Boldings report

 

 

BOLDINGS REPORT  13-6-12.

 

          The Queens Jubilee Two Day Festival, fished on the double Bank Holiday at Boldings Pools, produced the closest of finishes, with no less than three competitors finishing the event with an excellent three penalty points. That left overall weight to be the decider as to where the prizes went.

          Mitch Davidson (Maver Gold) made the best of starts with a day one victory which saw him take a lot of fish by fishing pellet to the island at Chestnut peg 23. His catch of carp in the 1lb to 3lb range with barbel to 2lbs added up to 135-4-0.

          Next to Mitch on peg 21 Steve Owen (Mid Leisure) worked pellet at 6 metres and corn on the inside and found carp to 8lbs together with bream to 2lbs, but a slower catch rate left him just under 15lbs short of the winner on 120-11-0.

          Third on the day went to a Sycamore top score of 104-15-0, taken by Jason Elwell (Phil’s Tackle) at peg 33, and back on the Chestnut Kevin Melville (Maver Total Angling) claimed 4^th with 92-8-0 at peg 30.

 

          Day two saw Les Thompson Matrix Bait Tech) move up from 5^th on day one to first place. He was round the other side of the Chestnut island at peg 27 and offered pellet to the island combined with meat close in to record a very similar weight to the day one winner, 135-10-0, which was mainly small carp, with the odd sample to 6lbs helping the cause.

          Steve Owen was runner up again, with a weight which varied from his first days effort by only one ounce when he scaled 120-12-0. This time Steve was on the Sycamore peg 24, and included carp to 9lbs, caught to each side of the peg on corn and pellet.

          Scott Doodson (Preston Innov) made a three ton top three by scaling 101-14-0 at Sycamore 13 and Jason Elwell was in the mix again, taking 4^th from peg 16 on the Chestnut with 88-5-0.

          Steve Owen, Les Thompson and Jason Elwell were the three to finish on 3 points, Steve was the overall winner with an aggregate weight of 241-7-0, Les had a total of 223-0-0 to take second and Jason had 193-4-0 for third. Fourth overall was Mitch Davidson with 5 points, Sean Barber (Maver Sonubaits) and Gareth Emlyn (Oakengates Ang Cent) both scored 8 points, with Sean getting 5^th thanks to a better aggregate.

 

          The Beech Pool came up with a winner for Carl Foster (PI Boldings) on Wednesday, when his was the best of another trio of 100lb catches. Bread punch over pellet fond the fish for Carl at Beech 32 with carp to 8lbs coming to 133-6-0.

          Hard on the heels of the winner was Dave Craggs (Maver) at Beech 5, where caster and corn on the inside line put carp to 7lbs in the net for 13-4-0.

          Colin Wozak (Telford) led the Willows catches with a level 100-0-0 from peg 5, which just pipped the 99-9-0 recorded by Clive Wynn (Tricast Weston) at Willows 8.

         

          John Wild (Stafford) won from Oak peg 31 on Thursday when pellet at 5 metres and close in netted 82-7-0 of carp to 6lbs.  Second came from the Ash, with Tim Morris (Middle Severn Angling) weighing in a level 79-0-0 at peg 16. His catch came to pellet and paste on the 8 metre line and close in. At Oak 13 Danny Boden (Oak Ang Cent) scaled 78-4-0 for a close third and Gareth Emlyn (OAC) had his 4^th placed 74-13-0 from Ash 14.

 

          The top three in the Festival all featured in the frame on Sunday too, with Jason Elwell picking up first prize with the top weight of the week, 156-8-0. Having drawn Chestnut 32, Jason offered pellet at 6 metres, alternated with corn and paste down the side to pick off carp to 8lbs, interspersed with bream to 3lbs.

          Phil Taylor (Wolves) had carp to 7lbs and barbel to 2lbs fishing pellet at 5 metres and corn close in at Chestnut 13 to end with 135-3-0.

          Festival winner Steve Owen picked up third from Chestnut 7 where he weighed 117-13-0, and Les Thompson completed a big weight top four with 114-15-0, which was an Oak Pool best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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