Rolfslake Wednesday Open 13th March 2013.

Another tough day down the lake.

Today as i arrived there was a club match just about to start in the big lake which had about 10 anglers all lined up along the car park bank pegs 22 to 32 leaving the 5 anglers that turned up to fish a walk off match anywhere else on the lake.

The weather was sunny but cold, getting very cold towards the middle and end of the match with the added bonus of a brisk snow shower just for good measure and compared to the same time last year was a whopping 16 degrees colder so that currently explained why the carp are reluctant to get around the lake and have a feed. The story of the day was that the club anglers were struggling to catch carp with only a couple landed during the day and Graham who was pleasure fishing on peg 34 had caught 4 carp to 15lb but it was very slow going.

In our match the only one into fish early was John who had caught 5 tiny perch from peg 13 but apart from that the bites were hard to come by. After Graham had packed up from peg 34 Pete Arnold casted a bomb over to the bush on the far bank fishing corn and was rewarded with 7 carp to 7lb to win the day with 43-04 { well done Pete }. Just to prove that perseverence does pay off to those that stick at it John Bennett who only had 8 ounces up to the last hour managed to catch a small carp of 4lb and the carp that eventually beat me that went 14lb { thanks John } for his final weight of 18-11.

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Pete with another winning catch of 43-04.

Pete’s 7 carp.

John with his carp of 14lb. { that carp is not my friend }.

Results

5 fished.

John gains another point

It serves me right that at the weigh-in i left two keepnets in the water to trick John into thinking that i had caught some carp so when he came round there was no smile thinking i had beaten him so i weighed my silvers first for 5-01 and on bringing in the second net he was waiting for the splash only for the net to be empty only for him to say was that all.

John was telling everyone he had caught only 5 perch so when they came up they were really small and only weighed 8 ounces and just as i was laughing at his poor attempt he pulled his other net that was hidden from view. There was me thinking that John had tried to play the same trick on me as i had done to him my heart sank as i heard the the two carp splashing in the water as he raised his net from the water only to see him laughing behind me { very funny John }.

The two carp in Johns hidden net.

The score now stands at.

John 4

Eddie 2

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.