Author: Eddie

A strong wind spoils the fishing down the lake today.

John tells me that he expected the fishing to be better today than yesterday for Frank Donachie’s match today but with a strong wind blowing from the small lake to the big lake it made presentation for the anglers very difficult if you were on one of the car park bank swims.

With the fish looking like they had finished spawning { maybe } all the anglers were hoping for a few fish today but John tells me fishing was extremely difficult in the wind as it made presentation hard with anglers having to resort to the tip to get any bites.

Todays winner was Frank Donachie who was on Jekyll and Hide peg 4 as it seems that a good weight only comes off this peg ever comes off this peg ever 3 or 4 matches, but today was Franks day fishing the pole using meat and corn hookbait to catch his fish and during the match Frank caught fish to double figures in his weight of 182-04 for his win { well done Frank }.

12 fished this match.

Results.

The next match is tomorrow on Bank Holiday Monday so if you fancy fishing give John a call.

Until our next report thanks for reading Simon, John and Eddie.

Peg king update .

For our visiting anglers at Rolfslake i would like to give you an update of our theme down the lake of Peg Kings.

Peg Kings are awarded to the angler who posts the highest weight on a peg at that particular moment in time, so you become the Peg King of that Peg. To become King of the lake you need to post the highest weight of all anglers visiting Rolfslake between the 1st of January to the 31st of December which also gets your picture on the main page banner.

It was done as a bit of fun by myself and Simon but has now turned into something of a monster as anglers apart from winning the matches want to be peg king of that peg, so i have put down a few facts about it .

There are currently at Rolfslake,

1 peg out of bounds peg 33

1 peg under construction peg 12

3 pegs with no recorded weights 1,20 and 39

12 peg kings under 100lb

17 peg kings over 100lb

5   peg kings over 200lb

1   peg king over   300lb

The current King of the lake is John Bennett with 300-06 from peg 8.

King of Rolfslake owner John Bennett can anyone beat his weight of 300-06 from peg 8 ?.

The current Silver fish King of the lake and Rolfslake Silver fish lake record holder is Shimano Team Wales sponsored Andy Johnstone with 72-00 caught from peg 17.

Silver Fish match record holder and Silver fish king of the lake Andy Johnstone with 72-00 caught from peg 17.

The angler who holds the most peg kings currently are ?.

Derek Hammond currently hold 3 peg kings.

Paul Jay also currently holds 3 peg kings.

I will keep you informed with who is making the biggest impact on the peg king leader board at the end of June but for weekly updates look at our peg king board .

John tells me there 15 anglers fishing todays match and that the weather was warm in the sun but was also windy making presentation very difficult for the anglers. The fish were also seen cruising on the top chasing the blossom that had fallen off the trees but unlike the MFS match the day before the carp were happy to have a feed as most anglers at least caught a carp.

The winner today Paul Jay was on form peg 16 on the motorway bank and Paul was kept busy with big fish as he had 130-00 on the board at the weigh-in for another victory {well done Paul }.

I will up date this report as i get more information from John.

Todays winner Paul Jay.

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

Click on the picture for an expanded view of the lake.

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.

B Section.

C Section.

Top 6 after day 1.

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.

Steve with his 45-00 of bream fishing peg 30 {well done Steve }.

Results.

 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.