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Winter League Round 4. 2nd Jan 2011

January 3, 2011 Simon 7 comments

Nearly all the ice has gone now

Welcome to 2011. After the last match was cancelled there has been quite a break for some of the winter league lads. Frank Hardie, Steve Waters and John were at the lake on Saturday breaking up the ice and running the aerators to try and clear the ice for the first match of 2011 and what a great job they did too. Nearly all the ice had melted.

Nearly clear of ice

Most of the ice was in the little lake and up by pegs 19 and 20 in the big lake.

As the Christmas match was cancelled this would double up as the xmas match so everyone brought along a bottle for the raffle at the end of the match. And there was also a lovely hamper up for grabs, chosen by a peg number been pulled out the bag and whoever was on that peg wins the hamper.

No drinking and Driving 😀

The Hamper donated by John and Pauline

Everyone was milling around waiting for the draw and wishing each other best wishes for the new year.

John Bennett waiting the get the draw underway.

The draw is underway

: Mick Lane writing him memoirs

The flyers going early

Gary Haisman and Jon Walker eager to draw

Steve Wilson, Malc Doyle, Paul Jay and Clive Pritchard

Jon is on 21

Gem Doyle and Dai Thomas

Its not that cold John 😀

With the draw out the way the match was starting at 10.30 so everyone was off to get ready. Only one peg needed breaking out and that was poor Gary Haisman on peg 16. Everyone else only really had to scoop out and move the ice from their swims.

Ady clearing his swim on peg 23

My Peg, Peg 24 clear to 13 meters

The match got underway and there was a lack of movement from anyone floats. In the first half an hour I had managed to hook and land a carp about 8-9lb (I thought :D) and comments were been shouted “Jammy bugger”

Malc had managed 2 roach fish at 13m :O He never fishes more than 6m so this is a rare occasion for Malc 😀 Ady on peg 23 had also managed 2 roach but had hooked and lost the first carp of the day as he was fishing on fine gear.

Not much to report on the middle of the match apart from Mick Lane on peg 13 and Derek Hammond on peg 10 locked in a silver fish battle, both catching regularly. It was going to be a close call between them.

During the last hour the action started 😀 Phil Powell over on peg 18 had managed to hook in to a carp but having light elastic and lots of ice in his swim was struggling to land it. After a nice fight he put the net under his carp. “Bugger” I thought and shouted over “How big is it” I thought it looked about 10lb from where I was sitting. He shouted back “Same as yours” 😀

Phil Playing his carp

The smile says it all

Then to put the nail in the coffin and stop me from winning my section Geoff Palmer over on peg 14 strikes in to his first and only fish a bigger carp. After playing it VERY carefully he lands it and it did look over 10lbs and indeed it was. 13lb 8oz to take the section.

With half an hour to go Jon Walker on peg 21 had a nice stream of elastic flowing from his pole, carp on……. Malc gets his camera out and takes a few photo’s ….. Carp OFF. It had straightened his size 22 hook.

The one that got away from Jon walker

With 25 minutes to go Pete Arnold on peg 8 decided to chuck the feeder across and this resulted in two carp to win the match. Fantastic, well done Pete.

The Little lake had been the hardest with only 2oz winning the section. There was a battle between Steve Waters on peg 2 and Frank Hardie on peg 7 who both had 4 fish, 2 roach and 2 perch. Frank just edged it by half an oz 😀

Overall and B Section Winner Pete Arnold.

Hard fought A Section Winner, Frank Hardie

C Section Winner, Geoff Palmer

Pauline supplying everyone with some hot soup after the match. Thank you

After the soup John drew a number from the bag to decide who would win the lovely hamper. Peg 34 was drawn, on that peg today was Clive Pritchard but he had gone home so another name was drawn. The Hamper went to Dai Thomas. You should have stayed Clive 😀

Results

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Frank Hardie	7	2 oz	Heavy Weights
2nd	Steve Waters	2	1.5 oz	Walker Floats
3rd	Pat Pritchard	6	0.5 oz	Pats Lot
	John Bennett	4	DNW	Rolfs Team Gold
	Clive Pritchard	34	DNW	Assassin
	Mick Chappel	40	DNW	Wooden Tops
	Did Not show !!			Rolfs Reject

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Pete Arnold	8	19-8	Pats Lot
2nd	Mick Lane	13	5-11	Rolfs Team Gold
3rd	Derek Hammond	10	5-4	Walker Floats
4th	Steve Palmer	28	7.5 oz	Heavy Weights
5th	Paul Jay	9	3 oz	Wooden Tops
	Steve Wilson	30	DNW	Assassins
	Dai Thomas	32	DNW	Rolfs Rejects

