2018 - 25th March ,Trosa , East coast Sweden , Bagging !?

Great friend Jimmy Kungsman invited me to a fishing day at the famous Bagging town of Trosa . Last year he fished the canal section and took a great catch of fish , could it be the same today ?

Another great friend is Percy Bistram , stalwart of the Trosa SFK who arranged the days fishing by gaining the necessary paperwork .

       

I was loaned a tackle box and equipment from Johan Axelsson - Johan could not attend as he was quite ill like all the Swedish Ice-fishing team and many other countrys teams in their recent attendance at the World Ice fishing championships in Kazakstan - get well my friend.

On the day also met up with Johan Kidlund and his father who also fished for Sweden in the ICE WC .

 Jimmy and i started in the middle of the canal section where we expect to catch Bjorkna and big roach . Percy had brought a feeder rod with him and went into the town trying various areas for us to follow later . It did not look too promising as a very long cold winter and just recent melting of the ice and snow had led to a very cold temperature in the water plus a very low level in the sea , it did not look good !

 

After a couple of hours of intense fishing we decided to move into the town as Percy had comeback with the promise of activity !?  :)

Next position was opposite the famous Bohmans Hotel and incredible place to stay and eat , highly recommended .

Plenty of pole features to fish too.

Jimmy changed to the 7m whip 

Then excitement ! , a quick down movement of the float and i struck into it .

Soon it was brought to the surface .......not quite what i was looking to catch    :(

After an hour we decided to pack up and return home , just time for the catch photo  .........

The Catch photo ............

Well ! , you cant have it all as obviously the fish were not in the system yet . We spoke about returning in three weeks and definitely there will be some serious bagging returns .

Thanks for the day Jimmy , Percy , Johan and Johan .

2018 - MIDLANDS ANGLING SUPPLIES - EXNER FLAT FLOAT - Blade and Butterfly

Exner floats i am sole distributor for in the UK and i have been associated with Attila for several years and in that time i have enjoyed his floats as they have never let me or my customers down.

Their Flat floats , in particular the Blade and the Butterfly have been used in major competitions including International , World Champs and Nationals , Winter and Summer Leagues. That is the extent to which clubs and teams and top anglers i have sold to .

The floats are as small as 0.5g which are favoured on shallow canals in the UK to the larger 35gram in the Butterfly and 15gram in the Blade. Shotting of these floats is a personal choice as some use fixed shot , Olivettes or the use of globes like the 'Magic Globes' another Exner product.

Since 2011 till now i have sold 728 pieces and recently ordered stock for the year ., such is the popularity of these floats . The only reason sales got low last year was the rivers are low however match anglers in the UK use them constantly for their Perch fishing.

I sell Sensas and Cralusso flat floats also but my main sellers are the EXNER range .

............ another order going out

Used on the Guden , Denmark (with Cralussos )

x 2 Butterflys in action

The very best in weights for those 'heavier days'

Weight till you use them     :)

The boss and good friend of Exner floats , Attil Nagy
(makes a lot of the floats you buy in the shops !? )



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https://www.midlandsanglingsupplies.com/exner-floats/Exner-Butterfly-Flat-Float

2018 - Wigston AC canal for Mick Holohan Memorial match - 43 attended

The weather was dam cold and the majority of the canal was frozen over. All the sections were used including the prolific Kilby Bridge length. I drew awful on peg31 , same peg as last year and same result expected but hey , thats fishing !

I sat for 5 hours for a single wasp (Perch) , section was won with 8 wasps for 2oz ! Other sections were won with similar however Kilby produced a 22lb weight for Tommy Boyce and good back up weights in that area.

Ice ,ice Baby !

4 rigs ...... you never know ?

Back at the Manor restaurant pub and the thawing out began in earnest.

 Tommy presented with the trophy by Wigston top-bloke Adam Nurse

2017 - MIDLANDS ANGLING SUPPLIES SM (SAM MERRY) POLE FLOATS

EXNER produce great floats and Midlands Angling Supplies have produced floats with great anglers like MIDDY backed Joe Oakes and SHIMANO backed Peter Jayes both from the Wigston AC church.  Recently SHAKESPEARE backed Sam Merry also from Wigston AC has created his pole floats with us and are now available . Sam as you know finished in 2nd place in the River Fest final.

2017 - MIDLANDS ANGLING SUPPLIES CL (CLIVE LLOYD) POLE FLOATS

My association with Maurizio Schiepatti extends to the early 2000's when i discovered his finesse in float making as he used to produce floats for Milo . I have kept in touch with the Italian float master and order regular amounts his stock however i also have my own branded floats made through him .
One of my sponsored lads is Clive Lloyd from the Church of Stickology at Burton on Trent . Originally we developed a float for canal far track fishing however we have extended this to the rivers . We have produced the MS-MAS 'CL' range from 0.1gr to 3.0 gr.

2017 - EXNER MICRO WAGGLER FLOATS

Exner quality stands out and members of the MIDLANDS ANGLING SUPPLIES have tried them out on local waters . Jamie Tarplee and Neil Powell have complete various reports on these Hungarian floats

2017 - CLASSIC EXNER CARBON MAGIC SLIDER FLOATS

Top Irish rod David Herron tested these extensively and found them to be a great cast and very durable . The tips are easily changeable and come in various lengths and thicknesses.

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