Rolfslake’s Wednesday open 15th April 2010

Another Wednesday another Rolfslake midweek match, which normally means big weights of fish and the usual banter that goes with it.

After the poor results from the weekends matches hopes were not high for todays match as the weather in the week had been a mixture of bright sunshine ,cold temperature and a stiff wind so the fish have not been able to settle into a confident feeding pattern so the anglers were going to have to work out what the fish wanted. The midweek matches are now starting to draw a few anglers due to the late starts and that should start to see the begining of the big weights that Rolfslake is famous for.

After the draw had taken place the anglers settled into their pegs and could see carp crashing around the big lake so a decision had to be made whether to fish long and risk the wind wrecking their presentation later in the match or take a chance and see if the fish were getting closer which normally is the method to catch big weights.

With the sun shining the anglers on the motorway bank were kept warm but experienced the problem of having the sun in their eyes, and the anglers on the carpark bank were able to fish longer but were going to get cold due to the shade from the trees so you can never have both. John tells me after a slow start the anglers settled down and started to catch fish with the most productive area being the car park bank in the twenties with the anglers starting off fishing long drawing the fish closer as the match went on, and the anglers on the motorway bank have to fish either the rod or the pole to reach the fish.

In first place today was Rolfslake regular Chris Telling who was fishing on the motorway bank peg 26. Chris is a very confident angler and today he started on the pole fished long on the deck and was rewarded with carp to double figures, but as the match went on  Chris was able to draw the fish closer towards him which helped him catch carp quicker. Chris was fishing using his favoured paste hook bait which has won him lots of matches and by doing so meant he was able to catch bigger fish which means big weights, and after 5 hours Chris had put together a great weight of 259-12 and the top weight on the lake this year {well done Chris you are the current King of Rolfslake}.

King of Rolfslake Vespe's Chris Telling

In second place was Steve Rich who was only two pegs away on peg 28 and Steve gave Chris a good run for his money as he caught very well but caught smaller fish. Steve was fishing banded pellet on the deck fished long but was also able to draw the fish in , and at the end was only one fish off a double ton with his weight of 195-02. Completing the frame was Mick Jones on the motorway bank peg 13 and who was on a good run of form down on the lake. Mick usually fishes short range between 6 to 8 metres and today was no different, and by using a combination of pellet feed and his usual meat hookbait Mick was able to draw fish from the bay area to his peg and at the end put 164-12 to complete a very good frame.

Place Angler Peg Weight Bait
1st Chris Telling 26 259-12 Paste Vespe
2nd Steve Rich 28 195-02 Hard Pellet Rolfslake
3rd Mick Jones 13 164-12 Meat Rolfslake
4th Mark 25 148-08 Rolfslake
5th Paul Jay 15 118-00 Banded Pellet Rolfslake
6th Mike Stimson 18 105-00 Pellet Rolfslake
7th Sean 17 104-08 Rolfslake
8th John Bennett 14 85-00 Soft Pellet Rolfslake
9th Fred Parker 22 68-00 Rolfslake
10th Derek Kelsey 23 68-00 Rolfslake

Neil Riddy’s Club Match. Ospreys AC

11th April

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A windy day at the lake.

Today Rolfs Lake was host to a club match. 25 anglers were fishing. The wind was blowing across the big lake towards peg 19. The sun was trying to break through the clouds and it looked promising for a nice sunny day. Carp were seen to be topping all over the big lake so it looked like shallow might be a good way to attack…. or would it.

Waiting to do the draw

With the draw done and everyone setting up the sun broke through and black shadows could be seen swimming around the top end of the big lake.  One thing was for sure today and that was that the person that drew peg 20 would get on the peg kings board as its not been fished for a while. That person was Mark Gilbert, new peg king of peg 20. 😀

Top end of the little lake.

With the match under way and the fish still topping a lot of people tried targeting the fish by fishing shallow but at the start people were foul hooking fish and loosing them. Paul Jay on peg 23 was fishing the pellet waggler and was having a few but he was finding it hard firing his pellets out due to the wind blowing them back towards him 😀

Paul Jay with another carp.

After starting on the pole shallow fishing Mick Whitmore on peg 17 has also switched to the pellet waggler and was catching regularly and pulling the fish off Paul. Mick had the wind behind him and had no problem firing out his feed pellets. Mick was storming away in the big lake.

Mick on peg 17 with one of his many shallow caught fish

Simon Mound on peg 15 messing it up 😀

The story on the little lake was that it was not fishing as productive.  Tex on Peg 8 was catching a few and so was Adam on peg 34 (his home peg :P)

The Little Lake.

Back in the big lake Mick on peg 17 was still doing the damage on the pellet waggler. Paul Jay had switched to the bomb and was catching a few more fish. Simon on peg 15 had also managed to catch a few on the bomb.

Another weigher for Paul Jay

Simon with a carp on the bomb.

Simon's 13lb carp

Ian Millin on peg 18 with a nice carp.

Mark Playing a carp on peg 22

Kiran on peg 28

Brian with a fish on, on peg 19

The Results.

