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Rolflake’s 3rd night match 23rd July 2010.

July 29, 2010 Eddie 2 comments

As Rolfslake entered its 3rd night match of the year, news had got out of the prize on offer to the angler that broke the lake record of 530-00 of a Lamborghini Gallardo or a Vespe / Rolfslake tee shirt and these prizes i am sure helped swell the attendance on tonights match.

Prize to the angler that broke the lake record on tonights match only.

Also tonight we had the rare treat of the Jinx Minx aka Gemma Doyle join the guys for a nights fishing but as the regulars are not part of the Jinx League they are unaware of the term minxing or the significance of her scream when she caught her first fish.

Stupidly i was talking to Simon the day before when he told me that Gemma was going to fish and i muttered the words i will never be minxed at Rolfslake but would these words come back to haunt me ?.

The Minx Gemma Doyle on the prowl for new victims.

Peg 32 the winning peg on the last two night matches had Lee on it tonight and he was hoping to fill his nets as there is a massive head of fish in this area at the moment, and on peg 9 Neil Riddy had drawn the peg for the second night match out of three. With only two pegs left in the bag it was left to me and Paul Jay to draw and when i pulled out peg 26 i was more than happy to see Paul draw very little used peg 35 in the small lake.

The match started with the usual flurry of bites and early fish but my biggest fear happen after 20 minutes when from the motorway bank there was a shreek as Gemma caught her first of many carp so i was already playing catch up, and for the next four hours i watched as Gemma landed fish after fish as it got dark and at one stage i estimated i was 6 fish down so i dont think i have ever concentrated so much in order to put some carp in the net.

Along the motorway bank the usual suspect were catching fish with Dave Whiteman catching steady and next to him Derek Hammond was also catching slow to start with but getting quicker as the match went on. The anglers on the motorway bank were struggling like me with foulhooked fish and from where i could see also pegs 9 and 32 were struggling to line the fish up, and John Hague on peg 8 was finding it frustrating trying to locate where the fish were and what baits they wanted.

In first place today was Rolfslake regular Geoff Edwards who yet again was lucky to have his wife Vicky bring him good luck and also an end peg. The combination of good angler + good peg normally = match win and today Geoff fished just two lines one at 4 to 5 metres and the other down to the edge to his right at a range of 3 metres just down the first shelf. By fishing paste on the deck Geoff was able to keep the fish coming by feeding constantly which brought a run of big fish { Geoff’s last two fish went 38-08 } which helped him amass his weight of 273-05 and another match win and peg king {well done Geoff.

In second place was Paul Jay who fished a very good match from a poor peg and who fished banded pellet on the deck at 6 metres feeding heavy but suffered a lot of lost fish but still managed to catch plenty of fish to double figures in his weight of 184-04 and also peg king for peg 35.

Completing the frame was Derek Hammond on peg 29 on the car park bank and after a slow start was able to catch fish at 8 metres i think as i could not see that clearly in the dark, and after five hours caught 153-04 for another frame.

After the match and weigh-in the anglers were treated to a lovely barbeque provided by John and the anglers relaxed by the lake recalling their match and telling of lost fish and big battles with Rolfslake’s monsters.

As for me i spent all night foul hooking fish and losing fish in the bush to my left and after spending 4 and a half hours swearing to myself i was very lucky to have four doubles in a row on paste to catch 74-10 and 11th place and only 2-06 in front of Gemma so i saved myself a minxing just, but i will not be stupid again to think that i can’t be beaten by Gem { sorry }.

If you would like to experience an enjoyable match with great company and a great barbeque give John Bennett a call to book on as places are limited due to health and safety of all our visitors.

Geoff and Vicky Edwards looking for cloud 9 on their way home.

Results.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Geoff Edwards	7	273-05	Reading Angling Centre
2nd	Paul Jay	35	184-04	Rolfslake
3rd	Derek Hammond	29	153-04	Banbury Gunsmiths
4th	Dave Moore	22	133-04	Jinx League
5th	Dave Whiteman	28	130-12	Hydro 200
6th	John Hague	8	123-04	Smithys
7th	Aiden	15	100-10 PB	Rolfslake
8th	Mark Chard	16	92-04	Rolfslake
9th	Simon Mound	31	86-00	Jinx League
10th	Neil Riddy	9	83-14	Rolfslake
11th	Eddie Taylor-Green	26	74-10	Rolfslake / Walker Floats
12th	Gemma Doyle	18	72-04	Jinx League
13th	Lee	32	58-04	Rolfslake
14th	Chris Love	17	24-08	Rolfslake

Early morning fishing.

