Author: Simon

Love fishing down the lake against the regulars. Top bunch of blokes always willing to share information.

Bank Holiday Open Match. 30th May 2011

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New Lake King today.

More to follow, I’m still drying out 😀

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Jon Walker 24 357-8
2 Andy Morrison 9 218-6
3 Paul Jay 32 211-8
4 Jason Astle 26 172-0
5 Justin Watkins 6 168-0
6 Morris Woodley 38 157-0
7 Steve Waters 14 130-0
8 Dennis 28 129-0
9 John Draper 22 128-12
10 Mick Hughes 18 103-0
11 Geoff Edwards 10 97-8
12 John Bennett 13 87-12
13 Robin Cave 8 81-8
14 Dave Wightman 2 65-12
15 Frank D 30 61-8
16 Mike McGuire 34 58-8
17 Jack Har 16 50-8
18 Frank Hardie 4 34-8
19 Simon Mound 40 23-0
20 John Doe 7 DNW

20 Anglers Fished

Well Done Jon 🙂

Herbie Invitational Match . 29th May 2011

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Position Name Peg Weight
1 Stolko 32 171-4
2 Ross 40 154-0
3 Herbie 13 130-8
4 Simon Mound 2 126-8
5 Captain 7 122-10
6 Paul 22 117-0
7 Fat Boy Slim 4 113-6
8 T Kent 28 103-4
9 Lee 9 103-0
10 Dan the Man 24 101-8
11 John Bennett 8 93-8
12 James 30 83-4
13 Pete 31 82-12
14 Bubs 17 75-0
15 Barry 14 73-8
16 Numpty 16 67-4
17 Brian 6 63-4
18 Gem Doyle 18 61-4
19 Marcus Burgess 34 60-8
20 Dun 10 60-0
21 John Wightman 15 27-4

21 Anglers Fished

Saturday Open Match. 21st May 2011

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A fine sunny day at the lake. Wind blowing from big lake down to little lake

 

Another open match at the lake and 13 anglers turned up to fish. Pegs in the hat today were 34,38,40,2,4,6,7,8,9,13,14,16,18. With the wind blowing hard down into the little lake I think most people wanted a peg down in the little lake.

 

Waiting for the draw

Weather was nice for a change

Down in the little lake. Peg 3

Pegs 7 and 8. Good pegs if you can draw them

Mr 200lb (Mark Newbold) and his mate Dean

Stragglers in the car park

Justin Watkins on Facebook

John and Paul sorting the bait out

With the draw out the way Everyone set off to their pegs to set up. The match was started by Pauline ringing the bell at 1.15pm. Down in the little lake everyone except John on peg 2 had a carp right away but to their dismay that was most of the action as everyone pretty much struggled for the rest of the match.

In the big lake it was a slow start for eveyone also. I had started on a 5 meter line in front of me and was getting indications and a lot of liners indicating the fish were not on the bottom. I looked out and the top end of the big lake was black with fish cruising around like normal so I threw the pellet waggler out to see if they would bite and to my surprise without feeding I had a fish on. With plenty of feed making a noise on the water I managed 10 fish in the first hour. Justin on peg 16 had also switched to the pellet waggler and managed to hook a carp too. My bites were taking too long to come so I left the waggler line.

I rang John and he said the little lake was not fishing well at all. Mark on peg 40 was bagging up but not with carp, he was catching 2-3lb bream on his carp rigs. Just goes to show these fish are not shy 😀

Doug on peg 13 had found the carp and was catching well. Mick on 14 and Michael on 9 had also started catching well. I had caught 1 carp from each of my bush lines (4m and 11m) but after each carp the float was motionless, crazy. I then went out with the pole at 13m and started catching shallow but the fish were a lot smaller. At 2.5 hours in to the match all my swims had dried up.

It was a different story for Justin on peg 16 though. After only one fish in the first 2.5 hours he had moved to his margin swims and was catching regularly. So now it was the other way round, I was watching him catching 😀

 

Justin Watkins on peg 16

 

One of Justins margin Munters

 

I had only managed 4 carp in the last part of the match from my 5 meter line whilst Justin was catching very well so Knew it was going to be tight between me and him. John on peg 2 had managed to hook in to his first carp of the match a 5.45 with only 30 minutes of the match remaining. Pauline rang the bell for the all out at 6.15pm.

Onto the weigh in and the it was soon clear how hard the little lake had fished again. Dave Whiteman on one of his many visits to peg 6 had done a good weight of 58lb but Mark on 40 had caught 4 carp and a massive bag of bream, 46lb to be precise.

