Dave
- Well on his way to 108lb
Elsewhere.
To cold for the Silver fish to feed - Only
the odd Perch interested in keeping the frozen anglers from
mad. A rare day out for myself to Rolfs resulted in a poor
55lb from Peg 16. With 3 fish going into the last as a result
of over feeding at the off my hope of a few fish had all
but faded away. However, having stopped feeding at the 4hr
point hour and a switch to 'flicking' out 4 or 5 pellets
every now and then resulted in my elastic spending the last
half hour getting pulled most of the time! Still you live
and learn - Next time I'll under feed it and blow again!
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Dave
Hawkins
(Dorchester) 108lb 12oz Peg 17.
Armed with his new Trabucco Gold Medallist, Dave
never looked back as he proceeded to bag 108lb 12oz from a
very cold Peg 17 to win the Saturday Rolfslake Open. Dave
kept his feeding to a very minimum and managed to keep a few
interested fish in his peg up until the last hour, which was
mostly eventless - other than watching the elastic continually
being pulled on Peg 25. Dave landed approximately 18 Carp
of 4 to 12lb.
Russell
Alexander (Rolfslake) 80lb 8oz Peg 25.
Russell, like many others, had a very slow start to the match
but a run of fish in the 3rd, 4th and last hours propelled
him into runners up spot with 80lb 8oz. Incidental,
Russell finished well ahead of all other weights on the bitterly
cold car park bank. The lake has suffered a heavy overnight
frost and a bitter N/E Wind pushed poles to the sort of shapes
that expensive carbon fibre should be!
Gary
Acock (Banbury Gunsmith) Drawn on winter hot spot
Peg 14, Gary had a Carp on before most of us had finished
potting in at the all in. However, the normal procession of
Carp didn't follow - Gary Thorpe claimed that Mr Acock
has been spending too much time at Oakfield's and had lost
touch with proper Carp fishing! Gary did however manage
to take about a dozen other fish and pushed Russell for runners
up spot but fell just short with 74lb 4oz.
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