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Rolfs Winter League. Final Match.

Feb 21st

Sunday 31st January.

The day had arrived for the final match and I was hoping for an ice free lake. The weather had been good in the week before the match. But Friday night it had dropped cold again. This is what greeted me when I went out to get my tackle from my shed.

Saturday morning Snow

Budgie was fishing again and was kindly picking me up. He arrived at 7am and once the gear was loaded we set off for the hour and a half drive to the lake.

On the way to the Lake

On arrival we saw the lake was indeed frozen over again but it was not as thick as last time so Ice breaking would no take as long. I was fishing in A section this week for the final time and Budgie was supposed to be fishing in the fancied C section but after he agreed to allow Ron to fish in C Section he was left with A section. I drew peg 2 and guess which peg Budgie drew……… Peg 40 Could there be a great battle on the cards, could I get my own back for him beating me in the last match… we shall see.

Peg 2 after breaking the Ice

Very cold monring on Peg 2

Whilst setting up Budgie called me over to show me his secret bait for the day. Could this help him get the edge over me, I hope not.

Budgies secret bait

New King of Pop Up Baits I think

I set up 2 lines for today, 10m in front and 11m to my left towards peg 3. At the all in I started out on my 10m line but after 1 hour I still had not had a sniff so went down the edge and after another hour again not a bite. By this time Budgie on 40 had managed a tiny perch and was fishing to his right top kit length out. I could not let him beat me today.

I went back to 10m and back to 11m trying all baits and depths trying desperately to catch something. My prayers were answered, the float twitched and started to sail away. The result was a nice little perch. Last match I dry netted so I cant tell you how good it felt to catch this little bugger

I was freezing so I decided to go for a walk to warm up a bit and take some pictures.

Mick Lane on peg 7

Eddie with a nice bag of donuts

Budgie trying desperately to catch a fish

Back to my peg and my moment of glory was short lived as the next hour was again biteless. In the final hour I had been concentrating on my 11m line more and was getting the odd bite but missing them. Then the phone rings and Malc (THE JINX) was on the other end, as soon as he starts speaking I have a bite and hook into a good perch and loose it THE JINX effect work even when he is in Wales…

After a few choice words Malc leaves me too it lol. Iget back to fishing on the 11m to my left and manage to catch another 2 small perch. But was it enough to beat Budgie on peg 40.

11m line towards peg 3

Budgie weighed in 2oz and I weighed in 4oz so I had manage to double his weight hehe

The lake had again not fished very well with a lot of people really struggling for fish. Poor team mate Steve on peg 16 had blanked, the same peg I blanked on last match. He did manage to hook in to a carp but lost it it.

I would like to say thank you to Steve Wilson and Clive Pritchard for asking me to fish with them. I had a good time despite the very cold weather and lack of fish, just another grueller for me really like TK’s Grueller series

It was also good to meet everyone, there are some right characters that fish the lake for sure.

One more picture before the results. Neil Riddy had been fishing on peg 4 and managed to catch a massive fish. Here we are…

Neil Riddy with a new PB, Can you see it.

Man of the Match- Ron on peg 22 for Falling asleep whilst fishing. LOL

Rock a by baby on the tree top....

RESULTS

	A Section
1st	Mick Lane	peg 7	2-4	RG
2nd	Steve Palmer	peg 34	2-2	TS
3rd	Simon Mound	peg 2	0-4	A
4th	Marcus Burgess	peg 40	0-2	MFS
5th	Neil Riddy	peg 4	0-1	RP
–	Mike Stimpson	peg 38	DNW	RD

	B Section
1st	Phil Powell	peg 32	14-7	RG
2nd	Jon Walker	peg 30	6-5	RD
3rd	Fred Parker	peg 9	2-2	MFS
4th	Clive Pritchard	peg 13	1-3	A
5th	Mark Orchard	peg 28	0-12	RP
6th	Lloyd Moss	peg 10	0-1	TS

	C Section
1st	Ian McCulloch	peg 18	30-4	RD
2nd	Earnie M	peg 26	3-2	TS
3rd	Paul Jay	peg 14	0-11	RP
4th	John Bennett	peg 24	0-4	RG
–	Steve Wilson	peg 16	DNW	A
–	Ron Byus	peg 22	DNW	MFS

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Rolfs Gold	15	RG
2nd=	Rolfs Diamond	11	RD
2nd=	Team Spro	11	TS
4th	Rolfs Platinum	10	RP
5th=	Assassins	7	A
5th=	Match Fishing Scene	7	MFS

FINAL LEADERBOARD

	TOTAL TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Rolfs Gold	74	RG
2nd	Rolfs Diamond	73	RD
3rd	Rolfs Platinum	54	RP
4th	Assassins	51	A
5th	Team Spro	43	TS
6th	Match Fishing Scene	42	MFS

Eddie’s report for this match can be viewed HERE

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Rolfs Winter League. Match 5.

