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.
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 .
Recent practice saw 88.5 kilos in 5 hours !!
For the event we created the banners
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
Well ! What a weekend for me ! Saturdays fishing i was battered both sides by Mats Larsson and Niklas Strengulsend so i had hope for a better Sunday , how wrong could i be ?
I drew Peg 2 and took a look and i thought i might need the platform but i could position my box only so i chose the former . So i emptied the rear of the car and took hold of the platform and started to make my way close to the water when i tripped and fell on my side and back after hitting my left knee into the fallen platform . I had tripped over a hidden metal stake that the locals use to moor their boats to.
Within seconds great friends Janne Stange , Per Nilsson and Klum family arrived to help me . Russ came down thinking i had an heart attack !! I asked them all to get me standing but straight the way things were not well around my left knee as after viewing i realised teh swelling was huge so only thought was to drive home quickly (i should have not done that ) ,
Anyway , i managed to drive home with great difficulty with my left foot permanently hovering over my clutch pedal and difficult to engage sometimes . Home it was and i called for ambulance as hospital is only 500m away . So i was inspected with X-RAY and CT scan and it was realised my knee bone had chipped off displacing my thigh muscle so it was required to be fused back with the tendon . That night at 09:45pm i was taken to surgery . Out of Operation room at 12:00pm and post-op room till 13:30pm then to my room for something to eat and drink and much needed sleep.
Now home with long healing process of up to 6-8 weeks. Unfortunately all my competitions are cancelled till August , this is sad for me as its my enjoyment with super angling friends. But i shall return.
Arrived on a chilly morning and the wind was still , a few hours later it was horrendous
Yet another window of opportunity to fish the mighty Trosa the East coast Mecca for Bagging.
Great place and venue of Jenny and Andreas wedding
Hard to believe that at this point thousands of fish are going upstream to breed. Recently its been Trout with Pike and now the Ide are going up by their thousands.
Yesterdays report on numbers .........579 !
But then i hit a problem as the water was saturated in Smelt and i foul hooked so many plus some took the corn and my float struggled to settle due to the density of the shoals ....... eventually after feeding heavy the other fish got a look in
