Sylen Lakes – 17-05-2014.

Pleasure Session on Sylen lakes.

Today I thought I might try my hand at a spot of paste fishing something I have not done seriously for about three years and would like to get back into as I used to fish this method a lot in the past.
I chose a peg on the point of the first bay on the car park bank a peg I have caught paste fish from the margin on previously as the left hand margin has a convenient overhanging bush and can hold a lot of lumps there. I set up two rigs one paste for the margin and one for out at 6mtrs, fed the margin with a few generous handfuls of mixed 6mm and 4mm pellets and continued to top that up with a few hand thrown pellets every 15 – 20 mins. I intended to leave this swim mature for a couple of hours at least. So potted out on the 6mtr line and fished 8mm hard pellet over that. After a few put-ins and re-feeds I started to catch bream around the 1lb mark and some small carp to 5lb. I continued to catch well on this line for a couple of hours while regularly feeding the margin swim allowing it to fully develop before attacking it in earnest with the past. I tried the cage feeder a few times to the sunken island but only managed to find bream out there so continued with the short pole line until two hours plus had passed.

My first put-in with the paste in the margin and the float hardly had time to settle before sailing away and I was into my first paste fish of the year.

Ignore the date just another reminder to self to reset the damn date and time on my camera. This nice common being followed to the net by 31 of its brothers and sisters as I continued to catch carp from the margin for the next three hours ranging from between 5lb and 10lb a go. Finishing the day with an impressive bag of carp and bream and reminding oneself what an awesome bait paste is when the fish are having it and left wondering why I don’t use it more often than I do. Maybe next time I’m out I’ll give it another try.

Jinx 2014 Openers & Match 1 Report

The Jinx Series 2014 got off to a flying start with a two day event in April at the inaugural home of the Jinx Series big carp mecca Rolfs Lake in oxford with many of the Jinx regulars and a few guests taking part. Both days were won by 2013 Jinx virgin Mikey Corsini registering a 2 point perfect score closely followed by the Jinster himself Malc Doyle again posting a perfect score only with less overall weight. The highlight of the weekend though was Steve ‘Smiler’ Wilson taking a dive of peg 22 and swimming in his margin, unfortunately once again nobody managed to snag a picture, shame Mugger Morton wasn’t there as he almost always manages a snapshot.

This weekend we have a mix of JINXSTERS and Guests fishing with a total of 16 fishing each day.

 

So the lake was split into 2 Sections of 8 and it was to be a random draw each day (thanks to Neil for sorting the draw out as although Malc was early he was some how running late lol)

 

Sections were as follows

 

A SECTION PEGS

34 – 38 – 4 – 5 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 32

 

B SECTION PEGS

13 – 14 – 16 – 18 – 22 – 24 – 26 – 28

 

Results – Day 1

POS	NAME	Peg	Weight
1	Michael Corsini	38	238lb 7oz
2	Malc Doyle	28	146lb 11oz
3	Neil Riddy	4	111lb 11oz
4	Dai Thomas	7	101lb 10oz
5	Paul Roberts	18	70lb 5oz
6	Clive Pritchard	14	67lb 7oz
7	Paul Jay	9	64lb 11oz
8	Dave Collier	16	62lb 5oz
9	Simon Watkins	32	62lb 1oz
10	Keith Stent	22	43lb 7oz
11	Mark Barret	8	42lb 9oz
12	Richard Doolan	26	29lb 1oz
13	Brenda Stent	5	21lb 5oz
14	Wez Hillier	24	21lb
15	Kev Loveland	13	7lb 14oz
16	Kev Hillier	34	D.N.W

 

Results – Day 2

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Michael Corsini	5	159-10
2	Malc Doyle	26	142-5
3	Paul Jay	13	134-11
4	Neil Riddy	4	130-5
5	Steve Wilson	22	104-4
6	Slim	32	95-4
7	Keith Stent	18	93-4
8	Wes	7	85-2
9	Dai Thomas	14	66-2
10	Russell Hill	38	55-11
11	Dave C	16	45-13
12	Little Legs	34	42-15
13	Brenda Stent	28	34-5
14	Simon Watkins	8	34-3
15	John H	9	19-5
16	Paul Roberts	24	DNW

 

Overall

 