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Geoff Palmer	14	13-8	Heavy Weights
2nd	Simon Mound	24	11-8	Assassins
3rd	Phil Powell	18	10-4	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Jon Walker	21	8.5 oz	Walker Floats
5th	Malc Doyle	26	6 oz	Rolfs Rejects
6th	Ady Kinom	23	5 oz	Pats Lot
	Gay Haisman	16	DNW	Wooden Tops

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Heavy Weights	18
1st	Walker Floats	15
3rd	Pats Lot	14
4th	Rolfs Team Gold	11
5th	Assassins	6
6th	Wooden Tops	3=
6th	Rolfs Rejects	3=

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

	TOTAL TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Walker Floats	21+10+13+15	59
2nd	Rolfs Team Gold	17+14+16+11	58
3rd	Pats Lot	10+17+16+14	57
4th	Heavy Weights	11+16+5+18	50
5th	Assassins	9+15+12+6	42
6th	Wooden Tops	9+3+13+3	28
7th	Rolfs Rejects	7+8+2+3	20

As you can see its VERY close at the top now with only two matches remaining.

Well done to everyone that caught today as it was a very hard match indeed. Pete Arnold gets his picture in the banner as he is now the new Lake King, not sure 19lb 8oz will last too long though 😀

I have added the new 2011 Peg King board so everyone that caught in this match is now a peg king.

The next winter league match is on the 16th Jan.

Thanks for reading, Eddie, John and Si.

Match Reports

IMPORTANT. Match 4 Cancelled !!

December 18, 2010 Simon 7 comments

Match 4 of the winter league has had to be cancelled sorry. This is due to dangerous driving conditions caused by yesterday and today’s snow.

Sorry for the short notice but we cannot control the weather. John would rather be safe than sorry as health and safety is always high on his priorities.

If you read this could you spread the word to people that do not have access to the internet.

There will be an open for those that can make it to the lake safely. Draw is at 9.30am.

John will meet with everyone at the next match on the 2nd Jan to discuss adding an extra match on the end of the series, depending on if people are free to fish and have not made alternative plans.

Once again sorry for the inconvenience.

News

Winter League Round 3. 5th Dec 2010

December 7, 2010 Simon 3 comments

Cold Morning at the Lake

Round 3 of the winter league and Neil Riddy returns to fish and brings the ice with him, just like last year. Thanks Neil 😀

The weather at the lake at 9am was quite nice, not to cold and the sun was shining. John got the draw underway early today to allow people extra time to break the ice on thier pegs. Peg 32, 30, and 28 were free of ice as the wind had cleared it coming off the car park. Everyone had a cup of coffee except Derek who had his Redbull still wearing his slippers 😀

With the draw done people made their way round the lake to get their pegs to break the ice. On average it was between 1.5 inches to 2.5 inches. Malc had drawn peg 32 , Liam on peg 30 and Frank on peg 28 so they had no ice to break but went and helped their teams mates break their swims out… Fair play 🙂

The Big Lake

Looking towards the little lake

The all in was called by Malc at 11am and todays match was going to be 4 and a half hours. Derek Hammond on peg 34 had a carp right away while the rest of the little lake looked on with envy.

Derek Hammond on peg 34

The rest of us were not quite so lucky and were staring at a motionless floats for the start of the match. A few screams went out round the lake when people caught their first fish, myself included 😀 I had a perch from the swim in front of me promptly followed by another. But that was it for another hour. I did manage to catch 18 in total through the rest of the match though.

Paul gave me the keys to his peg, Peg 10

I then watched Phil on peg 9 catching what I think were fish but were not much bigger that my toenail 😀 Malc was impressed with the size of them and shouts across with some encouragement. Phil then slipped his net under a 2lb+ perch and wiped the smiles off our faces 😛

Phil Powell on peg 9

Malc over on peg 32

Geoff to my left on peg 13 was having a nightmare struggling to get a bite along with Steve on peg 14. I might as well say everyone was struggling for a bite really. Pat over on peg 26 was catching some bits, Liam on peg 30 was having some ‘netter’ silvers so he was doing ok. Frank on peg 28 had hooked 2 carp and lost them but hooked in to another and got it in. John was catching some valuable bits over on peg 21 too but failed to find where the carp had gone from last match.

