Last fishing day at TROSA in 19 degrees of heat (still summer) . Next time here is 1st January 2026 so we must give the Trout a chance to go upstream thus we do not wish to disturb them in their travels.
Yes , i know , its a farce . Not only depriving the membership of 3.5 months fishing on a 'YEARS CARD' but giving in to this ridiculous rule which denies specimen and match anglers the best chance of great fishing for PIKE ZANDER PERCH and silver fish , tragic !
Waggler rod , whip and pole only
Started of with three Ide ......this the largest
Waggler far side on corn did the most damage
After an hour i had 13 in the net , 11 Ide and 2 roach
The Days Menu
End of the day 42 .........majority ide , with 3 Perch , 4 Roach and 3 Rudd
Last time this year for me at Trosa as the fishing is not the best due to hardly any rain needed to freshen the river and get some oxygen infused into the water .
Also the Trosa card finishes on the 14th September so your 'YEAR-CARD' is really a 8.5 month card and the rules of this since 2019 is that it must close for the sake of the Trout ! Incredible as it may seem it is the major concern , The Trout !?
I shall be negative as i have the right to be plus many other anglers will have the right to be as the period from mid September till December is also a brilliant time for Pike , Perch , Zander as well as vast shoals of Roach , Rudd , Ide , Bjorkna and Bream are available for some huge weights. So for the sake of the Trout the members LOSE THESE GOLDEN MONTHS. I am sure many specimen PIKE, PERCH and ZANDER anglers would have loved to fish it as they chase vast shoals of white fish into the town.
The club has the authority to set its own rules as clearly for the last 25 years many have enjoyed the mid September to December period which is now taken away because of this self imposed rule? It was three years ago there was a match on the rear side of the canal walk ( i won it). Why can that not happen now?
It is a shame the club finds itself in this situation as there are fewer places to fish through out a 8.5 month season. From January 1st when no boats in the water the whole area is available , if there are some fish there ? Better fishing happens the end of March and into early May before the boat activity increases . Summer time , June , July , August its almost impossible to fish with boat and people traffic . So really the years card is 12 months minus 6.5 months.
I have the greatest respect to the bailiffs ( Like Pasi ) who do a great job keeping the standard of angling and anglers to a high level by putting off poaching anglers who wish to abuse the fish stocks and setting good sensible fish caught with minimum takes . Mostly its Catch and Release !
Hans and Pasi ....huge respect to these guys
Picturesque
I got quite excited as i noticed quite a few feeding bubbles activating , ummmm Bream ? Actually a Tench turned over on the surface just above my feed .......i tried for them but no luck.
After 2 hours .......a real struggle
My fishing today was awful as i could only gather 18 fish !! 5 Perch , 3 roach and 2 Bjorkna the rest being Bleak .........all on the Corn !!
With just 2 weeks of the fishing season on the Trosa river / canal / sea estuary left i again took the opportunity to fish , hopefully for a lot of fish .
The morning was damp from the early morning rain and the mosquitoes were active and annoying . I decided to take the 'point' where i have fished so many times as it looked unlikely i would have boat trouble , so i hoped !?
The day is expected to be busy with many visitors as the annual sale in all the shops takes place so bargain hunters a plenty.
Well , not the best of days as only 44 fish on the counter taken mostly on corn. It took an hour before my first fish !! I think maybe the Cormorants had disturbed them as i could see them early morning.
I had 4 nice Perch with Bjorkna , Roach , Rudd and Ide.
Big shame that the precious Trout decide the season which is crazy as in the 25 years i have fished there has never been one caught during a match . I remember those days when we had matches of 20 plus anglers in October and November getting 30-60 kilo weights and not a Trout among them . Great loss to my all year round fishing .
I have noticed on FB that GAZ woods who organizes a lot of matches at Makins had recently published news about the late Sean who died a year ago to the day. To commemorate his passing they raised money for a chair to sit next to the REPTILE pool .
Miss the lad , taken far too early , life is cruel but you left us with many great memories Sean
Always sad to hear of a great friend and GREENHILL AC angler passing . He actually died on the 24th August a year ago to the day since Sean Huggins passed on.
Lou was a great stalwart to the club though the 80's and early 90's and he was a really good laugh when we had matches on our local waters . He used to travel with us to Whiteacres on the festivals and many a laugh in the caravan with Sean Huggins , Gaz sadler , Stewart Dalby and occasionally Rob Wootton. Never forget when fishing the Sensas festival that when we started to move in the morning with all the gear that Lou checked his van and the whole inside of the van was covered in worms sliming their way up the glass - must have been 0.5 kilo - we pissed ourselves , that was the best , nothing but laughs.
Trosa was my visit of fishing opportunity today as the weather looked favourable with plenty of cloud and some sun. I chose a place away from the mooring boats and the possibility of boats mooring up during the day, so i thought.
Having set up a 6.5 m whip with the latest Whip bagging float , 'the One' made by EXNER of Hungary under METMASK design guidance. Also a 4BB Stick float to close faced reel 502 ABU . Also a MATRIX Feeder rod XF with a MATRIX 3500 reel
To my left with those expensive boats
Great view across the water to BOHMANS hotel
Looking out to Sea
First hour very slow just like the flow in the river , very slow ! Later as i applied more ground bait with dead maggot and corn the fish responded and after 5 hours fishing i amassed 93 fish of size not counting the Bleak i dropped in the net.
Decent catch and i estimate 12-15 kilos with mostly Bjorkna , Skimmer , Roach , Rudd , Ide and Perch.
The 'One ' .....designed for Bagging and for strength
Best friend for 60 years Michael Carr had quite an experience fishing the CHARNWOOD Teams of 4 league on the Loughborough Canal Series.
He started rather well putting 5 fish in the net in 5 short casts at 3m but then the water environment started to change , for the worse as over the course of the competition his peg became saturated in floating Pennywart this evasive weed that is a huge blight on many river courses in the UK. It kept moving left to right and back again as changing winds blotted his feed lines so almost impossible to feed and fish above it .
Insane weed problem and Mick had it all ....unlucky buddy
Is this floating weed a worse hinderance than what David Mellors suffered years ago on a canal match , do you remember the floating Mattress ?
Nice and clear at the start so he was able to plumb the pegs and get an idea of his feeding areas
Before the floating weed problem the boats came through and most likely made the weed problem even worse . Strange that the boats were moving at all! as all locks were to be closed as the UK has a drought caused by the exceptional hot dry weather so they did not want problems with water level changes.
Further videos ....The calm before the weed suffocation that was to descend on Mick
