2012 - Jonkoping November Matchman of the year

The last big competition of the year is the MoTY and it brings together the anglers from all around Sweden , including Norway. Places to fish this match are getting limited by the year as redevelopment and new buildings start to cover former fishing areas.
The competition is organised by Jocke Palmer of the ITackle along with his trusted friends the VMBK.

http://www.itackle.se/catalog/

Think this bait will be the difference between catching and not ! Vince who i ate with the night before in the hotel informed me he practiced for 3 hours without a bite and when Vince does not get a bite your know its tough !

Lars last day as a bait seller/distributor before Jocke takes over the running of his company.

From C section looking over to A section

From C section looking over to B section

C section looking into the corner

The Kent getting his feeder prepared with new braid

The start and the words of wizdom from Jocke

Time for a coffee in preperation of my expected peg allocation

I drew peg A3 next to Freddan Von Browningsson on A4

To my left was Tommy on end peg with the Larssonator inbetween.

Well what a strange day ! I started well with 9 roach in the next after the first 40 minutes after an initial bombardment of half VDE SuperBlack and half leam with some dead maggot and pinkie and about 0,25 joker. Top ups during the day with double leam and joker and catapulting some pinkie and maggot when needed. But the middle 2 hours were awful and i tried everything and tried to be careful not to overfeed. I tried feeder and slider without a bite , nobody else did either when tried. Last hour picked up a Perch and 5 roach for a grand total of 860 grams , FredVB had 1020 grams. The weights got better to our left and right in the section .

Back to the hotel for a snooze before the evenings hard luck stories.

Very nice lady singer in the Piano bar.

The 'Stig'

After a rather 'bland' buffet meal in the main restaurant area we all dispersed into the main bar and upstairs

What will Sunday produce ?

I decided not to fish as my mind was on my work for Monday so i informed The match organisers and travelled home. Apparently i did not miss anything as the Sunday produced even harder results ! Shame but its still a great match ,great venue and we all comeback twice a year . Maybe the weights will be better in 2013 ?

Big thanks to Jocke and good luck with his new appointments.

Big thanks to Lasse for all his commitment to bait selling over the last few years.

The results :-

Matchman 2012 Resultat


1.Roger Bengtsson 1+1 3440

2.Jon Anders Valle 1+1 1860

3.Lars Lind 1+2 3440

4.Tommy Strengelsrud 2+2 3200

5.Jonas Jansson 2+2 1860

6.Tom Rune Fjellberg 1+4 3680

7.Daniel Blom 2+3 2800

8.Tom Östlund 1+5 1420

9.Mattias Larsson 2+4 1680

10.Anssi Lehtevä 3+3 2260

11.Kent Adell 1+6 2960

12.Lasse Magnuson 1+6 2140

13.Stig Borlinger 1+6 2040

14.Rickard Bengtsson 2+5 2600

15.Tommy Lindblom 2+5 2420

16.Fredrik Andersson 2+5 2320

17.Stefan Holst 3+4 2420

18.Vince Dowling 3+4 1220

19.Charles Fasth 3+5 1960

20.Bosse Augustsson 3+5 1780

21.Christer Pantzar 3+5 620

22.Johan Nilsson 3+6 1300

23.Jimmy Johansson 4+5 580

24.Finn E Lerdalen 4+6 1080

25.Arne Andersson 4+6 340

26.Mikael Tono 3+8 1060

27.Kristian Ekman 4+7 1200

28.Emir Nastic 5+6 500

29.Jens Jungevik 4+8 900

30.Phil Ackerley 6+8 860

31.Joakim Palmér 6+8 340

32.Dag Even Nygårdseter 7+7 560