23rd and 24th April - Arboga , big river fishing .

Arboga is synonymous with good weights at the start of the Swedish match fishing season and in the past some very good weights of 25-45 kilos have been produced . How will it fish this year ? Well the preceding weeks had seen snow which was part of a long winter but only just a week ago temperatures soared to 19 degrees so expectancy for a good match was being thought of however with a warm temperature the snow melt accelerated therefor the Arboga river was infiltrated with extra water , be it very cold.

The Friday 22nd April i travelled to Jamies dwelling and met up with the MM team and good friends. All of us we were blessed with Jamie (Not Oliver) fine cooking skills and a spaghetti of grand proportions was served downed with copious amounts of Red wine with the odd strong beer . Later on Jamie performed a Live draw so everyone did not waste time hanging around for a peg so it cleared the way for Bait to be picked up from the van.

My car at the ready for the 1hr 15mins to Jamie of the Köping Chelsea supporters club 

 

First Day 

After a lovely continental breakfast at the Jamie Hotel we then ventured to the venue and Jamie and Esa supervised the pegging of the match . A section the closest to the main carpark , B section further out however the anglers who would change section for the Sunday as we wanted everyone to take a turn on either sections , that was fair .

Drive to B section B6 

View downstream with wind picking up and sitting partially in the water surrounded by surface 

 

Three top 5's loading up with :

15 gr CRALUSSO RAY 

12 gr SENSAS PIESTANY

10gr SENSAS NAUTILUS

5M Whip with 2gr EXNER FRIDA

Down stream

I had reeds out in the water at 7m 

From up on the bank behind my setup , the slope was a cruel 60 degrees in places 

Wind was starting to get more fiercer 

Well ! a disappointing day on B section with few fish showing . The section won in last 5 minutes with Russ taking a 1 kilo chub to pip me by 30gr , thats fishing ! 

My day was awful as every rig i put out snagged between 7 and 13m and the wind played the pole all over the place . In the end i stuck to catching miniature Bleak then later took 12 small dumpy roach and rudd.

A section was better but not by much and the fishing apart from first three pegs was peggy afterwards and that shown as very good anglers Christer and Finn-Erik were 50gr and DNW respectively so you knew it was bad when those anglers get that result .

2ND DAY 

Mats Larsson on peg A3

My peg A5 

Set up was ;

30 gr CRALUSSO 

25 gr CARLUSSO

1.5 gr Maurizio Schiepatti Regolo 

30 gr Pole feeder

No feeder fishing for me as my rods are too long and i had a tree branch above me .

The watering can was not mine 

The Master Blaster Jamie giving it some Rave music in the morning getting everyone fired up 

Jamies setup with MK Quattro box on MKQ Platform 

View upstream to the bridge 

View downstream from main car park 

The 5 hours soon passed by as on the latter part of first A section it fished poor and the first three pegs had some great catches 

Marcus on A2 won the match convincingly with 

Massive well done to Jamie for great organising skills . Also thanks to Esa and Daniel for all their help .

EASTER TRIP TO UK AND STOPPING AT MILL ON SOAR

MILL ON SOAR - FISHING - PUB - RESTAURANT - BREAKFAST AND WELL AFFORDABLE - ENOUGH SAID - ENJOY THE PICS AND VIDS

3rd April - TROSA - RIP - Raped by low life fish stealers .

Decided to fish TROSA even though my expectancy was somewhat low as recent cold weather i thought would put the fish down .

I drove into the harbour area an on the BOHMANS hotel side there was several anglers and i saw two anglers catch as soon as i arrived however the fish they caught were Bream on lures and drop shotting and the Bream were obviously only interested in roe eggs to whatever has been breeding upstream , i expect Ide and/or Perch as the Trout bred a couple of months ago . But again with the Bream occupied taking 'goodies' they were not interested in any other bait , just like them being drugged on Joker in matches .

