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Jurgen's Fishing Experience
Follow Jurgen's weekly fishing experiences
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A Weekly
up-date
Fishing with German Fishing Expert
Jurgen Opladen

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Fishing
near Berlin / Germany
Last
weekend the last part of the COLMIC Challenge Germany started on the
Sacrow-Paretzer-Canal
near Berlin.The
Canal is full of roach and skimmers with the odd big bream.A
gale force wind made fishing very difficult on Saturday. Proper bait
presentation for bream was nearly impossible (feederfishing was
banned), so
many anglers either fished the Bolognese-style or a 9m – whip to hand.
I
used my 9 m Colmic E-xtreme whip to catch roach and small skimmers.
I
fed an egg-sized ball of groundbait, laced with casters every cast and
ended up
with 12 kg for the section win.
My
groundbait was 5 kilos “Giga Bream” of my sponsors own brand and 2 kg
of my own
“secret” additive, consisting of crushed hemp, pastoncino (Italian
birdfeed)
and spices.The
weather on Sunday was beautiful with only a light breeze.
I draw a reasonable
peg in my section and set up bream-gear only. I fished with 4 an 6 gr
floats on
a 0,14 mm mainline and a 0,10 mm hooklength, tied to No. 14 and 12
hooks.
Usually
I start with maggots on this canal, to catch a few roach before the
bream move
in. On this day a worm was crawling out of his bait tube just when I
was
baiting my hook. So I took the worm instead of the usually maggot. The
float
ran just a foot and disappeared. I stroke and hooked the first skimmer.
That
would become a fine day, because it usually takes at least 30 minutes
to catch
the first bream!I
went on catching bream.
My neighbours also caught fish, but they had longer
breaks between their catches.At
the end of the day I had 18 kg of bream and skimmers, the second in
section
caught 14 kg.
With
two section wins I was lucky enough to win the whole match and was
rewarded
with a 13 m Colmic Match 407 pole, worth about 1100 Euro.Fishing
around Berlin is really great with countless lakes and canals, which
all belong
to the same system and are full of fish.
If
you ever have the chance to fish there, do it. Even
five times Worldchampion Alan Scotthorne
fished in this area last year and was delighted of the potential of the
canals
Jurgens
Winning catch of Bream

Before the Match
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The
Sacrow-Paretzer-Canal near Berlin
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This week in the Czech Republic
Fishing
in the Czech Republic
As fishing for money prices is not
allowed in Germany, one
of the highlights in the German match calendar is a match just across
the
border in Cheb / Czechia on the scenic Skalka reservoir.The lake is
full of
bream, white bream and roach. White bream is a species similar to bream
but
with the fighting power of a hybrid.
The first price is 3.500 € with two more
money-prices, many
valuable tackle prices and a superpool for the best overall weights.
Feederfishing is not allowed, so the main tactics
are
sliderfishing and fishing the long pole to hand, depending on the peg
you have
drawn.
If you find about 6, 7 foot of water in that
distance, you can
fish an 8 m pole to hand. If fish is there, you can catch a fish every
cast.
Most anglers use a 4 gr Colmic Jolly-style float, 0,18 mm mainline, a
0,14 mm
hooklength and a No. 12 hook.
You will need a lot of bait to keep the fish in your
swim. 6 pints
of caster, 2 kg of worms and a pint of maggots for hookbait is the
standard.
What you don`t use is corn, neither in the
groundbait, nor on the
hook, because it catches the wild carp, which are in big numbers in the
lake.
The carp weigh only 2 to 3 lbs., but they are very powerful and will
ruin your
swim. In the time you play a carp you can catch at least the same
weight in
bream, but without disturbance in your swim. So, forget about the corn.
On the best pegs you will catch right from the
start. The white
bream are weighing about 6 oz to a pound, so you have to catch a lot of
wish for
a winning weight of 30 to 40 kg.
On pegs which are to shallow for pole Fishing, the
slider is the
weapon to build up a good weight.In A section with depth
up to 8 m
(25 m from the bank), but also in some other sections you can catch
white bream
and bream up to 2 kg with the running line. Loaded
wagglers with
about 10 gr built-in weight and 4 gr down the line will do the job.
Because it
is a wide open lake there sometimes is a strong wind and you will have
to fish
with heavier floats, up to 25 gr.
It`s important to feed regularly by catapult to
attract and hold
the fish. 10 kg of groundbait is the minimum to take with you.
Beside the german anglers there are also former and
current
members of national teams from Italy, Austria, Holland and Czechia in
the match.
So, it`s not easy to win that match, but with a decent draw everything
is
possible…
Social life is another highlight during the festival
days.
The prices in Czechia are very low to the people from the “West”, so
you have
to pay for a complete meal with starter and dessert about 12 €.
But the most important thing is the price of the beer: For a pint of
Pilsner
Urquell or Budweiser you only pay 0,80 €. So its as doubled as nice to
have a
few pints after the match.
So after all it`s a very interesting event to
British anglers. The
venue will suit your fishing methods, especially if you are
Ireland-experienced.
The date is the last weekend in August every year.
On the second weekend in September there is a
similar event on the
same lake but this time for pairs (2 anglers on every peg).
I hope to see you in Cheb. For further information
don`t hesitate
to contact me.
nc-opladeju@netcologne.de
Jürgen
Opladen

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