Älvdalen Fishing (June 5-7th)

A Visitor

Morisson Missing his Dad

A Duo for Lunch

Davie and a Nice Brownie

The camp and Johans Kick ass Volvo in the Background

Team Flannel at our "Birthplace" Rättvik Thai Restaurant

Team Flannel took the first trip in Flannel to Älvdalen to break in our flannels. Was a great trip in the mountains with Grayling, trout and Moose! As Johan wrote "Real men spend their weekends in the woods eating reindeer and wearing flannel!" sums up the weekend perfectly!

Easter Weekend, Team Flannel and the Quest for Sea Trout

Here's a few pics from our latest adventure in Stockholm's Archaepelago on the island of Gålö. Johan, Davie and I headed out to try and battle some Sea Trout, but there seemed to be none at all....at least we didnt manage to catch any. Otherwise, it was an awesome way to spend our Easter weekend. A bit cold, but fun and great to be outdoor nonetheless!

Morning View from the Tent

Davie along the Coast

Lunch Break

Sausage Break after a long morning of fishing

The Ford Fiesta, PACKED TO THE BRIM!

Davie and Johan along the coast in a nice bay

Team Flannel and our fire

Davie carrying a log across the bay

And here's a video of my fire steel, actually worked great all weekend!

My first ever Havsöring (Sea Trout)

Today a buddy of mine from our fly fishing club here at Linköping University headed out to Bråviken near Norrköping. What started as a rather cold, still day turned into an exciting day for me.

After a few hours of fishing in very still, calm and cold water, my excitement bloomed with the catch of a havsöring!!!! (sea trout)

Seatrout come into the bay Bråviken (literally Brå bay) to head upstream and spawn, but stay there basically all year round feeding on shrimp and small baitfish.

I managed to lure one on a fly I made this morning! All I can say is...AWESOME DAY! Thanks again Alex!

Harrfiske i Harkån (Grayling Fishing in Harkån River) The Boys Reunited!

Here's a little taste of our recent trip to the North (well, middle) of Sweden. About 1 hour north of Östersund is a wonderful place run by an outdoor company. Check it out at www.jaktfiske.se

Tolik, Davie and I were there last year and had a great time fishing for grayling. This year, Myself, Johan, Tolik and Artur went up to try out luck. Wasnt as great as last year due to the super warm and dry weather weve had in Sweden the past 3 weeks. The last week it has been raining and cold though, but the fishing and river have been hit hard by this. Low,warm water is not the best for fishing, but with some nymphs and a little lead (sink putty, not real lead) we got down to a few good ones. Even some dries worked good as there was a good hatch of caddis. Tolik and his buddy Artur had a great time swimming and picking mushrooms for our dinners!
It is a long ride up there, but it was great! Im going back again next year. This time it might be myself, Ron and my mom!

Caviar from Russia

Johan and his dog Morrison

Tolik, Always posing!

Tolik and Artur, Expert Mushroom Hunters!

The River, Low and Warm but nice

Me out in the river

Fika Time

Me and a nice Grayling

Johan, Tolik and I at the last dinner

Laxfiske i Laholm (Salmon Fishing in Laholm)

Well, I made it to Laholm to do some Salmon fishing in Lagan River.
To sum it up, here it goes....

Low Water, 90 degrees (nearly 30 C) and fish everywhere....but I caught nothing.
Met some GREAT people, fished a lot and BOUGHT A NEW SPEY ROD! Yeah baby, a two-hander! Its a bit tricky to use, but the casting is good and requires less energy to do.

Camped near the river, brought my little gas stove and tent and tried more the next day. Was hard, hot and no one caught anything (from what I know).

Hopefully, I'll get back out again soon. I even have a few small rivers in the area, Norrköping and Nyköping. Tolik, myself and Tolik's buddy (and maybe my buddy Johan) will be going up NORTH to fish. Hårkan and Lagån, two incredible Jämtland rivers. I'll post a bit more later!

Laxflugor (Salmon Flies)

"You wonderful Salmon in Lagan river, you are a living fire,
it is marvelous to catch you when you are fresh and expensive!"

My new double hand Spey Rod

3 Salmon Hotel in Laholm

Småland! (And more fishing)

Hej Hej Everyone!

Just want to put up some pics of my latest trip down to Småland to fish at the Helge River. (Helgeån)

It is SO Swedish there, from the little red cottages to the automatic fishing licence dispenser!
Great sites along the way and even saw some VIKING burial grounds with the special VIKING STONES and Runstenar! (Viking stones written in their own language)
Hope you enjoy some of these pics! I dont think I need to write much more about the trip, the pictures say it all....excellent!

Fly Fishing Only

Fishing Licence Automatic Machine

"The Beast!" A nice rainbow with 1 eye!

Helgeån, a very nice river

Check out the Viking Stone! AWESOME!

Old Paper Factor along the river

Castle Ruins Over Lake Vättern

A view over Lake Vättern from the Castle

Fishing at Mellanströmmen in Skärblacka

This weekend I had the pleasure of returning to Skärblacka to do some fishing. This is basically a "put and take" river, but by no means is it...EASY! I had a hard time to get the fish to bite. I could see several, but to get to them was a little tough. I managed and caught several fish...this one going home for dinner for Sofia and I. Dont know how big it was, but you can see from my rod, it was pretty damn big! Id say maybe 24 inches.

Heres some more pics of the river. Oh, and it is great because it is only 20 mins away!!!




Also, check out this really cool Swedish song...Måndagsbarn by Veronica Maggio (It means, Monday Child...its a Swedish saying about being born on Monday and always happy, etc)