My Ammerån - the new millennium <in Swedish>
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The minimum size is by now 35 cm, and the bag-limit is no more than
five fish per day (or less in some parts) - measures called for by the
increasing tourism in the area. Between 2005 and 2008, the stretch
from Moan down to Baracken was closed again in an attempt to increase
grayling tribe's strength by giving the fish a safe habitat, and to
serves as an area of research for a project led by Umeå University.
After the project, the stretch was opened, but with heavy restrictions
regarding the fishing, a separate fishing license and with much
harsher rules. This has borne fruit as the amount of grayling on the
route is many times higher than outside.
The first years of the new millennium was not particularly rewarding
from a fishing point of view - both 2000 and 2001 were destroyed by
heavy rains that made the most of the streams and rivers in Sweden
more or less flooding over, and 2002, when it was a dry summer, it in
return was too dry with all too warm and all too low water as a
result. The following years were a little better, and getting some
fish good enough for the table was no problem. However, it seems a bit
harder to get the really big grayling on the hook, even if it still
exists. Summers nowadays tend to be either very wet or very hot, so
the fishing is really up and down, season by season.
I lived in Hammarstrand between 2005 and 2010, and those years I
fished Ammerån relatively frequent. Moreover, instead of fishing
myself in Ammerån, many evenings I spent as guide to others who fish
instead - something that I find very rewarding is that you get to meet
so many nice people and you get the chance to share their experiences
- it is a special feeling when you helped a guest to his first
grayling catch!
The Fly fishing European Chamionship
2014 was an interesting experiance - Ammerån was fished by the
European elite fly fishing teams, and showed that there is a lot of
grayling in the river, but that there still is fairly seldom you catch
the bigger ones.
Ammerån is, and will remain, my home fishing waters - she might not
provide me with as many large grayling as before, but is still a nice
fishing waters, in wonderful setting, and well worth a visit!
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