Stockholm Strömmen; 2nd September 2008

8lb Seatrout...

7lb 8oz. Salmon from Strömmen

Brace of Salmon around the 10lb. mark....

A fine trio, Seatrout and Salmon, all around the 8lb mark...

Evening spent again at Strömmen with Karl from 5pm. until 11pm. A really frustrating evening in all honesty, hooked no less than seven fish between us and landed none! Particularily depressed myself after hooking no less than five fish, one of which was a very good Salmon. A lot of fish were landed tonight of a high average size, some cracking Seatrout in particular were witnessed. Have taken some photos of some of the catches made and posted here for interest. Did learn a lot tonight about fly choice and hook strength in particular, as well as several other tips for the future, feel it won't be long before a good fish is landed....

Stockholm Strömmen; 1st September 2008

Strömmen Seatrout...

Strömmen Seatrout...

A few free hours in the late afternoon today, thought I would try the Ström again for a couple of hours and arrived at 15.20, I was surprised to find myself the only fisherman there before I was joined by a swedish fisherman, the pair of us having it all to ourselves. Several jumping Salmon made sure the adrenalin was high with fish well into double figures active in the water below us. Fished the traditional fly method here, which involves an 80 gram weight, three way swivel and long leader to the fly. After 40 minutes, having just changed to a dark blue tube fly, I was hit hard in a savage fashion, the fish giving phenomenal resistance as it sulked across the river. I was only barely managing to hang on and keep contact for three minutes when it decided to make off downstream under the bridge where it easily snapped me off just above the fly. The albeit short fight left me in no doubt as to just how strong these fish can be and wondering how large a fish I had jusy hooked. Needless to say I was gutted...

Perhaps 45 minutes later at 17.30 the swedish lad beside me had a take, also on a blue fly and after a brief struggle landed a really beautiful Seatrout of around seven pounds weight, a slightly coloured fish, suggesting it had been in the freshwater for perhaps a week or two. Really nice to be able to net this fish for the guy and get a good look at the fish. Took a couple of snaps which I have posted here. The concensus after seeing this fish caught was that I had probably hooked a good Salmon or perhaps a very large Seatrout, and though a little disapointing not to have landed a fish, it is good to have finally connected with a fish.

Stockholm Strömmen; 27th August 2008

A 10lb. Salmon from Strömmen...

A 5lb Seatrout taken just after dusk...

Popped down to Stockholm Ström for a couple of hours in the late evening and fished an hour into darkness. The late autumn run is begining now with both Seatrout and Salmon coming through in big numbers, with some colossal fish present. Seatrout run well over 20lb. here and Salmon as large as 50lb.!

Fished a tube fly on a long leader from a three way swivel, with an 80 gram weight required to get the fly down in the very strong flow and happily lost very little tackle. No fish fell to my rod but fish were taken by others during the evening, a couple of which I took snaps of and have posted here to whet the appetite! Will be getting out over the next few months and into the winter in pursuit of that dream fish, a large Seatrout really would be something special...

Lidingö; 19th August 2008

1lb 13oz. Perch

1lb 2oz. Perch

4lb 15oz. Pike

Simon and Perch


A fine day at Lidingö today with Karl and Simon, fishing principally for Perch. Perch came early on the legered worm, particularily to Simon who had three nice fish around the 12oz. mark. Karl then had a free roving Perch Live bait taken by a Pike of 4lb 15oz. which gave him a scare or two as it did its best to entangle itself in the reeds to our left before it was landed. A nice fish barely under five pounds gave him his first single point of the day for the table.

Next came a really nice fish for myself, a lovely 1lb 13oz. (4 Pts.) fish with rather faded markings, presumably an older female fish. This fish fell to legered worm and gave a brief but powerful account of itself on the swingtip rod. Then to wrap the evening up Karl had a large Roach livebait taken before he failed to hook what most probably was a good Perch. This was followed by a fish of 1lb 2oz. , a 2 point fish that went into the reeds and was fortunatly landed all the same, which was a great way to end the session before we packed up at 19.30. Happily all todays fish were released and swam away strongly to fight another day....

Lidingö; 12th August 2008

2lb 2oz. Perch

2lb 2oz. Perch

1lb 6oz. Perch

An evening session was long awaited at this spot, had been itching to try for big Perch, probably my favourite species to catch when they are bigger specimens. Began at about 4pm., with two float paternostered livebaits set up, complete with bobbins and bite alarms. Fished another rod on the bottom with worms on a fixed paternoster.

