After the tough midweek open won By Geoff Edwards the anglers today were greeted by two things, the sun and a lake full of cruising fish to raise the hopes of a good days fishing. I can only asume todays match was a walk off as both pegs 20 and 3 were included and under normal conditions and with me absent from the lake these pegs would never be included.

John tells me the story of the match was that today was a sunny and fairly warm day with a cool breeze blowing across the lake which saw the small lake black with fish but they were not interested in feeding but chasing each other around. It was a similar story in the big lake but the anglers did manage to catch a few carp early so thing were already better than Wednesday. The good thing about today is that the silvers were still happy to feed in numbers with Steve Waters managing to catch over 20lb of silvers to go with his carp, and John also told me that there were a few carp lost but there were still many bites to be had which is good news.

In first place today was lake owner John Bennett who when I phoned him after 2 hours he told me he was struggling like he does even if he is bagging, but was struggling to get bites fishing his long line but after changing to start a new swim began catching again and during this period he managed to  catch 3 carp for 42lb to boost his weight. John was today fishing on the deck at about 14 metres using corn and soft pellet for hoobait feeding micro pellet and caught 8 carp for 79-00 for yet another win { well done John }.

In second place today was an angler missing for a while Ernie Malyon who was fishing peg 23 on the motorway bank and Ernie fished both the waggler and pole to catch his carp and today was using maggots as hookbait and after 5 hours put a hard earned 65-04 on the scales to just keep ahead of the chasing pack. Very close in third was John Draper who was fishing in the small lake on peg 34 and John in the end fell just one small roach from second place with 65-00 and today any of the top three weights would of won the midweek match.

9 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	John Bennett	16	79-00	Rolfslake
2nd	Ernie Malyon	23	65-04	Spro
3rd	John Draper	34	65-00	Rolfslake
4th	Dave Whiteman	25	55-00	Hydro 2000
5th	Steve Waters	9	48-08	Frenzee
6th	Kev Doulton	20	28-08	Rolfslake
7th	Mick Chappell	3	23-08	Rolfslake
8th	Mick Hughes	14	22-08	Hydro 2000

Tomorrow Rolfslake welcome Royal Oak angling club so we hope all the anglers have a great day.

John has already had 12 names for the Easter Festival and has asked the anglers who fished last year if they would like to fish they must contact him asap if they would like to fish this year. John has limited the event to 27 places to enable the anglers to have a bit of space on the lake, and this popular event usually is well attended and by the time Easter comes around the fishing should at full swing so to not miss out give John a call to confirm your place.

 

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.