Best friend Michael Carr from UK came over for 2 weeks , we have been friends since 11 years of age and on this trip he was to experience a Swedish fishing competition.
Mikael Nyman - excellent human and great environmentalist , good angler and the man behind the METMASK empire with Russell Hopkins who is the best bait supplier and his quality is born out through bait care before it gets to the purchaser . In fact Mick Carr said his quality bait is equivalent to UK shops , if not better !!
Organiser and top man of this years DEJE event ........front man with Russell Hopkins for METMASK selling MATRIX , PRESTON , GARBOLINO , DRENNAN, LORPIO, KORUM, FOX, SENSAS.
All below sold under Metmask , Swedens best supplier of bait
DAY 1 and travel to our base camp at FRYKENBADENS Camping site - excellent place !
However Tuesday travel was interrupted abruptly as i would take Carola to work at her school but a bad driver crashed into the side of our car after seemingly falling asleep at the wheel !!! . What a shock and this person raced away nearly hitting further cars behind us . It happened so quick we had no chance of recording the car registration number . We did have a car stop and give us his details to witnessing this event. ........... so not the best start to our fishing trip !
.............Along the way we decided to look at Arboga to view the temperament of the river
Certainly the water was well up but it was running respectively clear - potential to fish in coming weeks we thought ? did we ?
Onwards to the camp site and with food and a few drinks we were well rested for the days coming events . (Yesterdays Pizza left-overs were consumed with some light beers )
Lovely friendly camp site with Permanent and semi-permanent visitors.
These new Stuga's are first class accommodation ...........fully kitted out with toilet and shower , kitchen include hob , fridge , dishwasher , micro and plenty of utensils . Double Bed was great .
Outside was well populated with veranda furniture
Day 2 and our first fishing on the river Klarelven a stretch of river i had previously fished two years ago. However this trip had seen the cancellation of the feeder match at Deje as the river carried too much water but this was still nice to fish and have Mick fish it for the first time.
Leicester City FC on tour
Excellent fishing and taking up 5 kilos of Dace , Roach , Bjorkna on 60gr feeder
Not easy fishing but with 90gr feeders he had a few kilos out
Day 3 and we fished the lake about 11km North at Fryken and Mikael Nyman purchased two day tickets for us
Having visited this part of the lake previous evening we immediately found two comfortable positions however we were shocked to see that the feeder fell in 2 seconds and that was some 45m out !!!
Before we both got the kit ready we cast out a few times to see if any weed collected then we went out with feed and bait on hook and on third cast i caught a Bream of about 1.75 kilos .........we are in ? are we not ?
Car to the peg for both of us
Then Mick had a Bream first cast !!!
Our expectancy was high for more however it all slowed down which was incredibly strange as it took me 30 minutes to get my next Bream and several roach .
Beautiful view to fish in
Mick 'Badoosh' had a solitary Bream and lost one .........expectancy let-down, oh well , that is fishing.
Well after about 4 hours of trying our fish count was very low indeed . Mick had one fish that broke him? and a few roach and i only had three Bream and about 6 roach ..........it was very poor considering the start .
Thursday evening back at the camp site and we frequented the restaurant and pub
Views across the lake were magnificent
Well stocked bar with great beers and wines
What a view
Well populated for excellent service and food .
Day 4 and we decided stay local and actually fish the camp site jetty .
Mr Badoosh !
Not a bad session considering it took 30 minutes before the first indication of fish feeding but in the end i had some 50-60 roach and 2 strange looking fish plus a bonus Ide.
Caught two of these (sorry not the best view)
We believe they are Sik - The Caudal fin looks to be that of a Sik but you cannot see the adipose fin in this picture .
Friday night was meeting night for the competitors and we were 5 at least could make it (Mick and i already on the site )
DAY 5 and first day of competition at the re-arranged venue of P-O's pond .........mosquitoes everywhere and the bank to sit on was not the best so i actually did not want to fish it however i did change my mind after .
Phil Roberts
Per-Erik
Mick Carr
Russ 'North Ben Dover ' Hopkins
Swedish ice fishing champion (his wife also) , terrific guy is Per
Fellow Leicester man Phil Roberts from Norway with only Tench of the day
Again , we 5 were back at the Pub/Restaurant drinking copious amounts of wine (just me ) and a few beers and the food was awesome !!
Day 6 and last day of competition
End of 5 hours fishing and the weigh-in commenced
P-0 with his best fish
2nd on day with 15.5 kilos
This is the problem that when you work with Russ Hopkins things become a little perverse 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oral sex with Bream can only get slimey 🙈
Mikael has grown 'Spock' Bream ears
The days winner with 19 kilos is Per
Better day for Mick with 4 kilos and caught a Bream
Hopefully next year we can get back on the river at Deje pending not the same wet season we have endured this year !!!
I shall go back to FRYKENBADEN camping site as it was truly a great place to stop with so many different nationalities and friendly staff .
https://www.frykenbaden.se
