2021 - Orebro weekend competition organised by Jesper and Team

 

After travelling from Sodertalje Friday evening i made my way to Jamie's pad where i was greeted with Russ and Esa and we were treated to his gastronomy cooking of excellent order with a Shepherds pie washed down with copious amounts of Red Wine with a preliminary tasters of Gin and Tonic and strong beer - 'and you want to fish in the morning !?' 

DAY 1 

Little England in Koping . The morning was greeted with a sharp frost of about minus 2 so scraping windscreens was the morning start after Jamie's famous Bacon , Sausage and egg sandwiches with a smattering of HP Brown Sauce with orange juice that clearly made the bowel movement possible so early dumps were the order of the morning !!

Jamies Pad , home of the Swedish Chelsea supporters club - 'The Koping End'

Screen scraped and bait loaded ready for delivery to the boys 

        Loaded up as the maggots that stay ultra fresh in the cool box - Bait welfare with Metmask is paramount as all anglers need the bait in the best condition for the event - no smelling of rancid sweaty bait from MM and no fancy gimmicks to sell it !!

To my Right - Beautiful Autumnal day

Box on the path and just a few metres to place the box on a flat platform - it does not get better than that 

To my Left - how beautiful is this venue ?

My Menu for the office was the following based on Russ and Jamies success in this years matches . Tried and tested to work , however there are a few extra ingredients !?!?!

DAY 2 

                       

Arrived to see the Norwegians at full strength as usual and great to see them knowing their ridiculous government has placed horrible rules on their use of keep nets , basically , you cannot use them - Woke thinking in our sport we do not need !!

Great to talk with the main organiser of the event and much respected angler of defining quality and ability  that is Jesper Dyberg 

Jamie !? .........where is he ? ......he's taking a dump !!

I drew peg 19 for Day 2 and i set up 4 x Top 5's of EXNER DELTA 10gr and 8gr with two pole floats of EXNER ISISZ 3gr and 6gr and one 6.5m whip using a 2.5gr EXNER JUNO.

Brilliant pegs where leg adjustment to the boxes are minimal and TAP is excellent for shipping rearwards

Rig time plus i added a 10gr SENSAS PIESTANY 

I was really hoping that Day 2 would bring in shoals of larger Roach and Skimmers however it was a day that favoured the Bleak anglers and top weight of 12.5 kilos of Bleak was never going to be beaten . Clearly if the expected shoals of larger fish were to be there then you could compete with the Bleak lads but alas it was not to be .

I enjoyed it fishing at 11.5 metres as the wind did destroy good presentation however near the end of the match i had a run of Perch and a missed hooked Bream that left its calling card of slime up the line . 

MyDay 1 was similar as i lost two decent Bream so i can imagine they were liners that i lost too , but that is fishing you cannot legislate for lost fish .

The match was a success and its hoped it will be ran next year as the venue is just one of the best in Sweden.

Enormous bag of 12kilos of Bleak 

Wind swept and could have done with roach and skimmer shoals to compete 

Niklas found some skimmers in the last quarter of the match 

Scores on the boards for DAY 2 

AGAIN MASSIVE THANKS TO JESPER AND HIS TEAM FOR A GREAT WELL ORGANISED EVENT