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Boldings report 8-6-17.
Clive Wright [Ind] collected the main prize in the Bank Holliday open at Boldings Pools by overshadowing three weights from the Sycamore Pool. Clive was on the Chestnut Pool, peg 20, and operated with shallow caster to bag 124-10-0 of carp to 6lbs to establish a 28lbs advantage, and put his name against the top weight of the week.
Roger Gamblin [Tricast Weston] led the way on the Sycamore to take the runner up pot. He was on point peg 13, and presented pellet and corn to each side to bring in carp to 8lbs and bream to 2lbswhich gave a final weight of 96-2-0. Richard Guest [Maver] was involved in a close fight for third with Tony Wollaston [Fatty's] a fight which he won by 67-15-0 to 67-2-0.
Les Thompson [Matrix] scored the first of two victories for the week when he topped the Wednesday card from Beech peg 32. Carp to 7lbs made up a net of 87-7-0, which Les attracted with pellet, fished at 8 metres.
The next three weights all came from the Ash Pool, where Andy Williams [Vespe] led the way. He was on peg 18 and combined corn and pellet at 6 metres and on the inside line to record 75-3-0. Over on peg 9 Simon Christian [Sedgley] put 71-2-0 on the scales to put his name on third, while up at the end of the pool Carl Pugh [PI Bold] had 57-10-0 for fourth at peg 23.
The winners laurels went to Eric Bancroft on Thursday when the Sycamore was the host pool, and Eric drew peg 21. Maggot in the margins sorted out carp to 8lbs and barbel to 3lbs and the 71-8-0 recoded against Eric's name gave him a fairly comfortable margin.
Along at peg 24 Harry Colley [PI Bold] employed his meat, corn and pellet combo close in to fill second with 55-15-0 of carp to 7lbs. Steve Owen [Monkhall] had a level 52-0-0 for third at peg 4, and a level 38-0-0 handed fourth to Dave Brown [Maver].
Saturday saw Les Thompson back in the driving seat, this time at peg 4 on the Larch. Going out to 16 metres to present pellet, up in the water, got carp to 6lbs feeding to give a winning total of 84-13-0.
Graham Roberts [PI Bold] fished to the island with corn and pellet to bag 66-6-0 of carp to 5lbs and bream to 2lbs at Chestnut peg 23, to claim second. Back on the Larch Graham palmer [Fitters] snatched third with 62-0-0 from peg 28, with Tim Cadwallader [PI Bold] hot on his heels on 61-8-0 at Larch 26.
Oakengates Angling Centre rods mopped up the prizes on Sunday, with Matt Edgerton adding to his recent triple success with a narrow victory.
Carp to 7lbs and barbel to 2lbs put in an appearance at peg 6 on the Larch, where Matt was pegged, and he snapped up 118-12-0 of them using pellet at 5 metres.
Across at peg 24 Steve Roberts fed maggot and pellet down each side of the peg to find carp to 8lbs together with bream and barbel to 3lbs, and one more of any of the three species would have changed the result as Steve finished with 115-15-0. Less than 3lbs behind second was Kel Emlyn on 113-4-0 at Larch peg 16, while a Sycamore Pool best of 97-6-0 gave fourth to Gareth Emlyn.
