Category: Open Match

Wednesday Open. 23rd June 2010

7 comments

Today’s open saw a hot and sunny day at the lake. Conditions were perfect for some big weights and that’s exactly what happened.

Mark Newbold fishing from peg 28 caught fish to 17lb including a 17-4 mirror carp by fishing paste at 8m. John Bennett fishing from peg 32 also had some big fish John was fishing the bush with paste and pellet to catch fish up to 16lb.

Mark eventually came out on top to become the new Lake King with a fantastic weight.

Results. Top 4
Name Peg Weight
Mark Newbold 28 387-12
John Bennett 32 278-12
Paul Bennett 23 166-8
Paul Jay 22 121-8

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 16th June 2010.

One comment

Match Reporter Eddie T-Green.

After the massive pleasure weight of 800lb caught by Ginger on peg 8 on Tuesday, the anglers were hoping that Rolfslake would not fish like Jekyll and Hide as it has been quite tough these last few weeks as the fish finish off spawning.

With turn out low due to the football the anglers assembled at the draw hoping for a good draw and a good days fishing and all i was hoping was for a victory over John Bennett to go 5-4 up in our seasons battle.

As the anglers drew their pegs and went off there were two remaining left and as big Dave insisted on drawing last { he is a lot bigger than me } i drew peg 9 leaving Dave peg 22 sorry Dave.

With the lake still fishing hard all i can tell you is that many anglers still had fish fizzing in their pegs and were still foul hooking lots of fish, so hopefully for round 3 of the Jinx League the fish will settle down and feed properly.

The weather today was sunny and warm with a nice breeze blowing form the North so this should of helped the anglers but all it did was make presentation hard as the tow on the lake was going the other way. In first place today was Rolfslake regular Chris Lovelock fishing opposite me on peg 32 by the hut and after a very slow start with Chris catching a couple of fish shallow on pellet decided after a few hours to fish the bush to his left and never looked back.

Chris from where i could see was using pellet feeding regular fishing just in front of the bush down the first ledge, and Chris was rewarded with a run of big fish {Chris had over 100lb of weighers on the board } that just kept in front and after 5 hours had a weight of 217-12 for victory and got him the peg king for peg 32. In second place was me Eddie and i also had a good day, fishing 8 metres to the front of the bush to my right and by using my X4 paste mix was able to have 5 hours of playing tug of war with the fish as they tried to get in the bush. Some of my bite were really savage as the pole was pulled around as the fish really wanted the paste and a poor 4th hour stopped me catching Chris, but it was after 2 hours that John Bennett hit a new low. As i took a fish to be checked by John and was returning to the weigh station , John crept to my peg and took a big chunk of paste from my bucket and was seen running back off to peg 10 laughing {nice one John } but it did not help him as he lost plenty of fish with it. After five hours i had caught 189-12 of carp all on paste and had an enjoyable day. Competing the frame was Mark Chard on peg 24 and John tells me Mark was using pellet on the pole fishing long to catch his weight of 88-00 with fish to double figures.

Results.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Chris Lovelock 32 217-12 Rolfslake
2nd Eddie Taylor-Green 9 189-12 Rolfslake / Walker Floats
3rd Mark Chard 24 88-00 Rolfslake
4th Geoff Edwards 14 80-10 Reading Angling Centre
5th John Bennett 10 78-14 Rolfslake
6th Paul Jay 13 45-00 Rolfslake

Until our next report tight lines Simon and Eddie.

Wednesday Open. 9th June 2010

Leave a comment

Ayrton Bennett

11 Fished. The weather was very warm and humid. Hardly any wind on the lake making conditions less than ideal.

Simon fished a tidy match on peg 9, fishing paste down to the bush to take the win with 225-4. He also takes the Peg king of Paul Jay for his efforts 😀

Results
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Simon Enticott 9 225-4
2 Paul Jay 10 119-4
3 Trevor Stanley 28 114-8
4 Pat Pritchard 32 101-0
5 Chris Telling 26 91-0
6 Jon Walker 24 87-8
7 Andy Camden 13 72-4

Sorry for the delay in getting the results up. I have been sick and Eddie has been very busy at work.

There is a small 2 dayer been fished over the next 2 days (sat and sun) so look out for the results for that soon.

