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Winter League Round 5. 16th January 2011

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The battle for the league crown hots up.

As the anglers turned up for the penultimate round of the winter league they were hoping { as the lake was ice free and the temperature was not too bad }that the fish would have a go and make this round better than the last. The battle for the league crown was a tight affair with three teams still in with a chance of team glory which were Pats Lot, Walker Floats and 10 times champions Rolfs Team Gold so it was important that your team members 1. caught a fish and 2. beat your main opponents and 3.stick to your team plans.

A Section.

Today for my sins i agreed to fish round 5 in place of Gary Haisman for the aptly named Woodentops and as i waited in line to draw one thing that never changes is the good anglers always draw well ,with Jon Walker drawing peg 34 [out of the wind } Andy Quarmby drawing peg 6 and Phil drawing peg 37 so at least i had good view of all the top teams in this section. Also in A section was my web partner Simon so he was going to be my target for today as i had peg 40 in the bottom of the small lake left in the bag for me and with a strong wind blowing this way things were not going to be easy.

I would like to say this section fished well but it did not, and all i can say is that Jon Walker managed to put a bag of silvers together to win the section with over 10lb so maximum points for Walker Floats with Phil Powell coming second with two big perch for nearly 4lb so 6 points for Rolfs Team Gold and the rest of us struggled for fish with Geoff Palmer catching one perch for 2-07 and my one perch went 2oz {some things never change} Malc and Andy put a few very small fish together for 4th and 5th in the section ,i came 6th and poor Simon had the dreaded DNW as he was fishing solely for carp and lost 4 so no points but 1 -nil to me ,so  i was happy.

5 hours one 2oz perch perfect.

B section .

This section had the most consistent action with the weights in the end with most anglers getting the silvers to respond . the three main teams were Steve Waters on peg 13, John Bennett on peg 10 and Pat Pritchard on peg 9 so they were all very close together but in the end a fantastic bag of silvers of 21-01 gave Steve and Walker Floats another section win and with the main rivals John and Pat in 4th and 6th place that was a massive result for the team. Also in this section there were solid results for Clive Pritchard on 30 and Earnie Malyon on form peg 32 and a big 2lb+ perch pushed Richard Doolan up to 5th place in the section.

C section.

This was the section to be in today as the carp decided to have a feed with all the anglers in this section catching at least a carp so all was to play for. Also in this section Walker Floats were going to be given a vital gift a one point swing in there favour due to Steve Palmer not seperating his silvers and carp and having over a pound of silvers put back and not weighed which dropped him from 3rd to 5th place.

The main story here was Paul Jay who was on peg 18, who was fishing the bomb into the corner and down the edge and was rewarded with 7 carp to double figures by fishing corn as hookbait. Paul not only won todays match he also won his section and the carp pools not a bad result but is now king of the lake with his weight of 72-00 {well done Paul }. In second place was Rolfs Team Golds Mick Lane with 50-01 from corner peg 21 and with the next three weights being seperated by 10oz Frank Hardie 31-14, Derek Hammond 31-12 and Steve Palmer 31-04 a couple of fish made all the difference. In 6th place was Pete Arnold with 15-12 and Dai Thomas in 7th with 15-10.

Results.

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Jon Walker 34 10-3 Walker Floats
2nd Phil Powell 37 3-3 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Geoff Palmer 4 2-7 Heavy Weights
4th Andy Quarmby 6 11oz Pats Lot
5th Malc Doyle 2 9oz Rolfs Rejects
6th Eddie Taylor-Green 40 2oz Wooden Tops
Simon Mound 7 DNW Assassins
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Steve Waters 13 21-1 Walker Floats
2nd Clive Pritchard 30 17-3 Assassin
3rd Ernie Malyon 32 16-5 Heavy Weights
4th John Bennett 10 15-5 Rolfs Team Gold
5th Richard Doolan 28 8-2 Rolfs Rejects
6th Pat Pritchard 9 7-15 Pats Lot
Neil Riddy 8 DNW Wooden Tops
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Paul Jay 18 72-0 Wooden Tops
2nd Mick Lane 21 50-1 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Frank Hardie 14 31-14 Assassins
4th Derek Hammond 23 31-12 Walker Floats
5th Steve Palmer 24 31-4 Heavy Weights
6th Pete Arnold 26 15-12 Pats Lot
7th Dai Thomas 16 15-10 Rolfs Rejects
DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
Walker Floats 18
Rolfs Team Gold 16
Heavy Weights 13
Assassins 11
Wooden Tops 9
Pats Lot 8
Rolfs Rejects 7

