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Open Match Saturday 25th Sept 2010.

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15 anglers turned up today, some were already at the lake having fished the night match last night. The draw took place and as predicted by Neil Riddy John Bennett opened his hand to reveal peg 8. That rainbow goes from peg 8 to peg 9 😀

Fishing today was from 1-05pm to 6-05pm. Fishing was also very hard today but Mick Jones was having no problems on peg 16 catching regularly from the bush on the right. Myself on peg 9 and Richard on peg 32 were suffering from major foul hook problems, both loosing 7 fish in a row.

On the car park bank Dave Whiteman on peg 26 and Del Smith on peg 29 both started catching well during the last half of the match but it was not enough to catch Mick up. John Hague on peg 11 was running past me with weigher after weigher.

John Bennett was also having a nightmare on peg 8, he had been catching ok in the first half of the match but then lost the fish for the last half without a single bite in the last 2 hours.

This was his last bite of the day 😀

John Bennett with a weigher.

The leaves are falling off the tree’s now at the lake and the temperature is falling meaning autumn is well and truly here.

The match was very hard going for most. On to the results…..

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Mick Jones 16 205-8
2 Dave Whiteman 26 138-0
3 Del Smith 29 128-0
4 John Hague 11 98-0
5 Gary Haisman 6 88-0
6 Ginger 18 88-12
7 John Bennett 8 74-12
8 Justin Watkins 38 57-4
9 Pete Arnold 7 54-8
10 Simon Mound 9 44-0
11 Kevin Cross 34 32-8
12 Paul Jay 4 31-4
13 Richard Doolan 32 DNW
13 Chris Lovelock 40 DNW
13 Marcus Burgess 2 DNW

Well done to Mick, top result for the day. Peg 16 continues to be the place to be.

Mick Jones, a fine win on a hard day at the lake. Well Done.

Friday Open Night Match. 24th Sept 2010

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Night time at Rolfs

9 anglers turned up to fish the night match at the lake. A few people were also camping over so they could fish the open match on Saturday. Some people had dropped out meaning we could all get on the big lake.

The draw took place and the normal flyer pegs 32 and 9 went to Marcus Burgess (budgie) and John Bennett.

The weather at the lake was cold and dark anyway but as the all in came at 7.45 it was dark already and the lights were turned on. First to catch was Neil Riddy on peg 23 who was fishing on the tip rod. Mark Chard on peg 10 was also right in to fish and had a very good start catching 6 or 7 fish in the first hour.

Budgie fishing on Peg 32 was a different story though, his first fish was a skimmer followed by a chub and was struggling to get the carp to bite like most of the other anglers. I had managed to get 4 carp in the net in the first hour fishing from peg 18.

The temperature dropped throughout the match to 2 degree’s. We had a small rain amount of rain before the mist rolled in. Justin Watkins fishing from peg 11 had started catching well along with John Bennett on his home peg 9 😀

The rest of the match was a complete struggle for most and everyone was very cold and eager to get round to have a warm by the BBQ by the end of the match. John had laid on some good food that was been cooked by master chief Dave Whiteman 😀

While the BBQ warmed up the weigh in was done but word was that Justin had won it and indeed he had. John thought he may have enough to beat him but was just a few fish short.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Justin Watkins 11 142-4
2 John Bennett 9 129-0
3 Neil Riddy 23 86-12
4 Dave Whiteman 28 82-0
5 Simon Mound 18 55-0
6 Richard Doolan 15 47-4
7 Marcus Burgess 32 32-0
8 Mark Chard 10 DNW
9 Paul Jay 26 DNW

Neil Riddy had commented to John…. “Leave your gear round there as you will be on peg 8 tomorrow”

Neil was right too, John indeed drew peg 8 on the Saturday Open. More on that later…..

Well done to Justin, fine win on a hard match. 🙂 He also takes the Peg King for peg 11 😀

Justin Watkins (on the right), Tonights Winner from Peg 11

Cove AC Match. 12th Sept 2010

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The lake fished very hard for the Cove AC lads today. Two 20lb plus carp were caught by Dick on peg 6 and Adie on peg 9 though, John reports that the bigger fish were showing today but not in their normal numbers.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Dick Docherty 6 160-0
2 Dave Wilkins 4 150-0
3 Dave Smith 30 110-0
3 Adie Kinch 9 110-0
3 Ray Wilkins 32 110-0
6 Roy Beals 13 104-0
7 Maurice Woodley 16 95-0
8 Steve Williams 38 94-0
9 Geoff Edwards 14 75-0
9 Ernie Malon 8 75-0
11 Pat Pritchard 24 64-0
12 Lynas Neal ? 60-0
13 Paul 28 44-0
14 Mark 18 20-0
15 10 DNW
15 23 DNW
15 26 DNW
15 34 DNW

The lads went off with the results so Pat Pritchard kindly sent them to me. Any additional info will be filled in soon.

