A close battle for first place in todays midweek match.
Today the anglers were hoping for the good weights that had been caught by the Matchfishingscene anglers in their three day festival to continue in todays match. The weather was warm to start with turning colder as the evening drew in , but the anglers drew their pegs and went off happy nonetheless.
I could not believe the drawing ability of some of the regulars as Jon Walker fresh from his big weight on Monday was on peg 9, with John Bennett on peg 4 and Phil Powell on peg 32 so to frame in todays match you were going to either be lucky or fish your socks off. The story of todays match were the fish were blowing all around the lake but everyone was finding fish hard to come by except Phil Powell on peg 32 who by fishing shallow was managing to keep a few fish coming but everyone else was struggling and with John Bennett on end peg 4 he was out of sight so no one could tell what he was up to.
In first place today in a very tight frame was Big weight angler Jon Walker on peg 9 on the motorway bank. Jon after a very slow start with no action from the bush to his right saw that Phil Powell on peg 32 was catching shallow at 16 metres and decided to fish shallow himself and was rewarded with fish to 18-04 by fishing banded pellet and meat and feeding pellet, and after 5 hours managed to keep himself one fish in front of the chasing pack with his weight of 144-00 {well done Jon}.
In second place was lake owner John Bennett in the corner of the small lake on peg 4 and after his disaster on peg 4 two weeks ago made no mistake today. John fished 6 metres out in front and long down the edge 11 metres to his right. John fed heavy and used a big 11 banded pellet to catch fish to 17lb in his weight of 133-12 and one fish off a match win.
Completing the frame was Phil Powell who after his strong start to the match found that after Jon started fishing shallow his fish were spread between the two and his catch rate dropped and with his edge swim not producing could not keep ahead of Jon and in the end also fell one good fish short of a match win.
Results.
14 fished
| Place |
Angler |
Peg |
Weight |
|
| 1st |
Jon Walker |
9 |
144-00 |
Walker Floats |
| 2nd |
John Bennett |
4 |
133-12 |
Rolfslake Cartel |
| 3rd |
Phil Powell |
32 |
131-12 |
Rolfslake |
| 4th |
Geoff Edwards |
13 |
87-04 |
Reading Angling Centre |
| 5th |
Mick Jones |
7 |
83-15 |
Rolfslake |
| 6th |
Pete Archer |
24 |
75-08 |
Vespe |
| 7th |
Eddie Taylor-Green |
28 |
74-08 |
Rolfslake/ Walker Floats |
| 8th |
Paul Jay |
14 |
61-12 |
Rolfslake Cartel |
| 9th |
Graham Ridgley |
6 |
33-04 |
Rolfslake |
| 10th |
Dennis |
26 |
25-08 |
Rolfslake |
| 11th |
Wes |
17 |
24-12 |
Rolfslake |
| 12th |
Derek Hammond |
30 |
16-14 |
Banbury Gunsmiths and Tackle |
| 13th |
Kev Dalton |
15 |
DNW |
Rolfslake |
| 14th |
Kev |
8 |
DNW |
Rolfslake |
The pirate and his first mate Geoff take a beating from Bennet today crossing his hand with two shinny pound coins.
Today i drew peg 28 against Johns peg 4 and spent a frustrating 5 hours foul hooking fish and not being able to catch from the right hand bush until the last hour and then it was too late but at least i caught carp to 18-04 but still fell another point behind John.
The score now stands at :
John 4
Eddie 2
Thanks for reading Simon,Eddie and John.
