Category: Match Reports

 

The anglers get a battering from the horrid weather in todays match.

 

Report to follow

12 fished.

Results.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Matt Edwards	9	136-00	Jinx League
2nd	Mick Lane	32	85-08	Rolfslake Cartel
3rd	Phil Powell	18	85-00	Rolfslake Cartel
4th	Mick Jones	29	60-08	Rolfslake
5th	John Bennett	25	33-04	Rolfslake Cartel
6th	Paul Jay	23	30-04	Rolfslake

John has asked me to remind our visiting anglers this weekend to bring suitable wet weather clothing and wellies as some as the platform are under water and there is more rain predicted.

 

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

 

Today at Rolfslake was the annual challenge match with Chinnor Works Angling Society the current trophy holders against Chinnor Garden Centre, and in the gardens centre quest to regain the trophy they had roped in John ,Paul and myself to help them with some local expertise and hopefully some big weights. With 21 anglers instead of 22 there was some trading of anglers and it was decided that Chinnor AS would have 11 anglers to i believe compensate for the garden center have three venue regulars.

With the match draw time there was time for the anglers to have a walk around the lake and observe the hundreds of carp in the margins all around the lake and hopes of plenty of carp never really materialised because as soon as the match started the carp drifted off towards the middle of the lake. Today started off sunny turning cloudy after two hours with a southern breeze breeze blowing out of the big lake into the small lake so it was not a great day for me to draw peg 18 on the motorway bank. The story of the match was after a slow start they carp decided to have a feed with the anglers in the big lake and on the car park bank having good action as the match went on with the anglers in the small lake stuggling due to it being shallower and the water colder.

As John and I were fishing in the same team it was decided that our season battle would be suspended for one match only and the megafone would be set to silent for 5 hours { that was a result after my performance today }. On my side of the lake I had Andy for company on peg 16 and he told me he had never caught a 100lb of fish but today he smashed it with his weight of 141-08 of carp to double figures all caught on maggot fished on the slope down the grass bank down to his right { well done Andy ]. Also a well done goes to section A winner Barry who put a good weight of 89-12 from peg 9 with a catch of carp and bream and to Brian who put the third ton weight of the day from peg 22 by fishing about 9 to 10 metres down the right had margins.

The winner today overall was John Bennett who after a very slow start managed to get the carp lined up by fishing just down the shelf but not at the bottom of it and by using paste today he caught a very good stamp of big carp to 18lb in his final weight of 158-00 and just ahead of Paul.

Paul was fishing peg 8 in the gap between the two parts of the lake and by rotating between the 8 metre line straight out in front from where I could see and the bush to his left Paul also managed to catch big carp on 8mm banded pellet for his weight of 151-00.

 

 

 

 

 

Results.

21 fished.

Place	Peg	Angler	Weight
1st	28	John Bennett	158-00
2nd	8	Paul Jay	151-00
3rd	16	Andy	141-08
4th	22	Brian	109-00
5th	9	Barry	89-12
6th	13	Morris	77-08
7th	26	Pete H	75-00
8th	2	Steve V	69-12
9th	18	Eddie Taylor-Green	68-00
10th	24	Ben	66-00
11th	10	John	58-00
12th	38	Dave	55-00
13th	30	Mal	44-04
13th	6	Roger	44-04
15th	32	Jason	34-00
16th	40	Fred	32-08
17th	14	Hilary	22-08
18th	4	Butch	22-04
19th	7	Green Grass	21-08
20th	34	Jeff	20-00
21th	11	John Cowling	5-08

Section winners A and B

 

Paul and John 2 of the 3 ringers.

 

Sorry John

 

Final result
Chinnor Works Angling Society	726-12	Chinnor Garden Centre	638-08

I would like to say a big thank you to Dave and Fred for inviting John, Paul and myself on the match today and also a big thanks to the anglers for fishing the match in good spirits with plenty of banter and also showing the regulars how weighing in 21 anglers can only take 25 minutes if everyone gets involved. Also a very well done to Chinnor angling club in retaining their trophy for another year in which was a very close match with anglers gaining PB’s in both match weights and sizes of fish caught which just shows what can happen in any match down at Rolfslake.

The two captains with the sought after trophy.

 

 

Well done Chinnor Works Angling Society.

Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John.

 

 First i would like to thank Paul Corsini for giving lake owner John Bennett a new toy to play with in the shape of a megafone complete with a siren, which was tested on me on my arrival at the lake. As i got out of my car the one person that i had not seen by the hut was John and i now know why because he was hiding in the bushes ready to shout my name much to the amusement of the rest of the anglers.

Today was quite mild but with a breeze blowing from the small lake to the big lake so there was not as many crusing carp to spot as there have been and with such a late decision to hold an open the 10 anglers decided that todays match was going to be a walk off so a low draw was going to be essential. As the draw was called for a change i decided to draw second and as i opened my hand was dissapointed to see number 7 , my main challenge was John and with a big smile on his face could only mean one thing that he had drawn would you believe number 1.

