Tag: fishing

Good Friday open 2nd April 2010

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Rolfs lake viewed from the small lake.

Today saw the anglers turn up for a chance to practise for the up coming Rolfs lake Easter Festival, so hopes were high for a good days fishing. What the anglers were not anticipating was the skies above as it was going to be a horrible day as far as the weather was concerned as a very windy day with rain was going to spoil the recent good fishing.

John tells me that during today’s match presentation was ruined to the strong wind which meant fishing long anything longer than 12 metres was going to be difficult, and the very delicate presentation required to get bites went out of the window. The story of the match was that the anglers all caught at least a carp with many lost but as the wind got up which made presentation a nightmare ,the anglers switched to the waggler or the bomb which is a shame as the festival is pole only.

After 5 hours and a good soaking the winner today was John Bennett on peg 24 who tells me a sad story of lost fish and not being able to fish his usual dotted down rig as he could not see it but by switching between the pole and the bomb fishing pellet and corn John was able to catch carp to 12lb in his final weight of 71-08. In second place was Steve Rich with 61-00 from peg 9 and in third place was Mick Hughes with 50-12 from peg 14.

1st John Bennett peg 24 71-08 corn and pellet
2nd Steve Rich peg 9 61-00  
3rd Mick Hughes peg 14 51-12  
4th Phil Powell peg 26 32-08  
4th Mick Lane peg 30 32-08  
4th Earnie Malyon peg 18 32-08  

I will be down the lake tomorrow to help John so i hope to see many of my friends that i have not seen for a while so if you see me with a camera don’t be shy and say hello so I can take your photo for the website .

Tight lines Eddie and Simon.

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

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