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May 1995 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
May 1995 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
The World's Best Trout Flies
This is a book that I bought when attending a very well set up fly tying arrangement here in Denmark just after new year, and already at the arrangement I met two of the tyers featured in the book: Oliver Edwards (UK) and Mogens Espersen (Denmark).
The landing net for the coast
I often wonder what US fishers do if they stumble on a really big fish that they want to net. I'm aware that many fishers land many - if not all - of their fish with the hands. I use the hands for all but the largest. But still it must happen that fishers strike on a brown trout or rainbow is much too big for these small snow shoe nets.
Production Fly Tying
The fascinating thing about AK is, that you start believing him and that many of his methods make sense. His approach is very personal, and he doesn't try to hide this.
Map of Denmark
This is Denmark
Just for your general orientation I've marked out a few good fishing spots.
Where I live
I live where the red spot is. That's København (Copenhagen), the capitol of Denmark...
On coloured fish
When the sea trout is in salt water it's normally 'uncolored' meaning shining silvery with a bluish black back. Also the scales are normally many, but loose, and will fall off when the fish is touched. The fish is in an excellent condition, as it is eating all the time.
Rules & regulations
There are laws in Denmark too, and some of the deal with fishing. The most important ones are these
Proper conduct
There are laws and written rules, but for the benefit of all of us, there are some unwritten common sense and social rules too:
Tactics
Use the right tactics
Look at this picture. It shows an imaginary piece of coast and how to fish it. The different 'landmarks' are indicated. From the left it's:
Patches of sea weed or stone.
Sto...
Strategy
"Points" are generally good landmarks to use as a base for the fishing. Not that there are necessarily more fish there, but as they make good mental holding points. Points are good spots to start fishing and from these landmarks you can make 'excursions'
Flies
Most of my flies are relatively simple patterns. The danish salt water fly-fishing demands flies in a lot of categories. Sometimes you can fish a location where the water is crystal clear and the surface is as a mirror, and sometimes exactly the same location is marred by hard wind, heavy waves and water as hot chocolate with marshmellows (yuck!).
Tackle
Most Danes fish 7-8 wt. rods and lines. And most use a weight forward floating (WF-F) line or a shooting head. Expect that fairly long casts under difficult (that's mostly windy) conditions can save a day. All salt water flyfishing is done wading, and both waders and warm clothes for almost all seasons are essential.
Winter
Winter on the Danish coast - December, January, February
Don't expect too many fish in weather like this. Both water and air is much too cold to host productive fishing.
Salt tolerance
In...
Autumn
Autumn in the Baltic is ideal for catching top condition sea run brown trout, mornings, days and evenings.
Spring
The spring means activity in the Baltic where the winter fish start eating and the spawning fish return from the streams to the oceans
Summer
Sea run brown trout can be fished in the Baltic during the summer too. Daytime fishing is possible, but evenings, nights and mornings excel.
The seasons
As all other kinds of fishing, the hunt for sea trout varies greatly through the year. But opposite many other fishing, there's no low season or high season.
Changing conditions
Water conditions change from day to day and one location varies from clear, calm water to muddy water with high waves. The fish are there almost no matter what, and often rough weather offer better fishing than a calm surface.
The weather
For your comfort when sea trout fishing you'll want a light wind from any direction or a heavier wind blowing away from the shore. Fish will be there in any wind and hard winds will often bring bigger fish that bite harder, but fishing can be tricky and tiring.
What then? How to get on...
Once you have found a place where all these things come together, you still have a lot of water to cover. Luckily you can spot the places that will hold fish on an even smaller scale.
Where rules meet
Certain spots provide many positive factors for the fish: exposed coast with mixed bottom, sand and weed covered stones. Variation, shelter and food is here in plenty.
Rule no. 3½
This should actually be rule number 4, but it's still a bit too vague to be so. It is based on my own and a lot of other fishers experiences, but still... Fishing is best when water is going out - and please notice, that this doesn't only refer to tidal movement.
Rule no. 3
Fish are where they feel good. That is where one or several factors are present: food, shelter, optimum water conditions, other fish ...and more.
Rule no. 2
The bottom is like the beach. This is not always true, but generally the beach can be used to judge the bottom below the surface.
Rule no. 1
The bottom is a main factor in the ocean. We have no trees, no meandering, no overhanging banks (almost none at least). The water covers it all and above that... the sky.
Casting into waves
Yes, I actually do cast my flies into the waves! And it's great too, even though I prefer them to be small waves.
This is Denmark
Denmark is a small country; the size of Pensylvania, and can by no means be compared to the other and far larger Scandinavian countries; Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
Catch & Release
The fish in the Danish sea are in no way endangered by rodfishers. Nets are another story, though, but still fish are abundant, and therefore we Danes almost always bring home fish. Small fish are illegal to catch, but many fishermen release a lot of their catch. But no-kill and pure C&R is not common on the Danish shores.
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