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On Tour 2014 – Caravan Road Trip Update 18-8-2014

Time for an update on our Caravan Road Trip 2014.

Quick recap first. Started out from home on July 17th and headed for Rolfs Lake where we set up home for 11 days in the car park curtesy of John & Pauline Bennett. Where I fished Wez Hillier’s weekend event and the MD’s Pairs and opener the following weekend whist Zelma and Andris visited the ice rink, went shopping, swimming and took a trip to London via the Oxford Tube bus service where they rode the London Eye and visited Madame Tusaurds.

Caravan Pitched at Rolfs Lake Car Park.

We then left Rolfs on Monday 28th heading for Yew Tree Farm in the Far Forest nr Kidderminster a new adventure for us as we have not stayed there before, as in previous years on tour we stayed at Chipping Norton, Burford etc on our route back to Wales and ending at Merixton Farm nr Tenby where we meet up with friends for our final week or so of our summer holiday and road trip. Imagine our delight when Yew Tree Farm turned out to be a wonderful campsite, clean well maintained pitches, nice toilet and shower block with laundry facilities plus the site had electric hook ups so no need for the generator and solar panels. These might not sound like much but when you’re touring in a caravan for 6 weeks they become luxuries. Moving day is always hard work, after striking camp loading up the caravan travelling to the new site then unpacking everything and pitching the awning and tent, we were all ready for a chip shop supper and an early night.

From our base here at Kidderminster we visited a lot of places around Birmingham and the midlands, including Ludlow, Stourport, Hereford, Stratford on Avon, Bridgenorth, Bewdley and visited with long time family friends near Stourbridge and Dudley.

We were joined by my Parents on Thursday Aug 14th who spent a couple of days with us visiting the market in Kidderminster and a day out by the river in Stourport before they moved on to stay with our friends Shelia and Bill in Stourbridge until the 23rd while we moved on from Yew Tree Farm on Sunday the 17th heading for the Regional Meet at Merexton Farm nr Tenby to conclude our summer tour for 2014.

Now resident at Merexton Farm until Aug 30th.

MD’s Pairs Weekend – Rolfs Lake – 26/27-07-2014
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MD’s Pairs Weekend – Rolfs Lake – 26/27-07-2014

 

The Maggotdrowner’s Pairs Weekend has been running for some 10 yrs. or more now and I have attended most years as this event is more than just a fishing competition it’s more about the banter and fun taking part with a friendly competition among friends and this year was no different with plenty of banter, pee taking etc. with the whole event making a very enjoyable and fun weekend, a big thanks to organiser and MD’s owner Dave Webster for arranging this every year and John and Pauline for providing Rolfs Lake for us all to fish at.

Day 1 – Saturday 26th July 2014

The first order of the day was for us to draw our pair’s partner and this year my partner was Chrissy, Dave Collier’s daughter. At the draw Chrissy drew peg 34 which is usually good for a few fish and I drew peg 2, oh dear that’s not a good start. Peg 2 for those that have followed my blog will know is my nemeses peg, one of the few pegs at Rolfs I really struggle on, although this weekend I don’t think it will make any difference as I seem capable of messing up any peg lol.

 

With the fact that Rolfs is fishing well this weekend I decided to approach the task of peg 2 by fishing it positively and attacking the peg with the hope that either there would be fish already in the swim willing to feed or I could draw them there and get them to feed. It at least sounded like a good idea, it didn’t work or perhaps more to the point I failed to make it work as I spent most of the match bite less and fishless. A few did turn up very late on the right margin tight into the roots 2mts (top kit) away, nowhere near where I had fed (top2 plus 2) down either margin. Three carp from here in the last 10 mins and a bream I managed to catch at 5mtrs in front earlier on really made no difference as I still managed to end the day dead last with 34lb 4oz, um sorry partner you got a bum draw I’m afraid. Oh well there’s always day 2.

