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Wednesday Open Match. 1st August 2012

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Very hard day down the lake today. Most people catching a few fish through the start of the match but catching late on in the match.

Todays winner Neil Hutchins caught on the right hand margin on form peg 6 using banded pellets.

Results

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Neil Hutchins 6 180-8
2 Andy Quarmby 2 125-0
3 Mick Lane 8 118-8
4 Pete Arnold 10 97-0
5 John Bennett 13 79-4
6 Paul Jay 28 66-4
7 Dai Thomas 16 65-4
8 Nick Williams 32 62-4
9 John Draper 40 61-0
10 Kev Dolton 26 48-8

15 Anglers Fished.

Dont forget there is a Night match this coming Friday.

Maggotdrowners Pairs Weekend 2012

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Maggotdrowners Pairs Weekend Day 1. 28th July 2012
Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Ant Haywood 6 202-13
2 Simon Mound 16 189-12
3 Dave Webster 7 135-6
4 Peter Morton 10 125-7
5 Steve Wilson 23 94-4
6 Keith Powell 38 89-7
7 John Hatch 35 88-7
8 Tony Roberts 14 87-0
9 Terry Goff 32 84-3
10 Clive Pritchard 28 72-12
11 Marcus Burgess 11 66-13
12 Malc Doyle 39 66-9
13 Al Loader 19 65-13
14 Steve Akal 8 62-15
15 Dai Thomas 3 52-8
16 Geoff Palmer 4 47-9
17 Simon Watkins 29 47-0
18 Dave Moore 26 41-9
19= Dave Collier 20 36-15
19= Terry  Auto 9 36-15
21 Dave Wall 25 34-8
22 Paul Roberts 1 27-2
23 Barry Cullen 34 23-5
24 Kev Loveland 13 18-4
25 Scott Weston 31 17-0
26 Gem Doyle 18 9-10
27 Paul East 22 9-8
28 Nick Williams 37 DNW

28 Anglers Fished

 

Maggotdrowners Pairs Weekend Day 2. 29th July 2012
Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Peter Morton 32 166-0
2 Ant Haywood 7 139-8
3 Tony Roberts 25 114-2
4 Marcus Burgess 16 91-11
5 Keith Powell 8 88-11
6 Terry Goff 9 83-1
7 Simon Mound 34 78-10
8 Clive Pritchard 35 60-11
9 John Hatch 13 59-6
10 Al Loader 26 57-10
11 Simon Watkins 10 57-8
12 Geoff Palmer 19 56-0
13 Gem Doyle 3 52-1
14 Terry  Auto 4 45-15
15 Paul Roberts 28 44-0
16 Dai Thomas 11 42-8
17 Dave Moore 29 37-12
18 Dave Collier 14 37-6
19 Dave Wall 23 37-0
20 Steve Wilson 39 34-7
21 Dave Webster 18 34-6
22 Paul East 22 30-4
23 Nick Williams 1 29-10
24 Kev Loveland 31 27-4
25 Steve Akal 37 21-14
26 Barry Cullen 20 12-8
27 Scott Weston 6 8-5
28 Malc Doyle 38 DNW

28 Anglers Fished

Overall Points

Pos     Names     Points
1     Tony Roberts – Simon Mound     20
2     John Hatch – Peter Morton     21
3     Terry Goff – Clive Pritchard     33
4     Steve Wilson – Keith Powell     36
5     Al Loader – Simon Watkins     51
6     Dave Collier – Marcus Burgess     52
7     Nick Williams – Ant Haywood     54
8     Steve Akal – Geoff Palmer     67
9     Dai Thomas – Malc Doyle     71
10     Kev Loveland – Dave Webster     72
11     Dave Wall – Terry  Auto     73
12     Paul Roberts – Gem Doyle     76
13     Barry Cullen – Dave Moore     84
14     Scott Weston – Paul East     101

 

 

 

 

Overall Winners, Tony Roberts and Simon Mound with Dave Webster

 

Wednesday Open Match. 25th July 2012

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Eddie will add his report on the day later. Well done Jon, back in the banner again now…but for how long.

Welcome back to John Draper too.

 

Quality angler + super peg = King of the lake.

