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Boldings report 2-3-16.
Maggot remained the top bait all week at Boldings Pools, being the chosen offering of all of the match winners.
Steve Owen [Monkhall] set the ball rolling in the Monday open, offering the 'grub' at 12 metres, as well as close to the bank at peg 14 on the Beech Pool, which resulted in a lovely net carp, roach and bream weighing 64-10-0.
Runner up Steve Forest [Nomads] drew on the Hawthorn Pool and used maggot at 9 metres to finish close behind the winner with 62-5-0 of carp to 6lbs at peg 13. Beech peg 7 provided Darren Warden [Kings] with his third best 48-6-0, and an Ash Pool top catch of 39-12-0 put Alan Naylor [Oakengates Ang Cent] into fourth.
Terry Edwards [Swan Elite] beat a trio of Willows Pool weights to take the main prize on Wednesday from peg 48 on the Sycamore. Carp to 5lbs and barbel to 4lbs homed in on maggot and pellet feed, worked close in and at 12 metres, and when the scales arrived Terry had 75-3-0 to hand over.
Phil Shaw [PI Boldings] had a similar mix of fish, of a similar size to those of the winner, in his runner up 66-6-0, at Willows peg 5. Steve Forest was in the list again, filling third this time thanks to 52-6-0 from Willows 7. Just behind Steve, on 51-3-0 was Paul Gregory [Swan Elite].
Paul Davies [Willenhall] stepped up to the prize table to collect the winner's purse on Thursday after his Larch Pool best of 60-7-0 proved too good for the rest. Drawn on peg 16, Paul presented his maggot bait at 14 metres, alternated with close in to the side to pick off carp in the 5lbs range.
The remaining frame weights came from the Oak Pool, where Steve Owen got in on the act again, with his 12 metre and close tactics with maggot working to the tune of 40-5-0 at peg 22 to add a second to his Monday win. Colin Reynolds [Bilston Ang Cent] was only 6 ounces behind on 39-15-0 at peg 27, and just 3 ounces behind him was Tony Woolaston [Fatty's]with 39-12-0 at peg 11.
With two frame placings already to his name, Steve Forest saved his best for the week-end, walking off with the Saturday spoils by posting top weight of the week on a day of biting winds. Working maggot under a waggler at half depth from peg 16 on the Willows, he contacted carp to 6lbs together with barbel to 3lbs to make an impressive 104-15-0 haul.
One of the ton up boys from last week, Clive Wynn [Tricast Weston] finished in second by recording the best weight of the day on Sycamore, 80-8-0 at peg 49. Clive caught on maggot and pellet, offered at 5 metres and 12 metres, and his catch featured carp to 7lbs with barbel to 4lbs. Gary Gollins [Swan Elite] made it three different pools in the top three places when his 74-7-0 from Larch peg 4 pipped the 73-3-0 by Dave Doughty [Woodend] at Sycamore peg 4.
Dave Emlyn [Oak Ang Cent] made the Willows a winner again on Sunday using a maggot feeder approach at peg 13. His tactic got a response from carp to 6lbs and barbel to 4lbs which gave a final return of 84-1-0.
Jamie Langford [PI Bold] had carp and barbel on punched bread, fished on waggler gear to finish a close second with 80-14-0 at Willows 16. Third came from the Sycamore when Dave Brown [Maver] recorded a pool best of 70-4-0 at peg 8, and fourth also came from the Sycamore as corner peg 50 returned 53-8-0 for Les Thompson [Matrix].
