Rolfslake Sunday Open 6th May 2012

 

 

Cold lake water slows the fishing down.

With this being the last Sunday match until at least September due to the club match bookings taking over from now, it was nice to see 14 anglers showing up at short notice for todays open match. On arriving I got my normal amount of abuse from John but because I was sporting a black eye I ended getting plenty of banter from the rest ,so a quiet return to fishing was going to be a thing of fantasy and a long 5 hours for me today.

The weather was mild with a swirling breeze and a chance of sun at sometime in the day but the water in the lake was really cold due to the heavy rain in the previous week so that could put the fish off feeding but with crusing fish to be seen at least it gave the anglers some hope. With draw under way i found it amazing how the same anglers always draw the flyers as Geoff Edwards had drawn peg 18 with the wind blowing into it, Paul Jay had been evicted from peg 18 and was now the neighbour on peg 16 and John Bennett who never draws a bad peg was on peg 8 in the junction between the two lakes. For me with three pegs left found out that my favourite peg 6 was still there together with 14 and 26 so with my theory of whatever peg i touched first was the peg i pulled out was blown apart as i drew peg 26 on the car park bank leaving Mick Hughes on 6 and Malc Doyle on 14.

The story of the match saw in form Dai Thomas on peg 7 catch fish straight away and led the field for most of the match but towards the end was caught by Hydro 2000 angler Mick Hughes who was fishing next door on peg 6. Mick caught fish to double figures by fishing a short 6-7 metres line straight out and down the edge fishing i believe pellet hook baits and after 5 hours put a hard earned 133-12 for a match win { well done Mick }. In second place saw Dai on peg 7 also catch big carp but in the end fell 3 carp behind with his weight of 113-04 of pole caught carp. In third place was Geoff Edwards who was on motorway bank peg 18 who had a frustrating day catching 8 carp for 74-00 but also losing 11 fishing long down the edge to his left.

Results.

14 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Mick Hughes	6	133-12	Hydro 2000
2nd	Dai Thomas	7	113-04	Jinx League
33rd	Geoff Edwards	18	74-00	Reading Angling Center
4th	John Bennett	8	72-04	Rolfslake Cartel
5th	Simon Mound	13	64-14	Jinx League
6th	Pete Arnold	24	64-00	Rolfslake
7th	Paul Jay	16	48-00	Rolfslake
8th	Mick Chappell	28	39-04	Rolfslake
9th	Eddie Taylor-Green	26	37-06	Rolfslake
10th	Malc Doyle	14	20-08	Jinx League
11th	Marcus Burgess	32	DNW	Jinx League
12th	Kevin Orr	9	DNW	Rolfslake
13th	Dave Ridgely	22	DNW	Chinnor Garden Center
14th	Dave Howell	10	DNW	Browning

The pirate goes down with the ship.

Today mine and Johns seasons battle resumed after our last match which was a team event, and with John leaving the megafone by the hut at least it was going to be more quiet than normal. With John drawing 8 and me 26 it was never going to be a competitive battle as the fish had to travel between the two parts of the lake and John was there waiting for them and after 5 hours i was sure he had thrashed me only to find out that it had fished hard for him and he only had 72-04 to my 37-06 so maybe i should of tried harder for 3 more fish but in the end it was another victory for John { well done John ].

 

The score now stands at

 

JOHN 6

 

EDDIE 2

 

All angler please take note.

Until further notice could all club and match anglers bring their own landing nets as the current one are being repaired and replaced and there are not enough to go around for all anglers, but please make sure they are big enough to get big fish in as there are currently big fish being caught to over 20lb  thank you.

 

 

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie