Rolfslake’s the battle of Chinnor— Chinnor Works AS v Chinnor Garden Centre 16th April.
Today at Rolfslake was the annual challenge match with Chinnor Works Angling Society the current trophy holders against Chinnor Garden Centre, and in the gardens centre quest to regain the trophy they had roped in John ,Paul and myself to help them with some local expertise and hopefully some big weights. With 21 anglers instead of 22 there was some trading of anglers and it was decided that Chinnor AS would have 11 anglers to i believe compensate for the garden center have three venue regulars.
With the match draw time there was time for the anglers to have a walk around the lake and observe the hundreds of carp in the margins all around the lake and hopes of plenty of carp never really materialised because as soon as the match started the carp drifted off towards the middle of the lake. Today started off sunny turning cloudy after two hours with a southern breeze breeze blowing out of the big lake into the small lake so it was not a great day for me to draw peg 18 on the motorway bank. The story of the match was after a slow start they carp decided to have a feed with the anglers in the big lake and on the car park bank having good action as the match went on with the anglers in the small lake stuggling due to it being shallower and the water colder.
The prized trophy on offer for the victors.
As John and I were fishing in the same team it was decided that our season battle would be suspended for one match only and the megafone would be set to silent for 5 hours { that was a result after my performance today }. On my side of the lake I had Andy for company on peg 16 and he told me he had never caught a 100lb of fish but today he smashed it with his weight of 141-08 of carp to double figures all caught on maggot fished on the slope down the grass bank down to his right { well done Andy ]. Also a well done goes to section A winner Barry who put a good weight of 89-12 from peg 9 with a catch of carp and bream and to Brian who put the third ton weight of the day from peg 22 by fishing about 9 to 10 metres down the right had margins.
The winner today overall was John Bennett who after a very slow start managed to get the carp lined up by fishing just down the shelf but not at the bottom of it and by using paste today he caught a very good stamp of big carp to 18lb in his final weight of 158-00 and just ahead of Paul.
Paul was fishing peg 8 in the gap between the two parts of the lake and by rotating between the 8 metre line straight out in front from where I could see and the bush to his left Paul also managed to catch big carp on 8mm banded pellet for his weight of 151-00.
The teams starting to assemble.
I can see you.
I am not saying my peg is solid but !!.
Results.
21 fished.
| Place | Peg | Angler | Weight |
| 1st | 28 | John Bennett | 158-00 |
| 2nd | 8 | Paul Jay | 151-00 |
| 3rd | 16 | Andy | 141-08 |
| 4th | 22 | Brian | 109-00 |
| 5th | 9 | Barry | 89-12 |
| 6th | 13 | Morris | 77-08 |
| 7th | 26 | Pete H | 75-00 |
| 8th | 2 | Steve V | 69-12 |
| 9th | 18 | Eddie Taylor-Green | 68-00 |
| 10th | 24 | Ben | 66-00 |
| 11th | 10 | John | 58-00 |
| 12th | 38 | Dave | 55-00 |
| 13th | 30 | Mal | 44-04 |
| 13th | 6 | Roger | 44-04 |
| 15th | 32 | Jason | 34-00 |
| 16th | 40 | Fred | 32-08 |
| 17th | 14 | Hilary | 22-08 |
| 18th | 4 | Butch | 22-04 |
| 19th | 7 | Green Grass | 21-08 |
| 20th | 34 | Jeff | 20-00 |
| 21th | 11 | John Cowling | 5-08 |
- Barry and Andy the two section winners
Section winners A and B
- Paul J and John Bennett two ringers for Chinnor Garden Center.
Paul and John 2 of the 3 ringers.
- And in last place John Cowling.
Sorry John
| Final result | |||
| Chinnor Works Angling Society | 726-12 | Chinnor Garden Centre | 638-08 |
I would like to say a big thank you to Dave and Fred for inviting John, Paul and myself on the match today and also a big thanks to the anglers for fishing the match in good spirits with plenty of banter and also showing the regulars how weighing in 21 anglers can only take 25 minutes if everyone gets involved. Also a very well done to Chinnor angling club in retaining their trophy for another year in which was a very close match with anglers gaining PB’s in both match weights and sizes of fish caught which just shows what can happen in any match down at Rolfslake.
- The handing over of the Trophy by the captains.
The two captains with the sought after trophy.
The winning team Chinnor Works Angling Society with the trophy safe for another year.
Well done Chinnor Works Angling Society.
Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John.
Brilliant report Eddie. 🙂
John and Paul should be ashamed taking money of the pensioners 😀 😛
yeah proper report that one. No surprise the ringers picked up!
must be fishing rock hard in this weather.
Work is solid, i might be down again for the winter league…..
Mark, draw is now 10.30 and fish 12-5 this sunday
roger bravo 2 – 0
going to home by 7….. she’s going to love that.
Cant we draw at 5am fish 5.30am until 10.30am can be home by lunch time!
you could fish 12-2 if you like?…lol
Paul Jay – peg 8
how does he do it
Im surprised it never had 1 in front of it
hey does any one no if there is a open match next sunday or saturday because i herd some one talking about it
According to the up coming match list there is an Open this Sunday, 29th, draw 10am Fish 11-4pm. suggest a call to JB just to check.
There is a private match on Friday and Saturday and then an open on Sunday. Draw time is as Mick has posted 🙂
Si, what’s happened to the reports of last Wednesdays and Mondays matches?
Last Wednesday… Only 4 turned up.
Monday…. My phone was lost at work (I thought it had been nicked) and Paul could not contact me, so Eddie has the results and will post them. Some big weights 😉
il ask again i no there is one this week but what about the dates of 6th or 5th may
What are you on about Mikey 😀 ??
Any opens will be in the calendar. John has not give me any dates for those bank holidays yet. I will ring him tomorrow and see what he wants to do. Its his call matey. 🙂
i no mate of corse i just got a bit confused when i dident see any opens on any weekend at all and its hard for me to fish wed and monday opens because of school 🙁
it aint fishing well at the moment so dont worry!
hey up Mark hows tricks
where you been dangling?
Alright Andy? I’m good mate, not been out much lately working hard at the moment. Off to framfield this weekend, spring lake. Somewhere new, no idea what its like. Would be nice to see the float go under tho$
You been out much?
What’s your mob number ?
Framfield id solid, they get huge weights, fishing close I think, but never been
I’ve been out and about as usual, Pans Hill, the sewer aka Kennet and Avon and here and there
07715672527
don’t be sending me any pics of you coming out of the shower please lol