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SENSAS crazy bait final
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great blog from Alan Scotthorne and Olivier Alans son
Thanks to sensas and Drennan
The Sensas Festival is a new individual competition run by the groundbait manufacturer Sensas in France. It consists of two one-day matches on the River Loir and the lakes at Eure. Several anglers from England were involved in this event and we were really looking forward to a great weekend’s fishing.
I travelled with my son, Oliver, and Lee Kerry along with his famous dad Paul Kerry (a former casting world record holder). After navigating through the Tunnel at Dover, then a short four-hour drive we arrived on Wednesday at the hotel at Châteaudun to start practicing on the River Loir the next morning.
The River Loir.
We fished a 16-peg section called Seigneuret and had a nice session catching skimmers and small roach with pole and bloodworm, but soon realised that end pegs were going to be hard to beat on a river that I can only explain as a bit like the River Avon at Evesham but with shorter spaces between pegs.
The next day we moved onto the lakes at Eure and fished E Section on Lake La Martine, one of three lakes to be used. Again, we had a good day catching small skimmers. The odd bigger fish put in an appearance late for Lee so we again could formulate a plan for that lake if we drew it. Paul entertained us by catching three big carp on proper carp rods; the biggest a cracking 20lb mirror that Lee landed after pinching the rod from Paul’s grasp!
Day One
Alan’s Day One catch.
The first day I drew on the lake section we had practiced on, so I had a good idea what I was doing. Oliver was on the farthest lake called Vouvary but on inspection it was quite clear and looked like it could be difficult. After much deliberation he decided to use groundbait short for catfish and raw joker in a little Sensas grey leam long and feed chopped worms and caster over this at 13 metres. This was a great ploy as he caught two big bream from this line coupled with a few cats to win the section and a great start.
Measuring feed is vital at this level of competition.
For me I fished a very different match. I balled in two bags of Sensas damp leam straight from the bag with just a very small amount of joker in it at 13 metres, spreading it back to around 12 metres to create an area to fish over. I then cupped in ‘pongo’ which is a term for overwetted leam that you spray with an atomiser until it almost forms putty like balls. The secret is to add the joker you require to the leam first. When this is fed it releases the joker into the swim very slowly and is great for big fish. This was fed at the full 13m limit. I then had another 50/50 mix of Sensas Lake and leam that I fed at 12 metres with 250ml of joker in it for the small skimmers.
I set up six rigs with floats from 0.8g up to 1.25g that could cover both lines as the depth was the same. All the floats were the same models with fibre bristle and a carbon stem in a teardrop shape to show lift bites easily from the skimmers.
My plan worked brilliantly with a few bonus bigger skimmers from the pongo line and topping up with small skimmers from the short line. I topped up just three times on the long line. I must add that this pongo is extremely heavy, so it’s important to use a strong cupping kit like the beefed-up cupping top three that comes with my Drennan Acolyte pole, which is seriously strong.
One problem on this lake was that it was black with tiny half-ounce roach, so on my shorter line I used a 1gm float with all the dropper shots and olivette placed right on top of the 15cm hooklength just to get the bloodworm hook bait down past the ‘blips’ to catch a 1-2oz skimmer!
The Kamasan B590 hook pattern in a size 18 was best.
Hook choice was also important and I used a size 18 long shank Kamasan B590 after losing a few fish of other patterns. This seemed to be the best hook and just lifting the fish on, instead of striking at bites, also seemed to cut down on lost fish.
I really enjoyed the match and when the scales arrived I was a little disappointed that there had been two carp caught in my section — one of 12kg and one of 9kg – but my 5kg of small fish was easily enough for third to give both myself and Oliver something to fish for on day two.
Day Two
At the draw the next day we both were a little deflated as I drew Peg 6 in E Section and Oliver had Peg 7 on F Section. With end pegs dominating we had little chance to make the podium.
Oliver did a little better than me to finish 8th in his section and 15th overall and I had a ‘cricket score’. We really enjoyed the weekend but I felt the river just needed longer pegs, which would have made it a little more even.
Callum Dicks was the best English angler, finishing 2nd with a four-point total so congratulations to him. The future does look good for the England team as these younger lads do put the effort in to fish these overseas matches, gaining experience all the time.
It was a great experience all round, so hopefully the Sensas Festival becomes a regular fixture with myself and other English anglers.
Result
1 Thierry Furdyna
2 Callum Dicks
3 Stéphane Pottelet
4 Edward Warren
5 Victor Chambon
6 Christophe Noualhier
7 Frederic Skornog
8 Sean Ashby
9 Olivier Demus
10 Nicolas Critico
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This is another blog from Sean Ashby again a great read on how Sean approached His Sensas Crazy Bait Festival
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This weekend I travelled to the inaugural Sensas Festival held in Chateaudun near Chartres in France. The format was simple, one day on the River Loir and one day at Douy- a series of small lakes. The match would be decided on points with w...eight to decide in the event of a tie.
