Spring League – Page 3

Spring League 2010. Round 3.

March 8, 2010 Simon One comment

7th March

Sunny but cold day at the Lake.

The sunshine made an appearance today at the lake but Friday night had seen a frost. The lake was ice free but the ground was solid and most of the platforms had a layer of ice on them.

Would the carp show again like last week, it was looking possible as John Bennett had managed 90lb from peg 18 on the Saturdays open at the lake. So were the carp still down the far end of the big lake ? Those fishing C section were all hoping to draw peg 22 or 18 but who would be the lucky two ?

Phil Powell was one, he was hoping for 22 but pulled peg 18 out and Mike Stimpson drew peg 22.

Those fishing on the motorway bank were to have the sun on them all day whilst those on the car park bank were in arctic conditions with the wind picking up and blowing a chill down the lake towards pegs 19 and 21.

No one on the Little lake today.

Mick Lane, Simon Mound and Paul Jay were all catching silvers in A section. Gary Haisman was the only person to catch carp from B Section and John Colwing also in B section was on the way to building up a nice silver bag again like in the last round. C section it seemed had all the carp again with all 4 anglers catching carp. But this time it was Phil Powell on peg 18 taking the lead over Mike Stimpson on peg 22. Big Ron on 24 and Steve Williams on 16 we equal on 4 carp each but whose would be bigger.

Off to do the weigh in

Results

SPRING LEAGUE, ROUND 3. 7th March

A SECTION

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Team
1	Mick Lane	32	25-4	Mafia
2	Paul Jay	10	15-12	Wood Tops
3	Simon Mound	9	11-12	Pikeys
4	Maurice Woodley	30	1-8	DNW’s

B SECTION

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Team
1	Gary Haisman	14	27-8	Pikeys
2	John Cowling	28	13-8	DNW’s
3	Derek Hammond	26	7-12	Wood Tops
4	John Bennett	13	7-4	Mafia

C SECTION

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Team
1	Phil Powell	18	89-0	Mafia
2	Mike Stimpson	22	67-0	Wood Tops
3	Steve Williams	16	42-8	DNW’s
4	Big Ron	24	37-12	Pikeys

DAY POINTS

Swindon Mafia	9 pts
Wooden Tops	8 pts
Pikeys	7 pts
DNW’s	6 pts

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Wooden Tops	25 pts
Swindon Mafia	25 pts
Pikeys	23 pts
DNW’s	17 pts

A Section Winner. Mick Lane.

Mick Lanes All Silver Bag

B Section Winner, Gary Haisman.

C Section Winner, Phil Powell.

Part of Phil's Match Winning 89lb bag.

Swindon Mafia are not letting Wooden tops get too far ahead and make a good comeback.

The next Spring league match is on Sunday the 21st March in 2 weeks time. John is running an open match on the Saturday before. If you want to fish please call John on 07774 618688.

John Bennett setting up on peg 13

Simon’s Report for this match can be found HERE

Match Reports

Spring League 2010, Round 2.

March 1, 2010 Eddie One comment

28th February 2010

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A dull day at Rolfs Lake

Today saw 16 angler at the lake to fish round 2 of the spring league. The weather this morning was very dull, raining and a slight wind blowing down the big lake towards pegs 19, 20 and 21. The temps were a lot warmer too so would the carp want to play today was the question everyone was asking.

All the matches are been held in the big lake only for the spring league so everyone was saying the carp would be in the little lake 🙂

The fields around the lake were flooded and John Bennett had had the pumps running since Thursday to keep the levels on the lake down. The water was just lapping some of the platforms so he had done a great job.

The brook was Really High

Lots of mud everywhere due to all the rain.

At the start of the match Simon on peg 22 was straight in to carp fishing 16m to the bush next to peg 21. He was fishing corn on the deck. He managed to catch 7 carp in the first hour. Derek on peg 9 was catching some excellent bream. Gary on peg 10 and John on peg 30 were both bagging up on Silvers catching one a chuck. Silvers were been caught all around the lake.

Simon in the second hour had switched from corn on the deck and started fishing half depth with a White boilie as bait and was getting a very good response, he had been getting a lot of Liners and had decided to give mid water. The fish were taking the bait just as the float cocked on the 3ft mark. After hour 2 he had 17 carp in the net (not all one net)

The rest of the lake were struggling with only a few carp been caught but plenty of silver fish action, where were they all in the winter league ?? They certainly were making a come back now.

View from Simon's Peg. Peg 22

The car park bank

Slight ripple on the water

Camera shy Paul Jay on 18 🙂

By the end of the third hour the silvers were still showing round the lake and the carp were still biting on peg 22. Simon by this time had 25 carp in the net. The final hour saw him only catch a further 2 carp to give him a total of 27. He tempted the last 2 by going back on the deck with the corn again.

Derek on peg 9

Gary's fish from peg 10

No Picture of Simon’s fish as it was raining again sorry. But with the first big weight from the lake this year it looks like things maybe on the up for the lake. We shall see what happens in round 3 next week on the 7th March.

Results

SPRING LEAGUE, ROUND 2. 28th February.

A SECTION

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Team
1	Derek Hammond	9	24-0	Wood Tops
2	John Cowling	30	18-0	DNW’s
3	Gary Haisman	10	15-12	Pikeys
4	John Bennett	32	8-4	Mafia

B SECTION

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Team
1	Fred Parker	14	19-8	Wood Tops
2	Big Ron	26	16-12	Pikeys
3	Phil Powell	28	13-0	Mafia
4	Steve Williams	13	2-4	DNW’s

C SECTION

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Team
1	Simon Mound	22	211-12	Pikeys
2	Mick Lane	24	21-12	Mafia
3	Mauice Woodley	16	21-4	DNW’s
4	Paul Jay	18	17-8	Wood Tops

DAY POINTS

Pikeys	9 pts
Wooden Tops	9 pts
Swindon Mafia	6 pts
DNW’s	6 pts

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Wooden Tops	17 pts
Swindon Mafia	16 pts
Pikeys	16 pts
DNW’s	11 pts

Simon’s Blog report on the day can be found HERE

Match Reports

Spring league 2010. Round 1.

February 19, 2010 Eddie Leave a comment

14th February 2010

Rolfslake throught the round window

Today saw the delayed start to the spring league teams of three round one , and missing from this series were Rolfs Team Gold but who were replaced in the series by a new team called the Swindon Bandits.

The reason the league was delayed was to give the lake a proper chance to recover from the extreme cold weather that had been with us since before Christmas. With only 4 teams entered it was decided to fish only the big lake as so keep the anglers together and if they did not catch at least they would have someone to talk to. The weather was sunny with a cold northerly wind which was not going to help the anglers catch a carp but the silvers should respond so at least there should be a few bites for everyone.

At the end of five hours John Bennett told me that most of the fish were down the bottom of the lake ,towards peg 19 and 20 so Derek Hammond who was on peg 22 was always in with a chance of having a few and after losing a few Derek had 5 carp for a winning 45-07 {well done Derek}. The top silver weight on the day was a fantastic 21-04 from the Swindon Mafia’s Phil Powell who was kept busy with plenty of bite.

The next round is on Sunday the 28th so the anglers are hopeful the carp will continue to bite but if not there are lots of silver fish to be caught.

RESULTS

A SECTION