2025 - July 28th - Scania Lake

It has been 7 years since i last appeared at the Lake. Then , it was a small match between the 'Boys' for a memorable afternoons fishing with Percy Bistram , Jimmy Kungsman , Mats Larsson , Johan Tikkanen.

That evening Jimmy had a monster catch of Bream 

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2018/08/2018-scania-lake-sodertalje-fishing.html

View of the Lake from the 'Offices' end 

Top of the Lake on the footbridge

In the past this was my favourite area for Tench , Crucian and Big Bream

Other side of the footbridge is a small basin to the run-off of a stream that runs underneath the Scania Production work to Pershagen 

 

My fave peg of all time 

My current FB profile picture

Time to to choose todays food for the expectants 

Menu bord 

Scania main office erecting its flags 

All ready 

Method proves to be very successful 

Those dam birds !!!

Time to view the 23 fish ( 1 roach , 1 Perch , 8 Bjorkna , 13 Bream/skimmer) 

Not a great day but just nice to get back to my old stamping ground . I shall return and look to fish closer so to put off those diving ducks. 

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2025 - July 19th - Sodertalje canal with Jacob

English family over for 2 weeks and they certainly brought the hot weather with them since their arrival last Saturday its been stunning weather ! Today i took the opportunity to take my grandson fishing as its been a year since that time . Woke at 06:00 am , to the canal at 07:00 am and fishing by 08:15 am . 

The unfortunate side of Sodertalje is the complete lack of discipline . Littering all over the town by just awful low life people who feel at home littering the floor and burning rubber along the road (usually late at night) NOTE: it was nice to see a FARTHINDER (Speed Bump) has been positioned along with several others to stop this ridiculous speed tomfoolery .

Leave their McDonalds on the floor next to the Bin !!! - You could not make it up !!

When i started to bring all my gear down to the waters edge i disturbed what i thought was a huge Carp or other monsterous fish exactly 5m out from where i intended to fish . It was a huge splash and it was only then that i saw a head pop up out the water about 25m away ......It was a Beaver ! 

Shortly after a Grass Snake about a metre long passed next to my box before i started to fish ! .....anything else about to happen ?

Grass Snake

First drop on the TAP and i had a small Bream - wow , great start , it looks like the pre-feed on Friday has helped. 

Another came to the net but lost one also

Used method feeder also and took a small Bream 

It was  struggle for the 3 hours fishing . Jacob joined me and he took the biggest Bream of the day and lost another large one on the pole. We had 8 Bream and 2 small Perch.

2025 - Brian Chamberlain - i only just heard the news of his passing.

I have only just learned that Brian had passed away recently and i could not see any news about him from any of the GREENHILL AC Facebook pages !!! He left us in March of this year and it makes me really sad as he was a great friend and i would have liked to have passed my sincere thoughts to any group covering his funeral.

Brian i first met in the late 80's when i am sure he became a member of the GAC . He fished mostly at Roy Marlow's fishery but would occasionally fish with the GAC matches. During the early 90's i had 6 teams of 6 in the 'one - off' match every year on the Trent . It was the Courtaulds classic where we fished Barrow Village , John Thompson Doctors surgery , Metal Works Lane , Power station , The Mound, and Cuttlebrook. 

When Brian drifted from fishing he got into KOI-CARP keeping and built himself a large pond with a side viewer to watch his fish. He also installed 4 large filtration units in a separate brick shed for the ponds filtration management. We used to go out on trips to other KOI-Collector clubs to view the fish . 

I remember his son ( I think he has at least two sons ?) Robert would also fish Thurlaston lake and other open matches we ran . Brian was a fan of DAIWA fishing gear and i bought second hand of him the famous 'porky-Pig' feeder rod for the times i might draw an animal peg on the Trent.

Bless ya Bri ! 😢😢😢😢

Recent pictures of Brian fishing the Greenhill AC local waters at Thurlaston .......

2025 - Sodertalje canal - June 26th

June 26th and fishing SODERTALJE CANAL for 114 fish mostly Roach with 7 Bream .

Later i had my MATRIX pole holdall hard case stolen from home (500 m away) and my LORPIO rod holdall. .......lost so much gear , i am gutted and unfortunately that is me done for the year as i have lost interest . 

2025 - FISHING GEAR STOLEN - REWARD FOR INFORMATION OR RETURN OF THE ITEMS - PLEASE VIEW - JUNE 26TH

Hello 

I am offering a reward for the return of these goods listed below - they were taken from outside the house on ALGATAN 11 ,15241, SÖDERTÄLJE

CONTACT ME ON 076 868 13 97 OR MSG.

A MATRIX HARD CASE WAS TAKEN and a ROD HOLDALL (As shown below)

- HARD CASE BOX FOR TRANSPORTING POLES/SECTIONS/TOPS/WHIPS/LANDING NET POLES

- It contained;

-SENSAS 734 POLE plus many top 2's , spare sections , PRESTON 8M Response whip system , MATRIX landing net pole .

MATRIX HARD CASE

SENSAS 734 SERIES POLE

MATRIX 4.0M LANDING NET HANDLE

PRESTON RESPONSE WHIP SYSTEM 8.0M

LORPIO ROD CASE 

It contained ;

Three rods which were 

SENSAS 11' FEEDER ROD

MIVADI 13' MATCH ROD

TOP MIX STRADVADI 13' MATCH ROD

MATRIX ACQUOS REELS 350 SERIES - 2 OFF

PRESTON CENTRIS 420 SERIES REEL (BRAND NEW , NEVER USED)

PRESTON CENTRIS 420 SERIES REEL

MATRIX ACQUOS REELS - 2 OFF

What i placed on FACEBOOK

UPDATE on my stolen fishing gear . I have now completed the online Police form and i await their visitation presumably ? Meanwhile i am on the look out for ;

A SENSAS 4 series second hand pole and importantly Landing net handles 3-4m . Until i get a police report supporting an Insurance claim then i need to fill the gap .

LIST OF THE STOLEN GEAR IS ;

MATRIX HARD CASE – 1 OFF

SENSAS 734 13M POLE – 1 OFF

SENSAS 11M/13M SECTION - 1 OFF

SENSAS NO6 SECTIONS – 2 OFF

SENSAS NO5 SECTIONS – 4 OFF

SENSAS NO4 SECTIONS – 5 OFF

SENSAS TOP 2 ELASTICATED SECTIONS - 11 OFF

SENSAS POLE CUP SECTIONS – 2 OFF

PRESTON RESPONSE WHIP SYSTEM 8.0M – 1 OFF

VEGA BATTLE POLE 6.0M - 1OFF

MATRIX LANDING NET HANDLE 4.0M -1 OFF

TOP MIX LANDING NET HANDLE 3.0M – 1 OFF

LORPIO ROD HOLDALL – 1 OFF

SENSAS 11’ FEEDER ROD – 1 OFF

MIVADI 13’ MATCH ROD – 1 OFF

TOP MIX STRADVADI 13’ MATCH ROD – 1 OFF

PRESTON CENTRIS 420 SERIES REEL – 1 OFF

MATRIX ACQUOS 350 SERIES REEL – 2 OFF

PRESTON FEEDER ARM – 1 OFF

I have 2 SENSAS 74XL poles at home which are really just spares as many sections have been repaired . I only have one No5 and one No4 sections available with three top 2's so hardly a match set up