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

TOTAL  TEAM POINTS POINTS
1 Walker Floats 21+10+13+15+ 18 77
2 Rolfs Team Gold 17+14+16+11+16 74
3 Pats Lot 10+17+16+14+8 65
4 Heavy Weights 11+16+5+18+13 63
5 Assassins 9+15+12+6+11 53
6 Wooden Tops 9+3+13+3+9 37
7 Rolfs Rejects 7+8+2+3+7 27

With one round remaining it has now come down to a two horse race between 10 times champion and underfeated in years Rolfs Team Gold and the dream team Walker Floats who hold a 3 point lead going into round 6 which could prove vital ?.

Walker Floats {Steve, Derek and Jon } are they ready for victory ?.

I would like to say i enjoyed my first experience of team fishing but with a strong wind blowing into the corner it made presentation difficult it was really hard, but at least i was out of Bennett abuse range so all was not bad. Our 2011 battle will commence at the next open that we fish and as it now stands at 1-1 in the last two years battle i cannot wait to get revenge.

On a seperate issue i would like to say well done to John and his fishery team in keeping the lake as ice free as possible and in doing so has saved the lives of many of Rolfslake’s fish as fisheries around the country have had big fish kills due to their lakes being frozen solid for long periods. It cost John lots of money to run areators and regular trips down to the lake so that others can have a place to fish even if the fishing is difficult at times, and i believe that because of this the fish will respond a lot quicker this year and i expect the fishing to be much better than last year although with a top weight of nearly 400lb it was not a total disaster.

Thanks for reading Simon and Eddie.

Winter League Round 4. 2nd Jan 2011

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Nearly all the ice has gone now

Welcome to 2011. After the last match was cancelled there has been quite a break for some of the winter league lads. Frank Hardie, Steve Waters and John were at the lake on Saturday breaking up the ice and running the aerators to try and clear the ice for the first match of 2011 and what a great job they did too. Nearly all the ice had melted.

Nearly clear of ice

Most of the ice was in the little lake and up by pegs 19 and 20 in the big lake.

As the Christmas match was cancelled this would double up as the xmas match so everyone brought along a bottle for the raffle at the end of the match. And there was also a lovely hamper up for grabs, chosen by a peg number been pulled out the bag and whoever was on that peg wins the hamper.

No drinking and Driving 😀

The Hamper donated by John and Pauline

Everyone was milling around waiting for the draw and wishing each other best wishes for the new year.

John Bennett waiting the get the draw underway.

The draw is underway

Mick Lane writing him memoirs

The flyers going early

Gary Haisman and Jon Walker eager to draw

Steve Wilson, Malc Doyle, Paul Jay and Clive Pritchard

Jon is on 21

Gem Doyle and Dai Thomas

Its not that cold John 😀

With the draw out the way the match was starting at 10.30 so everyone was off to get ready. Only one peg needed breaking out and that was poor Gary Haisman on peg 16. Everyone else only really had to scoop out and move the ice from their swims.

Ady clearing his swim on peg 23

My Peg, Peg 24 clear to 13 meters

The match got underway and there was a lack of movement from anyone floats. In the first half an hour I had managed to hook and land a carp about 8-9lb (I thought :D) and comments were been shouted “Jammy bugger”

Malc had managed 2 roach fish at 13m :O He never fishes more than 6m so this is a rare occasion for Malc 😀 Ady on peg 23 had also managed 2 roach but had hooked and lost the first carp of the day as he was fishing on fine gear.

