Category: Open Match

Peg King changes for the third time in a week.

1st  peg 13 Jon Walker 80lb 8ozs (new lake king weight by 8ozs )

2nd peg 16 Dave Whiteman 78lb 8ozs

3rd peg 18 John Bennett 42 lb 8ozs

4th peg 24 Frank Hardie 27lb 8ozs

5th peg 8 Pete Arnold 25 lb 00zs

The lake was in a dour mood  for Saturdays open, The eleven anglers who turned up to fish found bites hard to come by, the fish appeared to be sitting at two thirds depth and reluctant to follow the feed down on the deck.

these results are from memory because i have just realized i picked up the wrong bit of paper.

1st peg 9 Mick Chappell 77lbs 8ozs

2nd peg 30 Steve Walters 76lbs (including 17lbs of silvers)

3rd peg 14 Kev Doulton 49lbs 8ozs

4th peg 26 Mick Lane 47lbs 12ozs

With the change of draw times only 5 anglers turned out to fish the match, we have know altered the price of matches on a Wednesday to £10 (£5 ticket £5 pools), We also have a walk off draw, so it is a very friendly but still competitive.

The carp were very active all over the lake,but a little reluctant to feed in numbers.

1st peg 30 John Bennett 74lbs 12ozs

2nd peg 32 Phil Powell 71lbs 12oz

3rd peg 26 Gary Kelsey 43lbs 12ozs

4thpeg 28 Pat Pritchard 33lbs-o (including 28lbs of silvers)

5th peg 24 Paul Jay 24lbs_0ozs

 

Today a small band of anglers turned up together with 5 pleasure anglers hoping that Rolfslake’s very indiffernt form was a thing of the past but today was good for some and challenging for the rest. The one thing that all the anglers experienced today was a battle with the monsters of Rolfslake, and at the weigh-in of the 23 carp landed only 2 were under 10lb so it was a challenge with which rig to choose . 

In first place today was Paul Jay fishing peg 24 and Paul used a combination of the pellet waggler and the pole fished with banded pellet. Paul over five hours caught 10 carp capped by this beautiful common of 20-02 caught in the last 5 minutes, but also caught carp of 17-00 and 15-00 in his final weight of 112-08 {well done Paul }. 

In second place was Rolfslake form angler Mick Jones who was fishing peg 28 on the car park bank. Mick used a combination of short pole and the bomb using meat hook bait feeding pellet and was able to pick off carp at regular intervals and also caught carp to double figures in his weight of 80-12. 

With the forthcoming silver fish opens Rolfslake will open a few anglers eyes with the quality of silver fishing to be had. 

With the chance of catching silvers in nets upto 50lb Rolfslake will not only show how good a carp fishery it is but how brilliant an alround fishery it is with bites to be had on all baits and methods. So if you fancy a great days fishing with plenty of bites get yourself down to the lake and book on one of the silver fish opens you will love it. 

Results the Top 5.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Bait
1st	Paul Jay	24	112-08  {2-08 silvers}	Banded Pellet
2nd	Mick Jones	30	80-12   {6-08 silvers}	Meat /Pellet
3rd	John Bennett	28	41-08   {8-00 silvers}	Caster /Maggots
4th	Eddie Taylor-Green	32	38-08   {7-08 silvers}	Corn /Maggots
5th	Pat Pritchard	26	31-00  {20-08 silvers}	Worm

A days silver fishing 

Today Dan Blackwell visited Rolfslake to see if he could catch a 20lb bag of silvers, with his dad Gary on hand to record the days events. Dan was today fishing peg 4 in the small lake and by fishing a combination of long and short pole using groundbait and worm Dan was able to catch quality Perch to 3-08 and roach to over 1lb . At the end of his session Dan put together a fantastic net of fish which when put on the scales went 28-00 {well done Dan } so for more details read Dans report on www.fishing101.co.uk 

As for me it was a nice days fishing until i saw John Bennett catch his first carp then i felt obliged to try and catch one myself and by doing so messed up my silver fish line. In the end i had the carp feeding on my short line swim and drove the roach away and took them a while to come back, and had i concentrated just on silvers i recon i could of had about 40lb in five hours. The roach were happy to feed on sensas roach groundbait and maggot hook bait and i was catching a fish a cast using a fairly heavy rig so all was well until i hooked a carp on my roach rig and wrecked both the swim and the rig. 

The most annoying thing was losing to John Bennett by 3lb and going 12-9 down and time is running out to catch him up.