Rolfslake Easter Festival Day 3.

A thrilling end to the Easter Festival.

Firstly a massive thanks to all the anglers who returned to fish day 3 after two really hard days fishing in rubbish weather conditions.

The day started with the top 9 anglet’s separated by only 3 points so a plumb draw was certainly first priority today. The current festival leader Jack Griffiths just needed to have a half decent draw but failed drawing peg 28 in B section.

John Beesley had draw moody peg 18 in C section and had Anthony Carter who was 1 point behind next to him on peg 17, so that was going to be a good battle.

In A Section the draw everyobe wanted was peg 34 but that went to Judd Jepsom with Andy Rayment drawing good silver peg 38.

During these 5 hours the anglers had to keep an eye out for what was being caught in their section and then plan wether to fish for carp or silvers to get good section  points.

The match was again very hard for the anglers with gusting winds and very cold lake water putting the carp off feeding and those anglers fishing for silvers were rewarded with big points for there efforts.

After the final whistle it was an exciting weighin as some of the early leaders had blown out but there two standout performances in John Beesley ( Drenban Oxford) who had won his section again.  Anthony Carter ( Ace tackle and Bait) who for the last two day had fished for silvers scoring  yet again another big haul of points.

The tables below show the final.points results but after fishing a brilliant 3 days the 2018 Rolfslake festival winner was Drennan Oxford”s John Beesley who ammased a total of 4 points very well done John.

John had two section wins and a second making sure from his three draws 34, 32 and 18 that he maximised every opportunities in gaining big points against his opponents.

Rolfslake 2018 Easter Festival Champion John Beesley (Drennan Oxford)

In second place was Anthony Carter who fished his first festival and a great performance by fishing for silvers and also being in John”s section.

We would like to thank John and Pauline for hosting the event and preparing the hot hot food which was very much appreciated.

To run such an event in horrid conditions for the benefit of others takes a lot of effort and John worked extremely hard to keep the lake water levels down .His sole aim is to run a fun event but also a safe event and hopefully the anglers enjoyed their three days.

Thank you also to Dai, Jack and Andy for helping with the weighins.

Left to right. Andy Rayment, John Bennett,John Beesley, Anthony Carter, Micheal Corsini and Jack Griffiths.

Some pictures from the three days.

Dan Deakin.

Micheal Corsini ( Browning)

Paul Newbury Rolfslake Royals.

A Section

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st Andy Rayment 38 15-09 1
2nd Taff Davies  5 4-14 2
3rd Neil Hutchins  7 1-15 3
4th John Morgan 40 0-4 4
5th Gary Kelsey 4 DNW 5
6th Mac Doyle 2 DNW 6
7th Judd Jepsom 34 DNW 7

B Section

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st Micheal Corsini 9 28-13 1
2nd Paul Newbury 13 28-04 2
3rd Dave Wilsden 30 2-09 3
7th Mark Newbold 10 DNW 7
7th Mark Chard 8 DNW 7
7th Ian Haynes 32 DNW 7
7t h Jack Griffiths 28 DNW 7

C section

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st John Beesley 18 20-14 1
2nd Anthony Carter 17 14-08 2
3rd Dan Deakin 15 12-11 3
4th Albert Williams 14 11-15 4
5th Steve Stayte 26  8-01 5
6th Jack Wilson 22  7-04 6
7th Francis O’Reilly 24  6-08 7

Top 10 results

Place Angler Points Weight Sponsor
1st John Beesley 4 Drennan Oxford
2nd Anthony Carter 6 Ace Tackle and Bait.
3rd Andy Rayment 7 Rolfslake
4th Micheal Corsini 7 Browning
5th Jack Griffiths 10 89-08 Top Tackle
6th John Morgan 10 79-02 Rolfslake
7th Dan Deakin 10 41-13 Rolfslake
8th Taff Davies 11 Rolfslake
9th Dave Wilsden 11 Rolfslake
10th Gary Kelsey 12 Rolfslake

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

Rolfslake Easter Festival 2018 Day2

A super tough day down the lake.

Today saw the anglers return for day 2 of the Rolfslake festival on a cold rainy and windy day. The conditions were harder than day 1 for the anglers in A section with Jack Griffiths winning with his weight of 30-14 from peg 34.

B section was won by Anthony Carter who managed to just win the section with a last gasp bream to weigh 21-02 ahead of John Beesley who had 20-11 from peg 32.

The form C section provided the highest weight with John Morgan winning the section with 53-04 from good winter peg 24.

Day 3 will see at least 9 anglers in with of a chance of being crowned Champion as there is only 3 points separating 1st and 9th place.

