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Jinx Series, Match 2. 5th June 2010

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The Jinx Squad made their return to the lake today. The weather today was very very warm and muggy indeed. The day started off sunny but the clouds moved but it remained hot round the lake.

The car park soon filled up with the Jinx members and some guests as some members were unable to fish today. The draw was supposed to be at 11.30 but as usual Malc was running late which gave Crystal plenty of time to go round and collect everyone’s guesses for the guess the weight competition. Looking back at the results I think everyone guesses were a tad high 😀

Mugger getting the Hat for the day…

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Steve, Gem and Jon

Peter 'Mugger' Morton. The hat gathering some attention

Gathering for the draw

Crystal Gathering the Guesses

Everyone buying their pellets for the day

Guest Neil Riddy going to extremes to stay cool

Fishing today was from 1pm – 6pm. The draw format was A section to draw first, in the order of the placings on the previous match so first in the section drew first and so on. The draw ran smoothly except when C section made their draw. Someone (BUDGIE) had put his peg back on the table with the C section pegs. People had drawn their peg but when Tony pulled out peg 40 there had to be a redraw much to the dismay of Gemma who had pulled peg 26 out the bag. Everyone drew again and Gemma still managed to draw peg 26 anyway 😯 With the draw out the way everyone trundled off to set up.

Peter Morton on peg 36 wearing the HAT

Dave Webster on peg 6

Peg 8's resident angler Clive Pritchard

Dave Collier with something strange in his hand

Guest Scott (methodgob) on peg 9

Fred Parker on peg 10

Geoff Palmer on peg 11

Another Guest Pete Archer on 13

Looking across to Nick Williams on peg 32

The MINX on peg 26

I was trying to get pictures of everyone around the lake but Malc called the all in and I had to get back to my peg sorry 😀 With the match fully underway it was clear that many were struggling with getting a bite in the big lake. Ade on peg 30 was catching a few, Gemma on 26 was fishless after 2 hours and not a lot else was happening in the big lake. The little lake was throwing a few fish up, Steve on 34 was leading the way in the little lake with both Clive on 8 and Dave on 7 catching fish from the far bank on the feeder. Also fishing the feeder was Peter on peg 36, a method used in the last few matches and proved to be very successful. Poor Jon on peg 38 was not so lucky and was having a hard time getting the carp to eat any of his pellets.

Paul and Simon on pegs 2 and 4 were having a mini match of their own, Simon was fishing the corner by peg 3 in the scum and was getting plagued with foul hooked fish and fish snagging him in the bushes whilst Paul was just having problems landing them 😀

Fish on for Paul, Will he land it ???

Paul Roberts on peg 2

Attempt 1. Oops missed.

Attempt 2. The fish swims out the net.

Third time lucky.

Paul and the culprit

Some other shots from around the lake.

Dave showing everyone how its done

Peter 'Pink Hat' Morton

Dave Webster

Clive being bullied by Malc with a foul hooker

Come on Clive ...

Car park bank on the big lake

Jon Hatch having a grueller

Hello Sailor

Steve Wilson, Little lake Leader

Nearly there

In the bag, Well done Clive

Neil Riddy cooling everyone down with his hat 😀

Ade with a skimmer

Pete Archer feeling the full force of the JINX

Gemma Doyle also feeling the force of the JINX off the next peg

Jinx league paste master wondering where the fish are

Tony and Steve also wondering

Al managed to find a few on 19

Most people had struggled today showing everyone that big weights do not always come from the lake and it is not an easy place to fish. The weigh in soon finished as there were 2 weigh in teams today working on opposite banks across the lake. Today’s match saw the first blanks of the series and probably not the last. Gemma on peg 26 had only managed 1-12 today so most people were safe from a MINXING ! despite that she still managed to take 3 scalps today. Terry Goff, Paul Dolby and Matt Edwards. Who would get the hat this time, only Gem knew 😀

One of Weigh in teams

Looking across the big lake after the match

With the results sorted Malc gathered everyone for the presentation. Pete Archer had kindly donated some prizes from Vespe today but instead of giving them to the main winners Malc decided to work from the bottom up so the lower weights all went away with something.

Malc sorting the results with a camera shy Pete Archer

Stand up and collect your prizes…… Everyone was a winner today 😀

Terry Goff

Paul Dolby

Matt Edwards

Gemma 'MINX' Doyle

Kev Loveland

Jon Hatch

Tony Roberts

Steve Steak

Nick Williams

Geoff Palmer

Marcus Burgess

Scott Methodgob

Dave Webster

At this point all the main prizes had gone so John Bennett and Pauline rifled through the tuck shop to find some more prizes 😀

Pliers and mole grips not included !

