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Winter League Round 2, Sun 21st Nov 2010.

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Last matches Dream Team

The second round of the winter league was fished at the lake today. With Walker floats team sitting at the top of the table would they manage another clean sweep and hang on to the top spot or did the lake have other ideas for them ??

With everyone at the lake on time John got the draw under-way early to allow everyone some extra time to set up. The draw format today was whoever won A section drew first for their peg in B section and so on down to last place getting what was left in the bag.

Today there was a cold wind blowing from peg 40 towards the big lake making a nice ripple on the water. It was cloudy all day and we had a few spots of rain but nothing major.

Everyone drew their pegs and set off to set up. How the lake would fish was anyone’s guess 😀

Pat Pritchard signalled the all in with a hooter that sounded like a strangled donkey 😀

I was fishing on peg 2 which everyone kindly left in the bag for me today and hoping to have a bit more than 8oz. It was not long before I saw the first carp being caught by Liam over on peg 34, he was fishing the tip. I was next to catch, a small 4oz perch which I was chuffed with as it was half my last matches weight and meant I avoided the DNW.

Jon Walker over on 37 was struggling but Jon normally gets the carp going so I was expecting him to start catching but it never happened for him this week 😯 Poor Gary Haisman on peg 4 was much the same and had managed to hook a carp first drop on his long line but as he shipped back it came off. Geoff On peg 40 had managed to foul hook a perch whilst reeling in his feeder 😀

Phil Powell on peg 6 was fishing 16 meters on the bloodworm and joker and putting a nice net of silvers together before he had something stealing his fish….

Phil's first ever Pike which went 12lb 4oz. Well done.

The pike lead him on a merry dance around his and Malc’s pegs. Malc help out when the pike went round the back of his platform by pushing it back out in to the lake with his landing net 😀 This was not the only pike to put in an appearance today, Clive Pritchard on peg 28 also caught a 10lb 8oz pike which fell to double maggot on the bomb.

In the last 2 hours the big lake started to produce some fish, Roving reporter Marcus Burgess fishing from peg 9 was keeping me up to date with who was catching which was keeping him busy as he was not catching much unfortunately.

The lake fished hard overall but least different people caught some fish this week instead of watching other catching 😀

As for my match, I managed 5 carp this week fishing corn in to the corner on the pole and bomb rod which was a massive relief. I had to laugh when Malc came walking past me and said he was off to unhook his hook from the rope by the lilies on peg 34 after casting a little to far 😀

The results tell the rest of the story.

Results.

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Liam Bough 34 47-12 Pats Lot
2nd Simon Mound 2 37-8 Assassins
3rd Malc Doyle 7 28-0 Rolfs Rejects
4th Phil Powell 6 26-0 Rolfs Team Gold
5th Jon Walker 37 0-4 Walker Floats
6th Geoff Palmer 40 0-1 Heavy Weights
Gary Haisman 4 DNW Wooden Tops
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Ernie Maylon 13 50-4 Heavy Weights
2nd Clive Pritchard 28 23-12 Assassins
3rd John Bennett 8 19-8 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Pat Pritchard 32 12-6 Pats Lot
5th Steve Waters 30 10-0 Walker Floats
6th Marcus Burgess 9 2-8 Rolfs Rejects
7th Frank Hardie 10 0-4 Wooden Tops
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Steve Palmer 21 91-0 Heavy Weights
2nd Pete Arnold 18 72-0 Pats Lot
3rd Mick Lane 24 68-8 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Derek Hammond 23 55-12 Walker Floats
5th Steve Wilson 16 39-0 Assassins
6th Paul Jay 14 29-4 Wooden Tops
7th Dai Thomas 26 22-8 Rolfs Rejects
DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Pats Lot 17
2nd Heavy Weights 16
3rd Assassins 15
4th Rolfs Team Gold 14
5th= Walker Floats 10
5th= Rolfs Rejects 8
7th Wooden Tops 3

OVERALL LEADER BOARD

TOTAL  TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Rolfs Team Gold 17+14 31=
1st Walker Floats 21+10 31=
2nd Heavy Weights 11+16 27=
2nd Pats Lot 10+17 27=
5th Assassins 9+15 24
6th Rolfs Rejects 7+8 15
7th Wooden Tops 9+3 12

Today's top team. Pats Lot. Well Done

Pete Arnold was fishing instead of Dave Whiteman.

