Super Si rocks the 400lb mark and takes the King of the lake.

 

Today saw the anglers turn up for the second match of the bank holiday weekend and hopefully an improvement to the fishing and a chance to win the £100 golden peg kindly donated by lake owner John Bennett. The match today was well attended with Rob Wooton one of the Drennan knockout cup semi finalists in attendance today trying to get an idea of the methods required at Rolfslake for the forthcoming semi finals being held down the lake.

After yesterdays poor showing in the small lake a good draw in the big lake was what was required and with a sunny day with a breeze on the lake the signs were looking good. John tells me the story of the day was the little lake fished hard again with most of the action coming font the center of the big lake with anglers still losing plenty of foul hooked fish but the top 9 anglers still weighing over a ton and for one angler today a magic weight was on the cards as he spent alot of time getting off his box to weigh fish.

That angler today was inform and probably Rolfslake’s most consistent angler of the year so far Simon Mound who today found himself back on favourite peg 16 on the motorway bank. Simon tells me that after catching a quick fish shallow  straight out in front he thinks in hindsight that was probably 20 minutes wasted trying to catch some more with no success and switched to a five metre line straight out in front and again caught one carp but no more .

It was then that Simon switched to the right hand margin down the silt bank the same area that gave him his last PB of 312lb a couple of weeks ago and from that point the carp were there ready and waiting. The key moment in Simons match was on playing a carp it got caught up on the snag that has lost many anglers fish, but this time the snag came up with fish and it was removed from the water together with the fish and from this moment the fishing just got better. Simon was today fishing banded 8mm pellet  feeding pellet through a kinder pot to get the fish lined up and Simon caught 19 fish to 19lb for a board weight of nearly 240lb to go together with his net fish. The rig was a straight forward 0.24 line fished with a Jon Walker diamond float finished with a 14 hook and Simon worked his rig to tempt the carp that were in his peg.

As the weigh-in commenced the anglers gathered to see if Simon had bettered his PB of 312lb and with his net fish taking 4 weighs the total of Simons efforts was a fantastic 360-11 for not only a new PB but he took the king of the lake title off John Walker { very well done Simon } and with those wasted 20 minutes at the start and the loss of 7 carp Simon would of got close to the world 5 hour match record set 7 years ago at Rolfslake of 490-08 .

In second place today was Rob Wooton who was on the car park bank peg 30 and the information that i have tells me that Rob fished at short range both on the deck and at mid depth fishing pellet to catch carp to double figures in his good weight of 188-04 and a good workout for his semi final coming up. Completing the frame was another king of the lake holder Geoff Edwards who defied the poor fishing in the small lake putting another good weight of fish to double figures on peg 7 of 151-09.

 

 

 

Results.

19 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Simon Mound	16	360-11  PB and new King of the Lake.	Rolfslake.com
2nd	Rob Wooton	30	188-04	Shimano / Normark
3rd	Geoff Edwards	7	151-09	Reading Angling Centre
4th	Mick Jones	24	147-05	Rolfslake
5th	Paul Jay	32	119-10	Rolfslake
6th	Nick Watkins-Price	9	118-13	Jinx League
7th	Richard Doolan	8	116-10	Ospreys AC
8th	Froggie	6	111-05	Rolfslake
9th	Marcus Burgess	14	102-02	Jinx League
10th	Sue Collins	26	99-05	Rolfslake
11th	John Draper	28	87-11	Rolfslake
12th	Colin Brickwell	40	66-07	Rolfslake
13th	John Bennett	4	57-11	Rolfslake
14th	Pat Pritchard	13	55-01	Rolfslake
15th	Malc Doyle	10	46-13	Jinx League
16th	Dai Thomas	34	45-03	Jinx League
17th	Gary Kelsey	38	36-07	Rolfslake
18th	Bob Stevens	2	32-01	Rolfslake

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

 

Today saw the first of three bank holiday weekend opens but the sun from earlier in the week today turned to thundery showers then getting sunny and warm then back to rain.

John tells me that today 14 anglers turned up hoping for two things a draw in the big lake and hopefully having your peg drawn after the match as golden peg as ther was £100 on offer very kindly donated by John. The fishing continued on from Wednesdays match where the small lake fished very hard with anglers only catching a few carp and John thinks this was due to very little wind blowing on the lake.

Todays match was won on form peg 16 and the angler lucky enough to draw this peg was Gary Kelsey and Gary fished a short line of 5 metres fished on the deck using meat and paste feeding pellet catching fish to double figures in his weight of 183-12 { well done Gary ]. The next two in the frame Andy Quarmby and Simon Mound were pegged next to each other on the car park bank on pegs 30 and 32 and after 5 hours were seperated by 4 fish with Andy coming second with 143-12 to Simons 104-09.