Not much to report on the middle of the match apart from Mick Lane on peg 13 and Derek Hammond on peg 10 locked in a silver fish battle, both catching regularly. It was going to be a close call between them.

During the last hour the action started 😀 Phil Powell over on peg 18 had managed to hook in to a carp but having light elastic and lots of ice in his swim was struggling to land it. After a nice fight he put the net under his carp. “Bugger” I thought and shouted over “How big is it” I thought it looked about 10lb from where I was sitting. He shouted back “Same as yours” 😀

Phil Playing his carp

The smile says it all

Then to put the nail in the coffin and stop me from winning my section Geoff Palmer over on peg 14 strikes in to his first and only fish a bigger carp. After playing it VERY carefully he lands it and it did look over 10lbs and indeed it was. 13lb 8oz to take the section.

With half an hour to go Jon Walker on peg 21 had a nice stream of elastic flowing from his pole, carp on……. Malc gets his camera out and takes a few photo’s ….. Carp OFF. It had straightened his size 22 hook.

The one that got away from Jon walker

With 25 minutes to go Pete Arnold on peg 8 decided to chuck the feeder across and this resulted in two carp to win the match. Fantastic, well done Pete.

The Little lake had been the hardest with only 2oz winning the section. There was a battle between Steve Waters on peg 2 and Frank Hardie on peg 7 who both had 4 fish, 2 roach and 2 perch. Frank just edged it by half an oz 😀

Overall and B Section Winner Pete Arnold.

Hard fought A Section Winner, Frank Hardie

C Section Winner, Geoff Palmer

Pauline supplying everyone with some hot soup after the match. Thank you

After the soup John drew a number from the bag to decide who would win the lovely hamper. Peg 34 was drawn, on that peg today was Clive Pritchard but he had gone home so another name was drawn. The Hamper went to Dai Thomas. You should have stayed Clive 😀

Results

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Frank Hardie 7 2 oz Heavy Weights
2nd Steve Waters 2 1.5  oz Walker Floats
3rd Pat Pritchard 6 0.5 oz Pats Lot
John Bennett 4 DNW Rolfs Team Gold
Clive Pritchard 34 DNW Assassin
Mick Chappel 40 DNW Wooden Tops
Did Not show !! Rolfs Reject
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Pete Arnold 8 19-8 Pats Lot
2nd Mick Lane 13 5-11 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Derek Hammond 10 5-4 Walker Floats
4th Steve Palmer 28 7.5 oz Heavy Weights
5th Paul Jay 9 3 oz Wooden Tops
Steve Wilson 30 DNW Assassins
Dai Thomas 32 DNW Rolfs Rejects
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Geoff Palmer 14 13-8 Heavy Weights
2nd Simon Mound 24 11-8 Assassins
3rd Phil Powell 18 10-4 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Jon Walker 21 8.5 oz Walker Floats
5th Malc Doyle 26 6 oz Rolfs Rejects
6th Ady Kinom 23 5 oz Pats Lot
Gay Haisman 16 DNW Wooden Tops
DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Heavy Weights 18
1st Walker Floats 15
3rd Pats Lot 14
4th Rolfs Team Gold 11
5th Assassins 6
6th Wooden Tops 3=
6th Rolfs Rejects 3=

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

TOTAL  TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Walker Floats 21+10+13+15 59
2nd Rolfs Team Gold 17+14+16+11 58
3rd Pats Lot 10+17+16+14 57
4th Heavy Weights 11+16+5+18 50
5th Assassins 9+15+12+6 42
6th Wooden Tops 9+3+13+3 28
7th Rolfs Rejects 7+8+2+3 20

As you can see its VERY close at the top now with only two matches remaining.