Top Silvers Weight went to Phil Powell With 26lb including his 12lb pike.

Top carp weight went to Steve Palmer with a cracking 91lb on a hard day at the lake.

Its tight at the top of the table and with 4 matches to go its all still to play for. Everyone switches sections again next match.

Next Saturdays Open match is a normal open where carp will count and there will be a separate pool for the silver fish. Please ring John to book in.

The next Winter League match is on the 5th December. 9.30 Draw again.

Thanks for reading, Eddie and Si.

One last picture which I got off Johns Phone today and was asked to put it on the blog…

Phil Powell with a 22lb carp caught a while back, not in this match. Nice one Phil 🙂

Wednesday knockup match. 17th Nov 2010

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After 2 very hard frosts  and no wind on the lake at all, things were very different at the lake to day

very blusterly winds and very cold rain made fishing difulcult fo the 6 anglers who participated.

1st peg 22 Paul Jay 93lbs-8ozs

2nd peg 13 Pat Pritchard 40lbs-0

3rd peg 18 Barry 38lbs-12ozs

4th peg 24 Kev Doulton 35lbs-8ozs

5th peg 14 john b 18lbs-0

6th peg 9 butch 4lbs-8ozs

Silver fish only match on saterday draw 9-30 please phone to book in

Saturdays open match

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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

Rolfslake knock up match Wednesday 10th November.

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Today only a few anglers turned up for a midweek knock-up so we tried to convince the pleasure anglers to join in but they were having nothing of it. The day was sunny with a slight breeze on the lake making it a very nice morning but i am glad i brought my coat because towards the end it was like being in Siberia as it turned very cold making it difficult to catch fish in the last two hours of the match.

Today we decided to have a walk off and choose whatever peg you liked on the lake and when John drew one {infact it was two as he dropped one he could not find it} he wanted to fish peg 23 in the big lake. Next to choose was me and i chose peg 3, Paul went on 16 and Neil chose peg 18 then realising there was no-one on form peg 14 went there. Then John decided to tell me that i could not fish the small lake on my own something about verifying doubles { in fact it was because he could not shout abuse at me from his peg } so i reluctantly chose peg 9 the furthest one away from him.

It was a slow start to the match with very little action then i saw the elastic coming from Neil pole on peg 14, and with his first carp going 18-12 he was certainly up and running. A short while later i heard shouting coming from Neils peg as he was just landing another carp because this fish was massive and after weighing the fish it went 22-10 and a new PB for Neil { well done Neil }.

Todays winner Paul Jay fishing pegs 16 to 20.

In the next two hours Neil put another 6 carp in his net fishing the pole to the bush to his right and also the bomb straight out in front about half way fishing ith whis special coated corn hook bait. Paul being bored of watching Neil catching carp went off to peg 14 and like a scene from Oliver said “please Neil can i have some of your corn” ?.

That was Neils only mistake of the day as after that Paul caught 11 carp to 19-12 from all areas at the bottom of the big lake fishing the straight lead and hair rigging two pieces of corn. At the end of the match Paul had won with 119-12 to Neils 92-14 { well done Paul }. What about John Bennett i hear you ask well with the sun in my eyes for most of the match i could not really see him, but one thing i know was that he must of borrowed someones pole as he was fishing 16 metres out on to the old bar that runs across the lake.

John again fishing corn on the deck caught carp to 16-12 in his final weight of 75-04.

Neil Riddy and his lovely common of 22-10 and a new P.B

Two photo’s to show off this lovely common.

Photo's by ETG / SM photographic studios.

Place Angler Peg Weight Bait
1st Paul Jay 16 119-12 Corn
2nd Neil Riddy 14 92-14 Corn
3rd John Bennett 23 75-4 Corn
4th Eddie Taylor-Green 9 6-12 Corn / Maggot

As for me it was a frustrating day on peg 9 as the bush  was devoid of carp { that was the first time ever i have been to Rolfs and not caught a carp } so in the last 45 minutes i decided to have a go for the silvers and ended up with perch and roach in my bag of 6-12 but at least for now i am on the silver fish peg king board.

