The JINX Series 2008
Match 5.
So down to Rolf’s Lake once more for the fifth and final match of this years Jinx Series. Maria had decided to join me for the day as the weather promised to be decent and she’d heard that Paul’s wife Jayne and Nick’s wife Lisa were going to be there as well. So with the car loaded up with a few extra bits and pieces we set off around 8am and with my usual stop for breakfast and a smooth trip down we arrived in the car park at Rolf’s just after 10am. I soon had my nets dipped and after introducing Maria to the assembled throng paid my cash in and topped up on pellets for the match ahead.
The Draw was of course LATE, and surprise surprise Malc had forgotten the days paperwork ensuring that the Series placing's would remain unknown at the end of the day, so no change there then. I’d asked Maria to draw for me today and when she pulled out Peg 31 and I was quite happy with that, a nice short walk and a peg with a bit of form. Gem had pulled peg 8 leaving a few to worry about another Minxing and I had Clive for company to my left on peg 32 and Nick to my right on Peg 29.
I was looking to keep things simple today, just fishing a line at around 10mtrs where I had around 5 feet of water and a back up line by the bush to my right.
Both of the rigs were Malman 4×12 Adam’s on 0·18 to size 16 Drennan Carp Match hooks and I also set up the pellet waggler as I could see a few Carp cruising around on top. I had the feeder with me in its ready sleeve but left it in there as I didn’t think it would come into play today. Bait was 6,8 and 11 mm pellet that would be fished banded along with meat and 6mm expanders and I also had ½ pint of maggots with me in case things proved tough. Feed was simply the fishery 6mm pellets.
So 12·30 and Malc called the All-in. 2 pots of pellet out to the 10mtr line and a couple of handfuls by the bush took care of the initial feed. A banded 8mm pellet was shipped out to the 10mtr line and I was in business, A yell was heard from peg 7 as Dai netted his 1st fish of the day and within five minutes my float slid away, but all to soon the elastic snapped back as I parted company with my 1st foul hooker of the day and for the next 2 hours I was to suffer this another 4 times without putting anything in the net. Nick Williams was over on peg 13 and was starting to put a few together fishing down the margin to his left………..
The Draw was of course LATE, and surprise surprise Malc had forgotten the days paperwork ensuring that the Series placing's would remain unknown at the end of the day, so no change there then. I’d asked Maria to draw for me today and when she pulled out Peg 31 and I was quite happy with that, a nice short walk and a peg with a bit of form. Gem had pulled peg 8 leaving a few to worry about another Minxing and I had Clive for company to my left on peg 32 and Nick to my right on Peg 29.
I was looking to keep things simple today, just fishing a line at around 10mtrs where I had around 5 feet of water and a back up line by the bush to my right.
Both of the rigs were Malman 4×12 Adam’s on 0·18 to size 16 Drennan Carp Match hooks and I also set up the pellet waggler as I could see a few Carp cruising around on top. I had the feeder with me in its ready sleeve but left it in there as I didn’t think it would come into play today. Bait was 6,8 and 11 mm pellet that would be fished banded along with meat and 6mm expanders and I also had ½ pint of maggots with me in case things proved tough. Feed was simply the fishery 6mm pellets.
So 12·30 and Malc called the All-in. 2 pots of pellet out to the 10mtr line and a couple of handfuls by the bush took care of the initial feed. A banded 8mm pellet was shipped out to the 10mtr line and I was in business, A yell was heard from peg 7 as Dai netted his 1st fish of the day and within five minutes my float slid away, but all to soon the elastic snapped back as I parted company with my 1st foul hooker of the day and for the next 2 hours I was to suffer this another 4 times without putting anything in the net. Nick Williams was over on peg 13 and was starting to put a few together fishing down the margin to his left………..
………… while Clive had managed just a solitary fish and was also suffering with foul hooked fish…………
Indeed looking around most appeared to be struggling with most having just one or 2 fish to show for their efforts apart from Keith on peg 9 and Nick. With 3 hours gone I lifted into another bite and realised that I was connected to a decent fish and after a tense few minutes was delighted to slide the net under one of the better inhabitants of Rolf’s ………
Maria was delighted as she was beginning to believe that she had Jinxed me and soon had the camera out to record the event, even capturing the weight recorded on the scales…
………. 14lbs 04ozs. at last I was off the mark.
Well I wish I could say that it improved from then on, but really it didn’t, not for me anyway, and not for most others either. indeed looking down the car park bank it was starting to resemble a still life………….
