Gotland sea trout season 2012
From mr Per Jobs of FishYourDream.com we got some notes about the sea trout season 2012 at the island of Gotland; south Baltic Sea. Per says " Fishing on Gotland is good at the moment! More trout are caught and the quality of the fish are better than last seasons. The C&R rate among our guests is just over 90%. During April we ended up at an average of four fish landed per guided day. Total 157 up when fishing with a guide during that month. Top day in spring was 36 fish between two FishYourDream staff (and therefore not included in the statistics). Top day for guests fishing with one of our guides was 17 sea trout between three anglers. The reason? A mild winter after two tough ones, and we have also received several summers in a row with good water flows in the spawning rivers. But as usual, this is guesswork. Even if the fishing is good, we still needed work to provide better protection for our fine trout population on the island. We at Fish Your Dream are doing what we can to educate and inform. It is moving forward, albeit slowly. Meanwhile, and in the future, we must all treat our sea trout with respect: not to keep more than we need and always release colored, prespawning trout. One tip is to keep trouts lacking adipose fin, as they are farmed and stocked fish. They have nothing in our rivers do when they mix with the Gotland trout genes, which is bad when the farmed fish are not adapted to the Gotland environment; small streams with low flows. "Our" trout have adapted to this for a very long time and mixed genes may stem degenerate.
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Winter fly fishing in central Sweden!
Winter fly fishing in minus degrees! Even if it´s hard to belive it is possible to fly fish in Sweden right now. In the small stream Norrbyströmmen near Motala guests can book and fish even if the snow is covering the surrounding landscape. Fishing host Manni Svensson reports; `Despite my warnings about the cold weather Magnus, André and Jarri really wanted to give it a try, so they arrived and and fished here last Saturday. Four rainbows and one brown trout were landed, and many were lost, including a big bow that did not fit into the net. Best fly was a lightly weighted black nymph in size 14 fished just under the surface. Now we await the next period with little warmer weather.´
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Lake Vänern & Vättern trolling
Fishing guide Ove Johansson operates in Skaraborg, the big and very fishy area that includes lake Vänern, Vättern, Skagern and numerous other smaller watersheds between those bigger lakes. From the last month of fishing and guiding Ove can report both nice char from lake Vättern, good fishing for salmon & trout in lake Vänern, some decent pike from the small ice-covered lakes + a finetuned guideboat for season 2013.
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New rental boats in Skaraborg, BigPike Sweden
Guidning company BigPike Sweden is right now watching their new rental boats take shape in a local factory. The boats are specially designed for angling and will be altered between different fishing waters in the area, like lake Vänern, Skagern and Tåkern.
Baltic trolling season 2013 starting up
The season for salmon trolling in the open water of the south Baltic Sea is now picking up. Several reports indicates good number of salmon congregating in special areas of the sea. Sweden Fishing have a number of guides offering service in the area, and above picture shows a client fishing with Abel Fishing.
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Abel Fishing Blog & Pictures, in Swedish >>>
http://www.swedenfishing.com/en/tourismcompanies/simrishamns_trolling
Three pikes over 100cm
The last time I was out fishing for pike was the weekend before Christmas. Actually I and Henrik were out for three days in a row and caught only one pike. We have had a nice fishing before all the snow fall down. But this weekend was the fishing very bad, probably because of the suddenly darkness below the ice. The pike doesn’t hunt as much as it used to do. The few bites we had were just pikes tasting the bait, but they didn’t take it. Very annoying! But one of our bait fishes had some nice bite marks, so we decided to go to this place again.
This Saturday was a nice day. I woke up in the morning and was very surprised of the warm weather. It isn’t usual up here with +1.5 C in January. Well we had a really nice day and caught totally six pikes. Four of them had an approved size and the lengths were 102, 101, 100 and 95 cm. The top weight was 7,32 kilo and caught by Henrik.
