Rolfslake Wednesday Open 6th October 2009

Todays winning peg little used peg 11

Another sweep win for Vespe's Chris Telling

With not many anglers down on the lake for a proper match and the pleasure anglers did not fancy giving their money to one of the regulars, it was decided to have a winner takes all sweep today. The anglers decided to draw the motorway bank and it gave them shelter from the rain that was chucking down today and also this was the bank gave the best results from last weekends open.

As the draw took place you would not believe that John Bennett could draw peg 9 again and as last week he was in trouble as the only two rigs he has for peg nine he had to remake them to fish peg 16 on Sunday so again he had to remake them {clue John make more rigs up}.

In first place today and Rolfslake top angler of the year to date was Vespe sponsored angler and paste expert Chris Telling, who had drawn very little used peg 11 in the corner of the big lake. Chris today fished at a range of 7-8 metres just in front of the bush to his left, and fished his rig on the deck again using paste as his hookbait which he has had all his success on this year. Chris managed to draw his fish in from the bay and from peg 13 where they normally hide, and during todays match Chris managed to catch one of the biggest board weights for the number of fish that he caught 8 fish for 131-00 {including 3 fish over 18lb and the other 5 for 77-00}. Chris fed relatively heavy to keep the fish coming and at the end of the day had another big weight of 295-00 well done Chris.
In second place just was John Bennett on peg 9 and caught again big fish but not from his favoured down the edge swim but out at a range of 7 metres out in the open water just where Jon Walker caught last week but at shorter range. John used corn and meat fed heavy with pellet fished on the sunken float method lifted and dropped and again this helped him put together another big weight together of 191-12. Completing the frame was Paul Jay on peg 10 who was keeping up with John but in the end fell 1 small fish off second place. Paul fished with paste at 6 metres fed quite heavy and again also had big fish as they start to pack weight on for the winter and after five hours Paul had 190-04.
Paste is still a very good bait down on the lake and has been producing big weights even as the weather gets colder but do not forget to bring either a change of bait and you tip rod as the weather starts to get colder and windier.

Results
1st Chris Telling peg 11 295-00
2nd John Bennett peg 9 191-12
3rd Paul Jay peg 10 190-04
4th Jersey Jim peg 8 83-00 PB also a 17-00 common PB.

The rest to follow.

Congratulations To Ian and Amilia on their recent wedding

Photo courtesy of Picksee Photography

All the anglers would like to congratulate Ian McCulloch and Amilia on their recent wedding at the Protea Kruger Gate Hotel near Skukuza in Africa. Not only does Ian draw flyers down the lake he is also a very lucky man in choosing Amilia's to be his wife. In the link Ian sent me Amilia looked stunning in her wedding dress and Ian looked very smart and they looked very happy, all your friends would like to wish you both a very happy life together.



Until my next report tight lines Eddie.