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Tuesday 1 November 2022

29/30th October an xtra Soderhamn match

Soderhamn - The Theatre of Breams (and Ide, Big Roach, Perch, Bjorkna, skimmers - forgetting the Bleak). Jesper , Fredrik and Marcus organised this Extra match after the recent high weight competition a few weeks back . 

Metmask again supplied the best bait and delivered for the Swedens Best matchmen with a great standard of 'cared for bait ' . Also supplying the best equipment from the producers listed below 


















Friday night and best restaurant in town entertained us with their culinary delights . (and wines )





This time in Soderhamn we didn't have to call for an ambulance for Russ !!!!




The laughs and camaraderie flowed just like the beer and wine  - super good night. 



Back at the hotel basement car park and ever dependable Metmask delivered the bait , yet again




Worms a plenty






Jamie telling everyone he caught a fish that ...........big



Metmask moto ..........never let the customer down 







The 'Chief' (Per ) .....struggling physically to do anything after receiving two broken ribs in a recent car accident 





Bloodworm of the best quality to those who require




The Joker also of the 'best looked after quality'




Always a generous helping from Russ




Freddy has turned religious - now praying for a victory tomorrow



Bait distribution over and time for a few more beers in McGee's 



Tomorrows species but half do not count 




Saturday morning and Jesper organises the draw 



I got peg 4 - view to my left



View to my right 








Leam filtered - joker powdered 






Spot the gear with so many leaves camouflaging



Jamie to me left and i am on the scrounge to use his wisk as forgot mine .








3 whips and 3 top 4's for me 






All ready ...... hope so !?









Match started with the usual pre-bait and i placed 5 balls leam/joker on 11m line . Then 3 ground bait balls at 5-7m . I didn't want to put too much in as wanted to build the peg up gradually as it was a 5 hour match .

Within a minute of the start most were catching Perch of size but eventually skimmer , roach and ide showed up . I had after one hour one good bream about 1.5 and two about 800-1000 size then the Ide started to plunder the free offerings of maggot i managed to throw in at 5m in a horrendous wind . I started to take the ide and roach with Perch at 5m hauling them in to hand on 0.18 straight through to a size 10 SENSAS 3065 hook using a three gram float . Most Ide i netted as they are crazy shaking their heads so much even the large roach (up to 1.75lb) were nutters ! . 

I had a poor middle hour as the flow changed repeatedly but i finished strong catching another six Big Bream on 5m whip and and pole top 5 . The days wind got really strong close to the end of the match and ironically as the match finished then so di the wind .

Now for the weigh in ..................

Freddy (last years winner ?) with a colossal weight of 53300





Jesper the days winner with 64500








Marcus with 41125



Myself with 45200


Jamie 27750







Per with 46750





Tom with 48475




Jonas with 25850






Anders with 28550




Bengt with 30100




Russ with 39950







After a shower and clean up we met in the Hotel reception for the draw for Sundays pegs 




Master of ceremonies Jesper organised




Hotel receptionist helped us draw the numbers as Marcus videoed the LIVE draw



Draw complete we perambulated across the road from the hotel to McGees  hostelry for food and drink in copious amounts.



Food was excellent and the laughs and fun started with plenty of drinking 





SUNDAY - DAY 2 

No wind but very cold morning greeted all the competitors 



Queen Hege on her throne ........brave lady sitting there in the cold 






EXNER 3gr and 4gr ILIASZ 



EXNER 1.5gr and 3gr LUCIFER













Sun is getting up and soon to get a little warmer







Another great match however i lost it badly in the 3rd and 4th hour as Bleak moved in and i could not get past them so tried corn but so few fish on it. I persisted fishing at 11m on my Joker/Leam line and caught a nice stamp of 6 Bream backed up with some great skimmers . I could not get enough Ide in my peg to get more back up weights to compliment the Bream catch . But that is fishing but still enjoyed another Big weight day .


Per Nilsson with the best weight on peg 1 56450

Brilliant performance considering he has two broken ribs after a car accident . Get well mate .




Jonas 24225





Marcus 35225




Freddy 44675







Jesper 43500






Me with 31000






Dan with 17625 (HEGE 5925)



Jamie with 19375 and a very sore shoulder having struggled to net fish t a steep angle - get it sorted brother !






Russ with 43500




Tom with 42400











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