Rolfslake Bank Holiday Sunday Open 26th August 2012.

Super Si rocks the 400lb mark and takes the King of the lake.

Today saw the anglers turn up for the second match of the bank holiday weekend and hopefully an improvement to the fishing and a chance to win the £100 golden peg kindly donated by lake owner John Bennett. The match today was well attended with Rob Wooton one of the Drennan knockout cup semi finalists in attendance today trying to get an idea of the methods required at Rolfslake for the forthcoming semi finals being held down the lake.

After yesterdays poor showing in the small lake a good draw in the big lake was what was required and with a sunny day with a breeze on the lake the signs were looking good. John tells me the story of the day was the little lake fished hard again with most of the action coming font the center of the big lake with anglers still losing plenty of foul hooked fish but the top 9 anglers still weighing over a ton and for one angler today a magic weight was on the cards as he spent alot of time getting off his box to weigh fish.

That angler today was inform and probably Rolfslake’s most consistent angler of the year so far Simon Mound who today found himself back on favourite peg 16 on the motorway bank. Simon tells me that after catching a quick fish shallow  straight out in front he thinks in hindsight that was probably 20 minutes wasted trying to catch some more with no success and switched to a five metre line straight out in front and again caught one carp but no more .

It was then that Simon switched to the right hand margin down the silt bank the same area that gave him his last PB of 312lb a couple of weeks ago and from that point the carp were there ready and waiting. The key moment in Simons match was on playing a carp it got caught up on the snag that has lost many anglers fish, but this time the snag came up with fish and it was removed from the water together with the fish and from this moment the fishing just got better. Simon was today fishing banded 8mm pellet  feeding pellet through a kinder pot to get the fish lined up and Simon caught 19 fish to 19lb for a board weight of nearly 240lb to go together with his net fish. The rig was a straight forward 0.24 line fished with a Jon Walker diamond float finished with a 14 hook and Simon worked his rig to tempt the carp that were in his peg.

As the weigh-in commenced the anglers gathered to see if Simon had bettered his PB of 312lb and with his net fish taking 4 weighs the total of Simons efforts was a fantastic 360-11 for not only a new PB but he took the king of the lake title off John Walker { very well done Simon } and with those wasted 20 minutes at the start and the loss of 7 carp Simon would of got close to the world 5 hour match record set 7 years ago at Rolfslake of 490-08 .

In second place today was Rob Wooton who was on the car park bank peg 30 and the information that i have tells me that Rob fished at short range both on the deck and at mid depth fishing pellet to catch carp to double figures in his good weight of 188-04 and a good workout for his semi final coming up. Completing the frame was another king of the lake holder Geoff Edwards who defied the poor fishing in the small lake putting another good weight of fish to double figures on peg 7 of 151-09.

New King of the lake Simon Mound 360-11 { well done Simon }

Simon fished along the right hand edge by the purple plants.

Results.

19 fished.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.