Boldings report
Boldings Report
Harry Colley (OB Wolves) made it two ton up wins in succession by notching up another victory at the latest Monday Affordable open.
Last week he won from the Chestnut with 113-9-0, this week, he had precisely a pound more from the beech Pool. Harry used corn, pellet and meat to tempt carp to 9lbs, fishing close in at peg 20, to end the day on 114-9-0.
Colley's win was no pushover though, as he had Steve Owen (Mid Leisure) chasing hard all the way at peg 14 on the Ash. Steve was catching smaller carp, with fish from 1lb to 5lbs coming to his corn and pellet, offered at 5metres. In the end, the bigger fish made a difference of 10lbs, with Steve seeing the scales settle at 104-6-0.
Pete Ricketts (New Willenhall) had a level 71-0-0 for third at Ash 9 and Godfrey Wood (Oswestry) put a level 61-0-0 on the scales at Beech 7 for 4th.
Catch rates were down on Wednesday, but it still took over 50lbs to win, and two different pools gave the top two weights again, with Rod & Gun men filling first and second places.
Dave Barnard picked up the main prize thanks to a Sycamore best of 54-9-0, which came from peg 40. Hard on his heels was Scott Doodson, who led three frame weights from the Chestnut with 51-0-0 from peg 5 to take second.
Ralph Johnson (Bilston Ang Cent) scaled 46-10-0 at peg 16 to pip Mick Jameson (Mid Leisure) to third, with Mick netting 44-6-0 at peg 11.
Weights started climbing again on Thursday when it was a peg on the Chestnut which produced the winner, ahead of the Sycamore. Brian Clarke (Maver Midlands) pulled Chestnut 30 from the bag, and put pellet to work at 12 metres to find carp to 7lbs, and put together a net of 85-13-0 to win.
Over at Sycamore peg 4, Bob Tromans (Fiery Holes) also worked pellet, to catch carp to 6lbs on the 5 metre line, finishing with 69-10-0 for second.
An Oak best of 65-11-0 from peg 22 gave Andy Amos (Shimano) third, and 4th also came from the Oak when Tony Foster scaled 52-12-0 at peg 29.
Maver rods filled the top three places on Saturday when the Hawthorn Pool came up with the best weight of the week, after Dave Brown drew corner peg 1. His shallow caster approach soon had the carp feeding, with fish from 1lb to 7lbs coming to the net regularly throughout, giving dave a return of 125-4-0.
Andy Bayliss-Kyte also drew a corner peg when he pulled number 11 on the Middle Pool from the draw bag. Andy fished pellet and paste down the edge to include carp to 8lbs in a 109-13-0 net, which gave him second.
Back on the hawthorn, Sean Barber completed the Maver line up with 89-10-0 for third at peg 5, with Carl Foster (OB Wolves) 10lbs behind on 79-9-0 at Middle peg 3.
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