Rolf’s Lake. Holton. Oxfordshire. September 17th, 2005.

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Rolf’s Lake Match.

Another cracking day in good company saw 19 of us assembled in the car park at Rolf’s to take part in Matt Nutt’s 1st attempt at organising a match.
A lot of us were survivors from The Jinx Series with a couple of new faces from the site attending their 1st Maggotdrowning.com event. Even Webbo had come down from Yorkshire to try some proper fishing.

I drew peg 26 and was joined on the car park bank by Paul, Nick (Slimcatcher) and Webbo to my right and Young Dave & Gemma, Royst and Malc to my left.

Paul, Nick(Slimcatcher) with Webbo behind a bush.

Royst(playing a fish) Malc & Jason(JKG)

Sport was never fast and furious (An understatement in Paul’s case) but we all watched a lesson in how it should be done as most of us watched Gary opposite on Peg14 show us how it should be done with a superb display of up in the water fishing,  and I think we realised that we needed snookers when he got a 3rd keepnet out !!!

Perhaps it was just having Rolf sitting behind “coaching” him that gave him the edge though.

Spare a thought for Mark C as he was pegged between Gary & Pete Thompson who finished 1st & 2nd. Mark stuck at it though and did manage a few.

During the match I managed to smash a top kit trying to get a lump’s head up before it buried itself in the bush to my right much to various peoples amusement, I did manage a few though, one of which Gemma captured on camera.

However a thought should be spared for Paul on the next peg to me, who despite trying everything in his bait bag could only manage a 5½lb Golden Orfe as the Carp in his peg went on strike, Having escaped being pegged next to his nemesis Dirk, thought he was safe, He should have known better, naturally we were full of sympathy for his plight.

At the end of the match it was those with the experience of fishing the venue that took the spoils, proving that it’s not the easy venue that some seem to think, but I think it’s safe to say that everyone has plans to return at a later date to try to get to grips with the challenge that the venue presents.

Here’s the results of the day…………

1st	Gary(Gaza)Thorpe	227lb 08oz
2nd	Pete(Quietman)Thompson	179lb 08oz
3rd	Keith(Ghandi)Ashby	167lb 08oz
4th	Matt Nutt	112lb 00oz
5th	Malc(The Jinx)Doyle	91lb 08oz
6th	Dirk(The Dangler)Williams	75lb 12oz
7th	Roy(Royst)Ravenhill	69lb 08oz
8th	Jason(JKG)Grant	68lb 12oz
9th	Matt(Matt6900)Smith	61lb 04oz
10th	Geoff(Lurcher)Eggison	52lb 00oz
11th	Peter(Mugger)Morton	50lb 12oz
12th=	Dave Ashby	48lb 08oz
12th=	Dave(Webbo)Webster	48lb 08oz
14th	Mark(mark c adroit)Causer	40lb 08oz
15th	Nick(Slimcatcher)Bryan	16lb 00oz
16th	Nick(Neo-1)Williams	13lb 08oz
17th	Steve Wilson	10lb 00oz
18th	Paul Roberts	5lb 08oz
19th	Dave(Dave The Fish)Collier	DNW

NB: On Sunday 25th September, Gary Thorpe smashed the World 5hr match record with a weight of 490lb 8oz from peg 19.