Delsjön Competition
(Göteborg öppna karp mästerskap 2009)

12th - 14th June 2009 is the Delsjön Competition held in Lilla Delsjön, Gothenburg.

We participated last year and came in 3rd place

• You can read last years report here.

You can also find out more about the competition on this page aswell.

• The videos of last years comp can be viewed here

By Chris Thornhill

Just a Tench

We fished a weekend in Härlanda Tjärn 5th June to 7th June 09 and the carp were still avoiding our net.
However i caught a nice Tench 2120g on Energy Monster Crab snowman.

Next weekend is the Delsjön Competition

Härlanda Wakes up

Rasmus Ljungvist with a Lovley Härlanda Mirror Carp 11050g
Taken on a home rolled bait dipped in a secret dip
Rassie also lost a big on in the same session and landed a PB Tench!

Härlanda Mirror Carp 11050g

PB Tench 2700g

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Janne Bohlin with a nice Härlanda Common Carp 8200g
The carp was caught at long distance

New PB Tench for Jeanette

Jeanette new pb Tench from Härlanda Tjärn today (19/04/09)
Finally a fish from the "Tjärn". Jeanette has lost 3 fish in 3 days, 1 was deffinatley a carp the other 2 maybe Tench.
She caught 2 Tench this weekend and 1 is a new PB!!!!

Tench 2250g - Härlanda Tjärn
Caught on Energy Carribean Dream snowman

NEW PB Tench 2700g - Härlanda Tjärn
Caught on Energy Sweet Orange snowman

Screaming Delkims welcomes a new member.
Stewart Chorazek
Stewart is an experienced carp fisherman from England
He has just moved to Sweden with his Swedish girlfriend, and lives in Sjöbo, Skåne.
You can contact Stewart at stewart@screamingdelkims.com

WELCOME BACK TO SCREAMING DELKIMS

As you probably notice we have changed address to www.screamingdelkims.com
This is not through choice, but neccessity!!
An advertising company has taken our old address without my knowledge and now that old address (www.screamingdelkims.se) has nothing to do with us whatsoever.
Don't log on to it!!!!
Also all the email addresses have now changed to .com aswell.

On a lighter note............... unfortnatley all the lakes are frozen solid here in Sweden so it will be quite a while until we start our Carp fishing season 2009.
However i will try and get some new stuff up while the ice is still here. So watch this space.

Chris Thornhill - 16th Feb 2009

Excalibur Leads!!

Please note that at the moment we are not making or selling any leads,
so please DO NOT send any orders.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Chris Thornhill
Excalibur Leads

Rassie gets his first Härlanda Carp

After 35 nights without a carp, 17 year old Rasmus Ljungqvist from Mölndal finally gets his first from Härlanda Tjärn.

9.22kg Mirror Carp

Well done mate and we hope there are many more to come!!

By Chris Thornhill

Firts Carp out of Härlanda Tjärn this year

The first carp out of Härlanda this year just happened to be the biggest carp in the lake.
It was caught by Anders Reutermo who came with us for a weekend session.
Read the report here and the is also a video of the capture

By Chris Thornhill

New World Record Carp 40.188kg - Rainbow Lake

Graham Slaughter shows off his record-breaking carp catch — the first in the world to weigh more than 40 kilos.

It took him 20 minutes to land the mirror carp, which tipped the scales at a whopping 40.188kg (88lbs 6oz). Graham, 42, of Worksop, Notts, England, said: “To be first to break the elusive 40kg mark is a great feeling.”

Celebrating pals then dunked him in the lake in Bordeaux, France

Jeanette gets PB Bream

We fished 5 days in Delsjön without a carp but we were plagued by bream.
Well what do you expect after prebaiting with 25kg of maize and 15kg boilies.
Unfortunatly no carp were to be seen anywhere. I had a strong suspicion that it was spawning time on the other side of the lake and they were far too busy to eat any of our baits.
Such is life or to put it bluntly.... Shit happens!!!

However Jeanette did get a new PB Bream at 2.2kg on a 20mm Energy baits Carribean Dream pop up

McDonalds in da woodz!

