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Jinx Series, Round 1. 2011. 14th May 2011

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Today saw the Jinx Squad return to the lake for their first match of the year. The Jinx Series is in it 10th year. Malc Doyle who runs the series as a bit of fun mainly and tries to make the matches more about having a laugh than big money payout. This year there are 27 angler fishing the series. Malc splits them up in to 3 section’s of 9.

Just so people don’t have too much fun and relax too much Malc’s daughter Gem fishes too. If you get beaten by her your name is added to her impressive MINX list. Not only that….. If she beats you you are eligible to be picked for the new 2011 MINX hat 🙁

For the first match Gem drew a peg from the bag and whoever drew that peg in the match would wear the hat…Simple. She pulled out peg 40 and Neil Riddy drew peg 40 so got to wear the hat. I think secretly he wanted to wear it anyway lol 😀

 

The new 2011 MINX Hat modelled by Neil Riddy, no stranger to stupid hats 😀

The draw was done almost on time, not bad for Malc really. The only reason it was nearly on time was he was at the lake having previously fished helped with the weigh in on the Night match.

On to the match. First off a major photo explosion with all the runners and riders from this years series.

 

First off Malc Doyle on peg 36

Ade Williams on 38

Neil Riddy on 40

Alex on 2

Pete on peg 4

My home for the day peg 5

Dave Collier on 7

 

Tony Roberts on 8

Rod on peg 9

Jon Hatch on 10

Geoff Palmer on 11

Mat Edwards on 13

Gem 'MINX' Doyle on 14

Paul Roberts on 15

Paul's cheerleader 😀

Al Loader on 17

Dave Webster on 18

Nick Williams on 19

Peter Morton on 20, new peg king 😀

Kev Lovelock on 23

Kev's Cheerleader 😀 Nice nanna

Marcus Burgess on 25

Terry Goff on 26

Clive Pritchard on 28

Nick Watkins-Price on 29

Dave Moore on 31

Dai Thomas on 32

Mitch Auger on 34

The all in was sounded at 1pm and fishing got underway. I could only see the little lake today. Neil Riddy on peg 40 had landed his first carp before everyone else had finished feeding their swims and it wasn’t before Pete on peg 4 was walking past with a weigher. Mitch over on peg 34 was having a few fish too. I could not buy a bite and Malc and Ade were also the same.

Within 20 minutes I knew I was going to have a struggle along with the rest of the lads in the little lake. This was not helped by the Scream we all fear…… Gem had landed her first fish and it was a 14lb’er too.

After the first 2 hours Malc had managed to get a carp on the paste feeder so it was only me and Ade who were fishless in the little lake. I fed my lines and went to see how the big lake was doing.

It was like a different match in the big lake. There was elastic streaming from top kits and rods bent double :O 😀 (see first picture in this report) I sat behind Gem and watched in envy 🙁 Gems float sailed away and she hooked in to another fish, shame it was up the arse. After a lengthy fight she had landed another 14lb’er. Things were not looking good. Paul on 15 was also in to plenty of fish fishing the feeder, he would have had one more but was put off by my picture taking and lost the carp that would have took him over the magical 100lb…..oooops sorry mate 😀

 

Gem playing a foul hooker

Paul also playing a fish. He lost it just after I took this pic, ooops 😀

Gem 14lb'er

I went back to my peg hopeful for a fish and sure enough I hooked into and lost my first fish 🙁 Straight back out and hooked one in the gob. As I netted it I gave a loud roar in relief 😀

Malc also managed his second and last fish of the match. Mitch was catching a mixture of carp and silvers, Tony and Dave on 7 and 8 were having a few fish as there was plenty of splashing coming from that direction.

John Bennett had been away all afternoon and got back gagging for a cuppa tea so turned the generator on. Normally there is nothing wrong with doing this but unknown to John the aerators were still plugged in……………………… Malc was fishing to his aerator on peg 36 and nearly fell off his box when it fired up 😀 I didnt laugh too much. Also Dave Moore on peg 31 got a similar surprise 😀

I only caught 3 fish today but one of them made my match.

 

19lb 4oz. Thanks Tony for taking the picture.

Not long after a very excited Jon Hatch came and asked me to take a picture of his new PB carp.

