Rolfs Lake Night Match. Fri 20th June. 2014

Tonight there was a low attendance of anglers fishing the night match but with warm weather and no rain expected at least there were going to be a few bites around to keep you awake. It was decided by John to fish the small lake only so most of the anglers wanted either pegs 34,7 or 8 as there were lots of fish in these areas unlike pegs 40 and 2 which were covered in the white cotton wool that had fallen off the polular trees which would make fishing difficult.

The story of the match was in the first two hours drawbags John Bennett and Andy Rayment were hooking a fish a cast on pegs 7 and 8 but losing just as many and Dave Howe on little used peg 36 was quietly putting fish on a regular basis into his net. Kev Dolton on Peg 38 started slowly but as darkness fell i could tell he was losing fish due to the language that was coming from his peg which was only equalled by my own frustration on peg 40 as the cotton wool totally covered my peg making fishing super difficult.

After about 3 hours i could tell John was catching as his bite indicator or Olly the dog started barking and carried on for the rest of the match which at 11 O’clock at night seems very loud but as i turned around to face peg 4 i could see in the dark that Ernie Malyon on peg 5 was sneaking a few fish out and he eventually would turn out to be the winner.

Ernie started fishing at 13 metres coming back to 4 metres and started off by catching a few carp and a lot of bream all 20 of them and then targeted the carp but if he had stayed on the bream he was sure he could of topped the 100lb of silvers as he caught 64lb of bream in the first 2 and a half hours to go with the 123lb of carp giving him a total of 187-04 and another win down the lake.

Second was John Bennett with 175-04 and third was Andy Rayment with 140-15 and between them they estimated they must of hooked and lost 1000lb of foul hooked carp { how sad for them }.

The next night match is on the 4th July which is nearly sold out as there are only two places left and after that there is only two i believe after that.

The night was topped off with Pauline preparing some food after the match which was much appreciated by the anglers.

Tonights winner Ernie from peg 5.

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