Rolfs Spring league - Match 4

Back to Rolfs today for the next round in the Spring league
This match I am fishing A section which is in the little lake and judging by the recent results anywhere in the little lake is a good draw
Steve is back this week and is fishing B section and Paul is in C section so hopefully The Assassins will retain or in prove on the mid table position
At the draw bag I managed to pull peg 4 out and was very happy indeed

Steve drew peg 13 and Paul drew peg 23

The weather is forecast to start getting worse from today and already there is a strong wind blowing from left to right fortunately I will be sheltered by the bush to my left

My plan today is to fish pellet on the deck at 7m

And meat tight into the margin on my right hand side

I decided to go with the cat meat flavour 6mm GOT soft hookers as they had worked well on my last 2 outings and for feed I have prepared 2 bags of Rolfs Freedom pellets and I've got another 2 bags of the new pellets just in case

I decided to go with the red hydro today as I feeling confident of catching a few fish

For rigs I have setup a Malman 4x14 Thicko on 0.18mm Silstar line straight through to a B911 size 16 for the 7m pellet line and a Malman Thicko on 0.20mm Silstar line straight through to a B911 size 12 to fish meat in the margin

I also set up a Malman medium paste float on 0.18mm Silstar straight through to a B911 size 12 as a change for the pellet line and I also set up a pellet waggler

From peg 4 I can see most of the section

Phil on peg 34

Frank on peg 37

Paul on peg 40 and Lloyd on peg 2

The only 1 I can't see is peg 7 but hopefully I will be seeing a lot of him on my trips up to the weigh station

At the all in I ship 2 pots of pellets out to 7m and 2 pots under the bush to my right Then I go out to 7m with a 6mm cat meat pellet on the hook 30 sec later the float and pole tip both disappear at top speed and red hydro is streaming out as 1 of Rolfs Carp makes a bid for freedom I eventually got its head up and netted it and after a trip to the weigh station I had 8lb 4oz on the board looking across the lake Frank was also playing a Carp on peg 37 I put another pellet on and went back out to 7m fed a handful of pellets and waited a few Min's passed then the red hydro shot out of the power top again and I was attached to another Carp this 1 was slightly smaller than the first so I put it in the net

After the first hour I had 3 Carp in the net and 5 weighers on the board Frank was also catching well and Phil on 34 was making regular trips to the scales Lloyd was catching a fair few on peg 2 fishing corn at 13m back into the corner

My 7m line had slowed right down so I topped it up with 2 more large pots of pellets and put a bit of meat on my margin rig and pushed it under the bush to my right after about 5 min's the float buried and the hydro leap into action again this time it felt like a much heavier fish

And after an arm wrenching battle on the top 2 I eventually slid the net under my best fish of the day a 14lb 12oz common

I went straight back in with another piece of meat but after 15 bite less min's I gave up and went back out to 7m line and straight away was into another Carp and from then on right up to the whistle I managed to catch fish but had long waits in between and only managed to catch 3 fish from the margin and after each fish the swim totally died once Rolf blew the whistle I packed my gear away and headed off round to help with the weigh in

Everyone on the small lake had caught but all said the same that they just couldn't get the fish lined up and had to hunt about for bites but judging by what I had seen during the match Phil and Lloyd had beaten me and it was going to be close between me and Frank for 3rd

Phil weighed 137lb from peg 34, Frank had 97lb from peg 37, Paul 54lb on peg 40 Lloyd had 160lb from peg 2, I had 114lb on peg 4 and peg 7 weighed 60lb

In B and C sections there were another 3 weights over 100lb and 2 over 200lb with Mick Lane winning the match with 212lb from peg 30

As for The Assassins my 114lb put me 3rd in section for 4 points Steve had 50lb 12oz for 3rd in section for 4 points and Paul had 63lb 8oz for last in section and 1 point giving us a total of 9 points today which put us joint 3rd on the day with Fisherman's A but we took 3rd place on weight so we were in the frame and had a bit of coin for once

A better days fishing at last and my first 100lb+ weight of the year