As i woke up at 6.30 am i was greeted by John Hague and his son Brandon who were happily bagging from peg 33 by the hut and after a short while Brandon’s float dissapeared and he was hanging on to a nice common carp of 14-08 which brought a nice smile on his face and even a bigger one on his dads { well done Brandon }.

John and Brandon Hague working as a team.

One of Brandons double figure commons.

Mark and Billy Chard.

Billy Chard with a common 13-08.

After watching Brandon catching a few carp young Billy was tempted into having a go and again by float fishing using banded pellet Billy was into a carp after a few minutes and with a little help from dad was able to play and land a nice common of 13-08 {well done Billy}.

Until our next report tight lines Eddie and Simon.

Jinx Series, Match 4. 24th July 2010

July 25, 2010 Simon 2 comments

Today the Jinxsters were back at the lake ready to fish their 4th match of the series. The draw was at 11.30 ish and fishing was from 1-30pm – 6-30pm. With delays both ways on the M40 a few people were late getting to the lake.

Jinxsters gathering for the Draw

Today was a free draw to see which sections everyone would be in for the remaining 2 match. So if you drew in A section this time you would be in B section for the next match and then C section for the final match. With the draw complete there was a worrying thought for everyone today…… Gem was on form peg 9 so there was a real chance of being MINXED today 😯 Fred Parker, fresh from a fine Wednesday Open Match Win and who had recently joined the 200lb club had soon set up having sussed the lake and had time to read the paper while everyone else wondered what to do.

200lb club and a new hat. Cool

Gem on peg 9. Scary stuff for the blokes

Steve Wilson on 17 and Mugger Morton on 18

Mitch on peg 32. Having a lovey dovey moment on the phone

Al Loader on peg 10 and Jon Hatch on 11

With the match underway most people were catching a few but were being plagued with fouler hooker’s, A scream from peg 9 went out across the lake signalling Gem had successfully landed her first carp. If you have never heard this then its a scary sound especially if you have not got anything in the net yourself 😀

Simon fishing on peg 14 was high on Gem’s targets for the day but he had already got 2 fish in the net but was finding it hard to keep the fish coming and was also suffering from loosing a lot of foul hooked fish.

Nick W-P (Monkey) over on peg 26 was having a jolly day and was catching regularly and was well on target for his first ever ton weight. Malc round on peg 5 was catching well and so was Gem on peg 9. Also sneaking a few in was Fred on peg 15 fishing paste out at 6 meters and down the margin to his left.

Stick was flying from the hut today, John and Eddie were watching the match and cheering Gem on hoping she would get her first match win at the lake. Eddie had set rumours flying about that if Gem won a match at Rolfslake Simon would get down on one knee and propose to her. So John and Eddie were measuring each other up for suits and ringing the bell in the style of church bells trying to put Simon off his fishing and doing a very good job of it too 😀

Luckily for Simon Fred Parker was doing a fine job of catching so Simon thought he would not have to get any grass stains on his knee’s

Simon trying to avoid a MINXING on peg 14

Action from peg 9. Gem Doyle

Fish On..

Gem's biggest of the day 16lb 4oz

Mitch on peg 32

With the match over banter started… Had Gem won the match… Had Fred managed to save Simon from getting his knee dirty 😀 Had Monkey done his Ton ???

Before the weigh in started Paul Roberts had dropped his keepnet adaptor in the lake and needed it for a match on Sunday so there was only one thing for it……

Now where is it.......

That's not it ......

Ahhh here it is....

In all the excitment his flip flop escapes 😀

Now where's my towel

On to the weigh in and it seems Simon was safe after all as Malc fishing peg 5 saved his bacon with a fine weight of 176lb and to rub salt in to the wound he also took Gem’s peg king off her too 🙁 Gem had managed a fine 126lb from peg 9 but it was only good enough for 4th place today and Fred Parker on peg 15 had 173lb and Peter Morton on peg 18 had 133lb and was only saved from been Minxed by 3 skimmers 😀

The next but of excitement was when the scales rolled up on peg 26. Would he or wouldn’t he ….

Has Nick done his first ever Ton ??

Yes, easily. 126lb 😀 Well done Nick.

All round the weigh in people were telling him he had done it but he wouldn’t believe them and said….

“If I have done a ton I will jump in the lake”

True to his word 😀

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Results.

