2026 - Nyköping - March 28th - Practice with Mats

Spoke with Mats recently about getting to the Feeder match length for a test of how well it could fish? Both of us were early there at about 07:15am-ish . I fished the 'DOG' section and Mats went to the main 'Match elite' section. Cold wind facing so it was not exactly comfortable but fingers crossed the fish might respond. 

35mm Camera battery gave up even at 72% (i need new batteries )

After 10 minutes i had a nice Bream on the Method feeder with SONUBAITS Banofee Spike-um wafter .

Another followed 20 minutes later 

Fine Rain made it uncomfortable 

A 3rd on the method on the hour mark

Then a 4th

Had a 5th followed by a Ide

Now it was dam freezing !!!!!! Rain and wind even harder !!!

Menu table all set up for Method fishing

6 fish all on method , lost 2.

I took a walk to Mats after getting my gear back in the car 

Easily a section of 4 from the 'boards'

Easily 8 pegs on Dog section without any weed work

Mats first peg in on the 4 Chairs section where 5 pegs can be achieved 

He finished with 18 and you can see from his face just how dam cold it was 

Happy Days !

2026 - Trosa March 22nd - are the fish there

       Expectancy in the air as Lead Bailiff Pasi informed me that fish were starting to show in the town. Great! as its where i shall head for,  and i did!

I decided to try the corner peg before making my mind up where to fish. So i set up my pre-setup stick float rod and cast in , few seconds later i played a roach .........that was it .......brought my kit over and setup 

Stick float rod , T5 Pole , and two 5.5m whips

Beautiful !

First hour was insane as my first 15 fish were Big Roach 

A few hours later i was joined by my 2 of my 3 Swedish daughters , also my granddaughter 'Selma' who is on my family fishing ticket ...... she caught 6 fish !

Wind started to blow hard and i was putting on layers of clothing 

I estimated i had 18 kilos and 22 kilos , let's call it 35 kilos ......181 fish

2026 - March 8th - Trosa , are the fish there ?

Second time out at Trosa this year and with the all day sun and no wind and a lot warmer temperatures its a must visit but will there be any fish ?

Construction work taking place limiting positions to fish from. 

Heavy stuff

07:45 am and no other anglers here yet , ummm ! what do they know that i dont ?

Morning mist is evaporating as the Sun starts to dominate

Feeder first with  little pole at 11m and a whip at 7m 

Sadly , no fish and no fish i heard or seen on a few anglers that did turn up . Thats the way it is sometimes and no doubt with continued warm weather next week then i believe the fish will arrive , i hope!

2026 - 28th February -The official invite on MSM for the GOTLAND CARP FESTIVAL

The Beautiful island of Gotland is Sweden's Ibiza and a much destined place during the summer season . It also holds many great fishing places so families can include fishing in their summer activities. The island is reached by two main towns Ferry ports on the Swedish East coast , they being Nynashamn and Oskarshamn and our organiser Jorgen Axenmo has secured discounted ferry prices (see invitation)

Jõrgen Axenmo - 'I had a Dream' , it was not a Bream but a Carp Festival ! Yes , the man with the passion and go ahead to organise this great event

A lot of work going into this Gotland festival as there is a need to have a major competition in SWEDEN to replace the previous years festivals in South Sweden when the Scandinavian masters was the dominant event run by Mikael Tono and Roger Bengtsson at the start of every Swedish match season. 

The competition has seen many major anglers from all over europe attending in recent years such as Tamas Walter , Milo Columbo , Denis White , Klaus Fix , Sascher Sneider , Stefan Holst , Roger Bengtsson , Mikael Tono , Tom Ostland , Carl + Bart Visser , Aden Toten , Phil Briscoe , Bela Sagi and many many more.

Just a few of the great anglers who have graced Sweden in the last 25 years 

Back in the day we had 8 countries taking part 

When this first festival has been run and no doubt a clear success then the possibilities to go for a 4-5 days festival is possible as people like Jõrgen deserve support and backup and we at METMASK AB and MATRIX-GERMANY will continue to do so. 

The events don't stop there as events like the Snoge Feeder Festival in Skane two times a year are growing in popularity. These organised by the PRESTON METMASK team by Willem Poelstra 

We also have the feeder festivals in July organised by Jonas Jansson at Karls-Grav i Vanersborg (See Feedertorget on Facebook).

There is a the 4 days festival at Orebro/Arboga run by Jesper Dyberg

Yet to be confirmed but a Karlstad 3 day river event is a strong chance run by METMASK and MATRIX Germany

2026 - Trosa - January 17th

With recent heavy snow and now a thaw i took the opportunity to fish Trosa (i am now a member of the club) . Decided to take my Jig/Drop-shot gear with me to view the conditions as i was unsure if any ice flows exist. 

I arrived into the centre of town on opposite side to Bohmans Hotel and already there was many anglers.

I counted at least 24 anglers as far as i could see.

After an hour of fruitless fishing the man himself the '45-47-49 Perch Whisperer' arrived  having fished the other side most of the morning. We sat and chat all things fishing but Pasi's experience said that the fishing wont happen today as there was not one report of a fish take .

Then the sun started to lift spirits , well at least for a few minutes , very pleasant.

Using a 9' feeder rod for jigging and my usual GUNKI rod for drop shotting - shortly after lost both rod rigs on snags !!

Opposite was management from Sodersportsfiske .

My membership and fishing permission card