Talk Angling Rive T Match. Thurs 9th 2010

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Talk Angling Forums were visiting the lake today, the match was been organised by Larry Teepot and Rive T. The draw was supposed to be at 9.30am but due to Larry taking a tour of Oxford it was delayed until 10.30. Fishing was then changed to 12-5pm.

I got to the lake nice and early having secured a last minute slot for the match as I had the day off work, Thanks Larry.

Larry and Rive T sorting out the pegging and monies

Justin making some hooklengths

Anglers gathering for the draw on a sunny morning

Mugger catching up with a blast from the past.. Mark C and Roysty

The draw was soon done and everyone headed off to their pegs for the day. I had drawn peg 32 and still had rigs made up for that peg so I was set up by 11am which left an hour to go and take some pictures.

Roysty on peg 30

Mark C on peg 28

Rive T one peg 26

Jay 411 on peg 24

Larry on peg 18

Silverfish on form peg 16

Markco on peg 14

Steve 123 on peg 13

20 meter Bob on peg 10

The Brick on peg 9

Mugger on peg 8

Justin on Peg 7

Rive's Mate on peg 6

Flexi Mo on peg 4

Budgie (TA) on peg 2

Mo M on peg 40

Froggy on peg 38

Cov Blaze on peg 34

My peg. Peg 32

Pauline doing a bit of gardening

Eddie keeping a watch over the anglers

The match was started at 12 by John ringing the bell and first angler that I could see in to a fish was Justin on peg 7. He had not even fed anything at 16 meters and foul hooked a fish. In which time I had lost a fish and hooked and landed a 17lb’er. Not a bad way to started the match.

Throughout the rest of the match Justin continued to suffer from fouled fish problems. Mugger was struggling for a bite until he went down the left hand bush and managed to finally find the fish but they came in a slow run. I had had a tremendous start but had lost the fish on the 7 meter line and all the fish from the two bush lines were foul hooked.

The Brick over on peg 9 was putting together a great weight fishing from his right hand bush line.

The Brick tempting the fish out from the bush

20 Meter bob was snaring fish fishing shallow and mugging the odd fish from the surface scum that had gathered in front of his peg. He was building a good weight up with a lot of big fish and making regular visits to the weigh station.

Down in the little lake peg 4 was really struggling which is quite shocking. Pegs 38 and 40 were having a good run of fish. Up in the big lake Rive T, Jay and Silverfish were putting a few in the nets.

Rive T with a weigher

Just minutes before the ringing of the bell to signal the All Out mugger on peg 8 hooked in to one last fish. It turned out that fish just put him in front of me by 4lb 🙁 TYPICAL MUGGER….

After a smooth weigh in todays winner was revealed and I had my revenge on Justin after his pee taking on Facebook all week, I didn’t give it him back as “What goes around comes around” in the world of fishing 😀

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 20 Meter Bob 10 187-8
2 The Brick 9 161-12
3 Jay 411 24 149-10
4 Silverfish 16 142-4
5 Froggy 38 126-8
6 Mo M 40 102-12
7 Larry Teepot 18 91-12
8 Peter Mugger 8 88-8
9 Simple Simon 32 84-0
10 Royst 30 82-12
11 Steve 123 13 80-12
12 Rive T 26 80-4
13 Budgie 2 52-12
14 Cov Blaze 34 46-4
15 Markco 14 43-4
16 Rives Mate 6 41-14
17 Justin Watkins 7 39-4
18 Mark C 28 28-12
19 Flexi Mo 4 15-0

Larry sorting the results out, well trying too....

Rive T sorting the money out

Record breaking payout time.. The Longest 😀

After much confusion about the sections to be payed out the winner were sorted out….

Overall Winner. 20 Meter Bob

2nd Overall. The Brick

3rd Overall. Jay 411

Section Winner. Peter 'mugger' Morton

Section winner. Froogy

Section Winner. Silverfish.