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Malc Doyle	5	176-4
2	Fred Parker	15	173-0
3	Peter Morton	18	133-12
4	Gem Doyle	9	126-12
5	Nick Williams	38	123-0
6	Nick W-P, Monkey	26	109-12 PB
7	Clive Pritchard	4	97-12
8	Marcus Burgess	13	92-8
9	Simon Mound	14	90-12
10	Steve Wilson	17	88-8
11	Dave Webster	34	81-0
12	Mitch Auger	32	79-0
13	Paul Dolby	2	68-4
14	Terry Goff	31	66-4
14	Ant Haywood	25	66-4
16	Al Loader	10	57-12
17	Dave Moore	23	57-0
18	Tony Roberts	22	47-12
19	Geoff Palmer	8	47-12
20	John Hatch	11	36-0
21	Mat Edwards	20	35-4
22	Dave Collier	7	30-0
23	Steak	19	27-13
24	Paul Roberts	28	24-0
25	Dai Thomas	36	15-8
26	Kevin Loveland	40	3-12

Overall Winner and A Section Winner, Malc Doyle

A Section Second place, Nick Williams

B Section Winner. Gem Doyle

B Section Second place,. Nick W-P

C Section Winner. Fred Parker

C Section Second place, Peter Morton

Liam Doyle won the 'Guess the weight' competition

One last issue need to be sorted before everyone left the lake. Who would be wearing the dreaded MINX hat for the next match. Gem certainly had enough to choose from….

Now who shall it be ...

Plenty to choose from ...

And the winner is .....

Clive Pritchard 😀

The next time the Jinxsters are at the lake is next Friday(30th July) when Malc holds his annual night match at the lake to get everyone warmed up for match 5 on the Saturday after. The night match is not part of the Jinx series so there are just 2 match remaining to go.

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie

Wednesday Open Match. 21st July 2010

July 21, 2010 Simon 7 comments

Fred Parker won today’s open match with his first double ton weight. Fred was fishing from peg 8 and caught fishing the feeder across on meat and down to the bush on his left. Well done Fred.

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Fred Parker	8	212-12
2	Mick Lane	32	194-12
3	Chris Telling	30	183-8
4	Steve Rich	28	153-8
5	Trevor Stanley	9	135-12
6	Paul Jay	4	119-8
7	Pete Archer	39	110-4
8	Justin Watkins	6	97-4
9	Gary Kelsey	38	90-12
10	Shaun	7	79-8

Dont forget also that there is a night match this coming Friday (23rd July) If you would like to fish please call John to book in. His number can be found by clicking on the ‘Contact’ Button above.

Fishing is from 7-30pm to 12-30am. The draw will take place at 6-30pm.

Todays winner, Fred Parker

TUMBLEY BAY CLUB MATCH 18TH JULY 2010

July 18, 2010 john b Leave a comment

Today’s visitors to the lake were tumbley bay a.c.they fished10.30 to 3.30 and overall had a very good day.The lake fished well with a 2oo lb + weight and 9 100 lb + weights, It was quite breezy and overcast to start with the sun making an appearance late in the match.

Today’s winner was chris martin who drew peg 10 and started catching at out at 6mtres and later switching to the left margin at 4 metres to complete the bulk of his weight,second place was peter kaye on peg 29 who caught steadily alternating between 11 and 6 metres, third place went to junior angler Gavin miller who used a borrowed feeder rod to good effect on form peg 7.

place	angler	peg	weight
1st	chris martin	10	211 lbs
2nd	peter kaye	29	183 lbs 8 ozs
3rd	gavin miller	7	166 lbs
4th	nick pringle	6	163 lbs
5th	steve anderson	8	162 lbs
6th	trevor stanley	13	151 lbs 14 ozs
7th	mark newbold	38	145 lbs 4 ozs
8th	mark harris	2	140 lbs
9th	nigel	26	126 llbs
10th	hugh crawford	24	109 lbs 8 ozs

Hare and Hounds Club match 18th July 2010

July 18, 2010 Eddie Leave a comment

Today Rolfslake welcomed the Hare and Hounds angling club from the Telford area, and John tells me that the day was overcast and blustery to start with getting sunnier and warm as the day went on. The anglers had their best visit to the lake yet and all the anglers caught fish but coming out in first place was Steve Rouse who was fishing Wednesdays winning peg 7. Steve fished the feeder across to the far bank grasses and caught fish to double figures fishing meat as hookbait and after 5 hours joined the 200+ club with his final weight of 223-00 { well done Steve }.

In second place was Kye Faulkner who was next to Steve on peg 8 and Kye started off down the track but ended up fishing the bush to his left and again had fish to double figures by fishing paste and meat fished on the deck to catch his weight of 158-00 and keep ahead of the chasing pack. Completing the frame and having a good family battle was Andy Braley who was on form peg 16 on the motorway bank and Andy also had good fish which just kept him ahead of his son Kevin with his weight of 140-00 and 10lb clear of Kevin.

