2013 - Fyrisan series no 5 match

October 12th and a beautiful sunny crisp autumn day greeted the match man for the finale of this river series on the Fyrisan at Uppsala .

The final has extra impetuous as Pierre and Jimmy are the top 2 men in the league so the draw is significant for both anglers in this highly competitive league. How will they draw , same section or different sections ?

Looking from the car park to the right and down stream.

Comfortable parking area for the guys

                From the car park looking up stream to the left ...... i can see a Krazy man in the distance

Johan 'DJ Krazy Tikanen (Bob Nudd's brother) completing the hacking of the undergrowth on peg 14

The members started to gather

Time for the day's words of wisdom and  few choice words from the Reverand Tikanen.

 All the anglers had the trolleys at the ready fully loaded for the off !

My Wheels

Todays competitors and their standing

Pierre .....last year had a second to me , will this year see him place his hands on the trophy and all the spoils ?

Marcus

Trosa's top Junior rod , Johan.

Kent John Wayne

Match Anglers United Jimmy Kudman ......Will he be the days champion ?

Burt , who won the last match with a great all roach catch

Rolf the ever consistent.

Hasse the bagging machine from Trosa SFK

Percy the general of the TROSA SFK .....one of the nicest guys in Swedish fishing.

Rolf's lady wife who is not afraid of the opposition and had fished consistently all through out the series.

Thomas

Lars

My Peg 6 for the match . It had no features and was about an even 2.8 metres deep all the way across

Mixed a 2 kilos of VDE Black turbo and dark lean with a bucket of black soil for worming and initial bombardment with chopped worms.

Casters were riddles for the mix.

Menu board

Johan T to my left out of sight

Front , featureless!

              Possibly fishy area next to the overhanging tree , need to explore that.

Well , the match started and after 1 hour ......1 Bleak ! ....WTF !! By this time i had scaled down even more to 0.08 and 20's hooks just looking for a stray ! 

Decided to take a walk and Jimmy was in a concentrated mode and taking the odd roach .

I decided to fish up in the water and close at 2-3m whip to find bleak just for a weight , i even set up the feeder rod as a shit or bust method.

I started to take bleak but not consistently so it became bleak chasing ! 

In the end i had about 35-40 bleak and 2 tommy roach and a decent Perch for 1.5 kilos 

Weigh in time

Kent took a nice next of roach samples for best weight of the day 

Thomas

Percy

Burt

Johan Tikanen contemplating eating the fish instead of weighing it in .....has been on the skunk snuz !

Awful day !

Lena did okay

Hasse had a great first 30 minutes with many roach then it died

Rolf with the best fish of the day , an Ide.

The moment of truth for Jimmy !

Slight smile on Jimmys face but has he enough to beat Pierre and ultimate glory.

Lars the bleak bagging machine.

Pierre , has he done it ........Yes he beats Jimmy's weight by 300 grams !

Marcus

Young Johan

Johan quickly calculating the final places ready for the prize giving.

Quite a lot prizes were up for grabs . Great donations from swedbait the main sponsor . 

       The days winner took the money and a large 15 kilo sack of SWEDBAIT special mix

Young Johan had an early Xmas present collection.

The Series winner is Pierre Willander , richly deserved win , unlucky for Jimmy but i am sure he will challenge hard for next year.

Big thanks to Johan Tikanen who organised the series and he ran it bloody well as usual. 

Massive thanks to the sponsor's SWEDBAIT and METMASK.COM

remember ! support your local bait and tackle distributor !

2013 - 5 DAYS in England and managed 2 fishing days

Arrived Monday the 7th at Stanstedt airport and made my way to Leicester where in the first day i completed much of my business . Later that evening after going to my local tackle shop i sat down for a glass of Stella and a little wine with the meal . 

I was rather unfortunate to miss the draw by 5 minutes so i decided to go to my local fishing club complex , the Greenhill AC Thurlaston lake and moat and sat on peg on the Moat where i had fished previously in July.

Just behind is the Lake where several anglers were catching carp constantly

After 3 hours i decided to finish and complete further tasks . Nice net of Perch , Roach and Rudd for about 8 LB.

Leicestershires finest beer !

Only wanted a small meal but this was enough for a platoon !

The thursday gave me an opportunity to fish the Holly Farm open where 36 of the local cracks assembled for breakfast and good banter.

This is typical of English angling waters at a commercial level , they provide everything.

Great friends to meet ...... Don Slater , legend !

Further legends , Brian Envis  (Right) great friend , team mate and former member of the Leicester Likely lads. On the Left is eldest soon Gary , also former team mate and Leicester Sensas Juniors.

The Legends continued with also former Likely lad Dave Rossi on the right with top rod and well known local angler  Tom Watt. on the left.

I drew peg 15 on Gils lake , not the best of draws and not known for winning off .

Anglers who could not handle the walk were helped to their pegs and their equipment also.

My office for the day

The menu : Corn , small and big meat , red maggots and fishmeal

4 tops rigged with 0.2-0.4 gr. floats rigged with 0.15/0.13 18/16 's hook on 10-14 elastic.

