Seatrout season is on and it was great to start it with our Finnish CWS
members. Early in the morning we headed
to the coast, and took our direction to the small islands and shoals.
Because of a bad situation of the seatrout population in Finland, it can
be pretty challenging to find fish. The weather conditions and the water level should
be exactly right at that moment. I think that’s one of the reasons why seatrout
fishing is such an addictive part of fly fishing. It might be pretty difficult but the price of
hard work is a huge at the end.
That day, we had pretty calm winds and occasionally the sun was
shining. It made us feel comfortable but
it wasn’t so good for searching fish.
Even with the wind and the power of the sea were getting harder on the
afternoon, we couldn’t catch any seatrout from the potential places. Only couple
of fish came to carefully try our flies but we couldn’t land them.
After changing place many times and fishing effectively many different
watersides and reefs, we decided to give up and try our luck with pikes. Water was muddy in our first pike- spot and big
breams swam out of our boats way. We saw pike plunges here and there. Our hope was rising. We had some takes for everyone of us and we
managed to get some pikes. No really big
ones but after thousands empty seatrout cast it felt pretty good to have a fish
on. In the second place the water was
clear and some small pikes showed themselves.
At this time of the year sunset is comes already after four o’clock so
we needed to hurry up back to the mainland before darkness would fall.
Although, we couldn’t find our primary target, seatrout this time, the
day was really nice. I was struggling
with my broken toe and one of us had a flu. But is there any better medicine
than a fresh autumn air and a hot coffee on the rock in the middle of the sea?
I don’t think so. Maybe the next time a seatrout
will crown our trip. But that will be
another story.
-Veera
