Rolfslake Easter Festival 2014 Day 1
Today saw the start of the Rolfslake 3 day Easter Festival and with a sellout 24 anglers were hoping to be crowned2014 champion which was won last year by Middy sponsored angler Andy Quarmby.
Before the start John read out all the rules and one major change was that all fish were to be retained in the keepnets with a maximum 100lb net limit and any angler exceeding this would be deducted a penalty weight by how much you were over deducted from the weight limit of 100lb.
With draw called all the anglers made their way to the random draw which would decide the sections for the next three days and quite quickly the anglers called A section the section of death as it had all the big weight specialists in this section so they would be taking points of each other. As for the other two sections B and C it also had class anglers in them but were deemed to be more fairer so this was going to be a great battle.
The winner of A section today was Mark Newbold on peg 34 in the small lake and Mark had an eventful match but softened with a massive carp of 20-04 in his eventual weight of 161-06. B section was a very close battle by two of Rolfslake’s serial match winners Steve Waters and Dave Whiteman which would be eventually won by Dave with his weight of 112-11 to Steve’s 110-01 but Steve will rue the many lost fish on peg 9 today.
Mark Newbold with a common of 20-04
The star angler of the day was Malc Doyle on little favoured peg 17 and Malc put on a master class of short range paste fishing on his top kit to record the top weight of the day with 244-01 topped with a big common of 20-09 amongst his many othe big doubles.
Malc Doyle with his common carp of 20-09.
Tomorrow the anglers move to the next section in their sequence hoping to either repair the damage caused by todays results or push forwards for another good days fishing.
Come back tomorrow for days 2 results.
Also i will be posting some more photo’s from todays match.
Chris Telling with his common of 18lb.
Anthony Flint with a mirror carp of 17-08.
A Section
| Place | Angler | Peg | Weight | Points |
| 1st | Mark Newbold | 34 | 161-06 | 1 |
| 2nd | Chris Telling | 5 | 121-11 | 2 |
| 3rd | Phil Powell | 7 | 88-09 | 3 |
| 4th | John Draper | 40 | 62-05 | 4 |
| 5th | Ian McCullough | 38 | 54-01 | 5 |
| 6th | Micheal Corsini | 36 | 53-11 | 6 |
| 7th | Andy Quarmby | 4 | 45-04 | 7 |
| 8th | Geoff Edwards | 2 | 31-01 | 8 |
B Section
| Place | Angler | Peg | Weight | Points |
| 1st | Dave Whiteman | 29 | 112-11 | 1 |
| 2nd | Steve Waters | 9 | 110-01 | 2 |
| 3rd | Johnny Broadbent | 13 | 99-00 | 3 |
| 4th | Jon Walker | 32 | 80-10 | 4 |
| 5th | Liam Bough | 28 | 65-13 | 5 |
| 6th | John Bennett | 8 | 57-10 | 6 |
| 7th | Andy Johnstone | 31 | 35-07 | 7 |
| 8th | Dai Thomas | 10 | 27-11 | 8 |
C Section
| Place | Angler | Peg | Weight | Points |
| 1st | Malc Doyle | 17 | 244-01 | 1 |
| 2nd | Mick Lane | 18 | 166-03 | 2 |
| 3rd | Anthony Flint | 26 | 128-13 | 3 |
| 4th | Frank Hardy | 25 | 106-03 | 4 |
| 5th | Dan Deakin | 23 | 104-02 | 5 |
| 6th | Ernie Malyon | 15 | 83-11 | 6 |
| 7th | Paul Newbury | 22 | 59-4 | 7 |
| 8th | Justin Macabe | 14 | 45-03 | 8 |
Top 6
| Angler | Points | Weight | Sponsor |
| Malc Doyle | 1 | 244-01 | Jinx League |
| Mark Newbold | 1 | 161-06 | Rolfslake |
| Dave Whiteman | 1 | 112-01 | Hydro 2000 |
| Mick Lane | 2 | 166-03 | Rolfslake |
| Chris Telling | 2 | 121-11 | Colmic |
| Steve Waters | 2 | 110-01 | Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths |
Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.
Thanks to all the anglers for making this another great festival. Great banter and a reasonable amount of stretched elastic! Congratulations to Steve Waters for a very impressive festival win and the other ‘framers’. For me, its a case of must do better and can’t wait ’til next year. Best wishes, Andy Johnstone.