Today as i arrived at the lake i could not believe the amount of cruising carp in both the big and small lake and with the sun out and a temperature of 30 degrees you needed two things ,suntan lotion and a draw in the shade which i failed on both counts. Today also marked the return of Jon Walker who i had not seen for a while and when he drew peg 6 you could hear the groans from the other anglers 10 miles away, and with me on peg 7 a battering was definitley on the cards.

With the anglers scattered all around the lake the place you did not want to draw was on the motorway bank pegs 15.16.17 and 18 as it was like being in the dessert with no shade so the unlucky anglers to draw in this area were Mick Chappell on 16 and Paul Jay yes you guessed it was on peg 18. The story of the match was the anglers in the big lake struggled and the two anglers at the bottom of the small lake Dave Hulcoop on peg 4 and John Walker on peg 6 were picking up the odd fish but it was by no means hectic.

Both Micheal Corsini and myself on peg 8 and 7 were putting the catch and release policy into play as between the pair of us must of lost at least 30 fish as the fish would not feed properly and there were lots of foul hooked carp but the funniest was Micheal after playing a fish for 15 minutes got it to the net { and it was about 15lb } only to see it come off and swim off infront of his landing net how sad.

In first place today was big weight expert Jon Walker who was on peg 6 in the small lake and Jon experienced a very slow first 2 and a half hours. The remaining two and a half hours was a race against the clock as Jon put big fish after big fish on the scales and at one point had 6 fish for at least a hundred pound and at the end he had 286lb of fish to 18-08 on the board to go with his net fish. John started on the shallow 13 meter line fishing worm feeding pellet but at the same time was feeding a margin line at about 8 meters up towards peg 5 and as soon as John saw the fish swirling it was time to fish for them. Jon fished a small margin float on the deck fishing a big 11mm pellet hookbait feeding loose ground bait to keep the fish in the swim and my word there were lots of big carp in the swim.

This was the float Jon was using one of his new margin green range.

As the board weights were added up the anglers gathered were wondering if Jon had caught enough carp to dethrone Geoff Edwards as lake king with a bigger weight than 353lb and after 3 weighs Jons total weight went 356lb to reclaim the lake king he has held before { very well done Jon and thanks for giving me a sore neck witnessing all you fish }.

Just the smaller of Jons fish.

In second place was Dave Halcoop who was fishing end peg 4 also in the small lake and Dave fished down the edge in the shade to his right and by using pellet hookbait also managed to catch big carp to 17lb but i think Jon stopped the carp from going around the bush on peg 5 and after 5 hours put a weight of 156-12 which would normally win matches down the lake but not today { well done Dave}. Completing the frame was Paul Jay on peg 18 and today Paul fished the waggler all around at a depth of 15 inches fishing 8mm hard banded pellet feeding pellet but he caught a much smaller stamp of carp to 6lb but still ended up with 139-14.

Inform angler Dai Thomas .

Results

12 fished.

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Jon Walker 6 356-0
2 Dave Hulcoop 4 156-12
3 Paul Jay 18 139-14
4 Michael Corsini 8 66-4
5 Eddie T-Green 7 54-0
6 Dai Thomas 9 27-0
7 John Draper 28 24-12
8 Mick Chappell 16 14-8

John has be hard at work making some new patterns of floats and here are some pictures of them.

Small JW margin and shallow floats.

More JW floats.

 

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

Saturday Open Match. 21st July 2012

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Today was a duel match, you could either fish for carp or Silver as there was a separate pool for both. John had offered anyone a bottle of champers if they broke the 100lb of silvers. With most people armed with worm and caster I think it’s fair to say most were going for the silvers today.

Early morning wake up call

The weather for once was nice and sunny with very little wind and NO rain 😀 Not the most perfect conditions for silver fishing most were saying. Fishing today was from 11.45 to 4.45.

Lake looking good again after all the rain, thanks to everyone’s efforts down the lake.

Olly having a nap

 

Simon and Michael pretty much had the lake lake to themselves along with 2 pleasure anglers who had turned up after leaving another fishery. Michael on peg 8 was using a whip to catch silvers, Simon on peg 6 was off to a great start with a big fish on straight away which spat the hook at the net, luckily it was followed by another which went 18lb 8oz, great start.

After the first hour I had 6 carp and was off to weigh another and Michael told me that I was the only person to catch a carp, I didn’t believe him but it was true and the big lake was struggling for both carp and silvers.

With 3 hours gone Michael could not resist after hearing the splashing from my peg 😀 and started going for the carp and started putting a few on the board and in the nets.