I travelled down with my Starlets team mate Ed Warren, we arrived on the Thursday lunchtime and spent the two days practising on the various venues.
It was apparent that end pegs were crucial on the river whilst a middle draw would be difficult to score well from.
At Douy the three lakes were all different with two lakes fishing well for small roach, skimmers and bream and one- Vouvery contained some small fish, catfish and bigger fish such as Carrassio, bream and carp.
Before we knew it it was time for the draw and E7 stuck to my hand - just where I didn't want - middle of a river section! When I arrived not only was I in the middle but the pegging was very right and I feared the worst.
I set up 2 jean Francois floats in 1.5g to ease through the peg and a1g rig to run at the current pace just off bottom for roach. I also set up a couple if bleak rigs using Tourraine floats in 4x12 and 4x14.
On the hooter I balled in a softish mix of Lake, Canal Fine Noire and Damp Leam and cupped in 5 balls of the same with 250ml of joker us a few casters and chopped worm. I started off quite well with small roach and skimmers but this soon tailed off. According to bank walkers the whole section was poor so I decided to have a go for bleak. At the whistle I had caught 215 small bleak plus the early small fish to weigh 2.140k which put me 4th in my section of 16 which I thought was a good result considering.
Day two came quickly and I found myself on Vouvery Lake peg 7 and needing a section win to stand any chance of a top 3 place I knew I would need a big fish. I set up a 10g slider to fish the 11ft swim together with a couple of 1g pole rigs to catch small fish and some cats.
I started on pole after balling in 8 balls of lake and Leam,again containing around 150ml of joker. The fishing was steady with small catfish coming regularly but also a couple of big fish were taken further up the section so j decided to have an early look on the slider. Fishing with 2 or 3 red worms I caught 4 big Carrasio's in the first half of the match but things slowed and I only landed one more. I was sure I was winning the section but with just half an hour left Ed Warren on peg 2 landed what looked like a big fish.
On the scales I recorded 7.620k which I thought would be enough but Ed's carp was over 10lb and he pipped me by just 200g.
I ended up with 6 points - good enough for 8th overall and a 500 euro payout. Ed did even better with a 5 point total putting him 4th winning 1200 euros.
All in all a great weekend with great company. Out of 100 competitors the UK had 6 in the top 20 including Callum Dicks who did brilliant to finish 2 Nd overall with 4 points.
Roll on next year! See More— with Yuri Radugin.
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This weekend I travelled to the inaugural Sensas Festival held in Chateaudun near Chartres in France. The format was simple, one day on the River Loir and one day at Douy- a series of small lakes. The match would be decided on points with w...eight to decide in the event of a tie.
I travelled down with my Starlets team mate Ed Warren, we arrived on the Thursday lunchtime and spent the two days practising on the various venues.
It was apparent that end pegs were crucial on the river whilst a middle draw would be difficult to score well from.
At Douy the three lakes were all different with two lakes fishing well for small roach, skimmers and bream and one- Vouvery contained some small fish, catfish and bigger fish such as Carrassio, bream and carp.
Before we knew it it was time for the draw and E7 stuck to my hand - just where I didn't want - middle of a river section! When I arrived not only was I in the middle but the pegging was very right and I feared the worst.
I set up 2 jean Francois floats in 1.5g to ease through the peg and a1g rig to run at the current pace just off bottom for roach. I also set up a couple if bleak rigs using Tourraine floats in 4x12 and 4x14.
On the hooter I balled in a softish mix of Lake, Canal Fine Noire and Damp Leam and cupped in 5 balls of the same with 250ml of joker us a few casters and chopped worm. I started off quite well with small roach and skimmers but this soon tailed off. According to bank walkers the whole section was poor so I decided to have a go for bleak. At the whistle I had caught 215 small bleak plus the early small fish to weigh 2.140k which put me 4th in my section of 16 which I thought was a good result considering.
Day two came quickly and I found myself on Vouvery Lake peg 7 and needing a section win to stand any chance of a top 3 place I knew I would need a big fish. I set up a 10g slider to fish the 11ft swim together with a couple of 1g pole rigs to catch small fish and some cats.
I started on pole after balling in 8 balls of lake and Leam,again containing around 150ml of joker. The fishing was steady with small catfish coming regularly but also a couple of big fish were taken further up the section so j decided to have an early look on the slider. Fishing with 2 or 3 red worms I caught 4 big Carrasio's in the first half of the match but things slowed and I only landed one more. I was sure I was winning the section but with just half an hour left Ed Warren on peg 2 landed what looked like a big fish.
On the scales I recorded 7.620k which I thought would be enough but Ed's carp was over 10lb and he pipped me by just 200g.
I ended up with 6 points - good enough for 8th overall and a 500 euro payout. Ed did even better with a 5 point total putting him 4th winning 1200 euros.
All in all a great weekend with great company. Out of 100 competitors the UK had 6 in the top 20 including Callum Dicks who did brilliant to finish 2 Nd overall with 4 points.
Roll on next year! See More— with Yuri Radugin.