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Spring League Round 2. 13th February 2011

February 13, 2011 Simon 3 comments

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Derek Hammond	2	51-8	Walker Floats
2nd	Steve Palmer	4	14-12	Heavy Weights
3rd	Phil Powell	7	12-12	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Paul Jay	34	7-8	Wooden Tops
5th	Dave Whiteman	40	3-10	Misfits
6th	Neal Hutchins	37	6oz	Try Anglers

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Ernie Malyon	9	42-2	Heavy Weights
2nd	Steve Waters	32	22-0	Walker Floats
3rd	Dave Losey	30	21-9	Try Anglers
4th	Pete Arnold	13	19-12	Misfits
5th	John Bennett	10	11-0	Rolfs Team Gold
	No Show	28	—	Wooden Tops

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Jon Walker	26	75-8	Walker Floats
2nd	Mick Lane	24	61-0	Rolfs Team Gold
3rd	Frank Hardie	14	57-0	Heavy Weights
4th	Mick Chapple	22	50-2	Misfits
5th	Jim McCann	16	35-8	Try Anglers
6th	Kev Wittow	18	7-12	Wooden Tops

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Walker Floats	17
2nd	Heavy Weights	15
3rd	Rolfs Team Gold	11
4th	Misfits	8
5th	Try Anglers	7
6th	Wooden Tops	5

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

	TOTAL TEAM POINTS	POINTS	Total
1st	Walker Floats	10+17	27
2nd	Heavy Weights	11+15	26
3rd	Misfits	16+8	24
4th	Rolfs Team Gold	12+11	23
5th	Wooden Tops	9+5	14
6th	Try Anglers	5+7	12

Report to follow when Jon Walker writes it 😀

Match Reports

Spring League Round 1. 6th February 2011

February 7, 2011 Simon 5 comments

Spring League Round 1. 6th February. 2011

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Ernie Malyon	7	32-0	Heavy Weights
2nd	Pete Arnold	4	17-12	Misfits
3rd	John Bennett	37	10-14	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Steve Waters	40	6-14	Walker Floats
5th	Dave Losey	2	2-6	Try Anglers
	No Show	—	—	Wooden Tops

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Mick Chapple	10	43-11	Misfits
2nd	Mick Lane	13	31-11	Rolfs Team Gold
3rd	Frank Hardie	30	25-12	Heavy Weights
4th	Jon Walker	9	17-10	Walker Floats
5th	Kev Wittow	28	7-12	Wooden Tops
6th	Jim McCann	32	4-6	Try Anglers

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Paul Jay	14	111-12	Wooden Tops
2nd	Dave Whiteman	18	106-9	Misfits
3rd	Derek Hammond	16	80-5	Walker Floats
4th	Phil Powell	22	70-3	Rolfs Team Gold
5th	Neal Hutchins	24	54-0	Try Anglers
6th	Steve Palmer	26	34-14	Heavy Weights

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Misfits	16
2nd	Rolfs Team Gold	12
3rd	Heavy Weights	11
4th	Walker Floats	10
5th	Wooden Tops	9
6th	Try Anglers	5

Match Reports

Winter League, Final Round. New Champions….30th Jan 2011

February 3, 2011 Simon 3 comments

The morning had arrived for the final round of the winter league at Rolfslake. Reigning champions Rolfs Team Gold were behind the dream team Walker Floats and needed them to have a bad draw (no chance 😀 )

There had been a frost on Saturday night and the lake had a thin layer of ice on it on some area’s, John was in the boat breaking it up. Today we are fishing from 11am to 4pm. With everyone arriving on time the draw got underway on time.

Derek Hammond (dream team) promptly drew peg 34 for A section and Mick lane drew peg 6, comments were flying already 😀 Jon Walker (dream team) was not so lucky in drawing for B section and drew peg 8, Phil Power drew peg 32 which is normally good for a good bag of silvers, Phil’s speciality. As I blanked last match I did not have the luxury of drawing, I had what was left in the bag and everyone left me peg 13. Thanks 😀

On to C section, Steve Waters (dream team) drew peg 24 which has had a few carp coming off it lately, John Bennett pulled out peg 14 which I dont think he fancied too much. Things were looking good for the dream team draw wise, no surprise there 😀

With an extra half an hour of setting up time most people were done early and wondering round the lake chatting.

Marcus and Paul having a chat

Malc on peg 30 taking some snaps

Chris Lovelock and Clive down on peg 16

Geoff over on peg 10

Marcus Burgess making a return to fish C Section 😀

At 11am Phil shouted the all in. It wasn’t long before Derek on peg 34 had a carp in the net while the rest of A section looked on in envy and the looked back at their motionless floats.

