Stockholm; 30th May 2007

Out in the evening with Karl and Ian. Tried at new site at Vårby Gard. After Karl caught a small jack pike and gained a point we caught little else and decided to move back into the city and try Stockholm Strom. Using worm for a couple of hours yielded a fine .59kilo(1lb 3oz.) Perch. Also managed a couple of Ruff, a small species and it seems a night feeder.

PointsKarl; 1pt. (Karl also had another Pike 2 days ago and gets a point for that also.)

Al; 2pts.

Vaxholm; 27th May 2007

Out on Vaxholm this evening for 4 hrs from 6pm onwards. Fishing brisk with tons of bites on the leger, too many in fact to use both rods. Suprisingly the main culprit was Silver Bream, with about 4o fish caught. One or two were close to half a pound or so in weight, which is respectable for this species. A single Perch of about 8oz. was caught at 7pm. The rest were all small roach.

Tyresta Slott; 19th May 2007

Went out after work, bit frustrating as I arrived at 04.55am only to waste 45 minutes struggling to catch bait at the bridge while another angler landed 3 Pike averaging around 5lb while I was there. Eventually got a small roach and moved to the tip where I found bait was easily caught! The first cast led to an immediate run which proved to be this small jack pike. The bait it took was half its owm length! Caught at 05.55. Saw a few large fish over the next 15 minutes swirling but got no mre pike in the session. Loads of Roach and Perch, though nothing big enough for points....

Tyresta Slott; 17th May 2007

Went out for dawn today and it turned out to be a really fantastic morning weatherwise. On arrival we were suprised to stumble on two young Moose in the grounds of the slott. Started fishing soon after and Karl hooked and landed a super Pike at 05.20hrs. The fish weighed in at 5.2kilo(11lbs.3oz.) Fishing was fairly quiet after that and we only managed a few Roach and a couple of Perch before we moved back to the inner area. Other people were fishing here and we were very suprised to see this Tench taken out by a swedish angler at 13.00, a scarce fish in the baltic sea. This fish weighed 3-4lb. Also saw 3 large Bream hooked, which were all lost by various anglers due to fishing with tackle that was to light to land the fish. Managed a lot of Roach and a smaller Bream during the early afternoon before we left...

Present; Al, Rafa, Karl and James.

Moon rise time was 03.22am, Karls pike caught at 05.20am.

This fish at 5.2kilos is worth 5pts. to Karl.

Points to date are;

Alan;12pts.

Karl;7pts.

Linda;6pts

Rafa;4pts.

Kev; 0pts

Ian; 0 pts.

Baz; 0pts.

Jim; 0pts.

James; opts.

Möya, May 5th 2007

Be warned, this may happen to you if you bring your girlfriend fishing. She fished me under the table. A perch weighing 0.73kilo and 2 Pike under 5lb. Amazingly she caught both pike on worms!! The gloves are because she saw the teeth on the pike...

I got nothing lads...

Toms Lake;8th April 2007

Out today and conpletely fishless, dead! No runs on float fished deadbaits or takes on legered worm, no fish activity at all seen....

Nice day for all that!

Tyresö;5th April 2007

A fantastic few hours fishing had today with 4 Pike in a 1 hour 25 minute spell, with the first thre all falling to my own rods in just 15 minutes! The first fish, caught at 11.05am, was the largest, a really long fish, though rather thin and most probably just finished spawning, and weighed in at 5.69Kilos(12.51lbs). This fish was also badly marked up on the rear flanks, perhaps also most likely due to spawning, no doubt though that in good condition this fish would have been at least 15lb or more.
The second fish was taken at 11.15am and weighed in at 2.77 Kilo(6.09lbs), before the third almost immediatly took another float drifted stromming bait at 11.20am and was duly weighed in at 3.08Kilos(6.77lbs).
Karl arived in time to see the two smaller pike landed before duly hooking one himself at 12.30pm, this was a cracking fish too and tipped the scales at 4.04Kilos(8.88lbs) and gave Karl a new personal best. Things then remained quite before we had to leave at 1500hrs. Unfortunately Rafa had to leave early for work but still managed to get his childs pram into the picture of the bigger fish for posterity!

Weather;Wind Nw, f4. Bright at fist before clouding over at 12.30pm.
Moon at highest point today at 13.35pm, Full moon two days ago on April 3rd.