 

Mark Newbold with one of his many bream
The rest of Mark’s fish
Dave Whiteman had also caught a nice bag of bream
The rest of Daves fish

More bream came from peg 9 and 13. Amazing amount snotties caught today. The first ton of the day came from Doug on peg 13 (who also took the peg king title, well done) but was overtaken by Justin on 16 with 150lb and for the first time ever I had guessed my weight near enough perfect, I had guessed 170lb and put 173lb on the scales 😀

Results

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Simon Mound 18 173-4
2 Justin Watkins 16 150-0
3 Doug Richardson 13 110-0
4 Michael Corsini 9 87-12
5 Mick Hughes 14 87-0
6 Mark Newbold 40 84-8 inc 46lb of bream
7 Jack 7 60-8
8 Dave Whiteman 6 58-12
9 Dean 8 24-8
10 Paul Jay 4 24-0
11 John Bennett 2 19-4
12 Fred 38 12-0
13 Colin 34 DNW

Dont forget there is another open match on the 30th May which is also a Bank Holiday. Call John Bennett to book in please…. 07774 618688

Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John.

Jinx Series, Round 1. 2011. 14th May 2011

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All picture are clickable for a bigger view

Today saw the Jinx Squad return to the lake for their first match of the year. The Jinx Series is in it 10th year. Malc Doyle who runs the series as a bit of fun mainly and tries to make the matches more about having a laugh than big money payout. This year there are 27 angler fishing the series. Malc splits them up in to 3 section’s of 9.

Just so people don’t have too much fun and relax too much Malc’s daughter Gem fishes too. If you get beaten by her your name is added to her impressive MINX list. Not only that….. If she beats you you are eligible to be picked for the new 2011 MINX hat 🙁

For the first match Gem drew a peg from the bag and whoever drew that peg in the match would wear the hat…Simple. She pulled out peg 40 and Neil Riddy drew peg 40 so got to wear the hat. I think secretly he wanted to wear it anyway lol 😀

 

The new 2011 MINX Hat modelled by Neil Riddy, no stranger to stupid hats 😀

The draw was done almost on time, not bad for Malc really. The only reason it was nearly on time was he was at the lake having previously fished helped with the weigh in on the Night match.

On to the match. First off a major photo explosion with all the runners and riders from this years series.

 

First off Malc Doyle on peg 36

Ade Williams on 38

Neil Riddy on 40

Alex on 2

Pete on peg 4

My home for the day peg 5

Dave Collier on 7

 

Tony Roberts on 8

Rod on peg 9

Jon Hatch on 10

Geoff Palmer on 11

Mat Edwards on 13

Gem 'MINX' Doyle on 14

Paul Roberts on 15

Paul's cheerleader 😀

Al Loader on 17

Dave Webster on 18

Nick Williams on 19

Peter Morton on 20, new peg king 😀

Kev Lovelock on 23

Kev's Cheerleader 😀 Nice nanna

Marcus Burgess on 25

Terry Goff on 26

Clive Pritchard on 28

Nick Watkins-Price on 29

Dave Moore on 31

Dai Thomas on 32

Mitch Auger on 34

The all in was sounded at 1pm and fishing got underway. I could only see the little lake today. Neil Riddy on peg 40 had landed his first carp before everyone else had finished feeding their swims and it wasn’t before Pete on peg 4 was walking past with a weigher. Mitch over on peg 34 was having a few fish too. I could not buy a bite and Malc and Ade were also the same.

Within 20 minutes I knew I was going to have a struggle along with the rest of the lads in the little lake. This was not helped by the Scream we all fear…… Gem had landed her first fish and it was a 14lb’er too.

After the first 2 hours Malc had managed to get a carp on the paste feeder so it was only me and Ade who were fishless in the little lake. I fed my lines and went to see how the big lake was doing.

It was like a different match in the big lake. There was elastic streaming from top kits and rods bent double :O 😀 (see first picture in this report) I sat behind Gem and watched in envy 🙁 Gems float sailed away and she hooked in to another fish, shame it was up the arse. After a lengthy fight she had landed another 14lb’er. Things were not looking good. Paul on 15 was also in to plenty of fish fishing the feeder, he would have had one more but was put off by my picture taking and lost the carp that would have took him over the magical 100lb…..oooops sorry mate 😀

 

Gem playing a foul hooker

Paul also playing a fish. He lost it just after I took this pic, ooops 😀

Gem 14lb'er

I went back to my peg hopeful for a fish and sure enough I hooked into and lost my first fish 🙁 Straight back out and hooked one in the gob. As I netted it I gave a loud roar in relief 😀

Malc also managed his second and last fish of the match. Mitch was catching a mixture of carp and silvers, Tony and Dave on 7 and 8 were having a few fish as there was plenty of splashing coming from that direction.

John Bennett had been away all afternoon and got back gagging for a cuppa tea so turned the generator on. Normally there is nothing wrong with doing this but unknown to John the aerators were still plugged in……………………… Malc was fishing to his aerator on peg 36 and nearly fell off his box when it fired up 😀 I didnt laugh too much. Also Dave Moore on peg 31 got a similar surprise 😀

I only caught 3 fish today but one of them made my match.

 

19lb 4oz. Thanks Tony for taking the picture.

Not long after a very excited Jon Hatch came and asked me to take a picture of his new PB carp.

 

Jon Hatch with a 18lb 12oz PB carp. Well done.

