Results

Fur & Feather 25/9/11

Smiggies Lake

24 fished

Jason takes home the Turkey!

This years Fur & Feather Match was a very well attended event, which, sadly, was one of the probable causes for Smiggies fishing so poorly on the day! The strong downstream wind did not help matters, but we ought to be used to that by now as every match fished on this venue seems to come with a "battle against the elements" as an added extra . As ever, it is important to make best use of the first hour on a Smiggies match day, as this is when most of the fish are netted.

Jason Farmery did just that, catching silver fish and the odd Skimmer Bream in the early stages plus the bonus of a bigger Bream to push his weight up to a respectable 13lb...not even needing the Carp that he hooked halfway through the competition!! With Jay fishing on light tackle and the Carp trying to climb up the Island they soon parted company .

Paul "Cookie" Cooke had to fish at 17.5meters on the Pole, no mean feat in the conditions, to find any fish. With some decent sized Silvers and two good 1lb+ Skimmers, Cookie's 10lb 9oz was easily enough to take second place from peg 4.

Also fishing at 17.5 meters was Dave Kimber on peg 20. Dave, like most others, caught well for the first hour, but it was two big 1lb 8oz silvers in the last hour, when the wind had slowed down slightly enabling him to present a bait close to the Island, that boosted his weight to 8lb 3oz and third place.

The webmaster picked up fourth place, just 1oz behind Dave. My match, following the similar pattern of good first hour decent last half hour and not a lot in between! . Drawn next to Club Membership Secretary, Roy Parkes, who was making a rare match day appearance. Roy showed me some strawberry flavoured, jellied pellets that had been given to him on a Corporate Fishing day. One sniff certainly seemed to clear my sinus blockage anyway . Was it my imagination or was it when Roy threw a handful of "said" pellets into his swim that the bites dried up for the entire lake........

Chris Crane took section 1 with 7lb 12oz from peg 3, Frank Lyons landed to 3lb+ Bream to take section 2 with 7lb from peg 7. Section 3 went to Keith Macfarlane with 4lb 9oz from peg 21 and Jim Shooter took home the Section 4 prize with 4lb 14oz from peg 30.