 

Jon Hatch with a 18lb 12oz PB carp. Well done.

With the all out sounding at 6pm I knew I had been Minxed as gem had 5 fish to my 3. The little lake had fished poorly so we were all going to be candidates for the new hat with the exception of Mitch who managed to equal Gems weight and avoid the dreaded MINXING 😀

 

Mitch with a 2lb perch

Dave with a 5lb Bream

On to the results.

Results

A Section Peg Weight Points
1st Mitch Auger 34 67-8 1
2nd Tony Roberts 8 58-0 2
3rd Pete 4 50-8 Guest
4th Dave Collier 7 48-12 3
5th Simon Mound 5 43-8 4
6th Alex 2 38-8 5
7th Neil Riddy 40 35-8 6
8th Ade Williams 38 31-4 7
9th Malc Doyle 36 12-0 8
B Section Peg Weight Points
1st Dai Thomas 32 122-8 1
2nd Clive Pritchard 28 107-8 2
3rd Mat Edwards 13 65-12 3
4th Jon Hatch 10 40-4 4
5th Terry Goff 26 30-0 5
6th Rod 9 24-0 Guest
7th= Nick Watkins Price 29 17-0 6
7th= Dave Moore 31 17-0 6
9th Geoff Palmer 11 10-8 8
C Section Peg Weight Points
1st Paul Roberts 15 96-12 1
2nd Steve Wilson 22 69-4 2
3rd Gem Doyle 14 67-8 3
4th Marcus Burgess 25 49-0 4
5th Dave Webster 18 45-8 5
6th Nick Williams 19 29-12 6
7th Pete Morton 20 29-4 7
8th Kev Lovelock 23 27-0 8
9th Al Loader 17 20-8 9

 

Over all Winner and B Section winner, Dai Thomas. BIG well done mate

A Section Winner. Mitch Auger

B Section 2nd. Tony Roberts

B section 2nd. Clive Pritchard

C Section 1st. Paul Roberts

C Section 2nd. Steve 'smiler' Wilson

I gave Gem my quid and Ran off 😀 She MINXED 21 today. Well done Gem

 

Great match (for some 😀 ) The next match in the series is on 4th June so Gem will have plenty of time to pick out of the 21 people who will wear the hat next year.

Well done to all the winners today, well deserved on a hard day (sulky Saturday as Malc calls it) at the lake.

Thanks for reading. Si, Eddie and John.

If anyone wants full sized pictures please email me @ si@rolfslake.com as I have had some requests already, thanks.

Malcs Blog report can be found here

Peters Blog can be found here

Herbie Invitational Match. 7th May 2011

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Herbie. On one of his annual matches at the lake.

 

Herbie had booked the lake for one of his annual visits and invite some friends from Match Fishing Scene Forums. 20 Anglers turned up eager to fish. John Bennett was down to fish also taking the numbers to 21.

The normal queue formed for the draw and people drew and walked off to get ready however when there was supposed to be 2 pegs left in the bag there was only one in there. John and Herbie were still too draw. John kindly dropped out from the match leaving Herbie with peg 4.

A few minutes later  John is back fishing again as the missing peg was found on the floor. It happened to be peg 2 (flyer 😛 ) Someone must have drawn their peg and pulled out peg 2 as well. So John can still draw good pegs even when there is none in the bag lol 😀 😀

The weather today was a bit poor really for the first 2 hours with rain falling while everyone was setting up. The wind also picked up blowing down in to the little lake this time.

Captain on peg 32

Smile

 

Nobby on peg 7

Scone's seatbox is rather dashing 😀 Peg 6

Herbie's nice tidy kit

John Bennett just moved his gear over from peg 40

John gets some coaching from Pauline

I wanted peg 38 today but Rossn got it

Team talk before the off

Wightman all the way from the Isle of Wight on peg 13

Ruddy Roach on peg 10

Captain been eaten by his brolly 😀

Dan the man on peg 14

It just stopped raining for the start of the match

 

Churchy on peg 22

Peg 15, my home for the day

 

Fishing today was from 11am to 4pm.

As you will see by the results the lake fished very hard again with only the corner pegs producing good weights and consistent fish. After the rain went away the sun came out full blast on the lake and the carp were cursing around again.

