2011 - Sodertalje kanal December 11th and out with the Tubtikkanen

With a break in the weather Bob Nudd's brother and i decided to meet up at the usual place opposite Astra Zenica. I got there about 8 and was set up by 9 and then Johan came. The wind was cold and also at us but i was bearable to hold the pole but later i used my cut-off gloves.

Still a little on the dark side in the morning but still managed to get set up okay

Menu for the day was VDE from Swedbait and Trapper leam from Metebutiken

Parking at your peg !

Just potted in 3 balls laced with dead maggot and pinkies and dropped the baited rig on top and its time for breakfast with a cup of tea and a breakfast sandwich made by Carola

Brrrrrrrrrr!

Johan was trying out the pole he bought recently

Tubertini rules !

Johans hands turned several shades of blue and we decided to finish while the sun showed a rare appearance - so we made good our escape before it started to plummet to -5. Johan has some 20 fish including skimmers and small ide ,roach and perch.

Not bad a tall with 40 fish approx. and mostly sizeable ones for about 3.5 kilos

Really nice dog roach amongst them

Bjorkna ....had 3 of them

Dog roach .....had to use the landing net several times today

the end of our fishing day at about 14:20 the wind virtuallt dropped and the sun was out and the whole of the kanal you could see fish rising to the surface , not many but there was quite a few.

The days fishing is a record for us as its December the 11th and the previous best had been a December the 6th 3 years ago.......if next weekends weather is reasonable then it could see us out again. Great venue.