FISHING AT THE LAKE OVER THE WEEKEND

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I HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL TOMORROWS OPEN MATCH DUE TO THE EXSTREME OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES, I WILL BE GOING DOWN THE LAKE MID MORNING TO HAVE A LOOK AND BREAK SOME ICE.

THE THICKNESS OF THE ICE IS  NOT REALY A PROBLEM AS REGUARDS THE SPRING PAIRS MATCH AS WE HAVE BROKEN ICE IN MUCH COLDER CONDITIONS.

,HOWEVER WITH THE FORCAST OF SNOW DEPENDING ON WHICH WEATHER REPORT YOU LOOK AT, WITH A POSSIBLE 5 INCHES OR MORE I HAVE TO CONSIDER TRAVELLING CONDITIONS, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO PUT ANYBODY IN AN UNSAFE SITUATION, SO KEEPING A LOOK ON THE WEATHER REPORTS I WILL MAKE A DECISION BY 5-30 TOMORROW.

I WILL HOLD AN OPEN ON THE LAKE FOR THE INTREPID ( OR DAFT) ANGLERS WHO ARE DETERMINED TO GET OUT

Wednesday Open Match. 1st February 2012

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A cold day down the lake today but strangely no ice on the lake despite minus temperatures.Very hard fishing today down the lake for the anglers.

Today’s winner Pete Archer has not been down the lake for a while but returned to take the win fishing from peg 28. Pete was using maggot on the pole trying for silvers but go plagued with those pesky carp.

Neil Riddy managed to catch 3 carp for his weight from last Sundays winning peg, Peg 13. Neil is currently the peg king for peg 13 so knows how to fish it but the carp had other idea’s today.

Completing the frame was Dave Wightman fishing from peg 10. Dave’s weigh was made up completely of silver fish, he also had 3 bonus skimmers to help build his weight.

 Results

     Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Pete Archer 28 29-8
2 Neil Riddy 13 20-8
3 Dave Wightman 10 14-8
4 John Bennett 24 9-8
5 John Draper 9 7-0

9 Anglers Fished.

Todays winner in Sunnier times down the lake. Pete Archer.

The temperature is set to drop further still and then start to rise again Saturday so hopefully it wont be too cold for everyone fishing the second round of the Spring Pairs League this Sunday.

There is an Open match this Saturday also.

Thanks for Reading, Eddie, John and Simon.

Rolfs Lake Spring League. Round 1. 29th Jan.

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Today was the eagerly awaited pairs series based on 6 matches with you been able to drop your worst result.

 

I was very much looking forward to this as I have practically been in hibernation since I arrived back from Whiteacres last October. There were 9 other pairs fishing and on paper they all  looked very strong teams so the competition was going to be good along with plenty of banter.

John Bennett conducted the draw for the sections we were going to fish, unbelievably the first 8 pairs all drew A section with only the last pair breaking the sequence of A section draws.

Once the draw for the sections was done, we were on for drawing our pegs for the day. The fancied pegs in A section went to Paul Bennett, Paul Jay and Mick Chappell. I was personally in B section and having fished the section the day before without a lot of success, I was secretly hoping I would of avoided, even more when I drew peg 22 as I had struggled off 18 before

Conditions wise the lake was like a mill pond, well this was until Steve Waters plumbed up the depth and caught a carp on a bare hook. Solid springs to mind. Typical Steve Waters peg then !!!!

With the match kicking off at 10.45, Mark Newbold on peg 26 was running to the weigh station at 10.46 with his first carp. Looking round the lake it looked like the fish were having a bit of a feed as most people seemed to be catching except the guys between 17 and 23 who sat looking at motionless tips or floats.

Come the final whistle the carp had moved to our end of the lake but it was all to late. Mick Chappel on peg 13 was rumoured to have caught well plus Andy on peg 10 next to him. Come the weigh in Mick Chappel was confirmed as the winner catching mainly on banded pellet or corn over micro pellet. Andy next to him on peg 10 was only one fish behind him again catching on corn over pellet.

Overall the battle for B section was won by Mark Newbold on peg 26 fishing 14m fishing double corn over pellet. This was also enough to ensure his team were top pairs on the day with 17 points.

With the next match this coming Sunday, the teams at the top will be looking to consolidate there lead and the ones at the bottom will be looking for an improved performance, However with Baltic conditions forecast, anything can happen !!!

Lastly on the behalf of all the anglers at Rolfs, I would like to wish Phil Powell a speedy recovery and we will look forward to seeing you back on the bank soon.

(Report by Pat Pritchard)

Results….

A Section
Pos Name Peg Weight Points
1 mick chappell peg 13  92lbs-12ozs  10
2 andy quarmby peg 10  82lbs-8ozs   9
3 Neill Hutchins peg 4  48lbs-8ozs   8
4 Dave wightman peg 9  42lbs-12ozs   7
5 Paul Bennett peg 34  42lbs-12ozs   7
6 paul jay peg 7  31lbs-9ozs   5
7 john bennett peg 36  26lb-12ozs   4
8 derek hammond peg 38  24lbs-0ozs   3
9 pete tapp peg 2  0-4ozs   2
10 not drawn peg 8  dnw   0
B Section
Pos Name Peg Weight Points
1  mark newbold peg 26 68lbs-6ozs  10
2  john draper peg 30 58lbs-8ozs   9
3  jeff edwards peg 18 31lbs-0ozs   8
4  jim mc cann peg 25 28lbs-0ozs   7
5  steve waters peg 28 26lbs-8ozs   6
6  pete arnold peg 23 22lbs-8ozs   5
7  dave loseby peg 15 18lbs-13ozs   4
8  pat pritchard peg 22 13lbs-4ozs   3
9  michael corsini peg 17 dnw   0
10  not drawn peg 14 dnw   0
Overall Leader Board
Pos Names Points
1 mark newbold,paul bennett  17
2 jim mc cann, neil hutchins  15
3 john draper,paul jay  14
4 andy quarmby pat pritchard  12
5 dave wightman,pete arnold  12
6 john bennett,jeff edwards  12
7 mick chappell,michael corsini  10
8 derek hammond,steve waters   9
9 dave loseby, pete tapp   6
10 mick lane,phil powell (did not fish this round)   0

 

Rolfslake’s Wednesday Open 25th January 2012

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The small lake wins todays match.

