McMillans Cancer Charity Fund Raiser 20th July.

McMillan Cancer charity fund raising day.

The Pro’s and the McMillan charity team.

Today Rolfslake hosted a charity fund raising day in aid of the McMillan cancer support charity. In the proceeding days John, Dai and Paul Jay had been working flat out preparing the lake and sorting out the car parking that neighbour farm John had kindly agreed to let John use the next field for the visitors.

The match was going to be two 2 and a half hour matches with a 5 minute pre baiting period just before the second part of the match, and as if by special request the anglers down the lake were greeting with a warm day with very little wind which does not go hand in hand with big catches. John very kindly passed on his lake fee to the charity with the rest to be raised from the daily fees from the anglers plus sales of burgers and finished with a raffle with prizes very kindly donated by Kamasan and Daiwa and Drennan so hopefully this would help bolster the fund raising.

The match today was going to be 12 Pro /lake regular anglers to be paired with non regulars with the match being decided on section points and weight and at 12.30 the all in was called and never has the lake been devoid of banter as the anglers settled down to really concentrate on their fishing. Today it was a pleasure to have some of the Pro anglers that had given up their time to fish and give the anglers a chance of beating a real star { that was the plan at least}.

John tells me that the story of the match was it was a slow start with the anglers hooking and losing some big carp and even some smaller carp that just refused to be landed but as he match progressed they sorted this out and started to put fish in the net. One of the top performances was Ian McCulloch on little used prg 36 in the small lake who was not only putting the third biggest weight together but also claiming the peg king for 36 { well done Ian }. The main individual battle was between Super star angler Steve Ringer and Rolfslake resident and form angler Dai Thomas who were both pegged on the car park bank Steve on 32 and Dai on 22 and after the 5 hours Dai ended up in first place with 145-01 one carp ahead of Steve who caught 130-12 but at  least it was fun to see Steve battling the big powerful carp of Rolfslake { Dai revel in glory as a victory against Steve is a rare thing and he tells John HE WILL BE BACK }.

Top overall Rolfslake’s resident Dai Thomas { well done Dai }.

Steve Ringer hanging on.
Picture by Ryan Macdonald

On the team front Steve Ringer did get his revenge as he was paired with Karl on peg 9 straight opposite and between them they caught 172-12 for 7 points and victory { well done guys }.

 Results.

Top 5 individuals

Pro-Am results.

We would like to say a big well done to Fred for organising this charity day and to all the helpers from both McMillans and Rolfslake for making it both an enjoyable day and a really worthy cause.

We would also like to say a massive thanks to Dave Ridgley and Ben Banham from Experience Fishing in Newbury for their great donation of two new sets of Ruben Heaton digital scales and a weigh tripod which will be a great help when weighing the big weights down the lake.

www.experiencefishing.com

Dave ,Ben and the team at Experience Fishing Newbury.

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