Predatory Barbel?

[bluerinse]

Some anglers specifically target barbel with a fly rod and a nymph.

I don’t know about Barbel but I have caught a lot of Bream on lures!

 

I used to live in Sweden and often went fishing for sea trout in a small town called Norrtälje.

 

The river ran from a lake at the back of the town into the Baltic Sea.

 

The sea trout would swim up the river to breed and then head into the lake.

 

At the same time the bream from the lack would head into the river to bread on the gravel bottom.

 

I used to target the Sea trout on there way up stream, The first time I caught a bream I though I had foul hooked it as the lure was on the outside of the mouth.

 

But after catching 10 or so large bream I had to come to the conclusion that they were taking the lure.

 

It occurred to me that it was more likely they were chasing of small fish that were trying to feed on their eggs as they were breeding

 

It was a great river to lure fish, I caught, Smelt, Bream, brown trout, Sea trout, Chub, (could have been Ide) Pike, Perch and Herring.

 

As a side note

I have to say fishing the Baltic takes some getting used to. Perch, Pike, Cod, Mackerel, Herring Trout, Salmon, Sea trout all take a lure off a boat in the sea.

 

 

http://www.norrtalje.se/

[gozzer]

As a side note

I have to say fishing the Baltic takes some getting used to. Perch, Pike, Cod, Mackerel, Herring Trout, Salmon, Sea trout all take a lure off a boat in the sea.

http://www.norrtalje.se/

 

Sounds great bluerinse.

 

We have a similar thing on some of our still waters. You never know what your going to catch.

It could be a common carp, a mirror carp, a koi carp, a grass carp, or even a goldfish. The anticipation of what's going to be next is almost unbearable.

 

 

John.

[The Flying Tench]

I have to say fishing the Baltic takes some getting used to. Perch, Pike, Cod, Mackerel, Herring Trout, Salmon, Sea trout all take a lure off a boat in the sea.

http://www.norrtalje.se/

 

Do the perch and pike grow unusually large in those brackish conditions?

[GLOBE]

Do the perch and pike grow unusually large in those brackish conditions?

 

Yes, some of the largest pike, perch, crucian, trout, zander etc in the world live off the Balitic coastline. A lot of information and photos of these giant fish can found in my first book - Big Fish In foreign Waters (published back in 1991, but still available). For example, pike of 57lb+ etc.

[bluerinse]

Do the perch and pike grow unusually large in those brackish conditions?

 

 

The pike are really fit and in amazing condition, and can grow to a really good size, (my biggest was 14 kg) but like with most fishing you catch a range of size, they predate mainly on herring which is a really rich food, this encourages rapid groth. Perch on the other hand are numerous, but I have to say I never caught any really big fish, pleantly around the 1lb mark, I have seen though in Swedish angling mags, massive perch photos. (3 -4 kg)

The water is not really brackish, its lightly salted, clear and cold, supprisingly there are no crabs or shrimps in the sea, yet prawns are a great bait for seatrout and salmon!

 

I have caught Salmon in Stockholm, it must be one of the only capital city's in the world you can fish for and catch Salmon. Stockholm is built and a number of Islands, on the edge of the Baltic sea.

 

Swden offer great fishing opertunities were ever you fish be it river , lake or sea.

ure fishing is the most comon prictise followed by the fly. very little course fishing is done.

I enjoyed some great roach and bream fishing on feeder.

I also fished some small streams with float and was suprised at the standard of fish I caught, big Roach, Ide, Perch.

I only lived in Sweden for 18 months but enjoyed some of the best fishing of my life.

Now I also lived in Latvia for 7 years and the fishing there was also outstanding but thats a diffrent story.

[Steve Burke]

As a side note

I have to say fishing the Baltic takes some getting used to. Perch, Pike, Cod, Mackerel, Herring Trout, Salmon, Sea trout all take a lure off a boat in the sea.

http://www.norrtalje.se/

 

The Baltic Sea is probably the only place in the world where you could catch pike on herring livebaits!

 

I've been lucky enough to fish there just once. This was on a trip to the Rapala factory and was a thank-you for writing a chapter for their book. We caught pike, perch and sea trout on lures, but also saw roach and bream.

 

The pike fishing was absolutely superb!

 

The book by Globe (Tony Davies-Patrick) is well worth reading - good stories and loads of info. I've a copy in stock on my web site (link below).

[Grandma]

Jim Woolnough set himself up in Spain arranging predator fishing holidays on a reservoir there. They catch bass, pike and comizo barbel - the barbel are targetted with live and dead baits and lures.

 

Here's a link to their barbel page:

 

 

http://www.spanishsafaris.net/page3/index.html

[dbrennan]

I have caught Salmon in Stockholm, it must be one of the only capital city's in the world you can fish for and catch Salmon.

 

 

Dublin being another one.

 

http://www.fishingireland.net/fishing/salm...blin/liffey.htm

[KAYC]

Caught a 4lb tench on a minnow when I was a nipper!

[Dick Dastardly]

Didn't a salmon angler once catch a 'then' British Record sized barbel on a spinner from the Royalty - out of season!

C.

 

Yes it caused quite a lot of controversy.Salmon anglers quite often catch them and in Czechoslovakia they often fly fish for them.