2025 - February 5th - Sodertalje canal - Stefan feeder fishing

Yet again Stefan fished the canal for essential feeder practice for the coming season. The normal place was just a little iced over so a new position was found.

It took him a good 15 minutes to find a small flat bottom as it appeared there was a few 'snags'. So it was essential to spend time to get it right. However he did lose a couple of feeders but did better on small window feeders .

 

Full concentration from Stefan and he had to have the rod high up due to the snags in front of him

To the left of where he was fishing you can see the marina with a few trees in the water (shame they cannot get them out as this would create a super little match length)

Stefan had 0.5oz tip with braid but the wind made it awkward for the bite indication.

Stefan's secret additive to his gb mix and maggot flavouring - 'Ruby Red Stefan blod mix'

He is in , again !

Very tempting to fish this area and test for the bottom contour to see if there are any flat snag free areas

This view from where the road cul-de-sac ends so easy to get kit to bank with 10 m walk !

After an hour i decided i must get back for my gym afternoon work out. Later Stefan confirmed he had 72 Roach in 4 hours 

2025 - January 28th - Sodertalje Canal - Stefan feeder fishing

Received a message from Stefan at about 10:00am that he was fishing the Sodertalje canal near me - a visit took place hearing that news......

When i arrived he was already in 1hr 15 mins and on 45 fish (on the clicker)

Out of the mist the dredging boat was depositing 

Ducks taking any loose offerings from Stefans bait table.

Stefans hands getting cold so he took a talking break with me for 30 minutes then back into bagging more fish and when i left he was on 61 fish (mostly roach with 2 small Bjorkna)

2025 - January 26th - Trosa

I decided to visit Trosa as the weather was clear and fishable in 3-4 degrees . When arrived at 08:30am the wind was on my back so comfortable. I had all my normal match and predator gear with me so i started on the drop-shot .

Started here and second cast i was stuck ! i freed up but i lost my drop shot weight 😞 Moved to the corner and persisted for at least 45 minutes .........but nothing !

While on the corner i found two lots of discarded braid - i then bagged it up ready for disposing properly when i got home . 

Advise to anglers who discard line and braid - PLEASE take it home and cut it into small pieces as animals and birds could accidentally get entangled - PLEASE !

Took a break and ate a few Pizza pieces with coffee and i never saw anyone catch a fish and i reckon i had seen 20 plus anglers today and not heard of any catches !

On the bright side , the sun attended to warm us up a little 

I met Daniel a Romanian guy and we talked endlessly about fishing , politics etc ..... We both decided to move upstream to the weir .

No takes for Daniel and i did not bother to fish .

We met Pasi earlier the AFK TROSA bailiff and he remarked that he had not seen any fish catches which was strange as the river looked in good condition . It was a really blank day which can happen at Trosa , some days this time of year the fish can be there and others days we are mystified where they are ? Thats fishing !

2025 - Getting prepared for the coming season - January 23rd

Soon the season will be upon us and preparations are starting in earnest. With more feeder matches available i decided to get myself geared up with a series of feeder rods , especially the MATRIX brand . So i have rods for strong rivers and deep canals and Lakes. Best purchases are through METMASK.

Additional tackle arrived ;

Thats all folks !