Diary : Weekend at Delsjön
9th to 11th September 2005
The winter will soon be upon us so the frozen lakes will prevent any chances of a winter session and that’s the way it is for around 4
months of the year unfortunately.
We have been prebaiting Delsjön for the last 2 weeks and fished there from Friday 9 th September to Sunday 11 th September 2005.
Due to the large number of greedy bream present most of the particles and boilies would have been mopped up by them, but hopefully all the feeding commotion would have aroused the attention of a passing carp or two.We arrived at Delsjön on Friday evening to meet Mat’s (Diver Mats) that was already in the swim waiting for Jeanette & myself. He had told me of “yet another” invention of his that will make the long hours on the bank that little bit more comfortable.
So Mats opened the “Toilet” connection box that powered his electrical gear and connected up his 12-volt invention.When I looked at his Pod it was lit up by neon blue lights and resembled a Christmas tree. Then he showed me his solar powered garden lights that automatically come on when it gets dark. Well I could only make do with my 12-volt fluorescent boat light from Jula, TV and phone charger.
Anyway, we pulled up the marker floats and baited up the swim with particles and 20mm boilies to try and keep the bream from scoffing them all and cast out the rods. Nothing happened that night apart from a few beeps from line bites. But Mats had a run and lost it on Friday evening. This was due to his hooklength snapping which was 25lbs Snakebite!! Mmmmmmmmm? I can only assume that there was a knot in the hooklength as I have never had it snap on me when I use it. The mainline always snaps first before my hooklengths do if I get snagged. Mats has dived in the swim we were fishing and he said it is a flat sand bottom with no snags. So I can only assume there was a knot in the hooklength or it was damaged in someway.
On Saturday afternoon we took some photo for a new article that will be published soon, so watch out for Diver Mats in his “How to do it” article. Saturday night was the same but we had the quiver rods out bream and roach bashing in the afternoon to pass the time.
Mats left us on Saturday afternoon and we stayed until Sunday night. I put a ledger rod out with corn for the bream on Saturday night and I was catching them on every cast. I soon got bored with this and reeled it in. I emptied the keepnet after weighing it and had around 15kg of bream in 1 hour.
No carp were caught this weekend, but we will still keep on baiting up the same swim and fish it until the winter sets in.
Hopefully then we can have more photos of carp instead of keepnets full of “Snotters” (Bream)
Photos : Jeanette Rehm
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