Malaren; 9th October 2008

6.60kilo(14lb 9oz.) Pike for Jamie....

6.60kilo(14lb 9oz.) Pike

4.20kilo(9lb 5oz.) Pike at dusk....

4,20kilo(9lb. 5oz.) Pike

3.80kilo(8lb. 6oz.) Pike for Simon during the morning...

Simon and the head of the beast....


A superb days piking from the boat with Simon and Jamie on lake Malaren. Fished from 10.30am through until 6.oopm. with lures all day. First fish came to Jamie with a fish of around a kilo, followed by another simular fish for myself. A couple more takes and small fish came before Simon had the first really good fish of the day when he took a 3.80kilo fish on a green Zalt Wobbler, a lovely fish for him to start the day. The afternoon proved rather quiet with a handful of small fish lost on the strike before Jamie connected with the best fish of the day, a cracking 6.60kilo fish on a Buster Jerkbait. Simon landed another small fish, as did I before the light started to fade. I was delighted to get a really nice 4.20kilo fish ar dusk, also falling to a Buster Jerkbait, which gave us all a good fish during the day, which was thorughly enjoyable....

Lidingö; 29th September 2008

The head on that....!

6lb. Pike...

Lidingö the venue for Karl, Ed and myself on a day when new moon fell and it was rather dissapointing in all honesty. On the plus side the weather was glorious for the time of year....

A total of six livebait rods between us and just a single Pike, albeit a really hard fighting, exceptionally nicely marked and well proportioned 6lb. fish. The livebait was a small Roach. Ed had a dropped take, as I did during the day. Later I had another good run on a Perch bait which released the bait on the strike, these fish were probably all big Perch...

Vaxholm; 22nd September 2008

Ed and 6lb 1oz. Pike

1lb 3oz. Perch

Karl with 2lb 9oz. Bream

A really nice day today, great weather and a few fish as well. Vaxholm was the venue for Karl, Ed and myself and we all legered a worm on the bottom anf fished a livebait. Quite a few Perch caught during the afternoon, with fish actively hunting baitfish in front of us. Ed took the larggest, a 1lb. 3oz. fish that bagged him 2 points. Soon afterwards Ed's livebait was taken and after a lively struggle a really nice Pike of 6lb. 1oz. (2pts.)was landed and relased. Not to be left off the points table Karl landed his biggest Bream to date, a fish of 2lb. 9oz. (1 pt.)on the leger. All in all a nice day with Perch, Pike, Bream, Roach and Ruffe all taken...

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.