Jan 22nd

Posted by Simon Mound in Match Report

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17th January.

This morning Marcus Burgess aka Budgie who is mad on Rolfs Lake was coming along too. He would be fishing for Match Fishing Scene team. He loves the lake but how would he fair in the winter and would he still love it as much after….. we shall find out.

Marcus Burgess, aka Budgie

After a nice drive down we got to the lake to find John in the boat breaking the ice up in the boat. It allowed some much need oxygen in the water but left big sheets of ice floating around the lake which I would find out later turned out to be a right nightmare.

John Bennett doing a scene from Titanic.

I was in C section again this week which is usually the best section to be in. Neil Riddy was first in the bag and pulled out peg 14, to say he was not happy was an understatement. Me to draw next and I wanted to be on the car park bank as there was no ice there, so I pulled out peg 16 where the ice was at its thickest. My team mates had drawn ok, Steve was on peg 10 in B section and Clive was on 40 in A section. I could see Budgie over on peg 30 raring to go too.

Budgie on peg 30

My home for the day. Peg 16

Getting ready for a grueller...

I had cleared the ice from my peg to about 14m’s and a nice swim to the left by the bush. Within the first 30 minutes of fishing the Ice all started floating back in to my swim again. Steve on 18 and Neil on 14 were having the same problem too. Great sheets of ice floating around. Me and Steve managed to get the biggest sheet on peg 17 and then punch a hole through the middle of it with the ice breaker, we then tied it to the bank to stop it floating around.

Blooody ICE !!!!

I spent another 30 minutes clearing ice from my peg but more kept floating in so I gave up in the end and had a go down the margin. An hour goes by without so much as a twitch on the float, things are not looking good. Its not just me though. Mick, Danny and Neil are also dry. Steve on 18 and Mike on 22 both have carp. Little Danny managed to hook in to some carp but lost them at the net, least you had some action mate hehe.

My Margin Swim

I fed my inside line in an attempt to get some action going down there and went for a walk round to see Team mate Steve on peg 10. As I was walking round I could see he was fishing down the edge and could see 3 or 4 carp around his float. Despite fish moving in and out of his peg he had not managed to snare one. I settle down behind him and he strikes… fish on. After a short battle he lands a nice double and a big smile beams across his face. Out again and within 2 minutes he has another on. John Bennett over on peg 32 is shouting abuse trying to make him loose it lol.

Well I was jealous and wanted to go back and try and catch one for myself but he would not let me go. I stayed for one more fish which he hooked right away again but lost it. While he was bringing it towards his peg there was another carp following it in, he nearly had two for the price of one.

Eddie Taylor turned up to come and see how we was all doing as he had some time off work. He was hoping to get some pictures for his blog but with the lack of fish being caught was causing him some problems. In the final hour of the match I knew deep down that I was not going to catch anything but kept going in the vain chance of hooking one of the normally not so shy Perch.

Eddie and Danny on peg 24

At the ‘all out’ my heart sank, I had drynetted for the second time at the lake. Not too worry it probably won’t be the last time hehe.

The weigh in told the story today with not much been caught at all. My Team mates had both won their sections. Fair play well done lads. I did feel a bit guilty picking up money and not having caught a fish but I suppose thats the way it goes sometimes.

The whole lake had fished very hard again but C Section fished the hardest with 4 dryents. I do feel slightly better knowing that venue ace Mick Lane also blanked and he normally good for a few fish.

Steve Wilson managed to win the match with 5 carp for 53lb 4oz. Well done Steve.

As for Budgie…..He managed 3 perch for 7oz and bored me to death on the way home so I went to sleep lol. Well done matey.

The next match is on the 31st January…..Please let us all catch some fish.

Results…. Sorry for the messy Tables, still trying to sort them out

	A Section
1st	Clive Pritchard	peg 40	9-5	A
2nd	Fred Parker	peg 7	0-2	MFS
3rd	Phil Powell	peg 38	0-1	RG
4th	Lloyd Moss	peg 34	DNW	TS
5th	Derek Hammond	peg 4	DNW	RD
–	–	–	–	RP

	B Section
1st	Steve Wilson	peg 10	53-4	A
2nd	Ian McCulloch	peg 13	2-9	RD
3rd	Paul Jay	peg 28	1-2	RP
4th	Ernie M	peg 9	0-10	TS
5th	Marcus Burgess	peg 30	0-7	MFS
6th	John Bennett	peg 32	0-1	RG

	C Section
1st	Mike Stimpson	peg 22	15-6	RD
2nd	Steve Palmer	peg 18	8-3	TS
–	Simon Mound	peg 16	DNW	A
–	Danny Blackwell	peg 24	DNW	MFS
–	Neil Riddy	peg 14	DNW	RP
–	Mick Lane	peg 26	DNW	RG