2021 - Matchman of the Year Oct 30-31 Norrkoping

Early start from Sodertalje and within 1hr 15mins i was at the venue be it a little foggy on the way there .Even though the venue was fenced of there was gaps in the fencing to get through to enjoy this fabulous venue. 

SATURDAY 30TH OCT

Russ in back breaking work - i dont know how he does it . Titanium plates in his back and 10 pills a day for his constant pain - not easy !

The Boys waiting their turn for collection of the best bait in Sweden - 'bar none '

Bloodworm was plentiful 

MKQuattro ..........dam good box construction

Reds were lovely , all fresh !

Russells box on display ........umm , i think i might .........!?!?!?

Match organisers Christer Engvall and Kent Adell now in for their allocation 

The start

Match started with the pre-bait enabling all anglers to get the fish ready for delivery of hook baits . After a slowish start a few fish started to arrive and noticeably Fredrik Samuelsson was first to take a string of fish , promising start then but where are they for me ? After about 7 minutes i had my first roach be it very small and further fish arrived so i was enjoying a promising start . The first two hours were not the best compared to others however i enjoyed a good third hour and caught consistently but then it fell away and Thomas to my left caught me up well and his last hour was very good , that reflected in our weights . 

I did now know if to feed pure joker small balls with the odd leam mix of joker or the occasional small ball of dead maggots/casters/pinkies/corn ...........so it was trial or error to know what kept the fish feeding .

Fours later it was over and i knew i had blown it with irregular feeding and i should have stuck to 5-6m whip instead of fishing the pole too many times at 11m .

Match over i managed to put some kit away and catch up with the weighing in process again admirably done by Kent Adell and Christer Engvall with Tommy Lindblom also lending a hand .

Anders Terseby B1 7020

Fredrik Samuelsson B2 11050

Tommy Lindblom B3 7730

Norwegian Tonje Hauge B4 5440

Christer Engvall B5 7810

Thomas Soderlund B6 6930

Phil Ackerley B7 6080

Norwegian Sondre Ejkberlen B8 4770

C SECTION 

Norwegian Andrezej Szubarczyk C1 8240

Anders Dyplin C2 5640

Bjorn Widerberg C3 8700

Per Nilson  C4 23530 - Biggest weight of the day and weekend 

Marcus Clausen C5 17400

Norwegian Tommy Stengelsund  14210

Lars Lind C7 15820

D SECTION

Russ Hopkins D1 7560

Christer Pantzar D2 10020

Milojko D3 5050

Stefan Holst D4 4280

Jamie Cooley D5 2840

Robban Jonsson D6 3090

Kent Adell D7 4380

Bo Enstrom D8 2490

Andrezej Carressing and cuddling a large 3l bottle of red wine ...... only 3000SEK !!! .......we did not do it 

Truly a fantastic Italian authentic meal and restaurant and a tremendous night out with our Norwegian friends and the team from Metmask

Pizza - i have never eaten something so good - incredible taste

SUNDAY 31ST OCTOBER

Peg A1 to my left 

to my right 

BLACK GROUND BAIT MATTERS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

What a quiet start , for me ! After placing 10 large balls of Back leam / GB i then topped up with three balls of joker laced leam and three balls of chopped worm leam balls .........all at 10m pole line . Then placed 2 hard lighter GB mix at 5-6 m .

First 20 minutes , two small skimmers (first i had seen ) , two see-through Perch and a tiny Roach . After 35-45 minutes i started to pick up a few Roach on the 5-6m whip line but i was already behind due to slow start . I then started to compete with Anders Tersby next to me but he was catching well on his shorter line. Come to the last hour and i started to throw corn in on my 7m whip /pole line and i noticed my float was not settling properly then i struck and a large roach was hauled in , followed by another . Then i realised they were well off the bottom so i shortened the full depth to more than a metre of the bottom ! . I even moved the olivetti up so the corn on the hook would drop slowly . So for the next 45 minutes i was just throwing 5-8 grains of corn at 7m every fish and i had a fantastic string of non-stop Roach and must have put 5 kilos in the net in the last hour - it was incredible , every time the rig dropped in i was hauling a dog-roach . But it was too late and i could or maybe should have used corn more throughout the match . But you live and learn but it was well exciting catching one dog after another . 

Winners on the podium were ..............

Massive congratulations to Norways finest ........Niklas 

Podium shared with Christer Pantzar - 2nd  on the left and Christer Engvall - 3rd on the right