Not long after Steve on peg 24 who was fishing the bomb was playing a carp, after guiding it round the iceberg it was safely in the net and he screamed out much to Johns disgust 😀 Steve was getting a bite a chuck in fact and already had 3 carp in the net before I had my first carp. I was fishing the bomb with double corn just behind the aerator. A nice 10lber to start off with, not bad. John had managed to land 2 carp from peg 14 but could not buy another bite and had to watch Steve and Clive on peg 16 pulling carp from the bar.

Nearly there

My first carp of the year in the net

Half way through the match things were pretty much the same. Steve was still catching carp, Marcus on peg 23 was also catching carp and Clive was also Catching carp. Everyone in C section was having a nice days fishing. Neil Riddy fishing on peg 18 had 2 15lb + carp in his first 2 bites 😯

A Section were all in the same position as they were at the start, watching Derek Hammond catching fish. Having lost another carp he was now catching some big perch and silvers.

B Section, everyone was catching Silvers, Jon Walker had snared 3 big perch from peg 8, Chris Lovelock on peg 9 had also caught a carp fishing the bomb the the aerator too. I was catching plenty of silvers fishing at 13m on red maggot. Phil, Malc and Andy on the car park bank were also catching silvers.

Phil Powell

Andy looking a tad cold

In the final half of the match things were looking grim for current champions Rolfs Team Gold, John still only had 2 carp. Mick Lane had yet to catch a fish and Phil whilst catching plenty of silver fish was behind in his section as I had managed to catch 3 more carp and Chris had 2 carp.

Steve and most of C section were still catching but it was clear that no one was going to catch Steve up. The weigh in revealed it was all over for Rolfs Team Gold but it had been a close battle right up to the end.

Jon Walker with some cracking Perch

Malc with a rare hybrid from the lake 😀

Results….

A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
Derek Hammond	34	13-0	Walker Floats
Steve Palmer	7	1-15	Heavy Weights
Frank Hardie	2	DNW	Assassins
Paul Jay	40	DNW	Wooden Tops
Mick Lane	6	DNW	Rolfs Team Gold
Pete Arnold	4	DNW	Pats Lot
Dai Thomas	37	DNW	Rolfs Rejects

B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
Simon Mound	13	50-14	Assassins
Chris Lovelock	9	27-8	Wooden Tops
Andy Quarmby	28	15-5	Pats Lot
Phil Powell	32	14-6	Rolfs Team Gold
Malc Doyle	30	9-6	Rolfs Rejects
Jon Walker	8	6-15	Walker Floats
Geoff Palmer	10	3-0	Heavy Weights

C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
Steve Waters	24	108-14	Walker Floats
Marcus Burgess	23	63-4	Rolfs Rejects
Neil Riddy	18	59-12	Wooden Tops
Clive Pritchard	16	59-8	Assassin
Ernie Malyon	21	34-0	Heavy Weights
John Bennett	14	18-0	Rolfs Team Gold
Pat Pritchard	26	16-14	Pats Lot

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Walker Floats	16
2nd	Assassins	11
3rd	Wooden Tops	11
4th	Heavy Weights	10
5th	Rolfs Rejects	9
6th	Rolfs Team Gold	6
7th	Pats Lot	6

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

TOTAL POINTS	POINTS	Today	NewTotal	Place
Walker Floats	21+10+13+15+ 18+	16	93	1st
Rolfs Team Gold	17+14+16+11+16+	6	80	2nd
Heavy Weights	11+16+5+18+13+	10	73	3rd
Pats Lot	10+17+16+14+8+	6	71	4th
Assassins	9+15+12+6+11+	11	64	5th
Wooden Tops	9+3+13+3+9+	11	48	6th
Rolfs Rejects	7+8+2+3+7+	9	36	7th

A big Well done to Team Walker Floats who have fished a tidy series taking money on every match and more importantly high points to take the series.

TEAM WALKER FLOATS

Derek, Jon and Steve. New Champions

Steve Waters, Overall Winner today and top carp weight

Andy Quarmby. Top silvers weight today.

John Bennett getting some stick from the new champs 😀

The spring League starts next Sunday, I hope everyone catches plenty of fish and the weather improves for you all. Sorry this is late, I already wrote it out once but it disappeared after I updated a plugin on the site.

Tightlines from Simon, Eddie and John 🙂

Match Reports

Secret Footage of John Bennett last Summer

February 1, 2011 Simon One comment

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Ci5IGKD_A

News

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

19th Dec 2010. Hard man contest at the Lake…

December 20, 2010 Simon 8 comments

A bit frosty down the lake

As the winter league match was cancelled John ran a little open for anyone brave or stupid enough to get to the lake today. 😀

Kev Dolton (camera man, thank you) John Bennett, Steve Water and Frank Hardie braved the minus 9 conditions to try and catch some fish. Everyone caught some bits and a good laugh was had despite everyone been freezing cold.

Here are a few pictures Kev took today for those who have not seen them on Facebook.