We where out fly fishing for pike in the springtime and got
lucky. Mikael caught a 5.5 kilo pike. I didn't catch such
a big pike. Mine where only a 2 kilo pike. On the first
picture you can see me with a pike on the end of the
line.
To fish for pike with a fly was a lot of fun. More fun
than I would have ever imagined. A fly rod 6-7 was light
enough to give a very good sport when a 2 kilo or larger
pike was hooked on the fly. The best fly for this fishing
was a brightly colored fly made of synthetic material. I
think that you can design a good fly yourself. The only
thing that this is important when you chose a material is
that it don't accumulate water and get to heavy. That's
why the synthetic is better than wool or feather or some
other natural material.
Mike likes a good catch as you can see on this picture.
I was to a little stream outside of Luleå with grayling
and pike. The average size of the grayling is small but
sometimes I manage to catch a bigger grayling. I like to walk after
a little stream and look for a sign of a grayling.
When I spot one grayling, the fun part starts with the
anticipation and the fight with the fish. The killing
part is not so important any more for me. I more and more
tend to release the fish that I have caught. I think that
it is a kind of maturing for fly fisher to be able to
release the fish that he catches. I always get a lot of
joy out of seeing a grayling swimming a way, knowing that
it will grow and in time, with some luck, there will swim
more grayling in the stream. Every fish has its own
beauty and always get a feeling of the greatness of
universe when I encounter natures small creatures. I feel
like one of Mother Nature's creatures at this times, one
among others.
Aleån is little bigger creek that starts up in Boden and
runs to several big lakes before it end in Ersnäsfjärden
a bay in the Bottenviken that is the northern part of the
Baltic see. Many not so good projects have almost ruined
the fishing in this creek. Although the Ersnäsfjärden is
almost overgrown with weed the grayling still manage to
get up in the creek to spawn. The potential for a larger
population is good but the environmental situation is not
good, and if nothing is done to improve the situation.
The grayling population won't increase in the nearest
future. It is my hope that people will see this creek as
something that it is worth to protect or it will perish
and become nothing more than a ditch that transport away
our shit down to the see. Lets hope that peoples decency
and love fore nature will prevent this disaster.