With the forthcoming pairs match only a few days away and the last match for a while where the big fish are allowed to be kept in the nets, it was decided that todays match was going to be a rover and the anglers could choose anywhere on the lake to fish.

As i arrived at the draw the weather was quite mild with very little wind and carp topping all around the lake, but it was a false dawn as it turned cold during the match and the wind picked up making fishing the long pole as difficult as it did last weekend. With the draw being called I could sense that most of the anglers wanted to fish the big lake so it was going to be an easy choice for me { peg 3 } as I was only one of two anglers that wanted to fish the small lake, the bad news was the other angler was my sparring partner John Bennett who was on peg 6.

The other anglers were facing each other from pegs 13 to 24 so at least they had a bit of space to cast the bomb out. The story of the match was that the anglers had plenty of bites and many lost fish and the average size of the fish were again very big with me having a brute of a fish that i thought was going to be my first 20lb der but how it ended up only weighing 19-08 i will never know. As the match went on it turned colder and the bites slowed down but it still fished better than last weekends matches and even the pleasure angler in the small lake was bagging on the straight lead fishing corn.

 

Rolfslake's danger man in form angler John Bennett.

 

 

In first place today and showing a master class of how to catch fish in cold weather was Rolfslake’s inform angler John Bennett who was on peg 6 and he started on the bomb for one carp but a switch to the 13 mtr pole fishing corn and feeding micros got the carp and silvers lined up. John even had the luxury of losing 10 carp and he believes that he should of caught alot more, but after a tough day with the wind John caught 9 carp and silvers for 72-00 for yet another win { well done John i really mean it }.

In second place was Pat Pritchard on motorway peg 16 and Pat kept pace with John for most of the match but a big lost carp 10 minute from the end put paid to Pat’s chance for the win. Pat was using the long pole fishing on the deck using maggots and corn hookbaits to catch his 6 carp and a few silvers for his weight of 64-08 and only 7-08 off first place. Completing the frame was John Draper who this week swapped his favouite peg 9 this time for peg 14, and after struggling to catch on corn swapped to 6mm expander pellet and had 14-08 0f skimmers early on and then the 5 carp arrived for another 33lb which gave him a total of 47-08.

Results.

9 fished

 

Place Angler Peg Weight Method  
1st John Bennett 6 72-00 Bomb / 13mtr pole corn. Rolfslake
2nd Pat Pritchard 16 64-08 14mtr pole corn /maggot Rolfslake
3rd John Draper 14 47-08 13 mtr pole / expander pellet Rolfslake
4th Eddie Taylor-Green 3 39-08 13 mtr pole / maggot Rolfslake
5th Paul Jay 24 24-12 Bomb Rolfslake
6th Graham Ridgley 13 21-04 Bomb/ pole Rolfslake

John   3

 

Eddie 0

 

When will I catch a 20lb carp ?. this one is only 19-08.

To all the anglers competing in the pairs series we hope you all have a good time and that the fishing this weekend continues to improve especially in the small lake.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

ROLFS LAKE PAIRS MATCH SUNDAY 29th JAN.

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After much discussion on the site and via phone calls it has been deemed necessary to alter the format of the pairs, the sticking point was fishing 5 anglers in each section, if on the draw you had 5 very strong anglers in the same section, it would be very difficult for those anglers to remain competitive in the rest of the rounds  with only 5 points available. So we are now running with 2 split sections of 10 this should make it better and hopefully fairer.

On the first round the pairs will draw for A or B and then A section  will draw from the following pegs. 31  34 THE NEXT PEG IS EITHER 36 37 OR 38 WE HAVE NOT TOTALY DECIDED ON THIS ONE YET, THEN PEG 2 this peg will relie on the anglers integrity with the weighing of big fish,The next pegs are 4  7  8  9  10 13.

B section will then draw from the following pegs,  14  15  17  18  22  23 25  26  28  29 ..

Payouts..on day one we will be one team short mick lane and phil powell are unable to attend so will drop this match from the series ( that will be 2 flyers left for us mere mortals to draw)  Team money round 1 is as follows 1st team £82 2nd £72 3rd £62.

with 20 anglers the payout will be 1st team £90 2nd £80 3rd £70.

with 20 anglers fishing the final money payout will be 1st £150 2nd £135 3rd £115. at the end of the 6 match series

I MUST APOLOGISE TO JOHN DRAPER WHO HAS ALREADY HAS DONE ALL THE PAPER WORK FOR THE PREVIOUS FORMAT, WE WILL KEEP THAT ON FILE SHOULD WE DECIDE TO DO SOMTHING OF THE SAME IN THE FUTURE.

I think Andy Rayment cant make the first match i dont know if his partner Mark Newblold can get a partner or not it would make it a lot easier if he could please let me know.

THERE IS AN OPEN MATCH ON SATURDAY IF ANYBODY WANTS A PRACTICE ETC.

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