Dai Thomas

Al Loader

Simon Mound chose the sweet option

Dave Collier

Clive Pritchard

Peter Morton

Section winners and second in sections.

Steve Wilson and Ade Williams

Peter Morton in the money

Ade Williams

Pete Archer

Malc Doyle

Al Loader

With the presentation out the way it left only one thing….. The handing over of the MINX hat. John Bennett called for the 3 unlucky anglers to the front and lined them up in front of everyone to humiliate them a little further 😀

Who will it be....... ?

Gem held the hat over the lads heads teasing them but it finally came to rest on Paul Dolby’s head, where it would be for the entire next match. Fair play to Paul he took it well.

Paul and Gem

MINXED !!!!

Time for the results..

A SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Steve Wilson 34 92-8
2 Peter Morton 36 61-8
3 Clive Pritchard 8 55-12
4 Dave Collier 7 54-2
5 Simon Mound 4 45-8
6 Paul Roberts 2 41-4
7 Dave Webster 6 35-0
8 Marcus Burgess 40 15-8
9 John Hatch 38 4-10

B SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Slim Shady 30 76-0
2 Pete Archer 13 48-12
3 MethodGob 9 33-8
4 Fred Parker 10 32-4
5 Neil Riddy 31 14-0
6 Geoff Palmer 11 12-4
7 Nick Williams 32 9-4
8 Paul Dolby 28 DNW
9 Terry G 27 DNW

C SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Malc Doyle 25 47-12
2 Al Loader 19 44-8
3 Dai Thomas 23 43-8
4 Dave Moore 14 21-8
5 Steve Steak 18 11-8
6 Tony Roberts 17 7-8
7 Kev Loveland 21 2-0
8 Gemma Doyle 26 1-12
9 Matt Edwards 15 0-12

Thanks to John And Pauline for hosting the match and Pete Archer again for the prizes.

As soon as everyone had left John went off to make sure the lake was in top form for tomorrows Club Match.

Off to mow a meadow

Ashton Angling Club match 6th June 2010.

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Today Rolfslake welcomed Ashton A.C down to the lake from the midlands area and the anglers were hoping that the fish had stopped spawning and were willing to have a feed as the Jinx league match yesterday was really tough.

John tells me that 25 willing anglers set off to their pegs only to find the fish still spawning in the margins so it was very difficult to know what the fish wanted today either a cautious approach or to just to thrash the bait in and suffer plenty of foul hooked fish and very little to show for it. The weather was very warm with a cool breeze and the anglers with a ripple on the water did slightly better that those with flat water in front of them.

The winner today was Jay Davis fishing peg 7 in the gap between the big and small lake and Jay used a combination of the feeder and the pole to put together a very good weight of fish and big fish too catching fish to double figures in Jay’s final bag of 171-08 { well done Jay }. In second place was Andy Morrison on peg 32 by the hut who fished short range 5 -6 metres and down the edge using banded again catching big fish in his weight of 131-04. Completing the frame was Mark Bedford on peg 4 who suffered plenty of lost fish but in the end lined them down the edge to his right using pellet hook bait to catch his weight of 104-14.

John would like to thank all the anglers and hope to see them again soon.

Results.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Jay Davis 7 171-08
2nd Andy Morrison 32 131-04
3rd Mark Bedford 4 104-14
4th Tony Walsh 2 104-00
5th Colin Wedgebrow 38 86-00 —- 20lb common
6th Mick Whitehead 14 83-12
7th John Hague 29 82-03
8th Lee 24 70-12
9th Ian Ross 6 65-03
10th Mark Stibbs 8 61-08

Until our next report tight lines Eddie and Simon.

RAF Chiltern League Match. 3rd June 2010

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Today RAF Chiltern visited the lake as part of their league. Today’s winner Steve Perham stormed to victory on peg 24 fishing up in the water at 14.5 meters

The weather today for the anglers was very warm.

Top 10 Results
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Steve Perham 24 194-5
2 Bob Yomens 14 96-12
3 Steve Jackson 18 95-13
4 Mark Collingson 13 91-15
5 Andy Beasley 2 76-15
6 Roy Poile 8 70-4
7 Tony Dickinson 40 64-4
8 Dene Casbury 34 57-15
9 Duncan Pritchard 22 55-7
10 Gary Lauice 7 52-3

We hope you enjoyed your visit to the lake.

The Next match at the lake is on Saturday when the Jinx Squad make their second visit to the lake this year.

Rolfslake Bank Holiday Monday Open 31st May.

