Match Fishing in Europe: 2025 - April 15th - Trosa

Wednesday, 16 April 2025

2025 - April 15th - Trosa - The fish had moved

Weather is warm and sunny so it was a no brainer to go and fish the East coast mecca for a bagging session , so i thought ? On arrival i was greeted by many school age children fishing (Easter holidays), must have been over 50 as far as i could see left and right from the corner position i so favour .

So i got set up with two stick float rods and two 6m bagging whips . Started , fed a ball of ground bait with corn .........10 trots down ......nothing ??? ........fish have moved ! . So packed up all the gear and decided to go the furthest up stream to where the fish pass is situated.

View out towards the sea , boats starting to fill up the mooring spaces . In another 4-6 weeks you will struggle to find any suitable fishing positions.

Note the Yellow tip float i had set up on the whip, the best bagging strength and sensitive whip in the market . Has two top eyes with cane short tip and carbon stem , indistructable ! The 'One' float from METMASK specifically designed by Russ Hopkins and maufactured by the Hungarian float master ; Attila Nagy . Sizes 2,3,4,5,6gr.

Nobody fishing here so i set up my heaviest stick rod with a 4gr Dave Harrell float and one bagging whip with a EXNER Lucifer 3gr........depth only about 1.3/5 metre !! due to the low water .

First cast ......Ide about 1.5 kilo then the bagging continued.

I got my Swedish fish named species wrong in the video . Its actually a 'Nors' which in Great Britain is a 'Smelt' which i remember catching a few in a match on the River Soar in a Summer League and later having reported the catch of those rare visitors to the EA , i was ticked off for fishing out of season for them - that just sums up the clowns at the EA 🤡🤡🤡

Foul hooked 5 of them - there was that many in the river that i was getting missed bites as they moved on the line as they were not interested in the corn bait.

Nors (Smelt) - Swedish delicacy and it smells of cucumber

One of 7 Big Ide , from 1.2k to 1.8k size approx.

Roach (Rutilus , Rutilus , Dogius Roachius ) of size , so very fat and full of spawn and some were just under the 2lb mark.

River very low and you can see there is no water flowing over underneath the building for the first time ever i have fished there. Actually its been the lowest rainfall / winter snow melt for many years in Sweden and a hosepipe ban is in place on the island of Gotland ........and Sweden is surrounded with water !!