2025 - March 9th - Trosa

The day before i fished my local canal in Södertälje for 52 Roach on a beautiful warm day . Today i visited Trosa the angling Mecca when the fish are 'in' . I arrived about 07:30am and already several anglers were there and catching fish , this is good news . When i took a walk you could see fish all over topping the surface so very good news indeed . The morning started quite warm and sunny but that changed by 11:00 am as foggy and cloudy weather approached and dropping the temperature drastically.

I quickly set up a feeder rod using my MATRIX ETHOS XR-F 11-10 with a small PRESTON 20gr feeder . I cast past the wooden posts and straight the way the tip was bouncing so clearly there was a depth of fish there in just 1.7m deep of water . Tip went round after 20 seconds and a Roach . Ummmm , i thought if i carry on with feeder fishing eventually i have all the drop-shot / Jigger boys casting in the same place so i decided on a pole approach and fished inline to the post in front of me thus limiting them casting into me - some of these people thinks its fair gain to cast where they want - thats Swedish fishing sometimes !

I set up two pole tops using 1.0gr and 1.5gr Garbolino SPT19 floats at about 1.5 and 1.75 depth to HAYBUSA 157 size 16 (later progressed to a 14) , also used the HAYBUSA 158 long shank hook size 12 . I fed SONU Baits DEEP WATER and CORN and BISCUIT mix , 50-50% . Started on dead maggot and Pinkie and caught from the off with 17 fish in 15 minutes ! I fished two line at 11m and close at 3m .

Earlier that morning before i started to drive to Trosa

So after 15-20 minutes the clicker registered 17 fish and they were quite small so i switched to corn - better , bigger.

83 fish recorded just on lunch time 

Progressed to 134 fish 

Then the first alternative to a string of Roach when this beauty Ide (5lb ish) gave me a scare. It came when the fishing went quiet possibly due to these in the peg

 

Followed by a second ide (2lb ish )

Followed by a Bjorkna 

About 14:00pm everywhere went quiet and no fish caught for about 30 plus minutes , really strange , maybe weather or air pressure off the increasing cold wind from the right (the sea).

I carried on for 2 hours more and decided that 200 was a nice target , and so it was !

200 fish

OMG - My hands were freezing and i was shaking rather badly as the temperature must have been below zero when we took these pictures 

Good friend Stefan Johansson turned up for a couple of hours on the opposite bank and caught 56 fish on feeder. He packed up and drove around to me to help with the photographic stuff .