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 .
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
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 .......
It does not get more beautiful than fishing on a sunny spring day in the quaint town of TROSA on the East coast of Sweden.
Every year i purchase the fishing card (years membership) and although there is a limited window of fishing opportunity it is well worth the price you pay as the fishing can be spectacular.
Same position as the previous catch i made
Blue sky, sun tan cream applied and here we go !
The Menu table for the expectants - 2 tins of corn and dead maggots with 3 litre of SONUBAITS River groundbait
Two whips at 3.5m and 6.5m plus a T2 pole rig and a feeder rod
Introduction to the day
The start was immediate as a procession of 6.5m whip fish came to hand in the first 2 hours !
That first two hours realised 75 fish on the clicker
Action time
Big Roach - 700 gr (1.5lb ish) - had many
Fish were throwing themselves on the hook - in my case using HAYBUSA 157 size 14's
100 reached and now for some Feeder Lunch time !?
A lunch period feeder time as i ate my Råg bröd smorgas
However there was no rest and sit back as the tip was constantly shaking with double corn on a size 10 MATRIX MXB1 - further out it was 2m deep and the same depth in fish as soon as the feeder hit the water it was shaking , non stop as the feeder and line settled over 100's of fish - i took two fish direct then put the feeder down as i wanted some peace to eat and take a cup of Tea .
More action , lets go for 200 !
Reached ! now lets go 300 !
After 6.5 hrs fishing over a 9 hour visitation ( setting up , lunch break and talking with some visitors) i decided i had better if i can lift the net up !!! ......oooo shit i forgot !
367 .........i think on another day i will go with three keep nets and try for 500
Well , after 4 aborted attempts and nobody in the area who could help i finally got aggressive and hauled the lot up with my fingers now throbbing due to that surge of strength
Now for their return .........and yes ....everyone was a swimmer !
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