My Ammerån - how it continued - the nineties <in Swedish>
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In
the early nineties, it finally stood clear, the threat to exploit
Ammerån for hydroelectric purposes was avoided by law. My own
involvement in the river increased, and I was working as a
rafting-guide besides the fishing-activities. In 1993, though, I moved
to Uppsala to study, but I made sure that I could spend large parts of
the summers in Färsån - I did not want to miss my fishing trips in
Ammerån. In the summer of 1997, I worked on my thesis in mathematics
throughout the summer, and did so based in Färsån. As a student your
wallet is quite thin, so each and every night it took a trip down to
the river to pick tomorrow's lunch or dinner. By now, fishing tourism
was well developed, but I was still often on my own at my favorite
places, when most tourists tend to go home early. They simply become
tired of not getting something of value and go home, maybe nineish a
clock in the evening, long before the fish usually really starts
showing themself. I had grayling or trout for dinner quite often that
summer. The only thing that changed when it comes to choice of flies
during this time was that I discovered that Dyson and Red Palmer was
excellent choice to place on one of the hangers, otherwise it looked
like before.
More tests with keeping some areas closed for fishing were made in the
nineties by a still very active fish-conservation association.
Windbreaks were renovated or rebuilt, and fisheries in Ammerån had
gone from being something that mainly the locals were doing into a
veritable tourist industry. I was not slow to take advantage of this
fact when I finished my university studies with a master's degree in
computer sience -98 and moved back home. Since the end of the last
millennium I have a bywork as fishing guide in the river.
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