Well done to everyone that caught today as it was a very hard match indeed. Pete Arnold gets his picture in the banner as he is now the new Lake King, not sure 19lb 8oz will last too long though 😀

I have added the new 2011 Peg King board so everyone that caught in this match is now a peg king.

The next winter league match is on the 16th Jan.

Thanks for reading, Eddie, John and Si.

Winter League Round 2, Sun 21st Nov 2010.

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Last matches Dream Team

The second round of the winter league was fished at the lake today. With Walker floats team sitting at the top of the table would they manage another clean sweep and hang on to the top spot or did the lake have other ideas for them ??

With everyone at the lake on time John got the draw under-way early to allow everyone some extra time to set up. The draw format today was whoever won A section drew first for their peg in B section and so on down to last place getting what was left in the bag.

Today there was a cold wind blowing from peg 40 towards the big lake making a nice ripple on the water. It was cloudy all day and we had a few spots of rain but nothing major.

Everyone drew their pegs and set off to set up. How the lake would fish was anyone’s guess 😀

Pat Pritchard signalled the all in with a hooter that sounded like a strangled donkey 😀

I was fishing on peg 2 which everyone kindly left in the bag for me today and hoping to have a bit more than 8oz. It was not long before I saw the first carp being caught by Liam over on peg 34, he was fishing the tip. I was next to catch, a small 4oz perch which I was chuffed with as it was half my last matches weight and meant I avoided the DNW.

Jon Walker over on 37 was struggling but Jon normally gets the carp going so I was expecting him to start catching but it never happened for him this week 😯 Poor Gary Haisman on peg 4 was much the same and had managed to hook a carp first drop on his long line but as he shipped back it came off. Geoff On peg 40 had managed to foul hook a perch whilst reeling in his feeder 😀

Phil Powell on peg 6 was fishing 16 meters on the bloodworm and joker and putting a nice net of silvers together before he had something stealing his fish….

Phil's first ever Pike which went 12lb 4oz. Well done.

The pike lead him on a merry dance around his and Malc’s pegs. Malc help out when the pike went round the back of his platform by pushing it back out in to the lake with his landing net 😀 This was not the only pike to put in an appearance today, Clive Pritchard on peg 28 also caught a 10lb 8oz pike which fell to double maggot on the bomb.

In the last 2 hours the big lake started to produce some fish, Roving reporter Marcus Burgess fishing from peg 9 was keeping me up to date with who was catching which was keeping him busy as he was not catching much unfortunately.

The lake fished hard overall but least different people caught some fish this week instead of watching other catching 😀

As for my match, I managed 5 carp this week fishing corn in to the corner on the pole and bomb rod which was a massive relief. I had to laugh when Malc came walking past me and said he was off to unhook his hook from the rope by the lilies on peg 34 after casting a little to far 😀

The results tell the rest of the story.

Results.

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Liam Bough 34 47-12 Pats Lot
2nd Simon Mound 2 37-8 Assassins
3rd Malc Doyle 7 28-0 Rolfs Rejects
4th Phil Powell 6 26-0 Rolfs Team Gold
5th Jon Walker 37 0-4 Walker Floats
6th Geoff Palmer 40 0-1 Heavy Weights
Gary Haisman 4 DNW Wooden Tops
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Ernie Maylon 13 50-4 Heavy Weights
2nd Clive Pritchard 28 23-12 Assassins
3rd John Bennett 8 19-8 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Pat Pritchard 32 12-6 Pats Lot
5th Steve Waters 30 10-0 Walker Floats
6th Marcus Burgess 9 2-8 Rolfs Rejects
7th Frank Hardie 10 0-4 Wooden Tops
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Steve Palmer 21 91-0 Heavy Weights
2nd Pete Arnold 18 72-0 Pats Lot
3rd Mick Lane 24 68-8 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Derek Hammond 23 55-12 Walker Floats
5th Steve Wilson 16 39-0 Assassins
6th Paul Jay 14 29-4 Wooden Tops
7th Dai Thomas 26 22-8 Rolfs Rejects
DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Pats Lot 17
2nd Heavy Weights 16
3rd Assassins 15
4th Rolfs Team Gold 14
5th= Walker Floats 10
5th= Rolfs Rejects 8
7th Wooden Tops 3

