Category: Match Reports

The king of the lake falls for the second time in 3 Days.

With the start of the Wednesday bagging series as the draw is now 1pm fishing 2-7 which saw a good turn out of 18 anglers hoping to catch a net full of fish in todays match.

The weather was sunny and warm and there were loads of carp cruising around the big lake ,so a draw from pegs 14 round to 26 were going to give you a chance of a big weight and as the draw was called there was a rush to get first in the queue except me who always draws last. Andy Quarmby the first angler to catch 200lb from the lake last weekend had drawn peg 14 , Mark Newbold had drawn peg 18 and Paul Jay had drawn peg peg 34 so there was no change in the same anglers drawing the same flyers and also their pegs were solid with fish how depressing.

At least John had drawn peg 23 so it was going to be a quiet match for me as he was out of shouting range as I was on peg 9 and I had Neil Riddy for company on peg 8 and Andy Rayment on 32 so at least pleasant company for 5 hours with no abuse so happy days for a change. The story of the match was the anglers on the car park bank pegs 14 to 18 were into fish straight away with the anglers in the small lake struggling to catch many fish as it was very bright in this area causing a problem to seeing their floats and as the match went on the fishing just got better and better for most of the anglers as it normally does on a Wednesday.

The winner of todays match was Rolfslakes inform angler Andy Quarmby who was on form peg 14 on the motorway bank and just to show how many fish there were in this peg Andy managed to hook a fish within 5 seconds of the all in being called. Andy today started off fishing really shallow on the pole plonking the bait in front of the fish who were very happy to feed and Andy had managed to catch 8 carp in the first 20 minutes so a big weight was on the cards. Andy was fishing 8 to 10mm banded pellet on the hook fish fishing shallow which gave him 200lb in the first three hours, but a fishless fourth hour slowed him down and he swithched to a 5 metre line for the last hour fishing big banded pellet which picked up his catch rate and after 5 hours caught a fantastic 341-04 to still be king of the lake {well done Andy}.

In second place and hot on the heels of Andy was Mark Newbold 4 pegs away on peg 18 and like Andy was fishing shallow using pellet hook bait which caught him plenty of carp to double figures, in fact Mark had 199lb of fish on the board before weighing his fish in the nets. A switch to fishing the bush to his right again using pellet  but this time fishing on the deck kept the fish coming but in the end he fell just short of the 300lb barrier with his very good weight of 287-00.

Completing the frame and keeping very quiet today was lake owner John Bennett who after half an hour was seen walking around the lake as he was unhappy with his draw of peg 23, but 5 hour later he was smiling like a cheshire cat as not only had he framed but had beaten me in the process. John fished a two metre line to the bush to his left using both banded pellet and meat hook bait and feeding pellet, and the fish were happy to come close to the bank even the big ones as he managed to catch an Ollie { a carp of 18-08 the same weight as his dog ] and many other doubles in his final weight of 171-08.

The Pirate Sunk by HMS Bennett .

 Report to follow.

With the later starts in both the Monday and Wednesday opens I expect the weights to get bigger and bigger and also the attendances, so if you fancy a chance of a big match weight and the possibilty of a 20lb carp and good company then get down to one of these opens you wont regret it.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.