Geoff on peg 13. No bites

But plenty of ice

Steve on peg 14. Another without a bite but still smiling

Fresh back from his honeymoon to catch one perch, Neil Riddy on peg 16

Clive on peg 18, Also one perch but it was bigger than Neils. In fact Double the size

John on peg 21, no wonder he is smiling.

Marcus on peg 23. Another without a bite but still had a warm head thanks to that lovely hat

Sorry Earnie, you picture came out all burred as you was moving that fast 😀

Pat on peg 26 finding a few bits, enough to win C Section. Well done.

Frank on peg 28. His carp was enough to win the match and B Section along with some silvers. Well done.

Liam on peg 30

Down in the little lake there was a bit of a commotion on peg 7 as Paul attempted to play a foul hooked carp on the rod. Malc shouted his normal encouragement across….. “You better hurry up and land that or your rod eyes will freeze up” 😀 He eventually got it in and it was enough to give him the A section win.

Dai and Steve on pegs 2 and 4 were dry while Steve and Pete on pegs 6 and 37 had both managed 1 fish, Mick Lane on peg 40 had caught slightly more. Derek on peg 34 had got some silvers to back up his carp but it was just short of Paul’s weight. Ian McCulloch was filling in for Gary Haisman today on peg 8 and was also fishless until 15 minutes from the end when he managed two perch.

Pete was happy he had one fish on peg 37

Mick 'Lurker' Lane on peg 40

Dai on peg 2. No bites today.

Steve won the last match but never caught from peg 4 in this match

Steve on peg 6, one perch 5 mins from the end gave him valuable points

Jammy bugger Paul Jay on peg 7. Least he was allowed to put his 12lb'er in the net today 😀 Well Done.

Ian on peg 8, 2 late fish got him some points for his team

In the last hour and half freezing fog had moved on to the lake and was freezing my swim back up, I had to keep breaking it with my cupping kit. The fog was quite bad and you could hardly see across the other side of the lake. The temperature also plummeted as the fog was wetting everything and then freezing.

The fog before it got worse taken by Malc, thanks.

3.30 and Malc called the all out much to everyone’s relief. Everyone was soon packed up and round to the hut for a hot drink. With not much been caught and a army of weigher inners the weigh in was soon done. Back round to the hut where John has prepared some hot tomato soup for everyone, Thanks John. It burnt the roof of my mouth off but warmed me up 😀

On to the Results.

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Paul Jay	7	12-10	Wooden Tops
2nd	Derek Hammond	34	11-4	Walker Floats
3rd	Mick Lane	40	1-0	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Steve Wilson	6	0-4	Assassins
5th	Pete Arnold	37	0-1	Pats Lot
	Dai Thomas	2	DNW	Rolfs Rejects
	Steve Palmer	4	DNW	Heavy Weights

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Frank Hardie	28	16-1	Walker Floats
2nd	Liam Bough	30	3-2	Pats Lot
3rd	Phil Powell	9	2-11	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Simon Mound	10	1-11	Assassins
5th	Ian McCulloch	8	0-14	Wooden Tops
6th	Malc Doyle	32	0-13	Rolfs Rejects
	Geoff Palmer	13	DNW	Heavy Weights

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Pat Pritchard	26	1-13	Pats Lot
2nd	John Bennett	21	1-4	Rolfs Team Gold
3rd	Ernie Maylon	24	0-4	Heavy Weights
4th	Clive Pritchard	18	0-2	Assassins
5th	Neil Riddy	16	0-1	Wooden Tops
	Marcus Burgess	23	DNW	Rolfs Rejects
	Steve Waters	14	DNW	Walker Floats

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st=	Pats Lot	16=
1st=	Rolfs Team Gold	16=
3rd=	Walker Floats	13
3rd=	Wooden Tops	13
5th	Assassins	12
6th	Heavy Weights	5
7th	Rolfs Rejects	2

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

	TOTAL TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Rolfs Team Gold	17+14+16	47
2nd	Walker Floats	21+10+13	44
3rd	Pats Lot	10+17+16	43
4th	Assassins	9+15+12	36
5th	Heavy Weights	11+16+5	32
6th	Wooden Tops	9+3+13	25
7th	Rolfs Rejects	7+8+2	17

Well done to all the winners today, well deserved on a rock hard day.

Frank Hardie won the carp pool with his single carp that went 14lb.

Derek Hammond won the Silver fish pool with 4lb.

RTG have edged in to the lead but are still within reach of 2nd and 3rd place. 3 Matches left and as we saw today a lot can happen. 5 Blanks 😯

The next Match is on the 19th December. Draw time will be announced when John see what the weather is doing closer to the time. Please remember to bring a bottle wine or spirit for the xmas match too.