Results Day 1
A Section

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Malc 7 201-8
2 Spamwham 36 165-6
3 Dai Fish 38 157-15
4 Peter 4 129-2
5 Geoff P 5 104-12
6 Steak 40 76-3
7 Chrissy 34 67-2
8 Neo-1 2 34-3

 

B Section

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Clive 16 228-9
2 Bagger J 8 226-8
3 Antwood 10 179-2
4 John Bennett 11 149-12
5 John TuTu 14 71-11
6 Jakal 13 50-2
7 Wily Coyote 9 49-8

 

C Section

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 DumDum 26 310-3
2 Naughtycockney 22 140-11
3 Auto 28 118-1
4 Dave 30 111-0
5 SiDev77 24 108-1
6 Dave The Fish 18 65-4
7 DaveRed5 32 36-6

 

Overall Result – Saturday

Last place overall, oh well it can’t get any worse – can it ?

Day 2 – Sunday 27th July 2014

An earlier draw and start/finish times today and at least I didn’t draw peg 2 again, phew! I did however draw peg 28 a peg I’m normally quite comfortable on and usually catch well from this peg, unfortunately today would not be one of my better days on peg 28 lol in fact it’s not been my day on any peg this year bar my first match which was a night match on peg 10 when I caught quite well, on reflection it’s been steadily downhill ever since. A very frustrating day on 28 today with fish showing in my left margin and yet again me showing my lack of ability to catch them, the last time I remember this many fish in 28’s margin I put over 250lb on the scales today I came up 200lb short of that when 250lb would have won the day, oh well another opportunity missed, story of my life these days, think I’ll try using a hook next time lol.


All the gear – No Idea

Results

A Section

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Dai Fish 7 219-6
2 Malc 36 168-13
3 Spamwham 5 123-14
4 John Bennett 34 98-8
5 Bagger J 40 80-9
6 Steak 4 64-12
7 DaveRed5 38 50-12
8 Geoff P 2 42-9

B Section

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Peter 16 224-2
2 John TuTu 8 92-0
3 Jakal 14 85-1
4 Auto 11 71-15
5 Wily Coyote 9 62-10
6 Clive 10 57-3
7 Dave The Fish 13 31-13

C Section

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 DumDum 24 227-2
2 Antwood 22 156-5
3 Dave 32 117-10
4 SiDev77 30 84-10
5 Chrissy 26 59-4
6 Neo-1 28 53-6
7 Naughtycockney 18 30-3

Overall


 

Pairs Result
Partners Points
Dai Fish DumDum 12
Bagger J Malc 23
Clive Peter 31
Auto Antwood 34
Dave Steak 48
Geoff P John Bennett 50
Wily Coyote SiDev77 59
John TuTu DaveRed5 65
NaughtyCockney Dave The Fish 70
Chrissy Neo-1 73
Well done to Dai and Adam worthy winners.

 
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Dave Collier’s Invite – Rolfs Lake 25-7-2014

This time of year brings the Maggotdrowning Pairs Weekend which is the pinnacle of my MD year and an event I always try to attend whenever possible. The pair’s weekend is preceded most years by today’s match organised by Dave Collier as a sort of taster for the main event and this year almost all of the anglers fishing the pairs attended the Friday opener. The day started with the usual hustle and bustle of arriving people unloading their vehicles and setting up camp on the grass area behind peg 34. This weekend is a good time to catch up with fellow MDers many of whom I only see on this weekend, and others who I meet up regularly with at the Jinx events. For myself it was an easy morning meeting and greeting and watching others work as they pitched their tents, myself of course like my fellow welsh contender Dai Thomas were already set up at the lake in our respective caravans and were just awaiting to book in and draw our pegs.

The draw was held at 11.30pm with fishing from 1.30pm to 6.30pm and today I drew peg 16, the hottest peg on the lake where I was sure to bake in the sun today if nothing else. I had high expectations for today as peg 16 fished well on Wednesday’s open and plenty of fish could be seen cruising in the area so I was happy with my draw, my fellow welsh buddy Dai also drew well with peg 32.

