2011 - November 26th on the Sodertalje kanal

It was declared yesterday that Sweden has just witnesed the warmest November for 130 years ! It seems to be a record every year here in Sverige , but its the same everywhere. Taking advantage of this extended period of available fishing i decided to meet with Aciiiiiiiiiid Tikanen at the Sodertalke kanal to see if the roach shoals were massing in the town for the winter.

Car to your peg what more do you need ?

Travelled light today !!!

Da mix today : Started with 2kilo bag ofVDE Turbo black with caster ,dead maggot and pinkies

It filled the 17 litre bucket up a third way.

Layout for the day

Its a huge kanal with depths from 3 - 10 metres in front of me

I started fishing at about 08:15 and during the process of plumbing the depth the rig got stuck on the bottom and i pulled for a break and it snapped at mid-way !......never expected that !. So i rigged up again using a DINO SuperCarp 2.0gram to a 0.12 bottom and 18's Sensas feeling hook. Also had another Dino of 1.5 gr also set at 2.75 m depth which was off bottom by 0.2m and the other rig was 3 m and touching bottom all at 9 metres.

After an initial cupping in of 7 balls i had my first indication after 10 minutes but it was a few minutes later when i had my first roach with a pike chasing it to the surface .I caught steady for 2 hours amassing 56 fish till Johan and Lucas came back from their walking Piking down the bank.

I started to accelerate in the catch rate and got more response the more i fed but the pike attacks continued . I hooked a pike of about 2.5 kilos in the mouth on 4 pinkies !! and landed it . About 30 minutes later i hooked another , so i thought ? and it was at a time when Johan and Lucas were setting off in the car to Persagen to try their luck with piking there. As they started to drive off i managed to wave them down and they came to help as this fish was certainly more livelier than the previous , in fact it had stretched my no.8 elastic almost all the way out on its first run !! When Johan stepped into the water with the landing net he suddenly said : 'Thats no Pike!..... its a trout ' ! .....but seconds later he said :' No! its a SALMON' ...but later it was confirmed as a Sea Trout.

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SEA TROUT on the pole !

Johan checking the Aadipose fin status and he confimed it was a natural SeaTrout

Okay .....viewing time !

I got to a 100 fish and decided to mix more groundbait and i finished on 152 be it many were small fish.for about 7-8.5 kilos-ish