I don't spose anyone has done much fishing in Sweden and is keen to share their experience?

In particular if anyone has fished much around the Stockholm area would be interested to hear about experiences?

No one fished Sweden then?

Not sure if the location is anywhere near your preference ,

I plan to one day. Located in Denmark at the moment though. Windy, very windy...

I've fished in Lapland but as that's a different type of country to the area round Stockholm I can't offer much help, if you want to know about Lapland I'm happy to help.

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Video looks interesting, do you know where it was filmed?

Lapland would be brilliant adventure, quite far north but how was the fishing? Expensive?

hello
it depends on what time of year you go!
if you go may time the fish are generaly deep! as there is a lot of pollen in the water that gets in there gills!!
but in June onwards you will get eaten alive as the mosquitos are evil!!

I didn't quite make it to this outing in 2004, I got as far as checking flights and connections, but here are reports from the trip by the ones who did .

ROFF - fly fishing in the northern part of Sweden, Lapland


The website also has a lot of information on fishing in the north of Sweden.

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Carried it in full, then carry it out empty.

Fished Sweden when I was 16/17, staying with family near Gottenborg. South-west Sweden is a million miles from Stockholm, well not literally. But the coast is quite flat - low hills and scrub in between. The coastline is beautiful, smooth granite cliffs and boulders. Lovely in the summer, but I didn't do any fishing in the salt, although I should have given it a go I think.

So fishing wise - what did I get up to when I was a teenager. Well I took a spinning rod and a fly rod. Went to the nearest lake (lot of lakes around) and started spinning, then the rear drag fell off my reel. I watched it sink into about 40ft of crystal clear water. So I was left with a fly rod. I never went back to that lake, but it had pike and some nice perch- you could look down and see them swimming about. I'd guess 2lb+.

So all I had were trout flies. I fished a few lakes and caught 30 or so Perch to 1.5lb, and a couple of jack pike. I was seriously undergunned though.

The south of Sweden isn't fantastic trout fishing, it's mainly lakes and coarse fish, but there's plenty of them.

I did venture a little further north, passed into Norway and back into Sweden. Walked up a river that was chock full of grilse or seatrout - hard to tell. Huge shoal of fish in one pool - maybe 200-300 fish, with some massive perch mixed in. I'm guessing the perch were feeding on parasites on the searun fish. Sadly no fishing there for me...

Fished at Malung this summer, about a 4hr drive from Stockholm, where there is lots of lakes (couldn't catch fish in them, small streams (also blanked on them) and one big, big river called the Västerdalälven where we caught pike, perch, brownies and grayling, all on fly. The grayling were all about 30cm as they kill and eat those over 35cm. The grayling were shoaled up in the riffles, which were not really riffles, but 0.5m standing waves. A large (size 8 long shank with BB shot for weigth) cased caddis or big klink skated across the riffles was needed to get them to take. Little titchy english grayling flies they would just not look at. Caught the perch on poppers. In 4 days we saw 1 other angler. The down side was the midges: I fish Assynt every year and these were the worst I have met for a long time (this was July).

Swedish fishing: Fishing water guide