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Boldings report    4-1-17.

 

          Robbie Griffiths [Preston Innovations] topped a close individual frame in the Preston Innovations/Boldings Pools annual Christmas Pairs match, which attracted 74 entries.

          Robbie drew peg 20 on the Beech Pool and was involved in a fish for fish battle with Adam Rumble [Fosters] at Beech peg 23. Both fished maggot, Robbie at 12 metres and Adam at 10 metres, and it slightly better fish which tipped the scales Robbie's way, he had carp to 6lbs to make up his 58-6-0, while carp to 5lbs gave Adam a final tally of 56-12-0.

          Paul Biggs [Telford] was less than a pound and a half behind second with his Willows Pool top score of 55-6-0 wasn't far short of the mark with his Hawthorn best of 51-10-0.

          Top pair, with a perfect score of 2 points were Maver rods Dave Brown and Dave Lloyd, with Robbie Griffiths and Nathan Spain second on 5 points. 

 

          Weights tumbled in the icy conditions on Wednesday when there was another hard fought battle for the top prize, and at the finish only two ounces spanned the top two weights.

          Maggot was the bait again, with Paul Hemming [Monkhall] working it at 10 metres out from Beech peg 18 to catch the attention of carp to 4lbs and skimmers to 1lb, which he used to build a 25-7-0 total.

           At peg 20, Jamie Langford [Preston Innov] had carp to 4lbs as well as skimmers and roach to 1lb on the 12 metre line to scale 25-5-0. Christmas Eve winner Shane Rogers [Oak Ang Cent] filled third with 16-11-0 from Beech peg 26.        

 

          Colin Reynolds [Bilston Ang Cent] worked Chestnut peg 7 to good effect on Thursday with a pellet and maggot combination on the 8 metre line. Carp to 5lbs and bream to 2lbs showed enough interest to give wining figures of 49-5-0.

          The next three weights all came from the Sycamore, with Mick Jameson [PI Bold] proving best of the three by scaling 41-1-0 at peg 13. Maggot at 10 metres put carp to 6lbs and skimmers to 1lb o the scales for Mick. Steve Woodhall [HKAC] pipped Gary Morris [PI Bold] to third by 24-11-0 to 24-6-0.

 

          Three different pools provided the top three weights on Saturday, with Simon Christian [Sedgley] setting the pace from peg 14 on the Willows Pool. Carp to 6lbs responded to his maggot bait to give a return of 65-5-0.

          Over on the Chestnut, Gary Morris added a second to third placing by booking in a level 56-0-0 of carp to 4lbs, which he caught on pellet at peg 10. 30-10-0 from Beech peg 18 handed third to Richard Davenport [Oswestry] and just under a pound behind him was Dave Brown [Maver] on 29-11-0 at Chestnut 36.