Spring league round 4 21st March 2010

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As the anglers gathered for round 4 of the spring league they were joined on the lake by a visiting party who today would be fishing the small lake pegs 34 to peg 8.

With the league being very close between the Woodentops led by captained by Paul Jay and the Swindon Mafia captained by Mick Lane ,it was going to be very important to ensure that all anglers caught and with the carp now starting to move that you managed to catch a few to boost your weight and with the wind blowing from the south the fish that were hiding down on pegs 19 and 20 had started to move to the middle of the lake infront of pegs 16 and 24.

John tells that during the match carp were caught and lost but the main battle was between he on peg 18 {for John peg 18 is his new peg 9 as he had drawn it a few times recently} and Derek Hammond on peg 22 and at the end of five hours Derek was one fish ahead although John mananged to lose a few during the match. Derek was fishing the pole fished long and on the deck using corn for hook bait but feeding quite cautiously to keep the fish there and in the end Derek caught 95-00 for first place individually and 4 points for his team. John fished pretty similar to Derek but after catching a few carp the fished moved out of pole range and started to come up on the surface much to his annoyance as he tells me he should of caught over 100lb of fish with the amount of fish in his swim but ended up with 80-08.

Elsewhere around the lake most anglers caught a few carp on either pole, waggler or bomb again using corn and pellet as the main hookbait but feeding cautiously as not to spook the fish.

The Woodentops still lead the league but only by one point so round five this weekend should be a good battle between them and the Swindon Mafia and as reporter i am totally unbiased so i hope the Woodentops win for a change. The lake is fishing better as each match goes by so by the time the Easter Festival comes round it should be on top form.

Results

A section.

1st  Steve Williams           Dnw’s                peg 32     47-12         4 points

2nd Phil Powell                Swindon Mafia   peg 9       35-04         3 points

3rd Dave Ball                  Pikeys                peg 10      8-04          2 points

4th Fred Parker               Woodentops     peg 30      7-04           1 points

B section

1st Paul Jay                     Woodentops     peg 13     61-12           4 points

2nd Ryan Rimmer            Dnw’s                peg 26     33-04          3 points

3rd Mick Lane                 Swindon Mafia   peg 14     30-12          2 points

4th Herbie                      Pikeys                peg 13     13-00          1 point

C section

1st Derek Hammond      Woodentops      peg 22      95-00          4 points

2nd John Bennett           Swindon Mafia   peg 18      80-08          3 points

3rd Derek Hazleman      Pikeys                peg 16      43-10          2 points

4th John Cowling           Dnw’s                peg 24      39-04          1 point

Results on the day

Woodentops    9 points

Swindon Mafia 8 points

Dnw’s              8 points

Pikeys             5 points

Results after round  4

Woodentops    34 points

Swindon Mafia 33 points

Pikeys              28 points

Dnw’s              25 points

Rolfslake’s Easter Festival 2010

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Are you booked in for the Festival ?.

John has asked me to remind any angler still interested in fishing Rolfslake’s Easter Festival that there is now only one place remaining to bring the total entry to 27 anglers.

If you fancy very good fishing at this time of the year with a very competitive field and a good laugh please give John Bennett a call ,you can find the number on the contact us page.

Rolfs Lake Saturday Open

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13th March

Spring Time at Rolfs Lake.

After a couple of cold icy weeks, the weather finally warmed up and the sun started to shine. The temperature was creeping up to 10 or 11 degrees and a few carp and orfe were starting to come up to feed on bread in the nursery. The question was, would they start to move around the other pegs or stayed shoaled up in peg 22. As usual that was the peg everybody was hoping for.
Soon enough, all 8 anglers got ready to do the draw, we were all going to fish the far end of the big lake today so we should all be in for a good session. Dan Blackwell Drew first and chose peg 26 and John Bennett second with 24. Dan and Paul were not expecting to many fish as the fish have recently been shoaling up tight to the far side.


It was time for the whistle to be blown know and we were all in, Dan cast out a bomb at about 20m out on peg 26 and was the first to hook into a Carp. It was a big fish and felt like a high double but the hook pulled last minute. John and Paul were both in next at the same time and both sucsessfully got them to the net. And then Dan managed to redeem himself by getting a nice Carp into his net. Dan, Paul and John were all on the same tactics fishing the bomb and corn and pole and pellet which was proving very successful.

Paul landing a nice doulble figure carp.

Catching a few from 18

After 1 hour, everybody had managed to tempt 1 or 2 carp into their nets but a lot of the Carp hooked were unfortunately lost. Dan had managed to catch a nice 10lber along with Paul over on 14, John however had caught 5 carp all around the 7lb mark, some bigger some smaller. It was going very wrong on 22 with 7 carp being lost and 2 landed, it was more or less the same story on 18.

16m pole on 22

John talking to Mike on 24

With half an hour to go John had walked away having a great result of about 8 carp, Dan and Paul were very close with 3 carp and each had one of about 13lb. Dan had lost 4 in the end and Paul lost 1.

13lb carp from Rolfs Lake

A nice pole caught carp

It was now the end of the match and we all wondered around to do the weigh in.
In the end John won the match with 66lb 4oz, Well Done John!! Paul Jay came 2nd with 33lb 8oz and Dan came 3rd with 31lb. Well done to everybody that fished.

Dan Blackwells 31lb bag for 3rd

Top 3 Results. 8 Anglers fished.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Bennett 24 66-4
2 Paul Jay 14 33-8
3 Daniel Blackwell 26 31-0

Thanks for reading, Dan

Rolfslake upcoming opens.

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John Bennett has told me that he will be holding opens this Saturday and Sunday , so if you would like to get in practise for the Easter festival or to fish Rolfslake before the club bookings take over the weekends give John a call.

The draw times are 10.00 draw fish 11.-4.00 on both days.

John is also awaiting the last few anglers to confirm their places for the Easter festival and then all the places will be full, so it promises to be another fantastic three days with a high quality field , plenty of fish and good company. Their will be a pre festival open on the Friday with the festival being fished on the Saturday ,Sunday and Monday.

If you have any other questions just give John a call.

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