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Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
2025 - April 21st , Easter Monday - Orebro
My first match of the year at the wonderful Örebro Canal . Have not fished it for about 4 years so i kind of new the depths and what to expect. The match organiser is Anssi who is a member of TEAM Splash and and an international for Sweden on many occasions.
I stopped at Jamie Cooleys abode the night before with Russ arriving later that evening after watching my poor Leicester City on TV being defeated and relegated 😥😥⚽⚽.
The weather preceding the weekend was cool weather and the expected rain forecast was arriving however on the day of the competition it was drizzle but very cold , about 3-5 degrees !!
Christer and Lisse arriving in the MATRIX wagon
On arrival the bait was being distributed as well as many products
Good time for many to meet
Just as the bend in the distance goes to the right is the start of the match length
My office for the day as i sat between Andreas to my left and Tommy to my right , no pressure then from the Swedish Internationals either side .
Well ! I started well , the same as Andreas and at about 15 minutes of fishing he had 11 and i had 8 so i thought i am keeping up with the best . Tommy to my right had 1 i think . Far to my right others looked less active .
Later everything thing went really slow and only Snorasch (spelling?) (Millers thumb Bull heads ) were being caught as well as see-through skimmers. Andreas to my left went slider and caught direct with some Perch and roach . I decided to feed again a small ball and direct i had a better skimmer then next cast bumped something bigger , dam ! After that i struggled and only caught better when cupping in a few maggots and Pinkies as i had tried chopping a lot of worm earlier but that only brought Bull heads.
Tommy to my right i could hear chopping so worms were being introduced but it was'nt till last 60 minutes that he found some decent fish . Andreas re-fed his slider line with a few balls and it had an affect as he took two Big skimmers .
Disaster for me but i learned a few things from the guys either side but i could have done with that bumped fish.
On the day further money was raised to aid the Swedish Junior team who will fish in the world youth championships at Meridia in Spain.
2025 - River Witham - Its condition is worrying
Recently it came to my attention that the (green) river Witham was again showing its choking weed growth .
What are the EA doing to improve this waterway with a huge history of big matches of the past ?
Recent picture from Clive Lloyd showing the state of the river (not sure of the month or year) but obviously its a complete mess and dilutes the oxygen ;
Back in 2016 i attended the Ivan Marks Memorial match and his son Chris also fished . Even though the water was clear and slow and abundance of weed showing it still fished, not big weights but that did not matter s it was a match to remember one of anglings greats , if not the Angling great
That day is captured on the link below
https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2016/07/2016-ivan-marks-memorial-match-river.html
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
2025 - April 15th - Trosa - The fish had moved
Weather is warm and sunny so it was a no brainer to go and fish the East coast mecca for a bagging session , so i thought ? On arrival i was greeted by many school age children fishing (Easter holidays), must have been over 50 as far as i could see left and right from the corner position i so favour .
So i got set up with two stick float rods and two 6m bagging whips . Started , fed a ball of ground bait with corn .........10 trots down ......nothing ??? ........fish have moved ! . So packed up all the gear and decided to go the furthest up stream to where the fish pass is situated.
View out towards the sea , boats starting to fill up the mooring spaces . In another 4-6 weeks you will struggle to find any suitable fishing positions.
Nobody fishing here so i set up my heaviest stick rod with a 4gr Dave Harrell float and one bagging whip with a EXNER Lucifer 3gr........depth only about 1.3/5 metre !! due to the low water .
First cast ......Ide about 1.5 kilo then the bagging continued.
I got my Swedish fish named species wrong in the video . Its actually a 'Nors' which in Great Britain is a 'Smelt' which i remember catching a few in a match on the River Soar in a Summer League and later having reported the catch of those rare visitors to the EA , i was ticked off for fishing out of season for them - that just sums up the clowns at the EA 🤡🤡🤡
Foul hooked 5 of them - there was that many in the river that i was getting missed bites as they moved on the line as they were not interested in the corn bait.
Nors (Smelt) - Swedish delicacy and it smells of cucumber
One of 7 Big Ide , from 1.2k to 1.8k size approx.
River very low and you can see there is no water flowing over underneath the building for the first time ever i have fished there. Actually its been the lowest rainfall / winter snow melt for many years in Sweden and a hosepipe ban is in place on the island of Gotland ........and Sweden is surrounded with water !!
Watch the latest fish arriving upstream through the fish pass and smiling for the camera 😁🐟🐟
https://fiskdata.se/raknare/live/live.php?locationId=180
Fish species at Trosa
Färna - Chub
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