Author: Eddie

 

Today saw the start of the 2011 Easter Festival and an eager 24 anglers were hoping to be crowned Festival champion after the next three days of hard competition. Apart from a strong attendance of open regular anglers there was also two times champions { Matt Smith  } who was again looking for another chance of victory.

The festival is fished over three days and each angler draws his section on day one and then fishes in rotation the next two over the next two days ie if you draw B section one day one you then fish C on day two and A on day Three.

A Section comprised of pegs 34,36,38,40,2,4,6,7

B Section comprised of Pegs 8,9,10,13,28,29,31,32

C Section comprised of pegs 14,15,17,18,22,23,25,26

The winner of each section gets 1 points assending up to 8 point for last place in section but you have to catch a fish and weigh in to get  points, so the winner at the end of the festival is the angler that has the least points and in the event of anglers tied on the same points the winner is decided on weight.

John tells me the story of the day was the anglers were greeted to a really warm day with no breeze and the fish could be seen cruising on the top especially in the small lake. As the match started both Jon Walker and Liam Bough were in to fish early in the match in C section with Liam’s swim dying towards the end and he ended up 3 fish short of a section win as Jon managed to keep the fish coming till the end. Also in this section was RTG team mates Mick Lane and Phil Powell who were on a peg to peg battle on 14 and 15 and after 5 hours Mick ended the victor with 100-00 to Phil’s 78-08.

In B section it was much harder with Geoff Edwards catching as many fish as he was losing on peg 8 but still ended up well clear of 2nd place Steve Waters on peg 13 who was having a close match with Ernie Malyon on 31 and only 5 lb seperated the two even though Ernie only had 3 fish for 49-08. For the rest of the anglers it was tough although very close in the end as there was only 30lb between 2nd and 8th.

The main action came from A section as it had some of the top carp match anglers from the south competing in it, and coming out on top was Derek Hammond who is one of Rolfslake’s current form angler as he won the midweek open and has had other victories down the lake this year. Derek was fishing peg 4 on the motorway bank which has had indiffernt form this year but Derek sorted it out today and put a double ton weight on the board for victory on the day overall. There was a very close battle for second between Geoff Warmington and Dave Whiteman on pegs 40 and 2 which had seen a lot of fish cruising in this area and after 5 hours Geoff came out on top by just 8 ounces with both anglers putting big weights together Geoff’s 184-08 to Daves 184-00. There were also 4 other ton weights in this really productive section which always gets better as the festival goes to days two and three, so watch out to see if the top weight of 300lb can be broken in this festival.

In this match today there was 2083lb of fish caught with A section providing 1158lb B section providing 375lb and C section providing 550lb at an average of 86.7lb per angler so take a bow Rolfslake for giving up your fish to the travelling anglers.

Roll on day 2.

Results.

24 Fishing.

A Section.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Derek Hammond	4	225-08	1
2nd	Geoff Warmington	2	184-08	2
3rd	Dave Whiteman	40	184-00	3
4th	Mark Malin	6	144-00	4
5th	Pat Pritchard	34	136-04	5
6th	Matt Smith	36	130-00	6
7th	Andy Johnstone	38	98-08	7
8th	Colin Wedgebrow	7	57-00	8

 

B Section.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Geoff Edwards	8	124-12	1
2nd	Steve Waters	13	54-08	2
3rd	Ernie Malyon	31	49-08	3
4th	Clive Pritchard	10	35-08	4
5th	Johnny Broadbent	9	33-08	5
6th	Chris Telling	32	30-00	6
7th	Frank Hardie	28	26-08	7
8th	John Hague	29	24-00	8

 

C Section.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Jon Walker	18	158-00	1
2nd	Liam Bough	22	139-08	2
3rd	Mick Lane	14	100-00	3
4th	Phil Powells	15	78-08	4
5th	Mick Hughes	26	46-08	5
6th	Paul Newbury	23	15-00	6
7th	Paul Glenfield	17	14-08	7
8th	Mick Chapell	25	DNW	–

Top 6 after day 1.