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Firstly sorry for the late posting of this match report as there was an error with my computer not allowing me to update the website.

John tells me the 22 anglers were faced with a cold day with a strong wind blowing from the north east, and after the 3 day festival the previous weekend anglers were unsure if the fish would switch on whilst they were still spawning.

After 5 hours fishing the winner was Rolfslake regular Paul Jay who was fishing car park bank peg 22 in the corner and Paul decided to fish long at a range of 11 metres fishing on the deck using the current form bait of 8-11 mm banded pellet. During the match Paul was able to pick off fish by lifting and dropping his rig to entice bites and he caught fish to double figures in his final weight of 134-08 { well done Paul }.

Todays winner Paul Jay.

In second place was  Chris Lovelock who was fishing current form peg 9 on the motorway bank. Chris fished down the edge towards the big bush to his right and by using pellet and meat fished on the deck managed to keep himself busy and have carp visiting his keepnet on a regular basis and at the end weighed only the second ton weight of the day with 110-08.

Completing the frame was Vespe sponsored Pete Archer who was fishing peg 26 by the car park and Pete fished both up in the water and on the deck at long range 14.5 metres and used big soft expander pellet to catch his weight of 87-00.

John hopes the carp will have finished their spawning by the weekend so the next visitors down the lake the Jinx league will have another great days fishing with all our friends looking forward to the presentation of the pink minx hat to Pete Morton.

Results.

Place Angler Peg Weight Bait  
1 Paul Jay 22 134-08 Banded Pellet Rolfslake
2 Chris Lovelock 9 110-08 Meat Rolfslake
3 Pete Archer 26 87-00 Expander pellet Vespe.com
4 Dave Whiteman 14 80-12   Hydro 2000
5 Adam Griffiths 4 67-08   Rolfslake
6 Martin Olsen 8 67-04   Rolfslake
7 Ryan Harris 36 56-12   Rolfslake
8 Mark Griifiths 7 49-06   Rolfslake
9 Richard Doolan 29 33-08   Rolfslake
10 Phil Powell 34 24-00   Rolfslake

 

Until our next report tight lines Eddie and Simon.

Herbie Invitational Match. 30th May 2010

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Carp on the feed at the lake.

Herbie and Friends had the lake for the day today. 17 anglers turned up on quite a sunny day. Many of the guys had not fished the lake before and were full of anticipation after hearing stories about big weights. We had the whole lake so there was a bit of space between the anglers.

The draw took place at 10 ish and fishing today was from 12-5pm. Plenty of time for everyone to get set up. John Bennett went round and helped out the guys that needed some info.

Andy on peg 10 having a chat with John

Simple trying a bit of shallow fishing on peg 30

Orinoco on peg 13 had hooked in to his first rolfslake carp and was experiencing the power of the fish, In the process of landing the fish he managed to loose the landing net of his handle 😀 John and Pauline were on hand quickly running round with a spare net to help him.

Orinoco looking for his landing net

Lee on peg 7 had been catching well along with Roland down on peg 2. Having a slow start Dave on peg 26 had worked out where the fish were and was slowing building up a terrific weight. Larry on peg 9 was struggling but was ever determined to do his Rolfs Ton. Simple on peg 30 had managed 5 fish shallow and then got fish feeding on a 5 meter line.  Dave bull down on peg 24 had a cracking start on the pellet waggler fishing in to the middle of the lake but had lost the fish as the sun went off the lake.

A special Mention goes to big Ron on peg 28 who had foul hooked a carp. It had taken him round the bush to his left and then under both platform legs and out the other side towards Simples peg. He did some magic elastic waggling and somehow managed to get the fish from under the platform adn round the bush and back in to his peg only to land it. To say I was amazed would be an understatement  😀 Well done Ron

Simple with a shallow caught carp

Lee catching on peg 7

Larry Tee Pot having a grueller on Peg 9

Paul catching a few on peg 14

With the match over and the weigh in complete it was clear that the first timers had caught plenty of fish and were impressed with the lake. The weights were also impressive with Roland down on peg 2 managing a fantastic 181-8. This was also good enough to give Roland the Peg King for peg 2. Dave on peg 26 had been catching plenty of fish, enough to give him second place with a great weight of 172-12. Completing the frame was Lee on peg 7 with 148-12, Lee had the luxury of fishing peg 7 on his own as peg 8 never got drawn.

