Jinx Series, Match 2. 5th June 2010

The Jinx Squad made their return to the lake today. The weather today was very very warm and muggy indeed. The day started off sunny but the clouds moved but it remained hot round the lake.

The car park soon filled up with the Jinx members and some guests as some members were unable to fish today. The draw was supposed to be at 11.30 but as usual Malc was running late which gave Crystal plenty of time to go round and collect everyone’s guesses for the guess the weight competition. Looking back at the results I think everyone guesses were a tad high πŸ˜€

Mugger getting the Hat for the day…

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Steve, Gem and Jon

Peter 'Mugger' Morton. The hat gathering some attention

Gathering for the draw

Crystal Gathering the Guesses

Everyone buying their pellets for the day

Guest Neil Riddy going to extremes to stay cool

Fishing today was from 1pm – 6pm. The draw format was A section to draw first, in the order of the placings on the previous match so first in the section drew first and so on. The draw ran smoothly except when C section made their draw. Someone (BUDGIE) had put his peg back on the table with the C section pegs. People had drawn their peg but when Tony pulled out peg 40 there had to be a redraw much to the dismay of Gemma who had pulled peg 26 out the bag. Everyone drew again and Gemma still managed to draw peg 26 anyway 😯 With the draw out the way everyone trundled off to set up.

Peter Morton on peg 36 wearing the HAT

Dave Webster on peg 6

Peg 8's resident angler Clive Pritchard

Dave Collier with something strange in his hand

Guest Scott (methodgob) on peg 9

Fred Parker on peg 10

Geoff Palmer on peg 11

Another Guest Pete Archer on 13

Looking across to Nick Williams on peg 32

The MINX on peg 26

I was trying to get pictures of everyone around the lake but Malc called the all in and I had to get back to my peg sorry πŸ˜€ With the match fully underway it was clear that many were struggling with getting a bite in the big lake. Ade on peg 30 was catching a few, Gemma on 26 was fishless after 2 hours and not a lot else was happening in the big lake. The little lake was throwing a few fish up, Steve on 34 was leading the way in the little lake with both Clive on 8 and Dave on 7 catching fish from the far bank on the feeder. Also fishing the feeder was Peter on peg 36, a method used in the last few matches and proved to be very successful. Poor Jon on peg 38 was not so lucky and was having a hard time getting the carp to eat any of his pellets.

Paul and Simon on pegs 2 and 4 were having a mini match of their own, Simon was fishing the corner by peg 3 in the scum and was getting plagued with foul hooked fish and fish snagging him in the bushes whilst Paul was just having problems landing them πŸ˜€

Fish on for Paul, Will he land it ???

Paul Roberts on peg 2

Attempt 1. Oops missed.

Attempt 2. The fish swims out the net.

Third time lucky.

Paul and the culprit

Some other shots from around the lake.

Dave showing everyone how its done

Peter 'Pink Hat' Morton

Dave Webster

Clive being bullied by Malc with a foul hooker

Come on Clive ...

Car park bank on the big lake

Jon Hatch having a grueller

Hello Sailor

Steve Wilson, Little lake Leader

Nearly there

In the bag, Well done Clive

Neil Riddy cooling everyone down with his hat πŸ˜€

Ade with a skimmer

Pete Archer feeling the full force of the JINX

Gemma Doyle also feeling the force of the JINX off the next peg

Jinx league paste master wondering where the fish are

Tony and Steve also wondering

Al managed to find a few on 19

Most people had struggled today showing everyone that big weights do not always come from the lake and it is not an easy place to fish. The weigh in soon finished as there were 2 weigh in teams today working on opposite banks across the lake. Today’s match saw the first blanks of the series and probably not the last. Gemma on peg 26 had only managed 1-12 today so most people were safe from a MINXING ! despite that she still managed to take 3 scalps today. Terry Goff, Paul Dolby and Matt Edwards. Who would get the hat this time, only Gem knew πŸ˜€

One of Weigh in teams

Looking across the big lake after the match

With the results sorted Malc gathered everyone for the presentation. Pete Archer had kindly donated some prizes from Vespe today but instead of giving them to the main winners Malc decided to work from the bottom up so the lower weights all went away with something.

Malc sorting the results with a camera shy Pete Archer

Stand up and collect your prizes…… Everyone was a winner today πŸ˜€

Terry Goff

Paul Dolby

Matt Edwards

Gemma 'MINX' Doyle

Kev Loveland

Jon Hatch

Tony Roberts

Steve Steak

Nick Williams

Geoff Palmer

Marcus Burgess

Scott Methodgob

Dave Webster

At this point all the main prizes had gone so John Bennett and Pauline rifled through the tuck shop to find some more prizes πŸ˜€

Pliers and mole grips not included !

