Rolfslake welcomes another member of the 300lb club.

Today Rolfslake welcomed Tumbley Bay angling club down to the lake and as they were short of a few people they invited a few of the regulars and some of the Jinx league anglers who were still there from Saturday.

Today was a mild day with very little wind and the anglers today were greeted by the usual sight of plenty of cruising fish and feeding fish by the look of the bubbles coming from the bottom which normally gets the club anglers excited with thoughts of big weights, and today Rolfslake did not disappoint.

 

It was decided by match organiser Paul Bennett that today the lake was going to be split into two sections ,section A being from pegs 34 to 8 and section B was from 9 to 32 so there were the top two in both sections to play for. The good news for me was that John and myself had drawn as far away from each other as possible as he had drawn peg 22 and me 34 so it was going to be a quiet match for a change and at 10.30 the all in was called.

The story of the match was after a slowish start the fish started to feed both in the big and small lake and there were some big carp caught today topped by Michael Corsini who caught a big 21lb common caught on the tip from peg 7 but there were lots of big doubles caught from most anglers all around.

The big story of the day was from peg 16 on the motorway bank where Rolfslake.com co-owner Simon Mound was going after Geoff Edwards king of the lake title but after a poor first 2 hours just fell short. Simon today was fishing the right hand margin after dabbling with fishing the bush to his left and a straight out line with very little success but when he turned his attention to the right hand margin for the last 3 hours and could not believe it as he had a big shoal of carp waiting for him. Simon fished half way down the purple bush fishing on the deck with his tried and tested 8mm hard banded pellet and caught about 35 carp to 17lb { Simon’s board weight went 168lb }.

By keeping he bait moving Simon kept the bites coming and even with the repeated stick he was getting from Randolph and Mortimer aka John Bennett and Geoff Edwards he continued to catch and after a busy 5 hours put a fantastic and rare 315lb on the scales for not only his first 300lb but also a personal best weight { very well done Simon }.

Second in Simon’s B section was Laurence Bloomfield who was fishing form peg 9 and by fishing the bush to his right fishing pellet on the deck Laurence caught fish to double figures for a great weight of 155lb which on any other day could of won this match.

A section was won by Michael Corsini who was fishing peg 7 . Michael started on the tip catching his 21lb common early but also added a few more and then switched between a 6 metre line straight out in front and a margin swim towards peg 8 which added more carp to his final weight of 135-08 by fishing pellet fished on the deck feeding pellet to continue his good form { well done Michael }. Only a small fish behind was Paul Bennett who was on back bank peg 2 and by fishing down the edge fishing paste managed to keep the carp coming to only end up just short of a section win with his weight of 134-00.

The regulars would like to thank Tumbley Bay for their invitation to fish in what turned out to be a memorable and enjoyable day.

 

 

 

 

Results

17 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Simon Mound	16	315-00 PB	Rolfslake.com
2nd	Laurence Bloomfield	9	155-00	Tumbley Bay AC
3rd	Micheal Corsini	7	135-08	Miracle Baits
4th	Paul Bennett	2	134-00	Tumbley Bay AC
5th	Neil Hutchins	32	124-08	Tumbley Bay AC
6th	Alan Sheehan	40	120-08	Tumbley Bay AC
7th	John Bennett	22	118-04	Rolfslake
8th	Geoff Edwards	26	109-08	Reading Angling Centre
9th	Dai Thomas	4	83-08	Jinx League
10th	Steve Boakes	13	77-12	Tumbley Bay AC
11th	Mat Edwards	29	53-04	Miracle Baits
12th	Dave Wint	6	52-04	Tumbley Bay AC
13th	Mick Sutton	38	36-10	Tumbley Bay AC
14th	Nick Pringle	8	49-12	Tumbley Bay AC
15th	Nick Williams	18	21-08	Miracle Baits
16th	Eddie Taylor-Green	34	DNW	Rolfslake
17th	Mick Chappell	10	DNW	Rolfslake

The Pirate is sent back down to Davy Jones Locker.

 

 

 

The score now stands at.

John 8

Eddie 3

 

Just a final reminder that there is a charity match down the lake this Friday so if you would like to watch it will cost you a pound and there will also be a barbecue selling burgers to raise money for the McMillan Cancer Support so come down to watch some star anglers fishing with some regular anglers it should be a great day.

Thanks to all the anglers that have pledged some money for the charity it is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading John,Simon and Eddie.