Braintree Sea Angling Club’s final charter boat match of the year was fished out of West Mersea on Chris Mole’s Enterprise.  Due to strong south westerly winds the match took place in the estuary where plenty of shelter could be found.  Plenty of whiting were caught with some good size fish in amongst the small ones but no codling or thornbacks which had been expected.  It was a close contest but with half an hour to go it was a battle between Paul Hart and Barrie Senior.  Paul caught a dab which gave him extra species points to put him in the lead Barrie fought back with a double shot of sizeable whiting followed by two more but at lines up he was still one point short.   Paul won the day with 16 whiting, 1 dogfish and a dab for 56 points. Barrie had 20 whiting and a dab for 55 points.  Third place went to Chris Bull with 42 points from his catch of 15 whiting and a pout.  However, Barrie’s second place was enough to put him top spot over the series of boat matches and win the Bolduc Cup with Chris Leonard the runner-up two points behind.