Fishing in Sälen, Dalarna (Swedish Mountains at the Norwegian Border)

Here's a little provsmak (taste test) of the weekend up in the Swedish mountains near Sälen. What an amazing trip! Lots of grayling, beautiful weather, beautiful nature, good friends and really cold! The fishing was okay in some spots, but amazing in others...you really have to work to find a nice place, but when you do...DONT LEAVE! We found our smultronstället and had a great time fishing a sulphur hatch. Will be back here again!

The Secret Spot

Le Tour Eiffel?

The River

Oh Shit!

Base Camp near the river

Wild Swine!

Davie in one nice hole

"THE SPOT"

A Full Fiesta (Davie and his Euro pose) hahahah

Finally, one of many nice Grayling ("Harr" in Swedish)

Awesome Weekend! Fly Fishing and Hockey

This weekend was amazing! Friday night I went to a really cool party for international students here at the University. The next day, several friends and I went and watched the Nordic Trophy championships in hockey...LINKÖPING WON!!! YEAH BABY! WE ROCK!

Today (Sunday), Sofia and I decided to do something differnt...driver over to Mellanströmmen and give some Fly fishing lessons to Sofia. She did GREAT! Really, I'm very impressed, and she had lots of patience. No fish for anyone we saw...but......I GOT ONE!!! I think it was like my 3rd cast and I got it on a grasshopper imitation.

Next weekend Davie and I head up near the Norwegian border and mountains by Sälen to do some grayling fishing, PICS TO COME!

Tälta på Utö (Camping on Utö Island)

Last weekend Ovi, Marianne, Sofia and I decided to do something new and go camping on Utö! It went awesome. A nice island, nice company, great views, lots of mosquitos, wonderful taste of mosquito spray and the beginning of more adventures!

Only thing that went bad is that when we got back to the car, someone broke into our car to steal 12 kr...yeah, thats about $2.00 in change! More fixing to do on the Fiesta.....

Ovi and Marianne

Ovi Crammed in the back of our Fiesta

Me, Sofia, Marianne and Ovi

A view over Utö

Chinese Pose!

Fishing at Emån....Again

Heres a few pics from the latest outing (2 weeks ago) at Emån. No fish, lots of rain but still a good experience. Me and my spey rod are getting some more experience. Hopefully...soon LAX!

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

USA TRIP!!!! What can I say....

Just some pics! Was great to be back and see everyone! Cant wait to come again!
You'll see Grandma and Papa, Flint-town and New York City!