2015 RESULTS:
Thanks for all your catches. Our overall winner was Clement B Booth with his epic chub! Top predator was shared between David West Beale and Simon Brough with their two fantastic perch. Here are the rest that made the judges top 10:
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- A superb 3lb 2oz canal perch for intrepid fly angler David West Beale. What a cracker!
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- Thomas Finney fooled this 21lb common carp with a Black Booby Blob (try saying it after a few ales)
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- What a perch! A 4lb 1oz reservoir dog for Simon Brough, tempted on a Di-3 sinking line and his own roach pattern. Outstanding!
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- A fine canal chub for Martin Smith, on his deadly "Martin's Minnow"
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- A fantastic chub of 6lbs 8oz caught by Clement B Booth from the Loddon on 4-weight gear.
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- A cracking 31lb 10oz Mirror carp for Andy Parkinson
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- One of Ben Bangham's guiding clients took this surprise bullhead on a nymph. Respect!
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- A late winter chub with a taste for minnow, taken by organiser Dom Garnett
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- Tim Roberts has been getting amongst some cracking carp, such as this mirror.
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- Another cracking carp for Tim Roberts, this time at albs 5oz
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- A nice bream, tricked by Meijn Du Bruijn on a 2-wt rod
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- A pound plus canal rudd for Steve Moore, fooled on a Red Tag Black & Peacock fished a foot beneath the surface.
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- Rudd on a ladybird for Chris King
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- Geoff Hadley fooled this lovely 15lb 4oz common carp with a pink egg fly
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- Linda Summerfield took this terrific bream of between 4-5 pounds on the Grand Union Canal. It took a GRHE that was barely retrieved at all.
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- A gudgeon for Andy Field
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- Fly caught minnow.
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- A large bleak for Mark Dennis.
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- Comp organiser Dom Garnett with a cracking rudd.
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- The General: Judge of our epic mini species contest.
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- Stu Bamford with a cracking loch pike with a lime green and silver pike fly.
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- One of several dace caught by John Mansell on small dry flies.
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- Another cracking carp, this time 16lbs, to Thomas Finney
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- John Maskell took this nice hybrid on a beaded spider
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- Crayfish on a fly? If you're Corsican Dave, yes...
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- The best fish of our Fly For Coarse Weekender: 2 lbs 1 oz of perch for David West Beale
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- A grub type fly took this crucian for David West Beale.
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- GA Anderson has been catching some awesome canal chub- like this net-filler from the Grand Union
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- A little rudd with a big appetite, Jonathan Thompson tempted it on a size 14 Bibio. A contender for our micro species award?
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- Darren Whyman's first ever chub on the fly was this fabulous four pound plus fish
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- A perch with a taste for a Damsel for Nick Gough, who had this nice surprise on a trout fishing trip.
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- Another nice catch for Michael Dorr, this time a fit 7 lb river pike
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- "Corsican Dave" had this pumpkinseed in Spain.
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- Henry Bennett had this lovely 8oz+ dace on a size 16 Parachute Adams
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- Dave Felce had this fantastically wild pike from a Scottish Loch, on a "Dodds Dodger"
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- Nick Thomas tempted this fine common on his own "Popeye" beetle pattern, fished in a sheltered bay.
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- This fine Taff chub was tempted by Nick Thomas on a small fry pattern.