Dai Thomas

Al Loader

Simon Mound chose the sweet option

Dave Collier

Clive Pritchard

Peter Morton

Section winners and second in sections.

Steve Wilson and Ade Williams

Peter Morton in the money

Ade Williams

Pete Archer

Malc Doyle

Al Loader

With the presentation out the way it left only one thing….. The handing over of the MINX hat. John Bennett called for the 3 unlucky anglers to the front and lined them up in front of everyone to humiliate them a little further πŸ˜€

Who will it be....... ?

Gem held the hat over the lads heads teasing them but it finally came to rest on Paul Dolby’s head, where it would be for the entire next match. Fair play to Paul he took it well.

Paul and Gem

MINXED !!!!

Time for the results..

A SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Steve Wilson 34 92-8
2 Peter Morton 36 61-8
3 Clive Pritchard 8 55-12
4 Dave Collier 7 54-2
5 Simon Mound 4 45-8
6 Paul Roberts 2 41-4
7 Dave Webster 6 35-0
8 Marcus Burgess 40 15-8
9 John Hatch 38 4-10

B SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Slim Shady 30 76-0
2 Pete Archer 13 48-12
3 MethodGob 9 33-8
4 Fred Parker 10 32-4
5 Neil Riddy 31 14-0
6 Geoff Palmer 11 12-4
7 Nick Williams 32 9-4
8 Paul Dolby 28 DNW
9 Terry G 27 DNW

C SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Malc Doyle 25 47-12
2 Al Loader 19 44-8
3 Dai Thomas 23 43-8
4 Dave Moore 14 21-8
5 Steve Steak 18 11-8
6 Tony Roberts 17 7-8
7 Kev Loveland 21 2-0
8 Gemma Doyle 26 1-12
9 Matt Edwards 15 0-12

Thanks to John And Pauline for hosting the match and Pete Archer again for the prizes.

As soon as everyone had left John went off to make sure the lake was in top form for tomorrows Club Match.

Off to mow a meadow

Ashton Angling Club match 6th June 2010.

Today Rolfslake welcomed Ashton A.C down to the lake from the midlands area and the anglers were hoping that the fish had stopped spawning and were willing to have a feed as the Jinx league match yesterday was really tough.

John tells me that 25 willing anglers set off to their pegs only to find the fish still spawning in the margins so it was very difficult to know what the fish wanted today either a cautious approach or to just to thrash the bait in and suffer plenty of foul hooked fish and very little to show for it. The weather was very warm with a cool breeze and the anglers with a ripple on the water did slightly better that those with flat water in front of them.

The winner today was Jay Davis fishing peg 7 in the gap between the big and small lake and Jay used a combination of the feeder and the pole to put together a very good weight of fish and big fish too catching fish to double figures in Jay’s final bag of 171-08 { well done Jay }. In second place was Andy Morrison on peg 32 by the hut who fished short range 5 -6 metres and down the edge using banded again catching big fish in his weight of 131-04. Completing the frame was Mark Bedford on peg 4 who suffered plenty of lost fish but in the end lined them down the edge to his right using pellet hook bait to catch his weight of 104-14.

John would like to thank all the anglers and hope to see them again soon.

Results.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Jay Davis 7 171-08
2nd Andy Morrison 32 131-04
3rd Mark Bedford 4 104-14
4th Tony Walsh 2 104-00
5th Colin Wedgebrow 38 86-00Β —- 20lb common
6th Mick Whitehead 14 83-12
7th John Hague 29 82-03
8th Lee 24 70-12
9th Ian Ross 6 65-03
10th Mark Stibbs 8 61-08

Until our next report tight lines Eddie and Simon.

RAF Chiltern League Match. 3rd June 2010

Today RAF Chiltern visited the lake as part of their league. Today’s winner Steve Perham stormed to victory on peg 24 fishing up in the water at 14.5 meters

The weather today for the anglers was very warm.

Top 10 Results
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Steve Perham 24 194-5
2 Bob Yomens 14 96-12
3 Steve Jackson 18 95-13
4 Mark Collingson 13 91-15
5 Andy Beasley 2 76-15
6 Roy Poile 8 70-4
7 Tony Dickinson 40 64-4
8 Dene Casbury 34 57-15
9 Duncan Pritchard 22 55-7
10 Gary Lauice 7 52-3

We hope you enjoyed your visit to the lake.

The Next match at the lake is on Saturday when the Jinx Squad make their second visit to the lake this year.