A frustrating start was had due to a lack of suitable bait sized fish coming on the worm, no shortage of Perch though with constant action with medium sized fish. Lost two fish in the reeds that might of topped a pound, my own fault for not carrying a landing net. Finally got a couple of bait sized fish, a small Perch and a Roach. The perch was the first to be taken at 18.10, the culprit a lovely 1lb 6oz. Perch(2pts.) which was landed after a few anxious moments after the fish kited into the reeds...

Things went quiet after that and I occupied myself with more modest Perch and Roach on the worm. Decided to fish into dusk and was rewardered at 21.10 when a roach livebait was taken suddenly, a screaming run and fabulous fight followed before a cracking Perch of 2lb 2oz. was landed, a 6 point fish and my best Perch for some time. A nice way to end the day...

Lidingö; 30th July 2008

0.9kg Perch

1,2kg perch

1,2kg Perch

Out at my favourite spot this morning hopin for another Zander or a pike. Arrived about 07.30 and started catching small perch on worm straight away. About 10.30 the livebait float went under and I struck into what I thought was a small pike. Was very pleased to see a huge perch instead! Weighed in at about 1,2kg. 10 minutes later the other float went under producing a good perch just under 1kg. Both caught on small perch livebait.. I'll be going back again soon!

Malaren 14-15th June

Bream

My first ever lure cought pike!! about 1.5kg

Second ever lure cought pike, 2.6kg

A nice weekend away at a friends country house on the island of Alholmen (somewhere after Ekero) Tried lure fishing for the first time ever and to my surprise, actually caught something. Caught both pike within 10 minutes at the same spot. All in all a pretty quite weekend though but some good spots so worth a return trip soon.

Waxholm; 26th June 2008

4lb 13oz. Pike

11oz. Perch

Grabbed the rods, reels, scales, camera, a few weights and a packet of size 10 hooks and headed out to Waxholm for a few hours light fishing for Perch. My first cast produced a good bite and I struck into a very strong fish that absoloubtly hooped my 12 foot swingtip leger rod over. I was dreaming about a monster Perch for 5 minutes as it stayed deep and took line every time I tried to bring it to the surface. When it did break the surface my dreams were dashed, a Pike of 4lb 13oz. had taken my worms of the bottom! The fish was well hooked in the scissors of the jaw, away from the teeth and it was landed, photographed and slipped back in. A truly unbelievable fight on the ultralight rod, it only it could of been the Perch I thought it might be!

Lots of Perch biting, all small at first, but things did improve steadily as the sun dropped lower, leading to three fish over .75lb before I had to leave at 19.15 to watch the Euro '08 semi-final! Might be well worth an evening in the area with small livebaits for, hopefully, a big, big Perch...

Trehörningen; 26th June 2008

1lb 14oz. Tench

Tench

Crayfish

A few very enjoyable hours spent fishing in the evening for Tench with Linda, Jim and Ollie. Groundbaited carefully on arrival and was into a Tench of 1lb 14oz. on just my second cast using a strawberry flavoured maize and redworm bait on a paternoster rig, a rapid result. Things then went rather quite with small Roach here and there until the sun dropped and the odd Bream and Rudd were then taken, though nothing of any size. A Crayfish was caught after it tangled itself in my line on my second rod which was fishing a method feeder rig and boilie on a hair. A really good sized Cray it was too! Had two good runs on the method feeder but figure the hair link was too long as neither fish was hooked. At 21.45 a second small Tench of about 1lb. was taken on my paternoster rod, again on the strawberry maize and redworm hookbait. Both Tench gave me 6 points for the evening, though neither was very large, this lake appearing to hold a lot of small fish, though may not be a great site with a view to a big specimen. Still, a beautiful place to spend an evening all the same...

In addition, Simon took three small Pike from the boat on Malaren a few days ago, which gives him three points towards his point total for the season. The points table is now fully updated...

The Zander....

Hi guys, well, first addition from me. Had to add this one. Out fishing on May 31st from about 7.30 am at kyrkaviken in Lidingö. A beautiful sunny day, well over 20 degree's. Fishing on the float for smaller fish and two livebaits out for pike (had 6.5kg pike here before) Around 9.30am the livebait float went under and I struck into a very solid fish. Felt very strange from the start as the fish went straight out for open water and very deep!! After about 10 minutes fight I finally caught a glimpse of the monster and was shocked to see a very angry zander (my first ever).  On my very poor scales it weighed in at around 3.8kg, a beautiful fish. I'll be going back again to try for more...