Vimmerbymässan 2007 plus new leads

Its nearly time for Vimmerbymässan once again (last weekend in March) and this year we will be doing a Lead making and coating demonstration.
We will show you how we make our leads from the pieces of scrap lead to the finished coated product. We will be doing 2 or 3 demos during both Saturday and Sunday so you should get to see our demo even if you come late to the mässan.
We have also a new style of lead that has been an instant hit with people who have seen them.
They are our new Disc Leads which have excellent bolt rig properties due to thier central mass. They are ideal for hard bottomed lakes, sloping banks and also great for holding bottom in running water.
They come in various sizes from 60g to 100g and all our range of coloured coatings including total stealth sand. See photo below

Left: Total Stealth Sand Coated Disc Leads.
Right: Plastic coated Disc Leads in Sandstone (top), Camo Sand (middle) & Speckled Brown (bottom)

Please note: The sand coated leads do darken in colour when they become wet

All our leads come with either Brass (left) or Stainless Steel (right) loops and a dull finished quality bear swivel. Our swivels will fit all the lead clips available on the market.

Prices (Swedish Kronor) for these leads are:

12:- each for 60g - 85g

15:- each for 85g - 100g

To see more of the leads in our range please visit our site at the link below.

Excalibur Leads

To place an order or obtain more info about our leads,

Please mail me: Email

Chris Thornhill

Chub Fishing - My first fish of 2007.

Although carp fishing is out of the question as most lakes are frozen solid, myself and Jeanette decided to drive the 100km from Göteborg to Skara to fish river Lidan/Flian in search of Chub & Ide (Färna & Id).
I have fished there once before with a guy called Martin Sethman and we caught a lot of fish to 2700g.
Unfortunatley i have tried on several occasions to find the places we fished that time, but to no avail.
We arrived at Lidan at 09.30 this morning (24th february 2007)to find that 99 percent of the river was frozen over. After driving around for a while (1 hour) we found a couple of stretches of the river that were free from ice. We had no other choice but to fish in these places, and i wasn't very confident in catching anything.

After several hours the quiver tip had not moved apart from the freezing wind that blew it around occasionally. We fished a simple running ledger rig with bread flake as this is what caught all the fish on that first trip (in March 2002).
We continually moved up and down the open parts of the river chucking the lead into any possible chub holding areas, but it was looking to be another dissapointing day. Nevertheless we were out fishing and enjoying ourselves, so catching any fish would be a bonus. I found a small ice free part of the river which was pretty slow moving and looked a good holding area for Chub. I cast out the bread flake and sat behind a tree. 2 minutes later the quiver tip quickly bent round and returned to its original position. At first i thought my eyes were decieving me, but it moved again and i new it was a bite. I struck into the fish and felt the weight of the fish as it bent my 12ft Shakesphere quiver to 90 degrees and headed off downstream. The fish was soon in the landing net and my frozen face cracked with a smile.
A nice little Chub of 1.3kg became my first fish of 2007 and we didn't drive 250km for a fishless session. We fished the same area for another 90 minutes but it seemed that it was going to be the only fish of the day. Unfortunatley Jeanette never caught her first Chub or Id, but im sure we will be back again in the future for some more winter fishing.
If Martin Sethman from Uddevalla ever reads this, send me a mail please mate and let me know where we were when we caught all those Chub & Id. I have spent about 5 hours going up and down that river/s looking for the swims we fished. Cheers mate.

Hopefully in the near future we can do a bit of ice fishing for Pike, but first i will have to persuade some friends to lend me some ice fishing gear and probably show me how its done. A friend Niklas Karlsson was ice fishing for pike last week in one of his many "Secret Waters" and along with a friend of his, Henrik, they caught over 20 pike to 9.4kg.

We also found out that Sävelången, Lerum is not frozen over at all, and is accessable to boats and bank fishing, maybe that is worth a pike fishing trip before the carp fishing season begins.

My First fish of 2007 - 1300g Chub from River Lidan in Skara

Chris Thornhill

Danskens massive carp and new PB

Stephan is now back from Rainbow lake in the south of France with some excellent results.

