Winter League Round 6(Final). 15th January 2012

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Another frozen day at the lake.

Report to follow…

Results.

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Derek Hammond 34 100-4 Walker Floats
2nd Roger Young 5 31-8 Drawbags
3rd Simon Mound 7 27-0 Crabtree’s
4th Andy Rayment 40 16-12 Misfits
5th Phil Powell 2 8-4 Rolfs Gold
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Paul Jay 10 50-0 Crabtree’s
2nd Pete Arnold 29 39-0 Misfits
3rd Mick Lane 9 8-0 Rolfs Gold
4th Mick Chappell 32 DNW Drawbags
– Jon Walker (NO SHOW) 13 ——- Walker Floats
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Frank Hardie 26 55-4 Drawbags
2nd Steve Waters 16 38-4 Walker Floats
3rd Neil Riddy 18 38-0 Crabtree’s
4th Dave Wightman 24 18-12 Misfits
5th John Bennett 22 9-0 Rolfs Gold
DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
Crabtree’s 11
Walker Floats 9
Drawbag’s 9
Misfits 8
Rolfs Team Gold 5

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

TEAM POINTS POINTS Total
1 Crabtree’s 12+4+9+13+7+11 56
2 Misfits 7+13+8½+8+10+8 54½
3 Rolfs Team Gold 12+7+13+5+10+5 52
4 Walker Floats 7+10+3½+11+11+9 51½
5 Drawbag’s 6+11+10+5+7+9 48
Total Team Weights Weight
Crabtree’s 699-9
Misfits 672-11
Walker Floats 659-1
Rolfs Team Gold 534-8
Drawbag’s 496-7

Overall Second Place, Misfits.

First Place Overall. Crabtree's

Second on the day. Derek Hammond and Steve Waters minus Lord Lucan 😛

Rolfslake Saturday Open 14th January 2012.

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First frosts kill the sport in today’s open match.

John tells me that after the previous nights temperature reaching as low as -7 it affected the weights in today’s match with many anglers struggling to get bites and catch any quantity of fish. After the previous weeks good weights the seven anglers were hoping for a few fish and on approaching the lake today could see plenty of carp topping in the small lake where John had been feeding them earlier. It was decided to fish the big lake today as the small lake had fished poorly on Wednesday and the anglers were drawn between peg 28 and peg 16.

Todays winner Derek Hammond.

The winner today was Derek Hammond who was fishing car park peg 26 and managed to catch 3 carp on his favoured waggler fished on the deck for 29-08 followed by Mark Newbold with one carp for 13-04 and third was Mick Chappell also with one carp for 11-04 in what was a very hard and very cold match.

Tomorrow’s final winter league match will be a very tight and tense affair as almost all the teams can win the league as there are only 7 points separating the top 4 teams ,so it will be important that all team members catch tomorrow especially in the dreaded A section. John also tells me that there were plenty of silvers topping in the big lake so hopefully everyone has brought their maggots.

The current league champions Walker Floats.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Derek Hammond 26 29-04 Banbury Gunsmiths and Tackle
2nd Mark Newbold 16 13-04 Rolfslake
3rd Mick Chappel 18 11-04 Rolfslake
4th John Bennett 22 10-04 Rolfslake

John has asked my to ask any angler wishing to fish or enter a team in  the spring league which starts in a couple of weeks to please contact him on 07774618688 as soon as possible to register thank you.

Thanks for reading Simon, Eddie and John.

Wednesday Open Match. 11th January 2012

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 On arriving at the lake today you could of been forgive to think you had turned up for an open in the summer as there were 17 anglers and 4 pleasure anglers at the lake making for a very cosy day. The great thing about big turnouts is that we get to use both parts of the lake and as the pleasure anglers were already catching the omens were good.