Points; Alan--9pts. for 3 fish, (Total 12pts.)
Karl--2pts. for 1 fish, (Total 2pts)

Moon Phases with regard to Fishing; April 5th 2007

Have recently been researching the science behind Moon Phases with regard to fishing and identifying feeding patterns in fish, optimizing fishing dates and giving ourselves the best possible chance of catching more and bigger specimens. Click on the link below for an in depth summary..

http://www.moonstrike.co.uk/home.html

http://www.moonstrike.co.uk/lunarcycles.html


From now on I will post the relevant Moon Phases on the days fished and then catch results can be compared directly to see if marked results come in the expected periods. Going to Tyresö Slott today for pike, leaving shortly. Full moon was just two days ago, this combined with a moon at its highest point at 1335hrs today should mean feeding Pike close to this time...

Should be an interesting experiment....

This link has also been added for easy access at later dates in the links section...

Tyresta Slott;1st April 2007

Rafa and I went out for the day, exciting fishing with Pike very active, swirling at the surface and spawning in the reeds near the point. Two fish caught by myself, largest a 2.08 kilo fish, a shade under 5lbs. Raga unluckily had a dropped run and judging by the depth of the lacerations on his bait had a good fish on.

Aspudden/Sickla Udde;30th March 2007

First fish of the season were taken out today on a lovely sunny spring day. Aspudden was the first location tried but yielded just a small roach on ledgered worm, the first fish taken out of the water this year, a whopping tiddler! After nice views of a White Tailed Sea Eagle being harrased by gulls Karl and myself soon decided the fishing was poor and the time had come to move on...
The move to Sickla proved worth it in the end. Deadbaits had not taken any pike so we switched to spinners five minutes before packing up. Two minutes later a 1.73 Kilo Pike(just under 4lb.) was landed by myself right at the death. Nice end to a nice day.
Hope to see you guys out there soon enjoying the spring! Trip on Sunday, April 1st is going ahead.
Points Today; Al...1pt.

2007 Season kicks off....

Out at Henriksdalen today in an attempt for Seatrout. Spun lures for an hour, but were so cold had to knock it on the head after 90 minutes and no fish! At least we tried. So cold the line was freezing, rod rings freezing solid too. No points so....

2006 Final Points Table!

Well Boys, the year is done and I can dish out the bonus points, thats 12 points for the largest of each species and another 12 points for the overall largest fish!
Al had the largest perch and roach, 24pts. Kev had the only Dace and Brown Trout, therefore the biggest, also had biggest Sea Trout and 36pts. Paddy and Karl were joint biggest Pike winners with a 5lb fish each, 12pts. Karl also had largest Silver Bream and therefore gets another 12 for that. Biggest fish of the year was the joint 5lb pike, its a disgrace that the biggest fish was only 5lbs, nevertheless another 12pt goes to Karl and Pat!

Final Table is as follows...

1. Al............49pts.
2. Kevin......46pts.
3. Karl.........41pts.
4. Paddy.....27pt.
5. Rafa........0pts.
6. Micky Monk...0pts.
7. Baz..........-1pt.
8. Jim Kelly....-3pts.



As for the dispute as to me awarding myself 2pts. twice for the Alvekärleby Roach I refute the allegations! The Älvekärleby Roach Scandal was started after malicious rumors were circulated after a few pints too many... If you refer to the points table here on 14th July last, well before the trip north, you will see I was on 23pts. at that stage, now sod off the lot of ye and leave me alone!

2007 beckons lads, hopefully a lot bigger to come in the year ahead. Tight Lines to you all...

By the way, there is no truth in the rumour that Jim Kelly fished all year without knowing you had to tie a hook to the end of your line.
The good news for Jim is that he is moving upwards having been reinstated to 0pts on January 1st 2007...
Your a legend!

Updated Points Table

Hi Lads, here it is. Fish for Kevin (Brown Trout, 1 pt.)and Al (1lb Roach, 2pts)to add from Alvekärleby, points deducted from Baz(-3Pts), not a sausage in Alvekärleby...

Al; 25pts.
Kev; 10pts
Karl; 5pts
Pat; 3pts.
Rafa; 0pts.
Baz; -1pt.
Jim; -3pts.

So lads...

Will be getting out over the next few weeks for Perch and Pike, Seatrout season starting soon in Stockholm. Looking into Ice Fishing in the winter too for bit of interest.

