Author: Eddie

 

 

Firstly we would like to again wish all our friends, customers and their families a happy New Year.

Today match was poorly attended due to the cold weather and high water levels in the lake { at least two feet higher } which John has been doing his best to pump out to reduce the water level.

Todays winner was me { Eddie Taylor-Green } who fished peg 13 on the motorway bank using a 3 metre whip fished tight to the edge using triple maggot as hookbait to catch a mixed bag of silvers for 11-05. In second place was Nick Watkins-Price who was fishing peg 28 on the car park bank and by using pole and maggot Nick also caught some nice big Perch and roach for his weight of 9-12.

 

 

Results

5 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Eddie Taylor-Green	13	11-05	Rolfslake Cartel
2nd	Nick Watkins-Price	28	9-12	Jinx League
3rd	Steve Waters	19	7-03	Frenzee
4th	Steve Williams	24	5-06	Rolfslake
5th	John Bennett	16	4-00	Rolfslake Cartel

A New Year a new battle.

The score now stands after one match.

John 0

Eddie 1

 

Thanks for visiting Simon John and Eddie.

 

 

 

Angling Times tackle test.

On Tuesday Rolfslake welcomed the Angling Times down to the lake to test the new Diawa Air pole and John will be doing an overview of the day shortly.

ON MONDAY LAST WEEK I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM MARK SAWYER ASKING TO USE THE VENUE FOR A LIVE TACKLE TEST ON THE NEW AIRITY AIR POLE, I DULY AGREED AND ON TUESDAY WE CARRIED A LIVE TACKLE TEST ON THE SUPERB POLE ( YES PLEASE SANTA I WOULD LOVE IT FOR CHRISTMAS) IT WILL BE IN THE ANGLING TIMES ON THE 20TH NOV AND A 15 MINUTE VIDEO ON THE GO FISHING WEB SITE.

Just to bring you back to earth.

John tells me that the anglers endured another tough day down the lake with a north westerly wind blowing across the lake from the car park again switching most of the carp off from feeding. There were a few carp caught today and they were big { Paul Jay caught one at 17lb } which is typical for this time of the year down the lake as the small carp of 8lb switch off and the big ones feed.

Todays winner was John Bennett who was pegged by the tea ern ,i mean peg 30 and he caught 3 carp for 31lb and 10lb of silvers by fishing the bomb with corn and the pole with corn and maggot to catch a mixed bag of carp to 16lb and bream for his winning weight of 41-04.

Results.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	John Bennett	30	41-04
2nd	Paul Jay	26	28-12
3rd	John Draper	28	17-04
4th	Steve Williams	24	6-15

On a final note i hope you all got a chance to watch fishing gurus that was screened yesterday on Sky Sports featuring Dean Macey filmed down at Rolfs lake a couple of weeks ago. On a very cold day Dean fished a roving style on both the method { only allowed for this feature } and the float and all the carp he caught were in fantastic condition and all double figures { well done Dean}.

At times you might not catch lots of carp down Rolfslake but the ones you do will be in mint condition and fight like crazy.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

A super hard day down the lake .

Today the anglers were greeted with a hard frost and cold weather which put the carp totally off feeding , and with the anglers hoping to catch at least one carp in a match carp carp lake wasted far to much time for no end result.

The winner today was Steve Waters who would of won the match without the 15lb carp he caught just before the end of the match because he had already caught nearly 14lb of  roach and skimmers fishing worm and maggots and he believes had he not wasted time trying to catch the carp he could of caught near to 30lb as there were plenty of silvers out there. After 5 hours Steve weighed 28-15 and beat his nearest rival by 20lb { well done Steve ].

In second place was Mick Chapell fishing motorway bank peg 18 and by fishing long down the edge towards peg 19 he managed to keep puting silvers into his net and one big perch of 2-08 which on a day like today was a big bonus in his weight of 8-03. The three way battle for third was eventually won by Adam Griffiths on peg 13 with his two big bream helping him to his final weight of 6-03.

Results

7 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Steve Waters	30	28-15	Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths / Frenzee
2nd	Mick Chapell	18	8-03	Rolfslake
3rd	Adam Griffiths	13	6-03	Rolfslake
4th	Wayne Parker	24	5-11	Rolfslake
5th	John Bennett	16	5-08	Rolfslake
6th	Eddie Taylor-Green	14	5-06	Rolfslake
7th	Steve Williams	26	2-13	Rolfslake

The Pirate sank by half a bag of pellet.

The score now stands at

John 13

 

Eddie 5

 

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie

 

 

 

 When will superstar Simon’s victory run end ?.

With a gathering of 13 anglers attending todays match there was hope that with Simon Mounds absence today at least someone else would win a match for a change ,but that was dashed half an hour later as Simon and his black Focus rolled into the carpark and those smiling faces earlier were gone. On phoning John during the match he told me that most of the anglers were struggling in the big lake with 3 carp winning it in there and in the small lake the anglers were catching only slightly better.

The weather was warm sunny but a cold breeze turned the carp off their feeding in the big lake with the anglers having to fish out from the margins and into the deeper water which made for a longer wait for a bite than usual.

In first place today AGAIN and on a winining streak that has lasted on and off for two months was Rolfslake.com co-owner Simon Mound who was fresh from last weekends two day festival victoryand if Simon had not come 6th in last Fridays night match then he would of been on his 7th victory in a row a dominant streak not seen for many years, and in todays match he won by a clear 150lb.

Simon today was in the small lake on the carpark bank peg 4 and by fishing just two short lines a 3 metre line in line with peg 39 and a top two plus one down the right hand edge and by fishing a very simple .3 Jon Walker diamond on 0.24 line fished on the deck feeding 6mm pellet using both 8mm and donkey choker hookbaits. Simon caught 26 carp to only 18-04 { with a board weight of 153lb } and still managed to lose a few and after yet another enjoyable 5 hours put another big 252-10 weight for another victory { very well done again Simon }.

In second place and a long way back on peg 32 was lake owner John Bennett who when i spoke to him he told me he was really struggling with only one carp but by fishing a deeper line down the end of the left hand bush fishing a combination of corn and 8mm pellets as hookbait feeding 6mm pellets quick heavy he managed to get a few big carp also up to 18lb in his weight of 97-15. Completing the frame was Mick Jones on peg 8 in the gap between the big and small lake and by fishing his usual 5-6 metre line fishing meat on the deck feeding pellet Mick managed to stay ahead of the chasing pack with his weight of 89-04.

Results

14 fished

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Simon Mound	4	252-10	Rolfslake.com
2nd	John Bennett	32	97-15	Rolfslake.com
3rd	Mick Jones	8	89-04	Rolfslake
4t	Micheal Corsini	16	86-12	Rolfslake
5th	Pete Arnold	9	85-11	Rolfslake
6th	Paul Jay	24	80-04	Rolfslake
7th	Dai Thomas	6	72-11	Jinx League
8th	John Draper	30	45-12	Rolfslake
9th	Paul Mason	18	26-03	Rolfslake
10th	Ben Mason	7	23-14	Rolfslake
11th	Steve W	13	20-08	Rolfslake
12th	Les Mason	26	15-11	Rolfslake
13th	Pete Archer	14	13-12	Vespe
14th	Nick Williams	28	DNW	Rolfslake /Miracle Baits

Thanks for reading John , Simon and Eddie.