Rolfs Winter League. Final Match.
Sunday 31st January.
The day had arrived for the final match and I was hoping for an ice free lake. The weather had been good in the week before the match. But Friday night it had dropped cold again. This is what greeted me when I went out to get my tackle from my shed.
Saturday morning Snow 🙁
Budgie was fishing again and was kindly picking me up. He arrived at 7am and once the gear was loaded we set off for the hour and a half drive to the lake.
On the way to the Lake
On arrival we saw the lake was indeed frozen over again but it was not as thick as last time so Ice breaking would no take as long. I was fishing in A section this week for the final time and Budgie was supposed to be fishing in the fancied C section but after he agreed to allow Ron to fish in C Section he was left with A section. I drew peg 2 and guess which peg Budgie drew……… Peg 40 😀 Could there be a great battle on the cards, could I get my own back for him beating me in the last match… we shall see.
Peg 2 after breaking the Ice
Very cold monring on Peg 2
Whilst setting up Budgie called me over to show me his secret bait for the day. Could this help him get the edge over me, I hope not.
Budgies secret bait
New King of Pop Up Baits I think
I set up 2 lines for today, 10m in front and 11m to my left towards peg 3. At the all in I started out on my 10m line but after 1 hour I still had not had a sniff so went down the edge and after another hour again not a bite. By this time Budgie on 40 had managed a tiny perch and was fishing to his right top kit length out. I could not let him beat me today.
I went back to 10m and back to 11m trying all baits and depths trying desperately to catch something. My prayers were answered, the float twitched and started to sail away. The result was a nice little perch. Last match I dry netted so I cant tell you how good it felt to catch this little bugger 🙂
I was freezing so I decided to go for a walk to warm up a bit and take some pictures.
Mick Lane on peg 7
Eddie with a nice bag of donuts
Budgie trying desperately to catch a fish
Back to my peg and my moment of glory was short lived as the next hour was again biteless. In the final hour I had been concentrating on my 11m line more and was getting the odd bite but missing them. Then the phone rings and Malc (THE JINX) was on the other end, as soon as he starts speaking I have a bite and hook into a good perch and loose it 🙁 THE JINX effect work even when he is in Wales…
After a few choice words Malc leaves me too it lol. Iget back to fishing on the 11m to my left and manage to catch another 2 small perch. But was it enough to beat Budgie on peg 40.
11m line towards peg 3
Budgie weighed in 2oz and I weighed in 4oz so I had manage to double his weight hehe 🙂
The lake had again not fished very well with a lot of people really struggling for fish. Poor team mate Steve on peg 16 had blanked, the same peg I blanked on last match. He did manage to hook in to a carp but lost it it.
I would like to say thank you to Steve Wilson and Clive Pritchard for asking me to fish with them. I had a good time despite the very cold weather and lack of fish, just another grueller for me really like TK’s Grueller series 🙂
It was also good to meet everyone, there are some right characters that fish the lake for sure.
One more picture before the results. Neil Riddy had been fishing on peg 4 and managed to catch a massive fish. Here we are…
Neil Riddy with a new PB, Can you see it.
Man of the Match- Ron on peg 22 for Falling asleep whilst fishing. LOL
Rock a by baby on the tree top....
RESULTS
| A Section | ||||
| 1st | Mick Lane | peg 7 | 2-4 | RG |
| 2nd | Steve Palmer | peg 34 | 2-2 | TS |
| 3rd | Simon Mound | peg 2 | 0-4 | A |
| 4th | Marcus Burgess | peg 40 | 0-2 | MFS |
| 5th | Neil Riddy | peg 4 | 0-1 | RP |
| — | Mike Stimpson | peg 38 | DNW | RD |
| B Section | ||||
| 1st | Phil Powell | peg 32 | 14-7 | RG |
| 2nd | Jon Walker | peg 30 | 6-5 | RD |
| 3rd | Fred Parker | peg 9 | 2-2 | MFS |
| 4th | Clive Pritchard | peg 13 | 1-3 | A |
| 5th | Mark Orchard | peg 28 | 0-12 | RP |
| 6th | Lloyd Moss | peg 10 | 0-1 | TS |
| C Section | ||||
| 1st | Ian McCulloch | peg 18 | 30-4 | RD |
| 2nd | Earnie M | peg 26 | 3-2 | TS |
| 3rd | Paul Jay | peg 14 | 0-11 | RP |
| 4th | John Bennett | peg 24 | 0-4 | RG |
| — | Steve Wilson | peg 16 | DNW | A |
| — | Ron Byus | peg 22 | DNW | MFS |
| DAY TEAM POINTS | POINTS | ||
| 1st | Rolfs Gold | 15 | RG |
| 2nd= | Rolfs Diamond | 11 | RD |
| 2nd= | Team Spro | 11 | TS |
| 4th | Rolfs Platinum | 10 | RP |
| 5th= | Assassins | 7 | A |
| 5th= | Match Fishing Scene | 7 | MFS |
FINAL LEADERBOARD
| TOTAL TEAM POINTS | POINTS | ||
| 1st | Rolfs Gold | 74 | RG |
| 2nd | Rolfs Diamond | 73 | RD |
| 3rd | Rolfs Platinum | 54 | RP |
| 4th | Assassins | 51 | A |
| 5th | Team Spro | 43 | TS |
| 6th | Match Fishing Scene | 42 | MFS |
Eddie’s report for this match can be viewed HERE