2025 - April 27th - ARBOGA and OREBRO

Start of a great tournament organised by chief host Jesper Dyberg . First two days is on the river at Arboga and the last two days is on the canal at Orebro

Start of the day and Mats Larsson and Janne Stange were tidying up all the pegs - priceless work 

They made a great job of any branches that could be a hinderance to the casting 

Most anglers queued for their ordered bait and took delivery of some of their product orders also 

Slight down stream wind was present and hopefully not too strong later on

Busy at the toy-van

Mats waiting for his bait 

Start of the draw and chief organiser Jesper preparing the procedure

Pair of criminals - dont lend them any money - wanted by the Police 😂😂😂😂😂

Fred and Marcus

This draw was very well presented and it also allowed you to find out what peg you will be on tomorrow.

My draw was peg 21 down of the bottom section. Quite a decent peg and access was not difficult . I set up two pole rigs , a whip and 2 feeder rods . Beginning of the match i balled in 6 balls on the pole line then placed 5 large feeder fulls at 25m approx.

Match started and Esa on peg 23 caught direct including a bream . Janne to my right started to catch skimmers and Bjorkna . Cheffen to my left also catching well but for some reason i caught two small skimmers in the first hour !!! Oh dear what was i doing wrong ? 

I started to change my feeders and moved for small window feeders and i caught better but i was well behind all the guys then in the third hour i started to catch a lot of fish and others did not catch so many? I reckon i must have put 5 kilos in the net in an hour and thoughts of doing well was all my expectancy but unfortunately in the last 90 mins they deserted me ......where is the logic in that ?

Weigh in time 

Tommy Norway peg 25 - 6860

Thomas U - 8900 peg 24

Esa 'The Bream whisperer' peg 23 15800

Janne peg 22 12940

Cheffan peg 20 9600

Kjell peg 19 2880

Marcus peg 18 8020

Palle peg 17 5860

Arboga Result sheets :

Results for Orebro 

Overall 4 day results

Unfortunately my chest cold got the better of me and i decided to drive back home on the Friday as i cannot risk getting ill as some 8 years a go i went down with pneumonia for a 2 month period which cost me being away from work and i was close to being submitted to hospital .

Massive congratulations to Jesper Dyberg fro a well run event which i believe will be a permanent fixture every year .

2025 - April - EXNER floats in stock

'The 'ONE' bagging whip float with twin eyes at top for strength and carbon stem all through the body - these are built for serious bagging - Made by Attila Nagy of EXNER for METMASK 

Buy in trade packs 

EXNER CARBON MAGIC SLIDER

EXNER CARBOFRAM WAGGLER / SLIDER

2025 - April 21st , Easter Monday - Orebro

My first match of the year at the wonderful Örebro Canal . Have not fished it for about 4 years so i kind of new the depths and what to expect. The match organiser is Anssi who is a member of TEAM Splash and and an international for Sweden on many occasions.

I stopped at Jamie Cooleys abode the night before with Russ arriving later that evening after watching my poor Leicester City on TV being defeated and relegated 😥😥⚽⚽.

The weather preceding the weekend was cool weather and the expected rain forecast was arriving however on the day of the competition it was drizzle but very cold , about 3-5 degrees !!

Christer and Lisse arriving in the MATRIX wagon

Earlier that morning before our drive to the venue , the one and only star host made us Sausage Bacon and Egg sandwiches thanks mega mukka Jamie. 

On arrival the bait was being distributed as well as many products 

Good time for many to meet 

On the day we had a juniors fishing , just two but it was great to see.

Anssi the organiser attending to his trolley 

At the venue looking upstream from where you enter the footpath from the car park (These pegs not used as according to form they are the best , the winners)

Just as the bend in the distance goes to the right is the start of the match length

Russ in his element - talking the tackle talk 

Draw time and the maestro gives us the days proceedings 

Cards on the table !

My office for the day as i sat between Andreas to my left and Tommy to my right , no pressure then from the Swedish Internationals either side .

Andreas 

Tommy

Well ! I started well , the same as Andreas and at about 15 minutes of fishing he had 11 and i had 8 so i thought i am keeping up with the best . Tommy to my right had 1 i think . Far to my right others looked less active .

Later everything thing went really slow and only Snorasch (spelling?) (Millers thumb Bull heads ) were being caught as well as see-through skimmers. Andreas to my left went slider and caught direct with some Perch and roach . I decided to feed again a small ball and direct i had a better skimmer then next cast bumped something bigger , dam ! After that i struggled and only caught better when cupping in a few maggots and Pinkies as i had tried chopping a lot of worm earlier but that only brought Bull heads. 

Tommy to my right i could hear chopping so worms were being introduced but it was'nt till last 60 minutes that he found some decent fish . Andreas re-fed his slider line with a few balls and it had an affect as he took two Big skimmers .

Disaster for me but i learned a few things from the guys either side but i could have done with that bumped fish.

Tommy with 3595 9th on the day.

Andreas with 4345 6th on the day

On the day further money was raised to aid the Swedish Junior team who will fish in the world youth championships at Meridia in Spain.

Good luck Boys !