Today only a few anglers turned up for a midweek knock-up so we tried to convince the pleasure anglers to join in but they were having nothing of it. The day was sunny with a slight breeze on the lake making it a very nice morning but i am glad i brought my coat because towards the end it was like being in Siberia as it turned very cold making it difficult to catch fish in the last two hours of the match.

Today we decided to have a walk off and choose whatever peg you liked on the lake and when John drew one {infact it was two as he dropped one he could not find it} he wanted to fish peg 23 in the big lake. Next to choose was me and i chose peg 3, Paul went on 16 and Neil chose peg 18 then realising there was no-one on form peg 14 went there. Then John decided to tell me that i could not fish the small lake on my own something about verifying doubles { in fact it was because he could not shout abuse at me from his peg } so i reluctantly chose peg 9 the furthest one away from him.

It was a slow start to the match with very little action then i saw the elastic coming from Neil pole on peg 14, and with his first carp going 18-12 he was certainly up and running. A short while later i heard shouting coming from Neils peg as he was just landing another carp because this fish was massive and after weighing the fish it went 22-10 and a new PB for Neil { well done Neil }.

In the next two hours Neil put another 6 carp in his net fishing the pole to the bush to his right and also the bomb straight out in front about half way fishing ith whis special coated corn hook bait. Paul being bored of watching Neil catching carp went off to peg 14 and like a scene from Oliver said “please Neil can i have some of your corn” ?.

That was Neils only mistake of the day as after that Paul caught 11 carp to 19-12 from all areas at the bottom of the big lake fishing the straight lead and hair rigging two pieces of corn. At the end of the match Paul had won with 119-12 to Neils 92-14 { well done Paul }. What about John Bennett i hear you ask well with the sun in my eyes for most of the match i could not really see him, but one thing i know was that he must of borrowed someones pole as he was fishing 16 metres out on to the old bar that runs across the lake.

John again fishing corn on the deck caught carp to 16-12 in his final weight of 75-04.

Two photo’s to show off this lovely common.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Bait
1st	Paul Jay	16	119-12	Corn
2nd	Neil Riddy	14	92-14	Corn
3rd	John Bennett	23	75-4	Corn
4th	Eddie Taylor-Green	9	6-12	Corn / Maggot

As for me it was a frustrating day on peg 9 as the bush  was devoid of carp { that was the first time ever i have been to Rolfs and not caught a carp } so in the last 45 minutes i decided to have a go for the silvers and ended up with perch and roach in my bag of 6-12 but at least for now i am on the silver fish peg king board.

In my battle with John Bennett i have now gone down another point as the score stands at John 14 Eddie 9.

Until our next report tight lines Simon and Eddie.