Results

14 fished

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Gary Kelsey	16	183-12	Rolfslake
2nd	Andy Quarmby	30	143-12	Middy
3rd	Simon Mound	32	104-09	Rolfslake.com
4th	John Bennett	14	87-00	Rolfslake.com
5th	Malc Doyle	8	82-12	Jinx League
6th	John Draper	26	53-06	Rolfslake
7th	Steve Wilson	9	53-05	Jinx League
8th	Dave Whiteman	2	47-04	Hydro 2000
9th	Sue Collins	40	41-00	Rolfslake
10th	Marcus Burgess	4	36-05	Jinx League

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

Report to follow

13 Fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Pete Archer	26	222-04	Vespe
2nd	Jon Walker	7	156-04	Walker Floats
3rd	Vic Franklin	9	88-08	Hydro
4th	Eddie Taylor-Green	8	84-04	Rolfslake/ Walker Floats
5th	Andy Rayment	4	54-04	Rolfslake
6th	John Draper	30	51-04	Rolfslake
7th	Pete Arnold	34	39-10	Rolfslake
8th	Deane Knight	6	20-08	Rolfslake
9th	Kev Doulton	32	10-00	Rolfslake
10th	Paul Jay	38	10-00	Rolfslake
11th	John Bennett	40	DNW	Rolfslake
12th	Tony Simpson	2	DNW	Rolfslake
13th	Dave Wrigley	28	DNW	Rolfslake

The Pirate returns.

The score now stands at.

John 11

Eddie 4

Thanks for reading John , Simon and Eddie

 

Miracle man continues his good run of results down the lake.

Tonight 16 anglers returned to Rolfslake for the 6th night match down the lake and all the usual suspects were in attendance, and as usual they managed to draw all the flyers leaving the rest of the anglers to play catch up.

With the weather today being sunny, warm with very little wind to cool the anglers the all in was called at 8pm and what was evident tonight was a slow start for the anglers in the big lake but the anglers in the small lake were having better luck with Wez on 38 Simon on little used peg 3, Matt Edwards on peg 4 getting regular action but for the rest it was a struggle which is a surprise for there were lots of fish cruising whilst it was light. At 10pm John turned the lights on and the anglers in the big lake started to catch short as the fish came closer in.

The winner of tonights match was Miracle sponsored angler Matt Edwards who was fishing peg 4 down the bottom of the small lake and Matt was having a peg to peg battle with Simon Mound on peg 3 and also seeing who could lose the most foul hooked fish in the night .

I believe Matt was fishing a line down the right edge and a line out in front using pellet hookbait feeding pellet catching fish to double figures but not as many as you would usually catch from this peg but after a hard fished five hours put 134-03 for another win down the lake. Hot on his heels was Rolfslake’s form angler Simon Mound who was fishing on peg 3  { my second favourite peg on th lake } and Simon had a very frustrating first half of the match as he was playing tug of war with the carp from the left hand bush but a change to fishing a 5 metre line straight out using pellet feeding pellet brought him a good run of fish to double figures and a few smaller carp for his weight of 104-13 and 4 carp off the match win which was within his reach as he lost 22 carp tonight.

Completing the frame was Paul Jay on would you believe it peg 8 so for the first time in months his tackle had to be moved from peg 18 and a new rig had to be made. Paul fished two lines the bush to his left and a straight out line down the track and Paul caught carp and silvers fishing his 8mm banded pellet for his weight of 85-06.

A side story to Pauls match was on hooking a carp his hook pulled and his float got stuck in the bush so Paul grabbed his elastic and started to pull which you should never do and was rewarded with his float being released from the bush straight into his hand. His second mistake was using a Walker float as they are quality made and dont break so went in quite far and looking for some help asked Dave on peg 7 for some help , and i think Paul was expecting Dave to count down from three but Dave grabbed the float and pulled it straight out { not very clever Paul and very dangerous }.

Results.

16 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Matt Edwards	4	134-03	Miracle Baits
2nd	Simon Mound	3	104-13	Rolfslake.com
3rd	Paul Jay	8	85-06	Rolfslake
4th	Chris Telling	6	79-14	Colmic / Vespe
5th	Geoff Edwards	26	75-04	Reading Angling Center
6th	Wez Hillier	38	70-09	Rolfslake
7th	Nick Williams	30	63-04	Miracle Baits
8th	Paul Corsini	9	59-13	Rolfslake
9th	Micheal Corsini	14	46-03	Rolfslake
10th	Jon Walker	34	42-05	Walker Floats
11th	John Bennett	16	36-00	Rolfslake
12th	Mick Chappell	39	30-04	Rolfslake
13th	Eddie Taylor-Green	28	23-00	Rolfslake.com
14th	Malc Doyle	1	2-00	Jinx League
15th	Dai Thomas	32	DNW	Jinx League
16th	Dave Whiteman	7	DNW	Hydro 200

 The Pirate has a lot to do to catch John in their seasons battle.

The score now stands at.

John 11

 

Eddie 3

 

 

 

Thanks for reading Simon ,John and Eddie