Boldings report

SPORTS DESK 6/3/07

John Francis (Rod & Gun) had another good week-end at Boldings Pools with a first and a third to his credit, after Pete Plant got back to winning ways by starting off the week with the top weight to take the honours on the Wednesday open.

Pete’s decision to abandon his favourite bait, the caster, in favour of maggot, paid of well, with a 53-4-0 top score. He was on peg 5 on the Deepdale, and tempted carp to 6lbs on a shallow rig. Down at the end of the Deepdale, Bob Tromans (Fiery Holes) fished to each side of peg 1 with pellet and corn to finish one decent fish behind the winner, scaling 49-8-0. Round to his right, Stuart Aston (Swan JT) netted 43-1-0 at peg 12 for third, and fourth went to a Hawthorn best of 40-6-0 form Andy Williams (Rod & Gun).

The biggest winning margin at Boldings was recorded by Ed Turner (OB Wolves) on Thursday. He was 16lbs clear of runner up Karl Haywood (Sedgeley) with 47-6-0 on corn and pellet at Beech peg 20. Karl was on the point on the same pool, and had 31-2-0 on the pellet at 12 metres. An Oak Pool best of 28-5-0 form corner peg 31 gave Mel Kitson (Rod & Gun) third, and Mick Jameson (Middy ML) was 4^th with 25-0-0 from Oak peg 8.

On Saturday John Francis finished 8lbs clear of a string of close weights for the remaining frame places, which included a tie for 4^th.

‘Franner’ drew peg 13 on the Chestnut, and proved the old superstition false again with 46-10-0 of carp to 6lbs on pellet at 7 metres. Opposite him, on the point at peg 32, Martin Churchill (Wrexham) fished maggot, up in the water for 38-12-0, to beat an Oak best of 36-0-0 from Paul Cartwright. Bob Tromans framed again, sharing 4^th with Ian Winter (Wolves). They each had an even 34lbs, Bob from Chestnut 36 and Ian from Oak 13.

Competitors had to endure strong winds and an all day downpour on Sunday, but the match gave the closest finish of the week when Richard Duke (WB Clarke) grabbed the spoils from Colin Reynolds (Bilston Angling). Rich was on peg 1 on the Deepdale, and included some decent rudd with his carp for a total of 47-14-0. Colin drew peg 5 on the hawthorn and fished to the island and close in, but fell agonizingly short of winning when he saw the scales settle at 46-3-0.

John Francis and Steve Laurence (OB Wolves) had an even closer tussle for third, They were both on the Oak, with john scaling 39-3-0 at peg 16 and Steve 38-10-0 at peg 2.

Best on the Middle Pool was Dave Hailey (WAC) on 36-10-0.

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