Angling: Ace Southern boxes clever.Byline: Dave Houghton RETIRED boxer Des Southern had good fortune in his corner for the St Helens St Helens may refer to: Places:
With one of the biggest fields of the year - 83 matchmen - on the bank the former pro boxer from Middleton drew peg 151, which put him on the concrete bank between to the two overflows where he caught 14lb 14oz. Des (Sensas Garbolino) didn't even have to go the distance and had the match sewn up in the first two hours for a winner's purse of pounds 260 and three bottles of spirits. He got off to a good start at 12 metres where he found a 11/2lb skimmer skimmer, common name for certain sea birds resembling the related tern. Skimmers (genus Rhynchops) have long, laterally compressed bills of which the lower mandible is one fourth longer than the movable upper mandible. and three hovering around one pound on double red maggot. Des then pushed further out over the ledge to 14 metres and latched on to a 7lb 11oz carp to provide the KO. |
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