Boldings report

SPORTS DESK 11/12/07

My apologies for the missing results from last week, I was away from home and had some difficulty with communications failures.

There was no river action this week with the Severn spilling over into the fields above and below Shrewsbury. Hopefully the frosty weather at the start of this week will get the levels down, and sport will benefit from the flushing.

There was plenty of stillwater action though, and at Boldings Pools Pete Plant (Maver) added another win to the one he enjoyed last week and there was more success for fellow Maver rod Dave Brown, but it Morgans Oswestry backed Arthur Wood who made the top catch of the week. After drawing peg 11 on the Middle Pool on Thursday, Arthur took a leaf out of the Pete Plant book of baits and offered caster, up in the water to bring carp to 6lbs into the swim, and netted enough of them to establish a 10lbs advantage over the rest with a 46-10-0 winning total.

Up the hill from the Middle, Dave Barnard (Rod & Gun) worked with pellet at peg 3 on the Hawthorn Pool, netting carp to 5lbs on the 8metre line, and close in to finish second on 36-3-0. Back on the Middle, Brian Clarke (Maver) finished a close third with 34-7-0 and next to him on the bank and in the frame was Colin Reynolds (Bilston Angling) on 26-0-0,

Pete Plant started his week with a win, filling top spot on the Wednesday open with a caster based 36-12-0 from corner peg 3 on the Beech Pool. One fish behind Pete, at point peg 7, was Andy Williams (Telford) with an even 34-0-0 for second. Round to his right Graham Roberts (OB Wolves) scaled 28-13-0 for third at peg 5 and Dave Barnard made the frame again, taking 4^th this time courtesy of 22-3-0 from |Beech 18.

Saturday saw a tight finish, with only ounces between Dave Brown and Jack Hailey (OB Wolves). Having been beaten to top spot on the Ash Pool by feeder tactics last week, Dave adopted the method to offer maggot at corner peg 9, and found 31-15-0 of carp to 5lbs on a hard day, of lashing rain and gales. Over on the Hawthorn Jack presented pellet at 10 metres, and he too netted carp to 5lbs, but saw the scales settle at an agonizing 2 ounces short of the winner at 31-13-0, which left peg 3 in runner up position for the second match running.

Third went to a Beech Pool best of 25-15-0 from Andy Bayliss-Kyte at peg 5 and peg 5 on the Hawthorn gave Joe Brennan (OB Wolves) 23-7-0 for 4^th.

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