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Spring Festival Day 2 Results.

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4th April

 

As the anglers returned for day two of the Easter Festival they were hopeful that the blustery conditions from Saturday had blown away, but as usual they were to be disapointed.

Day one section winners Matt Smith had drawn A section peg 8, Tim Guise had drawn B section peg 27 and Mark Malin had drawn C sections peg 15 so they were all confident of a good days fishing . For the rest of the anglers it was a case of catch up so what was needed was a good draw and a good days fishing { who does not fancy that}, so off they went for another 5 hours.

The weather so John tells me was a blustery day blowing from the car park bank towards the motorway bank and with plenty of fish crashing in the big lake hopes were high for another set of big weights that Rolfslake is famous for.

The summary of the day was that again in Section A it was very difficult except for Colin Wedgebrow and Matt Smith {who draws that well that i will ask him to choose my lottery numbers} who were having a very good battle that was eventually won by Matt by 3-01. In B section it was very difficult for the anglers fishing in the bowl by the hut pegs 9,10.27,30 and 31 as it looked like the fish had moved down to the bottom of the lake by the amount of fish topping there. The only three weights of note came from Jason Astle on peg 13 with 63-04 , Lee Giles on peg 14 with 76-04 and finally Andy Chandler with 60-12 from peg 28.

All the main action came from C section where the fish were up in the water and a great batlle commenced with Mark Malin on yesterdays winning peg 15, John Bennett on peg 17, Phil Powell on peg 23 and Mark Bowerman on peg 24. With so many fish topping in this area it was a battle royal between the up in the water specialists and John Bennett who after catching a few carp was forced to fish his least favourite method at 16 metres {also doing this with a bad back}.

After a fantastic 5 hours the winner of C section was Mark Bowerman on peg 24 who put together another fantastic double ton weight of 207-04. Hot on Marks heels was John Bennett opposite on peg 17 who was never far away and ended up with 173-12 and just a big skimmer head of his team member Phil Powell who had 170-12. For the rest of the anglers it also was a good days fishing with the lowest  weight being 84-04 so i expect tomorrow to be even better.

After two days only one angler has a perfect score and that person is Matt Smith on two points the 2008 champion , but he has a host of anglers snapping at his heels so he will have to draw well in B section and score good points.

Easter Festival Day 2
A Section PEG WEIGHT PTS
Matt Smith 8 89-08 1
Colin Wedgebrow 34 86-07 2
Derek Hammond 4 44-09 3
Chris Walters 2 41-13 4
Gary Haisman 7 34-08 5
Dave Whiteman 40 31-08 6
Paul Glenfield 37 13-10 7
Clive Pritchard 35 3-05 8
       
B Section      
Lee Giles 14 76-04 1
Jason Astle 13 63-04 2
Andy Chandler 28 60-12 3
John Hague 10 57-10 4
Tim Guise 27 31-03 5
Chris Telling 9 22-08 6
Mark Bedford 30 19-13 7
Paul Newbury 31 12-13 8
       
C Section      
Mark Bowerman 24 207-04 1
John Bennett 17 173-12 2
Phil Powell 23 170-12 3
Mark Malin 15 163-10 4
Andy Johnstone 21 139-08 5
Mick Lane 26 112-08 6
Mick Hughes 18 84-04 7
not used 19 – 8
Points after day 2
Matt Smith 2 points
Mark Bowerman 4 points
Mark Malin 5 points
Derek Hammond 5 points
John Bennett 6 points
Tim Guise 6 points
Jason Astle 6 points
 

Rolfslake’s Easter Festival 2010

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Well all you eager anglers just waiting for the weekend to come and for a chance to win the Rolfslake festival here is a current lake update to hopefully help you.

Over the last few weeks the carp have started to spread around the lake {in the big lake the fish are around the middle of pegs 14,16,18,22,23,24 and in the small lake around pegs 40, 2,, 6 and 34} and have started to feed confidently as the weather has started to warm up. The current top weight this year is from Simon Mound from peg 22 at 211-12 caught up in the water but last Sunday Maurice Woodley caught a superb 175-12 all caught on paste so John tells me.

As in previous festivals the ideal draw would be sections B,C then A as the small lake usually takes time to warm up and currently the top baits are corn , pellet and maggots if you need to catch silver. The carp are starting to come closer in as Mick Jones who has had a few good results recently has been catching carp closer than 9 metres on the meat, so if it gets warmer don’t neglect the edge swims as there has been a lot of fish in both parts of the lake.

The festival is fished over three days with the winner of each section getting 8 points desending down to 1 point for last place in section ,but you have to weigh-in to get the point. The winner of the festival is the angler with the most points at the end of the three days and in the event of a draw on points it will be decided on section placings count back and if that is the same then it goes down to weight.

Things to remember, the lake provides each angler with three keepnets and a landing net top to use but you will need to provide your own keepnet attachments to fix these onto your seat box as there are none down on the lake to use.