However as i tried feeder and pole fruitlessly i just watched as even more anglers (not talking Swedish or English) arrived with their rod lures and buckets and i watched a continual stream of captures as the bream came in hooked on the back , the belly and he tail . This made me sick to the stomach so here is a list of my observations;

- Bream unhooked on the concrete path and pebbles

- Some Bream had a foot placed on them so the lure could be ripped out , some used pliers

- Most Bream went into plastic bags without any limitation 

- Bream went into bags without being despatched

- Bream not wanted were kicked along the floor into the water 

- Bream flapping about in the buckets until they fell silent .

- Bream i saw caught , well at least a hundred or more.

- Fish care - ZERO !

- Fish mats - ZERO !

- TROSA Bailiffs ...........errrrrrrr ZERO ! 

- Looking at the anglers who turned up i would say hardly any have TROSA Tickets

- Some caught (sorry , foul-hooked) that many they were returning to their vans to empty the buckets !

- Some children fishing with their parents - great learning curve for them watching Bream football !

I honestly believe purchasing a fishing permit with TROSA is a complete waste of time . I believe also that the TROSA club have no appreciation for fish other than Trout , Zander , Pike and Perch , the rest are just shit fish and they have no care for them in fact i am sure they would encourage anglers to destroy as much as possible so to leave their prize fish . However i dont think our foreign friends would bother with the fish limits and take just as much as they can . When will TROSA start to realise that allowing this raping of their waters with sheer abandon and not stating fish catch limits and promotion of catch and release they will destroy their potential for membership fees.

Today i saw possibly three responsible drop shot anglers who were impeccable in their fish care but how long will they continue to purchase TROSA tickets if this carnage persists. 

This is my last year i shall purchase the TROSA ticket unless they make a statement about sorting out the murder of TROSA Fish stocks is placed on social media as if they dont they will lose more anglers and the only ones left are the 'killers' who don't buy tickets ............sad day again at the TROSA slaughter house .

Guys on the corner (3 off ) were on their 2nd bucket !!

Opposite - lures dropping over my feeder area

Kids learning how to give fish-care as they observed Bream on shingled pathways with the use of boots on top of the bream and the wrenching of the lures out of the Bream fins and body - First class fishing education for these future anglers .

Any good Specimen clubs out there close to Sodertalje i would love to hear from and join them as i cannot stand to watch the complete and utter thuggery towards fish at TROSA .

2nd April - Nykoping viewing the match length and a bit of fishing

Mats Larsson and myself met up at the match length to view the potential pegging for the feeder match on 7th/8th May . The morning was very cold with -10 !!!! ......nice start to the summer and i have just put on summer tyres !!

When we arrived at the waters edge it was very clear that the water was down at least 0.5 metre ! so the depth out there could only be about 1-1.25 metre . However whilst in front of the car park area we viewed the early section and it looks like the access is quite good as it would appear the vegetation has been taken down . 

The usual match length looks like last year , difficult in some places with remaining reeds now all brown and laid down in heaps as the winter has cracked them . It was interesting that after the stream on end peg there was clearly work on the bank that would allow 2/3 extra pegs .We walked over the marina bridge and was quite surprised to see more potential pegs with the bank very clear and comfortable.

The water has yet to rise back up to normal level however as all anglers know from past matches there you really need waders and platforms to be comfortable . 

I shall report back to the METMASK MATCH GROUP with our findings and cover our thoughts on the potential level of pegging of this match based on interest . 

The same weekend there is a competition in Orebro so this might take a few anglers away however due to this Feeder match popularity last year there maybe more people wishing to attend ?

Ideally it could be nice to have numbers like :

21 pegs - 3 sections 

24 pegs - 3/4 sections 

27 pegs - 3 sections 

28 pegs - 4 sections 

etc ...... so we get even number sections .

We shall look to complete some tidy up work on the match length in readiness for the competition so we shall keep you informed and list the match soon on the Meteplanket ? 

Mats and i marked out potential pegs and with a couple extra after the small stream  , 22 pegs .

Looking down the match length from 22

Furthest extents could see an extra 7 peg section 

 Furthest potential section was an easy walk and less hinder from trees 

The potential pegging areas 

The section close to the town bridge with restaurants opposite 

Glorious view 

My peg for a couple of hours