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Rolfslake Wednesday Open 15th April 2015.

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A tough day down the lake.

With the new later start times for these Wednesday Opens hopefully you will see two things, more anglers attending these matches and the weights start to rocket so fingers crossed.

Today saw a warm day but with a stiff breeze blowing fom the small lake but this still not get the fish to go down in the water as from where i was on peg 9 there were at least 200 carp between me and Mick Jones on peg 32.

The match started slowly except for Russ on peg 18 as he had a very quick carp within the first few minutes and that was his match done, but for the rest it was a case of trying to get the surface carp to feed which really did not happen.

The winner today and sporting a nice new Diawa top was Kev Dolton on peg 13. Kev started shallow and was rewarded with a couple of carp fishing pellet and feeding pellet at about two feet deep but when he switched to his left hand edge towards the thick tree trunk at about 5 metres the carp were waiting for him.Kev caught relatively small carp from this peg  but it was just enough to stay in front from the chasing pack as he weighed 80-08 for the win.

Todays winner and the man in red Kev Dolton.

In second place was the Pirate {me} who today had the sole intention of just fishing paste on peg 9. It was slow at the start as the breeze was quite strong for me fishing soft paste at range towards the bush as it kept coming off but as soon as the wind died down i had 7 carp to 16lb for 73-01 fishing paste feeding 6mm pellet.

In third place was Colmic’s Geoff Edwards on peg 22 who started very slowly but in the last 40 minutes was flying but just ran out of time catching down the right hand side just down the ledge fishing pellet for his weight of 53-07.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Kev Dolton 13  80-08 Rolfslake
2nd Eddie Taylor-Green 9  73-01 Rolfslake X4
3rd Geoff Edwards 22  56-08 Colmic Reading
4th Ade Williams 26  53-07 Jinx League
5th John Draper 16  28-09 Rolfslake
6th John Bennett 24  11-12 Rolfslake/ Drennan
7th Mick Jones 32  DNW Rolfslake
8th Graham Ridgely 28  DNW Rolfslake
9th Russ Spencer 18  DNW Rolfslake

The Pirate finally gets a point on the board.

The score stands at

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John Bennett

John 4

edie

The Pirate

Pirate 1

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

Neil Riddy Invitation Match 12th April 2015

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Today Neil Riddy had invited 20 guests to fish one of his matches that he arranges a couple of times a year down the lake. The day started sunny and warm getting colder as the day went on ,but it did not stop the carp from cruising as they have been doing recently in big numbers and not really bothering to feed which was a frustration for most of the anglers.

Todays winner and maintaining his winning run, Drennan sponsored Steve Waters.

Today winner and maintaing his good form down the lake was Drennan sponsored Steve Waters who managed to catch carp to double figure in his weight of 94-02. Steve managed to pick off a couple of fish shallow to start with but when he switched down the left hand edge the carp were more obliging pushing his weight to nearly a ton and keeping him clear of Geoff Edwards opposite on peg 22.

Richard Doolan with a nice Koi cross common.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st  Steve Waters  18  94-02 Drennan
2nd  Geoff Edwards  22  80-03 Colimc Reading
3rd  Mark Newbold  36  77-15 Rolfslake
4th  Dai Thomas  34  73-03 Jinx League
5th  Pat Pritchard  9  63-04 Rolfslake
6th  Ade Williams 10  60-06 Jinx League
7th  Ian Simpson 16  46-12 Rolfslake
8th  Anthony Flint 8  45-08 Rolfslake
9th  Andy Quarmby 14  45-07 Middy
10th  Dean Townshend 40  40-09 Rolfslake
11th  Owen Glover 13  38-14 Rolfslake
12th  Steve Wilson 30  34-05 Rolfslake
13th  Richard Doolan 2  31-08 Rolfslake
14th  Geoff Palmer 7  30-05 Jinx League
15th  Neil Riddy 24  28-14 Ospreys A.C
16th  John Draper 38  25-04 Rolfslake
17th  Eddie Taylor-Green 32  11-00 Rolfslake Cartel
18th  Mick Chappel 5  DNW Rolfslake
19th  Harry Simpson 4  DNW Rolfslake
20th  Shawn Taylor 26  DNW Rolfslake
21st  Dan Varney 28  DNW Rolfslake

Thanks for reading John,Simon and Eddie.

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 1st April 2015

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Rolfslake carp wake up big time in todays match.

Report to follow

10 fished

 Place Angler Peg  Weight
 1st John Bennett 13 197-10 Rolfslake
 2nd Chris Telling 32 164-07 Colmic
 3rd Dave Whiteman 16 162-06 Hydro 2000
 4th John Draper 4 147-06 Rolfslake
 5th Neil Hutchins 24 145-05 Rolfslake
 6th Geoff Edwards 7 77-00 Colmic
 7th Graham Ridgely 18 67-06 Rolfslake
 8th Micheal Corsini 5 57-05 Rolfslake
 9th Doug Hill 22 48-05 Rolfslake
 10th Dai Thomas 8 42-09 Rolfslake

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 25th March 2015

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A chilly day down the lake.

After a few days of mild weather it was disappointing to see it get much colder in todays midweek open. It was decided to not peg the two current form pegs 18 and 22 giving hopefully the pegs a rest and hopefully move the fish up through the big lake.

As the match started there were literally 100’s of carp cruising around on the top eating the blossom that was falling of the bushes on the carpark bank but at least you  could see your target for a change.