OVERALL LEADER BOARD

TOTAL  TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Rolfs Team Gold 17+14 31=
1st Walker Floats 21+10 31=
2nd Heavy Weights 11+16 27=
2nd Pats Lot 10+17 27=
5th Assassins 9+15 24
6th Rolfs Rejects 7+8 15
7th Wooden Tops 9+3 12

Today's top team. Pats Lot. Well Done

Pete Arnold was fishing instead of Dave Whiteman.

Top Silvers Weight went to Phil Powell With 26lb including his 12lb pike.

Top carp weight went to Steve Palmer with a cracking 91lb on a hard day at the lake.

Its tight at the top of the table and with 4 matches to go its all still to play for. Everyone switches sections again next match.

Next Saturdays Open match is a normal open where carp will count and there will be a separate pool for the silver fish. Please ring John to book in.

The next Winter League match is on the 5th December. 9.30 Draw again.

Thanks for reading, Eddie and Si.

One last picture which I got off Johns Phone today and was asked to put it on the blog…

Phil Powell with a 22lb carp caught a while back, not in this match. Nice one Phil 🙂

Winter League 2010/11 Round 1

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Today saw the start of this years winter league. There were supposed to be 8 teams this year but 1 team had to drop out leaving 7 teams of 3 anglers.

Rolfs Team Gold are the current champions and are undefeated in 8 years.

Rolfs Team Gold. John Bennett, Mick Lane and Phil Powell

All the teams lined up for the draw, each team has 3 anglers which in turn draw from a,b and c section. They rotate round through the sections in each match. Last year a section was the place to avoid but no one knew how it would fish so everyone was optimistic.

John handing out the rules

With fishing from 10.30am – 3.30pm we only had about 45 minutes to set up. The person on peg 32 is responsible for starting and stopping the match, that person this week was Steve Wilson. At 10.30 Steve signalled the start of the match with a policemans whistle.

Most people chucked the tip rod out to start off with while other went straight out on the pole. Malc Doyle fishing for Rolfs Rejects was having some success of the tip.

Malc with a fish on the tip

In the net

Jon Walker over on 14 was walking away with the match catching a lot of weighers. Derek Hammond on 13 was also catching alot of fish but his were silver fish. He had caught some monster perch and some nice bream to give him the top silver weigh on the day also.

Derek Hammond's top Silver weight with Steve getting in on the picture

Another picture of Derek

Round on peg 28 Dai Thomas fishing for Rolfs Rejects managed to catch a new personal best carp.

Dai Thomas with his new PB carp. 18lb 14oz. Well done 🙂

Everyone was catching carp except me, I only managed 4 roach for a massive 8oz 😀 luckily everyone was very nice to me and didn’t take the micky too much 😀 😛 YEAH RIGHT !!!!

I could not see down in the little lake but word was that John Bennett had been in every tree/bush with in a 20 meter radius of his peg 😀

Steve Waters was leading the little lake with John very close to him. Will get some pictures of the little lake next time sorry.

A few pictures from round the big lake.

