Rolfslake Saturday 25th February 2012
After the tough midweek open won By Geoff Edwards the anglers today were greeted by two things, the sun and a lake full of cruising fish to raise the hopes of a good days fishing. I can only asume todays match was a walk off as both pegs 20 and 3 were included and under normal conditions and with me absent from the lake these pegs would never be included.
John tells me the story of the match was that today was a sunny and fairly warm day with a cool breeze blowing across the lake which saw the small lake black with fish but they were not interested in feeding but chasing each other around. It was a similar story in the big lake but the anglers did manage to catch a few carp early so thing were already better than Wednesday. The good thing about today is that the silvers were still happy to feed in numbers with Steve Waters managing to catch over 20lb of silvers to go with his carp, and John also told me that there were a few carp lost but there were still many bites to be had which is good news.
In first place today was lake owner John Bennett who when I phoned him after 2 hours he told me he was struggling like he does even if he is bagging, but was struggling to get bites fishing his long line but after changing to start a new swim began catching again and during this period he managed to catch 3 carp for 42lb to boost his weight. John was today fishing on the deck at about 14 metres using corn and soft pellet for hoobait feeding micro pellet and caught 8 carp for 79-00 for yet another win { well done John }.
Todays winner John Bennett.
In second place today was an angler missing for a while Ernie Malyon who was fishing peg 23 on the motorway bank and Ernie fished both the waggler and pole to catch his carp and today was using maggots as hookbait and after 5 hours put a hard earned 65-04 on the scales to just keep ahead of the chasing pack. Very close in third was John Draper who was fishing in the small lake on peg 34 and John in the end fell just one small roach from second place with 65-00 and today any of the top three weights would of won the midweek match.
Get well soon Phil and we hope to see you soon.
9 fished.
| Place | Angler | Peg | Weight | |
| 1st | John Bennett | 16 | 79-00 | Rolfslake |
| 2nd | Ernie Malyon | 23 | 65-04 | Spro |
| 3rd | John Draper | 34 | 65-00 | Rolfslake |
| 4th | Dave Whiteman | 25 | 55-00 | Hydro 2000 |
| 5th | Steve Waters | 9 | 48-08 | Frenzee |
| 6th | Kev Doulton | 20 | 28-08 | Rolfslake |
| 7th | Mick Chappell | 3 | 23-08 | Rolfslake |
| 8th | Mick Hughes | 14 | 22-08 | Hydro 2000 |
Tomorrow Rolfslake welcome Royal Oak angling club so we hope all the anglers have a great day.
John has already had 12 names for the Easter Festival and has asked the anglers who fished last year if they would like to fish they must contact him asap if they would like to fish this year. John has limited the event to 27 places to enable the anglers to have a bit of space on the lake, and this popular event usually is well attended and by the time Easter comes around the fishing should at full swing so to not miss out give John a call to confirm your place.
Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.
Well done Derek for weighing 22lb, amazing considering he tipped back lol
Steve I only post the weights I am given but if that is the case i will remove him from the weights.
nice to see mr bennet back on top and all the best to phil hope your back bagging soon to missing the lake as to busy to get there and also miss the banter good job eddie and simon give me plenty of updates along with all the lads banter also does anyone no the oldest and youngest angler to win an open at rolfs as brandon asked me who the youngest might be i think he thought it might be myself
It wasn’t a walk off it was pegged, do you really think I’d have gone to peg 9 LOL
the reason I recorded a weight for Derek was that I knew he had caught and rather than a dnw witch could could give the impression he blanked I gave estimated weight lower than the lowest recorded weight .
Hello everyone, i’m alive!….i think?! Thank’s for the get well wishes and hoping to be back to see you all soon, but not just yet! Stick my name down for the Easter festival please as this will hopefully be my return (finger’s crossed!)
About time you signed up on here. You got a groupie after you already lol 😛 😀
have i met you before mate
You should of Mike, my names Phil Powell, you’ve probably heard of me…lol
Can you stick me down for the Easter festival please John
Done 🙂
Lol
oh ok then mate yer i have herd of you then lol