAL I HAVE  HAD

AN INCREASE IN ENTRY FEES, RESULTING A BETTER PAYOUT. PHONE OR CONTACT THROUGH SITE TO PUT NAME DOWN. A

RESERVE LIST IS IN OPERATION.

I WOULD LIKE A 24 PEG MAXIMUM ON NUMBERS, I WILL DO SOME CALCULATIONS TO GIVE A PAYOUT ON THIS FIGURES ASAP

Last years Easter Festival winner Andy Quarmby with just part of his winning catch.

Pegging, Payment and Names Below.  Read more

WEDNESDAY 1ST JAN OPEN MATCH RESULTS

DRAW 9-30 FISH 10-30-3-30 POOLS £15 ALL IN

Results
Pos Name Peg Weight Sponsor
1  ERNIE MALYON  26  29-10-0  Rolfslake
2  MICK JONES  24  25-10-0  Rolfslake
3  JOHN BENNETT  14  14-14-0  Rolfslake
4  PAUL JAY  16  11-5-0  Rolfslake
5  WAYNE PARKER  22  10-4-0  Rolfslake
6  STEVE WILLIAMS  18  7-4-0  Rolfslake

Mick Jones’s weight include an impressive 3lb oz Perch

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