After having no fish for 3 hours I started catching with just 20 minutes to go which is just typical 😀

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Bennett 2 104-8
2 Rich F 40 92-10
3 Munter 18 74-6
4 Churchy 22 73-12
5 Captain 32 73-8
6 Rossn 38 54-0
7 Rick 17 51-12
8 Snooty 30 47-0
9 Simon Mound 15 37-14
10 Herbie 4 31-1
11 PTB 34 26-0
12 Whiteman 13 20-8
13 Dan Ball 14 17-10
14 Ruddy Roach 10 1-8
– Sconee 6 DNW
– Nobby 7 DNW
– Plummers 8 DNW
– Pikey 9 DNW
– Red Paste 24 DNW
– Rolly 26 DNW
– Lee Jay 28 DNW

Thanks for the invite Herbie, a hard day but I still enjoyed myself.

Thanks for reading. Eddie, Simon and John.

Wednesday 4th May 2011 Open Match

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Paul has found a good place to fish

As i arrived down the lake today i was greeted with the regular warm greeting and stick from John and Paul that these midweek opens are famous for.

I was really looking forward to reclaiming my victory back that i lost to John on my last visit so i had a plan to fish slightly different than would of been expected as there was no X4 paste in my bag today but a bag of new X4 version 2 so i was really confident of a good days lump fishing.

With the assorted cast ready at the draw it was nice to see my website partner Simon there as he had travelled from up North to continue on his glory run of two victories in his last two visits. Also another person i had not seen for a while was Geoff Edwards who is my partner in crime in giving John his fare share of abuse and by draw time it was in full swing { i am not sure what the visiting made of this }.As the draw commenced i wanted a peg in the small lake and was not disappointed to draw peg 6 but thought it might of been a little too early to be able to catch the fish up the edge but with Paul Jay on 7 and and John on flyer peg 40 i was certainly going to be amused for 5 hours. Simon was on peg 9 and Geoff on peg 18 with all the visiting anglers drawing flyer pegs 2,4, 8 and 16 hopefully Rolfslake would fish to its usual high standards as is the case in these mid week matches.

The story of the match was in the small lake John Bennett was on to a flyer in the first 40 minutes as his first 4 fish went 70lb on the tip fishing to the rope in peg 39 so it was going to be a tough ask to catch him up and with the big lake fishing hard all the action was going to be reserved for pegs 9 round to 40 as it was black with fish and with the wind blowing into the small lake the carp were following the blossom that had fallen into the lake. Simon on peg 9 had already lost a carp in the big bush to his right but managed to drag the second one out but it was hard going,and with Daz Kelly on 8 fishing the other side of the bush but catching a mixed bag of chub, perch and carp in was going to be an interesting 5 hours. As for Paul and myself it started slow but then picked up in the last 2 hours by which time Paul was losing 5 fish to every one he landed on long pole fishing 8mm pellet on the deck feeding by pot, and all i could do was catch doubles but they were not coming fast enough as my 8 carp went 105-00 {the biggest was 17-14} fishing paste down the ledge towards peg 5 feeding heavy by hand

The winner today was lake owner John Bennett who after catching his big 4 fish on the tip got caught on the rope snapped his rig then went on the 3 metre line lowered his bait of 11mm pellet and saw the float disappear and then coming back with a 19-00 carp on it brilliant i though as he shouted this to me at least 6 times. for the remainder of the match John alternated between long and short pole lines down the edge and at 3 metres to catch big carp { John had 137-00 on the board by weigh-in time} for his final weight of 190-04 and victory to sink the Cartel members and the Pirate in this match { well done John }.

In second place was Simon Mound who after his slow start abandoned the bush to his right and started a  new 5 metre line straight out in front which runs down the bar between the big and small lake and by fishing big donkey choker 15mm pellet and feeding positively Simon got the fish lined up with also a good stamp of fish his biggest going over 18-00 but in the end fell short of a victory by only 23lb but by Rolfslake’s standards that could be only one or two fish and he ended up with 167-00 but still a great weight {well done Simon }.

All in all the anglers enjoyed their afternoon out in the sun and cant wait till the next mid week match as with the weekends now fully booked through club bookings Rolfslake can now only be fished on a Wednesday or a night match, so get down to one of these matches and have some fun.

