Total Fishing Meet 2005
THIS year's Total Fishing Meet here in Denmark took place on the 5th August and although the venue and results wouldn’t be what you would expect for a match in Denmark, once again a big success and lots of fun!
This years anglers:
Lee Wood (
Barry Jackson (
Steve Bridges (
Phil Jones (
Peter Braasch (Denmark)
Ole Haugnes (
Bram Brandwijk (
Venue change
Not the venue you would probably think
when Match and
Come Saturday morning, Lee pegged the lake, and then people started showing up for a Junior Football match on the football field next to the lake. When the others arrived it was mentioned that poles etc might become a little crunchy after there football match and they start asking us “Have you caught anything Mr?” (In Danish of course) and then “opps, sorry” when they jump on the poles…
There weren’t too many options left, driving too far would have meant fishing wouldn’t commence before mid-day so the only other option was another small lake FILLED with Carp, so much so it gets boring. The “small” disadvantage is that there is a 1km walk with the gear from the car park.
Late Start
Once we got to the lake, we made a quick draw and to the pegs. The time was ticking by so the start was as soon as everyone was finished setting up…
11:20am “ALL IN!!!!”
From the start there were fish caught, Bram Brandwijk having the best start with small carp on the long pole, whilst Peter Braasch was catching on the short line. For everyone else it was a lot slower, but for Steve Bridges (last years champ) and Lee it was dead on the last two pegs.
Whilst the first five pegs were producing fish throughout the match, the fight for last place was between Steve and Lee, which one of them would be taking home “the mouth.”?
Lee finally caught a Carp after 3 hours of fishing and Steve followed with a Carp of similar size 5 minutes before the end of the match. What Steve didn’t tell anyone was the fact he caught a small carp just after the all in.
Weigh in!
After 4 hours fishing it was time for the weigh in.
In first place was Peter Braasch with 10lb 10oz of small Carp
In second place with 8lb 2oz Dutch platform king Bram Brandwijk
For third place, 2004’s “mouth” winner Barry Jackson took 6lb 13oz
Equal 4th place was Ole Haugnes (left) and Steve Bridges (Right) for 2lb 13oz each
6th place was Lee Wood for 2lb 1oz with his solo Carp
Unfortunately no picture was taken of Phil’s catch, so here he is accepting his “prize” for coming last instead. The prize was the now famous mouth and a T shirt featuring the mouth.
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2004 Total Fishing Skanderborg Meet - Sponsored by Matchcraft Denmark/Holland
Coming very soon
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Total Fishing Skanderborg meet 2003 – Sponsored by Matchcraft Denmark/Holland
26th July 2003 – report
THE first Total
Fishing Skanderborg Lake – Denmark
meet was a huge success with plenty of fish caught on this mixed weather day.
The day started off with a very overcast and windy feel to it and just as the
participants started fishing the rain came down. Luckily after about an hour of
miserable rain and wind, the rain eased off, the clouds parted to leave blue
sky, and sun but the wind stayed for the remainder of the match.
The anglers were as follows:
Lee Wood (Lives in Denmark)
Karen Laursen (Denmark)
Peter Braasch (Denmark)
Kim Thomsen (Denmark)
Barry Jackson (England)
Steve Bridges (England)
Brian Perrigo (England)
The winner Kim Thomsen (pictured below) took a fabulous 74lb 12oz of bream with a few roach on the seven metre whip to hand and Scopex sweet corn.
Second place:
Matchcraft’s Peter Braasch taking 62lb on the close range feeder with this
fabulous bag of bream (below) with a few roach in for good measure.
The Danes proved that
they really are top class bream bagging anglers and were tough for the remaining
English anglers to beat, Birmingham’s very own Steve Bridges took an impressive
39lb 8oz of bream for third place (below).
Fourth placing went to Barry Jackson with 32lb 8oz
of bream and roach (below).
Fifth placing went to Brian Perrigo with 25lb of
bream (below)
Finally in seventh was
beginner fisher lady Karen Laursen (below) with 4lb 12oz of small roach and
perch on the whip after 2½ hours with just one fish!. She only ever normally
fishes for two or so hours pleasure fishing with Lee, but today managed to be
very patient and relaxed to end up fishing the full five hours catching small
roach and perch, and although she finished in last place, she should be VERY
proud of her first ever match!
By the end of the year, Lee is confident he will have trained her up to become a fantastic bream and boach bagger on the pole and feeder!
Prize:
The prize for first
place was a fabulous Bram Platform with a few extra accessories too. We would
like to thank Peter Braasch of Matchcraft Denmark and Bram Brandwijk of
Matchcraft Holland for there kind generosity of this wonderful prize worth a
full total of around 900kr (£90).
Next year we hope more will fish the second TF Skanderborg meet.
Anyone and everyone from a beginner to a world champ will be welcome to fish. The match will be placed AROUND the same time next year, but a set date will be made towards the end of this year or the early part of 2004. If anyone is interested in fishing next year's contest please show there interest by emailing Lee Wood at lb_wood@hotmail.com
Further information about fishing holidays in Denmark and the wonderful lakes of Skanderborg, Silkeborg and more can be found on Anglers World holidays web page which is advertised in the angling press.
Lee Wood