Author: Eddie

Day 3 the grand finale.

Today saw the last day of the Drennan Rolfslake Easter Festival 2016, and with 9 anglers in with a shout of glory it was going to be a tense 5 hours. The current leader Mark Newbold had drawn peg 17 in C section with Dan Deakin on peg 18 who was only 2 points behind.

A sections battle would see Malc Doyle fish moody peg 2 and Anthony Flint on peg 7 with Malc having to beat Anthony to stand any chance of victory. Last but not least in B section there were three anglers Phil, Chris and Steve all in with a chance as they were only 1,2 or three points behind and really needed Mark to blow out and one of the three to win their section.

The next five hours would see all the contenders struggle to either catch carp or control their sections as the not so favoured pegs came to life on what was a strange day for both the weather and carp feeding.

In A section there was a three way battle for the section between Kev Simpson ,Malc Doyle and Anthony Flint who all had chances to pull away but lost fish would eventually see the scales fall in favour of Anthony to secure the precious one point.

B section was really slow for all the anglers but with the wind blowing from the car park bank to the motorway bank, the fished moved into pegs 8 ,9 and 10 and with that any chance of victory for Phil ,Steve and Chris was gone as John Bealey won the section from peg 10. John fished long into peg 11 and could see carp moving in and out of the bush and managed to trap some carp and lose a couple with his weight of 57-01.

In C section all the current leader Mark had to do was come in the top two to secure victory but was trapped on peg 17 as it does not give you a lot options other than fish out I the middle. Mark must of been really frustrated to see Andy Quarmby on peg 22 bagging followed later on in the match by Mick Lane on 16 and Dan Deakin on 18 and that would see Mark slip into fourth place, and with that his chance of victory disappeared .

After a tough three days of battling the fish and the weather and after all the points and weights were confirmed, Anthony Flint was confirmed as Drennan Rolfslake Easter Festival Champion 2016 ( well done Anthony).

I would like to thank John and Pauline Bennett for looking after all the anglers on what might be their last Festival down the lake, and to Dai Thomas for assisting in the preparation of the lake and finally to all the anglers for fishing the Festival in a truly competitive and sporting spirit.

An extra special thanks go to Steve Waters and our friends at Drennan International for the goodie bags given to all the competing anglers.

One thing for sure is that the Travel Lodge will be quieter and the bar sales in the pub will be down until next year lol.

A few photo’s from the Festival.

Special thanks to Chris Telling for the use of his photo’s.

Results.

A Section

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Anthony Flint	7	33-12	1	Drennan Bordon
2nd	Malc Doyle	2	27-10	2	Jinx League
3rd	Kev Simpson	5	22-08	3	Rolfslake
4th	Paul Newbury	40	13-09	4	Rolfslake
5th	Ryan Lewis	4	10-14	5	Rolfslake
6th	Johnny Broadbent	34	9-08	6	Rolfslake
7th	Mick Chappell	38	2-01	7	Rolfslake

B Section

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	John Beasley	10	57-01	1	Rolfslake
2nd	Dave Wilsden	9	39-01	2	Rolfslake
3rd	John Morgan	8	22-0	3	Rolfslake
4th	Chris Telling	30	12-01	4	Colmic
5th	Phil Powell	32	8-08	5	Rolfslake
6th	Steve Stayte	13	7-07	6	Rolfslake
7th	Steve Waters	28	1-04	7	Drennan

C Section

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Andy Quarmby	22	87-00	1	Middy
2nd	Mick Lane	16	48-14	2	Rolfslake
3rd	Dan Deakin	18	42-09	3	Rolfslake
4th	Mark Newbold	17	28-00	4	Rolfslake
5th	Andy Johnstone	14	27-09	5	Garbolino RAF
6th	Micheal Corsini	26	26-07	6	Rolfslake
7th	Gavin Millis	24	17-04	7	Drennan Bordon

Top 6

Place	Angler	Points
1st	Anthony Flint	5	Drennan Bordon
2nd	Mark Newbold	7	Rolfslake
3rd	Malc Doyle	7	Jinx League
4th	Dan Deakin	8	Rolfslale
5th	Chris Telling	8	Colmic

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.