Winter League 2010/11 Round 1
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.
Top team of the day. Walker Floats
The next round is on the 21st November, Draw time is 9.30am. There is a Silver fish match on the 20th November too. Please call John to book in.
Thanks for reading, Eddie and Si.
