Rolfslake open match Sunday 21st February 2010

Today saw another Sunday open on an improving Rolfslake, and with a low attendance the anglers were grouped together in the big lake between pegs 14 and 28.

On John Bennetts arrival at the lake before the match he was greeted with the lake frozen again as the temperature the night before in Oxford had dropped to -4 degrees but a good blast with the areators saw the ice melt very quickly and as the draw took place the ice had all but gone.

The report from John about the match saw anglers hooking and losing carp on both the bomb and the pole, which is good news considering a few weeks back there were no signs of carp moving at all so with warmer weather the carp will switch back on properly. The winner today was lake owner John who was fishing peg 14 on the motorway bank and after a quick two carp on the bomb then switched on to the pole and that was when his frustration began. John was fishing long towards peg 15 and by fishing with his rig just touching bottom using corn as hook bait started to foul hook carp as his rig was dropping through the water, and during the match John managed to lose 8 carp and catch 3 more for his final weight of 51-02 {well done John}. John also told me that he had to feed micro pellet and feed and then drop his rig in on top to get bites and even then the bites were the tinyest of dips so it was pretty hard to spot and even harder to hook the carp properly.

The back up weights also included carp but the carp at the moment are still grouped in the middle of the lake so the waggler and the bomb are good options at the moment.

Results.

1st    peg 14    John Bennett         51-02

2nd  peg 16   Lee Giles                   29-00

3rd  peg 26  Dave Wightman      25-12

4th  peg 18  Paul Jay                     18-08

5th  peg 23 Steve Williams        18-00

6th  peg 22  John Cowling           9-08