fur & feather 2017 blythe waters 7/10/17

well the season has flown past once again and saturday saw us fish our last match of the season the annual fur & feather match at blythe waters on bridge pool.
as soon as we reached our pegs the heavens opened and we had to set up in the rain the good news was it only lasted about twenty minutes and the sun came out . i drew peg 9 at the  top end of the pool and i had adrian and dan constable to my left and bob williams and tony kibble to my right. i had high hopes for this match but as always seems to happen it fished really hard i started on the pellet feeder to the island in front of me while feeding corn under a over hanging tree in my right hand margin. almost an hour in and not one real rip round bite adrian was first to land a real fish dragging in a decent carp from next to the island.i kept feeding corn under the tree setting a trap for later on. i decided to to cast my pellet feedr to a floating island to my left and almost straight away i was in yippeeeeeeeeeee at last adrian must have noticed as he cast his feeder to the other side of my floating island and was in to a couple carp in no time at all. my side went dead so i decided it was time to get the pole out and lowered a large ball of pellet paste under the tree. first put in my float dipped and i was into a bloody good fish but not for long the sodding thing took me into the tree roots and done me good and proper! fish gone and all i had on my hook was a huge carp scale, oh dear i said to my self to be honset it was more like ****ing hell:lol!: .time went on and i landed 4 carp and lost 3 i spent more time watching the cray fish crawling all over the tree roots under my peg.i knew not a lot was being caught down our end but i was sure someone would be bagging down the other end of the pool.as it turned out the 4 top weights me included all carp 4 carp only it was even worse up the other end, very strange in the end big jim langston won the match in the golden peg he finished the day with 90 quid from the golden peg the pools money 10 cans of bear and won the pairs k.o. with dave gordon, i bet he's had worse days well done jim.nick came second, adrian 3rd and my good self 4th. so on to the pictures and first up we find dave gordon who caught 5 good chub and nothing else for 12lb a very strange catch on a pool full of very big carp. i think he was fishing the river behind the pool here he is with his biggest chub.
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and the rest of them in his net
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in peg 1 we find micky the beast davis who had a real bad day by his high standards finishing with a dry net!it gets stranger
next we find the clubs very own david baily on the day of his 82nd birthday, john pool on the other side of the camera for once
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next the clubs tiddler basher mr preece
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next up we find colin hewitt another tiddler basher
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dan had 1 good carp on the day and seems happy enough about it
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well done adrian, in the money once again.
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my turn on the scales
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bob williams had a decent day coming 5th in the match
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and his fish
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the clubs pin up boy mr kibble with a fag  in his mouth
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i think jim knows he's won the golden peg, git     well done mate
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tony walker looks like he's picking a fight with the camera man
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micky websters turn to weigh his net of monsters in
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mr poole the younger has his turn on the scales
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seems happy enough with his days work
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thats rather a big net for what you caught young lady well done carol
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well done nick second on the day
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our unsung hero's gordon and stuart doing a great job on the scales.
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gordon seems to enjoying the job
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and his partner  in crime stuart doing a great job well done  sir.
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match over and done with it's prize giving time and top man on the day jim digs deep into the beer in the back of my car
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looks happy don't he!
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dan with his beer
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the man in charge, yeah right    
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tony and bob about to start a fight over the john smith's  
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didn't take long for him to get in there!      
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none drinker stuart can't decide which reel he wants
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which git has had all the bitter asks mark  
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where the bloody hells ours tony asks bob  
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stuarts digs deep for his beer  
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and he's opted for the bud light
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and it's cider for tony  
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oh do cheer up mr walker  
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mr preece never far from the beer  
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carol with her arms full  
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someone else with his hands full itssssssssssssss maurice
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and the last 2 pics of the season adrian followed by me and dan
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well thats it for another season boys n girls. thanks to all of you for supporting the club through out the year roll on 2018, might win something for a change next year thanks love you all