Rolfslake Open Saturday 1st May 2010.

Report to follow.

Place Angler Peg Weight Bait
1st Jon Walker 30 238-00 Pellet / Paste Rolfslake / Walker Floats
2nd Mark Bedford 4 223-08 Hard Pellet Rolfslake
3rd Paul Jay 8 164-04 Pellet / Paste Rolfslake
4th Dave Moore 7 163-04 Paste Jinx League
5th Pete Arnold 22 163-00 Rolfslake
6th John Bennet 13 140-04 Rolfslake
7th Earnie Malyon 9 116-00 Rolfslake
8th Mick Jones 32 115-06 Rolfslake
9th Andy Chandler 24 100-08 Rolfslake
10th Chris Waters 18 90-00 Rolfslake
10th John Hague 16 90-00 Rolfslake
12th Steve Wilson 28 62-12 Rolfslake

4 new peg kings after this match..

Jon Walker     30     238-00
Mark Bedford     4     223-08
Paul Jay     8     164-04
Mick Jones     32     115-0

Rolfslake Wednesday open 28th April 2010.

Another Wednesday another Rolfs lake bagging session, and as the anglers waited for the draw to commence it was nice to see two of Rolfslake’s top anglers return to the open scene in Jeff Edwards and Ginger aka Micheal Jones.

Normally when Jeff and i am at the lake we normally draw next to each other and today was no different, because i drew peg 26 on the car park bank and Jeff drew peg 24  and as i was waiting for my regular beating from him or was i going to prove to him that my fishing was improving. As for the rest of the anglers John Bennett had drawn flyer peg 18 in the corner, Ginger had drawn peg 13 in the bay and the Judge had drawn peg 32 by the hut with the rest of the anglers scattered around the lake.

With the day starting off sunny with a brisk breeze blowing from the south with a possibility of rain ,the anglers set off to their pegs in hope that the recent good weather would kick start the fish into feeding well, but as they know the sun does not always mean good fishing ,but would today be any different ?. With the match start time being 2pm these midweek matches normally take a while to get going and today for most anglers this was the case except for John on 18 and Ginger on peg 13 who were into fish quite quickly and started to pull away from the rest. After about two hours around the lake i could see more anglers starting to catch carp from all pegs with the motorway bank providing most of the action, but after the third hour it was as if someone turned on a switch as all the car park swims came to life because at one point i could see 5 anglers playing carp at the same time which included me for a change. As the match reached the final hour the carp were really switched on as everyone started catching and i could see the results being really close as there were more and more anglers running up to the scales to weigh their fish {all fish over 10lb have to be weighed straight away} which normally means they are bagging.

Ginger

Todays winner and just ahead of the chasing pack was the Midlands maestro Ginger on peg 13 who put on a real good demonstration of catching long down the edge {16 metres down to peg 12} and short range fishing to his right. Ginger was fishing the banded pellet fished on the deck on both lines but when the wind died down and the sun was out he had to fish the long line due to the sun being in his eyes. As the match went on he was able to catch to the first bush to right and was rewarded with fish to 15-12 in his final weight of 229-12 {well done Ginger it was nice to see you back }. In second place was my nemesis Jeff Edwards who was slow at catching fish on the long pole but a change to the 7 metre line fished with paste brought his swim to life and towards the end was flying catching fish to 13lb in his final weight of 199-04 and just one small skimmer off the double ton [thanks for another beating Jeff and welcome back}. Completing the frame was Rolfslake owner John Bennett who has been stuck on peg 18 for a few weeks and today made all that knowledge count as he fished at a range of 5 metres straight out in front, fishing on the deck and using paste as hook bait but feeding quite a lot of bait to keep the fish there. As is usual on this peg at about 5 o’clock as the sun goes down it beams straight into you eyes and this slowed the fishing down for John as he could not see his float { i felt sorry for him } and this stopped him also weighing the double ton as he weighed 188-12.

As for me i had another of those days as i had forget not only my X4 paste ,i also had lost my cap so i had to wear my bandana so as not to burn my head like last week, much to the amusement of the other anglers as they kept calling shiver me timbers and where’s me parrot and your going to walk the plank which was a bit much after 5 hours.