Saturday Open. 22nd May. 2010

Leave a comment

Little Horsey on the mend

Todays open turned out to be on the hottest day at the lake so far this year. On arrival carp were seen to be spawning around the lake. Also thousands of tiny roach could be seen flitting around the surface meaning that the roach must have also spawned.

10 anglers turned up today to fish in the blazing sun. After the draw John Bennett only had one thing in mind when drawing peg 16 and that was to regain his peg king title that Mick Lane took from him on last Wednesdays open match.

He managed to do just that as well along with Geoff and Ginger also taking the peg king title too.

Results
Position Name Peg Weight
1. New Peg King Geoff Edwards 38 243-10
2. New Peg King John Bennett 16 205-12
3. New Peg King Ginger 34 200-8
4 Patrick Pritchard 4 155-12
5 Paul Jay 18 153-6
6 Jamie Gilland 8 134-0
7 John Hauge 13 93-14
8 Doug Richardson 9 92-12
9 Barry Parker 7 92-8
10 Dave Whiteman 14 78-0

3 New peg Kings after this match…

  • John Bennett on Peg 16 with 205-12. Takes over from Mick Lane
  • Geoff Edwards on peg 38 with 243-10. Takes over from Paul Dolby
  • Ginger on peg 34 with 200-8. Takes over from Mark Olsen

John still has a few places left for Wednesdays open. Please ring him to book in as this is nearly Full Up. The number is in the contact information.

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 19th May 2010.

Leave a comment

 

 

The Cartel Fight Back episode 2.

Firstly i would like to thank all my fishing buddies for their kind birthday wishes as it was my birthday down on the lake yesterday. In a dream that i had a few days earlier i was to catch carp after carp on my birthday and not only win the match but i was to beat all the cartel members { Bennett, Powell and Lane } and my Nemesis Jeff Edwards and Paul Jay, so one out of five was not be considered a good days fishing.

As we waited for the draw to commence i could see the pleasure anglers catching along the car park bank on the small lake so this was looking promising for a good days fishing, and as a nice suprise John and Paul had decorated the lawn mower with a happy birthday sign , a birthday candle on top {not good on a petrol mower} and the keys to have a ride around the lake {they certainly know how to push the boat out}.

As the draw took place i was hoping to draw the car park bank from pegs 26 to 32 and as i opened my hand lucky peg 7 was in it leaving John Bennett the last peg and with it newly pruned peg 9, so i was going to receive plenty of abuse from him and also Phil Powell on peg 6 brilliant.

As the all in was called i was into a fish straight away on my 12 metre line but this was to be a false dawn as i managed to perfect the art of foul hooking fish for the first two hours, and from were i was i could see the anglers on the car park bank all catching so hopefully a good bagging day was awaiting us. Phil Powell on peg 6 was tying with me for the first two hours then his up in the water roach line all of a sudden turned into a carp line and he just pulled away from me bummer !.

As i was restricted with my view of the match all i can tell you is that the winner of todays match was Mick {David Guest} Lane who was to be spoilt for choice on peg 16 on the motorway bank. Today Mick fed three lines, one to his right one to his left and one a little further straight out. Mick fed pellet and was fishing with paste as hook bait and he tells me that the carp were up on the silt bank very quickly today but he had to resist the temptation to go on it early as if he spoked one early they might of disapeared, so a combination of fishing the two margin swims kept the fish coming. At the end of five hours Mick had caught fish to 15lb in his final weight of 191-08 and only one fish off the double ton but at least he got his name on the peg kings board { well done Mick }.

Todays winner Cartel member Mick Lane.

In second place and on a good run of form was Pat Pritchard who was fishing current form peg 26 on the car park bank. Pat today was having a real ding dong battle with Liam Barry on peg 28 and after catching fish for fish on shallow rigs Pat decided to add more sections of pole to fish further out and by doing so stole the fish away from Liam which managed to keep him ahead. Pat used banded pellet as hook bait feeding regular to keep the fish active and after an enjoyable match put 182-08 on the scales and only one fish off victory.

