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Match Fishing Scene 3 day Festival. 27th-29th May 2010

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Church007, Festival organiser.

Martin had arranged a 3 Day festival over at Match Fishing Scene. Banter on the forum had been building up about the Welsh beating the English so who would come out top after the 3 days ??

Most of the guys fishing the festival were also camping over at the lake. Thursday morning at the lake it looked like some gypo’s had moved in and set up camp 😀

Thursday morning saw glorious sunshine after Wednesday nights torrential rain.  24 anglers all gathered for the draw at 12am

Hi de hi campers

The campers woke up to a sunny morning.

Everyone gathering for the draw

Budgie and Dave Moore

John Bennett refreshing everyone with the lake rules

With the draw done everyone had plenty of time to get to their peg and set up. Fishing would be from 2pm – 7pm. The match format was 3 sections of 8 anglers. Section A was pegs 2, 4, 6, 7, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Section B was pegs 8, 9, 10, 13, 28, 29, 31 and 32. Section C was pegs 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24 and 26.

John Bennett was going round helping people with their pegs, giving them info on how to fish it but some people were just beyond help it seems.

Fred Parker on Peg 9. Should have gone to spec savers 😀

Church on peg 19

Ian McCulloch on peg 26

Budgie on peg 31. He was peg king for all of one day 😀

Day one has seen some good weights from around the lake while others were struggling. Chris Telling was having a blinding day on peg 7 catching on corn and paste at 14.5 meters. Down in C section Pellet King  and Jonny B had been catching well, Pellet King catching shallow on 6mm banded pellet to take the section. B section had been won by Nick Merry on peg 13 catching long and short in the margins and 14.5m shallow.

Results for Day 1
Day 1. A Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Chris Telling 7 226-8
2 Caster Master 40 194-0
3 Gillbo 36 123-8
4 Kerb Crawler 2 122-6
5 Dawg 4 95-4
6 Rob B 38 66-8
7 SBW 6 48-4
8 Baz 34 17-4

Day 1. B Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Nick Merry 13 170-2
2 Mick ‘Drawbag’ Lane 10 163-12
3 Baz Wrexham 28 144-12
4 Gary Mitchell 8 140-8
5 Fred Parker 9 132-0
6 Ruddy Roach 32 64-8
7 Budgie 31 53-4
8 Dave Moore 29 42-4

Day 1. C Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Pellet King 23 195-12
2 Jonny B 16 175-2
3 Eels 26 114-0
4 Dodgy Peg 24 104-8
5 Chruch 19 85-12
6 Simple 18 42-4
7 Drawbag 14 36-8
8 Gareth Evans 21 32-4

Day 2

The anglers moved round the lake for day two in to the next section. Expectations were high for some good weights today as previous festivals  2nd day always through up some high match weights. With the draw at 12 and fishing from 2pm – 7pm again everyone had plenty of time to set up again.

Despite all the expectations the lake had fished harder on day 2. Two double tons had still come from the lake though, Phil Powell on peg 31 had fished a blinder on a peg he did not fancy after drawing it. He had to fish hard for it though, fishing at 16 meters shallow on banded pellet. Second double was from Pete Archer on peg 9 and was just a few fish away from beating Phil.

Mick Lane had won C Section fishing shallow, in the margin and 5-6 meter line on banded pellet. Pellet King had fished another excellent match in A Section fishing shallow again and in the margins.

Day 2 Results

Day 2. A Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Pellet King 40 127-8
2 Eels 2 126-8
3 Dodgy Peg 4 120-8
4 Church 6 94-8
5 Drawbag 34 86-4
6 Jonny B 7 61-8
7 Gareth Evans 36 31-4
8 Simple 38 26-10

Day 2. B Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Dawg 31 222-4
2 Caster Master 9 208-8
3 Chris Telling 10 124-12
4 Gillbo 32 59-8
5 Baz 8 54-12
6 SBW 28 52-4
7 Rob B 13 33-8
8 Kerb Crawler 29 12-00

Day 2. C Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Mick Lane 16 85-8
2 Baz Wrexham 14 68-8
3 Budgie 26 34-4
4 Fred Parker 19 24-4
5 Ruddy Roach 23 24-0
6 Gary Mitchell 24 21-0
7 Nick Merry 18 13-8
8 Dave Moore 21 2-4

After today match Martin had arranged a BBQ for everyone. Once the weigh in was complete Martin went off to ASDA to pick up BBQ supplies. Some people could not wait to get started on the beer.