Peg 16 at Rolfs

I decided to keep things simple today so elected to fish both margins and a line straight out at 5 mtrs with a long line out at 13mtrs to pick off some early carp and maybe a few bream whilst I fed the margins. This all seemed fairly simple all I needed to do was catch the fish, hmm well yes that was the idea at least. I did manage a couple of bream and a carp of 11lb off the long line in the early stages, but soon became distracted by the tails and number of fish in my right margin, now the frustration starts as however hard I tried and whatever methods I employed I just could not connect with the fish today. Trying different baits presented just on, just off, hard on the bottom and shallow still I failed to hook carp properly resulting in too many foul hookers and lost fish. A very frustrating day indeed as the rest of the lake seemed to fish well with Adam on peg 26 weighing in a double ton to win the match and many other 100+ weights to back that up. Rolfs Lake has been fishing really well of late with most anglers reaping the benefits, unfortunately I’m not fishing too good at present which the results clearly show, although the anglers on pegs 13 and 14 didn’t fair very well today either. The fact that I’m typing up these reports almost a week after the event gives me the knowledge of how this peg fished with other anglers on it with Clive and Peter drawing it on Saturday and Sunday and returning weights of 228lb and 226lb respectively it only goes to show what I could have and should have achieved from this peg which only adds to my frustration the only consolation if you can call it that and in my defence is this year I have been struggling with my health and the nerve damage to my back and shoulders maybe causing more problems than I give them credit for and most likely my hand eye co-ordination is slow these days as I’ve not managed to return any big weights at Rolfs or anywhere else for that matter, and by big weights I mean over 150lb. Anyway enough of the sob story and excuses I fished like a cock so deserve what I got, ending up with 31lb odd and down near the bottom of the pack.

 

Results

Pos Name Peg Weight
1 Adam Daniels 26 212-0
2 Alex Clark 30 176-8
3 Peter Morton 28 135-4
4 Geoff Palmer 5 131-15
5 Dai Thomas 32 118-11
6 Clive Pritchard 34 94-15
7 Ant Haywood 22 91-0
8 Jamie Akal 38 89-2
9 Tony Roberts 18 82-15
10 John Holdsworth 40 65-7
11 Dave Webster 24 65-3
12 Terry Goff 2 57-5
13 Dave Collier 9 57-0
14 Steve Akal 4 51-8
15 Chrissy Collier 10 42-11
16 Terry Pearce 7 39-2
17 Nick Williams 16 31-4
18 Gino Exell 8 25-15
19 Simon Watkins 14 14-13
20 Kev Loveland 13 DNW
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Jinx Match 4 – Rolfs Lake 12-07-2014

 

Jinx Match 4 of 2014 which I will be running today in Malc’s absence. Malc has hurt his back at work and is unable to fish this weekend so I will deputising today, god help everyone.

Looking forward to today’s match after catching fish at last of peg 2 in last night’s match. Peg 2 has been my bogey peg for many years which I have systematically and spectacularly failed to catch fish off over the many years I have fished at Rolfs Lake. Today I drew the peg almost next door Peg 40, a peg I am fairly familiar with as I draw this peg quite often. Peg 40 can be an all or nothing peg and has a tendency to come alive late into the match and today was no different having struggled for bites all day as had my neighbour Clive on peg 2 the carp decided to turn up in numbers about 10 mins from the end of the match. I managed to put 84lb 4oz on the scales for 5th place in section and yet another Jinx failure this year, maybe by the end of the series I will catch a decent bag of fish in this years series.

 

Rolfs Peg 40

Peg 40

Jinx Series 2104 Match 4 Results

 

Overall

Pos……..Name…………………………..Peg……..Weight

Steve Waters……………….8…………284-00

  1. Steve Wilson…………………7…………216-09
  2. Keith Stent…………………..13………..178-02
  3. Dai Thomas………………….26………..140-11
  4. Dave Collier…………………10…………137-13
  5. Wez Hillier…………………..22…………133-10
  6. Mick Jones (D Moore)…..9………….110-13
  7. Neil Riddy……………………34………….105-04
  8. Fred Parker………………….4…………….93-04
  9. Clive Pritchard……………..2…………….90-15
  10. Nick Williams………………40……………84-04
  11. Paul Roberts……………….15……………77-09
  12. Ade Williams………………17……………68-03
  13. Tony Roberts……………..28……………64-02
  14. Brenda Stent……………..32…………….63-09
  15. Terry Goff………………….30…………….52-10
  16. Eddie Taylor-Green……24……………..45-08 (M Doyle)
  17. Kev Loveland……………..38…………….31-04