With the weather starting off sunny with a gentle breeze but still fairly cold ,colder than last Sunday the anglers were hoping that the good weights  from last Sunday continued but in todays match it fished very different. The pegs the anglers wanted were end pegs 2, 18, 22 and with the draw being called there was a rush to the bag but the 3 most wanted pegs went to Geoff Edwards who had drawn peg 22, Mick Chappel had drawn peg 18 and John Daper amazingly had not drawn peg 9 but this time peg 2 on the far bank of the small lake.

The story of the lake as i was hidden on peg 5 in the small lake was the fishing in the big lake was much better than the small lake with many carp caught and in total there were 71 carp caught for 735lb at an average of 10.35lb per fish which was incredible for this time of year, and there were fish caught today any specimen carp angler would of been proud of with many carp caught between 10 and 20lb but not many stamp 5lb ders so strong gear was the order of the day. Even John Draper on peg 2 managed to smash a top 3 which went down to the bottom of the lake so 1- nil to the carp.

Today's winner Geoff Edwards and nearly king of the lake.

In first place today was Geoff Edwards ,who was fishing corner peg 22 in the big lake and Geoff was fishing the bush by peg 20 using corn hookbait feeding micro pellet fishing on the deck. Geoff was flying for the first 4 hours catching and losing loads of fish and the lake king was within his grasp but a very poor last hour put paid to that dream, but he still ended up with a great winter weight of 169-04 which conprised of some very big fish to nearly 20lb but due to a flat camera battery i did not get that shot but very well done Geoff you at least get peg king for peg 22.

The hottest swim on the lake peg 22.

Two ton weights in a week for inform angler Pete Arnold.

In second place was Pete Arnold who was fishing hot winter peg 24 on the car park bank, and today Pete opted to fish the bomb to about midway across the lake using a combination of corn and meat hook baits to catch his 13 carp which like Geoff’s went to close to 20lb and in the end was only 3 big carp behind first place with his weight of 130-12. Completing the frame was Stuart Yeomans on peg 14 and after catching 1 fish on the pole swapped to the bomb and caught more carp for a weight of 87-08.

Some more monster fish from todays match.

Dangerous Dave with a 18lb mirror from peg 10.

 

 

Graham Ridgley with a 14lb mirror from peg 13.

Wez with a 17lb common from peg 26.

 

Paul Jay with a 19lb common from peg 9 .

Results

     Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Jeff Edwards 22  169-04
2 Pete Arnold 24  130-12
3 Stuart Yeomans 14  87-08
4 John Draper 2  58-04
5 John Bennett 7  56-00
6 Paul Jay 9  45-01
8 Mick Chappel 18  44-08
9 Graham Ridgley 13  42-06
10 Wez 23  37-00
11 Dangerous Dave 10  36-00
12 Eddie Taylor-Green  5  12-04
13 Barry  4   9-00
14 Neil Riddy  8   7-00
15 Kev Doulton 28 DNW
16 Russell 26 DNW
17  Ben 16 DNW

17 Anglers Fished

John  2

Eddie 0

Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John

Winter League Round 5. 8th Jan 2012

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Some of the cracking carp caught today.

The results are on the results page. Click above.

With the winter league reaching round 5 and nearly all teams still in with a chance to win the title it was important that all sections fished well today and that all team members managed to catch to contribute to their teams total.

With a day off today i arrived after the second hour to see Simon, Mick Lane and Ian McCulloch all into fish ,which was better than last Wednesdays match. With Jon Walker missing today from A section it was left to Ian McCulloch to deputise for him and as luck would have it he had drawn peg 2 at the back end of the small lake.

The story of the match was that the lake fished the best it has in a winter league round 5 match and that there were 6 weights over a hundred pounds and two of them came from A section 1 from B section and 3 from C section . There were also some fantastic big fish caught topped by Neil Riddys 22-08 common and at least 3 other 18lb ders caught by Ian, Mick Chappel and Andy Raymond and there also many other doubles with all the anglers catching between them at least 100 carp in what was a most enjoyable match to watch.

