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There’s a surprising number of fishing podcasts out there, but this one is slightly different than most

I had known Magnus for many years, the fly being a stable fly in my flybox. But it was only later that I met the man Magnus "live".

In principle there's free and unlimited access to all coasts in Denmark. That's what the law says. But in many places reality is different.

A small gallery of images from November and December on the Baltic coast, showing the ambiance during these last months of the year

The Baltic garfish or needlefish appears in colossal numbers each spring and is a great joy to target with a fly - and a delicacy to eat.

The spring gallery this year is a simple collection of pictures of Danish coastlines. It might be simple, but the variation is amazing and almost endless.

Just a week ago my good friend Jens caught what can rightfully be called the fish of a lifetime. Here's the story - and the fly that did it.

Allan is a Danish fly fisher and tyer who loves to fish for large sea run browns in the Danish river Karup.

No, this is not about some novel way of catching sea trout or how to get a large Danish salmon, but about remembering to relax when you fish.

Every April and September we're a bunch of friends who rent a house somewhere in Denmark and go fishing

This was one of those days where things just worked out, and I took advantage of it and behaved slightly out of order.

Scientific reports about fish and environment might not seem to be the most exciting to us anglers, but the work done by scientists is extremely important in keeping and eye on and improving our fishing waters.

Yesterday I went and saw a preview of the new videos on coastal sea trout fishing by Danish Niels Vestergaard, and they are pretty exiting to put it mildly

The biennial Danish Fly Festival will take place the weekend March 23rd and 24th in Kolding in southern Denmark. Want to meet there?

This past weekend was the time for the Danish Fly Festival, which takes place every second year.

A set of very good Danish DVD's have been translated into English.

The Summit this year will be held September 18th-20th

The GFF Summit 2008 is over. And it was great!

The follow up to the "Early Morning" pocasts - with evening and morning fishing and an extra fishing day thrown in.

A beautiful but cold day in February.

A good angler has patience

I attended a nice little fishing show yesterday

The summer in Denmark has been a catastrophe. Fishing is out, fly tying is in.

I had close to 9,000 virus-infected files and three nice rainbows this weekend

That's why it's called fishing and not catching

Ways to fight the cold and ways to catch fish in freezing water

A really fascinating view on a new type of fishing in he Baltic area.

The long beaked fighter

GFF partner Martin Joergensen's annual trip to Bornholm! A highlight in his fishing calendar and always a great trip no matter how lousy the fishing is. This year fishing was fine and the trip a success in spite of troublesome wind and a late and cold spring.

The annual trip to Bornholm is now. Yieeehaaaa!

On the lookout for winter sea trout in a stream near Copenhagen

Join GFF partner Martin Joergensen on the Danish coast on a cold January day

This year has started off very promising on the Danish coast

Always remember that January can surprise!

Martin Joergensen's annual trip to the Danish island Bornholm is coming up. This year without GFF partner Steve Schweitzer by his side. Steve here tells the story of the 2002 trip, where they both indulged in fish, good food and friendship for a week.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go fishing in Denmark in October

Some days - even fishing days - just won't come out right

The first autumn day was a feast!

Read the collected stories about the Danish Fly Festival and the enjoyable fishing, which took place before and after. Tons of pictures and great stories taken and written by contributors from the Netherlands, Slovenia, Wales and Denmark. See it all here.

Pictures from GFF partner Martin Joergensen's trip to the Danish Island Bornholm in March 2001. There isn't much text yet, but a selection of nice pictures from a succesful trip.

Here's where Denmark is on the map of Europe. Denmark is that green blob in the middle (see the detailed map of Denmark).

Fishing has been quite slow until now and the weather has been acting up.

Archive of reports, AKA /blog/earlier.htm

Most of my recent trips have been successful and only a few of them have been totally blank.

A bunch of images from the infancy of GFF

Usually September is considered the last summer month in regards to fishing.

It seems that fishing has taken a turn to the better at last.

This spring has brought some hope for a season that will look like a normal one.

Pictures from the Danish coast during the 1998 season taken by GFF partner Martin Joergensen

The autumn still seems to hold strong

After a terrible 1996, a dissapointing spring this year and an extremely hot summer, it seems that the sea trout are now returning to the Danish coasts.

The weather is still somewhat cold and windy

Everything indicates that this season will be far better than the last one - which was catastrophic

The sea trout season has started ... and then again hasn't.

It seems we're back to the usual Danish winter: dark, damp, not really cold but certainly not warm either.

I recieved an e-mail today and will let that be the first 'Right now' section for a long time:

Wind, rising water and falling leaves mark the move from kind indian summer to rough autumn.

The last 2-3 weeks have been really warm here, and summer is now as summer should be.

The summer is upon us. The usual fly fishing in the nights has not yet commenced, and I'm still waiting for my first summer trout

It is a strange spring

There's still no trout worth mentioning in sight. Amazing! We will soon be half way through the year and the days will be getting shorter, and noone I know has experienced any spring fishing worth mentioning.

That #?%&/# wind!

This spring has been a strange one. I have never experienced anything that unstable. We are well into May and it's still very cold and windy. The predominant wind has been North East for almost since new year - and NE is about the worst wind you could want in Denmark. We miss the mild Southern winds that bring up warmth from central Europe and makes water flow the right way.

As usual in late April and early May, the Danish seas are invaded by garfish

This has been a strange spring. All March was icy and cold, and the usual daytime fishing was almost non-existent.

Just two weeks ago it was still winter. Now it's summer, guys wear shorts - girls even less.

Due to the long and cold winter, the season is only slowly starting.

Winter pictures are from the island of Als.

Cod can be an excellent game for the fisher whose gear and mind is tuned in on it, and the abundance and size of fish can easily justify a more focused fishing for cod.

The garfish is a very common guest in many Northern European countries. It is normally a pelagic fish whose migration pattern is not known in detail. But one thing is for shure: these fish will return to spawn in shallow and rich areas along the coasts many places in Europe.

The key to success in the pursuit of sea trout in salt water on the coasts of the Baltic Sea is understanding some important aspects of the trout's behavior in respect to the seasonal changes. The sea trout i salt water can't be fished the same way all year. Some key factors here are water temperatures, currents, the wind and the trout's migratory patterns.

Part of this section is the manuscript for chapter in a book on fly fishing in salt water in Northern Europe. The subjects covered here are also covered elsewhere on this web site. Each page contains links to all relevant pages on The Global Fly Fisher.

Autumn in the Baltic is ideal for catching top condition sea run brown trout, mornings, days and evenings.

Yes, I actually do cast my flies into the waves! And it's great too, even though I prefer them to be small waves.

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.

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!).

Just for your general orientation I've marked out a few good fishing spots.

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.

There are laws and written rules, but for the benefit of all of us, there are some unwritten common sense and social rules too:

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.

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.

Fish are where they feel good. That is where one or several factors are present: food, shelter, optimum water conditions, other fish ...and more.

There are laws in Denmark too, and some of the deal with fishing. The most important ones are these

The spring means activity in the Baltic where the winter fish start eating and the spawning fish return from the streams to the oceans

"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'

A few tips of efficiently covering the water when fishing for Baltic sea trout

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.

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.

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.

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.

An introduction to fishing on the Danish coast.