 Every year I keep promising to make a vlog or a video of the Kuyakangla's European Championship event that takes place at Langleslake in the Breckin Beacons in Wales. It's probably one of my favourite events of the year for a whole number of reasons. It's well organised by the south-west Kuyakangla's, it has fantastic environmental settings, the backdrop and the mountains around are superb, the fishing is very good, although it can be very tough at times and it also has a really good social side to it as well which is probably why I've not made a video to date. That's helped by the fact it has camping and caravan site there, a cafe, restaurant, well stocked shop, sales tackle and of course a bar. So I'm going to head off and meet Mark and Ian. The weather forecast isn't great for the next few days but that's typical for up there and see if I can improve on my current best position of seventh. I think I've done six competitions so far, seventh is my highest ranked place. Back in February I managed to get a biggest pike, that won me a fladen net and I think a few years back that seventh position won me a flambeau lure box which I still use today actually and on that note it's a really well supported event not only does it have between 30 and 50 competitors each time but it has some really good sponsorship and some great prizes for everyone actually, taking videos when you're trying to compete, the two don't go together but hopefully I'm going to just pull together everything and anything that I can grab and make sure that the event gets the cover that it deserves. And we're off, Ian has assured me he's found some perch and perch have been a curse for me there, I've yet to actually get a langauge perch, first langauge perch, another perch, actually plenty. Pike is going to be the challenge I think this weekend. It's match day, yesterday it just poured it rain so tackle talk day and reducing it from bags and bags of lures down to just one small box to take onto the kayak and selecting rigs suited to the conditions. Now most of the lake is covered in weed and I know that Ian had his fish over those weed beds, I'm going to start off trying to target the pike and I'm going to try and fish those weed beds. I've got a couple of cheb weights sat on the on the trace so the idea is that I'll be able to cast this out those cheb weights are going to sink down onto the weed bed not get too snagged up and the fly is going to sit nice and close to the surface. Controversial early start and we're off, start off on the fly on the heavy rod. I see David Jacobs catch and land a decent pike so I know that I'm not in the wrong area and there are pike over the weed beds he has the unenviable job of trying to measure it when I crack on and it's all going well my lure looks good in what is about a foot of clear water above four foot of weed. I'll recast though and this happens I lose the entire lot it turns out to be an absolute disaster. I'll try and spot some fish and brave standing up for a little while but to no effect. Quarter cup to tiny perch for the too small to count they've got to be over 20 centimeters mine are probably more like 10 and now I've resorted to spending the next three hours fishing over the deep hole jigging and drifting. I've lost the will see the fish yes got my pike not too hard for that they need to be 35 centimeters long he's not long enough have plenty of perch but have all been too small I'm trivia is 20 centimeters there we go it's a cool day got in oh man so everyone's off the water and ball accounts it was quite a tough session often is at Langgors the pike didn't seem to be playing ball the perch were and I suspect there's quite a few people that did manage to get too pike and a perch and that's time for the the presentation. Without you guys here are the events of Ivory they would have done the same for the sponsors the massive back of the sponsors they've been quite generous again. Biggest pike the right one we'll just keep on pindering sponsor my pindering goes to Paul Rhys 86 44 centimeters pindering we'll just keep going goes to James Power 4th place sponsor my pindering 160 centimeters 3rd place sponsor my rave blazer navionics meps lucky John 2nd place 178 centimeters because of David Jacobs sponsored by nrs lucky John 1st place tail sponsors again nrs navionics and lucky John because we are freaking out with 180 centimeters hey guys thank you very much save it a few beers now i'm watching Glenn get a rave royale kicking thank you guys thank you very much we were gonna make him go back come over this way come over this way