Rolfslake Wednesday Open 25th May 2011.

Rolfslake comes back to form in this weeks midweek match.

Todays match was going to be larger than normall as there were a few of the Matchfishingscene website anglers practising for their three day match on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week.

The weather today was sunny with a fairly strong wind blowing from the small to the big to the small lake and with the pleasure anglers all catching from the  car park bank signs were good that the fish were going to have a go. Today after a strong campaign i managed to get my way and have pegs 3 and 39 included in the draw as the lake was black with fish in this area so hopefully i would be lucky and get my favourite peg. As the anglers lined up at the draw and one by one drew their pegs i had not heard peg three called so could this be the day i thought that i showed John how good this peg was then for the bad news from Neil Riddy, Eddie peg 3 is still in the bag but so is peg 16 so you have a 50-50 chance of drawing it. As i put my hand in I usually dont draw the first peg my hand touches but today i did and after pulling the peg out i could not believe it when i opened my hand and saw peg 16 I was GUTTED much to the guys amusement.

Anyway the story of today was in the big lake the pleasure anglers were bagging on pegs 19 round to pegs 24 with most of them fishing the bomb to the middle fishing either boilies, meat or corn so thet were all happy ,and with the anglers on peg 18, 14 ,28 and 32 all enjoying action signs were good for a big weight today. In the small lake John told me that it was a slow start for most with plenty of fish being lost especially for Neil Riddy on peg 3 who lost over 20 fish fishing close to the bush in the corner but he was also catching a few so signs were good.

As the day got later and the sun went down the fish responded to the feed and there were plenty of big fish caught between 5 and 7 pm which is normally the way in these midweek matches.

In first place today was Mr 200lb aka Mark Newbold who was fishing peg 7 in the small lake next to John. Mark continued his good run of form at the lake by fishing straight out at between 7-9 metres fishing his favoured paste hookbait but unlike the rest of the anglers who feed heavy Mark has a cautious approach of feeding sparingly to only bring a few fish into the peg at a time which results in less lost fish.

Mark caught big fish to near 19lb ,in fact Mark had 3 18lb fish in a good run of doubles which resulted in his board weight being over 160lb ,and at the end of 5 hours caught 294-04 to win todays match and also claim the peg king for peg 7 {well done Mark }.

In second place was Paul Jay who has yet to draw a bad peg this year and today was no different as he pulled out peg 18 on the motorway bank in the big lake. Paul fished at a range of 10 metres feeding heavy but used his favourite 8mm banded and donkey choker 11mm pellet to catch fish to 16lb both out in front and down the edge ,but also lost lots of fish as i was sure he had over 200lb but in the end only had 184-00 but was well clear of third place.

 

Completing the frame was lake owner John Bennett who was fishing next to Mark on peg 6 in the small lake. John was not only struggling with catch fish early on but was also suffering from a bad back and neck having to turn around so much witnessing Marks big fish. John eventually got the fish lined up fishing down the slope towards peg 5 and by using big balls of paste hookbait caught fish to 19lb in his final weight of 146-12.

Spare a thought  for Mark who was well chuffed on winning todays match but when i informed him he was only 7lb off being king of the lake he went home a very sad angler.

Results .

15 fished.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Mark Newbold	7	294-04	Rolfslake
2nd	Paul Jay	18	184-00	Rolfslake Cartel
3rd	John Bennett	6	146-12	Rolfslake Cartel
4th	Barry Gabriel	34	134-08	Matchfishingscene
5th	Neil Riddy	3	125-06	Ospreys A.C
6th	Adam Bates	39	122-04	Hare & Hounds AC
7th	Steve Williams	14	115-00	Matchfishingscene
8th	Eddie Taylor-Green	16	110-08	Rolfslake / Walker Floats
9th	Dennis Vause	32	100-04	Matchfishingscene
10th	Graham Ridgley	26	95-00	Rolfslake
11th	Colin Kerr	29	86-00	Matchfishingscene
12th	Steve Parker	8	65-02	Matchfishingscene
13th	Kev Williams	38	61-08	Matchfishingscene
14th	Matrin Wedley	9	58-14	Matchfishingscene

Pirate ship sinks after hitting the Bennett iceberg.

As for my battle against John for a change we both had even pegs which was John on 6 and i was on 16 and my day started badly as when i was walking to my peg I fell down a hole carrying all my gear much to Paul’s amusement but not mine { but he did carry my gear to to peg 16 as i hurt my ankle thanks Paul }.

We both struggled to catch early on and lost lots of fish  but in the end the bites could not come fast enough but my winning run came to an end with John catching 146-12 to my 110-08 so gained another point in our seasons battle {well done John }.

The main bait today for most anglers was paste and i expect the weights to get even bigger as the next month goes by.

The score between me and John now stands at :

John 3

Eddie 2

Until our next report thanks for reading Simon, John and Eddie.

Now for something different.

Johns grandson Daniel recently visited Dreamlakes in France and spent a week targeting the massive carp and catfish that these four lakes hold, and he asked me to show five of the fish that he caught during his stay.

 

 

And finally.

As you can see Daniel had a fantastic week even though it fished quite hard, and as Rolfslake.com supports all fisheries we have added the website address if any of our visitors to our website would like to know more about this fantastic big fish fishery i will include the website address.

www.dreamlakes.com