Clive however was starting to nick the odd fish though he was still suffering from the odd foul hooker. With just over an hour to go I was attached to another fish, this one hooked in the tail, however despite it’s best efforts I managed to get it’s propeller out of the water and slide it into the landing net. Young Mitch had appeared having weighed a super looking Mirror that was a new PB for him at 15lbs 08ozs and Maria did the honours by getting a photo for him ………
Looking across to peg 14 I could see Alan who was guesting on the day, doing what is commonly know as a ‘Garden Gnome’ impression, and a particularly good job he was doing of it too ……
With around 20 minutes to go I was attached to another torpedo………
…… yes another one hooked in the tail, but after another tug of war this one ended up in the net as well and weighed 13lbs 12ozs. Nothing more for me though Clive did manage one final fish before Malc called the All-out at 5·30 pm ………
Chatting as we packed up it was obvious just how hard it had fished for most, indeed poor young Nick (monkey)to my right hadn’t had a single bite during the whole 5 hours.
Come the weigh-in my 37lbs wasn’t going to cause any stirs and Clive’s section winning 60¾lbs held the lead all the way round to peg 7 where Dai’s 88¼lbs wrapped up his section and Gem’s 13½lbs saved a lot of people a final day Minxing (and gained me a £1). Round to peg 10 and Keith put a match winning 146½lbs on the scales, a very good performance on the day. Hard on his heels came Nick on peg 13 with 119¾lbs to wrap up second place. Slim edged out Steve in their £5 side bet leaving Malc to tie up first place in his own Series with a section winning 56¼lbs from peg 22.
Come the weigh-in my 37lbs wasn’t going to cause any stirs and Clive’s section winning 60¾lbs held the lead all the way round to peg 7 where Dai’s 88¼lbs wrapped up his section and Gem’s 13½lbs saved a lot of people a final day Minxing (and gained me a £1). Round to peg 10 and Keith put a match winning 146½lbs on the scales, a very good performance on the day. Hard on his heels came Nick on peg 13 with 119¾lbs to wrap up second place. Slim edged out Steve in their £5 side bet leaving Malc to tie up first place in his own Series with a section winning 56¼lbs from peg 22.
| Position | Peg | Angler | Weight |
| 1st | Peg 9 | Keith Fellows | 146lbs 08ozs |
| 2nd | Peg 13 | Nick Williams | 118lbs 12ozs |
| 3rd | Peg 7 | Dai Thomas | 88lbs 04ozs |
| 4th | Peg 18 | Ade Williams | 62lbs 04ozs |
| 5th | Peg 32 | Clive Pritchard | 60lbs 12ozs |
| 6th | Peg 22 | Malc Doyle | 56lbs 04ozs |
| 7th | Peg 40 | Tony Roberts | 52lbs 12ozs |
| 8th | Peg 34 | Paul Roberts | 51lbs 04ozs |
| 9th | Peg 4 | Ieuan Davies (Guest) | 47lbs 04ozs |
| 10th | Peg 19 | Steve Wilson | 41lbs 00ozs |
| 11th | Peg 31 | Peter Morton | 37lbs 00ozs |
| 12th | Peg 38 | Mitch Auger | 33lbs 12ozs |
| 13th | Peg 14 | Alan Loader (Guest) | 33lbs 08ozs |
| 14th | Peg 23 | Dave Collier | 31lbs 08ozs |
| 15th | Peg 25 | Mark Causer | 27lbs 00ozs |
| 16th | Peg 26 | Simon Mound | 19lbs 00ozs |
| 17th | Peg 2 | Tim Westmoreland (Guest) | 16lbs 08ozs |
| 18th | Peg 20 | Roy Ravenhill | 16lbs 00ozs |
| 19th | Peg 28 | John Hatch | 14lbs 00ozs |
| 20th | Peg 8 | Gemma Doyle | 13lbs 08ozs |
| 21st | Peg 16 | Dave Moore | 9lbs 00ozs |
| 22nd | Peg 29 | Nick Watkins-Price | DNW |
So that’s The Jinx Series over for yet another year. Congratulations to Malc for his series win, and a big THANK YOU for organising what continues to be the friendliest and light hearted set of matches its been my pleasure to fish. Congratulations as well to Clive and Tony for their 2nd and 3rd places, and also to Malc and Dai for taking the pairs title.
This has to be the most successful series ever with 8468lbs 02ozs of fish being brought to the scales over the course of the Series.(8645lbs 02ozs if you include the fish caught by guests)
A new Series record winning weight set by Ade Williams at 266lbs 12ozs in match 1.
Overall there were four 200lbs+ weights recorded. Two for Ade Williams and one each for Simon Mound and Ant Haywood with another thirty four 100lbs+ weights over the course of the series of 5 matches.
Another big THANK YOU to John and Pauline Bennett for allowing us the use of Rolf’s for the entire series and all their efforts.
Finally another big THANK YOU to all that have fished the series, it’s all of you that make it so enjoyable to fish, and long may it continue. See you all to do it again next year you bunch of nutters.
Overall there were four 200lbs+ weights recorded. Two for Ade Williams and one each for Simon Mound and Ant Haywood with another thirty four 100lbs+ weights over the course of the series of 5 matches.
