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Re: Sweden, Laponia: Grayling Galore
by jeremy on September 02, 2007 http://www.fliesandfins.com | | what a great article ... grayling is a species that i have yet to pursue or catch ... look forward to the day that i can try my luck at that .... sounds like sweden is a beautiful place to fly fish ... congratulations on a great trip and great fish .... i have a question .. how big to grayling get? |
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Re: Sweden, Laponia: Grayling Galore
by jinxed247 on September 02, 2007 http://www.jumpcut.com/flyfishing247 | | Gotta love Sweden! What a beautiful fish. Thanks for sending us stories from the homeland! (Me anyways) |
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Re: Sweden, Laponia: Grayling Galore
by Marcel_Karssies on September 03, 2007 http://www.marcelkarssies.com | Yep, you're must be in bliss with so many Grayling at your feet.
Just by incidence I was fishing a river in Germany this weekend where I had a chanc to catch these fine fish.
I managed two small ones before a sudden steep rise in the waterlevel ended my fishing.
Still I want to get a large Grayling so I will either have to travel to Scandinavia or try Germany again if the river in questions drops to a suitable level. |
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Sweden Fly Fishing: Grayling Galore
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I was woken up in the cottage by the sounds of loads of singing birds and
the sound of the green river rapids. I tackled up and got down to the river
and it looked like a million bucks. I had a redbutted atomic stekel on
the leader and I chucked it behind a large stone and bam a large fish attacked directly and took 10-15 meter of line with a slow but steady pull.
Of course I thought that it was a large trout but then the fished jumped
and it was a very nice grayling. The fished jumped some more and
got down to bottom to do that grayling pushing in the deep.
Soon enough the fish was tired and I hand landed it by the "bloody rock"
just down the outlet of the stream. It was magical; my first grayling
above the 1kg mark in Laponia and it was so beautiful with is shimmering
scales and big dorsal fin.
I sat down and took a quick drink out of the river and had a nice little smoke
and I felt alive like never before.
Then Andreas came down and asked how it was and told him that
now the fishing part of the trip was complete and that i didn’t need
any more big fish on this trip. We just sat there in the nice weather
and felt like a million bucks!!
Soon, I saw big shadow rise and take insect in the riffle part of stream
upstream of where we were sitting. I put on a streaking caddis stillborn
and threw upstream. A large fish rose and I immediately striked without saying God save the queen. Then it was no nice words that came out of my mouth, that I can guarantee you. But Andreas calmed me down with words that there is plenty of big fish here just wait until the evening rise.
After this we caught and released loads of medium sized trout and after
a while the hunger grew to magnificent proportions and we stopped
for dinner knowing we would 