Phil Powell, Fred Parker and Mick Lane

Peg 34 with Johns dramatic lighting

Doodle bug

Big Thanks go to Baz Wrexham, the man on the BBQ. He cooked a mean burger 😀

Day 3

The weather for the final match had turned for the worst, gone was the sunshine replaced by clouds and rain. Wet weather gear was going to be needed today 🙁

Church cooking his brekkie on the final day

Fishing today for the final match would be earlier. The draw at 10am and fishing 12-5pm. This is to allow people to get away earlier after the presentation. With the draw done and everyone on their pegs setting up in the rain people were hoping for a good days fishing to finish the festival off in style.

SBW having a hard day on peg 26

Dodgey Peg on 31 in to fish

Gillbo on peg 24

Simon Mound fishing peg 13 for his first time

Gareth Evans on peg 32

Jonny B on peg 9

Double fish action

Simple with a weigher and Pete Archer on peg 16

Pete Archer in to a carp

Rob B on peg 18

Rob B locked in battle with a Rolfs Carp

Chris Telling fishing Paste on peg 23

Phil Powell. Pulling a funny face

Pete Archer again

Baz on peg 14

Baz with a nice carp

Simple on peg 13 with some much needed fish

Church on peg 8 on his way to winning B Section. Well done

Chris Telling came close to winning.

Sorry some pictures are a bit fuzzy, the zoom on my camera is not that good.

Day 3 had fished hard again with only one double ton coming from the lake today. BBQ master Baz Wrexham on peg 34 had bagged up fishing a 5m line on corn winning A Section. B section was won by event organiser Church on peg 8 fishing 16m, down the track and in the bush on his left all with corn. C Section was won surprisingly on peg 21. Kerb Crawler had denied all the odd and produced a winning weight fishing the margins again on corn proving to everyone there was some fish down there after all 😀

Day 3 Results

Day 3. A Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Baz Wrexham 34 220-12
2 Nick Merry 7 120-4
3 Mick Lane 4 108-12
4 Fred Parker 40 72-4
5 Gary Mitchell 36 49-4
6 Ruddy Roach 38 34-8
7 Dave Moore 2 29-2
8 Budgie 6 8-8

Day 3. B Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Church 8 100-0
2 Pellet King 29 86-8
3 Simple 13 82-8
4 Jonny B 9 79-4
5 Gareth Evans 32 58-0
6 Drawbag 28 54-0
7 Dodgy Peg 31 42-8
8 Eels 10 40-0

Day 3. C Section
Position Name Peg Weight
1 Kerb Crawler 21 64-4
2 Chris Telling 23 53-12
3 Dawg 19 40-0
4 Rob B 18 33-4
5 Caster Master 16 23-0
6 Baz 14 16-8
7 SBW 26 12-8
8 Gillbo 24 11-0

Overall Section Points after the 3 Day’s ..

Pellet King 23pts.
Baz Wrexham 21pts.
Chris Telling 21pts.
Mick Lane 21pts.
Dawg 18pts.
Caster Master 18pts.
Church007 17pts.
NickM 17pts.
Jonny_B1989 15pts.
Kerbcrawler 14pts.
Eels 14pts.
Fred 14pts.
Dodgypeg 13pts.
Gary Mitch 12pts.
Gillbo 12pts.
RobB 10pts.
Simple 10pts.
Ruddy Roach 10pts.
Drawbag 9pts.
Budgie 9pts.
Baz 8pts.
Sbw 7pts.
Garethevans1986 7pts.
David Moore 4pts.

Pellet King had only dropped one point over the 3 days. Well fished mate, superb result.

Pete Archer had kindly brought along a trophy for the winner too.

Festival Winner Pellet King

A big thank you to Martin for arranging a superb festival. It was great to meet up with old friends and meeting new ones. The whole event ran smoothly.

The lake was also left how it should be. All littler, fag butts and sick was cleaned up 😀 Thanks to everyone for keeping the place so clean. this will ensure future events like this one can carry on to take place.

