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Salt Water Sweden: Sea Trout Heaven
Posted by postman on July 11, 2007

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This is my first article on this website that has given me a lot during the last year. This article is about a super nice weak in Fjallbacka a small town on the west coast of Sweden. I came down on a Sunday in April and checked in at Fyrens Pensionat as usual. Went straight down to the calm turquoise water of the North Sea. I saw 20-30 Sea Trout in a feeding frenzy and started out with a small gammarus immitation that has been the hot fly this early in the season the last couple of years. After 30 minutes of casting and 5 fly switches and not a single strike I realized that something was wrong! I kept on fishing and caught some small juveniles of 15 inches or so but they were immediately released since the minimum length of Sea Trout on the west coast of Swededn is 18 inches. I ended up a the Pensionat racking my brains with my troubles. It was very clear in the water and 0 wind so maybe they were spooked of my leader and the bright colored flies? I tied up some shrimp in sizes 1, 2, 4, 6 in rust brown color and an other version in olive. The next day an edge buddy was coming with one of his friends called Sloopy. We had a nice day with hundreds of fish eating in the surface but only one legal fish caught by yours truly on a Mickey Finn colored baitfish pattern. What the hell was wrong? To many nets? To little baitfish? No sandworms? We all decided to go home and when I was traveling home I saw a magnificent sight on a shallow flat. 30-40 fish that were feeding in the shallow water. I put on extra long leader (6m) and the new small shrimp pattern pattern and 10min later a 22inch long silver beauty was

landed! In two a two hour period, I released a whole bunch of Sea Trout in the 18-20 inch range. The next day i woke up with new self esteem and went to my normal hideaway and the day was magnificent with fish up to 6 pounds jumping and leaping all over the place. To summarize, it was one of the best fly fishing trips of my life with fish in peak condition and loads of fun!



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Re: Sweden: Sea Trout Heaven
by jeremy on July 11, 2007 http://www.ineedasimplesolution.com
beautiful fish .. and great story. i can relate to the frustrations of sea trout and seeing them finning and eating actively on saltwater flats, but very spooky and sometimes seemingly impossible to trick .. here in maine they seem to be a very nomadic type of trout. we have big tides (sometimes 12 feet) so they move with all different water levels ... sometimes they eat sand eels, sometimes little bait fish, sometimes shrip and sometimes bugs .. can be a very frustrating game at times .. but very rewarding when a nice silver one is caught... we usually fish for the sea trout in november, december and january .... ar the sea trout arond in sweden all year? or are there certain times of year when they are more active than other times of year? that shrimp pattern looks perfect, i will have to tie up something like that and give it a try here in the usa. once again, beautiful fish .. funny how a trout becomes a totally different trout when it lives in the salt water as opposed to fresh water ... very spooky, on edge and sometimes no rhyme or reason to their feeding habits and whereabouts ... but then again, they have much BIGGER things to worry about in the ocean as opposed to fresh water ... .... welcome to flies and fins! great article!



Re: Sweden: Sea Trout Heaven
by jinxed247 on July 11, 2007 http://www.jumpcut.com/flyfishing247
Beautiful fish and great story! Welcome to flies and fins...it's nice to see another Swede on the board!!



Re: Sweden: Sea Trout Heaven
by alex on July 11, 2007 http://www.patagoniaflies.com
Beautiful fish, I love Sweden and can't wait to go back and I would love to learn more about the Fly Fishing there. Keep the info and articles coming
Alex



Re: Sweden: Sea Trout Heaven
by waterwhippa on July 11, 2007 http://salmonriverspecialists.com
What a great looking fish. I would love to see trout feeding in that salt, must be quite a site. what a great trip..congrats


 
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