{I could not read Neil’s writing, so apologies for some missing second names, will add them soon}

11th April Results.
NAME PEG WEIGHT
Mick Whitmore 17 136-4
Paul Jay 23 58-8
Ian Millin 18 52-8
Tex Marshall 8 43-3
Adam Griffiths 34 41-12
Chris Lovelock 25 34-8
Neil Riddy 10 33-14
Andy Waterhouse 26 32-2
Simon Mound 15 30-8
Brian Richie 19 28-8
Kiran C 28 22-0
George Kay 14 18-8
Bill Lovelock 38 16-9
Mark Brown 22 15-0
Neil Fenner 2 13-8
Tony Taylor 31 13-8
Owen Glover 4 6-4
Ken Sawyer 9 5-9
Ian Simner 6 3-6
Robin Lett 40 2-5
Mark Gilbert 20 0-8
Steve P 7 0-4
Mark Orchard 32 DNW
Steve C 13 DNW
Mark Barratt 29 DNW

Todays Winner, Mick Whitmore.

Second place, Paul Jay

Thanks for the invite to fish the match. Great bunch of lads. If anyone wants all the pictures from today use the contact form to send me a message and leave you email address and I will send you a zip file with the pictures in.

Well done Mick, you fished well on quite a hard day.

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.

Spring Festival Day 3 Results.

5th April

Spring League Day 3
A Section PEG WEIGHT PTS
Mark Malin 7 179-14 1
John Bennett 8 80-12 2
Mark Bowerman 35 61-10 3
Phil Powell 37 45-04 4
Mick Lane 40 41-10 5
Andy Johnstone 2 38-04 6
Mick Hughes 4 37-08 7
Not used 34 8
B Section
Matt Smith 9 64-08 1
Derek Hammond 10 53-00 2
Dave Whiteman 30 47-06 3
Clive Pritchard 27 41-09 4
Colin Wedgebrow 31 18-10 5
Chris Walters 28 8-06 6
Gary Haisman 13 3-01 7
Paul Glenfield 14 54-00 Weight did not count

Rule infringement.

8
C Section
John Hague 15 110-00 1
Lee Giles 17 86-08 2
Tim Guise 18 54-08 3
Andy Chandler 24 52-08 4
Chris Telling 21 47-08 5
Jason Astle 19 33-04 6
Mark Bedford 26 18-04 7
Paul Newbury 23 9-12 8
Results after 3 days
Matt Smith 3 points {perfect score}
Mark Malin 6 points
Mark Bowerman 7 points
Derek Hammond 7 points
John Bennett 8 points
Lee Giles 11 points
John Hagues 12 points

Rolfs Lake Saturday Open

13th March

Spring Time at Rolfs Lake.

After a couple of cold icy weeks, the weather finally warmed up and the sun started to shine. The temperature was creeping up to 10 or 11 degrees and a few carp and orfe were starting to come up to feed on bread in the nursery. The question was, would they start to move around the other pegs or stayed shoaled up in peg 22. As usual that was the peg everybody was hoping for.
Soon enough, all 8 anglers got ready to do the draw, we were all going to fish the far end of the big lake today so we should all be in for a good session. Dan Blackwell Drew first and chose peg 26 and John Bennett second with 24. Dan and Paul were not expecting to many fish as the fish have recently been shoaling up tight to the far side.


It was time for the whistle to be blown know and we were all in, Dan cast out a bomb at about 20m out on peg 26 and was the first to hook into a Carp. It was a big fish and felt like a high double but the hook pulled last minute. John and Paul were both in next at the same time and both sucsessfully got them to the net. And then Dan managed to redeem himself by getting a nice Carp into his net. Dan, Paul and John were all on the same tactics fishing the bomb and corn and pole and pellet which was proving very successful.

Paul landing a nice doulble figure carp.

Catching a few from 18

After 1 hour, everybody had managed to tempt 1 or 2 carp into their nets but a lot of the Carp hooked were unfortunately lost. Dan had managed to catch a nice 10lber along with Paul over on 14, John however had caught 5 carp all around the 7lb mark, some bigger some smaller. It was going very wrong on 22 with 7 carp being lost and 2 landed, it was more or less the same story on 18.

16m pole on 22

John talking to Mike on 24

With half an hour to go John had walked away having a great result of about 8 carp, Dan and Paul were very close with 3 carp and each had one of about 13lb. Dan had lost 4 in the end and Paul lost 1.

13lb carp from Rolfs Lake

A nice pole caught carp

It was now the end of the match and we all wondered around to do the weigh in.
In the end John won the match with 66lb 4oz, Well Done John!! Paul Jay came 2nd with 33lb 8oz and Dan came 3rd with 31lb. Well done to everybody that fished.

Dan Blackwells 31lb bag for 3rd

Top 3 Results. 8 Anglers fished.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Bennett 24 66-4
2 Paul Jay 14 33-8
3 Daniel Blackwell 26 31-0

Thanks for reading, Dan

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