Another big THANK YOU to John and Pauline Bennett for allowing us the use of Rolf’s for the entire series and all their efforts.
Finally another big THANK YOU to all that have fished the series, it’s all of you that make it so enjoyable to fish, and long may it continue. See you all to do it again next year you bunch of nutters.
Overall Individual Series Result.
| Position | Points | Angler | Series Points | Total Weight |
| 1st | 5 points | Malc Doyle | 2 1 1 2 1 | 535lbs 04ozs |
| 2nd | 6 points | Clive Pritchard | 2 4 2 1 1 | 614lbs 00ozs |
| 3rd | 8 points | Tony Roberts | 2 3 1 6 2 | 512lbs 00ozs |
| 4th | 8 points | Nick Williams | 1 3 3 2 2 | 444lbs 00ozs |
| 5th | 8 points | Dai Thomas | 5 4 1 2 1 | 395lbs 12ozs |
| 6th | 9 points | Ade Williams | 1 2 3 5 3 | 655lbs 04ozs |
| 7th | 9 points | Peter Morton | 4 4 1 1 3 | 571lbs 04ozs |
| 8th | 9 points | Roy Ravenhill | 3 1 3 2 5 | 454lbs 12ozs |
| 9th | 9 points | Colin Sharrard | 3 1 2 3 7 | 440lbs 08ozs |
| 10th | 9 points | Dave Collier | 2 2 3 4 2 | 404lbs 04ozs |
| 11th | 11 points | Ant Haywood | 1 5 4 1 7 | 442lbs 12ozs |
| 12th | 11 points | Paul Roberts | 3 2 5 4 2 | 413lbs 08ozs |
| 13th | 11 points | Steve Wilson | 4 7 2 1 4 | 298lbs 08ozs |
| 14th | 11 points | Gemma Doyle | 1 6 4 3 3 | 284lbs 12ozs |
| 15th | 12 points | Keith Fellows | 4 4 5 3 1 | 375lbs 04ozs |
| 16th | 12 points | Mark Causer | 3 3 7 3 3 | 259lbs 00ozs |
| 17th | 13 points | Simon Mound | 7 1 4 4 4 | 392lbs 04ozs |
| 18th | 17 points | John Hatch | 6 2 4 7 5 | 206lbs 12ozs |
| 19th | 18 points | Nick Watkins-Price | 5 7 2 5 6 | 87lbs 06ozs |
| 20th | 19 points | Mitch Auger | 5 5 5 6 4 | 256lbs 04ozs |
| 21st | 19 points | Kevin Loveland | 5 3 6 5 7 | 204lbs 12ozs |
| 22nd | 19 points | Dave Moore | 7 5 5 4 5 | 126lbs 00ozs |
| 23rd | 25 points | Dirk Williams | 4 7 7 7 7 | 94lbs 00ozs |
| 24th | 28 points | Anne Thomas | 7 7 7 7 7 | Did not fish |
NB: Anglers were allowed to drop their worst section result during the series so that the Overall Series results were decided by best 4 out of 5 section points.
Overall weight counting in the result of anglers tying on points.
Overall weight counting in the result of anglers tying on points.
Overall Pairs Result.
| Position | Anglers | Points | Weight |
| 1st | Malc Doyle & Dai Thomas | 26 20 9 13 9 = 51 | 931lbs 00ozs |
| 2nd | Steve Wilson & Tony Roberts | 20 37 6 25 17 = 68 | 810lbs 08ozs |
| 3rd | Clive Pritchard & Gemma Doyle | 8 30 21 15 25 = 69 | 898lbs 12ozs |
| 4th | Simon Mound & Paul Roberts | 35 6 29 18 24 = 77 | 805lbs 12ozs |
| 5th | Ant Haywood & Dave Collier | 11 25 22 20 29 = 78 | 847lbs 00ozs |
| 6th | Nick Williams & Colin Sharrard | 13 25 24 20 27 = 82 | 884lbs 08ozs |
| 7th | Peter Morton & Kevin Loveland | 29 21 22 15 36 = 87 | 779lbs 00ozs |
| 8th | Mark Causer & Keith Fellows | 30 17 44 26 16 = 89 | 694lbs 04ozs |
| 9th | Ade Williams & Nick Watkins-Price | 21 27 25 33 26 = 99 | 742lbs 10ozs |
| 10th | Roy Ravenhill & John Hatch | 33 16 22 33 37 = 104 | 661lbs 08ozs |
| 11th | Dirk Williams & Mitch Auger | 30 42 37 45 37 = 146 | 350lbs 04ozs |
| 12th | Dave Moore & Anne Thomas | 50 44 45 43 46 = 178 | 126lbs 00ozs |
NB: Pairs were allowed to drop their worst points total during the series so that the results were decided by best 4 out of 5 points scores.
Overall weights counting in the result of pairs tying on points.
Overall weights counting in the result of pairs tying on points.
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