Boldings report

PORTS DESK 27/12/07

Temperatures stayed below freezing al day for the mid-week matches at Boldings, and the catch rates reflected the fact, although Stuart Aston (Swan JT) did manage to top 30lbs to win on Wednesday, despite the cold.

Fishing out at 7 metres with corn, Stuart contacted carp to 4lbs in the cold at peg 3 on the Hawthorn Pool, to put a gap of 9lbs between him and runner up Mick Jameson (Mid Leisure). Mick was just along the bank at corner peg 1, and caught from the paddles, but his 21-7-0 was no match for Stuarts 30-10-0.

Down on the Middle Pool Mick Williams (Rod & Gun) took the pool honours and shared third overall with Dave Barnard (Rod & Gun). They both scaled 19-90-0, Mick from peg 10 on the Middle and Dave from peg 5 on the Hawthorn.

Thursday saw the Beech Pool in use, where the better carp were having none of it, and carp in the 1lb to 3lb bracket made up the catches.

John Wild (Stafford) tempted the most, fishing pellet at 7 metres at peg 9 to net 25-2-0. Dave Barnard moved up from 4^th on Wednesday to 2^nd this time. He also worked the 7 metre line with pellet, taking 20-13-0 on the tactic at peg 29, to finish ahead of Colin Reynolds (Bilston Ang Cent) on 17-10-0 at point peg 7.

Beech 16 proved to be a winning draw for Andy Bayliss- Kyte (Rod & Gun) on Saturday, but it was a close run thing as Pete Plant (Maver) finished exactly 2lbs behind him, needing just one more fish to nick first place.

Andy offered pellet at 13 metres and found carp in the 1lb to 5lb range, slightly bigger than those which accepted Pete’s maggot bait, fished at 12 metres at Ash peg 5. When the five hours was up, Andy had 33-8-0 in his net and Pete had 31-8-0.

Dave Brown (Maver) was a further 8lbs behind on 23-3-0 at Beech 25, and Thursdays winner John Wild helped himself to 4^th with 19-11-0 at Ash 9.

Pete Plant drew Ash 5 again the following day, and tackled it with maggot again, but went out a little further to fish at 14 metres. The fish ran a bit smaller than those he caught on Saturday, but there were a lot more of them and Pete recorded the top weight of the week at 55-12-0 to win by over 20lbs.

At corner peg 11 on the Middle Pool Steve Lawrence (OB Wolves) dropped his pellet bait close to the paddles to find carp to 5lbs for his runner up 34-6-0. That saw Colin Reynolds (Bilston Ang Cent) squeezed out for the second time in two weeks, as he finished less a pound adrift on 33-9-0 at Beech 9. Dave Brown framed again, dropping one place to 4^th with 31-8-0 and Sean Barber (Telford) was close behind him with a Hawthorn best of 29-13-0.

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