On a side note. Simon and Budgie were having a mini battle and Simon lost 2-1 to Budgie. Well done mate 🙁

Simon and Budgie

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 21st April.

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As the attendances start to grow on the Wednesday opens two things will now be a dead cert,

1 you will always find Vespe sponsored Chris Telling with lots of paste hookbait and

2. When Jon Walker turns up he will normally need more that 3 keepnets.

With today being a sunny but cool day if you were drawn on the car park bank and with a gentle breeze blowing from the north, hopes were high for a good days fishing. With the Rolfslake cartel members in attendance and also the two super baggers { Telling and Walker } plus the judge, Malc, the Isle of Wight anglers plus the regulars, the 16 anglers were raring to go at the draw. With enough anglers today it was decided by John to use both the big and small lake and with Chris drawing peg 6 in the small lake and Jon drawing peg 24 in the big lake with my main competition John Bennett drawing peg 14 and me drawing peg 15 i was not going to have a relaxing day.

As the match started i could not believe my eyes as John on 14 shipped out to 16 metres as i did not think he ever fished more than 6 metres and to make matters even worse he was fishing shallow and had a quick 4 fish to my lost 2. From where i was i could see Jon on 24 catching a few fish fishing shallow and Malc Doyle on 18 had caught two fishing long towards peg 19 so things were not looking good for me. For the anglers on pegs 9,10,30,and 32 fishing was slow but for the anglers on the car park bank they were having a few fish as the fish were topping on that side so some good weight were going to be had. The pleasure anglers were having a few fish so hopefully paste master Chris and Chris Calder on peg 4 and Paul Bennett on 8 were going to have plenty of fish as before the match the small lake was black with fish.

The winner today was super bagger Jon Walker on peg 24 on the car park bank who started fishing shallow feeding regular pouches of pellet, and who later in the match was able to catch a lot closer in. Jon was fishing pellet hook bait on the shallow line fished about 3 to 4 feet deep, and paste on the short rig fished at about 7-8 metres. Jon had about 100lb on the shallow rig before switching to the short rig and he caught plenty of weighers {all 180lb of them } in his final weight of 269-00 to go top of the weight chart for this year {sorry Chris your top weight lasted 1 week}.

Super bagger Jon Walker.

In second place was Chris Telling who after being dissapointed on drawing peg 6 tried catching short with little success, but when he fished at 11 metres the fish were waiting for him. Chris was using paste fished on the deck feeding positvley to catch his fish to 14lb + in his final bag of 229-00. Completing the frame was Mick Jones on peg 30 by the hut and for three hours was struggling but a change to the margin line brought a great response and big fish for Mick who was using his favoured flavoured meat fished on the deck to catch fish to 13lb.

The match today was from 2.30pm till 7.30pm

Results.
Name Peg Weight
Jon Walker 24 269-0
Chris Telling 6 229-0
Mick Jones 30 148-12
Malc Doyle 18 146-0
Paul Bennett 8 113-0
Mark Newbold 22 101-4
John Millington 26 77-8
Chris Calder 4 76-12
Andy Raymen 9 72-10
John Bennett 14 69-8
Eddie Taylor Green 15 64-8
Paul Jay 32 64-0
Len 10 35-8
3 Anglers DNW

As for me Eddie it started off bad and then went downhill as when i arrived at the lake John asked me if i could go round the lake on the lawnmower and cut the grass. I thought to my self no problem and went off happily cutting the grass only to be told off for not cutting the grass in straight lines, then as i went to park the mower by the hut i ran over the rope that holds the aireator in the middle of the lake and tangled it in the cutting blade {not very good }.

After Paul had untangled the rope i went to put it into gear and the gear stick broke so we could not drive it. I was looking around the lake to see if i had run over a black cat or if there was only one magpie flying around as i don’t normally have bad luck but more was to follow as when after collecting the pools money someone asked me the time and as i turned my wrist to check i tipped the pools money out of the container only for it to blow around on the grass with the anglers chasing it.

Now to the fishing after drawing next to John i thought i should beat him today , but it never happened as i lost 19 fish and John by the end thought i was suffering from terrets with the amount of swearing comming from my peg as i lost fish after fish.

The score stands at John Bennet 2 – Eddie T-Green 1.

Malc Doyle’s version of the day can be found by clicking HERE

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