HIGH WINDS, AN INCREASE IN WATER LEVELS, AND FALLING LEAVES WERE SOME OF THE ELEMEMTS THE 8 ANGLERS FACED IN THIS WEEKS MATCH.
1ST PEG 32 JOHN BENNETT 113-5
2ND PEG 11 JOHN DRAPER 87-8
3RD PEG 14 NIEL HIGGINS 85-3
4TH PEG 30 DEAN 67-14
5TH PEG 28 PAUL JAY 65-0
6TH PEG 26 STEVE WILLIAMS 58-10
ON TUESDAY THIS WEEK WE HOSTED A SKY TELEVISION CREW AND PRESENTER DEAN MACEY AT THE LAKE TO MAKE THE LAST PROGRAM IN THE SERIES FISHING GURUS. IT WILL GO OUT ON TUESDAY 30TH OCT ON SKY SPORTS 3
The lake generaley fished hard over the weekend, with the extra water going in at least 6ins up , also a heavy shail shower on saturday did not help,the saturdayknock up.
1st peg 14 paul jay 95-0
2nd peg 32 steve williams 67-12
3rd peg 16 john bennett 65-8
On sunday freemasons angling society visited for there first match of the year, they were greeted with the first proper frost of the year, no wind,floating leaves, and then very bright sunshine far from perfect conditions, this was reflected in the weights with the carp slow to feed.
I cannot find the results for wednesday I may of left them down the lake, as far as I remember the weights were,
1st Peg 32 Jon Walker 88-12
2nd Peg 18 John Draper 67-12
3rd Peg 30 Paul Jay 63-8
4th Peg 22 Steve Williams 52-8
12 Anglers Fished
Open match saturday draw time 10-30 fishing 11-30 to 4-30 please phone 07774618688 or contact site to book in
Also the dates are now out for the winter league, the format is teams of 3 over 6 rounds, if you are interested in fishing as a team or you are an individual, please register we can make up teams with spare anglers, also if you are not able to fish all the rounds please register because we can use you as a substitute in the series
Steve Williams makes it two out of two.
Steve Williams was todays winner from peg 26 on the car park bank on a cold and rainy day down the lake. Steve today was fishing down the edge in front of peg 27’s platform fishing on the deck using corn as hookbait feeding pellet and he also had a very good run of doubles { Steve had 160lb of weighers on the board } topped by a fantastic common of 23lb and after 5 hours Steve put a fantastic 219-08 to just keep ahead of John in second place.
In second place was lake owner John Bennett who today i had the pleasure of watching for the last two hours as i was working nearby in Headington and today he showed me more tricks than Paul Daniels. John started fishing the left hand margins catching 12 carp on corn hookbait feeding 6mm pellet through a pot only and when this line dried up he fished just in front of the bush to his right in slightly deeper water. Fishing this line John managed to keep the fish coming but he also got broke by two massive fish which messed up his last 30 minutes and in the end fell one fish short of the double ton with 195-00.
Completing the frame was serial framer Pete Arnold on peg 22 who started on the tip catching 8 carp on corn but a switch to fishing the right hand margin again fishing corn upped his catch rate and he also ended up with a hard earned 165-12.
A special note also goes to John Draper who also caught a big common of 20-08 but there were also big carp of 19lb for Pete and John and a 17lb der for Paul Jay.
| Place | Angler | Peg | Weight | |
| 1st | Steve Williams | 26 | 219-08 | Rolfslake |
| 2nd | John Bennett | 14 | 195-00 | Rolfslake.com |
| 3rd | Pete Arnold | 22 | 165-12 | Rolfslake |
| 4th | Paul Jay | 16 | 123-12 | Rolfslake |
| 5th | John Draper | 18 | 95-08 | Rolfslake |
| 6th | Graham Ridgely | 24 | 21-04 | Rolfslake |
For a special feature on carp fishing done down the lake by Steve Waters read the current issue of Pole Fishing and for the Drennan Cup semi final read the next issue of Match Fishing out the 26th of October.
Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.