So the brave six set out to walk the piren and hope for the fish to be there as years gone by there has been some great results however there has been disappointments.
We all were dreaming of this end result ..........did our dreams come true ?
My peg 6 - End peg , closest to the parked cars 😃
To my left - that long , long piren
To my right from where i came
Setting up and soon ready - expectations are high
Hook lengths at the ready if i need to scale down and change hook lengths
Early start from Sodertalje and within 1hr 15mins i was at the venue be it a little foggy on the way there .Even though the venue was fenced of there was gaps in the fencing to get through to enjoy this fabulous venue.
SATURDAY 30TH OCT
Russ in back breaking work - i dont know how he does it . Titanium plates in his back and 10 pills a day for his constant pain - not easy !
The Boys waiting their turn for collection of the best bait in Sweden - 'bar none '
Bloodworm was plentiful
MKQuattro ..........dam good box construction
Reds were lovely , all fresh !
Russells box on display ........umm , i think i might .........!?!?!?
Match organisers Christer Engvall and Kent Adell now in for their allocation
The start
Match started with the pre-bait enabling all anglers to get the fish ready for delivery of hook baits . After a slowish start a few fish started to arrive and noticeably Fredrik Samuelsson was first to take a string of fish , promising start then but where are they for me ? After about 7 minutes i had my first roach be it very small and further fish arrived so i was enjoying a promising start . The first two hours were not the best compared to others however i enjoyed a good third hour and caught consistently but then it fell away and Thomas to my left caught me up well and his last hour was very good , that reflected in our weights .
I did now know if to feed pure joker small balls with the odd leam mix of joker or the occasional small ball of dead maggots/casters/pinkies/corn ...........so it was trial or error to know what kept the fish feeding .
Fours later it was over and i knew i had blown it with irregular feeding and i should have stuck to 5-6m whip instead of fishing the pole too many times at 11m .
Match over i managed to put some kit away and catch up with the weighing in process again admirably done by Kent Adell and Christer Engvall with Tommy Lindblom also lending a hand .
Anders Terseby B1 7020
Fredrik Samuelsson B2 11050
Tommy Lindblom B3 7730
Norwegian Tonje Hauge B4 5440
Christer Engvall B5 7810
Thomas Soderlund B6 6930
Phil Ackerley B7 6080
Norwegian Sondre Ejkberlen B8 4770
C SECTION
Norwegian Andrezej Szubarczyk C1 8240
Anders Dyplin C2 5640
Bjorn Widerberg C3 8700
Per Nilson C4 23530 - Biggest weight of the day and weekend
Marcus Clausen C5 17400
Norwegian Tommy Stengelsund 14210
Lars Lind C7 15820
D SECTION
Russ Hopkins D1 7560
Christer Pantzar D2 10020
Milojko D3 5050
Stefan Holst D4 4280
Jamie Cooley D5 2840
Robban Jonsson D6 3090
Kent Adell D7 4380
Bo Enstrom D8 2490
Andrezej Carressing and cuddling a large 3l bottle of red wine ...... only 3000SEK !!! .......we did not do it
Truly a fantastic Italian authentic meal and restaurant and a tremendous night out with our Norwegian friends and the team from Metmask
Pizza - i have never eaten something so good - incredible taste
SUNDAY 31ST OCTOBER
Peg A1 to my left
to my right
BLACK GROUND BAIT MATTERS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What a quiet start , for me ! After placing 10 large balls of Back leam / GB i then topped up with three balls of joker laced leam and three balls of chopped worm leam balls .........all at 10m pole line . Then placed 2 hard lighter GB mix at 5-6 m .
First 20 minutes , two small skimmers (first i had seen ) , two see-through Perch and a tiny Roach . After 35-45 minutes i started to pick up a few Roach on the 5-6m whip line but i was already behind due to slow start . I then started to compete with Anders Tersby next to me but he was catching well on his shorter line. Come to the last hour and i started to throw corn in on my 7m whip /pole line and i noticed my float was not settling properly then i struck and a large roach was hauled in , followed by another . Then i realised they were well off the bottom so i shortened the full depth to more than a metre of the bottom ! . I even moved the olivetti up so the corn on the hook would drop slowly . So for the next 45 minutes i was just throwing 5-8 grains of corn at 7m every fish and i had a fantastic string of non-stop Roach and must have put 5 kilos in the net in the last hour - it was incredible , every time the rig dropped in i was hauling a dog-roach . But it was too late and i could or maybe should have used corn more throughout the match . But you live and learn but it was well exciting catching one dog after another .
Winners on the podium were ..............
Massive congratulations to Norways finest ........Niklas
Podium shared with Christer Pantzar - 2nd on the left and Christer Engvall - 3rd on the right