Results
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Roland Lucas 2 181-8
2 Dave Stockton 26 172-12
3 Lee Jan 7 148-12
4 Simon Mound 30 147-8
5 Craig Gilroy 38 86-6
6 Dan Ball 32 82-0
7 Orinoco 13 79-8
8 Herbie 34 78-0
9 Andy Eagles 10 71-8
10 Marcus Burgess 22 66-8
11 Barry 18 60-4
12 Big Ron 28 59-4
13 Jamie 4 57-4
14 Dave Bull 24 49-0
15 Sparky 16 48-4
16 Paul 14 43-12
17 Larry T Pot 9 11-8

Thanks for the invite Herbie, was a good match and I actually caught some much needed fish on the day too. Great bunch of lads, nice to meet you all.

After the Match Gem had a go on my gear and managed 4 carp, here is a short video of her in action, minus the pink hat 😀

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John had also fed the fish down by peg 34 and this was the result 😀

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Match Fishing Scene 3 day Festival. 27th-29th May 2010

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Church007, Festival organiser.

Martin had arranged a 3 Day festival over at Match Fishing Scene. Banter on the forum had been building up about the Welsh beating the English so who would come out top after the 3 days ??

Most of the guys fishing the festival were also camping over at the lake. Thursday morning at the lake it looked like some gypo’s had moved in and set up camp 😀

Thursday morning saw glorious sunshine after Wednesday nights torrential rain.  24 anglers all gathered for the draw at 12am

Hi de hi campers

The campers woke up to a sunny morning.

Everyone gathering for the draw

Budgie and Dave Moore

John Bennett refreshing everyone with the lake rules

With the draw done everyone had plenty of time to get to their peg and set up. Fishing would be from 2pm – 7pm. The match format was 3 sections of 8 anglers. Section A was pegs 2, 4, 6, 7, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Section B was pegs 8, 9, 10, 13, 28, 29, 31 and 32. Section C was pegs 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24 and 26.

John Bennett was going round helping people with their pegs, giving them info on how to fish it but some people were just beyond help it seems.

Fred Parker on Peg 9. Should have gone to spec savers 😀

Church on peg 19

Ian McCulloch on peg 26

Budgie on peg 31. He was peg king for all of one day 😀

Day one has seen some good weights from around the lake while others were struggling. Chris Telling was having a blinding day on peg 7 catching on corn and paste at 14.5 meters. Down in C section Pellet King  and Jonny B had been catching well, Pellet King catching shallow on 6mm banded pellet to take the section. B section had been won by Nick Merry on peg 13 catching long and short in the margins and 14.5m shallow.

Results for Day 1
Day 1. A Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Chris Telling 7 226-8
2 Caster Master 40 194-0
3 Gillbo 36 123-8
4 Kerb Crawler 2 122-6
5 Dawg 4 95-4
6 Rob B 38 66-8
7 SBW 6 48-4
8 Baz 34 17-4

Day 1. B Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Nick Merry 13 170-2
2 Mick ‘Drawbag’ Lane 10 163-12
3 Baz Wrexham 28 144-12
4 Gary Mitchell 8 140-8
5 Fred Parker 9 132-0
6 Ruddy Roach 32 64-8
7 Budgie 31 53-4
8 Dave Moore 29 42-4

Day 1. C Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Pellet King 23 195-12
2 Jonny B 16 175-2
3 Eels 26 114-0
4 Dodgy Peg 24 104-8
5 Chruch 19 85-12
6 Simple 18 42-4
7 Drawbag 14 36-8
8 Gareth Evans 21 32-4

Day 2

The anglers moved round the lake for day two in to the next section. Expectations were high for some good weights today as previous festivals  2nd day always through up some high match weights. With the draw at 12 and fishing from 2pm – 7pm again everyone had plenty of time to set up again.

Despite all the expectations the lake had fished harder on day 2. Two double tons had still come from the lake though, Phil Powell on peg 31 had fished a blinder on a peg he did not fancy after drawing it. He had to fish hard for it though, fishing at 16 meters shallow on banded pellet. Second double was from Pete Archer on peg 9 and was just a few fish away from beating Phil.

Mick Lane had won C Section fishing shallow, in the margin and 5-6 meter line on banded pellet. Pellet King had fished another excellent match in A Section fishing shallow again and in the margins.

Day 2 Results

Day 2. A Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Pellet King 40 127-8
2 Eels 2 126-8
3 Dodgy Peg 4 120-8
4 Church 6 94-8
5 Drawbag 34 86-4
6 Jonny B 7 61-8
7 Gareth Evans 36 31-4
8 Simple 38 26-10

Day 2. B Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Dawg 31 222-4
2 Caster Master 9 208-8
3 Chris Telling 10 124-12
4 Gillbo 32 59-8
5 Baz 8 54-12
6 SBW 28 52-4
7 Rob B 13 33-8
8 Kerb Crawler 29 12-00

Day 2. C Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Mick Lane 16 85-8
2 Baz Wrexham 14 68-8
3 Budgie 26 34-4
4 Fred Parker 19 24-4
5 Ruddy Roach 23 24-0
6 Gary Mitchell 24 21-0
7 Nick Merry 18 13-8
8 Dave Moore 21 2-4

After today match Martin had arranged a BBQ for everyone. Once the weigh in was complete Martin went off to ASDA to pick up BBQ supplies. Some people could not wait to get started on the beer.

