2024 - TROSA - A fishing Mecca on the east coast of Sweden

TROSA - A mecca for fishermen 

Over the years Trosa has provided me with some excellent fishing since i first came to Sweden to work back in 2001 as design engineer for Scania trucks and Bus. When i first came i had minimal fishing equipment but eventually i had fishing gear that matched my intentions for match fishing. In the early days i would match fish with my own team but also fished some open matches at Trosa where it was plain to see the potential of these waters . In matches weights of up to 50 kilos could be achieved and pleasure sessions especially in October to December were exceptional for me and i have logged many catches in my Blog ;

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/

Trosa in recent years has transformed itself even more by taking on Bailiffs who patrol the waters and excluding people who want to cause trouble by illegal fishing. So you know when you purchase a Trosa fishing card you are backed up by protected angling

Hans and Pasi - chief bailiffs of the waters

I recommend gaining a fishing card and you can go online at ;

https://www.ifiske.se/en/fishing-trosaan.htm

Top of the town on the river where the fish pass exists (with camera)

Camera records all fish up and down stream through out the year 

THE RULES , the do's and do not's

Go to the information page and learn the availability of the fish species you can expect to target ;

Never heard of a 'Zope' but with translation to swedish its known as a Faren ?

Silver Bream is a Bjorkna

FAREN

BJÖRKNA

VIMMA

Statistics for 2024

What i find incredible is the amount of Ide going upstream compared to the Ide downstream ....52730 compared to 27814 ........my thoughts are do all the FISH ever comeback down to the Baltic sea end ? Since the construction of this fish pass (3 years) the numbers of fish going upstream is incredible , 57496 and downstream 32629 so far this year. Before this new fish pass the original fish pass was only good enough for leaping trout and salmon so no other fish were travelling but now masses are . Obviously Ide are the greatest number in migration but interesting are the other species of note;

Bream 1131/1372

Vimmer 1317/810

Roach 1035/771

Perch 739/1000

Eel 334/191

Trout 159/191

Pike 20/16

Bjorkna 1/15

Young Salmon , Whitefish , Burbot , Tench and Rainbow trout are in single figures. No mention of Dace , Rudd and Bleak (thousands there but i dont believe they migrate ) but i have caught them there. No Chub but at Nykoping they do exist as statistically they have been shown to pass the camera. I have heard over the years that someone has caught chub (Färna)in Trosa ?

PLEASE VIEW ALL THESE ARTICLES MADE ABOUT TROSA's FISHING ; 

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2009/12/trosa-canal-very-narrow-but-full-of.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2011/09/2011-trosa-match-with-great-bunch-of.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-january-7th-trosa-canal-and.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2012/04/2012-trosa-and-silver-fish-bash.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2012/09/2012-trosa-23rd-september-small-match.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2012/10/2012-october-7th-sunday-dm-match-and-i.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2012/11/2012-trosa-nov-17th-and-10-nice-anglers.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2013/05/2013-trosa-may-2nd-have-fish-arrived.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2013/06/2013-trosa-bagging-again-in-early-may.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2013/08/2013-trosa-at-weir-and-stick-float.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2013/09/2013-trosa-september-29th-and-nice-day.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2013/10/2013-trosa-and-practice-with-friends-in.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2013/11/2013-trosa-cup-26th-and-27th-october.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2013/11/2013-trosa-and-another-practice.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2018/07/2018-sunday-july-22nd-trosa-weir.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-january-3rd-at-trosa-with-jimmy.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2021/05/2nd-may-trosa-promised-bagging-land.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2021/08/2021-trosa-august-13th-on-weir.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2021/09/2021-trosa-5th-september-fishing-and.html

https://drpiscatorial.blogspot.com/2024/04/2024-april-12th-trosa-i-need-bagging.html

On Social media , pages under my control and joint control ;

https://www.facebook.com/groups/220892846330682

https://www.facebook.com/FishingOUK

https://www.facebook.com/groups/606357700073232

https://www.facebook.com/groups/522686324601970

2024 - November 15th - Sodertalje canal

After watching Stefan in the week bagging on feeder i was greatly influenced to come down and se if i could emulate his rate of catching . It was noticeable that when he fished he had reached 68 fish in the first 90 minutes and when i watched and spoke with him for about 20 minutes he caught a further 10-12 more !!