Pos	Name	Points	Weight
1	Michael Corsini	2	398lb 1oz
2	Malc Doyle	2	289lb 0oz
3	Neil Riddy	4	242lb 0oz
4	Paul Jay	6	199lb 6oz
5	Clive/Steve	6	171lb 11oz

 

 

The Jinx Night Match

It has now become customary that preceding the start of the first Jinx Series Match comes The Jinx Night Match which has become popular with many Jinsters and Jinx followers although tonight’s match being less well attended than normal it was decided to use ‘The Big Lake’ part of Rolfs. Now for those of you that follow the Jinx regularly this will come as no surprise, I get a call whilst travelling to Rolfs from Malc, he won’t be there at the draw in fact he’s unlikely to be there till an hour or so after the start time, can I please organise the draw for him, which I agreed to do with pleasure, after all it’s not like it was something foreign to me having been a match organiser for many years, even though I gave up that headache a few years ago.

So with the monies collected and names taken the draw was made at 5.30pm for a 7.30pm start fishing till 12.30am. I had Dai Thomas to my right on peg 9 and Mikey Corsini to my left on peg 13, Dave Moore on peg 14, Nick Watkins-Price on peg 16 and Rolfs resident Paul Jay on Peg 18. On the far bank was Kev Loveland on Peg 22, Simon Watkins on Peg 24 with peg 28 being drawn for Malc Doyle and pegs 26 and 32 drawn for anglers who couldn’t make the match at the last minute. Thus giving Jinxy Boy an end peg, looks like we’re going to need more than an hour’s head start if were to stop him lol.

Due to ill health and transport issues tonight’s match would be my first time on the bank since the last Jinx match way back in September 2013, so even though looking forward to the match I was going to be rusty as hell, just hope I can land a few fish and get my elastic pulled a bit. Having been informed the peg was fishing well and had won the previous match, no pressure then, I decided to keep things very simple and set up just one pole rig 8mts down the left margin about one metre out from the bank as this is where the majority of fish had been caught and also a small cage feeder for back up. Since I would be using pellet fished over pellet feed my set up was remarkably simple and uncluttered which is ideal for night fishing and reduces the chances of accidents and tackle disasters.

At the all in I potted out a small amount of dampened mixed pellet of 4mm & 6mm feed and went over the top of that with an 11mm banded hard pellet, after a few seconds the float buried and I was into my first fish of 2014, I played the fish for a reasonable amount of time being careful not to lose my first fish, and was duly rewarded with a scale perfect common carp lump going 17lb 4oz on the scales which was a delight after being away from fishing for so long. During the course of the evening and night many more carp came to the net, but being as rusty as an old tin can many more also escaped capture too. A thoroughly good time being had whilst doing so, albeit frustrating at times losing so many fish, while watching wonder boy Mikey bagging up on peg 13. I finished up with 142lb odd for 6^th overall not bad for my first outing of the year bagged a ton and had a wonderful time among friends.

An hour of so into the match Malc arrived and got about setting up on peg 28, if you can call plonking your box on the platform and taking out a top kit setting up. Within minutes of him starting he was into fish, Malc style paste fish going on the boards, 19lb this and 18lb that etc etc as he did his usual storming up the inside rail managing to catch up everyone except Mikey while fishing half a match, and almost catching Paul Jay. Having fished with Malc for many years now and seen and experienced this on many occasions it no longer surprises me. It in fact brings back memories of a few years ago now during an evening match at Sylen Lakes back in wales where Malc turns up 1hr 45mins after the all in for a 3 hr match and proceeds to empty it winning the match with 77lb odd 20lb ahead of the rest of us. How he does it is a mystery to me the man is an enigma. Malc you Legend.

 

Jinx Night Match – May 9^th 2014 Rolfs Lake Oxford

Results

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1st	Mike Corsini	Peg 13	323lb 11oz
2nd	Paul Jay	Peg 18	238lb 2oz
3rd	Malc Doyle	Peg 28	236lb 5oz
4th	Dai Thomas	Peg 9	205lb
5th	Simon Watkins	Peg 24	170lb
6th	Nick Williams	Peg 10	142lb
7th	Nick Watkins-Price	Peg 16	101lb
8th	Dave Moore	Peg 14	75lb
9th	Kev Loveland	Peg 22	60lb

 

Well done Mike Corsini winning both the two day opener and the Jinx Night Match, but have you peeked too soon since none of these count towards the Series Championship.

