I (Chris) found out at 4pm on Friday afternoon that the weekend’s overtime had been cancelled. I could not get my phone out of my pocket fast enough to ring Matthias.
I called him, told him to get his “Leather Together” and be ready in 1 hour! We were going to Härlanda Tjärn!!!!

We stopped off at the “System Bolaget” (The Swedish Govermental run Off Licence) for a replenishment of liquid refreshment in the shape of a slab of beer. Then at around 7pm we landed at Härlanda.

We met up with Fredrik Palm who was already fishing.

After a quick chat, we decided to fish the swim just to the left of him. The swim was on the left bank of härlanda and just past the bathing area.
We set the gear up and launched 3 leads each into various places in the swim.
Matthias had first choice of swim as it was a virgin water to him.
When everything was set, we polished of the crate of beer and had a
ging-gang-goolie round a nice log fire…………………

…………………………………The Delkims remained silent until 13.45hrs on Saturday afternoon then Matthias’s left hand rod went screaming off and his Solar butt banger was rattleing off his rod blank. We had seen a carp rolling in that area for the past hour and Matthias cast a single pop up to the spot.
After a 10 minute fight and a few scary “Carp in the Lillypads” moments, Matthias guided the beauty into the landing net.
We both looked into the net and saw that the big Common Carp was now his PB!!!!
She took the scales round to 7.5kg and Matthias looked happy as a pig in sh*t. The ceremonial photos were taken and back she went.
We made a celibratary cup of coffee and thought about that evenings plan of attack.
We baited up around the marker float and fished one rod there each and put our other 2 rods in the margins.
Once again it was an uneventful night!!
But when the clock struck 09.30hrs on Sunday morning, we were dragged out of our lovley warm sleeping bags by another screaming delkim.
Yet again it was one of Matthias’s rods and his baitrunner spool was losing lots of line at a very fast rate!!!!
Matthias bent into the fish, ajusted his clutch, but there was no stopping this one!

She went lungeing into the deepwater and stripped of another 30 meters of line.
We both just looked at each other, with “it looks like a big one” expressions on our faces!
Matthias gained a few meters of line, but this baby wanted a scrap! Off it went again and Matthias lost his gained 30 meters!
After a 20 minute battle and several screaming runs later, the BIG carp was not as big as we had thought.
It was a Common Carp that took the scales to 7.1kg.
It was two – nil to Matthias and that’s the way it stayed.

Both Carp were taken on Energy Boilies - Scopex Squids Liver 20mm pop-ups.


We havn’t decided where our next trip will be, but where ever it is, we will be sure to tell you about it…………………

Tight Lines and Soggy Sacks!!!

Chris