The Fish whisperer 

So i decided to fish Friday as the weather forecast was considered reasonable with an abundance of sunshine and less cold . Early morning and i entered the bank at about 08:45 am.

Dam ! ...... it looks good as i prepared the kit sitting on the same place as Stefan earlier in the week

At the start i decided for a feeder approach like Stefan did in the week . I caught on first cast !! After that it became very patchy and only took another three in next 30 minutes which is very slow compared to Stefan's bagging .......ummm , i fluctuated between dead reds and small corn .

Later i tried 6m whip close in keeping both lines of attack fed with gb .

After 3.5 hours i had amassed only 42 fish , all roach , no skimmer and perch like Stefan had in the week . I caught mostly on small corn and had quite a few decent size roach.  

Unfortunately for me i found snags on the feeder  which i am unsure if Stefan had the same problem ? I also incurred snags on 6m whip and continuously brought up remnants of the summers weed like canadian type weed and Lilly plants stalks. 

2024 - November 9th - Nyköping Bro

Another return to this water that can promise so much yet on another day can be failure !

Back to the usual place on the 'boards'

Two Herons keeping me company and possibly see more fish than me ?

2 x 6m whips with EXNER Lucifer 4gr floats 

I really hope it fishes well ?????

After a 3 hour failure when starting at first light i decided to take a walk after putting all the kit back into the car . I decided to view the possibility of fishing in the boat mooring area which is quite extensive.

Parking available

From the car park 

2024 - November 3rd - Nyköping Bro

Not deterred by the previous Sundays dismal failure to catch (except one see-through Perch and a Bullhead) i decided to venture out again , was i to be rewarded ?

Started at about 08:30am and as predicted there was a lot of cloud and no rain 😀💧💧

Looking out from the boards area and the clouds were less and full sun was happening

The usual office place for me 

T6 with 10gr EXNER DELTA flat float 

T6 with 4gr EXNER ILIASZ 

6m whip with 3gr EXNER LUCIFER

MATRIX 13' HORIZON feeder rod

After 4 Ide on whip and pole i then took a large roach on whip !

After a first two hours of blanking and changing rigs to suit i then turned 90 degrees to my right and fished a semi slack .........the day was rescued !

Good local friend who gave me advise on the fishing 

 

2024 - October 26th - Nyköping Bro

Change the clocks tonight so we all get an extra hour in bed ..........will the river fish today , surely it should do after the last two weekends huge catches ........anyway this is how it went .......

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Decided to feeder fish today however when setting up my gear there was a large black thing in the water about 50 metres away that disappeared , so i thought , Beaver ? Until it popped up again looking at me and it was Seal.

It continued to surface and submerge over a 100 metre distance over the next hour and in that hour i had no bites . It was only later i caught 5-6 Bleak on dead maggots so that was it for me , the Seal had spooked the fish and how many more Seals were in the area ? They could have been feeding all night as either side of the water was street lamps .

The closest it came to me about 15m away

So i decided to pack all the gear away and go and visit Stefan out on the piren . I first visited the other side .

Beautiful day now with the sun and no wind

Looking back towards the bridge  and the opposite side where i was fishing to the right of the boat with two masts

I spoke with Stefan but never visited him as i wanted to visit the Feeder cup match length . He was now saying he only had about 10 roach.

I arrived at the easy section (pegs 8 and 9 approx.)

Both pegs quite clear 

I think about peg 7 ish and quite clear 

 

The swing chair area with Dog walk was quite clear but obviously will need further work early next year but i would say less to do so over a period of years the pegs will be less in repair .

Over to the Elite section on the boards 

Probably the least maintenance peg  , always clear