Proposed Changes; Points Table.

After the six months or so that we have started the league there have been a few eyebrows raised at certain species points table, so suggesting the following changes until the end of the year...

Apart from Dace, which was overlooked completely, all the changes are additions to species already on the table.

Dace................... 7oz=1pt; 8oz=2pts; 10oz=4pts; 12oz=6pts; 140z=8pts; 1lb=12pts
Roach.................. .75lb=1pt
Rudd.................... .75lb=1pt
Eel........................ Any=1pt; 1lb=2pts
Grayling................ Any=1pt; .5lb=2pts
Chub..................... Any=1pt
Bream.................. 2lb=1pt
Rainbow Trout... Any=1pt; .75lb=2pts
Brown Trout....... Any=1pt; .75lb=2pts

Will talk to you all soon about it, as it stands Kevin would gain a point for the Brown Trout he got at Alvekärleby.

Perhaps at the end of the year we should all meet for a beer and have an AGM of sorts, go through the points system and go over any ideas for improving the league and the craic in general....

The boys not well....

A few belated photos, god help us all...

The rods are coming out again for the autumn bonanza next week boys, get it together...

Älvekärleby, 22nd August 2006

Hired boats out for the day and dropped down to the lower reaches to coarse fish, no large predators caught though. Best fish was a cracking .54 kg Roach(2pts) caught on legered sweetcorn, also a perch for Al on legered roach livebait. Lots of Roach, Bream; Ruff, Perch and Dace(Kevin) were taken.
Micky Monk dropped up to join us for the day and caught his first fish ever. Ruff and Bream. No Points!
Finished off the trip with a great barbeque, beers and bottle of Remy Martin. Great trip, thanks to all tha lads, hope the fish are kinder to us next time!

Älvekärleby, 21st August 2006

All up early for intensive days Salmon and Seatrout fishing. Kevin flyfished while the rest of us spun lures and flies just over the bottom in the upper section of the river, Kevin managed a small Brown Trout. Despite 12 hours hard fishing, no Salmon or Seatrout banked, although one fish was hooked and managed to slip the hook after just 30 seconds.
Three fish registered today, the largest a stunning 15.6kg salmon! A 2kg Seatrout also hooked by a neighbour in the fishcamp, pictured above.
Fathead also managed to foulhook a fish, initially thought to be a roach/bream hybrid... This was in fact a Silver Bream, not a bad one either... Never weighed this fish, a half pound fish would be worth three points!!

Älvekärleby, 20th August 2006

Trip finally under way. Kevin, Pat, Fathead, Jim, Barry and myself arrived up at Älvekärleby fishcamp at 13.00. Spent the first evening coarse fishing, catching Bream, Roach, Bleak, and Perch. Nothing caught that qualified for points though. Afterwards had a cracking barbeque before going to bed early.

Hällögern, Norrland

Honest lads, I was not drunk...

My first of three Sik. The good news is I caught them all in a net, so they dont count! Oh well!

Looking forward to the big trip to Alvekarleby tomorrow, three days of great craic altogether and a lot of fishing!!

Huge Salmon; Stockholm Ström; 9th August 2006

Out fishing for Zander last night again from 2.30am. The Zander again preoccupied with small whitefish on the surface and couldn't tempt a bite on lures. Managed to catch two perch on the ledger, but Zander were not interested in them at all as bait, completely ignoring them in front of their noses.
Crossed to the other side of the bridge where at about 4am there was a massive rise 20 metres out. Five minutes later the biggest freshwater fish either Karl or I have ever seen swam right under us. I thought it was a large piece of debris at first, then an otter, then a seal, before it came into clear view and was obviously the mother of all Salmon.
The fish was truly enormous. Well over a metre long, certainly between 130cm and 150cm. The stunning thing about the fish though was it's breadth, at least 16 inches, perhaps as much as 20 inches across.
Having caught a 15lb fish here last year I can say that this fish dwarfed that. There is no way this fish was less than 35lb in weight and possibly 10lb, or more, heavier than that.
Saw another Salmon clear the water a while later, a high double figure fish, so there are definitely salmon in the area waiting for the sluice gates to open.
Can only imagine the fight a fish like that would put up, let's dream on! In the meantime it's down there still and has whetted my appetite for the upcoming trip north to Alvkarleby in ten days...