Herbie Invitational Match. 30th May 2010

Carp on the feed at the lake.

Herbie and Friends had the lake for the day today. 17 anglers turned up on quite a sunny day. Many of the guys had not fished the lake before and were full of anticipation after hearing stories about big weights. We had the whole lake so there was a bit of space between the anglers.

The draw took place at 10 ish and fishing today was from 12-5pm. Plenty of time for everyone to get set up. John Bennett went round and helped out the guys that needed some info.

Andy on peg 10 having a chat with John

Simple trying a bit of shallow fishing on peg 30

Orinoco on peg 13 had hooked in to his first rolfslake carp and was experiencing the power of the fish, In the process of landing the fish he managed to loose the landing net of his handle πŸ˜€ John and Pauline were on hand quickly running round with a spare net to help him.

Orinoco looking for his landing net

Lee on peg 7 had been catching well along with Roland down on peg 2. Having a slow start Dave on peg 26 had worked out where the fish were and was slowing building up a terrific weight. Larry on peg 9 was struggling but was ever determined to do his Rolfs Ton. Simple on peg 30 had managed 5 fish shallow and then got fish feeding on a 5 meter line.Β  Dave bull down on peg 24 had a cracking start on the pellet waggler fishing in to the middle of the lake but had lost the fish as the sun went off the lake.

A special Mention goes to big Ron on peg 28 who had foul hooked a carp. It had taken him round the bush to his left and then under both platform legs and out the other side towards Simples peg. He did some magic elastic waggling and somehow managed to get the fish from under the platform adn round the bush and back in to his peg only to land it. To say I was amazed would be an understatementΒ  πŸ˜€ Well done Ron

Simple with a shallow caught carp

Lee catching on peg 7

Larry Tee Pot having a grueller on Peg 9

Paul catching a few on peg 14

With the match over and the weigh in complete it was clear that the first timers had caught plenty of fish and were impressed with the lake. The weights were also impressive with Roland down on peg 2 managing a fantastic 181-8. This was also good enough to give Roland the Peg King for peg 2. Dave on peg 26 had been catching plenty of fish, enough to give him second place with a great weight of 172-12. Completing the frame was Lee on peg 7 with 148-12, Lee had the luxury of fishing peg 7 on his own as peg 8 never got drawn.

Results
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Roland Lucas 2 181-8
2 Dave Stockton 26 172-12
3 Lee Jan 7 148-12
4 Simon Mound 30 147-8
5 Craig Gilroy 38 86-6
6 Dan Ball 32 82-0
7 Orinoco 13 79-8
8 Herbie 34 78-0
9 Andy Eagles 10 71-8
10 Marcus Burgess 22 66-8
11 Barry 18 60-4
12 Big Ron 28 59-4
13 Jamie 4 57-4
14 Dave Bull 24 49-0
15 Sparky 16 48-4
16 Paul 14 43-12
17 Larry T Pot 9 11-8

Thanks for the invite Herbie, was a good match and I actually caught some much needed fish on the day too. Great bunch of lads, nice to meet you all.

After the Match Gem had a go on my gear and managed 4 carp, here is a short video of her in action, minus the pink hat πŸ˜€

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John had also fed the fish down by peg 34 and this was the result πŸ˜€

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Saturday Open. 22nd May. 2010

Little Horsey on the mend

Todays open turned out to be on the hottest day at the lake so far this year. On arrival carp were seen to be spawning around the lake. Also thousands of tiny roach could be seen flitting around the surface meaning that the roach must have also spawned.

10 anglers turned up today to fish in the blazing sun. After the draw John Bennett only had one thing in mind when drawing peg 16 and that was to regain his peg king title that Mick Lane took from him on last Wednesdays open match.

He managed to do just that as well along with Geoff and Ginger also taking the peg king title too.

Results
Position Name Peg Weight
1. New Peg King Geoff Edwards 38 243-10
2. New Peg King John Bennett 16 205-12
3. New Peg King Ginger 34 200-8
4 Patrick Pritchard 4 155-12
5 Paul Jay 18 153-6
6 Jamie Gilland 8 134-0
7 John Hauge 13 93-14
8 Doug Richardson 9 92-12
9 Barry Parker 7 92-8
10 Dave Whiteman 14 78-0

3 New peg Kings after this match…

  • John Bennett on Peg 16 with 205-12. Takes over from Mick Lane
  • Geoff Edwards on peg 38 with 243-10. Takes over from Paul Dolby
  • Ginger on peg 34 with 200-8. Takes over from Mark Olsen

John still has a few places left for Wednesdays open. Please ring him to book in as this is nearly Full Up. The number is in the contact information.

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