European
Championship 2016
The
Netherlands, Almere
The
Championship
I
had qualified to the WC but turned it down for the EC in The
Netherlands. I fished it at the WC 2009 and it was my first
Championship. The result 2009 was not good at all and i wanted a
second chance to fish it.
The
venue of the Championship 2016 is Laage Vart, a canal about 40-50m in
withe.
At
2009 the Championship was fished in September and there were roach
and odd big bream to be caught. This year we had the possibility to
send one of our team members to the 6- Nation competition that were
held a couple of weeks before the EC.
From
that information it was clear that it was not as much small fish as
in September.
Practice
Week
After the draw
for the practice week we started of with Box E.
We fished 2
lines one short and a 13m for bream. Started to fish the short and to
my surprise there were some fish in the area. It was mainly perch and
roach. One big bream was caught in our box this day.
The next day we
were in Box C,
Sens we did
catch more roach the first day we decided to target the roach to see
if we could sort out how to catch them.
This day we did
catch more roach but the wight were very low. We did catch some fish
the first hour. No breams this day but tomorrow were in Box A 1 and
there were bream in the area.
Box A
We knew there
had been bream caught in this box the day before. And when we where
tackling up our gear we saw several breams rolling in the water.
Still we started
on our short line for small fish and we did catch the first hour. I
switched to my 13m line one hour in sens one of my team mates caught
a big bream.
After 5 min i
get my first bit and it is a big bream, playing it a while but end up
loosing it.
Out with some
more food. The feed was the local sold black earth filed with worms,
casters and jokers. Just after 10min i get a nother bite and this
time i get the fish in the net and it is a big bream around 2.5kg.
Notised the bream responded wery well on the feed and i had to cup in
frequently to get them back in on the feed again.
The bite keeps on coming and i catch 5
and loos 5 as well. It was a good day to test out the gear to know
what elastic and hook to use on these big breams.
It was back to reality as the next day
we were on Box B.
We still worked on our tactic for the
roach and we did catch more roach this day then before and a tacktick
was tacking form for the competition.
And for the last day of practice we were
on Box D and we all fished with the same roach groundbait to see how
it would work.
And the highest wight of the day were
1,7kg of manly roach and a tacktick was in place for the small fish
and for the big bream we were using earth as a transport agent for
the baits.
Competition days
Saturday
Knew
i was going to sit on C-section after the section draw from
yesterday.
Got
the info that i was going to sit on C1 and a end peg was the fact.
When
tackling up the gear i saw several breams rolling in the water and i
knew the possibility to catch one was big.
I
fished 3 lines, 6m, 9m and 13m. The 6m line were more a backup line
that was feed with dark leeam and jokers for perch. And the 9m was
feed with a roch groundbait with jokers and dead pinkis and some
loose ones in the cup. For the 13m line i used the black earth same
as i used at practice laced with chopped worm, casters, dead pinkis
and some bloodworms.
When
it was time for the all in i cuped 4 balls on the 6m line, 6 on the
9m and 9 on 13m.
Started
to fish the 9m line and started to catch roach and perch straight
away.
Had
a good run the first hour and as agreed i went out on the 13m line
after an hour to see if any bream showed up.
Got
my first bit after 10 min and sense i fished with 20cm on the bottom
the bites were not mistaken to be bream when the float pops out of
the water and when you strike you feel the fish 1m up in the water.
It
was one of the strong and wild ones that i played for 5min before
losing it.
Just
to get the head up and get back at it.
Knew
there were more out there.
Cuped
in an new ball of feed to get some new bream back in to my peg.
Had
my next bite after 30min and this time i got it in the net and it was
a nice 2,5 kg bream. Started to cup 2 balls in the same cup a couple
of times to get some more feed in at one time.
It
worked very well sens i landed 2 more big 2,5kg breams the next hour.
The last 45min was slow with some odd small fish.
Ended
up catching 3 out of 4 breams and 29 small fish for a wight of 8,392
grams.
A
sectionwin was a fact, yeeees!!!!
Sunday
Ended
up on B-sektion and peg 23.
Not
the place i hoped fore. My team mate was on peg 22 the day before and
the fishing was hard. The person on peg 23 did catch a bream so it
was possible.
Same
tactics this day but with more focus on the bream.
When
tackling up my gear i did see some bream rolling in the area and the
hope was back.
So
i cuped in 10 balls on the 13m line with 1dl chopped worm, 0,5dl dead
pinkis and casters and 1dl bloodworms.. A bit more then the day
before sens i noticed it was necessary to be able to hold the bream
on the peg.
Started
on the 9m line and did catch some small fish straight away. After
10min my neighbor to the right hooks a bream and lands it. I go out
on my 13m line to see if i have any breams as well but dont catch
anything for 10m so i go back to my 9m line. I do catch a fue fish
but the line has gone dead. So i cup in some dark leeam and joker to
get in some perch to the peg.
Trying
the 13m line again but still no bream, cup a ball and back to the 9m
line.
Getting
some bites but miss them sens it is micro perch, after 6 mist bites i
go back out to the 13m line 1,5h in to the competition. Get my first
bite and it is a classic bream bit with the float just pooping up.
Hook it and land it in 5min a good feeling to get the first one in
the neet. Unfortunate my neighbor to my right also catches one at the
same time. So he has 2 bream in his net now. As i hear from my
bankrunner there are a couple more that has 2 buy this time.
I
start to cup 2 balls at a time every 20min to get in some new fish.
After 30min i have a bream rolling 10cm from my road tip. They are
here but not feeding right know. After 10 minits i get a nother
classic bream bit but when i strike its nothing there, noooo.
Keep
feeding and it takes another 30 min to get my 3red bite and this time
i nail it.
This
one do i land with in 2 min sens i upgraded the rig, elastic and
hook. Sens i am fishing 20cm on the deck and caught most of the bream
on a piece of worm and caster yesterday.
When
it remains 20min i discuss with my bankrunner if we should try to cup
a soft squeezed ball that will start to brake up on the way down. We
agree and i cup in a ball.
After
10min i get a slow sinking bite and strike and it is a nother bream.
It
only takes a couple of minits to land it and yeeeeesssss another
bream in the net.
Nothing
hapens for the last minits and i now know i will get in at the top of
the section.
Had
4 bites on the 13m line and got 3 of them.
When
the weigh in gets to me i weigh in 6086g and 400g after the highest
wight so far on my section.
I
know the last couple of persons have caught some bream as well so i
am not certain if i will beat them. My bankrunner comes back and says
i am 2:end on my section.
I
now have 1+2 and a good wight. Will it be enough.
I
hear that Walter have 1+1 but that was the only one i heard that had
2 sectionwins.
Could
it be possible that one of these could be mine.
After a long and intense wait it was clear that i
manage to get a 3:e place, yeeeeesssss!!!!!!
Second place went to Yauhen Sviatoshcyk with 1+1 and
the winner is Tamas Walter with 1+1 but with higher wight.
A big thanks to my team mates and my club mates for
coming to help us. Extra glad to have shared this with you guys.
A big thanks to Browning, Zebco Europe for supporting
me.
Team Sweden
Kent Adell, 3:e place Individual European Champion
2016
