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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