JOFFMIESTER TOUR OF HOLLAND

Adzee · #21

cant wait to go back already Lee, proper holiday with awesome company

To true mate. Just a shame it takes so long to come back round. Great Craaaacckk as always no matter how the fishing is

to be fair it takes a good year of rehab after staying with Pat

big_cup · #22

cant wait to go back already Lee, proper holiday with awesome company

To true mate. Just a shame it takes so long to come back round. Great Craaaacckk as always no matter how the fishing is

to be fair it takes a good year of rehab after staying with Pat

Ha ha ha, that's what Pedro says after a week in there house

Pedro · #23

Here check this art!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0h5Fl2 ... ata_player

Waldorf · #24

Did I hear Wogga growl then

You set of rotton barstewards

Pedro · #25

Lol! twas Gaz' idea. Thought id better stop recording before it turned nasty

He even looks to bottom of net expecting a crappity smackin dirty great hole

big_cup · #26

Lol! twas Gaz' idea. Thought id better stop recording before it turned nasty
He even looks to bottom of net expecting a crappity smackin dirty great hole

The Wogstar does not look amused there lol

"Very Funny"

#27

sorry been a bit busy
peg 47 enter the chopped worm would it work or not

over the past couple of days anglers had been saying they had caught the odd fish on worm but it hadn't broken any pots for us English anglers. Mind-you the festival leader was running away with the tittle using it 2 wins and this day turned out to be 2nd for him
everything set up as normal and i was quietly confident about the peg i had predro a few pegs away and Adey the other side
in went the ten balls and this time very little food put in after again talking to anglers the general picture was that the fish didn't come on to the G/B until later in the match and i mean last half a hour

so feeding maggots past the G/B line seamed to catch you fish early.as normal the wind got up and remained blustery all day so i opted to fish the bomb from the start at 14 metres with floating maggots as the two previous days i watch anglers around me catch straight a way some on the bomb and some on the pole

and when they are 3 to 4lb fish you don't need to loose ground early on plenty of liners but no proper bites .The problem is your mind starts to work overtime are the fish up in the water are you using the right hook bait or even the right size hook

four hours is'nt a long time sort it out top 5 deep 30 metres wide how hard is it to catch a bream

Adey had stormed in front and pedro had his net out it was looking bad

after about a hour or 40 minutes i picked the pole up and straight away fouled hooked a bream lost that one this happened three more times

other years you could get the foul hookers out

not this year for some reason i'd stopped loose feeding and changed to sticky mag and this worked a treat i finally caught a bream in the mouth

by the end of the match i think i'd had eight a couple of them would be around the pound mark which is good to see but not good in the net
as the scales came down it turned out we had drawn the wrong end of the section as the higher numbers had fish better [hows your luck

]i weighed just short of 12kg [11kg 850g] good for the area on the day and managed 5th in the section only to look at the board and see a 24kg that won the match and then 12kg 100g 12kg 200g and 12kg 300g

two points would of put back on track for a top ten

Pedro · #28

Peg 43.... Thats the day i lost mi top 4 to a Twister

A bream first chuck must ave been yawning or took it on drop.

That was it until 6:20 when a ponced another

#29

YES ! PREDRO I REMEMBERED THAT WIND

came out of nowhere .I saw it coming and shipped back as did Adey

big_cup · #30

YES ! PREDRO I REMEMBERED THAT WIND came out of nowhere .I saw it coming and shipped back as did Adey

Guess Pedro was to slow in noticing it then Joff??

#31

i don't think he saw it until it hit him

i just saw him scrabbling around the bank

#32

the last day of the festival after the day before i felt as though things were finally coming together ::) ::)a little late i know but it was the same as last year .!!must try harder!!

