Marathon and Fish

Yesterday was roasty-toasty warm here in Stockholm. I was quite glad that I wasn’t running the Stockholm marathon, but in a way I was disappointed to miss out…

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We were there supporting a friends sister who was competing and afterwards we went for a couple of beers and something to eat back at there house. When me and Maria were walking home about midnight, we saw loads of very large fish jumping around in the shallows of the sea/lake. It was too dark to really see what they were and I thought there might be slim chance that they were sea-trout, so when we got home I packed up my rod and went back down to the lake.

I got there about 1am and could tell straight away that it was only big shoals of bream. They must have been in near the side to spawn, so although there was loads of them, they were almost impossible to catch. Almost…

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This is how it looked at 3am this morning just as I was leaving.

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We walked past another part of the lake today and in the bright sun, you could see that there was hundreds of these fish in the shallows. I took a wee video on my camera…

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One Response to Marathon and Fish

  1. Dad says:

    Gary, funny looking sea trout these.
    I think they have swam too close to the outlet of a Nuclear power station when they were fry.
    Nice to see you can still get out of bed when the call of the sea trout comes.
    You’ll get a Baltic sea trout yet !!!

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