After a few hours sleep showered and breakfast out the way attention turned to fishing the knockup match on the sunday afternoon .the best part about fishing in Holland is its so laid back all the matches are 10 am draw pre-baiting at 12.30pm and fish from 1.30pm to 6.30pm which is great as you park behind every peg . the only problem with the saturdays and sundays the Dutch hold their matches and fish till 12.30 dinner time so our matches over the weekends have to wait for the Dutch to finish before we can get on the canal .on the whole it works out really well and gives you plenty of time to mix your G/B and recover from the night before .
This year like most years there will be changes in the way the canal fish feed.
two years ago bait droppers were key part of your tackle this year i didn't see anyone using them. Sicky maggots another method last year didn't seen so good and perhaps the fact this year you were allowed 1 kg of worms to your peg and after the first week it was clear the fish wanted the worm .
first match i drew 35 with 31 being a sluice and favoured peg although saying that the Voorne canal is full of surprises and fish can settle in any peg . i must say the canal is like no other you have fished before as fish can stop feed and then go and you seem to wait for the next swimming shoal.
The plan was to feed 10 balls of G/B at 11 metres with a few freebies in it caster maggots and some corn. then at 13metres fish a double leam and start off with a good helping of chopped worm and caster . where as other years this has been a maggot line either with sticky mag or just dead maggots this worked lovely on the practice match
The anglers that had fished the week before knew what they were doing and had far better results but at least i thought i was on the right track
Bicko once said to me how easy is it to catch a bream out of the Voorne canal
well let me tell you as good as it is frustration, hair pulling, shaking your head all come into a day on the voorne 3 or 4 bream one after the other then nothing then the angler 4 pegs up has 4 or 5 frustrating hook bait changes re-feeding then they turn up again
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this year it seemed that some pegs held more fish for longer and quite a few big weights this year stood out where the anglers either side hadn't caught half as much [don't get me wrong you all catch ]
well the festival wasn't as kind to me as other years i couldn't get away from the middle of the sections or i drew a peg that had a weight the day before something on the voorne you don't really want . The Crazy Dutch and Belgium Bast##ds had our pants down again using little 8ft picker rods and straight bomb quite a art i can tell you
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adzee had a lovely week consitantly catching fish as did Snedstar
our house did pickup a few times with Lee hall winning the first day Individually off 31
i managed a few
but again Bicko stoll the show finishing 3rd overall with some outstanding catches over the week
and fellow Sensas angler Paul hughes fishing after a long spell away from holland finished 7th
sorry about the quality of the photo it must of been condencation
a great time was had and if you are thinking of having a go don't leave it too long before at least putting your name down
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