10th/11th September MATRIX Deje Feeder match

After a visit in July to the area it was decided to place a competition on this part of the Klarelven river at Deje . The river is made famous in the UK by John Wilson visiting the river in the 80's for one of his well know fishing features which was mostly in Karlstad town centre . 

Previous weekend i stopped at Karlstad with my good lady but i made a trip out to this stretch where people like P-O , P-Erik and Mikael made the pegs , some 22 in the end ! Their work was priceless and thanked by all who attended the match weekend .

Arrival time on the first day and parking was plentiful .

View from the car park overlooking the match venue 

All signs point to the match 

Arrival mean't Bait time from Russ - always the best quality plus much MATRIX and PRESTON products showing in his mobile toy shop

The anglers gathered for the opening ceremony from top organiser Mikael Nyman 

The rules were read out and the draw was made 

Superb meeting place for this match 

The Legend that is P-O , this guy has done everything in match angling for the last 50 years and had travelled much with International attendance . Please note he and his wife are over in the UK next weekend to watch the RIVER FEST FINAL .

Russ still selling 

Well Day 1 ! ...........what can you say but my 575 gr was not going to worry the leaders . But it was a low scoring section with P-O taking 2600 with a classy display on the feeder .

Per-Erik with a few nice samples from A section 

The days winner in Section A was Per Nilson with 13275 and blasted the opposition .

Metmask top man Mikael Nyman with a fine unit of a Bream 

First time match angler Rasmus enjoying a nice catch with a fine sample 

Tomas with 5925 and 3rd in section 

Lennart with a sizeable fish , part of his 900 grams 😀

After the first days fishing we all sat down for a well earned meal 

DAY 2 - will it improve ? , improve in B section please as i have drawn the same peg !!

Mikael in the B 

The day was poor with Russ taking 9 kilos (5 Bream on the bounce) to win the day.

Section B winner was Per amassing 2250 and taking at least a kilo in last 20 minutes as he found 5 good Russ just of his keepnet !!! to pip me . 

Well done Per , great and funny guy who won the DEJE competition with two first places . 

Although disappointing weights it still showed its potential with many good catches of Bream but only in certain pegs . 

Next year will run the match a couple of weeks earlier and hopefully get better results plus we will look to extend the length of the match with more sections nearby .

Well done to the Podium finishers and good to see my Norwegian mate get third on the day , He lost an Ide on first day estimated to be 5lb plus. 

3/4 September Deje on the River klarelven - preparation for the Feeder match

Having travelled to Karlstad the night before with my Lady Carola  and had a fantastic meal with Mikael and his wife at a top restaurant , we met on the match length . 

The morning had a splattering of rain but it ceased later on and the boys were able to cut our and today a few more placements . 

This is a quick report and it is best given in video form so you can appreciate the work being put into the match length and give you , the anglers a view of the pegs you might encounter .

Enjoy ...............

Top of the match length 

View looking down from the parking area in the woods 

Ideal for parking for at least several cars 

Mikael plumbed the water and close in it was a good 8m deep ! , further out it became more shallow to about 5m .

3rd August - Gota canal , Norsholm

Norsholm is the venue for the VM on August 20/21 so an opportunity became available to run a practice there (not sure we were sitting on the VM pegging ?)  Christer and Lisse organisers of this event.

Who is this ? 

First time i have visited this section of the canal at Norsholm and i was impressed with parking arrangements , but how will the match fish ? 

 

 

Menu for the day - no live maggots /pinkies so i went with worms , dead maggots , corn and GB/LEAM

Peg 1 

Not the best result for me after the conclusion of the 4 hour match . I was fishing similar to all the other guys but could not get into consistent catching !?

I started with 4 rigs from 3-5gr (heavier rigs suggested to get thro' the Bleak) however i changed during the match to just three rigs of 2gr-2gr-3gr but in the end it made no difference . After 2 hours i could see i am well behind so i concentrated on chop worm/leam to hopefully get some larger samples . 

Unfortunately all i encouraged was Crayfish (4 on worm and 1 on corn). My catching was spasmodic and when i did it was ultra see-though skimmers and the odd better specimen see-thro skimmer . Many times the crayfish were snipping off my worm even when i fished 10-15cm of the bottom !!

Not anything i could do however i should have set up a slider but i can see from the guys that that method did not really produce much . I did not weigh in and i think i had just less than a kilo . My highlight to the day was catching 4 roach in quick succession on small corn up in the water spraying hemp . I just put this match result down to bad preparation , oh well there is always a next time .

Time for a Crayfish party !!

Weigh in time and on peg 2 was Anders with 1.77k 

Christer on peg 3 with 5.730 (Interesting to note that he had fish of the day , a decent bream in the last 10 minutes - so there are some decent units in there .

Anssi on peg 4 with 5.350

Lars 'Lisse' Lind , the Triple L , on peg 5 with 6.710

The days winner , the Talismanic Gyula with 7470 

Where have i seen that stance before ?

July trip to Sweden and suffering was everywhere - poor Mick !

Suffering with all this fine Swedish food drink and Fishing - going home to UK to recuperate !