February is not the warmest of months even in the south of France. Stephan was fishing in freezing conditions upto minus 8 degrees. However he managed to fool 2 massive mirror carp:

30.1kg &

22kg

Both of the carp fell to Energy Baits Magic Fruit boilies fished snowman style with a 10oz Big Grippa lead and size 6 Korda Longshank hook

Here are the photos of the 2 Mirrors.

(click on the pics to enlarge)

Well Done mate!!!

Here is the full report from Dansken in Swedish

Stephan "Dansken" Nielsen har under veckan fiskat i världens bästa karpvatten... Rainbow Lake i södra Frankrike tillsammens med ett gäng Italienska kompisar.

Fisket var xtremt segt i början av veckan och med minus 7-8 på nätterna så det inta direkt ljust ut och inta blev det bättre da regnet kom.... Under veckan regnade det någonstans mellan 500-600 ml ifölja de lokala och ett par stormar med vindbyar med upp till 30-40 sek känns det inta direkt som något läge.

Men ibland skal man ha tur och jag fiskade längst inne i viken på Peg nr 1 och det var exakt der vinden lå på. Jag var tvungen att lägga om betena da mina 10 Oz Big Grippa hade flyttat sig dryga 30 meter i stormen !!!!!

Det tog ca 10 min efter att jag hade lagt om betena da ett single Bip från mitt 2 spön och det stod i nästan 45 grador ind mot viken. Ut i båten och drilla fisken..

Båten drev ganska snabbt ned i botten av vikenoch upp mot land och min fiskepolare Pietro hoppade i båten och rodde ut mot fisken.

Jag trodde inta först att den skulla vara så stor och var ganska lugn under drillningen och da Pietro frågade om den var BIG sa jag njaa.... Medium karp.

Det var första da jag fick in den till båten och den la sig på sidan och viste upp buken att jag upptäckte var det var jag hade krokad.. Vilken Gris.....

Pietro skrek som en galning och körde ned håven direkt och karpen gled in i håven och jublet bröd ut.

Väl inne på land och upp i Weightslingen kunne vi fastställe vikten till 30,1 kg.

Betet var Energy´s Magic Fruit i en snowman på en Korda Longshank str 6 krok....

Livet lekar :-)

Chris Thornhill

Dansken hits it big time in France

Stephan "Dansken" Neilsen is currently fishing in Rainbow lake in the south of France in freezing conditions (minus 8 degrees) .
He has been updating me on the progress via text messages.

The latest info i have recieved is this:

07/02/2007 - Mirror carp 30.1kg on Energy Magic Fruit!

09/02/2007 - Mirror carp 22.0kg on Energy Magic fruit AGAIN!

Full report and photos coming soon

Chris Thornhill

The Screaming Delkims Cup 2007

The Screaming Delkims Cup starts on 1st March 2007.

We didn't hold the SDC in 2006, but you can check the SDC 2005 by clicking the link and see who won.

SDC Photo Album

Chris Thornhill

Back Leads

We now sell back leads in 2 different sizes. 30g & 45g
Below is a photo of our actual product.
We sell them in packs of 3 for 40kr.

They will be on sale at Vimmerbymässan or you can order them direct from Excalibur Leads

Excalibur Leads - Back Leads 45g speckled brown
(click on the picture to enlarge)

Chris Thornhill

Rig Videos Page

Our rig videos page will published very soon and updated on a regular basis. so watch this space

Chris Thornhill

12 Volt Battery driven Boilie Gun

Check this out!! For those of you who roll your own boilies, Jula.se now sell a 12 volt battery driven boilie gun. It costs 499kr (about 40 pounds)
This should make life a hell of a lot easier in the kitchen, especially if your roll a lot of baits.

I will buy one of these, test it and write a small article here on www.screamingdelkims.se

I do know that this is the same size as the Gardner boilie guns so all the parts, nozzles etc do fit these guns.

For more info click here 12 Volt boilie gun

Chris Thornhill

Frozen Lakes

Yesterday (03/02/2007) we went for a walk and to check out Delsjön. Unfortunatly it was still frozen, so we couldn't put in any baits. However the hotdogs were warm and so was the coffee.

