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Ronan's report

I love to fish for Sea trout along the coastline in winter. The coast never gets more beautifulful as in winter when snow covers the sandy beaches and ice is growing on the stones. As soon as the water temperature drops below 4° Celsius it usually gets difficult to hook up with a Sea trout and the fishing often gets very tough. Minus 5 to minus 10°C in the air, damned cold water and often strong icy winds is what we have to face mostly in January, February and the beginning of March around the Baltic sea. In no other time of the year a Sea trout to me can get as beautiful and heavy as it does during those tough days.

This winter was and still is extra strong and long. It started back in the middle of December when I fished along the ice cover for pike on Rügen island. We caught a few good ones that kept us warm though. In Janury the water temperature for the Baltic sea dropped below 3°C which makes Sea trout fishing very hard and mostly not catchy at all. Then in February the water temperature dropped even further down and there it still is: Below 1°C!

When I was in my twenties I used to fish these temepartures all day long. But now since am a little older (yes Paul, we get older) I usually stop fishing when the water drops below 1°C. Still I love it when the days again start to get longer in March and the beginning of April while the sun gets stronger and stronger melting away the ice and snow. It often happens during these very early days in spring that I catch a huge silver Sea trout during my coastal fishing. If it happens while there is still some snow left the fish weighs double and even looks more beautiful as it does anway.

This year provides an extra cold and extra long winter for all of us here.

Lately I have been to the AAPGAI meeting in Cockermouth, UK and it was signed by strong icy winds and fresh snow. Then all my teaching lately took place not on grass but snow, which is fantastic as long as there is some sun around, too. Last weekend some of us met at the Danish Fly Festival which was held in Kolding. All casting pools had to be filled up not only with water but salt, too! Anyway they were frozen in the morning. Since weeks now we have strong cold wind from east keeping away the slightest sign of spring to start soon.

Who ever out there is responsable for the weather here, please listen: It's ENOUGH. We all want spring NOW!

To all of you living in the northern part of Europe I wish you tons of sun and warmer weather soon. And to those already enjoying summer right now I hope your next winter will get little softer than the one we are facing now. And hopefully it will allow you to keep up fishing all winter long. I haven't been fishing for a period of 8 weeks now, which didn't happen once during the past ten years! Damned, really time for SPRING NOW, come on!

All my best

Bernd

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