Phil Powell, Fred Parker and Mick Lane

Peg 34 with Johns dramatic lighting

Doodle bug

Big Thanks go to Baz Wrexham, the man on the BBQ. He cooked a mean burger 😀

Day 3

The weather for the final match had turned for the worst, gone was the sunshine replaced by clouds and rain. Wet weather gear was going to be needed today 🙁

Church cooking his brekkie on the final day

Fishing today for the final match would be earlier. The draw at 10am and fishing 12-5pm. This is to allow people to get away earlier after the presentation. With the draw done and everyone on their pegs setting up in the rain people were hoping for a good days fishing to finish the festival off in style.

SBW having a hard day on peg 26

Dodgey Peg on 31 in to fish

Gillbo on peg 24

Simon Mound fishing peg 13 for his first time

Gareth Evans on peg 32

Jonny B on peg 9

Double fish action

Simple with a weigher and Pete Archer on peg 16

Pete Archer in to a carp

Rob B on peg 18

Rob B locked in battle with a Rolfs Carp

Chris Telling fishing Paste on peg 23

Phil Powell. Pulling a funny face

Pete Archer again

Baz on peg 14

Baz with a nice carp

Simple on peg 13 with some much needed fish

Church on peg 8 on his way to winning B Section. Well done

Chris Telling came close to winning.

Sorry some pictures are a bit fuzzy, the zoom on my camera is not that good.

Day 3 had fished hard again with only one double ton coming from the lake today. BBQ master Baz Wrexham on peg 34 had bagged up fishing a 5m line on corn winning A Section. B section was won by event organiser Church on peg 8 fishing 16m, down the track and in the bush on his left all with corn. C Section was won surprisingly on peg 21. Kerb Crawler had denied all the odd and produced a winning weight fishing the margins again on corn proving to everyone there was some fish down there after all 😀

Day 3 Results

Day 3. A Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Baz Wrexham 34 220-12
2 Nick Merry 7 120-4
3 Mick Lane 4 108-12
4 Fred Parker 40 72-4
5 Gary Mitchell 36 49-4
6 Ruddy Roach 38 34-8
7 Dave Moore 2 29-2
8 Budgie 6 8-8

Day 3. B Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Church 8 100-0
2 Pellet King 29 86-8
3 Simple 13 82-8
4 Jonny B 9 79-4
5 Gareth Evans 32 58-0
6 Drawbag 28 54-0
7 Dodgy Peg 31 42-8
8 Eels 10 40-0

Day 3. C Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Kerb Crawler 21 64-4
2 Chris Telling 23 53-12
3 Dawg 19 40-0
4 Rob B 18 33-4
5 Caster Master 16 23-0
6 Baz 14 16-8
7 SBW 26 12-8
8 Gillbo 24 11-0

Overall Section Points after the 3 Day’s ..

Pellet King 23pts.
Baz Wrexham 21pts.
Chris Telling 21pts.
Mick Lane 21pts.
Dawg 18pts.
Caster Master 18pts.
Church007 17pts.
NickM 17pts.
Jonny_B1989 15pts.
Kerbcrawler 14pts.
Eels 14pts.
Fred 14pts.
Dodgypeg 13pts.
Gary Mitch 12pts.
Gillbo 12pts.
RobB 10pts.
Simple 10pts.
Ruddy Roach 10pts.
Drawbag 9pts.
Budgie 9pts.
Baz 8pts.
Sbw 7pts.
Garethevans1986 7pts.
David Moore 4pts.

Pellet King had only dropped one point over the 3 days. Well fished mate, superb result.

Pete Archer had kindly brought along a trophy for the winner too.

Festival Winner Pellet King

A big thank you to Martin for arranging a superb festival. It was great to meet up with old friends and meeting new ones. The whole event ran smoothly.

The lake was also left how it should be. All littler, fag butts and sick was cleaned up 😀 Thanks to everyone for keeping the place so clean. this will ensure future events like this one can carry on to take place.

On a side note. Simon and Budgie were having a mini battle and Simon lost 2-1 to Budgie. Well done mate 🙁

Simon and Budgie

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.

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