Rolfs Lake Wednesday Open 12th April 2017

Back up the lake for my third Wednesday Open on the trot this year.

Today was a little different to the past 2 weeks though as i was late 😜

(said it wouldn't last me being early)

When i arrived i was pleasantly surprised to see the car park full as there were 23 of us fishing today and i was soon informed my home for the day was little used peg 31

Peg 31

I was more than happy with being on 31 as i haven't drawn it in a match for a few years and always like different pegs.


Due to being short on time i wont bore anyone with all the finer details as to what i did or didn't do as i used all the same gear and fished the same 2 lines at top 2 as in all the past matches this year and fed just over 4 bags of 4mm pellet.

I caught 10 Carp ( 7 weighers ) and 2 Bream for a total of 102lb 1oz 

My weigh board

Top 10 Results courtesy of Rolfs Lake website

Rolfs Lake Open Wednesday 5th April

ROLFS LAKE

Open Wednesday 5th April


Yippee another day off and its a Wednesday so up to Rolfs i went 

Following my trip last week I've actually done a bit of prep for today
😱😱😱

Tuesday evening saw me put new elastic in 4 top kits
and grind up some more paste
😎 

THAT'S MAJOR PREPARATION FOR ME LOL

Well onto today's session and i arrived for the second time this year nearly 2 hours early
(bet it don't last though lol)

On to the draw and with 17 fishing i let all the eager beavers dip in the bag and when i went in peg 24 in the big lake stuck to my mitt

Peg 24 Home for the day

I really pushed the boat out today and plumbed up 3 lines and 1 of those was REALLY LONG for me at top 2 + 2 to the edge of the tree on my right and the other 2 lines were as always top 2 left and right 😁

Both rigs were the ones i used last week but i had to add a couple of foot of line to each (much to Dai's disgust lol ) as they weren't long enough ( no i dont change ) lol

Rigs used today that were tied for last years Easter Festival and still going strong

Tactics today was as normal for me Pellet & PASTE and if that didn't work i had a back up plan of fishing  PASTE & Pellet hehe

At 2pm John called the all in and i shipped out on the Long Line with a 8mm pellet on the hook.

After a few movements of the float i'd had enough of the pellet so switched to Paste and missed a couple of quick bites then bang fish on 😀😀
That was quickly followed by 2 more fish so with half hour gone i had 3 fish and guessed i had about 45lb

Then that area just died so onto the top kit lines but they were dead as well

For the next 2 hours+ i switched around the 3 swims without getting a proper bite in any 😕😕 

Just on 6pm i finally started to get a few real bites and put another 7 Carp in the net along with 2 Bream all falling to paste before the all out at 7pm
😁😁😁


When the scales arrived my weights were as follows

2 x Bream = 6lb 6oz
6 x Carp = 36lb 12oz
4 x Carp = 58lb 2oz

Total Weight of 101lb 4oz

Which was good enough for 3rd on the day
😀😀😀😀

 Today's Carp

Top 10 Results

Fed just on 3 bags of pellet today which is less than normal but never felt more feed would result in more fish

First Trip of 2017 Rolfs Lake Open

ROLFS LAKE

Wednesday Open 29th March 2017

Well after a 3 year break from having the time to report on my bank side activities 

I'M BACK 😈😈

First trip out for 2017 was on the Wednesday Open at Rolfs Lake and with the clocks changing last Sunday it was a 1pm Draw with fishing from 2 till 7

For a change i arrived nearly 2 hours before the draw as i wanted to sort my gear out as i hadn't looked at it since early December last year but as normally happens i never touched it lol

Didn't seem like 2 hours but soon everyone arrived and it was time for the draw and i pulled out peg 4 in the small lake

Off i strolled to my peg to set up and that's where silly things started to happen 😱

Top Kit tubes pulled from the rod bag and that's when i remembered that i needed to elasticate some kits as of my 6 top kits only 1 had sensible orange elastic the rest either had knicker elastic about an 8 or no elastic lol

Well as normal i didn't sort any of them out with new elastics lazy as normal

A quick rummage through my box and i found 3 rigs and yes i had to untangle them as they had just been chucked in my box when i last fished as i did intend to make some new ones as i had used them all through last season ( i ain't changed) lol

Any way all 3 where actually perfect for the peg as when i plumbed around with them i found

Rig 1 was perfect depth for 5 sections down the right margin
Rig 2 perfect for 5 sections straight in front
Rig 3 perfect for the Top 2

Could get technical and say what type and weight floats and diameter of line they all were but i ain't got a clue other than some had a lot of shot on and one didn't and they were all Red lol
Line was probably .21 or .23 powerline

But i did put a new hook on each which was a size 12 

FAILING TO PREPARE IS PREPARING TO FAIL
Springs to mind lol

Anyway enough of the prep or rather lack of it on to the fishing

At the all in i put a small handful of pellet on both my left and right top 2 swims then promptly went off back to the van as i'd run out of cig papers (see said i ain't changed at all)

On my return i put a 6mm pellet on and dropped it into my left top 2 swim and almost instantly missed a sail away bite, next put in resulted in a foul hooked fish that's still swimming at speed across the lake.

So 3rd put in was with Paste which resulted in a few knocks of the float the BANG fish on I instantly knew it was a lump as it just wandered off rather the going mental 

Took about 5 mins before i even saw it and about the same again till it was safely netted and what a start as it was a right lump going between 18 & 20lb 

HAPPY DAYS I'M BACK

To cut a 5 hour story short I took 6 more Carp from the left swim and 5 from the right swim along with 2 Bream all on the Paste for a total of 11 Carp and 2 Bream


Couple of today's Carp
(wont be doing landing net shots again as they look way smaller than they actually were

At the weigh in i had 3 nets as follows

Net 1   Silvers = 2 Bream & 1 Gudgeon for      7lb +
Net 2   Small Carp           =           6 fish for     48lb +
Net 3    Big Carp               =             5 fish for     89lb
Total Weight 144lb 9oz

And that was enough for the win 

Don't forget though that i've screwed up a few things today as follows

I FAILED TO PREPARE WHICH IS PREPARING TO FAIL

I FISHED PASTE & IT'S TO COLD AND EARLY FOR PASTE

Must remember when i fish next Wednesday that i need to Prepare & i must not fish Paste

Yeah right i think ill do what i always do and do it MY WAY 
😜😜😜