Posted on October 31, 2008 by larsmatthiessen
An afternoon trip with Michael after sea trout. The sun was showing but now you start feeling the winter coming. We started at Kobberhage but the water was very murky so soon we moved to Fuglsø where the conditions were fine. Fished for 3 hours where I had two strikes and I landed one 43 [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2008 by larsmatthiessen
An afternoon trip with Michael and Frank to Fjellerup Strand looking for sea trout. It was quite windy and Fjellerup was chosen to facilitate the casting – and it was really possible to make nice long casts. Low water when we started and high when we ended. Michael got a nice fish around 50 cm [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2008 by larsmatthiessen
On my summer trip to the most northern part of Sweden one day the cook had problems with the wind when smoking some of the freshly caught grayling. Without my knowledge the stripping basket was in use as a wind shield on later it served this purpose several times.
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Posted on October 6, 2008 by larsmatthiessen
Posted on October 2, 2008 by larsmatthiessen
Most fly fishers prefer to position the stripping basket on the front but some find it more convenient to position the basket to side of the line hand. Here the rule is: do as you feel comfortable with. It depends on your double haul, your way of stripping the line etc. Here is shown a [...]
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