Place	Angler	Weight	Points	Sponsor
1st	Derek Hammond	225-00	1	Banbury Gunsmiths
2nd	Jon Walker	158-00	1	Walker Floats
3rd	Geoff Edwards	124-12	1	Reading Angling Centre
4th	Geoff Warmington	184-08	2	Rolfslake
5th	Liam Bough	139-08	2	Rolfslake
6th	Steve Waters	54-08	2	Frenzee

Come back tomorrow to see the results  from day two .

My website partner Simon will be taking up the reporting Duties for days 2 and the final day as i am off on travels again so please be patient as he will do all he can to get the results to you as they come in { thanks Si }.

Thanks for reading Simon, Eddie and John.

Today saw 20+ anglers come down to Rolfslake for Gary Horns Invitation Match. The weather was a warm sunny day and the anglers were spread in both the small and big lake with most anglers wanting to draw pegs 8 or 18 as they had shown really good form of late.

My website partner Simon was down on the lake fishing today and he told me after a slow start the fish went on the feed as it got later with many big fish putting in an appearance around the lake which is a good sign for the forthcoming Good Friday open and the Easter Festival.

Results.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Nick Horn	18	184-04
2nd	Steve Pomery	8	119-04
3rd	Gary Naylor	6	104-00
4th	Arthur Horn	34	99-02
5th	Kevin Cross	22	91-02
5th	Neil Reid	32	91-02
7th	Simon Mound	4	84-12
8th	Graham Bradshaw	26	81-12
9th	Alan Stoke	2	78-04
10th	Steve N	30	72-12 {this included 45-00 of big bream }
11th	Pete Bradley	13	70-12
12th	Pete Taylor	10	69-12
13th	Marcus Burgess	40	57-04
14th	Gary Horn	24	52-00
15th	Paul Horn	38	45-08
16th	Steve Robert	28	28-00
17th	Steve Horn	14	9-05
18th	Keith Tullet	9	8-08

 John and Pauline hope Gary and his guests had an enjoyable day and hope to see them again soon.

Simon and myself will try our best to keep all our visitors upto date with all the results as they come in over the busiest weekend of the year ,so come to the site to be updated as the festival comes to its gran finale.

Until our next report tightlines Simon, John and Eddie.

 

The Pirate sunk by Bennett torpedo on his return to the lake

Report to follow.

Results.

12 fished the match.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Derek Hammond	8	190-04	Banbury Gunsmiths
2nd	Mick Jones	10	136-04	Rolfslake
3rd	John Bennett	7	127-00	Rolfslake Cartel
4th	Pat Pritchard	18	125-02	Rolfslake
5th	Mick Lane	16	122-00	Rolfslake
6th	Paul Jay	38	104-12	Rolfslake Cartel
7th	Phil Powell	2	102-00	Rolfslake Cartel
8th	Neil Riddy	4	99-12	Rolfslake
9th	Frank Donachie	9	92-04	Rolfslake
10th	Eddie Taylor-Green	34	74-12	Rolfslake Cartel
11th	Pete Archer	40	69-12	Vespe
12th	Micheal Corsini	14	63-04	Rolfslake

 

1 new peg king Paul Jay for peg 38 104-12.

 

Misfits are crowned Spring League champions 2011.

Report to follow.

Round 6 team results.

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Mick Chapple	34	96-8	Misfits
2nd	Jim McCann	7	87-0	Try Anglers
3rd	Mick Lane	2	48-14	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Jon Walker	4	39-4	Walker Floats
5th	Frank Hardie	37	29-12	Heavy Weights
6th	Kev Wittow	—	DNS	Wooden Tops

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Phil Powell	28	130-4	Rolfs Team Gold
2nd	Dave Whiteman	9	87-0	Misfits
3rd	Neal Hutchins	10	57-12	Try Anglers
4th	Derek Hammond	13	50-4	Walker Floats
5th	Steve Palmer	32	31-0	Heavy Weights
5th	Paul Jay	30	30-8	Wooden Tops

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Steve Waters	18	200-12	Walker Floats
2nd	Pete Arnold	16	156-4	Misfits
3rd	John Bennett	24	129-8	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Ernie Malyon	22	110-0	Heavy Weights
5th	Lol Summers	14	88-0	Wooden Tops
6th	Dave Loseby	26	54-0	Try Anglers