The day went from reasonably mild in the morning to bitter cold by the end of the match . It started well with an F1 on the first put in but after bites were a premium and i started after the silvers for an hour which only yielded about 12 small fish. 

After 2 hours i went margins and took 3 big mirrors on big meat over small meat and in the last hour of this 6 hour match i took 8 more carp to end up 2nd place overall out of 36 in a very good field of anglers.

Great that i can still compete with the best even though my fishing time in UK is very limited.

Loved the day with so much fun , banter and great friends , missing you all ready now back in Sweden.

2013 - Trosa September 29th and a nice day out with some great Swedish friends

A 32 km drive found myself in Trosa and meeting the Trosa boys plus the other teams for this DM match. What a fabulous bunch of guys always smiling , willing to talk and always having fun like Percy here who donated this handuk - towel to me as a going away present , he is a case , brilliant guy who like his club friends i will dearly miss.

I set myself up some 20 metres from the match and erected 2 x 6m whips and a 5metres whip with 2.5gr floats with 0.16/0.13 to Tubertini 14s/16s . Also had a stick float set up with  5BB Warren stick to 0.12 bottom to 18s kamasan long shank.

Office for the day .....fabulous weather !

 3 bags which included VDE Turbo / VDE Supercup and a bag or brown dispersing leam.

Maggots/pinkies/corn/worms the usual menu board.

The match attendees hung around waiting for the all important draw while i started my fishing . Well ! after 1 hour i had taken 2 small perch and most of the field were watching and some were stating : shall i fish for bleak? . At that stage i would say yes but surely it will not continue like this ?

As soon as the match started i started to take a steady stream of Bjorkna ,skimmer and Perch . Most of the fish were in the 100 to 400 gram category with larger specimens of 600-800gr amongst them.

Lost 2 very big fish close in which i estimate both to be Bream of a larger size. Had only 1 roach be it a good one . 

Splendid days fishing with a terrific bunch of friendly approachable anglers which just made the day just the best !

2013 - Fyrisan river series No.4

Saturday the 14th saw the 4th match in the Fyrisan series which again was well attended . The weather was dull and overcast yet still warm from this long summer . The river conditions were not so good as the water was low and lacked colour and lacked and flow as the water was almost still .

http://www.swedbait.se   are the sponsorers of the Series

http://metmask.com  are the regular bait service providing the best 'Dutch' worms , maggots and Pinkies also bloodworm joker and casters if ordered in good time. 

The troops assembled for the days' task.

A procession of trolleyed kit stood ready for its pegs destination.

Today's venue , a idyllic river some 20 metres wide which was slow to almost full stop , clear and sultry but beautiful surroundings and plenty of wildlife made this a venue of pleasure just to be there.

Tim was not fishing today but he delivered the bait for Metemask.com .

Great service Tim ......many thanks to you and the Metemask people

Weigh in time .....Peg 1 Grym with a 1.6 kilo

The young and up and coming Johan taking a great a weight with the 'Stripeys' for about 2,4 kilos on peg 2

Rolf in the trees peg 3

Me on peg 4 and the Rudd made up 75% of my 3,5 kilos and 3rd place .....It was hard work but from the start i placed 3 balls of joker / leam balls at 11metres and then placed 8 dead maggot/corn/pinkie balls at 2 meters short of the far bank for the feeder line. Had a overhanging tree to my right , the ' chub' looking peg i happened to remark about to Jimmy when we prepared the bank with Johan before the match. Jimmy was actually on peg 6 with Johan in between us on peg 5  . Jimmy scored first when the match commenced with successive skimmers and dog roach so i followed his action by fishing over my joker line with a 1.5 gr Dino 'Tamas'  in 2.8m deep with 0.10 bottom to a image IM6 hook and single pinkie . I took 9 see-thro' hand size skimmers and a roach then it went quiet . Jimmy took a niceBream of about 1.3 kilos and continued to connect with small fish from small Millers thumbs to Perch of the se-thro variety and also roach and skimmers. Johan was struggling with the pain in his body from a ladder fall at work , as he had been off work on the sick . In fact he said the worst thing was loading the car ! eventually he started to take a few fish and an excellent Bjorkna to boost his weight.

I eventually boosted my weight with many Rudd taken in the top metre of water at 5m and 13m .

Towards the end of the match i bumped off a really good fish estimated to be a large Perch of Bream  when fishing my joker/worm line but that is fishing , they don't count unless they are in the keep net !

Painful back reflected a weight of about 1.7 kilos

The days 2nd place and Jimmy of the MAU was happy with 4.5 kilos

The lead man of the day , is Pierre , he took a 3rd today in section.

Hasse had an awful day , but he will be back looking for revenge !

Lena took a few , she beat her husband Rolf.

Hubert on End peg , the roach peg and last years winning roach peg , i had last year when i won the series , it turned up to be the peg with a great weight a shade over 5 kilos ......great angling on a 5metre whip on maggot , hemp.

Well , with one match to go then Jimmy and Pierre are equal on points at the head of the leader board. The last match will take place on the 12th October . 

Its going to be a hard fought last match.

MIDLANDS ANGLING SUPPLIES LTD will be donating the trophy for the series.

Again big thanks to Swedbait and Metmask.com and to Johan for a great days job.

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