Just one of the beautiful big carp that have been coming out,
18-04 caught by Vespe sponsored Chris Telling.
John Bennet has also been catching big fish recently,this is a 17-12 common from the big lake.
Me Eddie Taylor-Green with another frame today
11 out of the last 12 matches.
After the massive fish caught by Jon Walker last week i was half expecting to see a lot of bivvies set up around the lake hoping to catch a specimen big carp, but there was not just the regular characters ready for thier mid week bagging session. With the pleasure anglers set up in the small lake and on the car park bank it was decided to use the motorway bank for todays open, and with the weather bright and with little wind hopes for a big weight were looking good.
As the anglers drew their pegs the ones you wanted were the ones that gave you an end peg so that you could draw the fish into your peg from both ends of the lake so you wanted 8 or 18 as they gave you plenty of space. With the anglers going off to their pegs it left only John and myself to draw and when John pulled out peg 18 i was gutted as i fancied this one today, so as i pulled my number out and looked in my hand i was not happy to draw peg 8 in the channel as the last time i fished it 2 years ago i totally messed it up ,plus i did not want to fish more than five metres.
As the all in sounded the only angler i could see was Chris Teling and after about 2 minutes he was showing me a carp of 18-04 to verify for him so i was playing catch up, and 5 minutes later i was showing him a carp of 16-04 to check for me. There were lots of fish blowing and swirling up on the surface sucking the floating leaves in front of me but as i had not set up a shallow rig all i could do was watch them. The pleasure anglers were all catching in front of me from pegs 34 to 38 on the bomb or feeder fished with meat or boilies so i was hopeful that the fish would eventually come to me.
In first place today and on an extended glory run was Me Eddie T-Green who had a bizzare 5 hours fishing on peg 8 and on reflection should of done better. After that first fish of 16-04 safely weighed and returned i put another ball of my X4 paste on and shipped out and as the float settled on my 5 metre line a mass of bubbles came up and the float just burried, after carefully playing the fish for 5 minutes it surfaced at 16 metres and my god it was a massive common of about 25lb ish and i could not get it to turn and come to me. As my red hydro had bottomed out i was just hanging on feeling the bung coming up the top two when the fish managed to pull away from me snapping my rig and breaking the number four section on my Shimano XTA pole {brilliant}. For the next two hours i hooked and lost 8 fish in the left hand bush and two under the peg 7 platform so not very good, then i switched rigs to a Jon Walker paste float fished on the deck with no shot on and changed the top kit to fish with orange Vespe elastic.
During this time i was feeding down the edge to my right towards peg 7 and after 2 hours i saw fish swirling on the pellet and on my first put in i had a carp of 18-12 on paste at a range of 2 metres. In the next two hours i had 15 more fish for a combined board weight of 206-00 and then ran out of paste so i had to make some more out of my feed pellet but it was never the same ,and to make matters worse on my last put in i hooked another mirror of about 20lb that smashed my rig at the net. After 5 hours i had caught 248-00 felt frustrated that i should of had 400-00 but at least i had beat John Bennett so all was not bad.
Giving me a run for my money was Paul Jay on 14 who was struggling to catch on paste today so opted to fish long at a range of 10 metres fishing banded pellet fished on the deck. Paul found that by lifting and dropping his rig he had a better response from the carp and again caught big fish to 16-00 but only feeding through a toss pot as when he fed through by a catapult the fish just backed off the feed. After 5 hours Paul had put together another big weight of 225-00 and only three fish off a match win.
Completing the frame was Vespe sponsored Chris Telling on form peg 9 but he struggled with missed bites and lost fish as the fish would not settle, but a change of rigs helped him up his catch rate by fishing on the deck using his paste hook bait and he fed his peg also by cup as to not spread the fish around his peg. At the end Chris also had a run of big fish in his final weight of 187-00 and one fish off the double ton.
In this match there were 47 doubles to 18-12 and at the moment the big fish are very happy to feed , so take care with your rigs and top kits as i am not sure some poles are designed for this type of extreme fishing. Also The Angling Times paper are doing a feature on Jon Walker down the lake next week on the big fish of Rolfslake.
Until the next report tight lines Eddie.
Results Top 7
1st Eddie Taylor-Green peg 8 248-00
2nd Paul Jay peg 14 225-00
3rd Chris Telling peg 9 187-00
4th Tony Dickinson peg 16 150-00
5th Derek Hammond peg 10 146-08
6th Cameron Sims peg 11 120-00
7th John Bennett peg 18 106-04
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