2017 john bennett annual 22/7/17

well it soon comes around every year. we all met up at the club car park to board the coach to worcester at 7:45 am. coach loaded and off we went. just short of the motorway i thought to myself DAN CONSTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! he's not on the coach bugga! fair play to the coach driver he turned his 50 seater around and went back to pick dan and his grandad , great start to the day anyway there were no more problems on route to worcester, thank god
first stop down by the race tarck next to the river to drop off all the none fishermen/women so they could spend the day doing what ever they wanted for 8 hours, my mrs and mate spent the whole 8 hours shopping! thank god i went fishing and in the case of tony martin and his band of geriatric trouble makers they spent all 8 hours in the pub! and looking at the state of em when we returned to pick em up they must have had a drink in every pub in worcester
next destination lower broadheath (the jam factory) about a 10 minute run from worcester town centre.
coach unloaded next to the sycamore pool it was down to the main business of the day dragging them carp from the depths of the pool. i drew peg 1 and had dave (iv'e forgot my landing net pole) gordon to my left and mr poole the elder to my right.started on the pole with punched meat hair rigged on the bottom about 10 feet in depth at 10 meters but all i could hit was skimmers! looking around the pool i could see most of the lads had found the carp already. bob williams red elastic was stretching across the pool when "twang" fish gone elastic wrapped around his head and bob said " oh dear " or something like that
dave gordon kept hooking em and kept bumping em followed by "iv'e forgot my landing net pole"
john to my right was catching small carp quite steadily. a couple of pegs from me nick lane had a slow start on the pellet waggler but when he started to catch there was no stopping the bugga!
and dave gordon said " iv'e forgot my landing net "
across the other side of the pool i could see mark poole and adrian constable putting together decent bags of fish.as for me all i had was ear ache as dave gordon told me " iv'e forgot my landing net pole "
john kept catching, nick kept catching then dave ( "iv'e forgot my landing net pole ") gordon started catching i had to make changes. away went the pole and out went the pellet feeder and at last i caught my first carp! trouble was it was a while before i caught any more while john, nick and dave ( "ive forgot my landing net pole ") kept bagging up. the sun was out and it was bloody hot and as i just finished covering myself in sun cream it poured down!!!
it took a while but i did start to catch a few but it was far to late to worry the scales.
anyway dave ( " ive forgot my landing net pole " ) who had borrowed an extending bank stick off mark to screw his landing net to ,shipped it back in the rain and the point on the end went staright through his brand new brolly  that he'd just paid 85 quid for! we didn't laugh did we lads , no not much we didn't
well at the end of the match it looked like it was going to be close but you can't believe any of the truth benders  in this club! dan constable told me he'd caught bugga all and then ended up second , we should have left him on the car park when we forgot him
weigh in done and the winner was once again mr nick lane withh 66lb plus with dan second, john third dave ( "ive forgot my landing net pole " ) 4th and adrian 5th. well done all .not the best weights ever but at least everyone caught some fish and had a great day pool side.
onto the pictures and firt up it's me
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next our scales men sorting out john's catch
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well done old un, theres no stopping him and his pellet feeder.
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well done john 43-08-00.
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one of the guests on the day dans grandad maurice had a good few fish and enjoyed himself.
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what can you say about this bloke ? not a lot. dave preece and his net full of tiddlers. john west would have been proud of him !
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another guest on the day stuarts brother titch who kicked his brothers ass! ditch the hat mate
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this young chap craig was in the golden peg didn't win it but had a great day
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oh here he is dan ( ive caught bugga all) constble, your lucky you caught the coach ya git
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and his catch
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next up jim langston, not his best day but still caught a few.
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and here's my work mate mr honrer, should have gone to work instaed colin
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yet another guest, neil wells or as we know him H. had he been a member he would have came 2nd with a bag of 50lb plus well done H.
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and here's the clubs tackle tart micky webster
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stan chester enjoyed himself with us
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stuart and gordon doing a great job on the scales as always.
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mr goodes turn on the scales
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tony walkers first annual with us
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gordon dragging his catch in
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miss gordon had a great day, well done carol.
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tony kibble put a good few kippers on the scales
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mark didn't catch as many as his dad but still had a great day.
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adrian just missed out on the payout
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well thats the fishing out of the wayback on coach and off to the alma inn for a drink or 10.
this is what you look like after 8 hours on the booze! dear oh dear
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one of our scalesmen and his mrs nuala who supplied all the lads fishing with sausage rolls, thanks nuala we all love ya but next time can you heat them up , tin hat on
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oh look who it is, old dave (" iv'e forgot my landing net pole " ) trying to strangle little geoff
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cheer up you lot!
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me my mrs andrea and her mate karen waiting for our grub.
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carol getting stuck in
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here's conky in the yellow coat who 5 minutes later falls off his stool and broke his wrist and elbow ouch!
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and here he is being led off into the ambulance by the paramedics !
thats whats happens when you spend 8 hours none stop drinking!
cost the poor old bugga 70 quid in taxi fare to get home from worcester, it could only happen in our club!
all jokeing apart everyone wishes you all the best and a speedy recovery conky mate!
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the 2 johns, stan and gordon enjoying a pint
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my mrs  andrea (  the blonde one ) and her mate karen
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titch and his other half
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and here we find carol, glynis,H, bob and tony
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the same gang minus H
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looks like tony walkers got the round in
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3 generations of constables, sons craig and dan, dad adrian and grandad maurice
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me keeping the drunks in check!
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talking of drunks
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it's no landing net poles table
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the berrow family tucking in
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miss gordon again.
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i think colin should take over from peter sallis as he looks like wallace from  wallace and grommit
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well thats it kids another great day. big thanks to tracie gordon who did a great job taking the cards around making a good few quid for the club, also nuala for the sausage rolls even though they were cold
a big thank you to everyone that came with us and all the lads and the lady for all the great banter around the pool. not to forget john poole for taking all these bloody pictures, thanks john . once again on behalf of everyone invloved with the club get well soon conky!