Completing the frame and getting very close to his fish as he played them in my peg was Phil Powell on small lake peg 6, who started off fishing on the bottom with pellet switching to up in the water fishing at depths between 2 and 4 feet and ended up fishing the margins with paste { god Phil is good }. Phil caught fish to double figures from both his shallow and edge pegs and ended with 170-04 and only three fish off victory.

The amazing thing about today during the weigh-in was the amount of anglers happy to see me fail today especially the Cartel and Paul Jay as they kept reminding me every time someone beat me. Also today i found out that Jeff Edwards needs more maths tuition as he certainly can’t count because he told me he was struggling with about 85lb only to end up with 144-02 and another place down the line i went. The person that was giving me the most stick was John Bennett followed by Paul Jay but as John was fishing flyer peg 9 i was always going to struggle against him put i smashed Pauls weight to leave him second last after his victory last week.

The new visiting anglers had a great day and promised to return, and just as the terminator would say I WILL BE BACK to battle again against the Cartel in my quest to be one of the first anglers to top 400lb this year. The score now stands at John Bennett 4 me 2 so until our next report tight lines Eddie and Simon.

Results
Position Name Peg Weight Method Sponsor
1st Mick Lane 16 191-8 Paste ML 1 down the right edge Rolfslake
2nd Patrick Pritchard 26 182-8 Shallow 14.5 mtrs Rolfslake
3rd Phil Powell 6 170-4 Shallow, Paste down the edge Rolfslake
4th John Bennett 9 167-8 Pellet, paste . Rolfslake
5th Malc Doyle 14 164-4   Jinx league
6th Liam Barry 28 163-4 Pellet shallow. Rolfslake
7th Gary Haisman 4 160-8 Banded pellet right hand edge. Bag-Up Angling.
8th Geoff Edwards 13 144-2 Pellet, paste right hand edge Reading Angling Centre
9th Mick Jones 22 142-8 Meat. Rolfslake.
10th Rich Lovering 32 141-8   Rolfslake.
11th Eddie Taylor-Green 7 120-8 X4 paste, 8mm banded pellet Rolfslake / Walker Floats.
12th Mark Ponting 18 118-4   Rolfslake.
13th Paul Jay 24 82-0 Pellet ,paste . Rolfslake.
14th Steve Barker 8 48-0 Bush to the right. Rolfslake.

2 new Peg Kings after this Match.

  • Malc Doyle on peg 14 with 164-4. Takes over from John Bennett
  • Mick Lane on peg 16 with 191-8. Takes over from Chris Telling

Rolfslake Open Match. 8th May 2010

Leave a comment

Only 10 turned up today for the match as the weather was quite poor. Drizzle all day and a Cold blustery N/E wind going across the lake making presentation very tricky today.

Today match winner Ramsay King fishing from peg 4 had started in the margins and was finding it tricky so cast out on the tip rod with punched meat and never looked back. He also beat his personal best match weight by more than 70lb. A big well done to Ramsay King. He also gets Peg King for peg 4 and almost takes the lake king title.

The rest of the weights round the lake are quite spread out. John Bennett fishing peg 21 lost a 18lb+ carp on the whistle costing him the section, unlucky John.

Today’s Results
Name Peg Weight
Ramsay King 4 258-12
Dave Whiteman 7 163-0
Robby (Ginger) 8 102-0
Chris Loveridge 19 100-2
John Bennett 21 92-4
Doug Richardson 14 89-0
Adam 13 88-4
Jamie Gilland 9 85-8
Kev Doulton 18 65-8
Barry Parker 16 46-4

Hope the weather picks up for next week for the Wednesday open and the Jinx Series which starts next Saturday.

No Open match next week because Starting next Saturday (15th May) is Malc Doyle’s Jinx series. 20 anglers battle through a series of 6 matches (plus one bonus night match) at Rolfs Lake. All the anglers have a few aims, mainly beating their matches weights and PB fish but mainly NOT getting Minxed by Gemma Doyle.

Anyone getting MINXED this year will be treated to having to wear this hat for the next match. With the amount of camera’s around the lake it’s something no man would want 😀 Steak (Steve Akal) has the honour of wearing the hat for the first match as he got beat by Gem at the Maggotdrowning.com fund raiser match at Lindholme Lake 😀

Reports for these matches will be appearing on here so check back next week for all the gossip.

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.

1 … 72 73 74 75