report

          After the brief respite in the weather on Sunday last week it was back to more miserable Monday conditions to start this week of at Boldings Pools, with a gale driven downpour which lasted most of the day.

John Bridgwood [Kings] rode the storm best to win the open on the Larch fairly comfortably with 51-10-0. John was drawn on point peg 16 and included some decent roach together with carp to 4lbs, which he tempted with pellet at 10 metres.

Owen Boswell [PI Boldings] chose to fish maggot at 4 metres and 12 metres at peg 16, a choice which provided him with a runner up 36-10-0 of carp to 3lbs. Up at peg 2 Dave Doughty [Woodend] picked up third with his 28-2-0.

         

          The rain had gone on Wednesday, but temperatures had dropped to give a fairly hard frost, a fact which helped Mick Jameson [PI Bold] to decide on a straight lead approach, with maggot bait to tackle peg 50 on the Sycamore. The ploy paid off with a catch of mostly barbel in the 4lb class giving Mick a 58-1-0 winner.

          Runner up Pete Sayers [Bronx] was on the [Chestnut, at peg 32, and used maggot on the pole at 3 metres and 8 metres to net carp to 4lbs and bream to 2lbs which gave a tally of 47-6-0. Terry Edwards [Swan Elite] kept his run of form going with a third best 38-8-0 from Chestnut 7, which put him 5 ounces in front of Clive Wynn [Tricast Weston] on 38-3-0 at Chestnut 18.

 

          On a slightly warmer Thursday match Steve Owen [Monkhall] picked up the purse by bringing 62-8-0 to the scales after he drew point peg 7 on the Beech. Maggot held sway again, with Steve offering the bait at 12 metres out, as well as in the margins, to pick off carp to 6lbs and bream to 2lbs.

          Peg 16 on the Larch featured again, with the maggot bait of Eric Bancroft [Rod & Gun] bringing in a mix of carp, bream and roach weighing 46-1-0. Mick Jameson added a third to his previous days first by netting 43-2-0 at Beech peg 11. Fourth came from the Larch where Keith Williams [Kings] scaled 39-11-0.     

 

          The week-end matches brought a double delight for Dave Brown [Maver] who won on Saturday and Sunday. His Saturday victory came from the Willows Pool, where both straight lead and pole tactics with maggot bait helped to put together a 58-7-0 mix of carp to 5lbs and barbel to 4lbs at peg 7.

          Beech peg 7 came up with another frame weight, with Alun Jones [Drennan NW] coming in a close second from it. Alun used maggot at 3 metres and 8 metres for a net of carp to 4lbs and bream to 2lbs totaling 56-3-0. Andy Bishop [Bronx] had Jones in his sights all day from Beech 26, almost opposite peg 7, and he matched him fish for fish, finishing only 1 ounce behind on 56-2-0. Next to the winner, at Willows peg 8, 49-8-0 put Les Thompson [Matrix] into fourth.

 

          There was nothing close about the winning margin on Sunday when 'Brownie' had two and half times the next best weight, as he posted  the weeks best weight at 89-7-0. Working with straight lead and punched bread at Larch peg 8, Dave bagged a haul of carp to 8lbs.

          There was not much between the remaining prize winners, with just over 2lbs covering all three places. Sean Barber [Maver] proved 'best of the rest' with a level 36-0-0 on maggot, fished to the stumps at Oak peg 27. Mark Taylor [Shakespeare] just best Matt Stobbs [Oak Ang Cent] to third by 34-9-0 to 33-13-0.