Thanks for reading, Eddie and Simon.

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Match Reports

Winter League Round 2, Sun 21st Nov 2010.

November 22, 2010 Simon 13 comments

Last matches Dream Team

The second round of the winter league was fished at the lake today. With Walker floats team sitting at the top of the table would they manage another clean sweep and hang on to the top spot or did the lake have other ideas for them ??

With everyone at the lake on time John got the draw under-way early to allow everyone some extra time to set up. The draw format today was whoever won A section drew first for their peg in B section and so on down to last place getting what was left in the bag.

Today there was a cold wind blowing from peg 40 towards the big lake making a nice ripple on the water. It was cloudy all day and we had a few spots of rain but nothing major.

Everyone drew their pegs and set off to set up. How the lake would fish was anyone’s guess 😀

Pat Pritchard signalled the all in with a hooter that sounded like a strangled donkey 😀

I was fishing on peg 2 which everyone kindly left in the bag for me today and hoping to have a bit more than 8oz. It was not long before I saw the first carp being caught by Liam over on peg 34, he was fishing the tip. I was next to catch, a small 4oz perch which I was chuffed with as it was half my last matches weight and meant I avoided the DNW.

Jon Walker over on 37 was struggling but Jon normally gets the carp going so I was expecting him to start catching but it never happened for him this week 😯 Poor Gary Haisman on peg 4 was much the same and had managed to hook a carp first drop on his long line but as he shipped back it came off. Geoff On peg 40 had managed to foul hook a perch whilst reeling in his feeder 😀

Phil Powell on peg 6 was fishing 16 meters on the bloodworm and joker and putting a nice net of silvers together before he had something stealing his fish….

Phil's first ever Pike which went 12lb 4oz. Well done.

The pike lead him on a merry dance around his and Malc’s pegs. Malc help out when the pike went round the back of his platform by pushing it back out in to the lake with his landing net 😀 This was not the only pike to put in an appearance today, Clive Pritchard on peg 28 also caught a 10lb 8oz pike which fell to double maggot on the bomb.

In the last 2 hours the big lake started to produce some fish, Roving reporter Marcus Burgess fishing from peg 9 was keeping me up to date with who was catching which was keeping him busy as he was not catching much unfortunately.

The lake fished hard overall but least different people caught some fish this week instead of watching other catching 😀

As for my match, I managed 5 carp this week fishing corn in to the corner on the pole and bomb rod which was a massive relief. I had to laugh when Malc came walking past me and said he was off to unhook his hook from the rope by the lilies on peg 34 after casting a little to far 😀

The results tell the rest of the story.

Results.

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Liam Bough	34	47-12	Pats Lot
2nd	Simon Mound	2	37-8	Assassins
3rd	Malc Doyle	7	28-0	Rolfs Rejects
4th	Phil Powell	6	26-0	Rolfs Team Gold
5th	Jon Walker	37	0-4	Walker Floats
6th	Geoff Palmer	40	0-1	Heavy Weights
	Gary Haisman	4	DNW	Wooden Tops

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Ernie Maylon	13	50-4	Heavy Weights
2nd	Clive Pritchard	28	23-12	Assassins
3rd	John Bennett	8	19-8	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Pat Pritchard	32	12-6	Pats Lot
5th	Steve Waters	30	10-0	Walker Floats
6th	Marcus Burgess	9	2-8	Rolfs Rejects
7th	Frank Hardie	10	0-4	Wooden Tops

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Steve Palmer	21	91-0	Heavy Weights
2nd	Pete Arnold	18	72-0	Pats Lot
3rd	Mick Lane	24	68-8	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Derek Hammond	23	55-12	Walker Floats
5th	Steve Wilson	16	39-0	Assassins
6th	Paul Jay	14	29-4	Wooden Tops
7th	Dai Thomas	26	22-8	Rolfs Rejects

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Pats Lot	17
2nd	Heavy Weights	16
3rd	Assassins	15
4th	Rolfs Team Gold	14
5th=	Walker Floats	10
5th=	Rolfs Rejects	8
7th	Wooden Tops	3

OVERALL LEADER BOARD

	TOTAL TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Rolfs Team Gold	17+14	31=
1st	Walker Floats	21+10	31=
2nd	Heavy Weights	11+16	27=
2nd	Pats Lot	10+17	27=
5th	Assassins	9+15	24
6th	Rolfs Rejects	7+8	15
7th	Wooden Tops	9+3	12

Today's top team. Pats Lot. Well Done

Pete Arnold was fishing instead of Dave Whiteman.

