2011 - SODERHAMN - BEST MATCH OF THE YEAR

Soderhamn , 'Folkes' match as we say is one of the best fixtures of the swedish season . Folke has been organising this match for at least the last 3 years that i have been attending and possibly longer.
    This year there is a full-house with 44 anglers which equated to 4 sections paying top 4 in each section . The event also had a prize draw on the last day for 8 prizes kindly donated by http://www.metebutiken.se/

    The record for the competition is 62.5 kilos in one day !! held by that great Stockholm angler Mattias 'The Judge' Larsson. Last year top-rod Thomas Soderland took the title for the second time with 72 kilos for the 2 days through the ice !!
   
    With the weather being milder , would the quantity of fish be there to break all records ? .....lets see ?

Picked up my bait from Metemask , rather alot but its needed plus having plenty for Nykoping next week plus a few casters for Jonkoping

Tommy sales manager of Metemask almost sold a full table of bait , some 104 litres in the end. What a great combination for this event with Metebutiken sponsoring the event with Metmask supplying the bait.

Todays mix was a combination of Mondial Gros Gordons and Mondial crushed grilled hemp hemp with VDE Super cup -

in with that went 1 litre dead maggot ,0.5 litre of casters with 2 tins of corn (opened the tins first ) - completed half the mix with Trapper leam as i wanted the bait on the bottom quickly.

Went for a walk down to the match length and the surface was alive with fish and the '3 musketeers' were there also surveying the water.

Its Porthosson ,Athosson and Aramisson.

Fish were everywhere on the surface - but will it fish ?

Standing at peg19 looking downstream and still fish were 'topping' the whole of the surface.

Looking up stream the water was quieter with less wind.

 The venue and the meeting area.

Very suspicious character - selling dead maggots soaked in some special 'weed'

Folke started the proceedings

The weekends attendees

Here in Sweden you draw a peg based on when you booked into the match so in my case i was 7th to draw then on the sunday i was 38th to draw a peg as the whole list is reversed , fair !

The Pike ,Zander ,Sea Trout do not count but everything else does

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Weighing in time on D section

Lots of 30 kilo weights

DAY 2

I drew peg 20 and i know from the last few years that these 3-5 pegs are not the best for some reason. I had top rod Kenneth Johansson to my right so its going to be tuff !

Layout for the day

Menu is lots of maggots with corn ,caster and worm

Initial feed was just 8 small balls laced with goodies

3 pole rigs of 2-3 gram DINO ' Champion'  0.15/0.13 14's/16's Tubertini

3 whips 7,6,5 3-5 gr Milo Texier 0.16/14's

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