 

Tyresö Nyfors; 17th June 2008

4lb 2oz. Tench

4lb 2oz. Tench

Rudd

A night fishing trip this time for a change with Zander very much in mind. Things got of to a quick start for me with a cracking Tench of 4lb. 2oz. taken at the start of the session at 21.05 on a legered worm, a 5 point fish and a fin perfect specimen. Was not aware the species was present in the lake and this one really fought all the way to the bank.

We fished until 0300am., unfortunatly the results were not good. At least four Zander baits registered no takes at all, with the legered worm taking only one good fish, a Rudd of about 12oz. or so. A frustrating result with regard to a species that has eluded us for two years or more now....

Malaren; 5th June 2008

9lb. 2oz. Pike

Simon with his first Pike of the day...

My first Pike of the day...

Lovely trip out in the boat with Jamie and Simon after Pike. The weather was incredible, an absolute scorcher, which affected the fishing no doubt, nevertheless got a few fish. I hooked up first to a fish of somewher in the 4-5lb class on a big bandit jerkbait, though did not weigh this one. Things were quiet for a bit after that fish, changed lures and I again hit a fish, this time a fine, really well conditioned Pike of 9lb. 2oz. which fought well. This one fell to a large jointed Rapala Rap-Shad.

Simon then began to catch, with three Pike coming to him in quick succession, all under the 5lb. mark. Jamie had a desperatly unlucky day, with several strikes and no fish landed, culminating with a very good fish that took a shallow running jerkbait. Unfortunatly the trace parted after a clutch failure on the reel he was using. Headed back in a short while later, a really enoyable session and great to get a few fish on lures. The outing earns three points for both Simon and I.

Trehorningen; 3rd June 2008

2lb 9oz. Tench

2lb 9oz. Tench

1lb 15oz. Tench

Male Tench; 8oz.

Trehörningen Lake


Went after Tench today on my birthday, to a new venue, Trehörningen. Arrived to find a stunning lake, very picturesque, full of water lilies and it just screams Tench. Despite the later morning start and the very bright, sunny conditions I was hopeful of a fish due to the New Moon today and the fact that the moon low point was at 12.10pm.

Started fishing at 09.15am. and things were initially rather quiet. Fished just one rod, a 12 foot quivertip with a free running rig and worm as bait. A large Tench rolled on the surface in front of me early on. Several frustrating bites followed, each time the worms were stripped from the hook with only the tiniest movement of the rod. I then hooked and lost a good fish, presumably a Tench at 12.00 nooon. At 12.40 I banked my first Tench of the year, also my smallest ever, an 8oz. male that put up an amazing fight considering its size and had me wondering if I had hooked one of the lakes Crucian Carp! At 13.20 I banked a much better fish od 2lb 9oz., a really pleasing result. This was follow by another at 1.35pm., this one weighed 1lb. 15oz. and was a beautiful pale fish, just lovely to look at. Rudd were a constant nuisance and grabbed most of the baits before they could even hit the bottom, in the future will use sweetcorn or mini boilies to avoid them. Two Perch were caught, Bream too were in evidence, along with a single Roach.

No sign of Crucian Carp today, though some bubbling may have been by this species. Hopefully will get one on a future session at this lovely lake.

Dreviken; 1st June 2008

1lb. 7oz. Rudd

1lb. 7oz. Rudd

A sweltering hot morning developed into a scorching day, bright blue skies and strong sun killed the fishing. Started fishing at 08.45am and struggled to tempt a bite, had to set up a float rig on the bait rod to secure a couple of small Perch livebaits, both of which would eventually be released after the session, with no interest at all from predators of any kind. Just four bites on the leger rig for the whole session, a paltry result! Only managed to hit one of these bites at 10.40am, was really suprised by the resistance I met upon striking. A really nice Rudd of 1lb. 7oz. was gratefully landed, the fish is worth 4pts. and made the days efforts worthwhile...

Trigger Times; Moon South at 10.10am.