The fishery WILL enforce the no fish over 10lb in the keepnet rule as to be fair to all anglers, and as there are plenty of weigh stations around the lake within a short walk there is no excuse for this rule to be abused. The fish at Rolfslake are in fantastic condition and they have had to endure a really tough winter so John has to ensure that they are well looked after so no pulla bugs or brown hydro are allowed down on the lake. The current rules are on this site so please read them and if you have any questions please ask John before the match starts so there is no confusion.

There will be no bank walkers allowed around the lake except for John, Pauline and their match stewards on the three days so you will not be interupted or have your fish spooked by someone standing up by your swim.

The festivals at Rolfslake are always fished in great spirits and always enjoyed by all the anglers and hopefully everyone has a great time which is the aim for John and Pauline and there will be locals on hand to help our visiting anglers to make the Rolfslake experience a memorable one .

Have a great time from Eddie, Simon ,John and Pauline Bennett.

P.s dont forget to renew your rod license that runs out the end of March !

Neil Riddy’s Little Lake Match.

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21st March

Small Lake not match fished for a while

Neil Riddy and a few of his club mates had booked the little lake for a small knock up match. 7 anglers turned up to see how the little lake would fish. It had not been used for a match since the winter league.

Everyone fancied peg 34 as its normally always good for a few fish, who would draw it ? Adam much to his delight. I think he was going for his 4th win in a row, would he do it or not 😀

The weather at the lake was glorious, it looked perfect for everyone to catch a few fish but the lake had other idea’s.

Everyone started off fishing for carp. Adam on peg 34 had 2 in the first 5 minutes but then was biteless for the rest of the match. Elsewhere most people resorted to catching silvers but even they were proving tricky to catch. Everyone caught fish but only 4 people weighed in.

Neil Riddy ready for some action.

Ginge wondering why I was taking a picture of him

Tactics Talk maybe ?

Adam Managed the win in the first 5 minutes of the match and got his 4 in a row, Well done. I put it down to his new lucky luggage 😀

1 Adam Griffith 34 22-4
2 Chris Lovelock 36 14-8
3 Mark Orchard 38 4-12
4 Simon Mound 2 1-3 😀

I would like to thank Neil for the invite and I hope it fishes better for the next one 🙂

Spring league round 4 21st March 2010

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As the anglers gathered for round 4 of the spring league they were joined on the lake by a visiting party who today would be fishing the small lake pegs 34 to peg 8.

With the league being very close between the Woodentops led by captained by Paul Jay and the Swindon Mafia captained by Mick Lane ,it was going to be very important to ensure that all anglers caught and with the carp now starting to move that you managed to catch a few to boost your weight and with the wind blowing from the south the fish that were hiding down on pegs 19 and 20 had started to move to the middle of the lake infront of pegs 16 and 24.

John tells that during the match carp were caught and lost but the main battle was between he on peg 18 {for John peg 18 is his new peg 9 as he had drawn it a few times recently} and Derek Hammond on peg 22 and at the end of five hours Derek was one fish ahead although John mananged to lose a few during the match. Derek was fishing the pole fished long and on the deck using corn for hook bait but feeding quite cautiously to keep the fish there and in the end Derek caught 95-00 for first place individually and 4 points for his team. John fished pretty similar to Derek but after catching a few carp the fished moved out of pole range and started to come up on the surface much to his annoyance as he tells me he should of caught over 100lb of fish with the amount of fish in his swim but ended up with 80-08.

Elsewhere around the lake most anglers caught a few carp on either pole, waggler or bomb again using corn and pellet as the main hookbait but feeding cautiously as not to spook the fish.

The Woodentops still lead the league but only by one point so round five this weekend should be a good battle between them and the Swindon Mafia and as reporter i am totally unbiased so i hope the Woodentops win for a change. The lake is fishing better as each match goes by so by the time the Easter Festival comes round it should be on top form.

Results

A section.

1st  Steve Williams           Dnw’s                peg 32     47-12         4 points

2nd Phil Powell                Swindon Mafia   peg 9       35-04         3 points

3rd Dave Ball                  Pikeys                peg 10      8-04          2 points

4th Fred Parker               Woodentops     peg 30      7-04           1 points

B section

1st Paul Jay                     Woodentops     peg 13     61-12           4 points

2nd Ryan Rimmer            Dnw’s                peg 26     33-04          3 points

3rd Mick Lane                 Swindon Mafia   peg 14     30-12          2 points

4th Herbie                      Pikeys                peg 13     13-00          1 point

C section

1st Derek Hammond      Woodentops      peg 22      95-00          4 points

2nd John Bennett           Swindon Mafia   peg 18      80-08          3 points

3rd Derek Hazleman      Pikeys                peg 16      43-10          2 points

4th John Cowling           Dnw’s                peg 24      39-04          1 point

Results on the day

Woodentops    9 points

Swindon Mafia 8 points

Dnw’s              8 points

Pikeys             5 points

Results after round  4

Woodentops    34 points

Swindon Mafia 33 points

Pikeys              28 points

Dnw’s              25 points

Rolfs Lake Saturday Open

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13th March

Spring Time at Rolfs Lake.

