Rolfs Lake Bank Holiday Open Monday 26th May 2014
Nothing is ever simple with me and today was no different !!!!!!
Seeing as i was at home in Wales this weekend it meant a 5am start for me as i needed to go to work in Newbury and then to Reading to collect my fishing gear as it was split between both.
Well i finally arrived at Rolfs Lake just on 10am and with the draw due at 11am i was EARLY
A nice Rolfs breakfast cooked by Pauline and washed down with a coffee was soon eaten and before i knew it the draw was ready.
As normal i held back for drawing and when i drew there were 3 pegs left and peg number 8 stuck to my grubby mit (that'll do for me).
Last time i drew peg 8 was on the last day of the Easter Festival when it earned me a Section win with 118lb so i was happy with the draw.
PEG 8
Picture above not from today as it never stopped raining.
For company today on Peg 7 was Steve Palmer so at least if we didn't catch we'd have a bit of banter as Steve is always worth a laugh or 2.
So on to the fishing for a change i set up 2 rigs one to fish at 2mtrs both left and right and 1 to fish in the right margin.
Bait for today was Pellet and Paste as normal with pellet as feed.
When the all i was called i was actually ready so a couple of hand fulls of pellet went in each swim then i walked off to the van as i'd left my flask there.
When i returned i put in to the right swim and instantly missed 2 bites on pellet so 3rd put in was with Paste and that made all the difference as soon a 13lber was on the board (Happy Days).
Things never really got started during the match with just the odd fish coming solely from my right swim during the day and i ended up with 7 Carp (5 on the board) and 1 Skimmer but lost 7 as well and even managed to snap an elastic on an angry carp (recovered after the match though).
My final weight was 83lb 4oz witch ended up good enough for the win thats how hard it fished (BUT I WAS HAPPY).
RESULTS
- Malc Doyle -------- 83lb 4oz
- Pat Pritchard ------- 74lb 11oz
- Mick Chapple ----- 72lb 3oz
- Micheal Corsini --- 69lb 8oz
- Ady Williams ------ 58lb 3oz
19 Fished
Back out next weekend for 3 matches which are
Friday -- Night Open
Saturday -- Jinx Match 2
Sunday -- Neil Riddy Invitational
So hopefully it's a bit dryer then and i might get to take a picture or 2.
Nice Job well done Mr Doyle.
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