Match Fishing Scene's members match 19th September 2009

The anglers of match fishing scene down on the lake

Today Rolfslake welcomed the anglers from the Matchfishingscene's website to continue in their championship series. The anglers arrived from all over the country hoping to catch one of Rolfslake big match weights but also meet some friends that they only get to talk to via the Internet.
Today was a nice sunny day with no wind which is normally comfortable for the anglers but is not very good for fishing as Rolfslake has been fishing very moody at the moment, so a careful approach was the order of the day. As the anglers drew their pegs information was available to them from the lake regulars on where and how to fish the pegs, which gave them a head start although they had over an hour and a half to get ready. As i was not fishing today it gave me a chance to relax watching the anglers catch fish whilst i took some photo's for the blog which is something that i dont get enough time to do normally.
As the match started it was evident that today was going to be another tough day because normally someone catches a quick fish at the start but for all the anglers that i could see there was not a sign of a stretched elastic to be seen, which was not very good for all concerned. The one thing that i could see were that some anglers were still putting in too much bait and on current form that has spelt disaster as far as the carp were concerned.
Even the two top lake regulars Jon Walker and Chris Telling were really struggling from good pegs and if they cant catch then plans B and C have to come into play. The anglers on the carpark bank were having a few fish on shallow rigs but fishing was very slow, Just in Case on peg 14 was looking very busy but was losing far too many fish ,fishing at 13 metres on the worm but at least there were fish in front of him.
As i decided to walk around the lake Chris Calder on peg 6 was playing a fish so i stayed and watched and in the end a beautiful 17-04 common was on its way to the scales which gave me a chance to photograph it {thanks Chris}. On my way back to the hut Simple aka Simon Mound was starting to have a few fish on boilie fished at a depth of two feet and in three fish had one of 16lb and two of 15lb to put some valuable weight on the board, and again i managed to take some photo's. In the last two hours a few more fish were caught but it was going to be a poor day for big weights and after 5 hours Simon on peg 29 was the winner with 93-12 {well done Simon }.
The big news at the weigh-in was that lake owner John Bennett was trying to claim a little fry to weigh-in that was foul hooked but when he went to look in his keepnet to find it ,it had gone so that was a big DNW for him {sorry John}.
All the anglers would like to thank Ricky for organising the match even if the lake fished moody but they will be back.

Simple aka Simon Mound todays overall winner with 93-12


Section A winner Chris Calder with a 17-04 common





Section B winner Simon Mound with a 16lb common




Section C winner Steve 0070

Full Results

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Section
1	Simple	29	93lb 12oz	B
2	Steve0070	16	85lb 3oz	C
3	Slider	26	76lb 4oz	C
4	Justin Case	14	75lb 12oz	C
5	Eels	25	65lb 0oz	C
6	Chris Calder	6	63lb 10oz	A
7	Clive	4	58lb 0oz	A
8	Chris Telling	8	44lb 0oz	B
9	Jon Walker	40	39lb 12oz	A
10	Pikey	18	37lb 8oz	C
11	Caster or Disaster	13	36lb 4oz	B
12	Caster Master	9	35lb 4oz	B
13	Firstpeg	34	33lb 4oz	A
14	Winkledean	28	32lb 0oz	B
15	Wightman	22	29lb 0oz	C
16	Paul Jay	32	28lb 12oz	B
17	Mick the Fish	2	17lb 8oz	A
18	Jadstar	10	10lb 12oz	B
19	Crowy	7	6lb 8oz	A
20	Welshmagic	38	6lb 0oz	A
21	Happydangler	36	2lb 0oz	A
23	NickM	23	0lb	C
23	John Bennet	30	0lb	B