 

Pairs

Pos………Names…………………………………………Weight…..Points

  1. Neil Riddy & Wez Hillier………………..238-14……12
  2. Nick Williams & Dave Collier…………222-01…….14
  3. Malc Doyle & Steve Wilson…………..262-01…….17
  4. Brenda Stent & Dai Thomas………….204-09…….17
  5. Clive Pritchard & Fred Parker………..184-03…….17
  6. Dave Moore & Ade Williams………….179-00……18
  7. Kev Loveland & Keith Stent…………….209-06…..19
  8. Tony Roberts & Paul Roberts………….141-11…..24
  9. Marcus Burgess & Tery Goff…………….52-10……45
  10. Mike Corsini & Simon Watkins…………DNF………60

 

Sections

 

A Section

Pos……..Name…………………………………….Peg……Weight

  1. Steve Wilson……………………………7………216-09
  2. Neil Riddy……………………………….34…….105-04
  3. Fred Parker……………………………..4………93-04
  4. Clive Pritchard…………………………2………90-15
  5. Nick Williams………………………….40…….84-04
  6. Kev Loveland………………………….38…….31-04
  7. No Angler………………………………..5………DNF

 

B Section

Pos……..Name…………………………………….Peg……Weight

  1. Keith Stent…………………………….13………178-02
  2. Dave Collier…………………………..10……….137-13
  3. Tony Roberts…………………………28……….64-02
  4. Brenda Stent…………………………32……….63-09
  5. Terry Goff……………………………..30……….52-10
  6. Steve Waters (Guest)……………..8……….284-00
  7. Mick Jones (Guest)…………………9……..110-13

 

C Section

Pos……..Name…………………………………….Peg……Weight

  1. Dai Thomas…………………………….26…….140-11
  2. Wez Hillier………………………………22…….133-10
  3. Paul Roberts……………………………15…….77-09
  4. Ade Williams…………………………..17…….68-03
  5. Eddie Taylor-Green (Guest)…….24…….45-08
  6. No Angler……………………………….18……..DNF
  7. No Angler………………………………14………DNF

 

Knock Out Cup

 

Paul Roberts (77-09) beat Brenda Stent (63-09)

Dai Thomas, Wez Hiller & Tony Roberts – Byes (Mikey, Simon W & Budgie No Show)

 

Knock Out Cup Semi Final Draw for 16th Aug 2014

 

Wez Hillier vs Paul Roberts

 

Dai Thomas vs Tony Roberts

 

 

Series Standings after 4 matches

 

Overall

Pos……..Name……………………………Points…….Weight

  1. Dai Thomas……………………4……………306-00
  2. Wez Hillier…………………….6…………….282-02
  3. Malc Doyle……………………6…………….254-00
  4. Keith Stent……………………7…………….278-08
  5. Ade Williams………………..7……………..223-11
  6. Fred Parker………………….7……………..218-04
  7. Steve Wilson………………..8……………..406-10
  8. Neil Riddy…………………….8……………..315-14
  9. Marcus Burgess…………..8………………183-01
  10. Paul Roberts……………….8……………….180-08
  11. Mikey Corsini……………..9.………………304-02
  12. Tony Roberts……………..10………………138-13

     

  13. Terry Goff……………….12………………136-14

     

  14. Clive Pritchard………..13……………….243-12

     

  15. Nick Williams…………13……………….200-07

     

  16. Simon Watkins………13………………..148-11

     

  17. Kev Loveland…………13………………..67-10

     

  18. Dave Collier………….15………………..200-13

     

  19. Brenda Stent…………16……………….102-11

     

  20. Dave Moore…………..17……………….150-00

     

Results with dropped worst results deducted.

