Winter League, Final Round. New Champions….30th Jan 2011

The morning had arrived for the final round of the winter league at Rolfslake. Reigning champions Rolfs Team Gold were behind the dream team Walker Floats and needed them to have a bad draw (no chance 😀 )

There had been a frost on Saturday night and the lake had a thin layer of ice on it on some area’s, John was in the boat breaking it up. Today we are fishing from 11am to 4pm. With everyone arriving on time the draw got underway on time.

Derek Hammond (dream team) promptly drew peg 34 for A section and Mick lane drew peg 6, comments were flying already 😀 Jon Walker (dream team) was not so lucky in drawing for B section and drew peg 8, Phil Power drew peg 32 which is normally good for a good bag of silvers, Phil’s speciality. As I blanked last match I did not have the luxury of drawing, I had what was left in the bag and everyone left me peg 13. Thanks 😀

On to C section, Steve Waters (dream team) drew peg 24 which has had a few carp coming off it lately, John Bennett pulled out peg 14 which I dont think he fancied too much. Things were looking good for the dream team draw wise, no surprise there 😀

With an extra half an hour of setting up time most people were done early and wondering round the lake chatting.

At 11am Phil shouted the all in. It wasn’t long before Derek on peg 34 had a carp in the net while the rest of A section looked on in envy and the looked back at their motionless floats.

Not long after Steve on peg 24 who was fishing the bomb was playing a carp, after guiding it round the iceberg it was safely in the net and he screamed out much to Johns disgust 😀 Steve was getting a bite a chuck in fact and already had 3 carp in the net before I had my first carp. I was fishing the bomb with double corn just behind the aerator. A nice 10lber to start off with, not bad. John had managed to land 2 carp from peg 14 but could not buy another bite and had to watch Steve and Clive on peg 16 pulling carp from the bar.

Half way through the match things were pretty much the same. Steve was still catching carp, Marcus on peg 23 was also catching carp and Clive was also Catching carp. Everyone in C section was having a nice days fishing. Neil Riddy fishing on peg 18 had 2 15lb + carp in his first 2 bites 😯

A Section were all in the same position as they were at the start, watching Derek Hammond catching fish. Having lost another carp he was now catching some big perch and silvers.

B Section, everyone was catching Silvers, Jon Walker had snared 3 big perch from peg 8, Chris Lovelock on peg 9 had also caught a carp fishing the bomb the the aerator too. I was catching plenty of silvers fishing at 13m on red maggot. Phil, Malc and Andy on the car park bank were also catching silvers.

In the final half of the match things were looking grim for current champions Rolfs Team Gold, John still only had 2 carp. Mick Lane had yet to catch a fish and Phil whilst catching plenty of silver fish was behind in his section as I had managed to catch 3 more carp and Chris had 2 carp.

Steve and most of C section were still catching but it was clear that no one was going to catch Steve up. The weigh in revealed it was all over for Rolfs Team Gold but it had been a close battle right up to the end.

Results….

A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
Derek Hammond	34	13-0	Walker Floats
Steve Palmer	7	1-15	Heavy Weights
Frank Hardie	2	DNW	Assassins
Paul Jay	40	DNW	Wooden Tops
Mick Lane	6	DNW	Rolfs Team Gold
Pete Arnold	4	DNW	Pats Lot
Dai Thomas	37	DNW	Rolfs Rejects

B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
Simon Mound	13	50-14	Assassins
Chris Lovelock	9	27-8	Wooden Tops
Andy Quarmby	28	15-5	Pats Lot
Phil Powell	32	14-6	Rolfs Team Gold
Malc Doyle	30	9-6	Rolfs Rejects
Jon Walker	8	6-15	Walker Floats
Geoff Palmer	10	3-0	Heavy Weights

C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
Steve Waters	24	108-14	Walker Floats
Marcus Burgess	23	63-4	Rolfs Rejects
Neil Riddy	18	59-12	Wooden Tops
Clive Pritchard	16	59-8	Assassin
Ernie Malyon	21	34-0	Heavy Weights
John Bennett	14	18-0	Rolfs Team Gold
Pat Pritchard	26	16-14	Pats Lot

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Walker Floats	16
2nd	Assassins	11
3rd	Wooden Tops	11
4th	Heavy Weights	10
5th	Rolfs Rejects	9
6th	Rolfs Team Gold	6
7th	Pats Lot	6

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

TOTAL  POINTS	POINTS	Today	NewTotal	Place
Walker Floats	21+10+13+15+ 18+	16	93	1st
Rolfs Team Gold	17+14+16+11+16+	6	80	2nd
Heavy Weights	11+16+5+18+13+	10	73	3rd
Pats Lot	10+17+16+14+8+	6	71	4th
Assassins	9+15+12+6+11+	11	64	5th
Wooden Tops	9+3+13+3+9+	11	48	6th
Rolfs Rejects	7+8+2+3+7+	9	36	7th

A big Well done to Team Walker Floats who have fished a tidy series taking money on every match and more importantly high points to take the series.

The spring League starts next Sunday, I hope everyone catches plenty of fish and the weather improves for you all. Sorry this is late, I already wrote it out once but it disappeared after I updated a plugin on the site.

Tightlines from Simon, Eddie and John 🙂