 

The 2014 Jinx Series at Rolfs Lake Match 1 May 10^th

The opening match of The Jinx Series 2014 is finally here after what feels like an eternity although in reality it was only seven months, but for many of us that fish the series myself included is the highlight of our fishing calendar, having given up and retired from match fishing in general I always look forward to the Jinx which is for most of us just a friendly bit of fun with like-minded anglers and it is the banter and mickey taking that make it such a great series to be part of. Malc thanks for the annual invite fishing just wouldn’t be the same without the Jinx Series.

It’s 5am the morning of the match as we awake in Rolfs car park after spending the night sleeping in our vehicles with Simon Watkins, Dave Moore, Myself and Malc and Mikey in the Love Bug (Malc’s Van) I hope he used Vaseline Mikey lol, and we are greeting with rain, well who would have guessed that a Jinx match with bad weather although by 7am it had dried up, no wonder really Malc was off to complete the deliveries he failed to manage to get to yesterday claiming in all good faith he would make it back to do the draw etc. So I went about my business of preparing breakfast and waiting for the call – Nick I won’t make the draw can you organise the match for me, hmm déjà vu I’m sure I’ve heard this before somewhere, and without fail I received that call as expected. Typically he had not left any paperwork and for once I did not have the laptop with me, but with help from Neil Riddy and internet enabled phones I was able to sort the groups, sections and result sheets with little trouble. The groups being a little shuffled due to the 2013 winner Matt Edwards not returning to defend his title, Dave Wall dropping out of the series and Nick Monkey taking a year out due to work commitments clashing with the series we welcome three Jinx Series Virgins this year. Welcome aboard Wez Hillier, Keith and Brenda Stent, with the rest of the group remaining the same as last year, or as we are collectively known the usual suspects.

Group A

Steve Wilson
Mikey Corsini
Neil Riddy
Malc Doyle
Nick Williams
Simon Watkins
Clive Pritchard

 

Group B

Tony Roberts
Dai Thomas
Dave Collier
Ade Williams
Terry Goff
Fred Parker
Kev Loveland

 

Group C

Paul Roberts
Dave Moore
Simon Mound
Marcus Burgess
Wez Hillier
Keith Stent
Brenda Stent

The draw was then made and everyone made their way to their pegs to set for the match. I drew peg 5 which is normally good for a few fish so happy with that although would have my work cut out for me today with such a strong field of anglers in my section which was to be expected considering I’m in group A this year following last year’s performance. Not to worry I’ll soon be out of this group and heading back down. In my section I had Neil Riddy on peg 34, Simon Watkins on peg 38, Steve Wilson on peg 40, Clive Pritchard on peg 2, Mike Corsini on peg 4 and Malc Doyle when he eventually arrives on peg 7. To say I was on a hammering to nothing was an understatement and as expected I limped into 7^th place in this section at the weigh in. I have that sinking feeling lol. Try as I would I could not catch close in peg 5 today and the wind and tow made fishing long very hard, the feeder wasn’t much help either although I did pick up a couple of carp on it. I ended up with 49lb 14oz last in section and 13^th overall, the expression down to earth with a bang come to mind.

Results

Overall

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1st	Neil Riddy	Peg 34	152lb 15oz
2nd	Clive Pritchard	Peg 2	115lb 2oz
3rd	Malc Doyle	Peg 7	110lb 13oz
4th	Steve Wilson	Peg 40	103lb 6oz
5th	Ade Williams	Peg 13	101lb 13oz
6th	Mike Corsini	Peg 4	80lb 6oz
7th	Paul Jay (Fred Parker)	Peg 28	76lb 11oz
8th	Dai Thomas	Peg 9	69lb 5oz
9th	Paul Roberts	Peg 24	65lb 7oz
10th	Dave Collier	Peg 8	63lb 0oz
11th	Simon Watkins	Peg 38	60lb 14oz
12th	Keith Stent	Peg 18	56lb 1oz
13th	Nick Williams	Peg 5	49lb 14oz
14th	Wez Hillier	Peg 17	40lb 13oz
15th	Marcus Burgess	Peg 22	38lb 14oz
16th	Gino (Dave Moore)	Peg 26	28lb 10oz
17th	Tony Roberts	Peg 32	28lb 0oz
18th	Nick W-P(Terry Goff)	Peg 30	22lb 8oz
19th	Legs (Simon Mound)	Peg 14	18lb 15oz
20th	Brenda Stent	Peg 15	16lb 10oz
21st	Kev Loveland	Peg 10	7lb 4oz