 

Daz Kelly with some cracking chub caught from peg 8

Nice fish. Well done mate 🙂

Wes on peg 2

 

Eddie on peg 6

Eddies rigs may need a bit of sorting

John taming all the carp in his swim on peg 40

Paul Jay on peg 7

Mick Jones (Fishcap) on his favourite peg 10

Pat Pritchard on peg 13

Superstar bagger, Pat Pritchard

One of Eddie's donkey's

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Bennett 40 190-4
2 Simon Mound 9 167-0
3 Paul Jay 7 144-4
4 Eddie Taylor Green 6 119-4
5 Wes 2 110-4
6 Daz Kelly 8 86-8
7 Neil Riddy 22 78-2
8 Graham Ridgley 16 67-0
9 Mick Chapell 26 61-4
10 Phil 4 55-12
11 Geoff Edwards 18 48-8
12 Mick Jones 10 41-8
– Pat Pritchard 13 DNW TB
– Steve Williams 28 DNW

 

Todays Winner, Pirate ship sinker John Bennett.

 

Caption for this picture please.....

 

Well earned cup of tea for the pirate

I am away in Glasgow for a week but Simon will keep you up to date with the results so tight lines thanks for reading Simon, John and Eddie.

Bank Holiday Open Match. 2nd May 2011

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Very windy down the lake again today

17 anglers turned up today on a very very windy day down the lake. It was windy yesterday as well but hopes of it dying down were shattered at 7.30 when branches started dropping off the tree’s as the wind picked up again.

Before everyone else got to the lake John had a bit of a problem with a cormorant. He had been eating the fish from the lake and then having a bath in the salt dips…

 

Naughty Bird

 

Pretty much everyone today was going to be suffering from the wind in one way or another.

More to follow…bed time 🙂

 

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Simon Mound 8 152-4
2 Paul Jay 34 111-0
3 Andy Camden 14 109-4
4 Pat Pritchard 22 87-8
5 Richard Doolan 9 78-0
6 Dai Thomas 16 75-8
7 Mick Hughes 26 75-0
8 Malc Doyle 40 73-8
9 Ant Haywood 18 70-4
10 Tony Wymmick 24 70-0
11 Dave Whiteman 6 59-4
12 Marcus Burgess 2 52-12
13 John Bennett 38 50-4
14 Nick Horne 4 46-8
15 Gem Doyle 13 37-4
16 Lol Summers 7 12-8 TB
17 Andy Johnstone 10 DNW TB

17 Anglers Fished    TB=Tipped Back

 

Paul Jay on peg 34

 

 

Birthday Boy John Bennett without his party hat 😛

Malc Doyle on peg 40

Chunk, I mean Marcus Burgess on peg 2 😉

Nick Horne on peg 4

Dave Whiteman sucking a cigar on peg 6

Laurie Summers on peg 7

Richard Doolan with a weigher from peg 9

Me with a carp caught on the tip from the far bank on my old faithful... boilie 😀

My weigher having a nice salt solution bath

Laurie getting in on the act too

Thanks for looking in on the blog. Eddie, Simon and John.

MFS Pre Withy Match. 29th April 2011

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The Match Fishing Scene Lads were at the lake today, the match was organised my Sconey.

Scone. Todays match organiser.

 

The draw was at 9 (ish) and fishing was from 11-4pm. There was a total contrast with the weather today also. It was windy, cloudy and cold. We had a few rain showers as well and a Thunder storm after the match.

The fishing was rock hard today with pretty much everyone struggling for bites.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Animal 7 76-11
2 No Hope 28 49-6
3 Mick Lane 22 35-12
4 Proper Tidal Boy 23 35-8
5 Andy T 9 24-0
6 Tommy85 16 20-8
7 Clive 24 17-0
8 Phil Powell 2 15-4
9 Wightman 18 10-0
10 Ian McCulloch 32 8-12
11= Dave Moore 10 6-4
11= Rich F 13 6-4
– Simple 30 DNW
– Scone 6 DNW
– Mick Hughes 14 DNW
– Pete G 26 DNW
– Herbie 4 DNW
– Shredders 40 DNW

Total contrast in the weather

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