Category: Match Reports

Gary Horne Invitational Match. 7th Sept 2010

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Gary Horne

Gary Horne had booked the lake for a small private match. 19 anglers were fishing today. The draw was at 10am, fishing 12-5pm. I was late getting to the lake so had what was left in the bag….. A phone call to John reveals I am on peg 7 again after I was on it Saturday also and didnt do very well. Least my rigs were all ready 😀

Arriving at the lake everyone else was busy setting up and after a quick word with John and a Hello to Gary I went off to set up myself which didn’t take too long.

Now Im sorry I did not catch everyones names but here are some pictures of people around the lake.

Kevin Cross on Peg 6

John Bennett

Peg 32 setting up

Steve on peg 8 thinking he had a spare peg

Peg 30

Robin Cave over on peg 37

Malc on peg 34

Car park Bank

Little Lake

Pegs 13 and 14

A short shower that latest 2 minutes

Getting to my peg, Steve on peg 8 looked quite disappointed as he thought he had a spare peg but after I told him it would be like fishing with a spare peg he seemed ok 😀 John Bennett had come round too and seen that Steve was using an Airity and said the carp at Rolfs like to eat them, his reply was something like ahh they won’t break this…..

All in whistle sounded and Steve went down the track and was greeted with a bite right away, his elastic streamed out and towards peg 32 before heading back towards the bush on peg 9 and 8. His line went dead and his rig came back. Second put in on a different track line produced another fish, this time it went straight in the bush and snagged him up. He pulled for a break but instead of the line breaking his top kit did… doh.

Fishing was slow and I could see peg 6 having a few fish and Robin over on 37 was having a few fish. Round in big lake Derek Hammond on peg 17 had a storming start but then slowed down. Gary Horne on peg 18 had a few fish out and then went on his bush line which produced on of two 18lb 4oz carp today.

Gary with an 18lb'er

Gary was paying out 1st and second today along with biggest carp and largest silver bag. With the match nearing the end peg 6 was catching a few along with peg 10 and Gary was still having a few. I had started to catch after some tuition off John 😛 Robin on peg 37 still had his elastic coming out regularly too. Malc over on peg 34 was fishing the waggler and was catching plenty of silvers along with an 17lb’er. He then latched in to something large which led him on a merry tour of the little lake. After about 10 minutes he nets it but didn’t lift his landing net high enough out the water and the fish swam out and spat the hook out as it said goodbye to him.

With the match over everyone packed away and we waited to go round and do the weigh in.

tick tock

The weigh in went by quite fast and as Robin was one of the first to be weighed he set the benchmark with a weight of 141-0 of carp and peg 4 set the silvers only weight at 12lb 8oz. The weights were too good to beat though. Everyone had caught fish and had a good day.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Robin Cave 37 141-0
2 Gary 10 95-8
3 Gary Horne 18 94-4
4 Simon Mound 7 77-4
5 Kevin Cross 6 72-12
6 Derek Hammond 17 67-4
7 Steve 22 43-14
8 Steve Pomery 8 36-8
9 Malc Murry 34 34-8
10 Colin 24 32-12
11 Alastair Murdoch 32 26-4
12 Pete Bradley 14 19-14
13 Andrew Fletcher 26 18-0
14 Arthur Horne 4 12-8
15 Paul Lingwood 15 9-8
16 13 8-8

After a Hard days fishing

Todays winner. Robin Cave

Sorry names are missing, comment on this post if can can help fill the names in please.

Thanks to Gary for inviting me and Eddie to fish, shame Eddie could not make it.

I had a good day and fun watching Steve on the next peg 😀

Thanks for Reading, Eddie and Si.

Saturday Open. 4th Sept 2010

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Today 11 anglers turned up for the open match, a few people had dropped out last minute so this was more of a knock up match. At the draw John Bennett drew first for a change and held the peg in his hand until everyone else had drawn. Me and Marcus had drawn pegs 6 and 7 but also kept them in our hands. As everyone gave there peg numbers to Paul, John thought he was to be on either pegs 6 or 7 but was quite upset to find he actually had endpeg 26 in his hand 😀

Fishing today was from 1-45pm to 6-45pm. On the whistle Dave Whiteman on peg 8 was right in to a fish, his bait had not even his the bottom and the float buried. Chris Lovelock fishing from peg 32 had a bit of a nightmare breaking his topkit. He hooked a fish behind the bush which broke his pole, unknown to him his topkit had wedged under the platform on peg 33. He went round and picked it up and the fish was still on, as he lifted it up it broke again and he lost the fish 🙁

Endpegs 4 and 26 were producing a steady run of fish for Jeff on peg 4 and John on peg 26 but John on peg 16 who was fishing the grass to his right was flying along making regular visits to the weigh station. Marcus on peg 6 had been putting a few fish in the net also fishing over by peg 5 platform and Paul Jay on 30 was having a few fishing at 8 meters.

