DRAYTON 1st OCTOBER RESULTS

WELL TO-DAY WAS OUR SECOND MATCH AT THIS FAMOUS DRAYTON WATER,
ON LEAVING ST-HELENS AT 5-00am ON A VERY WET AND WINDY MORNING ON OUR WAY 125 miles SOUTH, WE ARRIVED AT AROUND 7-30am TO WHAT LOOKED TO BE A CLEAR AND FINE DAY, ON ARRIVAL WE WERE ALL GOB SMACKED TO SEE JONNY WELLY? ON THE CAR PARK THAT MAN GETS EVERY WERE (SEE PHOTOS) 8-30am SAW THE DRAW, AND WE DECIDED TO KEEP THE SAME PEGS FOR BOTH MATCHES TO-DAY AND NOT HAVE A RE-DRAW LIKE LAST TIME, 9-00am ALL IN WAS SHOUTED AND THE SUN WAS OUT AND ONLY A LIGHT WIND, NOT LIKE THE LADS ON THE CANAL WERE ENJOYING BACK IN ST-HELENS, WE SOON FOUND OUT IT WAS NOT GOING TO FISH THE SAME AS THE LAST MATCH AS THE BALIFF HAD TOLD US THAT THEY HAD HAD AN EASTERLY WIND AND PLENTY OF RAIN WHICH HAD PUT THE FISH OFF FEEDING,
THE RESULT OF THE MORNING MATCH,
1st MARK LITTLEWOOD 42lb 1oz PEG 5,
2nd BAZ LITTLEWOOD 28lB 12oz PEG 2,
3rd WILL TRAVIS 12lb 6oz PEG 1,
4th ANDY BETTISON 11lB 6oz PEG 4,
5th MIKE HAMMOND 9lb 14oz PEG 8,
6th JED NOONAN 9lb 6oz PEG 6,
7th IAN SULLIVAN 6lb 14oz PEG 7,
8th MARCUS (THE CARP HUNTER) DNW.

AFTER THE WEIGH IN, LUNCH WAS SERVED, A YOUNG LADY CALLED ANGIE ( THE BALIFFS WIFE) HAD GONE TO THE CHIPPY FOR OUR DINNER WHICH WE ALL ENJOYED.

THE AFTERNOON MATCH SAW MARK LITTLEWOOD AND JED NOONAN PUT INTO PRACTICE WHAT THEY FOUND OUT IN THE MORNING MATCH ? DO NOT FEED AND A LONG CAST WAS THE METHOD, THERE WERE THREE PBs BROKEN IN THE MATCH,
MARK LITTLEWOOD 116lb 8oz WINNING MATCH WEIGHT
JED NOONAN 15lb 6oz CARP AND 88lb 7oz MATCH WEIGHT,
INFACT WE HAD ANOTHER PB MARCUS, THE BEST FIGHT HE HAS EVER HAD WITH A CARP (SEE PHOTOS), I TOLD HIM THAT THEY DRINK IRUN BRU AND TAKE STEROIDS WHICH HE FOUND OUT,
WELL DONE TO MARK LITTLEWOOD FOR BREAKING THE 100lbs
RESULTS.
1st MARK LITTLEWOOD 116lb 8oz
2nd JED NOONAN 88lb 7oz
3rd MIKE HAMMOND 66lb 0oz
4th IAN SULLIVAN 52lb 2oz
5th WILL TRAVIS 43lb 10oz
6th BAZ LITTLEWOOD 18lb 13oz
ANDY BETTISON AND MARCUS (THE CARP HUNTER) HAD TO LEAVE EARLY DNW.

WE WILL BE BOOKING MORE MATCHES FOR DRAYTON NEXT YEAR WHEN IT WARMS UP AND LETS SEE WHO IS THE FIRST PERSON TO BREAK THE 200lbs BARRIER ???
CHEERS BAZ

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great day out lads cheers :fsm: had a laugh and i know you all did what the f*ck do i look like in this pic

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Great pics and a great read that baz :fsm:

Well done Mark , and well don Ged , would loved to have seen your face Ged when you caught, you must have one arm as big as Arnie's now

Looks like you all enjoyed yourselves

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