Varmdö; 29th May 2008

3lb. 9oz. Bream

2lb 8oz. Bream

Jack Pike

Perch

A new location today out on Varmdö, and considering the weather it went really, really well. Fished from 1pm until 5.00pm in blazing sunshine in a dificult strong wind, far from ideal conditions. The worm turned up the goods today, with 95% of fish falling to one legered rig. Lots of Perch to around 8oz. caught, which is always nice, these came throughout the day. The only trigger period of note was a Moon Set at 1.30pm and sure enough at 1.25pm my rod was taken from the rest by a good Bream of 3lb 9oz., this fish fighting really well and had me thinking it was a good Perch before it appeared on the surface. This was followed ten minutes later by a 2lb 8oz. fish that didn't fight at all! It was back to Perch then, alang with a couple of Roach and skimmer Bream before my livebait slid off at the death, though just a small jack Pike turned out to be the culprit. A great few hours angling which gave me a total of 5 points in all. Really impressed by the fishing and was told of very big Perch in the area, as well as very big Pike and Zander too. The Bream fishing could be exceptional too if done properly. The whole general area is well worth some attention and has huge potential, with a huge amount of water that could be covered, all of this close to the city....

Also today Tom Summers had a jack Pike from the lake by his land to claim a single point.

Weather; Sunny, 24 Degress, Gusty. f4-5 Wind, South Westerly.

Dreviken; 28th May 2008

The same Pike again! 14lb. 9oz. today!

2lb. 7oz. Pike

Out to the same swim in Dreviken today for a few hours in the evening. Started fishing at 17.30 after a bus breakdowm delayed me, fishing very slow at first and I could not even catch small baitfish at first. Eventually got some skimmer Bream, Roach and Rudd and got some baits out for Pike. First run came at 19.15, a good fish which spat the bait and hooks out at the bank after a four minute tussle, a good fish of not far off ten pounds. This was quickly followed by a second run, a small fish this time of 2lb. 7oz., a single point fish. Things then went quiet for a while until 21.10 when another run came, this time a long on. A great fight followed before a very familiar looking fish was landed! Comparing the two later on the photos taken it is certainly the same fish I landed just two days ago, this time 5oz. lighter at 14lb. 9oz. Have decided that I should not take points for this guy as he is probably territorial and catching the same fish repeatedly seems somehow wrong. It does go to show that they certainly get back to normal life soon after being caught and perhaps are not the brightest! Will be difficult to keep fishing at the site if this guy keeps coming out!

Weather; Fine, Sunny. Westerly Wind F3-4. 20 Degrees Celsius.

Trigger Times,; 19.20, 21.20

Dreviken; 26th May 2008

14lb 14oz. Pike

14lb 14oz. Pike

0.78lb Rudd

Bream

A great days fishing today at Dreviken. Started fishing at 2pm., immediatly began to catch Rudd, Roach and particularily skimmer Bream. Thing continued on like that for some hours while the worm baits were constantly taken, two livebaits remaining untouched for a while. At 5.50pm a ledgered Bream was finally taken right on cue, though I lost this fish at the bank, a Pike of around 5lb. or so. I rebaited another bream and recasted. As I was setting up the bobbin indicator line was taken from my hands, I assumed it was the fresh livebait and reset the bobbin and bite alarm, stood up and watched as line started to tear of the reel again, the alarm sounding off. I struck into a solid Pike, which gave me a fantastic fight on the light rod, taking about ten minutes to get to the bank where I gratefully managed to land the fish by hand! The scale swung to just under 15lb, a cracking fish and new personal best, after a few quick pictures with the camera timer I released it, the fish swimming away strongly. The fish is worth 6 points on the league table.

At 6.45pm. I managed a good Rudd of .78lb, which gave me another point, before some better Bream appeared in the swim, all over a pound. Another moon trigger approached and I could not believe how on cue two runs were at 7.55pm and 8.05pm. These were somewhat unuasual though in that both were dropped after very positive takes, with perhaps three metres of line quickly stripped off the reel. Both were on the roach live bait, which on inspection the first time bore the tell tale puncture marks of a Zander, I can only assume the rigs offered too much resistance and spooked the fish. Good to know they are in the area all the same, something to have a go for in the coming weeks...

Weather; Westerly wind F2-3, Cloudy from 1700, Sunny previous to that. 20 degrees falling in evening.

Trigger Times; 16.10; High Point at 18.10; 20.10

Tom's first of the season!

Yes Tom, you sure do......

A novel entry on to the points board, Tom Summers first two Pike of the season came today and this one was duly entered by photo text, the first and not the last inbox specimen no doubt! If Tom could lift it, it could not of been more than 5lbs! Both fish taken from the boat and give Tom a total of 2 points for the league table!

In addition Simon had four Pike yesterday, all under 5lbs, giving him a total of 4 points for the table which puts him on the board for the year also...