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saltwater fly fishing for sea trout

If it comes to saltwater fishing for sea trout, I have to admit that I am not very fond of it. Casting into that big pond called the sea is something I really do not like very much. There are times when the seatrout move on the surface and you can spot them and even catch them on dries. This way of fishing Í like very much but blindcasting into the sea is definitely too boring for me. I still remember a day at Fünen (DK) when I was fishing together with my friends Sepp Fuchs and Michael Greve. Sepp is an excellent stillwater fisher(no wonder he comes from Holland) and the way we had to fish for sea trout at the Danish coast that day was just the way he was used to do it in the Netherlands. We were fishing for seatrout with mysis imitations and as the water was very cold and no bait fish were around we were supposed to retrieve very solw, centimeter by centimeter. To make it short: Sepp casted to one and the same spot on a distance of appr. 23 m for 3 hours(!) in a row after he caught a seatrout there. I really nearly got mad by watching him doing this. Of course he was right fishing that way because the sea trout usually come back to good spots. At the end of the day Sepp was the only one having caught two fish. This is definitely not the way I like to fish no matter if it is productive or not. It makes me fidgety if I have to make the same movement for hours and do not see a single fish during that time. For me this is very close to masochism. I definitely do not like to travel far for this sort of fishing. I better like to spot fish and go for them, like a hunter. I like fishing for sea trout in rivers much more. Without any doubt you can have a great time when lots of fish are around and you search the geopardy grounds carefully. You can even land many and also large fish a day.

The situation is of course different if you live close by and can just go out to do some casts, but if I have to drive a long distance I prefer wading in moving water. The best sea trout destinations are at the Danish and Swedish coast. The best time to be there is in spring but there are a few spots where fish hunt constantly close to the rocks and where you can catch them more or less all year round except the time when they are in the rivers to spawn.

Other species to be caught frequently at the European coast line are:

• mullet

• garfish

• sea bass

• palometta

• blue fish

• tuna