For a long time already I have been taken by the river Mörrum in southern Sweden. And since 2017 I had the opportunity to fish there for salmon and seatrout several times. This year, another trip was planned, and despite all the uncertainties in the current pandemia, it did work out in the end!
With my buddy Kai I recently started to a short fishing-roadtrip with would include three days on the river Mörrum. The water was a little too warm for this time of the year, but there had been decent water levels all year and so there was plenty of fish in the river. We were confident!
The last few kilometers in the car were already full of good emotions, with all the places which are connected to many good memories since my childhood days… the province “Blekinge” is truly a “happy place” for me.
In the “fiskeshoppen” (fishing shop) in the town of Mörrum, we got the latest informations on what was being caught, what worked and what didn’t, and what lines to fish with the current water level. And then the fishing started!
Anywhere we went, fish were there! We saw salmons in every size, and a warm autumn sun dipped the landscape in wonderful colors. We fished the traditional pools of the lower Mörrum and the impressive landscape in the nature reserve of the upper Mörrum. We fished day and night, and the nights were bright and beautiful in the light of a full moon. But despite all the fish we saw, the first two days passed without a take.
In the second night, I was already fishing a while, and although I thought I had chosen the fly wisely, I felt doubts… the fly was dark and medium-sized, it was weighted for some depth in the current, and it had a disc in front so it would push water and attract fish. How could this NOT be perfect? 
On the other hand, I had a fly in the box that had been smiling at me the entire day. It was too long and too slender, it did not make much sense but my heart told me to use this one! So to whom do you listen, to heart or mind?
Well… although for a long time I considered myself a rational being, my friends and family will say that I always follow my heart… so finally I stopped in the middle of the pool, turned on the red light of my head lamp, pulled my backpack to the front and tied on the large, slender fly.
Three casts later, I felt a big pull, head shakes, and a fish was on! And not only the fish was shaking its head… HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?! Thank you heart! The drill was no problem, it made only few flights and did not find particularly hard. It was quickly stranded in the shallow water and I had finally caught my first seatrout! What a gorgeous fish! With its black spots and its perfect proportions it was a truly beautiful fish. Not a giant, but with 63cm a good fish indeed.
On the last day we fished hard again, and finished only at midnight, but we caught no further fish. The entire three days were another great experience and I am deeply grateful for the wonderful seatrout.
I am absolutely taken by this kind of fishing, and although I also love many other aspects of fly fishing, like troutfishing with dries and nymphs, or with big streamers for pike and saltwater predators, I probably enjoy speycasting for salmon and seatrout the most. Hopefully, there will be more trips like this in the future, and I am looking forward to start preparing, study maps, tie flies…