With all the G/B mixed and the normal gallon of tea drunk it was off to draw and a beer

plus the endless banter between all the lads

Bicko had all his routine whether it included the bird sh#t this year i don't know but it included drawing behind the same person everyday standing back and fiddling with the staple on the draw card then looking at with pegs that the names hadn't been filled in on the boards and then guessing where he wanted to be and to be fair he wasn't very fare away on any of the day's

spooky
the festival looked quite impressive at the top of the leader board with some new faces amongst the regular one's in the top ten and especially this year with it being so up and down.
well i drew and the only thing i changed was my drawing arm from right to left

and the peg didn't mean beans to me just that i was end but two in the match 108

:-?the day before a 24 kg came from peg 109 so again there were a lot of fish in the area but saying that the whole canal had fish right the way through just wouldn't feed like other years after the winter weather.
as i filled my name in i could believe it Pete, Adey, Mark and myself had all drawn the same section and to cap it all ADZEE who was on fire and in with a real chance of winning the festival had drawn between myself and Pete

well being a southerner you can imagine the banter as soon as he pulled up

if i remember correct it went something like" You Leicester wan#ers are having it big time today "

lucky for Adey he didn't have to hear it all being on the end peg and next to Adey was his twin brother !! mini me the Belgium assassin !!so it was game on

this time i had set up my feeder rod and taken my full half kg of worms which included my red worms that i hadn't had a bite on all week

1 bomb rod and two pole rigs
Adzee had set up in 15 minutes and oozed confidence i was fearing the worst and the more he gave the banter out the more he had back and just before the start i replied you should take the pi#s out of a injured tiger these famous words would haunt Adzee for the rest of the day

but not before he took the lead well in fact yet again i was the last to catch

i watched everyone catch at least one bream before i picked up my feeder rod.Mark had phoned up he was catching Pete was catching and Adey was the on the pole but not big fish
i watched where they were casting around me and opted to go that little bit further but not quite as far as the far bank but three quarters and i had the line to myself

at first liners but once they had there heads down it was short bursts of bream 3s 4s and at the end 5 in a row both nets were used for the first time this year and a total of 16 bream graced the net and at long last a section win or could it frame as they went just over 24kg but the funny thing was our lads were 1,2,3 and 4th in the section i only just beat Mark who had 23kg

still poor Adzee had taken a right beating as Pete the other side had beaten him with 17kg
the neck brace was well and truely ordered for next year

but what a laugh with all the work commitments i have on at the minute that day i was so glad i said yes to this years trip its just a great festival we all helped weighing in throughout the week never stopping to get one up one another

well it had to come to a end and the party after the presentation happened to be back at our place

adzee still in shock

IN THE BACK GROUND PEDRO BOWING DOWN TO BICKO'S out standing performances over the two weeks

best table cloth shirt went to pedro and big cup

adzee by this time had just about got over the day by drinking a monsters amount of beer and crying on snedsters shoulder

#33

and i must thank Trish yet again for putting on a fantastic spread for all to enjoy

i'm yet to pick up my own tackle since Ive been back just can't get motivated at the minute just wish i was back on the banks of the voorne canal can't face fishing a puddle

or i might do what a lot of the lads do just put my kit away until next year

mind-you a big thanks to Pat for running it Pat managed 6th in the first festival but was well and truly out of the second week WHO WOULD BE A MATCH ORGANISER

Pedro · #34

YES ! PREDRO I REMEMBERED THAT WIND came out of nowhere .I saw it coming and shipped back as did Adey

Guess Pedro was to slow in noticing it then Joff??

That twister sure snook up on me no......forewarning as Dutch guy to my right was on feeder!!!!
Spun me round 180 degrees on box...

. Thats when i notice belgium was on feeder too!!!!

big_cup · #35

and i must thank Trish yet again for putting on a fantastic spread for all to enjoy
i'm yet to pick up my own tackle since Ive been back just can't get motivated at the minute just wish i was back on the banks of the voorne canal can't face fishing a puddle or i might do what a lot of the lads do just put my kit away until next year
mind-you a big thanks to Pat for running it Pat managed 6th in the first festival but was well and truly out of the second week WHO WOULD BE A MATCH ORGANISER

I'll second that, thanks again to Trish and well done Pat for another good year, the fishing may be unpredictable but the events are well organised and a good laugh

Another good write up Joff, you will have to start and do the fortnight so I can relive week one over again

chub_tamer · #36

nice shirts mr cup u and pedro off line dancing

big_cup · #37

nice shirts mr cup u and pedro off line dancing

Its a dead cert you couldn't join us, Marquee's only come in plain colours

Adzee · #38

very well written Joff, cant believe we have to wait another year to do it all again.. untill then you have the bragging rights

#39

Adzee your my bitch for the next 12 months

#40

GOOD VENUE for the site championship next year