At the all out I had 11 on the board (fish over 10lb are weighed and released) to 18lb 8oz and 14 in my nets (9 in one and 5 in another) along with 6 bream and some roach. Michael was claiming 30lb of silvers so I thought he had a least beaten my silver weight. Geoff had said Kev Dolton on peg 25 had a good bag of silvers so it was on to the weigh in.

a 16lb’er for Simon Mound

Results.

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Simon Mound 6 260-2
2 Michael Corsini 8 110-5
3 John Bennett 16 63-9
4 Kev Dolton 25 55-13
5 Dai Thomas 19 35-11
6 Geoff Edwards 28 25-14
7 Paul Jay 22 22-10
8 Dave Wightman 32 20-5
9 Nick Horne 13 DNW
1st Silver Kev Dolton 29-5
2nd Silver Simon Mound 23-5
3rd Silver Dave Wightman 20-5

9 Anglers Fished

Simon caught all his fish on 8mm banded pellet at 3m in front of him and 3m to the right hand side. He also caught 6 fish shallow at 13m.

Kev Dolton, Silver fish Winner. Well done Kev.

Simon Mound, Overall winner and Silver fish second place.

Michael Corsini, Second overall. Should have stuck on the silvers 😛

Dave Wightman and Dai Thomas eating all the biscuits

Thanks for reading. Eddie, John and Simon.

Tumbley Bay A.C Club match 15th July 2012

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Rolfslake welcomes another member of the 300lb club.

Today Rolfslake welcomed Tumbley Bay angling club down to the lake and as they were short of a few people they invited a few of the regulars and some of the Jinx league anglers who were still there from Saturday.

Today was a mild day with very little wind and the anglers today were greeted by the usual sight of plenty of cruising fish and feeding fish by the look of the bubbles coming from the bottom which normally gets the club anglers excited with thoughts of big weights, and today Rolfslake did not disappoint.

Lovely bubbly

 

It was decided by match organiser Paul Bennett that today the lake was going to be split into two sections ,section A being from pegs 34 to 8 and section B was from 9 to 32 so there were the top two in both sections to play for. The good news for me was that John and myself had drawn as far away from each other as possible as he had drawn peg 22 and me 34 so it was going to be a quiet match for a change and at 10.30 the all in was called.

The story of the match was after a slowish start the fish started to feed both in the big and small lake and there were some big carp caught today topped by Michael Corsini who caught a big 21lb common caught on the tip from peg 7 but there were lots of big doubles caught from most anglers all around.

The big story of the day was from peg 16 on the motorway bank where Rolfslake.com co-owner Simon Mound was going after Geoff Edwards king of the lake title but after a poor first 2 hours just fell short. Simon today was fishing the right hand margin after dabbling with fishing the bush to his left and a straight out line with very little success but when he turned his attention to the right hand margin for the last 3 hours and could not believe it as he had a big shoal of carp waiting for him. Simon fished half way down the purple bush fishing on the deck with his tried and tested 8mm hard banded pellet and caught about 35 carp to 17lb { Simon’s board weight went 168lb }.

By keeping he bait moving Simon kept the bites coming and even with the repeated stick he was getting from Randolph and Mortimer aka John Bennett and Geoff Edwards he continued to catch and after a busy 5 hours put a fantastic and rare 315lb on the scales for not only his first 300lb but also a personal best weight { very well done Simon }.

Second in Simon’s B section was Laurence Bloomfield who was fishing form peg 9 and by fishing the bush to his right fishing pellet on the deck Laurence caught fish to double figures for a great weight of 155lb which on any other day could of won this match.

A section was won by Michael Corsini who was fishing peg 7 . Michael started on the tip catching his 21lb common early but also added a few more and then switched between a 6 metre line straight out in front and a margin swim towards peg 8 which added more carp to his final weight of 135-08 by fishing pellet fished on the deck feeding pellet to continue his good form { well done Michael }. Only a small fish behind was Paul Bennett who was on back bank peg 2 and by fishing down the edge fishing paste managed to keep the carp coming to only end up just short of a section win with his weight of 134-00.

The regulars would like to thank Tumbley Bay for their invitation to fish in what turned out to be a memorable and enjoyable day.

 

Its not Freddie Kruger or Edward Sissorhands.
Its Simon Mound raking up the pound side bets from Bennett and Edwards.

