Well it's the final match of this years Jinx Series today at Rolf's Lake and for a change there's no driving for me as a fellow Maggotdrowner Paul East aka NoMoreLongWalks had said that he would pick me up as he had managed to secure a guest spot on the match . A sunny morning held the promise of a good day and with Paul arriving in good time we had time to stop of in Battersea on the way for a hearty breakfast, and a smooth trouble free trip down saw us pulling into the car park at Rolf's around 11am allowing us plenty of time before the supposed 12 noon draw. The one worry was that as we had driven down the sunshine had disappeared to be replaced with a heavily overcast grey sky.
A stroll round the lake soon revealed that the lake was almost back at it's normal level with most of the platforms finally being above water and that John Bennett had been busy gardening, with a lot of work having been done on the swims.
At the draw there was plenty of discussion, Could Ant hang onto the lead in the series or could a permutation of results today see the long time leader lose out to either Royst, Mark, Brian or Nick and could Dave(yorkie)Moore and Eric maintain their narrow 6 point lead in The Pairs over Mark C and Paul Roberts. The actual draw was a little late (as usual ) which meant that we would be fishing from 2pm till 7pm.
Into the draw bag and I draw peg34 on the little lake, a peg widely regarded as a flyer. I've only fished it once before on the Saturday of the MD's Pairs weekend, when the lake was still a fair way above it's normal level and had managed 73¼lbs from the peg . With plenty of time before the start I set up a feeder and a new Shakespeare Mach3 11ft pellet waggler rod that I've just brought as well as a couple of top kits for the pole. I was hoping to nick a couple of early fish on the feeder or waggler before concentrating later on the right hand margin.
Looking across I could see Clive who must have run to peg8 as he had drawn it on Bank Holiday Monday and had 202lb 4oz , while the previous Saturday John Walker had 530lbs from the peg, so no pressure there. For company on peg7 Clive had Nick Jones (Polepot) and on 6 Dirk(The Dangler)Williams, with Royst further down on peg 4 and Steve Wilson on 2. While to my left I had Colin on peg36 and Nick(Neo1)Williams on 38 while Mark C was on 40.
So 2pm and the All-in, a big handfull of pellet into the bush to my right and another couple in front of it then out to the lily pads with hair rigged meat on the feeder. Looking up I could see that Clive was already in to his 1st Carp, swiftly followed by a Skimmer.
My tip didn't as much as flicker, normally you would expect lots of little twitches as silvers attacked the bait or even a couple of liners if Carp were present somewhere in the swim, but nothing moved it at all.
Polepot appeared to have snared one on the feeder.........
while Mark C had had one and Steve Wilson had had a couple of fish...........
but looking down, the bank to my left resembled a still life as both Colin and Nick were in the same predicament as me..........
I'd been religiously feeding my margin swim, but it it was far to early to take a look and as I had seen a couple of fish topping I decided to take a look with the pellet waggler after 40 minutes of inactivity on the feeder. A couple of pouch fulls of pellet and first cast out the rod is nearly ripped from my hand!!!
The fish put up a spirited fight but the rod dealt with it all, despite the fish at one stage tangling itself in the line giving the appearance to some of it being foulhooked and was soon safely in the net. An obvious weigher, it tipped the scales at 14½lbs, a lovely way to get off the mark and christen a new rod at the same time . In the next 30 mins I managed another couple of 6lb'ers and then it died on me.
All the time it had been getting cooler, so much so that I went back to the car for my bib & brace and a fleece. Having a chat with a few of the lads on the car park bank on the way back revealed that it was hard graft for everyone with only the odd fish being caught.
As the afternoon drew on Colin had finally got a Carp of about 5lbs while Neo1 had got one as well along with a couple of Skimmers. Poor Steve had had a bit of a disaster however, while playing a decent Carp his no4 section of his pole had snapped clean in two and he could only watch helplessly as the top 3½ sections of his pole slid below the surface of the lake like Excaliber..........
things had picked up however for Dirk and Royst with them both appearing to be walking away with the match and matching each other fish for fish, although Dirk appeared to have the edge with more of his fish being weighers and including a clonking Golden Orfe that tipped the scales at 6lbs 4ozs.
With just an hour to go I noticed that Clive had started to finally find a few fish, to little to late, but at least he was catching which was more than the majority of us were doing.........
Finally 7pm rolled round putting most of us out of our misery. While my 3 Carp only weighed 26½lbs, amazingly it was enough to give me a section win!!!!!! Due to the low weights the weigh-in didn't take as long as usual and it was soon confirmed that Dirk had won the day with his 1st ever Jinx Ton and Royst just missing out due to losing a number of fish, costing him not only the match but the overall win in the Jinx Series as well
Ant despite the horror of a DNW on the day hung on to win the Jinx Series with Royst taking 2nd overall, while the Pairs was won by Dave Moore and Eric Robathan in a close finish with Mark Causer and Paul Roberts.
