Biggest weight of the year so far.

Today saw 13 anglers fish Rolfslake Sunday Open on a mild day for a change.

With the Easter festival approaching, it was an opportunity for the competing anglers to get in tune with the fishes current moods and feeding pattern.

Today’s winner was current Festival champion Anthony Flint who today drew peg 8 in the chanel between the big and small lake.

Anthony started on the 6 metre line snaring a couple of big carp but then changed to a 14 metre line towards peg 32 as it was vacant. In this swim Anthony caught 7 bream but when fished 16 metre against the far bank he added another 26 carp all caught on pellet for his great weight of 212-00.

In second place was Andy Quarmby who also had a great day fishing on form peg 10 on the motorway bank. Andy also had big fish in his final weight of 185-00 and was only 2 fish off victory.

Completing the frame was Dan Blackwell who was fishing peg 38 and after a slow half of the match manage to line a few carp up fishing down the edge. Dan had carp to 18lb in his weight of 104-03.

Results

13 fished.

Place	Angler	Weight	Peg	Sponsor
1st	Anthony Flint	212-00	8	Drennan Bordon
2nd	Andy Quarmby	185-00	10	Middy
3rd	Dan Blackwell	104-03	38	Rolfslake
4th	John Cowling	95-02	14	Rolfslake
5th	Ernie Malyon	91-09	24	Rolfslake
6th	Dave Wilsden	82-06	9	Rolfslake
7th	Neil Fenner	74-03	22	Rolfslake
8th	John Bennett	64-15	7	Rolfslake/ Drennan
9th	Steve Wilson	63-06	34	Jinx League
10th	Mick Jones	53-13	16	Rolfslake
11th	Steve Stayte	50-00	18	Rolfslake

Thanks for reading John, Eddie and Simon.

Late start time results in bigger weights.

Report to follow.

Results

14 Fished

Place	Angler	Weight	Peg	Sponsor
1st	Malc Doyle	144-09	4	Jinx League
2nd	Andy Rayment	138-10	9	Rolfslake
3rd	Frank Donachie	119-14	7	Colmic
4th	Mark Newbold	111-05	8	Rolfslake
5th	Mick Jones	109-13	5	Rolfslake
6th	Gordon Worrell	81-14	26	Rolfslake
7th	Dai Thomas	70-10	10	Jinx League
8th	John Bennett	53-14	18	Rolfslake / Drenna
9th	Terry Turnip	52-05	24	Rolfslake
10th	Derek Newsome	52-05	16	Rolfslake

Thanks for reading John, Eddie and Simon.

The fish get back on the feed.

Results

14 fished.

Place	Angler	Weight	Peg	Sponsor
1st	Dan Blackwell	85-00	16	Rolfslake
2nd	Charlie Bishop	77-11	10	Top Tackle
3rd	Lewis Wood	70-09	38	Rolfslake
4th	Chris Lovelock	61-05	24	Rolfslake
5th	John Bennett	45-14	22	Rolfslake /Drennan
6th	Gary Kelsey	44-02	34	Rolfslake
7th	Steve Stayte	38-07	14	Rolfslake
8th	Adam Griffiths	21-11	18	Rolfslake
9th	Dai Thomas	19-01	4	Jinx League
10th	Steve Wilson	19-00	32	Jinx League

Thanks for reading John, Eddie and Simon.

All seasons in 5 hours.

Down at Rolfslake today the anglers had to bear horrendous weather with rain , sleet, hailstones plus a very cold wind.

For comfort it was decided to fish the motorway bank except if you were on pegs 8 and 10 then you had the rain straight in your face.

The story of the day was with high water levels and ice cold water it seemed to slow the fishing down, with most anglers struggling for bites.

Today’s winner was John Bennett who was stuggling to get bites on the pole but when he switched to the bomb it was a different story.

John switched between corn and pellet to catch 4 carp and 2 bream for his weight of 34-02 and the win ( well done John ).

In second place was Andy Rayment who was fishing next to John on peg 14. Again Andy struggled for bites due to the gusting wind, but when he fished a shorter line Andy had the swim fizzing like a Jacuzzi. Andy managed to catch 3 carp and a few silvers for his weight of 31-04.

Completing the frame was me (Eddie) on a very cold peg 4. After getting broke by a carp first put in I struggled for bites but eventually found 3 carp and a few silvers fishing down the edge fishing corn feeding pellet for my weight of 21-12.

Results

7 fished

Place	Angler	Weight	Peg	Sponsor
1st	John Bennett	34-02	16	Rolfslake /Drennan
2nd	Andy Rayment	31-04	14	Rolfslake
3rd	EddieT-Green	21-12	4	X4 Baits
4th	Gordon Worrell	10-00	10	Rolfslake
5th	Mick Chappel	8-11	8	Rolfslake

Thanks for reading John, Eddie and Simon.

 

Cold blowy day down the lake.

Today saw 9 anglers turn up on a cold and very windy day to fish today’s match.

With the anglers spread around the lake on all the feature pegs hoping they would have both a few fish and some shelter out of the wind.

Today winner was Tony Rowe who was fishing peg 2 at the bottom of the small lake where the wind was blowing in to. Tony fished in front of peg 3’s platform where he found fish waiting and by using pellet and corn he caught carp to double figures in his weight of 88-06.

In second place was me who was fishing my new favourite peg 14 on the motorway bank. After starting on the top 2 catching silvers I then hooked a carp and then lost the next two.

A switch to my right hand bush fishing corn hookbait and feeding maggots resulted in 7 more carp to 19lb losing 7 in my final weight of 81-11.

Completing the frame was John Bennett on peg 10 who also beneffited from the wind blowing into his bank. After a couple of fish fishing short , John then went long infront of peg 11 where he caught another 8 carp. As with most anglers today John lost a lot of fish but  he was happy with his weight of 79-13 although he would of loved 2lb more.

John has allowed the retention of all fish during the colder months whilst the fishing has been slower, but the rule of weighing of fish over 10lb will soon be restored.

The exception of this will be the forthcoming Easter festival.

Results

9 fished

Place	Angler	Weight	Peg	Sponsor
1st	Tony Rowe	88-06	2	Rolfslake
2nd	Eddie Taylor-Green	81-11	14	X4 Baits
3rd	John Bennett	79-13	10	Rolfslake/ Drennan
4th	Dan Blackwell	77-02	8	Rolfslake
5th	Andy Rayment	64-01	16	Rolfslake
6th	Mick Jones	49-03	34	Rolfslake
7th	Andy Quarmby	34-09	18	Middy
8th	Ade Williams	32-10	32	Jinx League
9th	Steve Wilson	31-06	24	Jinx League

A few photos from today.

Thanks for reading John, Eddie and Simon.

Results

Top 3

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Andy Quarmby	2	63-14	Middy
2nd	Dave Wilsden	8	59-09	Rolfslake
3rd	Steve Waters	5	21-07	Drennan

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.