 

 

Simon fished down the edge dead center of this bush.

 

Results

17 fished.

Place Angler Peg Weight
1st Simon Mound  16  315-00 PB Rolfslake.com
2nd Laurence Bloomfield  9  155-00 Tumbley Bay AC
3rd Micheal Corsini  7  135-08 Miracle Baits
4th Paul Bennett  2  134-00 Tumbley Bay AC
5th Neil Hutchins 32  124-08 Tumbley Bay AC
6th Alan Sheehan 40  120-08 Tumbley Bay AC
7th John Bennett 22  118-04 Rolfslake
8th Geoff Edwards 26  109-08 Reading Angling Centre
9th Dai Thomas 4  83-08 Jinx League
10th Steve Boakes 13  77-12 Tumbley Bay AC
11th Mat Edwards 29  53-04 Miracle Baits
12th Dave Wint 6  52-04 Tumbley Bay AC
13th Mick Sutton 38  36-10 Tumbley Bay AC
14th Nick Pringle 8  49-12 Tumbley Bay AC
15th Nick Williams 18  21-08 Miracle Baits
16th Eddie Taylor-Green 34  DNW Rolfslake
17th Mick Chappell 10  DNW Rolfslake

The Pirate is sent back down to Davy Jones Locker.

 

HMS Bennett sinks the Pirate.

 

 

The score now stands at.

John 8

Eddie 3

Until our next report bye from Simon and the Minx.

 

Just a final reminder that there is a charity match down the lake this Friday so if you would like to watch it will cost you a pound and there will also be a barbecue selling burgers to raise money for the McMillan Cancer Support so come down to watch some star anglers fishing with some regular anglers it should be a great day.

Thanks to all the anglers that have pledged some money for the charity it is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading John,Simon and Eddie.

Simple Match Fishing 2 Dayer. 12th&13th July 2012

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Day 1

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st Ant Haywood 34 134-8 1
2nd Terry Goff 4 128-8 2
3rd Mat Edwards 7 111-0 3
4th Dai Thomas 38 109-0 4
5th Geoff Palmer 6 84-4 5
6th Dave Wall 40 68-4 6
7th Pete Tapp 2 52-4 7
B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Michael Corsini 13 106-4 1
2nd Marcus Burgess 32 95-4 2
3rd Peter Morton 29 78-8 3
4th Lee Gavalar 31 56-4 3
5th Neil Riddy 28 52-8 5
6th Dave Collier 8 44-4 6
7th Simon Watkins 10 43-12 7
8th Nick Williams 9 26-0 8
C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Clive Pritchard 14 89-0 1
2nd Simon Mound 16 75-12 2
3rd Malc Doyle 22 34-12 3
4th Kev Loveland 18 25-0 4
5th Paul Corsini 26 19-0 5
6th Dave Moore 23 12-8 6
7th Gem Doyle 25 3-4 7

Day 2

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st Peter Morton 6 204-8 1
2nd Pete Tapp 2 159-8 2
3rd Ant Haywood 40 128-12 3
4th Neil Riddy 38 124-12 4
5th Geoff Palmer 34 119-8 5
6th Dave Collier 4 99-8 6
7th Terry Goff 7 73-12 7
B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Mat Edwards 8 170-12 1
2nd Simon Mound 10 124-0 2
3rd Dave Moore 29 102-12 3
4th Marcus Burgess 28 89-0 4
5th Nick Bondeu 32 67-8 5
6th Dai Thomas 31 61-0 6
7th Malc Doyle 13 44-4 7
8th Kev Loveland 9 22-8
C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Clive Pritchard 14 121-8 1
2nd Lee Gavalar 25 100-8 2
3rd Simon Watkins 18 78-0 3
4th Michael Corsini 23 66-12 4
5th Dave Wall 22 63-8 5
6th Nick Williams 26 46-0 6
7th Paul Corsini 16 40-8 7

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Place Name Points
1st Clive Pritchard 2
2nd Peter Morton 4 (weight)
3rd Mat Edwards 4
4th Ant Haywood 4
5th Simon Mound 4
6th Michael Corsini 5
7th Marcus Burgess 6 (weight)
8th Lee Gavalar 6

The first Simple Match Fishing 2 Dayer Champion. Clive Pritchard. Well done.

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