 

Sections

A Section

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Neil Riddy	34	152-15
2	Clive Pritchard	2	115-2
3	Malc Doyle	7	110-13
4	Steve Wilson	40	103-6
5	Michael Corsini	4	80-15
6	Simon Watkins	38	60-4
7	Nick Williams	5	49-14

 

B Section

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Ade Williams	13	101-13
2	Paul Jay (Fred Parker)	28	76-11
3	Dai Thomas	9	69-5
4	Dave Collier	8	63-0
5	Tony Roberts	32	28-0
6	Nick Watkins Price	30	22-8
7	Kev Loveland	10	7-4

 

C Section

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Paul Roberts	24	65-7
2	Keith Stent	18	56-1
3	Wez Hillier	17	40-13
4	Marcus Burgess	22	38-14
5	Gino (Dave Moore)	26	28-10
6	Legs (Simon Mound)	14	18-15
7	Brenda Stent	15	16-10

 

Pairs

Pos	Name	Points	Weight
1	Steve Wilson/Malc Doyle	7	214-03
2	Clive Pritchard/Fred Parker	9	191-13
3	Wez Hillier/Neil Riddy	15	193-12
4	Mike Corsini/Simon Watkins	17	141-13
5	Nick Williams/Dave Collier	23	112-14
6	Ade Williams/Simon Mound	24	120-12
7	Tony Roberts/Paul Roberts	26	93-07
8	Brenda Stent/Dai Thomas	28	86-09
9	Kev Loveland/Keith Stent	33	63-05
10	Marcus Burgess/Terry Goff	33	61-06
11	Dave Moore/Simon Mound	35	47-09

 

Series Standings after 1^st Round.

Pos	Name	Points	Weight
1st	Neil Riddy	1	152-15
2nd	Ade Williams	1	101-13
3rd	Paul Roberts	1	65-7
4th	Clive Pritchard	2	115-02
5th	Dai Thomas	2	69-05
6th	Keith Stent	2	56-01
7th	Malc Doyle	3	110-13
8th	Dave Collier	3	63-0
9th	Wez Hillier	3	40-13
10th	Steve Wilson	4	103-06
11th	Marcus Burgess	4	38-14
12th	Tony Roberts	4	28-0
13th	Michael Corsini	5	80-15
14th	Brenda Stent	5	16-10
15th	Kev Loveland	5	7-4
16th	Simon Watkins	6	60-4
17th	Nick Williams	7	49-14
18th	Fred Parker	10	0-0
18th	Dave Moore	10	0-0
18th	Terry Goff	10	0-0
18th	Simon Mound	10	0-0

 

 

        

Jinx Series 2013 – Match 6 – 21-09-13

Jinx Match. Final. Saturday 21st Sept 2013

The final Jinx Series Match of 2013 and with the top two places already decided it was a multi-way fish off for third place, which I had a mathematical chance of achieving but realistically 4^th, 5^th or 6^th was more likely.

Today I drew peg 9 in B Section not a bad draw perhaps I could win my section after all and all the others fail, hmm now who is dreaming lol. Having drawn peg 9 a couple of times at least this year so setting up would be easy, a rig long down the right bush, both margins and straight out at 6mtrs. Feed and hook bait would be pellet as normal, no changes here then, well I’m hardly about to change what’s been working reasonably well for me all year.

At the all in I shipped out alongside the right hand bush between pegs 8 and 9 and potted in some damn 6mm pellet fishing 8mm banded pellet over the top. This line is normally good for a few fish but 20 mins and a few put-ins later and no bites prompted a move to the 6 metre line. Once again after numerous attempts to get some action from the swim had failed my options were running thin. I didn’t want to go down the right margin this early as that could kill that margins potential so I opted for the left margin under the tree. This line immediately produced a missed bite on the first attempt which was much more promising. A couple of put-ins later and I was into my first fish a net carp of about 7lb. I continued to fish this line whilst feeding the others and the occasional try on each but no bites were forthcoming, and today all my fish would come from the left margin but unfortunately the catch rate was very slow and the right margin unexpectedly didn’t produce at all. I ended the day with 55lb 8oz for a satisfactory 2^nd in section which was never going to be enough for a top 3 place this year with Mikey winning his section, Neil 2^nd in his and Malc 3^rd would place me in 6^th place and therefore put me in Group A for next year’s series.