Superstar Jon Walker on peg 14

Geoff Palmer on peg 16

Phil Powell on peg 18

Looking down the car park bank

RESULTS

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Steve Waters 37 62-0 Walker Floats
2nd John Bennett 2 49-10 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Ernie Maylon 7 43-8 Spro
4th Pat Pritchard 34 37-4 Pats Lot
5th Clive Pritchard 4 21-4 Assassins
6th Marcuss Burgess 40 10-12 Rolfs Rejects
7th Frank Hardie 6 5-8 Wooden Tops
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Derek Hammond 13 76-8 Walker Floats
2nd Mick Lane 8 71-8 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Steve Wilson 32 69-4 Assassins
4th Steve Palmer 9 45-8 Spro
5th Dave Whiteman 30 42-0 Pats Lot
6th Paul Jay 10 28-8 Wooden Tops
7th Dai Thomas 28 19-8 Rolfs Rejects
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Jon Walker 14 151-0 Walker Floats
2nd Gary Haisman 23 78-8 Wooden Tops
3rd Phil Powell 18 64-6 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Malc Doyle 24 41-12 Rolfs Rejects
5th Liam Bough 21 24-0 Pats Lot
6th Geoff Palmer 16 13-0 Spro
7th Simon Mound 26 0-8 Assassins

DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Walker Floats 21
2nd Rolfs Team Gold 17
3th Spro 11
4th Pats Lot 10
5th= Assassins 9
5th= Wooden Tops 9
7th Rolfs Rejects 7

With a clean sweep. All 3 section wins, top carp weight and top silver weight Walker floats team {Jon Walker, Derek Hammond and Steve Waters} set the pace leaving current champions Rolfs Team Gold in second place. 5 Matches to go and a lot can change.

Top team of the day. Walker Floats

The next round is on the 21st November, Draw time is 9.30am. There is a Silver fish match on the 20th November too. Please call John to book in.

Thanks for reading, Eddie and Si.

Saturday Open Match. 23rd October 2010

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Jon and Pat waiting for the draw

A very hard match indeed, a sign of things to come for the winter league maybe ? The carp were very shy today but the silvers turned up in large numbers. I was on one of my favourite pegs, peg 26 and only had one bite before I had to leave. I Had a party to get back for but would have liked to have caught a fish before I left but I didn’t so another blank for me 😀

I took a few pictures before I left…

Mick Lane, the man with the golden drawing hand

Mick, Chris, Steve and Pat

Dai and Malc

Malc on peg 14

Paul Jay on peg 18

Chris on peg 24

Dai on peg 29

Dai with one of his many perch

Results. {thanks Pat 😉 }

1st Steve Waters peg 6 69lb 4oz (included 13lb of silvers)
2nd Pat Pritchard pg 8 42lb 8oz (24lb of silvers and one carp of 18lb 8oz
3rd Paul Jay peg 18 41lb
4th Mick Lane peg 32 38lb 8oz (All silvers)
5th Chris Lovelock peg 24 34lb 12oz
6th Jon Walker peg 10 28lb 12oz (one carp of nearly 9lb and the rest silvers)
7th Ernie Malon peg 9 22lb
8th Mick Chappell peg 16 21lb
9th Dai Thomas Peg 29 20lb 8oz
10th Richard Doolan peg 13 12lb 8oz
11th Malc Doyle peg 14 7lb 8oz
Simon Mound peg 26 DNW

There is another open next Saturday the 30th October. Please call John to book in.

Saturday 16th Oct Open Match

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It was almost a winters day on Saturday morning, it was cold grey skies and a blustery north east to greet the 12 anglers who turned up to fish the match.

Car park bank setting up

After the usual coffee tea and doughnuts the draw was made and the match got under-way, it was soon realized that it was going to be hard work with very little activity early on, during the course of the match the wind picked up and unforcasted heavy cold rain made things even more difficult,

The match itself turned to be very tight with the top six anglers with 1fish good making the difference between 1st and 6th.

The results were,

1st  peg 7 Dave Whiteman 74lb-0ozs

2nd peg 14 Dave Stratful-way 62lb 12ozs

3rd peg 26 Mick Chapple 60lb-4ozs

4th peg 16 Simon Mound 59lb-4ozs

5th peg 4 Chris Lovelock 56lb -4ozs

6th peg 28 Adam Griffiths 53lb-4ozs

Simon with a 15lb carp

Gem was along to support Simon but soon went shopping when it rained

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