Eddie bagging on paste . Photographs by Malc Doyle thank you.

I started off on the 6 metre line with lots of foul hooked fish and lots of bubbles fizzing from the swim but no fish for the net. I was also feeding heavy the edge swim to my left to try and bring a few fish closer for later on in the match. With no X4 paste to fish with i made a batch down on the lake which just did not work very well and also with a damaged number 4 section on my pole i was rushing everything and spoiling what should of been a good day. As Malc on 28 Jeff on 24 were giving me a thrashing i was wondereing what to do next just as my float burried and another fish was heading for the snags which eventually broke my float and rig. On searching in my bag for another float i could not believe my eyes as my X4 paste was at the bottom of the bag ,so with a new rig on and the paste i went down the edge and in the last two hours  was rewarded with big fish to 18-08lb and lots of good bites. My only motivation was to try and catch up with John on 18 as he was about 70lb in front of me and after 5 hours i was just 5-12 short with my weight of 183-00, but a very enjoyable end to the match.

Just a small fish on X4 paste, thanks to Malc Doyle for the photo's.

The score against me and John is           John 3 – Eddie 1 roll on next week.

Place Angler Peg Weight Bait
1st Ginger 13 229-12 Banded Pellet Smithys
2nd Jeff Edwards 24 199-04 Paste Bio Fuel
3rd John Bennett 18 {flyer} 188-12 Paste Rolfslake
4th Eddie Taylor-Green 26 183-00 X4 Paste Rolfslake / Walker Floats
5th Malc Doyle 28 147-14 Pellet Jinx League
6th Russ 9 127-08 Pellet Rolfslake
7th Dai Thomas 16 104-02 Pellet Jinx League
8th Mike Stimpson 32 100-04 Pellet Rolfslake
9th Paul Jay 14 76-08 Banded Pellet Rolfslake

3 New peg kings after this match.

Ginger     13     229-12
John Bennett     18      188-12
Mike Stimpson     32     100-04

Well done.

The lake is fishing well at the moment with pellet and banded pellet catching good bags of fish, and although paste is still a bit too early for the fish there are still bags to 200lb to be caught.

Atomic Angling Club Match. 25th April.

Atomic Angling Club visited the lake today. 19 anglers turned up hoping for a good days fishing.

The fish were very active, fizzing and popping all over the lake. The weather was quite sunny with the odd shower of rain.

Today’s winner Carl Geoffrey caught long on the pellet from peg 13 but caught the bulk of his fish in the second half of the match at 2 meters in the right hand side on pellet.

The match was nice and close. With only one fish separating the framers.

We hope you enjoyed your visit to the lake.

Well done to Martin and Kenny who have each secured a place on our Peg Kings board.. 😀

Peg  2:- Martin Olsen with 103-0

Peg  4:- Kenny Slatten with 104-4

Atomic Angling Club Match Results
Position Angler Peg Weight
1 Carl Geoffrey 13 108-4
2 Ken Palmer 8 105-0
3 Kenny Slatten 4 104-4
4 Martin Olsen 2 103-0
5 Chris Widows 17 74-0
6 Dukey 9 71-12

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 21st April.

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

A.E.C angling club match Sunday 18th April.

Today Rolfs lake welcomed the A.E.C angling club from the Luton area to the lake. As the anglers assembled at the draw fish could be seen topping all over the lake so hopes for a good day were high, and with the day being sunny with a slight breeze that usually helps getting the fish to feed.

The winner of todays club match was Dean Elliott who was draw on peg 16 on the motorway bank and Dean used a combination of pellet waggler and the pole fished up in the water using pellet hookbait to catch fish to double figures in his winning bag of 139-00 { well done Dean }.

Angler Peg Weight Method
Dean Elliott 16 139-00 Pellet waggler / Pole fished shallow
Wayne Higgins 24 133-14
Ramsey King 9 112-00
Danny Edwards 13 105-04
Walter Hendry 10 101-00
Robby Blackburn 34 87-00

Dean now goes to the top of our club match winning weights table ,which will highlight the top 10 anglers who win their club matches at Rolfslake. The table will be updated weekly and also the anglers can be included in our peg king chart.

The top three anglers.

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