Rolfs

Back down to Rolfs in Oxfordshire today for the first of my 2 visits this weekend

Today's match is being run by Malc (The Jinx) Doyle and is just a small knock up match between people from internet angling forum sites and the main aim is have a fun day with a spot of angling thrown in

As usual Malc arrived late and after a bit of banter and general mickey taking it was time for the draw due to Malc's late arrival the 12pm start was put back to 1pm

At the draw I pulled peg 26 out not a peg I really wanted but it was a short walk and with poor weather forecast the high bank should give a bit of protection

I decided to set the brolly up from the start and fish under it as showers are forecast for all day and its a pain to keep putting it up and down I find it easier to set it up and get used to fishing with it then its not such a problem

Plan of attack today is to fish pellet/corn at 7m in front

And meat/corn on the end of the bush to my right

To my right pegs 25 and 24 were empty and Dave Moore was on peg 23 and to my left on peg 27 was Paul Roberts and on peg 28 Gemma

For some strange reason Paul was under the impression he was going to beat young Gem and she gladly took his £1 side bet on the out come

Across the lake on peg 14 was Simon and on peg 15 Mark C who owing to the bank collapse on pegs 16,17 and 18 had almost 1/2 the lake to fish to him self

With Matt drawing peg 9 and Keith peg 34 I fancied 1 of them to win the match but that's the good thing about Rolfs the big weights can come from anywhere

At the all in I shipped 2 pots of pellets out to 7m and a couple of handfuls under the bush then went out on the 7m line with a GOT 6mm cat meat flavour pellet after a bit of jiggling the float eventually slid under and I had a small skimmer in the net not what I was after but its a start back out with another pellet and the same result

Looking across the lake I could see Mark C was catching Carp on the feeder and as I had set a feeder up I was tempted to give it a go as by now the rain was hammering down but in the end I stuck another pellet on and went back out

This time I had no indications at all and after about 5 min's the float suddenly shot under and my red hydro came streaming out as 1 of Rolfs Carp made a get away with my pellet I had my hydro set a bit too loose for peg 26 as its a bit tight between the 2 bushes usually I would do a "Matty" and stand on my box but with the brolly up that wasn't an option so I had to play it until it gave in

A quick trip up to the scales and I had a 12lb Carp on the board I put another pellet on and went back out but to my horror the skimmers were back!

After my second skimmer I decided to swap to corn

First put in and the float buried and I soon had a 6lb common in the net after 2 hours I had 3 fish on the board and 2 in the net Mark C was still catching on the feeder and judging by the faint praise and huffing coming from Paul's peg Gem was catching a few Carp too from peg 28

I gave the swim under the bush a try with meat and corn but couldn't get a touch on either so I stuck on the 7m line fishing corn and although it wasn't fast and furious I managed to catch fish steadily throughout the rest of the match

Paul on the next peg eventually gave up on the waggler and was now fishing paste on the pole just past the bush and after a lot of splashing and crashing he eventually netted a decent Carp of 13lb and was off up to the scales to weigh it and to say he was gloating that it was bigger than any of Gems Carp was an understatement

Unfortunately his 15 Min's of fame were soon over as Gem landed a PB fish of 14lb and again silenced peg 27

I just sat under the brolly out of the rain and plugged away on the 7m line with corn and only ventured out to go and weigh fish in

Simon opposite had a couple of Carp Mark C for some reason had stopped using the feeder which he was catching on and was now sitting bite less on the pole ?

On my trips up to the scales I noticed that Nick on peg 22 had also started to catch and had 3 fish on the board

From the other side of the bush things weren't looking good for Paul's £1 coin as Gem was making regular trips to the scales unlike Paul

Eventually the all out was sounded and I packed my gear away and headed off round to help with the weigh in

The weights in the little lake were down on previous matches and the weather had not helped the fishing but Keith led the way with 88lb odd from peg 34 when we got round to peg 9 Matt weighed in a fantastic 163lb 12oz

Mark C on peg 15 weighed in 99lb 8oz just short of the magic ton

All talk now was of how much Gem had caught and had see managed to beat Malc and add his scalp to the "minxed club"

When we got to my peg I had 66lb on the board and 20lb 4oz in the net giving me a total of 86lb 4oz

Paul on 27 weighed in 20lb 8oz and Gemma snatched his £1 coin and added a few more names to the Minxed club with 73lb 8oz

Full Results

1st……..Peg 9..... Matt Nutt………………….…. 163lb 12oz

2nd……. Peg 15.... Mark Causer……………….…. 99lb 8oz

3rd……. Peg 19.... Nick Williams……………….…94lb 8oz

4th……. Peg 7..... Brian Bevan…………………... 92lb 12oz

5th……. Peg 34.... Keith Ashby…………………... 88lb 4oz

6th……. Peg 10.... Martin Bucknall…………….… 88lb 1oz

7th……. Peg 26.... Clive Pritchard………………... 86lb 4oz

8th……. Peg 1..... Malc Doyle………………….… 86lb 1oz

9th……. Peg 40.... John Hopkins………………..… 78lb 6oz

10th…… Peg 28.... Gemma Doyle…………….…. 73lb 8oz

11th…… Peg 20.... Roy Ravenhill………………… 62lb 4oz

12th…… Peg 36.... Andrew Bucknall…………….…60lb 14oz

13th…… Peg 6..... Keith Fellows…………………. 55lb 2oz

14th…… Peg 13.... Steve Wilson………………….. 48lb 4oz

15th…… Peg 22.... Nick-Watkins-Price………… 45lb 4oz

16th…… Peg 21.... Dai Thomas……………………. 36lb 4oz

17th…… Peg 14.... Simon Rowley…………………. 30lb 4oz

18th…… Peg 23.... Dave Moore……………………. 27lb 12oz

19th…… Peg 27.... Paul Roberts…………………… 20lb 8oz

20th…… Peg 30.... Chris Barber…………………… 17lb 2oz

21st…… Peg 4..... Paul Dolby…………………….. 11lb 13oz

22nd…...Peg 2.... Dan Thomas……………………. 3lb 8oz

Peg38..... Rob Hollidge…………………………….. DNW

Peg 32.... Dirk Williams……………………………. DNW

Peg 37.... Geoff Eggison…………………………… DNW

A Section

1st…… Matt Nutt

2nd…… Brian Bevan

rd…… Malc Doyle

4th…… Keith Fellows

5th…… Paul Dolby

Section Weight….. 413lb

B Section

1st…….. Mark Causer

2nd……. Nick Williams

3rd……. Martin Bucknall

4th……. Roy Ravenhill

5th…….. Steve Wilson

6th…….. Simon Rowley

Section Weight…… 423lb 13oz

C Section

1st…….. Clive Pritchard

2nd……. Gemma Doyle

3rd…….. Nick Watkins Price

4th…….. Dai Thomas

5th…….. Dave Moore

6th…….. Paul Roberts

Section Weight……. 306lb 10oz

D Section

1st……… Keith Ashby

2nd …….. John Hopkins

3rd……… Andrew Bucknall

DNW ….. Dirk Williams

DNW…… Geoff Eggison

DNW…… Rob Hollidge

Section Weight…….. 227lb 8oz

Total Weight of the Match was….. 1370lb 15oz

My 86lb 4oz was good enough for a section win so I had a bit of coin back and despite the bad weather it was a good days fishing and nice to meet up with the guys from Md's again and meet some new people from other forums too