The story of the match with a top carp weight and a top silver weight it gave the anglers a choice of what they wanted to target and the top weight of silvers today went to Pat Pritchard on peg 8. Pat tells me that had he had more than a half pint of casters he could of pushed his weight to over 40lb as when he ran out and fished maggots the roach got much smaller in size , but he still managed a nice mixed bag of chub, bream, perch and roach for his weight of 26-14.

Winning the carp match was Graham Ridgely on peg 24 on the car park bank and Graham fished the bomb both down the edge and towards peg 22 where there were stacks of cruising carp and many more down below to catch his 8 carp to double figures for his weight of 74-09 {well done Graham }.

A few photos from today’s match.

Carp section winner Graham Ridgely.

Top silver fish weight . Pat Pritchard 26-14.

Dave Whiteman

Andy with 19-12 of silvers as well.

Andy Johnstone with a carp of 15-14.

Results.

7 fished

 Place  Angler Peg  Weight
 1st  Graham Ridgely  24  74-09  Rolfslake
 2nd  Dave Whiteman  26  50-12  Hydro 2000
 3rd  Andy Johnstone  32  43-02  Garbolino / Tricast
 4th  John Bennett  16  40-12  Rolfslake
 5th  Pat Pritchard  8  26-14 {silvers}  Rolfslake
 6th  Eddie Taylor-Green  13  13-02  Rolfslake
 7th  Dai Thomas  9  11-02  Rolfslake

John continues with his early season lead

Score stands at

John 4

Eddie 0

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

Rolfslake Sunday Open 22nd March 2015

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The Carp start to show in todays match.

Today saw a much improved attendance with 23 eager anglers hoping that the Rolfslake carp would start to make an appearance. The good thing today was that the anglers were going to be properly spread around both the big and small lake and that in turn would start to move the fish about and hopfully away from the flyer pegs 18 and 22 which had show great consistency these last 8 weeks.

Alas today was no different as on a sunny and warm day but with a cool breeze all it did was to bring the previously dormant carp back to life but only to torment the anglers and sunbathe all around the lake.

Todays winner was Kev Simpson who had drawn form peg 18 on the motorway bank and Kev had an enjoyable day no doubt catching and losing a few but caught carp to double figures in his final weight of 145-01 {well done Kev}. In second place and having a good view of Kev was lake regular Derek Hammond on opposite peg 22 and Derek also had fish to double figures in his weight of 100-03.

Results

23 fished

 Place  Angler Peg  Weight
1st Kev Simpson 18 145-01 State Tackle
2nd Derek Hammond 22 100-03 Banbury Gunsmiths and Tackle
3rd Brian Rimmer 26 87-07 Rolfslake
4th Andy Johnstone 14 66-04 Garbolino/ Tricast
5th Andy Quarmby 32 65-12 Middy
6th Dai Thomas 17 52-08 Rolfslake
7th Ryan Seymore 25 49-12 Rolfslake
8th John Bennett 2 48-12 Rolfslake
9th Anthony Flint 36 48-04 Rolfslake
10th John Draper 13 44-15 Rolfslake
11th Geoff Edwards 31 44-01 Colmic
12th Mick Lane 7 39-07 Rolfslake
13th Steve Statye 23 35-04 Rolfslake
14th Ade Williams 34 29-00 Rolfslake
15th Pat Pritchard 5 25-04 Rolfslake

As is always the case prior to the forthcoming Easter festival the carp have started to wake up and I expect to see the weight really move on in the next week or so as we are now starting to get some settled weather so get down if you fancy catching a big carp or ton plus weight now should be the time for that.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie

Rolfslake Open Saturday 7th March 2015

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A very tough day down the lake

Today saw 7 anglers down the lake on a sunny mild day which was a bit of a suprise as it was probably the best weekend to date this year. The lake has currently been suffering with increased cold water covering the platforms and John and Pauline have been working very hard trying keeping the lake at a reasonable level. With the water being quite cold at the moment it seems it is affecting the carp into not feeding in any numbers at the moment and the lake was motionless during the match with no signs of carp in the big lake except for Kev Dolton who managed to catch the only carp of the day from peg 13 by fishing into the bay near peg 11.

The winner today was lake owner John Bennett who after searching for carp by fishing the bomb and corn then decided to fish for silvers and was rewarded with roach and at least 5 big perch to nealy 2lb plus a bream in his hard earned weight of 20-01 and well clear of the chasing pack. The race for second was won by Kev Dolton who managed a late carp to keep him just ahead of Doug Robinson with his weight of 13-12 to Dougs 13-01.

With the Easter festival fast approaching we expect the carp to switch on in the next couple of weeks as the weather is due to be more settled and the club match that was held on Sunday was won with 40lb plus and there were carp caught by a few of the anglers so things are starting to look up.

The festival places are now full with John now adding names to the reserve list so please can the remaining anglers that have booked please confirm your places in the next week or so { thank you }.

Results

7 fished

 Place  Angler  Peg  Weight
 1st  John Bennett  16  20-01  Rolfslake
 2nd  Kev Dolton  13  13-12  Rolfslake
 3rd  Doug Robinson  18  13-01  Rolfslake
 4th  Steve Waters  24  10-00  Drennan
 5th  Eddie Taylor-Green  14  9-11  Rolfslake
 6th  Derek Hammond  26  Dnw  Banbury Gunsmiths
 7th  Neil Hutchins  22  Dnw  Rolfslake

J.B sinks the Pirate to go 2 points ahead.

The score now stands at

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John 2

edie

Eddie 0

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

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