LAST NIGHT MATCH OF THE YEAR ON FRIDAY THE 13TH SEPT (FISH AT YOUR PERIL)

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WE ARE HOLDING THE LAST NIGHT MATCH OF THE YEAR ON FRIDAY THE 13TH, DRAW TIME WILL BE 6PM FISH 7-12, WE WILL HAVE HOT DOGS AND SOUP AFTERWARDS.

I AM NOT SUPERSTITIOUS BUT HOW I AM GOING TO FISH WITH MY FINGERS CROSSED AND HOLDING MY COLLAR ALSO WEARING MY LUCKY RABBIT’S FOOT AND SURROUNDED BY GARLIC I DO NOT KNOW.

COME ALONG AND HAVE A GO IF YOU ARE BRAVE, I DARE YOU.

JOHN BENNETT

MICK JONES

ANDY QUARMBY

DANNY CLARKE

MICHAEL CORSINI     (AKA THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS)

PAUL CORSINI

Dai Thomas

CAPTAIN JACK

SPARROW (AKA THE PIRATE )

SUE COLLINS

GARY KELSEY

MARK CHARD

IAN HAYNES

JEFF EDWARDS

KEVIN CROSS

NIEL KIDDIER

PAUL NEWBURY

Wednesday Open Match. 4th September 2013

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Today’s open match was fished by 10 anglers. Mark Newbold pegged the match out for John. The weather was hot and sunny down the lake.

Results….

PLACE ANGLER PEG WEIGHT
1st Mark Newbold 5 321-11
2nd Mick Chappell 4 198-12
3rd Paul Jay 10 177-0
4th Kev Dolton 26 134-11
5th Pete Archer 8 132-6
6th John Draper 13 112-0
7th Dangerous Dave 16 80-14
8th Ben Bangham 32 74-9

John has asked me to put a foot not on these results. One angler had 120lb in a single net and also had 3 weighers in the net too. This as always is not acceptable especially when the weigh station and net box was right behind the peg involved.

Mark Newbold, Today’s winner. Well done. (fish not from today’s match.

I will be making a return to the lake on Friday to fish Gary Horne’s Annual match down the lake. The weather is supposed to be turning for the worse with rain forecast….Typical, hope my gore-tex still works 😀 😛

Thanks for reading. John, Eddie and Simon.

 

 

2013 Results.

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I have managed to update the 2013 results page with all the winners up to the latest results on the blog.

Soon be time to return and catch up with everyone and hopefully catch some fish too 🙂

See you soon.

Rolfslake Family Open Day 25th August 2013.

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Your host for todayJohn with guard dog. Olly .

On Sunday the 25th of August John and Pauline Bennett kindly opened up Rolfslake for a family day where  people who would like to have a go at fishing, and even with it being a Bank Holiday there were visitors who brought thier wives ,children and husbands hoping to have a chance of catching virtually any of the many species that Rolfslake holds.

The day was lovely and sunny and there was a raffle with the proceeds going to Sobel house hospice a barbeque and a sweet tent.  John had supplied fishing whips for the juniors to fish and not so juniors to fish with and Micheal Corsini, Paul Jay , Steve Waters and Kevin Doulton and Neil Riddy helping the adults and wives and children hopefully catch their first fish.

Now i remember when i caught my first fish which was a roach down a park lake 40+ years ago and i was so excited but today most anglers first fish were double figured carp upto 19lb with a few 3-4lb bream for good measure but not many small silver fish so the visitors were definitley spoilt.

On bankside there was Dai Thomas as resident photographer for the day, Ann Thomas, Pauline and Annette and helpers working on the barbeque and sweet tent, selling raffle tickets and cold drinks with the profits going towards the charity and they were kept busy for most of the day. Lakeside the children took turns to fish with the resident anglers and Rolfslake for once was happy to give up its fish knowing it was for a good cause and over the day there were over 150 carp caught to 19lb on a very nice and enjoyable day so a special thanks to John and Pauline for making this happen.

Here are some photo’s from the day with more to be added.

Pirates shipmate helper for the day Micheal Corsini.

 

Kev Doulton and his three children.

 

 

Curtis Waters just like dad.

 

 

Delma Riddy with her first fish 15-04.

 

 

No small fish here with this young mans first fish of 17lb.

 

 

Kevin and his daughter with her fish of 13lb.

 

 

Another small carp this time only 10lb.

 

A lovely mirror carp for Kev’s son.

 

 

Some of he bream Curtis and Steve caught.

 

The jester for the day Paul Jay.

 

The Riddler who won three 30 minute challenges. Well done Neil.

 

It was a very enjoyable day down the lake with everyone catching fish and there are already many ideas for our next one down the lake in 2014. There will be many dreams of the big fish caught and the ones hat got away but for a venue that very rarely lets our visitors down Rolfslake is the place.

I would like to say a big thanks to Annette for the first prize of a television ,Peter and Gary at Drennan Internation and Kevin at Kamasan and Dave Ridgely at Experience fishing Newbury for their very generous donations of prizes for the raffle but again a very big thanks to all the helpers for their time and our visitors that took the time to come down and have a fish you were most welcome. the total raised was £220 and has been paid in to the Sobell House hospice oxford, for which they are very grateful.

THE MAIN PRIZE WINNERS IN THE RAFFLE PRIZE DRAW WERE AS FOLLOWS

THE FLAT SCREEN TV   KEV DOULTON

KAMAZAN ROD  LES DERVILL

KAMAZAN ROD  SUE COLLINS AND GARY KELSEY

MAVER ROD  MRS BARBARA FURNESS

DRENNAN CARRYALL MICK JONES

HAND MADE PEN  NIEL RIDDY

BOTTLE OF WHISKEY JOHN ENIG

As more pictures become available i will add to this post but all photographs on her were very kindly given with permission from the childrens parents thankyou.

 

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

 

 

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