After a couple of cold icy weeks, the weather finally warmed up and the sun started to shine. The temperature was creeping up to 10 or 11 degrees and a few carp and orfe were starting to come up to feed on bread in the nursery. The question was, would they start to move around the other pegs or stayed shoaled up in peg 22. As usual that was the peg everybody was hoping for.
Soon enough, all 8 anglers got ready to do the draw, we were all going to fish the far end of the big lake today so we should all be in for a good session. Dan Blackwell Drew first and chose peg 26 and John Bennett second with 24. Dan and Paul were not expecting to many fish as the fish have recently been shoaling up tight to the far side.


It was time for the whistle to be blown know and we were all in, Dan cast out a bomb at about 20m out on peg 26 and was the first to hook into a Carp. It was a big fish and felt like a high double but the hook pulled last minute. John and Paul were both in next at the same time and both sucsessfully got them to the net. And then Dan managed to redeem himself by getting a nice Carp into his net. Dan, Paul and John were all on the same tactics fishing the bomb and corn and pole and pellet which was proving very successful.

Paul landing a nice doulble figure carp.

Catching a few from 18

After 1 hour, everybody had managed to tempt 1 or 2 carp into their nets but a lot of the Carp hooked were unfortunately lost. Dan had managed to catch a nice 10lber along with Paul over on 14, John however had caught 5 carp all around the 7lb mark, some bigger some smaller. It was going very wrong on 22 with 7 carp being lost and 2 landed, it was more or less the same story on 18.

16m pole on 22

John talking to Mike on 24

With half an hour to go John had walked away having a great result of about 8 carp, Dan and Paul were very close with 3 carp and each had one of about 13lb. Dan had lost 4 in the end and Paul lost 1.

13lb carp from Rolfs Lake

A nice pole caught carp

It was now the end of the match and we all wondered around to do the weigh in.
In the end John won the match with 66lb 4oz, Well Done John!! Paul Jay came 2nd with 33lb 8oz and Dan came 3rd with 31lb. Well done to everybody that fished.

Dan Blackwells 31lb bag for 3rd

Top 3 Results. 8 Anglers fished.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Bennett 24 66-4
2 Paul Jay 14 33-8
3 Daniel Blackwell 26 31-0

Thanks for reading, Dan

Spring League 2010. Round 3.

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7th March

Sunny but cold day at the Lake.

The sunshine made an appearance today at the lake but Friday night had seen a frost. The lake was ice free but the ground was solid and most of the platforms had a layer of ice on them.

Would the carp show again like last week, it was looking possible as John Bennett had managed 90lb from peg 18 on the Saturdays open at the lake. So were the carp still down the far end of the big lake ? Those fishing C section were all hoping to draw peg 22 or 18 but who would be the lucky two ?

Phil Powell was one, he was hoping for 22 but pulled peg 18 out and Mike Stimpson drew peg 22.

Those fishing on the motorway bank were to have the sun on them all day whilst those on the car park bank were in arctic conditions with the wind picking up and blowing a chill down the lake towards pegs 19 and 21.

No one on the Little lake today.

Mick Lane, Simon Mound and Paul Jay were all catching silvers in A section. Gary Haisman was the only person to catch carp from B Section and John Colwing also in B section was on the way to building up a nice silver bag again like in the last round. C section it seemed had all the carp again with all 4 anglers catching carp. But this time it was Phil Powell on peg 18 taking the lead over Mike Stimpson on peg 22. Big Ron on 24 and Steve Williams on 16 we equal on 4 carp each but whose would be bigger.

Off to do the weigh in

Results

SPRING LEAGUE, ROUND 3. 7th March

A SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight Team
1 Mick Lane 32 25-4 Mafia
2 Paul Jay 10 15-12 Wood Tops
3 Simon Mound 9 11-12 Pikeys
4 Maurice Woodley 30 1-8 DNW’s

B SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight Team
1 Gary Haisman 14 27-8 Pikeys
2 John Cowling 28 13-8 DNW’s
3 Derek Hammond 26 7-12 Wood Tops
4 John Bennett 13 7-4 Mafia

C SECTION

Position Name Peg Weight Team
1 Phil Powell 18 89-0 Mafia
2 Mike Stimpson 22 67-0 Wood Tops
3 Steve Williams 16 42-8 DNW’s
4 Big Ron 24 37-12 Pikeys

DAY POINTS

Swindon Mafia 9 pts
Wooden Tops 8 pts
Pikeys 7 pts
DNW’s 6 pts

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Wooden Tops 25 pts
Swindon Mafia 25 pts
Pikeys 23 pts
DNW’s 17 pts

A Section Winner. Mick Lane.

Mick Lanes All Silver Bag

B Section Winner, Gary Haisman.

C Section Winner, Phil Powell.

Part of Phil's Match Winning 89lb bag.

Swindon Mafia are not letting Wooden tops get too far ahead and make a good comeback.

The next Spring league match is on Sunday the 21st March in 2 weeks time. John is running an open match on the Saturday before. If you want to fish please call John on 07774 618688.

John Bennett setting up on peg 13

Simon’s Report for this match can be found HERE

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