2026 - GOTLAND MASTERS - DAY 4 - SECOND DAY OF COMPETITION - Saturday May 23rd

Again the weights were not so spread out but still good double figure weights for some 

Niklas with 27 kilos 

Adam with 28625

Large Carp catch from Jörgen

Tom Ö with nice catch

Tom Ö best carp from first day

Kristian with a great catch

 

2026 - GOTLAND MASTERS - DAY 3 - FIRST DAY OF COMPETITION - Friday May 22nd

Ummm .......Day 1 of competition and the warmth is here - will the fish respond ?

This venue is massive 

The draw table

The guys ready for the draw

Mattias Larsson started like a train and won the day with 67 kilos 

Vedat with a section win and 16325 kilos

Mattias with days top weight of 67 kilos 

2026 - GOTLAND MASTERS - DAY 2 - PRACTICE MATCH - Thursday May 21st

First day of real action for some of the competitors as some others were arriving later today ready for the three day competition. METMASK + MATRIX have supplied excellent weighing equipment of scales, tripods, weigh baskets , cradles and mats.

Russ at the ready 

After 10 minutes of pre-baiting fish started to show directly

Adam with a nice unit

Days end and Adam had top weight ........46 kilos 

Well not the results we were looking for but one weight shone above others so lets hope that next 3 days results will be much better

2026 - GOTLAND MASTERS - DAY 1 - ARRIVAL DAY - Wednesday May 20th

OK ! this is it , the start of the GOTLAND-MATRIX-MATCH-CARP-MASTERS. It has finally arrived after all the organising over the last several months by organiser Jörgen Axenmo, the chief of the Djupvik Hotel with Russ Hopkins and myself. Jorgen had a dream to have such an event on the beautiful island of his GOTLAND and we at Metmask shared this.

Jorgen has been very generous in allowing many if not all the competitors to stop at his beautiful Hotel .

This weeks festival will see some huge weights and this will start the huge interest into this competition by many anglers across Europe . The arena they fish has room for 150 anglers and there are many more lakes supporting just as many again , Gotland is a gold mine ! The island is covered in Wild common carp up to 5 kilos , and we expect larger . (Grass Carp to 8-10 kilos)

Recent practice saw 88.5 kilos in 5 hours !!

Russ on the Ferry

Russ at the venue , on an unusual cold day

For the event we created the banners 

2026 - Nyköping Feeder - 9th + 10th May

In the run up to this event various anglers had practiced with very good weights however the fluctuation of the Baltic sea level is always an indicator to how well it can fish but in this case DAY 1 weights returns were exceptional in two of the far left sections.

 

I was really gutted to not fish this and many other coming matches as my accident on my left knee will take time to recover

I wonder if i could make it into a fishing rod rest of pole rest ?😂😂😂

DAY 1 Results

DAY 2 Results and final standing

 

Prize for overall winner is a 800 sek card to spend at METMASK - Winner is STEFAN HOLST

Massive respectful congratulations to Mats Larsson on a great organised event - I would definately recommend him for a position in the National Feeder team squad . - he is an exceptional feeder angler.

Next competition is .....