We put some baits out on the ice and they were soon snaffled by the local wildlife, much to the amuzement of the kids.

Härlanda is also still frozen so it looks like a few weeks until it melts. That is of course, if no more cold weather moves in.

Chris Thornhill

Screaming Delkims Rig Videos

A new page with be coming shortly to Screaming Delkims in association with Thibabult's Fiskeri. It will be a selection of videos of "How to make Rigs" plus lots more.
We are currently working on the short films and you will be able to view them next week (week 6)

You will be able to download the videos or just watch them on your PC

Chris Thornhill

New products to Excalibur Leads

Excalibur Leads now sell lead putty and costs 25kr for 35 grams!!

Also very shortly we will be selling our own Back Leads in 30g & 50g.
They will cost 40kr for 3 (both sizes)

The back leads pictured above are Korda back leads, but our model will be very similar. Photo coming soon.

For more info send me a mail.

Chris Thornhill

Planning the season 2007

Well it seems that the scientists are right, and once again it seems that the so called polititians are doing nothing about it. Well, there are no PROFITS in it for the fat cats so it probably doesn't interest them.
Thats my view on Global Warming and due to this is why we will all be starting our carp fishing season early this year.
Normally here in Gothenburg (Sweden) the lakes are frozen solid now and minus degrees at this time of year. But this year there is no ice and it's plus degrees.
So our carp fishing will start early this year with some light prebaiting and we are going to be concentrating on Delsjön in Gothenburg.
We have had a lot of info from someone who fished a lot there last year and had some good results. So it now appears that what i classed as "hard Delsjön" is producing a lot of carp if you put the time and effort in. So that is exactly what we are going to do!!
We are going to put in the time and effort in and hopefully get some results.
Our approach (and reults) will be on the new DVD that we are going to making this year so you can see exactly what we are doing and you will see what results are achieved from a little extra effort.
Not only will this season be on the DVD but also (of course) published here on the website.
So watch this space for our full frontal attack of Delsjön this year.

Chris Thornhill

Screaming Delkims Season 2007 DVD

This year we are going to make a DVD about our carp fishing season. The DVD will include video footage from the entire season of 2007.
From prepareing particles to returning the carp to thier watery home.
The DVD will be educational and not just a video of us landing carp (but hopefully there will be some carp caught). We will be covering all the aspects of our carp fishing in Sweden including, prebaiting, watercraft, bait making, rigs, playing and landing carp, carp care, photographing carp plus lots lots more.

The DVD won't be available until early next year

Chris Thornhill

Karsgölräjset

The competition takes place on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd of June 2007

We are taking part this year (Team Screamingdelkims) and a full report will be published after the competition.

More info

To take a look at the website click here

Chris Thornhill

Coming to Vimmerbymässan is our
LIVE Underwater Carp Fishing Demonstration
on a Big Screen

With the aid of our wireless underwater cameras and big screen TV's we will demonstrate what goes on below the surface. This is the part of carp fishing that you never get to see if fishing at distance! Sit back and watch what happens to rigs, PVA and other methods of carping when it hits the water.
It is a "LIVE" demo (and possibly a wet one too) & will be projected on to a big screen TV so you can see close up from different camera angles at the same time what is actually happening down in Mr Carps world when your rig hits the deck...................... and sometimes things may not appear what they seem.
So...........

Don't miss it, learn what we have learned from our underwater reasearch and we thought the best way to do that was to go
BELOW THE SURFACE!

Team Screaming Delkims

PIKE PIKE PIKE PIKE PIKE

Two of the top names in Swedish Pike Fishing are confirmed for the Vimmerbymässan.

Torbjörn "Buster" Jensen and Jonas "Gös-jonas" Karlsson

Will be at the mässan in association with Pop Up Tackle to demonstrate and talk about thier tips and tricks for sucsessful pike fishing including Jerkbaits!!!

So Don't miss this years Vimmerby Mässan on 25th March 2006

Skitfiske på er under 2006!!

//Chris