alfie mobbs memorial trophy 8/7/17, alvechurch fishery

today was a special day as we all rememberd the late alfie mobbs sadly missed by all his mates on the bank today.so first up a picture of the old boy enjoying himself doing what he loved "FISHING"  at one of our matches a few years ago at fisherwick on the streams pool.
alf by ksmith23359, on Flickr

anyway on to the report of the days match. we start a lot closer to home. now my lots navigational skills are not brilliant to say the least!  this had to be a new low though, we had lost half of em just getting of the bromford estate and on to the tyburn road . anyway we managed to find em all and off we set down the aston express way one finger salutes as we past villa park following the pershore road all the way to alvechurch fishery.on arrival phil the gaffa at alvechurch likes to get you all together in the club house to explain the rules one being only 60lb of per net at which point we get the normal coments of we  won't fill all our nets with 60lb ! he's never seen our club fish
well  coments like that came back to haunt one of our daft members.
well of we trotted to our pegs after the draw.  drew peg 11 towards the top end of the island on the river side. i had big jim langston to my right and big belly colin horner to my left
i was quite happy with the peg i drew to far for pole to reach so pellet feeder was the way i was going today.
i started well landing a stockie early on but then went on a run of losing fish first hour only 2 in the net and 5 lost, 2 at the net. time was getting on and caught a couple more and lost a couple more! decided to go up from a size 16 pellet banded hook to a 14 which seemed to do the trick and i started landing  a few. trouble was all could hear to my right was loads of splashing as mr langston landed fish after fish. he was catching carp, barbel , some good bream plus tench. he hit one big un that snapped his elastic as it made for the island.i could see the bubbles in jims swim is was like someone had tossed a full tin of alka salsa , he was putting together a bloody good weight , while to my left old big belly horner was also banging out a few good fish.from the other side of the island i could'nt see em but icould hear stuart berrows squeaky voice and none stop laughter from mark poole and tony walker. seemed every one was having a good day for a change
in the end jim kicked our asses by putting a good mixed bag on the scales which went round 82lb plus . on the other side of the island dave gordon the dopey sod pulled his net out to find he had 74lb in one net! he knew the rules and phil the gaffa was fair about it and knocked his weight down to the 60lb limit, dave was ok about it and accepted he had broken the rules , in the end it made no difference to the result as he would have weighed in just over 80lb with his silver fish net, i think he weighed in 66lb in the end. a special mention to our elder statesman mr john poole 82 years of age and weight in 61lb well done sir. evryone caught a few fish enjoyed the day. a big thank you to the boss phil who looked after us and did  a great job on the scales, we'll be back next year for sure.
so onto the pictures.
first up we have dan constables grandad who came along as a guest. his name is morris or is it maurice    not sure anyway he managed to land a lovely 9lb plus common, well done that man.
alve1 by ksmith23359, on Flickr

next we find jimbo langston plumbing up before the all in
a1 by ksmith23359, on Flickr

and here we find the beast micky davis ready to get going.
a6 by ksmith23359, on Flickr

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dan constable is not as good looking as his grandad but looks cool enough in his shades.
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heres the clubs cheat trying to pull 74lb of fish onto the bank!
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next up we find mark poole at the weigh in
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tony kibble ready for the whistle to go
a3 by ksmith23359, on Flickr

stuart doing a great job helping john poole drag his 60 lb catch onto the scale well done john.
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talking of mr berrow here we find stuart weighing his catch in
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fellow bluenose adrian constables turn to weigh in
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the clubs tackle tart mick webster at the scales
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carol gordons turn, well done young lady
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gordon enjoying the sun
a2 by ksmith23359, on Flickr

another one of the clubs old boys, david preece enoys a well earned cuppa.
a4 by ksmith23359, on Flickr

tony walkers turn to drag his net out.
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and now we find craig toal at the scales
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nick lane had yet another good day , well done sir.
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john goode jnr seems happy enough with his days work.
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oh do cheer up boys you all had a great day
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colin horner had a great day on both pole and feeder, well done mate.
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next up me! the man who lost more than he caught
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and my catch
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and here he is top man on the day big bad jim langston
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the clubs tiddler king john goode snr had his normal net of silvers
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oh do stop posing mr hewitt
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look at the silly old sods a joint age of about 400 they both had a great day well done lads
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i think its love
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a5 by ksmith23359, on Flickr

well thats it kids, what great day on great fishery with great weather. see you all on the 22nd ready to board the coach to lower broadheath. well done all.