The winner overall today came from Walker Floats super sub Ian McCulloch who fished a combination of bomb and pole fishing around peg 2 using a combinaion of expander pellet and corn to catch his fish {  all 17 of them } and many were around the 10lb mark and some above, and after 5 hours caught a fantastic 175-12 for the win and maximum points for the team.

Today's winner Ian McCulloch .

In second place was Andy Rayment who was fishing peg 22 in C section and Andy fished by the bush on peg 21 fshing corn and pellet fished on the deck to catch his carp, which like Ian’s were big and in the end put 143-08 to also record maximum points for his Misfits team.

Second place Andy Rayment.

 

Completing the top three was Pete Arnold on peg 34 in the dreaded A section and Pete used a combination of pole and Bomb to catch his fish which were surprisingly big for this peg and again corn was Pete’s main bait to catch his weight of 123-08 for second in section. There were also ton plus weights for Neil Riddy { 112-08 } on peg 13, Phil Powell { 111-12 } and Derek Hammond { 120-08 } on Peg 18 to complete a really good day for the anglers.

Top silver weight of the day went to Steve Walters who on struggling to catch carp decided to go for the silvers but also hooked a carp which he had on for 15 minutes but lost it at the net.

Carp on a silver rig oops.

 

After all Steve’s efforts on silvers ,he managed to not only win the silver pools but also took the top siver weight of the year with 19-12 { well done Steve}.

King of the silvers Steve Waters.

Some more photo’s from the day.

Neil Riddy and his beautiful 22-08 Common

Mick Lane on peg 7.

 

Neil bagging on peg 13.

 

At the end of the match it was very close in the team results with Walker Floats winning the day on 11 points, Misfits came second with 10 points on weight and Rolfs Team Gold third also with 10 points but with a lower weight ,so all i to play for in round 6 next week.

Results

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Ian McCulloch 2 175-12 Walker Floats
2nd Pete Arnold 34 123-8 Misfits
3rd Mick Lane 7 41-0 Rolfs Gold
4th Mick Chappell 5 38-0 Drawbags
5th Paul Jay 40 36-0 Crabtree’s
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Neil Riddy 13 112-8 Crabtree’s
2nd John Bennett 10 47-8 Rolfs Gold
3rd Frank Hardie 9 22-12 Drawbags
4th Steve Waters 29 19-12 Walker Floats
5th Dave Wightman 32 4oz Misfits
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Andy Rayment 22 143-8 Misfits
2nd Derek Hammond 18 120-8 Walker Floats
3rd Phil Powell 16 111-12 Rolfs Gold
4th Roger Young 24 81-12 Drawbags
5th Simon Mound 26 61-0 Crabtree’s
DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
Walker Floats 11
Misfits 10
Rolfs Team Gold 10
Crabtree’s 7
Drawbag’s 7

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

TEAM POINTS POINTS Total
1 Rolfs Team Gold 12+7+13+5+10 47
2 Misfits 7+13+8½+8+10 46½
3 Crabtree’s 12+4+9+13+7 45
4 Walker Floats 7+10+3½+11+11 42½
5 Drawbag’s 6+11+10+5+7 39

Rolfs Winter League 2011/12. Weights after 5 Rounds
Misfits 598lb-3oz
Crabtree’s 574lb-9oz
Walker Floats 520lb-9oz
Rolfs Team Gold 509lb-4oz
Drawbag’s 409lb-11oz

Thanks to Neil Riddy for working the weights out in case there is a tie and a countback is needed.

There is an open match next Saturday, the 14th. Draw at 9.30. Call John to book on.

Thanks for reading Simon, Eddie and John.

Saturday 7th Jan 2012

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  Only 7 anglers down the lake today. John Draper was on peg 9 again and managed to take the first ton of the year with a cracking 100-8. John Bennett was fishing from peg 16 and managed 3 fish for 29-8. Last but not least Mick Chappell with trying to get his peg king back from John Bennett on peg 19 but fell short catching a total of 21-4.

The Winter league continues tomorrow with round 5 and round 6 is next week, with the points so tight tomorrow’s match will be crucial.

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