Section A

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st Jack Griffiths 34 30-14 1
2nd Mark Newbold 7 10-07 2
3rd Ian Haynes 5  7-04 3
4th Dave Wilsden 4  0-09 4
5th Micheal Corsini 38  0-07 5
6th Mark Chard 2 DNW 7
7th Paul Newbury 40 DNW 7

Section B

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st Tony Carter 8 21-02 1
2nd John Beesley 32 20-11 2
3rd Jack Wilson 30 20-09 3
4th Albert Williams 9 14-08 4
5th Dan Deakin 28  9-05 5
6th Francis O’Reilly 13  8-10 6
7th Steve Stayte 7  4-05 7

Section C

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st John Morgan 24 53-04 1
2nd Malc Doyle 18 48-13 2
3rd Gary Kelsey 17 48-04 3
4th Judd Jepson 26 39-07 4
5th Andy Rayment 14 34-01 5
6th Taff Davies 22 15-07 6
7th Neil Hutchins 15  7-05 7

Top 6

Place Angler Points Weight
1 Jack Griffiths 3 89-08
2 John Beesley 3 47-08
3 Anthony Carter 4 35-11
4 Gary Kelsey 5 86-11
5 John Morgan 6 78-14
6 Andy Rayment 6 77-13
7 Malc Doyle 6 74–08
8 Micheal Corsini 6 64-08
9 Ian Haynes 6 51-06

Thanks for reading John ,Simon and Eddie.

Rolfslake Easter Festival Day 1

Today saw 21 anglers gather for the Rolfslake Easter Festival  on a cold rainy day in Oxford. The anglers are split into three 7 peg sections with the angler who wins gets 1 point going down to 7 points for last.

The angler with the lowest points score wins the festival and in the event of a draw it goes to total weight.

The day started well with anglers in all three sections catching carp early but after two hour the bites dried up.

Michael Corsini the 2017 Champion was catching well in C section but losing a few fish as well.

Andy Ray mentioned in B section was putting a well deseved bag of carp together but it was by no means easy.

In the tough A section.most anglers had caught at least one carp so the result would be very tight.

Report to follow.

Results

A Section

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st John Beesley  34  26-13  1
2nd Dan Deakin 40 19-13  2
3rd Anthony Carter 5 14-09  3
4th Steve Stayte 38 9-09  4
5th Albert Williams 2 8-10  5
6th Jack Wilson 4 DNW 7
7th Francis O’Reilly 7 DNW 7

B Section

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st Andy Rayment 8  43-12 1
2nd Gary Kelsey 28 38-07 2
3rd Taff Davies 30 30-15 3
4th Mac Doyle 32 25-11 4
5th John Morgan 13 25-10 5
6th Judd Jepsom 9 11-15 6
7th Neil Hutchins 10 1-12 7

C Section

Place Angler Peg Weight Points
1st Michael Corsini 14 64-01 1
2nd Jack Griffiths 22 58-10 2
3rd Ian Haynes 16 44-02 3
4th Dave Wilsden 24 40-14 4
5th Mark Chard 26 39-02 5
6th Paul Newbury 17 20-01 6
7th Mark Newbold 18 17-00 7

Top 6

Place Angler Points
1st Michael Corsini  1
2nd Andy Rayment  1
3rd John Beesley  1
4th Jack Griffiths  2
5th Gary Kelsey  2
6th  Dan Deakin  2

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

ROUND 6 PAIRS LEAGUE AND FINAL LEAGUE PLACINGS

CARP SECTION

PEG   18 MICHEAL CORSINI 96-7-0 1
PEG   38 GARY KELSEY 72-14-0
PEG   22 ANDY QUARMBY 36-0-0 2
PEG   24 TAFF DAVIES 22-11-0 3
PEG    7 ANTHONY CARTER 18-9-0
PEG   34 MICK JONES  8-9-0 4
PEG   14 FRED SELWOOD  2-0-0 5

SILVER SECTION

PEG   28 RYAN LEWIS 15-4-0 1
PEG  30 JOHN BENNETT  8-15-0 2
PEG  32 MALC DOYLE  7-8-0 3
PEG  13 STEVE STATYE  5-8-0 4
PEG   9 DOUG HILL  1-12-0 5
NAME RD 1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 DR.PTS TOTAL PTS POS
JB/+1 6 2 6 4 5 4 6 21 1
R/M 4 5 6 9 4 2 9 21 2
M/M 3 5 5 4 7 7 7 24 3
S/T 8 9 10 4 5 7 10 33 4
D/F 9 9 7 10 10 10 10 45 5

TOTAL WEIGHT OF 6 MATCHES

J/+1=343.81 LBS  AND R/M=173.44 LBS

TOP 3 INDIVIDUAL

NAME WEIGHT POINTS SCORED FINAL COUNT
JOHN B 197-3-0 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 2, 11.  7 AFTER DROP
MIKEY C 147-2-0 1, 3, 5, 1, 3, 1, 14.  9
MALC D 211-3-0 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, 15.  12
1 30 31 32 33 34 194