With my match last night here it ment no early loading or drive up which made a nice change.

So following yesterdays evenning/night match it was a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG WAIT for the draw to come around especially seeing as Steve and me had sat up chatting all night.


Following last nights success we were all very eager to get going which just seemed to make the wait EVEN LONGER if that was possible finally it was time to do the draw and with everbody except Ade and myself to draw there was 2 pegs left in the bag 1 being peg 13 (my home from last night) and the other peg 14 the swim i plumbed with my chin in Match 1 of this years series.
And to be totally honest i REALLY fancied peg 13 as i knew exactly where it had been fed and as i've said before it's been a kind peg to me.

Well as you can guess Ade got 13 which left me on 14

This week we had a few JINXSTERS that could not make it so we had 4 Guests fishing and they were, Dave Webster - Vince Gould - Budgie and BaggerJ all as ever MDers. but we still ended up 1 short as 1 JINXSTER never let me know they were not fishing.........

So off i trotted with the gear (should have left it round on 13 last night) then went round and placed half the weigh boards whilst John placed the rest.

When i finally settled on my peg i already had a good idea as to what and how i would fishing following my experience on it a month ago.

I elected on just 2 lines which was straight out infront at 6mtrs and 1 down the right margin (which i never expected to catch from).

As always my rigs were set up on .21 powerline to a size 10 Animal hook.

For the main swim at 6mtrs i set up               

WAIT FOR IT

3 rigs,  of which 2 were JW Diamonds 1 being .3grm and the other being a .4grm as there is always a slight tow when the wind blows on peg 14 and laterly i've found when on the deck the fish want the pellet held still.
The other rig was a .4grm HB Redneck just in case they did not want the pellet for a switch to paste.

For the margin i just set up 1 rig which was a HB Grizzly taking .3grm.

When i started i fed the margin are by hand and used a pot to feed the forward swim first put in and i missed a bite as the float settled then second put in and moments later a net fish of about 6lb was in the net.

In the first 25 mins i had 5 net fish for about 32lb and was going great guns and feeding about 30 to 40 pellets via the pot every put in.

Then i had a call on the mobile which saw me walking around the lake which took 20 mins and when i got back it took 2½ hours before i had another indication as i had not fed for the time i was away and so the fish had moved away as well.

Never had a touch down the margin but finally with about 1¾ hours to go the fish finally returned to my forward line and i had 10 weighers and 2 more net fish in that time which gave me 105lb 4oz on the board and a total weight of 152lb 12oz and 4th overall but more importantly 2nd in Section (well the series is run on section points after all)

Well it's back to Rolfs today for a friday Afternoon match arranged by Ian (eels) from Match Fishing Scene and with the draw at 1pm and fishing 3 till 8 hopefully a few fish will grace the nets.

Also with the amount due to fish (27) although only 23 turned up this match is Pole Only which is how i prefer it at Rolfs in the Summer.

With today being a School day and Julie off work it's just me in the car, well thats as far as Pontypridd any way as Mitch jumped in there as he wanted to spend the day watching and learning from some of the regulars that are fishing today and no that did NOT include me.

So at 8.30am with the car loaded off i set to Ponty for Mitch. Then it was a steady drive up to Rolfs through LOADS of speed restrictions and pouring rain which saw us parked up outside the gate just on 11.00am (YES EARLY AGAIN)

Soon as John arrived and unlocked the gates it was off to dip the nets and give them a chance to dry then to the hut for some BANTER as more had turned up and before long it was time for the draw.

I had my normal opinion on which peg i would like to draw today and that was ANY PEG  would do for me as i fish them all the same way so it never matters to me as i can do bad off any of them.

So my turn to draw came and in the bag i went and out came Peg 16 which is on the Motorway bank and a peg i've fished a few times before over the years and had some good weights off it so i was happy with that.


So gear loaded and off i trundle, at a better pace than recently as i've got the tyre sorted on the barrow now.

Following the customary sit watching the water with a fag and coffee (and the odd finger jesture towards Steve W sat opposite on peg 23 who i just happened to have a £ side bet with) i settled on the following swims for todays attention.

All my rigs are tied to .21 Powerline with a 10 Animal Hook.

Swim 1 (O1 in the picture) was at about 7 mtrs straight infront into around 6' of water.


For Swim 1 i set up a .3grm JW Diamond float shotted with spread no 8 and 10 stotz's

Swim 2 (M1 in picture) was just in front of the bush to my left into about 3½' of water and had a .3grm HB Grizzly with a bulk of no 8 stotz's

Swim 3 (M2 in picture) was to my right margin about 3' from the bank into 3' of water at a distance of about 5mtrs and for this i used a .2grm HB Grizzly

Baits for today was as is normal for me at Rolfs which is a selection of banded 6mm - 8mm - 11mm hard pellets as well as a few 11mm soft hookers and Punched Meat and for feed i used 7 bags of dampened fishery pellets.

For a change i was all set up and ready with over ½ hour to go and went for a chat with Steve W who was on peg 23 and whilst there i took the following picture which afterwards seamed very apt.