The 29th of January will see the first pairs competition fished at the lake, and for the first 12 teams of two to apply it will hopefully be a change from the tried and tested teams of three league.

John has given me a provisional list of pairs which will need to be confirmed as soon as possible as this series will be limited to 12 pairs.

If all these pairs are confirmed to John then it only leaves places for two more pairs.

There will be a reserve list available for anglers that would like to be considered to fish if required.This is for anglers who are available to fish as substitute for anglers and pairs unable to fish each round.

SUBS LIST

NEIL RIDDY

PETE TAPP

The series will be fished over 6 matches with teams being able to drop their worst result leaving the results to be decided over the 5 best scoring rounds.

The matches will be held over the following dates.

29th January

5th Feb

19th Feb

4th March

11th March

25th March.

The cost of entering a team will be £20 per angler = £40 per team

There will be a £20 per angler pools on the day { minus peg fees } and both team members must enter this on the day as there will only be a top 3 teams payout on the day.

Both the big and small lake will be used for this series which will be divided into 4 sections A,B,C and D and this will be explained on the morning of the first round.

The anglers will be able to use both pole and rod in this series.

If there is a maximum 12 team attendance then the payouts will be as follows.

24 anglers paying £20 pools per round = £480 – £8 per peg peg fees 24x £8 = £192 and this leaves £ 288 to be paid per round.

The winning team per round gets £120

The second team per round gets   £98

The third team per round gets      £70

There will be no section winners payouts.

The series payout.

24 anglers x £20 entrance money = £480 to be paid out

The winning team of the series will be paid £210

The runners up will be paid £150

The third placed team will be paid £120

THIS IS DEPENDANT ON 12 TEAMS OF TWO, if there are less than twelve teams then the payout will be reduced accordingly.

If a team was to win the 6 rounds and the series then their payout could be £930 payout.

I hope this all makes sense.

If there are any questions please give John Bennett a call.

Thanks for reading The Rolfslake fisheries team.

Things are closer than ever now and the last round will decide the winner.

Results…

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Close at the top lads. Top bombing Phil. New lake king

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Rolfs Team Gold clawing their way back

Walker Floats out in front again.

Spring League Round 3. 27th February. 2011

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

The next round is next Sunday. March the 6th

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Report to follow when Jon Walker writes it

Spring League Round 1. 6th February. 2011

• round 1 Feb 6th
• round 2 Feb 13th
• round 3 Feb 27th
• round 4 march 6th
• round 5 march 13th
• round 6 march 27th

Any teams wishing to fish please register asap, any individual who is interested in fishing let me know and we can make up more teams, or use them as subs and reserves.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE (click to enlarge)

A cold raining day saw the start to the Rolfs lake’s Easter festival, and the anglers had a chance to meet old friends and rivals they had not seen for a year. I was pleased to see all the anglers arrive down the lake {as i was on stewarding duties today } and surprised to see people who knew who i was due to the website, so new angling acquaintances were made.

With one angler dropping out leaving only 23 anglers, it was left with two sections of 8 anglers and one of 7 so the points would be reversed with the winning angler getting one point decending down to either 8 or 7 points which all the anglers agreed was a fair result. Also with the anglers spread out leaving a long walk to the scales it was decided by John for this weekend only that fish over 10lb could be put in the keepnet but only a maximum of 6 would be allowed in one net but any monster carp 17lb + would have to be weighed there and then.

As the anglers drew their pegs they preferred to have sections B {pegs 9,10,13,14,27,28,30,31} or  section C {15,17,18,19,21,23, 24 or 26} as section A { 34,35,37,40,2,4,7,and 8} usually fishes better on day 3.

The summary of the day was with an annoying breeze making presentation difficult , the anglers found a slow start to the match with section C anglers having a few fish and Matt Smith {champion 2008} was making good progress from peg 15 and right opposite on peg 27 Mark Malin was also having a few carp. Derek Hammond on peg 19 started well but struggled towards the end, and the Swindon Mafia trio of Powell, Lane and Bennett had all drawn in B section so today we would see who would be the Godfather . In the dreaded A section Tim Guise and Mark Bedford {champion 2009} were catching fish but the anglers down the bottom bank 40,and 2 were struggling for bite and also had the wind blowing in their faces so it would be cold for them today.