With the all out sounding at 6pm I knew I had been Minxed as gem had 5 fish to my 3. The little lake had fished poorly so we were all going to be candidates for the new hat with the exception of Mitch who managed to equal Gems weight and avoid the dreaded MINXING 😀

 

Mitch with a 2lb perch

Dave with a 5lb Bream

On to the results.

Results

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st Mitch Auger 34 67-8 1
2nd Tony Roberts 8 58-0 2
3rd Pete 4 50-8 Guest
4th Dave Collier 7 48-12 3
5th Simon Mound 5 43-8 4
6th Alex 2 38-8 5
7th Neil Riddy 40 35-8 6
8th Ade Williams 38 31-4 7
9th Malc Doyle 36 12-0 8
B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Dai Thomas 32 122-8 1
2nd Clive Pritchard 28 107-8 2
3rd Mat Edwards 13 65-12 3
4th Jon Hatch 10 40-4 4
5th Terry Goff 26 30-0 5
6th Rod 9 24-0 Guest
7th= Nick Watkins Price 29 17-0 6
7th= Dave Moore 31 17-0 6
9th Geoff Palmer 11 10-8 8
C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Paul Roberts 15 96-12 1
2nd Steve Wilson 22 69-4 2
3rd Gem Doyle 14 67-8 3
4th Marcus Burgess 25 49-0 4
5th Dave Webster 18 45-8 5
6th Nick Williams 19 29-12 6
7th Pete Morton 20 29-4 7
8th Kev Lovelock 23 27-0 8
9th Al Loader 17 20-8 9

 

Over all Winner and B Section winner, Dai Thomas. BIG well done mate

A Section Winner. Mitch Auger

B Section 2nd. Tony Roberts

B section 2nd. Clive Pritchard

C Section 1st. Paul Roberts

C Section 2nd. Steve 'smiler' Wilson

I gave Gem my quid and Ran off 😀 She MINXED 21 today. Well done Gem

 

Great match (for some 😀 ) The next match in the series is on 4th June so Gem will have plenty of time to pick out of the 21 people who will wear the hat next year.

Well done to all the winners today, well deserved on a hard day (sulky Saturday as Malc calls it) at the lake.

Thanks for reading. Si, Eddie and John.

If anyone wants full sized pictures please email me @ si@rolfslake.com as I have had some requests already, thanks.

Malcs Blog report can be found here

Peters Blog can be found here

Herbie Invitational Match. 7th May 2011

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Herbie. On one of his annual matches at the lake.

 

Herbie had booked the lake for one of his annual visits and invite some friends from Match Fishing Scene Forums. 20 Anglers turned up eager to fish. John Bennett was down to fish also taking the numbers to 21.

The normal queue formed for the draw and people drew and walked off to get ready however when there was supposed to be 2 pegs left in the bag there was only one in there. John and Herbie were still too draw. John kindly dropped out from the match leaving Herbie with peg 4.

A few minutes later  John is back fishing again as the missing peg was found on the floor. It happened to be peg 2 (flyer 😛 ) Someone must have drawn their peg and pulled out peg 2 as well. So John can still draw good pegs even when there is none in the bag lol 😀 😀

The weather today was a bit poor really for the first 2 hours with rain falling while everyone was setting up. The wind also picked up blowing down in to the little lake this time.

Captain on peg 32

Smile

 

Nobby on peg 7

Scone's seatbox is rather dashing 😀 Peg 6

Herbie's nice tidy kit

John Bennett just moved his gear over from peg 40

John gets some coaching from Pauline

I wanted peg 38 today but Rossn got it

Team talk before the off

Wightman all the way from the Isle of Wight on peg 13

Ruddy Roach on peg 10

Captain been eaten by his brolly 😀

Dan the man on peg 14

It just stopped raining for the start of the match

 

Churchy on peg 22

Peg 15, my home for the day

 

Fishing today was from 11am to 4pm.

As you will see by the results the lake fished very hard again with only the corner pegs producing good weights and consistent fish. After the rain went away the sun came out full blast on the lake and the carp were cursing around again.

After having no fish for 3 hours I started catching with just 20 minutes to go which is just typical 😀

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Bennett 2 104-8
2 Rich F 40 92-10
3 Munter 18 74-6
4 Churchy 22 73-12
5 Captain 32 73-8
6 Rossn 38 54-0
7 Rick 17 51-12
8 Snooty 30 47-0
9 Simon Mound 15 37-14
10 Herbie 4 31-1
11 PTB 34 26-0
12 Whiteman 13 20-8
13 Dan Ball 14 17-10
14 Ruddy Roach 10 1-8
– Sconee 6 DNW
– Nobby 7 DNW
– Plummers 8 DNW
– Pikey 9 DNW
– Red Paste 24 DNW
– Rolly 26 DNW
– Lee Jay 28 DNW

Thanks for the invite Herbie, a hard day but I still enjoyed myself.

Thanks for reading. Eddie, Simon and John.

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