 

 

Pairs

Pos…….Names………………………………………………..Points……..Weight

  1. Malc Doyle & Steve Wilson………………….35…………..706-02
  2. Mike Corsini & Simon Watkins…………….41……………454-06
  3. Wez Hillier & Neil Riddy………………………45…………….598-00
  4. Clive Pritchard & Fred Parker………………49……………..538-11
  5. Dave Moore & Ade Williams……………….51……………..513-02
  6. Brenda Stent & Dai Thomas………………..57………………482-06
  7. Nick Williams & Dave Collier……………….64………………438-04
  8. Marcus Burgess & Terry Goff………………65………………342-07
  9. Tony Roberts & Paul Roberts……………..71……………….360-05
  10. Kev Loveland & Keith Stent………………..73………………..377-05

 

Results with dropped worst results deducted.

Neil Riddy’s Invite – Rolfs Lake 15th June 2014
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Neil Riddy’s Invite – Rolfs Lake 15th June 2014

 

SUNDAY 15TH JUNE NEIL RIDDY INVITATION MATCH


1ST   PEG  7  MICHAEL CORSINI   228-13-0

2ND  PEG 5   WEZ HILLIER   186-6-0

3RD  PEG 40  KEITH STENT  142-5-0

4TH  PEG 34  COLIN KERR    116-15-0

5TH  PEG 13 MALC DOYLE  115-15-0

6TH  PEG 28 PAUL JAY  92-9-0

7TH  PEG 32 JOHN DRAPER 90-2-0

8TH  PEG  8 PAT PRITCHARD 84-5-0

9TH  PEG 4  MICK CHAPPLE  78-5-0

10TH PEG 2 NEIL RIDDY  75-13-0

18 ANGLERS FISHED.

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Jinx Series 2014 Match 2 31st May 2014

 

Jinx Series 2014. Match 2. 31st May 2014.

June 1, 2014 Posted by Simon Filed under 2014 Results, Jinx Series, Match Reports

 

A Section Pos     Name     Peg     Weight

1      Dave Moore      7      118-7

2      Marcus Burgess      38      73-3

3      Mick Jones      5      72-12

4      Geoff      40      31-0

5      Wez      4      18-14

6      Paul Roberts      2      4-0

–      Not Drawn      34

B Section Pos     Name     Peg     Weight

1      Malc Doyle      32      74-1

2      Simon Watkins      9      52-9

3      Michael Corsini      30      49-2

4      Nick Williams      8      29-8

5      Neil Riddy      13      27-11

6      Steve Wilson      10      19-9

7      Clive Pritchard      28      14-5

C Section Pos     Name     Peg     Weight

1      Paul Jay      17      41-0

2      Dai Thomas      14      38-6

3      Ade Williams      24      28-13

4      Fred Parker      22      21-11

5      Richard Doolan      18      11-5

6      Kev Loveland      26      2-13

7      Terry Goff      15      DNW

 

Report To Follow

Rolfs Lake Night Match – Friday May 30th
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Rolfs Lake Night Match – Friday May 30th

NIGHT MATCH FRIDAY 30TH MAY 2014

My Long Weekend at Rolfs starts here with a Friday Night Match.

And what a long day to start off the weekender, due to traffic and accidents my normal 3 hr journey took over 6hrs as I spent most of thre journey nose to tail with other traffic going nowhere. So it was with great relief when I pulled into Rolfs car park at 6.30pm leaving me just enough time to set up my tent and book in for tonights match.

Rolfs Tenting It

Home From Home

I drew peg 14 for my 2nd night mtach of the year and was once again pegged next Mikey Corsini who had won the last night match I fished and continued in that style and won tonights event too. While I struggled for bites and could catch nothing close in, Mikey was catching down the edge. I ended up well down the field with some 30 – 40lb ish can’t remember exactly, it was rather a night to forget to be honest.

Results

Pos Peg Name Weight
1st 13 Michael Corsini 163-6-0
2nd 32 Ernie Malyon 123-13-0
3rd 22 Kev Dolton 99-13-0
4th 18 Paul Jay 91-9-0
5th 23 Malc Doyle 75-4-0
6th 9 Mick Chapple 62-4-0

 

 

13 ANGLERS FISHED

 

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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.