Match Fishing in Europe: 2024 - JUNE 25TH - HJALMERE CANAL - BANKS SIDE PREPARATION AND A LITTLE FISHING

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

2024 - JUNE 25TH - HJALMERE CANAL - BANKS SIDE PREPARATION AND A LITTLE FISHING

I decided to visit the canal in readiness for the weekends event over the two days .

The days position for me .......

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Brand new whip floats ....'MM1' ........2,3,4,5,6gr

Arrival and started to clear some pegs of obstacles and grasses but on the weekend please bring your own cutters if you have , not that you really need them as all pegs are mostly clear.

I counted the pegs from the first car park and we must be looking at 15/16 pegs with potentially another 5-7 pegs at the far end (if we require ?)

On Saturday morning we can all walk the bank and decide for ourselves what positions to try. On the day who ever has peg 1 and peg 11 they can use their cars to block any arrivals . We have total permission to fish this whole length of water for the 4 days we have booked (June 29/30 and August 10/11) .

My place for the day

I set up;

- Float rod

- Feeder rod

- 7m whip

- 3m whip

- TAP T5

- TAP T4

Soon the sun swung round so i was prepared with my Australian style hat and plenty of sun cream 30-50

Beautiful place to fish

Having arrived at 07:30am and spent 2 hours walking the bank and preparing the pegs i then took another 1.5 hours setting up . It was about 11:00am when i started my 5 hour stint.

I pre-baited the pole line and a line close in down to my right. I then placed 5 feeder full's in on far side where i expected the Tench mostly to be as well as the Rudd . Unfortunately in the 1st hour i only had small Rudd . After i played with the whips and caught see-through skimmers . I then went on the pole line and first 'put-in' and i caught the biggest Bream of the day (estimated 1.8/2.0k) It was a shock as i thought originally i had stuck on the bottom but the fish shot over the other side with my 6-8 elastic at full stretch ! .......landed it , great start and it continued like that off and on . In the end i had 2 more good size Bream (1.3-1.5k) size with three Tench (1.5-2k) (and lost one ) ........i had my T4 setup with 10-12 elastic.