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Ten days ago some sheltered bays in lake Bunn were still ice-covered. Some critical spots like the small channel at Roten were covered with huge ice flakes. The float trolling brought one pike of roughly 4 kilos. It took at 6 meters depth. All attempts with slowly fished softlures remained without the slightest action. No pike in shallow water yet.

 

Last Saturday I found a spot with lots of echoes in Mellan Bunn. But stormy conditions made float trolling difficult and no fish came up. Sunday then Landsjön: moderate wind but shunshine. 4 pike up to 2 kilos, all over weed beds at 2-3 meters depth. Again float trolling was the winning method.

 

 

Right now there is hardly any chance for good fishing. Weak ice on  all lakes and the salmon fishing in Vättern is always a big gamble. So I decided to visit Svartån (the black stream) in Tranås. One small pike and lots of rain and snow.

 

Plus temperatures throughout the whole day and it is going to continue the next week. The spontaneous decision for a final session was rewarded with 3 pike (2.5, 3.5, 3.8) within 30 minutes, on 3 different rods . No monsters but much bigger than the ones from my float trolling sessions. Hmm, Vättern next weekend?

 

 

 

 

On Saturday we had 'opening day' on some char fishing waters in northern Dalarna. Some nice fish finally made their way through the icehole. Another trip on Wednesday was really tough. Minus 15° C and windy conditions ask for the real fishermen!

 

Now I've found another interesting fishing challenge. Fishing for salmon and char from Vättern's rocky shore. Just rod, net and rucksack! My first visit to the area around Hästholmen was not successfull. When arriving at the spot there where only two other anglers. An hour later there were roughly 12 people in the area, occuping the best spots. I got really p...ed off as I turned around and less than ten meters away a guy started fishing. Not even asking if I would mind!

 

Last week I tried my luck just 10 minutes away from my home, always for an hour around sunset. On Wednesday I got the first contact on a bombarda-fished fly. But I did not hook it properly...

 

Besides this the Vättern char are now coming into the harbours of Husvarna and Gränna for their spawning. Lots of spectators are watching them from the pier. After some rainfall even Röttleån should now get its annuall trout-run. I observed two fish of around 2 pounds last Saturday.

 

 

 

After all the flyfishing in Norway we finally decided to spent two relaxed days at Södrasjön before driving home. I' ve never seen the water level so low the years before. Water clarity of more than 5 meters and lots of sunshine made the fishing really slow. Only a few pike could be convinced to try our lures. We caught fish on jerkbait, jig and wobbler.

 

Four years ago we tried some fly fishing for grayling in river Storån and Grövlan, northern Dalarna. The fishing that time proved to be really poor so that we decided to test a new water this autumn - the Glomma in Norway. In six and a half fishing days we caught between 80 to 100 grayling alltogether. Unfortunately we had to invest lots of time in finding good fishing spots. The spots close to the official car parks face continious fishing pressure by lazy fishermen. Legal fishing methods are also spinning and float fishing with maggot, worm and other. But nevertheless the river still holds a good stock of grayling. And 250 NOK for a week are not bad either.

 

 

Two days later I already met with Gustaf for a quick fishing trip to Nysockensjön. The result after 7 hours of fishing was much better than I would have expected before. All in all 2 perch (top at 1.04kg), 5 zander and 6 pike (top at 99 cm). The funny thing was that Gustaf not only took the biggest fishes but also the most. But by the end of the day I finally recognized that I got probably beaten by his jigging technique. The last 20 minutes with the proper technique I managed to take 2 small zander in a row. Thanks for the fishing lesson :)

 

 

Now I can say that my carp fishing plans were far too optimistic. My project "30-pounder" failed! The prebaiting of my fishing spot was fortunately not completely useless. Three mirror carp (22,  17.5, and 6 pounds) and two bream (4.5 and 4 pounds) made it finally to the landing net. It was raining all day long and on the way back to my car I got the final 'shower'.

 

 

 

It was a good decision not to go predator fishing this weekend. The hot weather of the last couple of days raised the water temperature to over 20° C. At quarter past five this morning my carp fishing session started. Twelve hours later it was over. The result: two mirror carp, 21 and 27.5 pounds, both taken on a halibut pellet.

 

 

The opening day of the pike season on the 1st. of May was a desaster to make it short. 3 people fishing and no fish landed. We only had some followers and contacts of mostly jack pike. The idea to start the season at a nearby gravel pit wasn't good at all. Too many spinfishers and carpfishermen blocking our fishing spots. But even other anglers reported poor predator catches from their fisheries.

The idea to switch to tench fishing was a brilliant substitute for the poor pike fishing. And thanks to Nisse and C.S. for prebaiting and tackle!