{"id":843,"date":"2017-04-14T23:17:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=843"},"modified":"2019-03-04T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:56:46","slug":"good-friday-beasts-at-rolfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Beasts At Rolfs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a\u00a0lovely day yesterday on the Rolf’s Lake Good Friday Open.\u00a0It was only my second ever match at Rolfs; the first being many years ago when I had my first ever 200lb+ weight. That was actually on the pellet waggler and so\u00a0that was the first thing I packed, just in case.<\/p>\n

It’s a good job I did as I’d drawn unfancied peg 10 and with nothing showing on the pole and no mugging allowed I had no option than to chuck a small pellet waggler into the middle. My reward was a 19lb mirror and then a foul-hooked 17lb 4oz common. Great fun on 0.18mm!<\/p>\n

The fish were very very moody on the day and with people walking mid match it was clearly fishing very hard. Nothing shallow or short so I dropped in down the edge. It looked really inviting but with 3m of floating grass I couldn’t drop a rig where I wanted, \u00a0tight to the bank. Instead, I had to fish well away and in about 4ft, which gave me a few issues with foul hookers. I also had to use a 0.4g float with a really thick tip just to see it through all the muck!<\/p>\n

I started off on banded 6mm and 8mm pellets, but that brought a few foul hookers and one carp. Swapping to Toss Potting hemp and fishing a big 8mm punch of meat seemed much better and I managed another three carp on this.\u00a0Red Bungee and 0.20 to a 12 hook seemed best. Strong gear but the fish average 10lb and there’s loads of snags they wanted to get in!<\/p>\n

On this match you had to weigh anything over 10lb immediately and return it, so after five hours all I had in my keepnet was a roach and a 7lb carp! However, my other five fish went 78lb on the board. That was enough for 2nd overall behind paste master Malc Doyle. A decent result against the venue regulars and a nice change from F1 bashing. Big kippers\u00a0and great fun!<\/p>\n

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I had a\u00a0lovely day yesterday on the Rolf’s Lake Good Friday Open.\u00a0It was only my second ever match at Rolfs; the first being many years ago when I had my first ever 200lb+ weight....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing-venues","category-rolfs-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}