Phil Powell struggling on peg 10.

As the match progressed more and more anglers started to catch all around the lake as the wind died down and the anglers could see their floats properly and the anglers that were using banded pellett were catching better than the ones using soft pellet and corn and even Chris Telling was catching on the paste .

After 5 hours the top angler on the day was Matt Smith with a fantastic top weight on the lake of 212-04 {sorry Simon} and he started off fishing long 16 metres on the deck and in the end was catching a lot shorter also on the deck fishing banded pellet and two ton weights from Tim Guise and Mark Bedford from A section also fishing the banded pellet made for good viewing from where i was sitting. Normally on days two and three the fishing gets better so i will keep you updated with the progress as it happens.

View from the small lake.

Report to follow.

Team results on the day.

Overall team results after 5 rounds

Swindon Mafia win the league on weight count back 663-00 to Woodentops 621-00.

League winners the Swindon Mafia. { Mick, Phil and John well done guys}.

As the anglers gathered for round 4 of the spring league they were joined on the lake by a visiting party who today would be fishing the small lake pegs 34 to peg 8.

With the league being very close between the Woodentops led by captained by Paul Jay and the Swindon Mafia captained by Mick Lane ,it was going to be very important to ensure that all anglers caught and with the carp now starting to move that you managed to catch a few to boost your weight and with the wind blowing from the south the fish that were hiding down on pegs 19 and 20 had started to move to the middle of the lake infront of pegs 16 and 24.

John tells that during the match carp were caught and lost but the main battle was between he on peg 18 {for John peg 18 is his new peg 9 as he had drawn it a few times recently} and Derek Hammond on peg 22 and at the end of five hours Derek was one fish ahead although John mananged to lose a few during the match. Derek was fishing the pole fished long and on the deck using corn for hook bait but feeding quite cautiously to keep the fish there and in the end Derek caught 95-00 for first place individually and 4 points for his team. John fished pretty similar to Derek but after catching a few carp the fished moved out of pole range and started to come up on the surface much to his annoyance as he tells me he should of caught over 100lb of fish with the amount of fish in his swim but ended up with 80-08.

Elsewhere around the lake most anglers caught a few carp on either pole, waggler or bomb again using corn and pellet as the main hookbait but feeding cautiously as not to spook the fish.

The Woodentops still lead the league but only by one point so round five this weekend should be a good battle between them and the Swindon Mafia and as reporter i am totally unbiased so i hope the Woodentops win for a change. The lake is fishing better as each match goes by so by the time the Easter Festival comes round it should be on top form.

Results

A section.

1st  Steve Williams           Dnw’s                peg 32     47-12         4 points

2nd Phil Powell                Swindon Mafia   peg 9       35-04         3 points

3rd Dave Ball                  Pikeys                peg 10      8-04          2 points

4th Fred Parker               Woodentops     peg 30      7-04           1 points

B section

1st Paul Jay                     Woodentops     peg 13     61-12           4 points

2nd Ryan Rimmer            Dnw’s                peg 26     33-04          3 points

3rd Mick Lane                 Swindon Mafia   peg 14     30-12          2 points

4th Herbie                      Pikeys                peg 13     13-00          1 point

C section

1st Derek Hammond      Woodentops      peg 22      95-00          4 points

2nd John Bennett           Swindon Mafia   peg 18      80-08          3 points

3rd Derek Hazleman      Pikeys                peg 16      43-10          2 points

4th John Cowling           Dnw’s                peg 24      39-04          1 point

Results on the day

Woodentops    9 points

Swindon Mafia 8 points

Dnw’s              8 points

Pikeys             5 points

Results after round  4

Woodentops    34 points

Swindon Mafia 33 points

Pikeys              28 points

Dnw’s              25 points