My Ammerån - Danielholmen <in Swedish>
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Danielholmen is a relatively large islet that
outside itself has a nice and calm stream that ends in a large pool.
The stream holds there a lot of nice habitats for both grayling and
trout, and in the calm waters you can, if you're lucky, find the
larger trout . Below the calm water, after a small stream and at the
very end of the islet, is another interesting stream which the
grayling seems to enjoy. Danielholmen is one of the few places that
work really well when the spring flood goes high at the beginning of
the season. If you then fish deep, the chances are more than good that
you get the grayling you need for the following day's dinner. Heavy
nymphs and sinking line can catch you some fish, but fishing deep with
worms gives you the best chances. Above the islet you find a shelter,
and later in the season, when the river flow at the islet gets really
slow, you can fish there instead. Just outside the shelter you find a
nice stream toward the south side of the river that is worth some
attention. I have fished some with dry fly at Danielholmen late in the
season, but rarely got any good catches. No, Danielholmen is best
early in the season - later in the season, other places gets my
attention.
When I was seven years old I got my first memorable catch in Ammerån.
My father and I went to Danielholmen for an afternoon of fishing. I
was placed down by the calm water where dad thought that I could stand
and cast with my spinners, while he would fish the stream in the
beginning of the islet. He wanted to keep track of what I did, without
risking that I would be in the way, while himself was to fish in the
more interesting stream. After a while he saw something funny. He saw
me frantically spinning in line, clearly I had something on that had
choosen to bite on the Panter I fished with. Suddenly I turned around,
put the rod over the shoulder and started walking - the fish was too
heavy for me to crank it all the way to the shore. When my father came
down to me he saw a nice trout on land, and an overjoyed son on the
other end of the line a bit into the woods.
Danielholmen is the obvious place to visit during the yearly fishing
opener night in Ammerån. Fishing is prohibited during the spring, so
that the grayling can spawn in peace. and fishing is allowed from
first of June. The water is usually very high at that time and most
years, Danielholmen is one of very few places where fishing is at all
possible. Usually we arrives to the stream already in the eavning and
just sits and wait for the stroke of midnight the night before the
first of June. We usually start a camp fire, eats some sausages, drink
coffee and maybe something a bit stronger, and just feels good until
the new day begins. Then it will be a few hours of fishing before we,
tired but happy, start the walk homewards, usually with a nice weighty
fish basket over the shoulder.
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