Position | Peg | Angler | Weight |
1st | peg 6 | Dirk Williams | 109lbs 00ozs |
2nd | peg 4 | Roy Ravenhill | 90lbs 00ozs |
3rd | peg 2 | Steve Wilson | 62lbs 00ozs |
4th | peg 8 | Clive Pritchard | 61lbs 00ozs |
5th | peg 23 | Eric Robathan | 31lbs 04ozs |
6th | peg 7 | Nick Jones | 29lbs 08ozs |
7th | peg 34 | Peter Morton | 26lbs 08ozs |
8th= | peg 18 | Dave Collier | 25lbs 00ozs |
8th= | peg 20 | Brian Bevan | 25lbs 00ozs |
8th= | peg 28 | Dave Moore | 25lbs 00ozs |
11th | peg 38 | Nick Williams | 18lbs 04ozs |
12th | peg 15 | Fred Parker | 14lbs 04ozs |
13th | peg 40 | Mark Causer | 14lbs 00ozs |
14th | peg 26 | Tim Westmoreland (Guest) | 12lbs 08ozs |
15th | peg 29 | Geoff Eggison | 11lbs 05ozs |
16th | peg 10 | Simon Rowley | 10lbs 08ozs |
17th | peg 36 | Colin Sharrard | 5lbs 00ozs |
18th | peg 31 | Tony Roberts (Guest) | 4lbs 08ozs |
19th= | peg 14 | Nick Watkins-Price | 2lbs 00ozs |
19th= | peg 25 | Anne Thomas (Guest) | 2lbs 00ozs |
19th= | peg 32 | Paul Roberts | 2lbs 00ozs |
22nd | peg 24 | Dai Thomas | 5ozs |
23rd= | peg 9 | Paul East (Guest) | DNW |
23rd= | peg 13 | Paul D (Guest) | DNW |
23rd= | peg 17 | Malc Doyle | DNW |
23rd= | peg 19 | Ant Haywood | DNW |
So another Jinx Series survived.
A big THANK YOU to Malc for organising what still remains the friendliest series of matches that I've ever had the pleasure to fish in, and the reason for that is the anglers that compete in the Series. Thank you all for making it the event it is.
Highlight for me was seeing the look on Nick Jones's face when he picked up his 1st ever Jinx section at Holly Farm and then repeated it again at Stockton. Well Done Nick, couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.
Can't wait to do it all again next year . Nurse, Time for my medication.
Overall Series Result.
Position | Angler | Points | Weight | |||||
1st | Ant Haywood | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 268lbs 09ozs |
2nd | Roy Ravenhill | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 334lbs 13ozs |
3rd | Brian Bevan | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 174lbs 05ozs |
4th | Dave Moore | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 258lbs 00ozs |
5th | Eric Robothan | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 197lbs 04ozs |
6th | Mark Causer | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 184lbs 01ozs |
7th | Nick Williams | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 164lbs 01ozs |
8th | Keith Ashby | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 140lbs 01ozs |
9th | Paul Roberts | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 172lbs 07ozs |
10th | Nick Jones | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 122lbs 03ozs |
11th | Malc Doyle | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 162lbs 12ozs |
12th | Steve Wilson | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 172lbs 07ozs |
13th | Fred Parker | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 98lbs 12ozs |
14th | Peter Morton | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 97lbs 10ozs |
15th | Colin Sharrard | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 109lbs 04ozs |
16th | Clive Pritchard | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 156lbs 04ozs |
17th | Matt Nutt | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 147lbs 03ozs |
18th | Dave Collier | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 90lbs 03ozs |
19th | Dirk Williams | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 132lbs 00ozs |
20th | Simon Rowley | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 49lbs 15ozs |
21st | Geoff Eggison | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 43lbs 03ozs |
22nd | Nick Watkins-Price | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 23lbs 12ozs |
23rd | Dai Thomas | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 46lbs 07ozs |
24th | Kevin Lake | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 34lbs 00ozs |
25th | Gemma Doyle | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 21lbs 00ozs |
26th | Mark Lake | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 15lbs 05ozs |
27th | David Ashby | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 16lbs 12ozs |
28th= | Jeff Hollidge | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 0lbs 00ozs |
28th= | Malc Hawkins | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 0lbs 00ozs |
30th | Dan Thomas | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 0lbs 00ozs |
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 tieing on points.
Overall Pairs Result.
Position | Anglers | Points | Weight | |||||
1st | Dave Moore & Eric Robathan | 11 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 12 | 43 | 455lbs 04ozs |
2nd | Mark Causer & Paul Roberts | 13 | 8 | 17 | 16 | 30 | 54 | 356lbs 08ozs |
3rd | Roy Ravenhill & Dave Collier | 23 | 22 | 38 | 13 | 10 | 68 | 425lbs 00ozs |
4th | Keith Ashby & Nick Williams | 24 | 36 | 12 | 22 | 47 | 94 | 304lbs 02ozs |
5th | Ant Haywood & Simon Rowley | 20 | 18 | 22 | 43 | 45 | 103 | 318lbs 08ozs |
6th | Steve Wilson & Kevin Lake | 49 | 27 | 31 | 26 | 38 | 122 | 206lbs 07ozs |
7th | Geoff Eggison & Fred Parker | 35 | 49 | 50 | 28 | 26 | 138 | 139lbs 15ozs |
8th | Brian Bevan & Mark Lake | 40 | 55 | 22 | 35 | 43 | 140 | 189lbs 10ozs |
9th | Gemma Doyle & Matt Nutt | 44 | 53 | 24 | 21 | 70 | 142 | 168lbs 03ozs |
10th | Dai Thomas & Dirk Williams | 49 | 46 | 70 | 36 | 20 | 151 | 178lbs 07ozs |
11th | Nick Watkins-Price & Peter Morton | 42 | 50 | 43 | 45 | 24 | 154 | 121lbs 06ozs |
12th | Colin Sharrard & David Ashby | 32 | 43 | 53 | 42 | 51 | 168 | 126lbs 00ozs |
13th | Malc Hawkins & Nick Jones | 47 | 47 | 45 | 39 | 41 | 172 | 122lbs 03ozs |
14th | Clive Pritchard & Jeff Hollidge | 45 | 42 | 65 | 52 | 39 | 178 | 156lbs 04ozs |
15th | Malc Doyle & Dan Thomas | 39 | 54 | 47 | 51 | 65 | 191 | 162lbs 12ozs |
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 tieing on points.
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