John decided to draw peg 32 by the hut as it had shown some form of late but was more interested where I was going to fish and as i had said the big lake the rest of the anglers also followed suit but when it was my turn changed my mind and chose peg 6 in the small lake to see if I could do better than my last match on peg 6. The story of the match was for most anglers it turned out to be a struggle as the wind and the tow caused presentation problems if you fished longer than 5 metres and as it got colder towards the end of the match the bites dried up for most of the anglers.

In first place today was me Eddie Tayor-Green who was fishing in the small lake on my favourite peg 6 but it was very cold and not far enough away from the megafone as i kept hearing from John everytime I hooked a carp and that was quite a few times today. I was trying a variation to my X4 paste mix which I think is now complete to use in cold and warm water conditions as every bite I had today resulted in the float sailing away every time and in some cases the pole was pulled around. I fished two areas a 12 metre line straight out facing peg 36 and a long margin line towards peg 5 and caught fish to 16-08 in my final weight of 102-08 { well done Eddie}.

 

 

In second place was Paul Jay who you guessed it was on peg 18 again , so it now only takes him 5 minutes to set up as all his rigs are already plumbed up and ready to go. Paul today managed to catch a few on the waggler and the rest on the pole and like me had fish to mid doubles caught on 8mm banded pellet fished on the deck for his weight of 88-12, which maintained his good run of frames recently.

 

In third place was my website partner in crime Simon Mound who tells me he started on the bomb and ended fishing the pole using 11mm banded donkey choker pellet feeding 4mm pellet which caught fish to over 18lb ,but the wind and tow in this area played havoc with Simons float presentation but he still managed to get a few carp to feed and after 5 hours put a hard earned 73-04 on the scales to complete a first and third for the bloggers.

Results.

9 Fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Bait
1st	Eddie Taylor-Green	6	102-08	X4 paste	Rolfslake.com
2nd	Paul Jay	18	88-12	6/8 mm banded pellet	Rolfslake
3rd	Simon Mound	25	73-04	banded pellet	Rolfslake.com
4th	Steve Williams	9	47-00	corn/ meat	Rolfslake
5th	Micheal Corsini	14	22-08	pellet	Rolfslake
6th	John Bennett	32	21-00	soft pellet	Rolfslake
7th	Dave Whiteman	16	DNW		Hydro 2000
8th	Neil Riddy	23	DNW		Rolfslake

The pirate flag flies once again as HMS Bennett is sunk by the Pirate’s X4 PASTE. 

 

 

The score now stamds at

 

JOHN 5

EDDIE 2

 

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

The Crocodile makes his third appearance in a week.

After the three day Easter festival that was won by Mark Maylin, the anglers were hoping that with fewer anglers on the lake today that the carp would have a proper feed . With a frost the previous two mornings thing were only going to get worse for the unlucky 13 as John tells me that it started sunny and warm turning windy and then all hell broke loose as there was thunder and hailstones so just another day down the lake.

In first place today was Paul Jay who we now think is from another planet as no human could draw the amount of flyers as he does, as today he drew peg 18 on the motorway bank with the wind blowing into his corner with fish topping. John tells me that Paul caught on the waggler and pole fishing banded pellet and caught carp to double figures for his final weight of 129-00 {well done Paul }.

In second place a having a good run was Dai Thomas who had drawn opposite to Paul on peg 22 on the carp park bank, and after catching his first carp at 21-04 went on to putting a good bag of carp together on what John believes was pole fished with pellet hookbait fished on the deck for his final weight and second ton of the day with 107-00. Completing the frame was lake owner John Bennett who was on iffy peg 8, and after failing to find any of Mark Newbolds tackle from last week told me that after a slow start he tried fishing 16 metres across with little success. On feeding a few more pellets at 16 metres he saw some fish swirling so he baited with a 11mm donkey choker pellet shipped out and as soon as the float settled it shot away, thinking it was a carp got ready to land it only to find the pet crocodile or pike looking up at him. The pike was the same one that Clive and Chris had caught last week as it had the same markings but this time weighed in at 13-08 but John also had a 4-08 chub to go eventually with some carp in his weight of 68-04 and a rather mixed bag for John.

13 Fished.

Place	Amgler	Peg	Weight
1st	Paul Jay	18	129-00	Rolfslake
2nd	Dai Thomas	22	107-00	Jinx League
3rd	John Bennett	8	68-04	Rolfslake
4th	Neil Riddy	29	64-00	Rolfslake
5th	Phil Powell	10	50-12	Rolfslake
6th	Paul Corsini	14	40-08	Rolfslake

John has asked me to mention that there is an open this Saturday draw 10 fish 11-4.

 

Thanks for reading John ,Simon and Eddie.