2026 - TROSA - APRIL 19TH

Yet another window of opportunity to fish the mighty Trosa the East coast Mecca for Bagging. 

How beautiful is that , so picturesque - all the banking fixes with a 100m of new boarding.

Great place and venue of Jenny and Andreas wedding

Hard to believe that at this point thousands of fish are going upstream to breed. Recently its been Trout with Pike and now the Ide are going up by their thousands.

Yesterdays report on numbers .........579 !

CORN with ground bait mixes and 2mm pellets - SONUBAITS , what else

I think i might enjoy this !?

First of the day a decent 1lb+ roach

But then i hit a problem as the water was saturated in Smelt and i foul hooked so many plus some took the corn and my float struggled to settle due to the density of the shoals ....... eventually after feeding heavy the other fish got a look in

Small Ide about 2lb+

MAS - RULE OK !

100 and i decided to stop after 5 hours - 10 Large Ide + 20 ish smaller ide , Smelt (Norsh?) many large Roach and one Rudd.

2026 - Trosa - April 12th

Always take that window of opportunity for a session at Trosa . Unfortunately i worked the day before preparing some project work so its really worthwhile taking the drive and i did at 05:15am in the morning.

I was first to get there so i took up my favourite position on the corner. Where else !😆

Set up 2 rods with DH 3gr and 4gr floats to size 8 PresTon N20 HOOKS. Also a 6m whip

So idyllic 

First 11 casts was 11 fish of large size Roach - staggering , must have been 7lb at least

The corner and the fish and the view to myself

Rutilus rutilus Dogious Roachius

Bjorkna so fat and probably the biggest i have ever caught ! easily 2lb !

Fished from 07:00am till 12:30pm for 303 fish - i decided to stop as i knew it would be difficult to haul up the nets , and it was !

On the way home decided to visit the fish pass

What a great job they have made of renewing the bank with brand new boards

2026 - March 29th - Trosa - 'Bagging land '

Where else could i go !? With the fish coming in then activity was everywhere as there must have been over 50 drop-shot / Jig anglers spread along the bank when i arrived !! Pasi was there and gave me the thumbs up on the Bohmans Hotel side . I managed to secure my favourite corner peg and set up the 14' rod to a Dave Harrell 4gr Bolo float to size 10 hook . Also a T5 with 12-14 elastic and a 6m whip .

The day was glorious warm sunshine and the fish responded but later the cold wind made it uncomfortable.

End of my day and i ate the last sandwich and took a coffee and watched as the anglers took up so many fish in the NOW return of the warmer weather sun 

2026 - Nyköping - March 28th - Practice with Mats

Spoke with Mats recently about getting to the Feeder match length for a test of how well it could fish? Both of us were early there at about 07:15am-ish . I fished the 'DOG' section and Mats went to the main 'Match elite' section. Cold wind facing so it was not exactly comfortable but fingers crossed the fish might respond. 

35mm Camera battery gave up even at 72% (i need new batteries )

After 10 minutes i had a nice Bream on the Method feeder with SONUBAITS Banofee Spike-um wafter .

Another followed 20 minutes later 

Fine Rain made it uncomfortable 

A 3rd on the method on the hour mark

Then a 4th

Had a 5th followed by a Ide

Now it was dam freezing !!!!!! Rain and wind even harder !!!

Menu table all set up for Method fishing

6 fish all on method , lost 2.

I took a walk to Mats after getting my gear back in the car 

Easily a section of 4 from the 'boards'

Easily 8 pegs on Dog section without any weed work

Mats first peg in on the 4 Chairs section where 5 pegs can be achieved 

He finished with 18 and you can see from his face just how dam cold it was 

Happy Days !

2026 - Trosa March 22nd - are the fish there

       Expectancy in the air as Lead Bailiff Pasi informed me that fish were starting to show in the town. Great! as its where i shall head for,  and i did!

I decided to try the corner peg before making my mind up where to fish. So i set up my pre-setup stick float rod and cast in , few seconds later i played a roach .........that was it .......brought my kit over and setup 

Stick float rod , T5 Pole , and two 5.5m whips

Beautiful !

First hour was insane as my first 15 fish were Big Roach 

A few hours later i was joined by my 2 of my 3 Swedish daughters , also my granddaughter 'Selma' who is on my family fishing ticket ...... she caught 6 fish !

Wind started to blow hard and i was putting on layers of clothing 

I estimated i had 18 kilos and 22 kilos , let's call it 35 kilos ......181 fish