I arrived at the lake today to find quite a few cars in the carpark today, which is the start of John and Pauline Bennett allowing pleasure anglers on a Wednesday { maximum 15 pre booking required } as they had had many requests about pleasure fishing the lake which can be upto 18 months booked ahead. John was seeing if the match and pleasure anglers could fish together on the lake which would make full use of all the swims.

I popped down early as John said that my son Edward could have a couple of hours fishing on peg 11 out of the way and after spending some time hooked up in the tree managed to hook a few fish, loose a few fish and end up with a 11-08 mirror which he was more than happy with { well done son and thank you John }.

At 1.30 sharp the draw was made and the anglers were placed on both the car park bank and the motorway bank in the big lake as all the other swims had anglers on, and as i drew my peg it was a short walk to peg 28. As the all in was called there was not the usual frantic start of fish being caught except for the pleasure anglers so today was going a match of endurance. Pete Arnold was the only angler i could see making the regular trips to the weigh station with my boy acting as the witness for his fish as he was certainly not seeing any fish from his dad as it was quite hard except if you had one of the four end pegs 32, 23, 9 or 18 as they all seemed to be catching the odd fish.

The winner of todays match and not on an end peg just to make things confussing was Rolfslake regular Mick Jones who after a slow start fished three lines the two margins and a line straight out at about 6-7 metres all fished on the deck. Mick fished his usual meat hookbait feeding pellet to keep the fish in his swim and Mick caught big fish in high doubles in his final weight of 163-12 { well done Mick } . In second place was Andy Quarmby who was on End peg 23 ,and Andy fished most of the match up in the water and also caught big fish to 17lb by fish pellet hookbait feeding regular to keep the fish coming. Completing the frame was Pete Arnold on peg 32 who looked to be building a big weight as evertime i looked up he was playing a fish but he also lost a few and in the end caught a much lower weight than most anglers thought of 142-08.

Todays winner Rolfslake's Mick Jones.

As far as i was concerned i brought the boy with me to show him dad catching a lot of fish but by the end of the first hour i was playing my first carp and turned round to talk to my boy only to find him asleep, i had bored him to sleep i was told but i woke him up to take the photo below.

Eddie Taylor-Green senior with a 14 mirror.

At the end of the match i weighed a poor 43-12 to come 9th and i managed to beat John Bennett by 12 ounces but this result is being investigated by the stewards as John tells me a skimmer he had was thrown back and not recorded so he wanted to call it a draw, but as it was not on the final weight sheet i am taking it as a victory to move into a 9-8 lead in our year long battle { sorry John }.

Results.

Pleasure fishing at Rolfslake.

Today was a great day for the pleasure anglers at Rolfslake as there was plenty of fish for the 17 anglers that had booked with lake owner John Bennett for a special chance to catch the big fish at Rolfslake. Also down on the lake was a beauty model who was fishing with her husband {how great is that a great looking wife who likes fishing } who were happy catching fish down the bottom end of the small lake. Elsewhere the anglers on pegs 6,7,8 and on 19,20,21 and also 34,36 and 38 where all having a good day catching fish to 19lb on all methods in the nice sunshine, so if you would like to have a great days fishing give John Bennett a call you will love it.

Edward Taylor-Green Junior also had a great days fishing with dad with this 11-08 mirror