Poor Justin fishing on peg 9 was having a right nightmare with fish regularly taking him in the bush, having just lost a rig in the bush he tied a new rig and dropped it in only to have that one go in the bush too. Mark on peg 18 was fishing to the newly trimmed bush, Paul Jay and John had been round doing a bit of bush maintenance before the match.

I had a nice time fishing on peg 7 for the first time ever. Fishing was hard with lots of liners and foul hooked fish on the feeder and only a skimmer and one carp coming from the 6 meter line. I did manage to snare a 17lb 12oz carp from the margin to my right. Both me and Dave we getting lots of liners fishing across to the opposite bank.

Paul Blew the whistle and news came round the lake that John Hague had 202lb on the board but was it good enough to win today.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Hague 16 238-12
2 Jeff Edwards 4 232-4
3 John Bennett 26 217-8
4 Paul Jay 30 136-0
5 Justin Watkins 9 130-0
5 Marcus Burgess 6 130-0
7 Mark Orchard 18 106-0
8 Dave Whiteman 8 98-8
9 Simon Mound 7 77-4
10 Chris Lovelock 32 46-4
11 Bill 10 DNW

Yes it was, Well done John. Another big weight 🙂 It was a close match for the top 3 in the end, Only one fish separated Jeff Edwards and John Hague.

Todays Winner, John Hague.

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie….

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 2nd September 2010

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I arrived at the lake today to find quite a few cars in the carpark today, which is the start of John and Pauline Bennett allowing pleasure anglers on a Wednesday { maximum 15 pre booking required } as they had had many requests about pleasure fishing the lake which can be upto 18 months booked ahead. John was seeing if the match and pleasure anglers could fish together on the lake which would make full use of all the swims.

I popped down early as John said that my son Edward could have a couple of hours fishing on peg 11 out of the way and after spending some time hooked up in the tree managed to hook a few fish, loose a few fish and end up with a 11-08 mirror which he was more than happy with { well done son and thank you John }.

At 1.30 sharp the draw was made and the anglers were placed on both the car park bank and the motorway bank in the big lake as all the other swims had anglers on, and as i drew my peg it was a short walk to peg 28. As the all in was called there was not the usual frantic start of fish being caught except for the pleasure anglers so today was going a match of endurance. Pete Arnold was the only angler i could see making the regular trips to the weigh station with my boy acting as the witness for his fish as he was certainly not seeing any fish from his dad as it was quite hard except if you had one of the four end pegs 32, 23, 9 or 18 as they all seemed to be catching the odd fish.

The winner of todays match and not on an end peg just to make things confussing was Rolfslake regular Mick Jones who after a slow start fished three lines the two margins and a line straight out at about 6-7 metres all fished on the deck. Mick fished his usual meat hookbait feeding pellet to keep the fish in his swim and Mick caught big fish in high doubles in his final weight of 163-12 { well done Mick } . In second place was Andy Quarmby who was on End peg 23 ,and Andy fished most of the match up in the water and also caught big fish to 17lb by fish pellet hookbait feeding regular to keep the fish coming. Completing the frame was Pete Arnold on peg 32 who looked to be building a big weight as evertime i looked up he was playing a fish but he also lost a few and in the end caught a much lower weight than most anglers thought of 142-08.

Todays winner Rolfslake's Mick Jones.

As far as i was concerned i brought the boy with me to show him dad catching a lot of fish but by the end of the first hour i was playing my first carp and turned round to talk to my boy only to find him asleep, i had bored him to sleep i was told but i woke him up to take the photo below.

Eddie Taylor-Green senior with a 14 mirror.

At the end of the match i weighed a poor 43-12 to come 9th and i managed to beat John Bennett by 12 ounces but this result is being investigated by the stewards as John tells me a skimmer he had was thrown back and not recorded so he wanted to call it a draw, but as it was not on the final weight sheet i am taking it as a victory to move into a 9-8 lead in our year long battle { sorry John }.

Results.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Mick Jones 16 163-12 Rolfslake
2nd Andy Quarmby 23 154-14 Rolfslake
3rd Pete Arnold 32 142-08 Rolfslake
4th Maurice Woodley 9 140-12 Rolfslake
5th Adam 18 92-04 Rolfslake
6th John Beeton 10 68-08 Rolfslake
7th Paul Jay 26 66-08 Rolfslake
8th Andy Aston 24 47-08 Rolfslake
9th Eddie Taylor-Green 26 43-12 Rolfslake / Walker Floats
10th John Bennett 13 43-00 Rolfslake
11th Andy Camden 28 35-00 Rolfslake

Pleasure fishing at Rolfslake.

