Rolf’s Lake. Holton. Oxfordshire. July 25th 2014.

Dave the Fish’s Invitation Match.

Well today is the start of a three day trip to Rolf's Lake, which is just my second trip out fishing of this year. First up is Dave Collier's Invitation Match today which will be followed by the Maggotdrowning.com Pairs Match on Saturday and Sunday. Webbo had driven down from Leeds on Thursday night to pick me up, so after a good nights sleep the Hi-Lux was loaded up by 7am and the course was set for Rolf's Lake via Battersea for a breakfast stop. With that taken care of the rest of the trip was uneventful and we rolled into the car park just after 10·30am having stopped off at ASDA to pick up some supplies.


First things first and with welcomes and greetings out of the way we unloaded the kit and pitched our bivvies which would be home for the weekend ahead. Banter of course turned to the prospects for the next 3 days and with the weather promising a scorcher for the 3 days ahead nobody was really sure what lay ahead.


Just before midday Dave called everyone to order and got on with the draw. Peg 28 on the car park bank was my draw for today and I was reasonably happy with that as at least it would be shaded by the trees later in the day while most would be roasting in the full glare of the sun for the whole match.


It also meant a nice short walk and plenty of time to set up as we were fishing from 1·30 to 6·30pm.

	Peg	Angler	Weight
1st	Peg 26	Adam(dumdum)Daniells	212lbs 00ozs
2nd	Peg 30	Alex(BaggerJ)Clark-Akal	176lbs 08ozs
3rd	Peg 28	Peter(Mugger)Morton	135lbs 04ozs
4th	Peg 5	Geoff(Geoff P)Palmer	131lbs 15ozs
5th	Peg 32	David(Dai Fish)Thomas	118lbs 11ozs
6th	Peg 34	Clive(Black Hydro)Pritchard	94lbs 15ozs
7th	Peg 22	Antony(antwood)Haywood	91lbs 00ozs
8th	Peg 38	Jamie(jakal)Akal	89lbs 02ozs
9th	Peg 18	Tony(spamwham)Roberts	82lbs 15ozs
10th	Peg 40	John(Tutu)Holdsworth	65lbs 07ozs
11th	Peg 24	Dave(Red Leader)Webster	65lbs 03ozs
12th	Peg 2	Terry(Wily Coyote)Goff	57lbs 05ozs
13th	Peg 9	Dave(The Fish)Collier	57lbs 00ozs
14th	Peg 4	Steve(Steak)Akal	51lbs 08ozs
15th	Peg 10	Christine(Chrissy)Collier	42lbs 11ozs
16th	Peg 7	Terry(Auto)Pearce	39lbs 02ozs
17th	Peg 16	Nick(Neo1)Williams	31lbs 04ozs
18th	Peg 8	Gino(naughtycockney)Exell	25lbs 15ozs
19th	Peg 14	Simon(sidev77)Watkins	14lbs 13ozs
20th	Peg 13	Kevin(Kev the catch)Loveland	D.N.W.