Mugger looking smug and Justin nursing his 'Baggers Elbo'

John and Pauline relax

Thanks Larry for another excellent well run match. It was a frustrating match for many but some good weights came from the lake at the end of the day.

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.

Wednesday Open Match. 8th Sept 2010

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Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Mick Lane 7 257-0
2 John Bennett 26 255-4
3 Paul Jay 29 214-8
4 Jeff Edwards 8 208-0
5 Nick Beam 9 205-6
6 Mick Jones 32 183-8
7 Pat Pritchard 16 171-0
8 Adam Griffiths 6 163-12
9 Roy Davies 4 132-2
10 Eddie Taylor-Green 18 109-12

Good job I fed it up so well for Mick Lane yesterday 😀 Paul Jay takes peg 29 Peg King title too.

Eddie will add some more to the report when he can.

Gary Horne Invitational Match. 7th Sept 2010

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Gary Horne

Gary Horne had booked the lake for a small private match. 19 anglers were fishing today. The draw was at 10am, fishing 12-5pm. I was late getting to the lake so had what was left in the bag….. A phone call to John reveals I am on peg 7 again after I was on it Saturday also and didnt do very well. Least my rigs were all ready 😀

Arriving at the lake everyone else was busy setting up and after a quick word with John and a Hello to Gary I went off to set up myself which didn’t take too long.

Now Im sorry I did not catch everyones names but here are some pictures of people around the lake.

Kevin Cross on Peg 6

John Bennett

Peg 32 setting up

Steve on peg 8 thinking he had a spare peg

Peg 30

Robin Cave over on peg 37

Malc on peg 34

Car park Bank

Little Lake

Pegs 13 and 14

A short shower that latest 2 minutes

Getting to my peg, Steve on peg 8 looked quite disappointed as he thought he had a spare peg but after I told him it would be like fishing with a spare peg he seemed ok 😀 John Bennett had come round too and seen that Steve was using an Airity and said the carp at Rolfs like to eat them, his reply was something like ahh they won’t break this…..

All in whistle sounded and Steve went down the track and was greeted with a bite right away, his elastic streamed out and towards peg 32 before heading back towards the bush on peg 9 and 8. His line went dead and his rig came back. Second put in on a different track line produced another fish, this time it went straight in the bush and snagged him up. He pulled for a break but instead of the line breaking his top kit did… doh.

Fishing was slow and I could see peg 6 having a few fish and Robin over on 37 was having a few fish. Round in big lake Derek Hammond on peg 17 had a storming start but then slowed down. Gary Horne on peg 18 had a few fish out and then went on his bush line which produced on of two 18lb 4oz carp today.

Gary with an 18lb'er

Gary was paying out 1st and second today along with biggest carp and largest silver bag. With the match nearing the end peg 6 was catching a few along with peg 10 and Gary was still having a few. I had started to catch after some tuition off John 😛 Robin on peg 37 still had his elastic coming out regularly too. Malc over on peg 34 was fishing the waggler and was catching plenty of silvers along with an 17lb’er. He then latched in to something large which led him on a merry tour of the little lake. After about 10 minutes he nets it but didn’t lift his landing net high enough out the water and the fish swam out and spat the hook out as it said goodbye to him.

With the match over everyone packed away and we waited to go round and do the weigh in.

tick tock

The weigh in went by quite fast and as Robin was one of the first to be weighed he set the benchmark with a weight of 141-0 of carp and peg 4 set the silvers only weight at 12lb 8oz. The weights were too good to beat though. Everyone had caught fish and had a good day.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Robin Cave 37 141-0
2 Gary 10 95-8
3 Gary Horne 18 94-4
4 Simon Mound 7 77-4
5 Kevin Cross 6 72-12
6 Derek Hammond 17 67-4
7 Steve 22 43-14
8 Steve Pomery 8 36-8
9 Malc Murry 34 34-8
10 Colin 24 32-12
11 Alastair Murdoch 32 26-4
12 Pete Bradley 14 19-14
13 Andrew Fletcher 26 18-0
14 Arthur Horne 4 12-8
15 Paul Lingwood 15 9-8
16 13 8-8

After a Hard days fishing

Todays winner. Robin Cave

Sorry names are missing, comment on this post if can can help fill the names in please.

Thanks to Gary for inviting me and Eddie to fish, shame Eddie could not make it.

I had a good day and fun watching Steve on the next peg 😀

Thanks for Reading, Eddie and Si.

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