My Ammerån - Baracken <in Swedish>
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Although
it looks good on the north side at Baracken, it is usually a waste of
time to fish there. On the south side, however, it is much better.
There are several fine streams and hollows, lined up one after
another, that can hold a lot of nice grayling in the second half of
the season. The finest current edge ends up in a pretty big pool, and
are most appropriate fished using the classic British wet fly fishing
method, with three flies on the leader.
During the second half of the seventie,s and in the early eighties, my
father had a rowing boat lying at Baracken, whose only use was to
transport us over to the fine streams on the south side. It was at
these currents I learned to master the exciting night fishing for
grayling, which can be undertaken during the really pitch-black August
nights. During the darkest hour you could barely see your hand in
front of you, and hence you had to memorize the shore and the streams
to know where to fish. The grayling usually go into shallow water
during these conditions, and sometimes you found fine grayling just
inches from the shore. I have many fond memories of those nights. My
father's boat finally gave up, and since then it is too rarely, I have
made myself the trouble to take me across the river for a visit to
these currents.
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