Today was a great day for the pleasure anglers at Rolfslake as there was plenty of fish for the 17 anglers that had booked with lake owner John Bennett for a special chance to catch the big fish at Rolfslake. Also down on the lake was a beauty model who was fishing with her husband {how great is that a great looking wife who likes fishing } who were happy catching fish down the bottom end of the small lake. Elsewhere the anglers on pegs 6,7,8 and on 19,20,21 and also 34,36 and 38 where all having a good day catching fish to 19lb on all methods in the nice sunshine, so if you would like to have a great days fishing give John Bennett a call you will love it.

Edward Taylor-Green Junior also had a great days fishing with dad with this 11-08 mirror

Bank holiday Monday 30th August 2010.

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The battle between The Minx and Simon Mound.

On arriving at the lake today i was greeted by a near full lake of anglers already into their second hours fishing in todays Bank holiday Mondays open. I was not fishing today having just arrived back from holiday in Spain the evening before so i was pretty tired but not that tired to stop giving the regulars their normal helping of banter. As a prank directed at me their were a few anglers sporting the new in head gear created by me of the bandana cap which was being modelled by a few anglers today { thanks John , Paul and Niel }.

Crew members Paul and Neil.

Around the lake the usual suspect were catching fish with Chris Lovelock on peg 16 catching regular on a long line out fished on the deck, Hugh Crawford was on 8 , John Bennett on end peg 18 and Trevor Stanley on form peg 6. Elsewhere the other anglers were struggling to catch fish with Pat Pritchard on 23 having lots of fish up in the water but was struggling to get them in any numbers, Geoff Edwards on peg 26 was giving me a great demonstration of brilliant bites on paste but no fish in return.

On peg 30 my web partner Simon was claiming to a few fish on all methods so was quite happy also because his girlfriend Gemma { aka Mrs Mound } had not caught anything as there was no usual scream to be heard when she caught her first carp so there was no minxing to be had for him, and Paul Jay was doing his usual catch one fish lose the next three so at least he was keeping busy.

After about another hour i left Geoff to see a few guys around the lake and take a few photo’s and ended up at Gemma’s peg which was peg 4 and now she had caught two small roach but was struggling to catch any carp, a bit of advice on coming a little bit shorter in at about 5 metres seemed to sort this out as on her first put in had a carp of 13lb then lost one and then started to get more bites. I left Gemma having caught 5 carp and went around to watch Geoff for the last hour and passed Simon on the way around who was now sweating as he knew Gemma was catching him up and the chance of a minxing was deffinitley on so i have never seen Simon concentrate so much to add to his catch.

On arriving at Geoff peg he was now bagging as was Chris on 16 ,Paul on 10 Pat on 23 and John on 18 so it was going to be a good finish to the match as everyone seemed to into fish as the match reached the last few minutes, and as time was called it was difficult to workout who had actually won as Trevor on peg 6 had also had a good days fishing.

In first place today was eventually Geoff Edwards who after missing all those bites had managed to get the fish lined up by fishing the bush to his right and by using paste managed to get the bigger carp to 19lb to feed and after 5 hours caught 208-14 for another win { well done Geoff }.

In the battle for second place was three anglers Neil on 32 ,Trevor on 6, Pat on 23 and in the end only one fish seperated the three of them and after the weigh-in Trevor on 6 got the decision with 188-08 with Neil second having 185-00 and in fourth was Pat with 179-06.

As for the battle between Simon and Gemma this was also close with Gemma eventually having 6 carp and two roach for 61-06 and Simon then having to sweat for thirty minutes whilst everyone else got weighed in and when the scales arrived after two weigh-ins weighed 75-08 and this meant more to him than winning the match as he went off to do his victory dance { who said there is no love in fishing }.

Results.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Geoff Edwards 26 208-14 Reading Angling Centre
2nd Trevor Stanley 6 188-08 Tumbley Bay A.C
3rd Neil Riddy 32 185–00 Jinx League
4th Pat Pritchard 23 179-06 Rolfslake
5th Paul Jay 10 168-12 Rolfslake
6th Chris Lovelock 16 152-08 Rolfslake
7th John Bennett 18 141-00 Rolfslake
8th Hugh Crawford 8 136-04 Rolfslake
9th Justin Watkins 29 123-12 Rolfslake
10th Dave Whiteman 34 102-00 Hydro 2000
11th Liam Barry 7 92-12 Rolfslake
12th Simon Mound 30 75-08 Jinx League
13th Bill 2 68-00 Rolfslake
14th Gemma Doyle { aka Mrs Mound } 4 61-06 Jinx League
15th Nick W-P 27 48-08 Jinx League
16th Lynas Neil 39 40-14 Rolfslake
17th Dai Thomas 36 15-00 Jinx League
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