With Steve Wilson unable to attend Matt had already won the series as only Steve could have challenged him and even with placing 5^th in his section had no bearing on the final result, well done to Matt winning back to back Jinx series. Steve Wilson taking 2^nd place with Neil Riddy 3^rd.

Results

Overall

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Simon Mound	14	163-11
2	Mikey Corsini	4	110-01
3	Dave Wall	13	70-13
4	Neil Riddy	20	69-14
5	Clive Pritchard	38	63-06
6	Malc Doyle	34	60-00
7	Nick Williams	9	55-08
8	Dave Collier	8	55-04
9	Nick Watkins-Price	5	55-01
10	Simon Watkins	18	53-10
11	Kev Loveland	16	49-05
12	Matt Edwards	2	48-06
13	Fred Parker	28	45-14
14	Terry Goff	26	43-01
15	Tony Roberts	32	42-13
16	Dai Thomas	10	19-10
17	Dave Moore	40	19-06
18	Ade Williams	30	13-11
19	Paul Corsini (Guest)	22	13-04
20	Paul Roberts	7	10-08

 

 

A Section…..

Peg	Name	Weight	Points
4	Michael Corsini	110-01	1
38	Clive Pritchard	63-06	2
34	Malc Doyle	60-00	3
5	Nick Watkins-Price	55-01	4
2	Matt Edwards	48-06	5
40	Dave Moore	19-06	6
7	Paul Roberts	10-08	7

 

B Section…..

Peg	Name	Weight	Points
13	Dave Wall	70-13	1
9	Nick Williams	55-8	2
8	Dave Collier	55-4	3
28	Fred Parker	45-14	4
32	Tony Roberts	42-13	5
10	Dai Thomas	19-10	6
30	Ade Williams	13-11	7

 

C Section …..

Peg	Name	Weight	Points
14	Simon Mound	163-11	1
20	Neil Riddy	69-14	2
18	Simon Watkins	53-10	3
16	Kev Loveland	49-5	4
26	Terry Goff	43-1	5
22	Paul Corsini	13-4	Guest
24	Not Drawn	—	—

 

Pairs

Pos	Names	Points	Weight
1	Mike Corsini & Dave Wall	65	1160-02
2	Steve Wilson & Simon Watkins	72	1166-14
3	Simon Mound & Matt Edwards	85	964-08
4	Neil Riddy & Ade Williams	91	867-09
5	Malc Doyle & Terry Goff	94	890-06
6	Nick Williams & Nick Watkins-Price	94	777-12
7	Clive Pritchard & Dave Collier	107	672-02
8	Paul Roberts & Fred Parker	121	617-02
9	Kev Loveland & Tony Roberts	139	521-06
10	Marcus Burgess & Dave Moore	147	513-12

 

Series Result

Pos	Name	Points	Weight
1	Matt Edwards	8	555-12
2	Steve Wilson	9	736-12
3	Mike Corsini	10	686-02
4	Neil Riddy	10	586-07
5	Malc Doyle	11	514-0
6	Nick Williams	12	535-13
7	Dave Wall	12	486-00
8	Simon Watkins	15	433-09
9	Clive Pritchard	15	410-11
10	Tony Roberts	18	307-15
11	Dave Collier	19	260-07
12	Terry Goff	20	375-14
13	Nick Watkins-Price	20	241-15
14	Fred Parker	21	364-06
15	Kev Loveland	22	213-09
16	Ade Williams	24	283-02
17	Dai Thomas	25	227-12
18	Paul Roberts	25	188-7
19	Marcus Burgess	29	300-10
20	Simon Mound	29	198-11
21	Dave Moore	30	132-01

 

All together a much better Jinx Series than last year which saw me almost in last place.

Footnote :

Little did I realise at the time of this match it would be my last one for seven months due to the trapped nerves in my back and shoulders would lead to loss of feeling in my hands along with my long standing lower back pain. Just hope I can get through next years Jinx without too many re-occurrences of these conditions and hence why the next fishing related blog entry is 7ths after the end of this series. Never mind I’ll just keep taking the pain killers and carry on as always as I have no intention of giving up until I can physically no longer manage it. Bring on Jinx 2014.