After the fantastic fishing during the competition last week, Niclas and I decided to spend another weekend in the big lake just outside Göteborg City .

I went up with my bike to prebait our swim on the Thursday, 5kg of Pig food, and 4kg of stinking hemp, 2,5kg of homemade mussel boilies and 1kg of frolic (dog food) was thrown into the water.

I was going to fish the first night alone and went up on the afternoon on Friday. I had my rods out at 19.00 and baited up with maybe a half kilo of boilies.

It took five minutes until the first fucking bream was landed and two minutes more for the second one!

I was getting really pissed of and bombarded the lake with 3kilos of 20mm boilies and put on “bream safe” hook baits, Snowmen’s and 26mm boilies. The bream wasn’t the biggest problem however, the biggest problems was the fucking little flies we in Sweden calls “Knott”. In Delsjön they are millions and bites like hell, they especially likes to eat your eyes!

After cooking some dinner I was feeling really tired and went to bed. I was sleeping like a log until a woman knocked on my bivvie and wondered if someone was there. I stepped out, but was really groggy and stumbled on the bivvie door and fell into a bush (they probably thought that I was something of a drug addict), and then someone lighted up my face with a light torch and wondered what I was doing. I was feeling really confused until I found out that it was two female cops.

They said that I wasn’t aloud to put up a bivvie because Delsjön is a nature reserve.

But I refused to put it down and said that the mosquito’s would eat me alive, after a couple of minutes arguing with the cops, they said that I was going put it down in the morning.

I went to bed and fell asleep, but woke up after just one hour, my buzzer was screaming and I went out and hooked a nice fish! I took my landing net and waded out in the water, the carp wasn’t taking so much line but it wouldn’t either reach the landing net, it was swimming from side to side for over 10 minutes and then I finally got the fat bastard in my net!

I weighed the mirror to 8480g and took some pictures with the self timer and then carefully carried the fish in the weigh sling back to its natural environment. That fish took a double Mainline Pulse pop up just outside the Lilly pad margins.

I put on new hook baits and got the rod out again, I took a handful of boilies and shot them out over the area with my slingshot. The “Knotts” was extremely terrible and it was nice thing to go back to my bed. I scratched myself into sleep that night.

At 04:30 I woke up by the best screaming take during my two years of carp fishing. The line was pumping out of the reel and the rod was in a wide bow. I lifted the rod and felt a really heavy fish! It felt impossible to stop the fish but I managed to stop it just one meter before the big reeds. Then the fish swam in high speed to the left and passed a small island to the left of the swim, I rushed into the water with my landing net and crawled up on the small island. The fish now went to the right and then it got stuck into something, I could still feel the fish but I couldn’t move it. I swam out with my rod and landing net and saw that the fish was tangled in some underwater roots, after some nervous seconds I got it free and after some short rushes it finally reached my landing net, Yeaaah!!!

I let the fish recover some strength in the water and then I put the beast on the unhooking mat. I lost a big fish during the competition when my hook link broke of and I was really happy when I saw that this carp had two hooks in its mouth! It was the fish I’ve lost the last weekend and it was a great feeling to be able to pull the hook away!

I weighed it to the new personal best weight of 11740g! I was really happy and put the fish in the carp sack and then called my father to help me with the photos.

At 8:30 my father arrived and he took some really beautiful pictures with the morning sun shining on me and the fantastic creature. After releasing the mirror carp nothing more happened that morning.

I took up all of the rods and went around in the area for some stalking.

After two hours of searching for carp, I finally saw a little common carp slowly swimming three meters from the shore, I carefully threw out a handful of floating dog food 2m in front of its nose, but it became spooked and burst into the reeds in a high speed.

Nothing more happened during the day.

I baited up the swim with around 3kilos of boilies 1kg of ground bait and some dried papaya.

At 21:30 Niclas Olsson and a friend (Andreas) finally arrived to the lake. We’ve got our rods out at 22:00 and then started to put up Niclas bivvie. But the “knots” was so awful that you would kill yourself and putting up the bivvie was a complete nightmare! But we finally got it up and went to sleep.

At 01:30 I caught a tench around two kilos.

At 6:30 Niclas had a real screamer and caught a nice mirror carp on 8020g, after releasing the fish we could see that It was the same mirror I caught the night before! What a hungry fish!

We went back to sleep and around 9:00 Niclas had a run again, the fish felt heavy and fought well! I swam 50meters straight out into the lake and got stuck. I put on my diving equipment and swam out. I followed the line and went into an underwater forest of Canadian Pondweed and could see that the fish was all tangled up in it, I swam down and took the fish in my arms and got it free. Niclas fought it for around 5 seconds, and then the hook pulled out! I saw that it was an unknown fish for us, a long leather carp over 10kilos!

He but on a new bait (snowman) and threw it out again. I baited up the area with around 30 more boilies and then it was time for breakfast. While cooking the food Niclas buzzer screamed out again! The fish was fighting very well and swam around the island! Out in the water and after a long hard fight I could net the fish for him. It was a quite small mirror carp and we could directly see that it was the little fighter Niclas caught during the competition! We weighed the fish to 5420g and after some nice photos we put it back. We caught all of the carps except for one, on our homemade boilies on our own boiliemix! Flavoured with Scopex from Energy Baits.

That was all for this weekend!

Tight Lines/ Rasmus Ljungqvist