Rolfslake Wednesday 26th June 2013.

A tough day day down the lake.

Today saw 15 anglers down the lake and with 6 pleasure anglers in the small lake it was decided that todays match would be fished in the big lake to make it fair as there were lots of carp crashing in the small lake.

With draw called the anglers made an orderly queue in the hope to draw one of the 4 end pegs 18,22,9 and 32 as you were going to have a bit of space so with me drawing second last there was only pegs 17 and 32 left so the first peg my hand touched  came out and luckily it was peg 32 leaving Pete Arnold on 17 { sorry Pete }.

The story of the match saw a slow start for most of the anglers except Chris Telling who was happily catching bream and foulhooking carp so at least he was busy and after an hour Richard Fowley was into the start of a good run of carp on end peg 9 and then Paul Jay on peg 29 started his usual catch one lose one but at least he was catching.

As for the anglers down the bottom of the big lake it was really hard as there was very little wind and a suface scum the fish were trying to suck which distracted the carp from feeding so the weights were lower than expected.

Todays winner was me Eddie who was drawn for the second time in two week on peg 32 by the hut so hopefully i had learnt from my poor result from last week and today was much better. For the first 2 and a half hours i was watching Richard bag on peg 9 and was at least 8 carp behind but a change of fishing lines to fish up the slope down the channel was dramatic. I fished my X4 paste mix soft feeding 6mm pellet and the carp prefered this as my first 8 carp were all doubles but also i managed to get broken up 3 times on really big carp that went round to peg 33 and beyond. My highlight of the day was catching my first chub down Rolfs quickly followed by my second which went about 4lb and 3lb and also caught on paste but i lost a really big one on the peg 33 platform which looked closer to 6lb and fought really well before breaking the rig on the platform leg not very good. i caught 18 carp for 193-04 with fish to 15lb and really had a good day down the lake after spending the morning in the boat filming Chris Telling catching carp and bream.

My first two Rolfslake Chub.

In second place was Richard Fowley who was fishing peg 9 opposite me and he again caught fish to double figures by fishing two lines the first 14 metres along the bush and the second a tight line down the edge. Richard also used paste feeding pellet to keep the carp coming but as usual Richard went away with more knowledge of the how to catch the moody carp but did really well with his weight of 143-03.

Second place Richard Fowley.

Completing the frame was Paul Jay on peg 29 and by using the usual 8mm hard banded pellet feeding 6mm pellet Paul caught carp to 16lb fishing only an 8 metre line which seems to work really well for him and he was only one carp off second with his weight of 137-12.

Results.

Top 9 only sorry lost the results page.

The Pirate strikes again.

The score now stands at.

John 9

Eddie 8

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie