Author: Simon

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

Bank Holiday Open Match. 2nd May 2011

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Very windy down the lake again today

17 anglers turned up today on a very very windy day down the lake. It was windy yesterday as well but hopes of it dying down were shattered at 7.30 when branches started dropping off the tree’s as the wind picked up again.

Before everyone else got to the lake John had a bit of a problem with a cormorant. He had been eating the fish from the lake and then having a bath in the salt dips…

 

Naughty Bird

 

Pretty much everyone today was going to be suffering from the wind in one way or another.

More to follow…bed time 🙂

 

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Simon Mound 8 152-4
2 Paul Jay 34 111-0
3 Andy Camden 14 109-4
4 Pat Pritchard 22 87-8
5 Richard Doolan 9 78-0
6 Dai Thomas 16 75-8
7 Mick Hughes 26 75-0
8 Malc Doyle 40 73-8
9 Ant Haywood 18 70-4
10 Tony Wymmick 24 70-0
11 Dave Whiteman 6 59-4
12 Marcus Burgess 2 52-12
13 John Bennett 38 50-4
14 Nick Horne 4 46-8
15 Gem Doyle 13 37-4
16 Lol Summers 7 12-8 TB
17 Andy Johnstone 10 DNW TB

17 Anglers Fished    TB=Tipped Back

 

Paul Jay on peg 34

 

 

Birthday Boy John Bennett without his party hat 😛

Malc Doyle on peg 40

Chunk, I mean Marcus Burgess on peg 2 😉

Nick Horne on peg 4

Dave Whiteman sucking a cigar on peg 6

Laurie Summers on peg 7

Richard Doolan with a weigher from peg 9

Me with a carp caught on the tip from the far bank on my old faithful... boilie 😀

My weigher having a nice salt solution bath

Laurie getting in on the act too

Thanks for looking in on the blog. Eddie, Simon and John.

MFS Pre Withy Match. 29th April 2011

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The Match Fishing Scene Lads were at the lake today, the match was organised my Sconey.

Scone. Todays match organiser.

 

The draw was at 9 (ish) and fishing was from 11-4pm. There was a total contrast with the weather today also. It was windy, cloudy and cold. We had a few rain showers as well and a Thunder storm after the match.

The fishing was rock hard today with pretty much everyone struggling for bites.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Animal 7 76-11
2 No Hope 28 49-6
3 Mick Lane 22 35-12
4 Proper Tidal Boy 23 35-8
5 Andy T 9 24-0
6 Tommy85 16 20-8
7 Clive 24 17-0
8 Phil Powell 2 15-4
9 Wightman 18 10-0
10 Ian McCulloch 32 8-12
11= Dave Moore 10 6-4
11= Rich F 13 6-4
– Simple 30 DNW
– Scone 6 DNW
– Mick Hughes 14 DNW
– Pete G 26 DNW
– Herbie 4 DNW
– Shredders 40 DNW

Total contrast in the weather

Easter Festival Monday Day 3 2011

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25th April 2011

The Final day of the festival has arrived. With the lake fishing quite hard its hard to figure out who is gonna take the title this year. Derek Hammond is favourite before the draw, but it all depends what peg he draws in A section. A section had quite a struggle yesterday, maybe the fish will return to that end of the lake today.

More to follow……

Waiting for pictures etc

Final Results

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st John Hague 34 77-0 1
2nd Steve Waters 2 52-8 2
3rd Geoff Edwards 4 41-0 3
4th Frank Hardie 7 39-0 4
5th Jonny Broadbent 36 15-0 5
6th Chris Telling 40 9-0 6
7th Clive  Pritchard 38 7-0 7
8th Ernie Malyon 6 DNW 8
B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Jon Walker 8 98-4 1
2nd Mick Lane 13 71-8 2
3rd Phil Powell 10 46-8 3
4th Liam Bough 9 35-8 4
5th Paul Glenfield 32 31-8 5
6th Mick Hughes 28 10-8 6
7th Paul Newbury 29 DNW 7
8th Mick Chapell 31 DNW 8
C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Geoff Warmington 18 260-0 1
2nd Colin Wedgebrow 22 230-0 2
3rd Andy Johnstone 17 116-8 3
4th Pat Pritchard 15 71-8 4
5th Dave Whiteman 23 47-0 5
6th Matt Smith 14 41-8 6
7th Derek Hammond 26 12-0 7
8th Mark Malin 25 10-8 8

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Top 6 Weight Total
1st Mick Lane 247-8 8
2nd Jon Walker 270-4 9
3rd Phil Powell 202-8 9
4th Pat Pritchard 360-4 10
5th Derek Hammond 332-0 10

Well Done Mick. You can buy a new caravan for down the lake now 🙂

A few pics From Chris Telling’s Camera….

Jonny Broadbent on peg 9. Pleeeeease Stop 😀

 

Pat Pritchard Playing a lump on peg 34

See, told you it was a lump.

Jon Walker playing a carp

Jon Walker with some of the lake inhabitants

The Elite Weigh in Team

 

Section Winners

Chris Telling

Derek Hammond Praying for some fish

Mark Malin on peg 25

Easter Festival Sunday Day 2 2011

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The red kite was back at the lake

 

Day 2 of the festival and the anglers were hoping for good pegs today. The corner pegs were the pegs they had their eyes on and much fancied peg 8. The weather down the lake today was not as hot as yesterday and the lake also had a bit of cool rain go in to it last night.

Fancied pegs today went to Mick Lane who always knows how to draw a good peg, he pulled out peg 4, which won the match yesterday. Peg 8 went to Pat Pritchard. Phil Powell got a better draw today with peg 2. Mick Hughes drew peg 34. Clive Pritchard drew peg 18 and Frank Hardie got peg 22.

At the start of the match there were 2 anglers flying along and that was Derek Hammond on peg 13 and Clive Pritchard on peg 18. Everyone else was catching steady.

Pegs 8 and 9 were providing John and Pauline with some entertainment today as Pat on peg 8 broke two topkits in the first 10 minutes after carp were getting the better of him in the bushes on the left of the peg. It was much the same story with Mark Malin on peg 9, he was fishing to the bush and the carp were showing him no mercy taking him on a merry tour of the lake before going back in the bushes and spitting the hook out in the nearest branch. John lost count of the amount of rigs lost after the first hour 😀

The lake is still fishing quite hard by rolfslake standards but people are still catching. Half way through the match John guessed Clive had over 200lb and was showing no signs of slowing down but in the final hour of the match he did actually start to slow a bit.

One thing is for sure though and that there will be no perfect score this year like last year. After day two its going to be anyones guess as who will win.

The lake fished hard again today. The wind had changed direction over night and was blowing up towards the big lake which might explain why the little lake struggled a bit.

Today was a day of broken top kits and sections at the lake with the fish fighting harder than ever….

  • Clive Pritchard broke 2 topkits and a number 5 on his beastmaster
  • Mark Malin Broke topkits
  • Mick Hughes broke topkits
  • Patrick broke 2 topkits and a no 4 section

Results.

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st Mick Hughes 34 144-8 1
2nd Phil Powell 2 77-8 2
3rd Mick Lane 4 76-0 3
4th Liam Bough 7 48-0 4
5th Mick Chapell 38 23-0 5
6th Paul Glenfield 40 17-8 6
7th Jon Walker 36 14-0 7
8th Paul Newbury 6 10-8 8

 

B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Pat Pritchard 8 152-8 1
2nd Derek Hammond 13 107-0 2
3rd Dave Whiteman 29 46-0 3
4th Mark Malin 9 42-8 4
5th Matt Smith 31 40-8 5
6th Andy Johnstone 10 37-0 6
7th Colin Wedgebrow 32 27-0 7
8th Geoff Warmington 28 26-8 8

 

C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Clive  Pritchard 18 255-8 1
2nd Frank Hardie 22 137-0 2
3rd John Hague 15 81-4 3
4th Chris Telling 26 57-0 4
5th Ernie Malyon 14 36-8 5
6th Jonny Broadbent 23 27-4 6
7th Geoff Edwards 25 20-0 7
8th Steve Waters 17 12-8 8

 

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Top 6 DAYPOINTS Total
1st Derek Hammond 2 3
2nd Clive Pritchard 1 5
3rd= Dave Whiteman 3 6
3rd= Pat Pritchard 1 6
3rd= Mick Hughes 1 6
3rd= Mick Lane 2 6
3rd= Phil Powell 3 6
3rd= Liam Bough 4 6

Derek Hammond is looking good to take the title but you know at Rolfslake. If he draws peg 18 he will be laughing.

Hope it fishes well for you all on the last day.

Tight lines. Eddie, Simon and John.

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