2023 - June 25th Hjalmare canal - METMASK SUMMER SERIES NO.2

This match was due to be fished on the river at Arboga town centre but with the weed growth and bright sunny weather hampering good sport it was decided to go back onto the canal . The canal was going to be better as most anglers would enjoy good shade from the trees. 🌞☂🌲

As usual METMASK delivered the bait and the Toy shop is always open with many taking advantage of coming to a match after making an order through the MM website and then picking up so delivery was assured 👍😀

Pegs were drawn and we split into 2 sections . A new section was used at the bottom end of the track towards the main road . Parking was easy and soon pegs were easily cut into any bank side vegetation. Apart from a few early nuisance mozzies it was quite 'bite-free' 🐛 The 1st section was the last 5 pegs from the previous match as they provided good form.

Match started and for the first 20 minutes i failed to register a fish then Esa to my left started with a few then Jesper started to take many Rudd on the waggler and alternating with feeder to my right. 

After about 2 hours Jesper had the first Tench and continued to fill his net with a steady stream of Rudd , skimmer roach odd perch . By this time i started to get a few see-though skimmers but no sign of Tench 😔

It got to the last 2 hours and Jesper took 4 more Tench on feeder and Esa carried on catching well on Skimmer and Roach . I was doing nothing as i had settled on going for Tench considering i have practiced here catching upwards of 7 Tench . But i failed in tactics and should have listened about the preferred tactic which waggler was producing well. My feeder brought me nothing of size so it was day over for me and i was truly obliterated either side of me .........back to the drawing board. 

Esa peg 1 7600 and section 1 winner

Me peg 2 2175

Jesper with 12125 from peg 3 and the days match winner 

 



This Tench of 2175 matched my weight !!!

Section 2 Peg 6 and Per ' Chef' with section win . 8700

Pegged 7 was Russ with 5850

peg 8 was Kent with 5400

Peg 9 was Håkan with 4325

peg10 and 2nd in match was Marcus with  9425

First time i have failed to catch a Tench having caught many before - Thats fishing !!

2023 - June 11th Hjalmare Kanal

 Short summary of this competition is ...........' Buy a better estate car'  

TIME 06:15 AM , and ..................

Start you ungrateful Bastard !

Right thats it , i am going to give you a dam good thrashing !!!

John Cleese sums this up quite beautifully ..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n77eoOfRPE

So much disappointed i could not make this due to that selfish bastard car crapping out on me . I had all the balls , pegs and sheets ready including the scales , tripod and bucket from Jamie .

Many big thanks to Janne for the use of his photographic work 

Excellent fish take on the day from Janne with some 75 fish mostly on waggler .

Russel 'NORTH' 'BENDOVER' Pornkins with best weight on the day with 13460 and a nest of Tench 

Tinca tinca x 4

Big thanks to Jamie for covering for me 

Scores show it fished a little patchy and looks like the bream have not shown in force

So 

1st is Russ .............1250 SEK - 250 entry + 200 Tench = 1200 SEK

2nd is Thomas .......950 SEK

3rd is Marcus E......650 SEK

Section 1 is Markus K ......250 SEK

Section 2 is Janne  ............250 SEK 

Best Tench was Russ with 2480 ..........200 SEK

Best Rudd was Patrik with 760  ..........200 SEK

2023 - June 4th and down on the Sodertalje ship canal

 Decided on a local fish of my Canal in Sodertalje as its only 400 metres by road for me and i am spoilt for choice. With the weather so nice then my attire was T-shirt and shorts with sandles on my feet in the reasonably executable temperature in the water .

Just look at that - what a venue , enough for some 50 plus pegs on mostly flat banks and the chance to place your box/platform in shallow water before it drops off to 4-5 metres then further out in 6 to 13 metres .

You can see how easy it is to set up in the water on stoney bottom and no silt 

Mat bord for the day

2 feeder rods with one Bolo rod (only used a feeder in the end )

Is that not picturesque ?

AstraZenica opposite

Fished 6 hours but must have had three lots of people come and talk with me , i must be a magnet for conversations 😀😀😀😀 . Ended the day with at least a 100 fish mostly caught on 7m whip in the end and they were 90/10% Roach/Perch with one solitary Bjorkna.

Nice bag but no Bream yet , they are still further away to my right in the shallow water near the marine and island and possibly just spawned . July / August they will be here in plenty so a match at that period would be appropriate .

I decided to cancel the match on here for June 25th as i think the bream won't be here in force so an alternative match at Arboga is planned for that date as returns have been really good on this water .