In my battle with John Bennett i have now gone down another point as the score stands at John 14 Eddie 9.

Until our next report tight lines Simon and Eddie.

Winter League 2010/11 Round 1

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Today saw the start of this years winter league. There were supposed to be 8 teams this year but 1 team had to drop out leaving 7 teams of 3 anglers.

Rolfs Team Gold are the current champions and are undefeated in 8 years.

Rolfs Team Gold. John Bennett, Mick Lane and Phil Powell

All the teams lined up for the draw, each team has 3 anglers which in turn draw from a,b and c section. They rotate round through the sections in each match. Last year a section was the place to avoid but no one knew how it would fish so everyone was optimistic.

John handing out the rules

With fishing from 10.30am – 3.30pm we only had about 45 minutes to set up. The person on peg 32 is responsible for starting and stopping the match, that person this week was Steve Wilson. At 10.30 Steve signalled the start of the match with a policemans whistle.

Most people chucked the tip rod out to start off with while other went straight out on the pole. Malc Doyle fishing for Rolfs Rejects was having some success of the tip.

Malc with a fish on the tip

In the net

Jon Walker over on 14 was walking away with the match catching a lot of weighers. Derek Hammond on 13 was also catching alot of fish but his were silver fish. He had caught some monster perch and some nice bream to give him the top silver weigh on the day also.

Derek Hammond's top Silver weight with Steve getting in on the picture

Another picture of Derek

Round on peg 28 Dai Thomas fishing for Rolfs Rejects managed to catch a new personal best carp.

Dai Thomas with his new PB carp. 18lb 14oz. Well done 🙂

Everyone was catching carp except me, I only managed 4 roach for a massive 8oz 😀 luckily everyone was very nice to me and didn’t take the micky too much 😀 😛 YEAH RIGHT !!!!

I could not see down in the little lake but word was that John Bennett had been in every tree/bush with in a 20 meter radius of his peg 😀

Steve Waters was leading the little lake with John very close to him. Will get some pictures of the little lake next time sorry.

A few pictures from round the big lake.

Superstar Jon Walker on peg 14

Geoff Palmer on peg 16

Phil Powell on peg 18

Looking down the car park bank

RESULTS

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Steve Waters 37 62-0 Walker Floats
2nd John Bennett 2 49-10 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Ernie Maylon 7 43-8 Spro
4th Pat Pritchard 34 37-4 Pats Lot
5th Clive Pritchard 4 21-4 Assassins
6th Marcuss Burgess 40 10-12 Rolfs Rejects
7th Frank Hardie 6 5-8 Wooden Tops
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Derek Hammond 13 76-8 Walker Floats
2nd Mick Lane 8 71-8 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Steve Wilson 32 69-4 Assassins
4th Steve Palmer 9 45-8 Spro
5th Dave Whiteman 30 42-0 Pats Lot
6th Paul Jay 10 28-8 Wooden Tops
7th Dai Thomas 28 19-8 Rolfs Rejects
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Jon Walker 14 151-0 Walker Floats
2nd Gary Haisman 23 78-8 Wooden Tops
3rd Phil Powell 18 64-6 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Malc Doyle 24 41-12 Rolfs Rejects
5th Liam Bough 21 24-0 Pats Lot
6th Geoff Palmer 16 13-0 Spro
7th Simon Mound 26 0-8 Assassins

DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Walker Floats 21
2nd Rolfs Team Gold 17
3th Spro 11
4th Pats Lot 10
5th= Assassins 9
5th= Wooden Tops 9
7th Rolfs Rejects 7

With a clean sweep. All 3 section wins, top carp weight and top silver weight Walker floats team {Jon Walker, Derek Hammond and Steve Waters} set the pace leaving current champions Rolfs Team Gold in second place. 5 Matches to go and a lot can change.

Top team of the day. Walker Floats

The next round is on the 21st November, Draw time is 9.30am. There is a Silver fish match on the 20th November too. Please call John to book in.

Thanks for reading, Eddie and Si.

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