Top Silvers Weight went to Phil Powell With 26lb including his 12lb pike.

Top carp weight went to Steve Palmer with a cracking 91lb on a hard day at the lake.

Its tight at the top of the table and with 4 matches to go its all still to play for. Everyone switches sections again next match.

Next Saturdays Open match is a normal open where carp will count and there will be a separate pool for the silver fish. Please ring John to book in.

The next Winter League match is on the 5th December. 9.30 Draw again.

Thanks for reading, Eddie and Si.

One last picture which I got off Johns Phone today and was asked to put it on the blog…

Phil Powell with a 22lb carp caught a while back, not in this match. Nice one Phil 🙂

Match Reports

Winter League 2010/11 Round 1

November 9, 2010 Simon 14 comments

Today saw the start of this years winter league. There were supposed to be 8 teams this year but 1 team had to drop out leaving 7 teams of 3 anglers.

Rolfs Team Gold are the current champions and are undefeated in 8 years.

Rolfs Team Gold. John Bennett, Mick Lane and Phil Powell

All the teams lined up for the draw, each team has 3 anglers which in turn draw from a,b and c section. They rotate round through the sections in each match. Last year a section was the place to avoid but no one knew how it would fish so everyone was optimistic.

John handing out the rules

With fishing from 10.30am – 3.30pm we only had about 45 minutes to set up. The person on peg 32 is responsible for starting and stopping the match, that person this week was Steve Wilson. At 10.30 Steve signalled the start of the match with a policemans whistle.

Most people chucked the tip rod out to start off with while other went straight out on the pole. Malc Doyle fishing for Rolfs Rejects was having some success of the tip.

Malc with a fish on the tip

In the net

Jon Walker over on 14 was walking away with the match catching a lot of weighers. Derek Hammond on 13 was also catching alot of fish but his were silver fish. He had caught some monster perch and some nice bream to give him the top silver weigh on the day also.

Derek Hammond's top Silver weight with Steve getting in on the picture

Another picture of Derek

Round on peg 28 Dai Thomas fishing for Rolfs Rejects managed to catch a new personal best carp.

Dai Thomas with his new PB carp. 18lb 14oz. Well done 🙂

Everyone was catching carp except me, I only managed 4 roach for a massive 8oz 😀 luckily everyone was very nice to me and didn’t take the micky too much 😀 😛 YEAH RIGHT !!!!

I could not see down in the little lake but word was that John Bennett had been in every tree/bush with in a 20 meter radius of his peg 😀

Steve Waters was leading the little lake with John very close to him. Will get some pictures of the little lake next time sorry.

A few pictures from round the big lake.

Superstar Jon Walker on peg 14

Geoff Palmer on peg 16

Phil Powell on peg 18

Looking down the car park bank

RESULTS

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Steve Waters	37	62-0	Walker Floats
2nd	John Bennett	2	49-10	Rolfs Team Gold
3rd	Ernie Maylon	7	43-8	Spro
4th	Pat Pritchard	34	37-4	Pats Lot
5th	Clive Pritchard	4	21-4	Assassins
6th	Marcuss Burgess	40	10-12	Rolfs Rejects
7th	Frank Hardie	6	5-8	Wooden Tops

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Derek Hammond	13	76-8	Walker Floats
2nd	Mick Lane	8	71-8	Rolfs Team Gold
3rd	Steve Wilson	32	69-4	Assassins
4th	Steve Palmer	9	45-8	Spro
5th	Dave Whiteman	30	42-0	Pats Lot
6th	Paul Jay	10	28-8	Wooden Tops
7th	Dai Thomas	28	19-8	Rolfs Rejects

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Jon Walker	14	151-0	Walker Floats
2nd	Gary Haisman	23	78-8	Wooden Tops
3rd	Phil Powell	18	64-6	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Malc Doyle	24	41-12	Rolfs Rejects
5th	Liam Bough	21	24-0	Pats Lot
6th	Geoff Palmer	16	13-0	Spro
7th	Simon Mound	26	0-8	Assassins

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Walker Floats	21
2nd	Rolfs Team Gold	17
3th	Spro	11
4th	Pats Lot	10
5th=	Assassins	9
5th=	Wooden Tops	9
7th	Rolfs Rejects	7

With a clean sweep. All 3 section wins, top carp weight and top silver weight Walker floats team {Jon Walker, Derek Hammond and Steve Waters} set the pace leaving current champions Rolfs Team Gold in second place. 5 Matches to go and a lot can change.