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Bank Holiday Festival. Day 1. 27th August 2011

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Day 1 and the weather was less than kind. Strong winds and heavy showers. Lots of cold rain going in the lake over the past 3-4 days did not do the fishing much good as a lot of people struggled for bite.

To add to the frustration there was also alot of foul hooked fish causing the anglers all kinds of problems. John Bennett lost 26 carp and had all kinds of problems with fish going in the bushes.

Results

A Section
 Pos  Name Peg Weight Points
1st Steve Waters 2 110-0 1
2nd Mick Chappell 34 68-0 2
3rd Dave Wightman 40 62-8 3
4th Mick Hughes 38 27-8 4
5th Dai Thomas 6 26-0 5
6th Colin Hopwood 4 13-0 6
B Section
 Pos Name Peg Weight Points
1st Frank Hardie 32 131-0 1
2nd John Bennett 9 96-0 2
3rd Derek Hammond 13 91-0 3
4th Clive Pritchard 10 45-0 4
5th Mick Lane 30 40-0 5
6th Nick Williams 28 33-12 6
C Section
 Pos Name Peg Weight Points
1st Joff Rogers 14 62-8 1
2nd Jeff Edwards 18 56-0 2
3rd Jonny Broadbent 16 36-12 3
4th Dave Howe 22 33-12 4
5th Paul Jay 24 33-0 5
6th Mat Edwards 26 22-8 6

Easter Festival Monday Day 3 2011

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25th April 2011

The Final day of the festival has arrived. With the lake fishing quite hard its hard to figure out who is gonna take the title this year. Derek Hammond is favourite before the draw, but it all depends what peg he draws in A section. A section had quite a struggle yesterday, maybe the fish will return to that end of the lake today.

More to follow……

Waiting for pictures etc

Final Results

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st John Hague 34 77-0 1
2nd Steve Waters 2 52-8 2
3rd Geoff Edwards 4 41-0 3
4th Frank Hardie 7 39-0 4
5th Jonny Broadbent 36 15-0 5
6th Chris Telling 40 9-0 6
7th Clive  Pritchard 38 7-0 7
8th Ernie Malyon 6 DNW 8
B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Jon Walker 8 98-4 1
2nd Mick Lane 13 71-8 2
3rd Phil Powell 10 46-8 3
4th Liam Bough 9 35-8 4
5th Paul Glenfield 32 31-8 5
6th Mick Hughes 28 10-8 6
7th Paul Newbury 29 DNW 7
8th Mick Chapell 31 DNW 8
C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Geoff Warmington 18 260-0 1
2nd Colin Wedgebrow 22 230-0 2
3rd Andy Johnstone 17 116-8 3
4th Pat Pritchard 15 71-8 4
5th Dave Whiteman 23 47-0 5
6th Matt Smith 14 41-8 6
7th Derek Hammond 26 12-0 7
8th Mark Malin 25 10-8 8

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Top 6 Weight Total
1st Mick Lane 247-8 8
2nd Jon Walker 270-4 9
3rd Phil Powell 202-8 9
4th Pat Pritchard 360-4 10
5th Derek Hammond 332-0 10

Well Done Mick. You can buy a new caravan for down the lake now 🙂

A few pics From Chris Telling’s Camera….

Jonny Broadbent on peg 9. Pleeeeease Stop 😀

 

Pat Pritchard Playing a lump on peg 34

See, told you it was a lump.

Jon Walker playing a carp

Jon Walker with some of the lake inhabitants

The Elite Weigh in Team

 

Section Winners

Chris Telling

Derek Hammond Praying for some fish

Mark Malin on peg 25

Easter Festival Sunday Day 2 2011

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The red kite was back at the lake

 

Day 2 of the festival and the anglers were hoping for good pegs today. The corner pegs were the pegs they had their eyes on and much fancied peg 8. The weather down the lake today was not as hot as yesterday and the lake also had a bit of cool rain go in to it last night.

Fancied pegs today went to Mick Lane who always knows how to draw a good peg, he pulled out peg 4, which won the match yesterday. Peg 8 went to Pat Pritchard. Phil Powell got a better draw today with peg 2. Mick Hughes drew peg 34. Clive Pritchard drew peg 18 and Frank Hardie got peg 22.

