As some of you are aware a few of the members of this website take part in a series of matches organised by Malc that are known as
The Jinx Series.
To give you an insight into the series, here's my take on this years adventures.
Round 1. Rolf's Lake.
Saturday 20th May 2006.
Well I met up with a few of the lads in the services on the M40 beforehand and around 11·30 we made our way down to Rolf's.
Once in the car park it was soon obvious that nothing had changed and that yet again
The Jinx Series was going to be a monumental festival of p*ss taking & fun.
Nick (monkey) had kindly sorted some shirts for the series and here's the proof........
I was a little taken aback at the draw to recieve a presentation from Malc! however the contents of the envelope set the tone for the day! A set of
Lime Green pants with no arse in them. (Maria says they'll avoid the skidmarks at least ) and No I don't have a photo of them, but I'm sure someone has somewhere.
So draw done and off to our respective pegs. A nice short 5 yard walk for me to peg 30. Rolf has just started rebuilding the pegs and this is the 1st one he's completed, Nice new platform and steps down to it, a real armchair job. To my right was Dan who didn't look to happy as he had a few bad memories of being pegged next to me at Rolf's last year, and to my left I was a little concerned to see Pete Thompson , who has probably spent more time than most at Rolf's over the years and has a pretty good idea of what makes he place tick.
Due to changes to rules and pellets available at Rolf's this year, a few questions have sprung up over the best way to approach things. I had been a couple of times already this season and had frankly struggled coming to terms with it, so for this match I decided to go with what I know, and that was to fish 6mm GOT expanders over loose fed hemp, at a distance I could throw the feed to, hopefully keeping things nice and simple.
As usual with
The Jinx matches things were running a bit late and the all in came at 1·30, called by myself as Malc didn't have a watch with him .
Almost straight away David on peg 28 seemed intent on taking the place apart, his 1st fish took a bare hook as he shipped out a pot of pellet and every time i looked around his black hydro seemed to be streaming out.
Things were not quite so hectic for the rest of us, with a few skimmers and the odd carp just keeping things ticking over, though Pete did manage to bag a specimen perch .......
Slowly but surely things started to inprove though, Paul Roberts (Mr Buckethead aka Turkish) Finally managed to catch a carp at Rolf's, not just the one either..........
MarkC was putting a few together on peg 32 including some perch in a pretty mixed bag.........
Nick Jones came wandering along, hoping for some clues as he was having a bit of a mare, Having drawn peg 34 it seemed that everyone had given him different advise, and if that wasn't bad enough he was trying to get to grips with using a new pole and Hydro for the 1st time. To top it all off he had been further traumatised by watching Malc strip down to his underpants (thankfully a site I missed ) and leap in to retrieve a top kit.
By mid afternoon the carp seemed to settle on my feed and I started to put a few together, David was still in regular action although it was hard to judge the stamp of his fish as he was on Black Hydro.
Matt Nutt across on peg 12 was putting together a decent bag having started to sneak a few lumps out from down the edge, you could tell they were decent fish as periodicaly he could be seen climbing onto his box in an attempt to net them .....
Finally the all out came at 6·30 just as I had connected to a final carp that was foulhooked in the tail, a few anxious moments while I tried to get his propeller out of the water to subdue it followed before I managed to net it.
Packing up and taking my gear back prior to the weigh-in, I heard a sound that I couldn't quite place till I realised it was coming from Dai's car!!!!!!!! The engine was running, and had been running for the whole match !!!!!!!! Luckily Dai still had ½ a tank of fuel and at least it was nicely warmed up for a quick get away.
Back for the weigh-in and my 50lbs odd of weighers with what was in my net gave me 125lbs overall which was enough for my section as David had 110lbs (more fish, but a smaller stamp) still allowing both of us to join the exclusive
100lbs+ JINX CLUB. I believe Antwood also joined us on his very 1st Jinx match and Matt took the overall honours on the day with a fine 139lb bag from the little used peg 12.
Finally as this was Churt's Memorial Match, the trophy should have been presented to Matt, but Malc had forgotten it !!!!!!!!
No Surprise there then.
However SteveW and myself did FINALLY get our hands on the Pairs Trophy we won last series.........
.......however as it has to go away for engraving that's probably be the last we'll see of it.
Individual Results on the day were as follows
1st.... Matt Nutt.............................................. ......139lb 2oz
2nd... Peter Morton............................................ ....125lb
3rd.... Dave Ashby............................................. ....110lb 2oz
4th....Anthony Haywood.........................................10 8lb 10oz
5th…. Paul Roberts........................................... .......96lb 11oz
6th…. Brian Bevan............................................. ......86lb 12oz
7th…. Eric Robathan.......................................... ......84lb 12oz
8th…. Pete Thompson.......................................... ....84lb
9th…. Nick Bryan............................................. .......82lb 2oz
10th...Steve Wilson............................................ ....76lb 8oz
11th.. Simon Rowley............................................ ...76lb
12th.. Mark Bennett........................................... .....75lb
13th.. Dirk Williams.......................................... ........60lb 14oz
14th.. Keith Ashby............................................. ......60lb 4oz
15th.. Neil McMurran.......................................... ......60lb 2oz
16th.. Dave Moore……………..........................….......... 57lb 11oz
17th.. Nick Jones............................................. .......50lb 2oz
18th.. Malc Doyle............................................. .......45lb 12oz
19th.. Andy Felton............................................ ......40lb
20th.. Geoff Palmer............................................ .....30lb 8oz
21st.. Nick Watkins-Price.........................................29lb 15oz
22nd..Nick Williams.......................................... ........25lb
23rd.. Dai Thomas............................................ .......22lb 8oz
24th.. Mark Causer............................................ ......18lb 3oz
25th.. Dan Thomas............................................ ......15lb
26th...Geoff Eggison........................................... .....13lb
Total weight caught was 1673lb 10oz.
So that was it, 1 down, 5 to go and on to the Engine Pool at Earlswood lakes.