2024 - November 15th - Sodertalje canal

After watching Stefan in the week bagging on feeder i was greatly influenced to come down and se if i could emulate his rate of catching . It was noticeable that when he fished he had reached 68 fish in the first 90 minutes and when i watched and spoke with him for about 20 minutes he caught a further 10-12 more !!

The Fish whisperer 

So i decided to fish Friday as the weather forecast was considered reasonable with an abundance of sunshine and less cold . Early morning and i entered the bank at about 08:45 am.

Dam ! ...... it looks good as i prepared the kit sitting on the same place as Stefan earlier in the week

At the start i decided for a feeder approach like Stefan did in the week . I caught on first cast !! After that it became very patchy and only took another three in next 30 minutes which is very slow compared to Stefan's bagging .......ummm , i fluctuated between dead reds and small corn .

Later i tried 6m whip close in keeping both lines of attack fed with gb .

After 3.5 hours i had amassed only 42 fish , all roach , no skimmer and perch like Stefan had in the week . I caught mostly on small corn and had quite a few decent size roach.  

Unfortunately for me i found snags on the feeder  which i am unsure if Stefan had the same problem ? I also incurred snags on 6m whip and continuously brought up remnants of the summers weed like canadian type weed and Lilly plants stalks. 

2024 - November 9th - Nyköping Bro

Another return to this water that can promise so much yet on another day can be failure !

Back to the usual place on the 'boards'

Two Herons keeping me company and possibly see more fish than me ?

2 x 6m whips with EXNER Lucifer 4gr floats 

I really hope it fishes well ?????

After a 3 hour failure when starting at first light i decided to take a walk after putting all the kit back into the car . I decided to view the possibility of fishing in the boat mooring area which is quite extensive.

Parking available

From the car park 

2024 - November 3rd - Nyköping Bro

Not deterred by the previous Sundays dismal failure to catch (except one see-through Perch and a Bullhead) i decided to venture out again , was i to be rewarded ?

Started at about 08:30am and as predicted there was a lot of cloud and no rain 😀💧💧

Looking out from the boards area and the clouds were less and full sun was happening

The usual office place for me 

T6 with 10gr EXNER DELTA flat float 

T6 with 4gr EXNER ILIASZ 

6m whip with 3gr EXNER LUCIFER

MATRIX 13' HORIZON feeder rod

After 4 Ide on whip and pole i then took a large roach on whip !

After a first two hours of blanking and changing rigs to suit i then turned 90 degrees to my right and fished a semi slack .........the day was rescued !

Good local friend who gave me advise on the fishing 

 

2024 - October 26th - Nyköping Bro

Change the clocks tonight so we all get an extra hour in bed ..........will the river fish today , surely it should do after the last two weekends huge catches ........anyway this is how it went .......

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Decided to feeder fish today however when setting up my gear there was a large black thing in the water about 50 metres away that disappeared , so i thought , Beaver ? Until it popped up again looking at me and it was Seal.

It continued to surface and submerge over a 100 metre distance over the next hour and in that hour i had no bites . It was only later i caught 5-6 Bleak on dead maggots so that was it for me , the Seal had spooked the fish and how many more Seals were in the area ? They could have been feeding all night as either side of the water was street lamps .

The closest it came to me about 15m away

So i decided to pack all the gear away and go and visit Stefan out on the piren . I first visited the other side .

Beautiful day now with the sun and no wind

Looking back towards the bridge  and the opposite side where i was fishing to the right of the boat with two masts

I spoke with Stefan but never visited him as i wanted to visit the Feeder cup match length . He was now saying he only had about 10 roach.

I arrived at the easy section (pegs 8 and 9 approx.)

Both pegs quite clear 

I think about peg 7 ish and quite clear 

 

The swing chair area with Dog walk was quite clear but obviously will need further work early next year but i would say less to do so over a period of years the pegs will be less in repair .

Over to the Elite section on the boards 

Probably the least maintenance peg  , always clear 

2024 - October 19th - Nyköping Bro

Found myself returning back for another session at Nyköping as last weekends 163 fish gave me the taste for more so i set my gear out in the same place.

Starting with feeder for just over 30 minutes i only took 4 Bjorkna . I then changed to full depth T6 pole rigs of 4gr and 6 gr as i wanted to get thro the Bleak that tend to attack the corn. 

It was later that the continuous feed brought the shoals up into the top 3m and i bagged continuously.  

Whips with EXNER 4gr Lucifers 

Mixed a good bucket of SONUBAITS and opened 2 tins of corn

Perfect place for a match ......on this side easily 7 pegs , opposite side also the same

Sea Breeze started to get stronger

Best fish of the day a approx. 1.25 kilos Ide

End of a great day with 217 samples, mostly Bjorkna but this time more Rudd , Roach/Rudd , Skimmer showing. Also had Big Bleak on Corn with several samples of Perch also falling to corn. Included in this i took the largest fish and Ide of about 1.25 kilo with two other smaller versions.

Cleared the gear away ready for the viewing

Quite a weight in this catch and i estimated about 30-35 kilos

I think i will be back for more next weekend  😀😀😀