At the start of the match there were 2 anglers flying along and that was Derek Hammond on peg 13 and Clive Pritchard on peg 18. Everyone else was catching steady.

Pegs 8 and 9 were providing John and Pauline with some entertainment today as Pat on peg 8 broke two topkits in the first 10 minutes after carp were getting the better of him in the bushes on the left of the peg. It was much the same story with Mark Malin on peg 9, he was fishing to the bush and the carp were showing him no mercy taking him on a merry tour of the lake before going back in the bushes and spitting the hook out in the nearest branch. John lost count of the amount of rigs lost after the first hour 😀

The lake is still fishing quite hard by rolfslake standards but people are still catching. Half way through the match John guessed Clive had over 200lb and was showing no signs of slowing down but in the final hour of the match he did actually start to slow a bit.

One thing is for sure though and that there will be no perfect score this year like last year. After day two its going to be anyones guess as who will win.

The lake fished hard again today. The wind had changed direction over night and was blowing up towards the big lake which might explain why the little lake struggled a bit.

Today was a day of broken top kits and sections at the lake with the fish fighting harder than ever….

  • Clive Pritchard broke 2 topkits and a number 5 on his beastmaster
  • Mark Malin Broke topkits
  • Mick Hughes broke topkits
  • Patrick broke 2 topkits and a no 4 section

Results.

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st Mick Hughes 34 144-8 1
2nd Phil Powell 2 77-8 2
3rd Mick Lane 4 76-0 3
4th Liam Bough 7 48-0 4
5th Mick Chapell 38 23-0 5
6th Paul Glenfield 40 17-8 6
7th Jon Walker 36 14-0 7
8th Paul Newbury 6 10-8 8

 

B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Pat Pritchard 8 152-8 1
2nd Derek Hammond 13 107-0 2
3rd Dave Whiteman 29 46-0 3
4th Mark Malin 9 42-8 4
5th Matt Smith 31 40-8 5
6th Andy Johnstone 10 37-0 6
7th Colin Wedgebrow 32 27-0 7
8th Geoff Warmington 28 26-8 8

 

C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Clive  Pritchard 18 255-8 1
2nd Frank Hardie 22 137-0 2
3rd John Hague 15 81-4 3
4th Chris Telling 26 57-0 4
5th Ernie Malyon 14 36-8 5
6th Jonny Broadbent 23 27-4 6
7th Geoff Edwards 25 20-0 7
8th Steve Waters 17 12-8 8

 

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

Top 6 DAYPOINTS Total
1st Derek Hammond 2 3
2nd Clive Pritchard 1 5
3rd= Dave Whiteman 3 6
3rd= Pat Pritchard 1 6
3rd= Mick Hughes 1 6
3rd= Mick Lane 2 6
3rd= Phil Powell 3 6
3rd= Liam Bough 4 6

Derek Hammond is looking good to take the title but you know at Rolfslake. If he draws peg 18 he will be laughing.

Hope it fishes well for you all on the last day.

Tight lines. Eddie, Simon and John.

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.

Spring Festival Day 3 Results.

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5th April

Spring League Day 3
A Section PEG WEIGHT PTS
Mark Malin 7 179-14 1
John Bennett 8 80-12 2
Mark Bowerman 35 61-10 3
Phil Powell 37 45-04 4
Mick Lane 40 41-10 5
Andy Johnstone 2 38-04 6
Mick Hughes 4 37-08 7
Not used 34 – 8
B Section
Matt Smith 9 64-08 1
Derek Hammond 10 53-00 2
Dave Whiteman 30 47-06 3
Clive Pritchard 27 41-09 4
Colin Wedgebrow 31 18-10 5
Chris Walters 28 8-06 6
Gary Haisman 13 3-01 7
Paul Glenfield 14 54-00 Weight did not count

Rule infringement.

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C Section
John Hague 15 110-00 1
Lee Giles 17 86-08 2
Tim Guise 18 54-08 3
Andy Chandler 24 52-08 4
Chris Telling 21 47-08 5
Jason Astle 19 33-04 6
Mark Bedford 26 18-04 7
Paul Newbury 23 9-12 8
Results after 3 days
Matt Smith 3 points {perfect score}
Mark Malin 6 points
Mark Bowerman 7 points
Derek Hammond 7 points
John Bennett 8 points
Lee Giles 11 points
John Hagues 12 points

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
 
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