2025 - April 3rd - Trosa

Exceptional warm weather had descended upon Central Sweden and the window of opportunity beckoned as the coming weekend looked rather grim with cold and wind !?!?! 

Fave place on the corner was commandeered again when i arrived about kl 09:00am , i was fishing by 09:45am ish .....first 5 casts was 5 roach .....this place is insane!

Glorious Trosa - Mecca of so many species of fish and rich in weights to earn.

With so many Ide thrashing the surface i tried up in water tactics but it failed however i changed to 6m whip and took the only stamp Ide of the day

 

Some of these Roach were staggering with many in the 1-1.5lb bracket (450-700gr ) A few were approaching 2lb (900gr) 

Net 1 about 100 fish plus a good ide for about 20 kilos (45lb) 

Net 2 - a lot more fish and more weight as it was a struggle to lift up - i estimated about 150 fish for about 35 kilos (75lb) 

2025 - March 31st - Trosa

With good forecast weather coming in this week i decided to take the opportunity to fish Trosa on my Birthday ........i arrived at 07:30am and started fishing about 08:15am with two stick float rods and two 6m elasticated whips.

Bait was simple .......Just corn !

Stefan Johansson was fishing opposite on the feeder hoping like me for some Big ide

The Day was spectacular as i fished for some 6 hours catching non-stop with majority Roach , about 10 Bjorkna , one Perch and one Ide (small) .........just staggering the amount of fish in the system and we are yet to see serious shoals of Bjorkna, Ide and Bream.

Guy on Left is Steig Gilbert , great friend from our working days at Scania Trucks and Bus as design Engineers . I know his Mum and Dad very well. On the Right is Hans one of Trosa AFK Bailiffs , great guy .

 

Both of them trying to count the fish 

 

All the best gear and bait from Swedens finest 

2025 - March 29th - Nykoping Landstracken

  I decided to visit Nykoping for a test to see how well it can fish this early . Last weekend Mats Larsson took 2 Ide and 7 Bream on a cold blustery day , i wonder how it will fish for me ?

 

Setup 2 x MATRIX Horizon Distance and 2 x MATRIX ETHOS XRF ........mostly on helicoptor rigs

The days ingredients 

View from behind and my car 100m away.

View to my left 

View to my right

View in front 

Decided on two rods , one at 30m and one at 45m

Now the wind comes !?!?!

Then i found a pack of Ide

The mix !

Last fish of the session and the biggest 

Well , thats was frustrating day as first 3 hours and no fish but when the wind came towards me everything changes and i took 9 Ide and lost one in the last hour but no Bream or other fish 

2025 - March 23rd - Trosa

Trosa such an idyllic town and made more beautiful with full sun however the wind was rather cold but it did not deter me going and hopefully for another net full of fish .

This time i went with the intention of larger fish and hopeful the Ide were going to present themselves more as other areas on the coast they are showing in greater numbers.

One of my favourite pegs on the whole river system where over the years i have had numerous large weights 

Starting of with the feeder and have two stick floats rods at the ready

As the morning wore on then i changed to a trotted bait and fish became more frequent however i did have an Ide on the feeder of about a kilo size.

Looking out to Sea and on the boards left hand side there must have been at least 50 anglers on teh drop shot and jig

Later just after lunch Youngest daughter Marie and husband Niklas come down with the family and i could not resist for Selma to have a go and she caught two roach direct . (I must put all the family names down on my membership , under 15s are free but must be registered , sorry Pasi)

She was so excited and wanted to hold the first fish directly .....a fisherwoman in the making

'My first fish'

Will she have a fishing box for Xmas ?

The family are due to go to the fun park in town so decided a fish picture of the mornings haul would be appropriate. 

Picture from her Mummy 

My catch which was approximate 140-160 fish and Selma said goodbye to all the fish as i emptied the net back

The family left and i carried on for another 2 hours and took about just over a hundred ( i lost count sometimes)

Most of todays fish were larger Roach mixed with about a dozen Bjorkna of size .

Most of the gear in this article is through METMASK .......