Results.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Bait
1st	Steve Rouse	7	223-00	Meat
2nd	Kye Faulkner	8	158-00	Meat /Paste
3rd	Andy Braley	16	140-00
4th	Kevin Braley	9	130-12
5th	Paul Bates	4	125-00
6th	Adam Bates	14	113-05

John and Pauline would like to thank all the visiting anglers and hope to see you all again soon.

Until our next report tight lines Eddie and Simon.

Rolfslake’s Wednesday Open 14th July 2010

July 15, 2010 Eddie 2 comments

The calm before the storm at todays match.

As the anglers arrived at the draw today what they wanted was an enjoyable days fishing at a lovely venue, what we actually got was rain of biblical proportions and i expected to see Noah and the arc go past us. What i also found out was that that my tried and tested Halkon Hunt clothing that i had had for a few years was not up to the job as it acted like a sponge and did not repell the water. This is not because it is no good but the reverse as i have had it for many years and it has given me many great years protection but it has now reached the end of its life.

The reason i talk about clothing is because we at Rolfslake had experienced fantastic weather for the last six weeks so it was by luck that most anglers had brought wet weather clothing rather than the shorts and flip flops that had been worn in previous weeks as it was supposed to be summertime in this country.

Even the horse Beauty was stunned when John Bennett did not draw peg 9 in todays match.

With the little lake being used for todays match as it gave the regulars a different view for a change and also gave the pleausre anglers a different area to fish. With the draw completed and the big lake out what was not a surprise was that draw bag John Bennett had drawn end peg flyer peg 7 in the gap between the two parts of the lake. Elsewhere around the small lake master float maker Jon Walker was to have another special day ,Paul Jay was going to turn a great peg into an average peg { only joking Paul } and both Pat Pritchard and myself were going to be peg kings if we could catch as pegs 39 and pegs 3 were in.

After about 30 minutes the rain started and after an hour the sky turned black and the heavens opened but it did not hamper the fishing it actually improved it as anglers could be seen playing fish all around the lake as i suppose it added oxygen to the water. Today also saw the return to the lake of Festival winner Andy aka Pellet King and i had a great view of him as he started catching all types of fish fishing shallow at the start and then he came closer as the match went on . Both Pat and myself had a slow start fishing corner pegs but towards the end the fish moved in and we could not catch them fast enough. Jon Walker was up to his normal specimen hunting tricks as his first fish after half an hour was massive and it went 21-12 so he was off and running and from where i could see both Mick Jones and Paul Jay were catching so good weights should be had by all.

Todays winner John Bennett.

The winner today was lake owner John Bennett who was on peg 7 and after catching a few fish from the far bank on the bomb fished with meat noticed his edge line that he had been feeding to his left towards peg 8 was boiling with fish and never looked back. John fished this line with paste fished tight to the edge and had fish to double figures { in fact 101lb of them } and had a real struggle with some of the bigger fish as he was broke 4 times as the real big fish moved in in what he said was a really enjoyable / frustrating match but still had 245-00 { well done John }. In second place was specimen hunter Jon Walker on peg 38 who was also chasing the peg king for this peg put fell just short in the end.

The amazing thing about Jon’s weight was he had no carp to weigh -in at the end as they were all on the board but had a fantastic 14 fish for 195lb and had carp of 21-12, 20-08 and 20-04 and many other doubles in his weight. I have been fishing Rolfslake for over 10 years and never had a 20 but Jon has a nack of catching 20’s as he has caught a few over the years, and Jon today caught a few carp fishing long but the majority of his carp at 6 metres fishing paste and pellet hook bait in his weight of 205-12. Completing the frame was Andy on peg 4 who had a very close battle with me but in the end ended one fish in front fishing his usual pellet hook bait. Andy started fishing long shallow catching carp and skimmers but fishing was slow for him but in the last two hours was able to get the fish closer at a range of 6-7 metres and this helped his final weight of 151-08.

Results.

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight	Bait
1st	John Bennett	7	245-00	Paste	Rolfslake
2nd	Jon Walker	38	205-12	Pellet/ Paste	Rolfslake / Walker Floats
3rd	Andy	4	151-08	Pellet	Rolfslake
4th	Eddie Taylor-Green	3	142-12	X4 Paste	Rolfslake / Walker Floats
5th	Mick Jones	6	127-12	Meat	Rolfslake
6th	Pat Pritchard	39	120-04	Meat	Rolfslake
7th	Paul Jay	34	73-00	Pellet/ Paste	Rolfslake