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Misfits	16
2nd	Rolfs Team Gold	14
3rd	Walker Floats	12
4th	Try Anglers	10
5th	Heavy Weights	7
6th	Wooden Tops	4

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

	TOTAL  TEAM POINTS	POINTS	Total
1st	Misfits	16+8+14+13+15+16	82
2nd	Rolfs Team Gold	12+11+10+14+15+14	76
3rd	Walker Floats	10+17+13+14+10+12	76
4th	Heavy Weights	11+15+10+10+12+7	65
5th	Try Anglers	5+7+11+8+7.5+10	48.5
6th	Wooden Tops	9+5+5+4+3.5+4	30.5

2nd Place decided by Weight

Until our next report tight lines Eddie, Simon and John.

 

Today the anglers were greeted with a lake full of cruising carp which were going to tease the 9 anglers down the lake by being visible but by not feeding for any length of time. Also added to the fact that the lake was covered with the blossom off the trees which the carp were happy to try and feed on and you know the anglers were going to have a tough day.

John tells me that the winner today was John Walker fresh from his Angling Times feature last Tuesday and who was fishing peg 13 in todays match. Jon fished the pole with pellet to catch his carp but it was hard going to keep the fish coming and after 5 hours Jon ended with a modest  61-14 weight for Rolfslske but still a match win { well done Jon }.

After visiting the lake on Friday there were literaly hundreds of carp cruising around the lake just waiting for the right conditions to start feeding properly and i expect the first big weight of the year a 200lb + to be only a week or two away. Coupled with the fact that the Wednesday opens have a later start time now this always brings out the big weights and also a bigger attendance in these matches, so if you want to catch a PB match weight or a double figure carp now will start to be your best chance of both.

9 fished todays match.

Place	Peg	Angler	Weight
1st	13	Jon Walker	61-14	Walker Floats
2nd	18	Frank Donaghie	53-12	Rolfslake
3rd	14	Andy Rayment	53-08	Rolfslake
4th	28	Geoff Edwards	40-08	Reading Angling Centre
5th	22	Liam	39-12	Rolfslake
6th	24	Tony Booker	38-06	Rolfslake
7th	9	Steve Williams	34-00	Rolfslake
8th	16	Trevor Stanley	28-06	Tumbley Bay Angling Club
9th	26	John Benett	26-10	Rolfslake

 

John has asked my to inform all our visitors that the Wednesdays opens WILL now have a draw time of 1.00pm fish 2-7 pm.

Until our next report tight lines Eddie , Simon and John.

With the attendances starting to grow slowly in the midweek opens the anglers were again greeted with a cold day with a swirling wind that again made fishing the long pole very difficult.

With the lake also carrying alot of rain water from the last two weeks, one think is certainly required and that is a pair of wellies as the platforms are under water at the moment as John cannot lower the lake as the fields aare still flooded.

The winner of todays match was lake owner John Bennett who caught his fish on a combination of the tip and the long pole as the swirling wind made fishing the pole difficult for any length of time and by fishing corn and pellet John managed to keep the fish coming and also found time to lose 5 fish in his final weight of 76-04 {well done John }.

In second place was the drawer of flyers { peg 9 this time } Paul Jay Who caught most of his fish by the right hand bush, and Paul also used corn and pellet to catch his fish and in the end was two carp off victory in his weight of 61-08. Completing the frame was Graham Ridgley who fished peg 14 and who also caught carp in his weight of 28-08.

Results.

10 fished this match.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	John Bennett	28	76-04	Rolfslake
2nd	Paul Jay	9	61-08	Rolfslake
3rd	Graham Ridgley	14	28-08	Rolfslake
4th	Dave Whiteman	13	28-04	Hydro 2000
5th	Dave Wrigley	10	26-12	Rolfslake
6th	Mick Jones	32	25-08	Rolfslake
7th	Barry Crawley	16	16-08	Rolfslake
8th	Fred Selwood	18	15-04	Rolfslake
9th	Frank Donaghie	26	14-00	Rolfslake
10th	Dan Jones	30	DNW	Rolfslake

Until our next report tight lines Eddie, Simon and John.

For the people who have not seen me for a while i am currently working in Jersey and Guernsey and i will be back soon together with super X4 2011 batch and my trademark Bandana so dont worry my season battle with John will be starting soon.