doug in co wrote:
thank you, beautiful scenes..
that last pic looks like a 'big one' to me, however if you have caught 28" searuns then I guess that isn't a 'big one' for some folks ;-)
It was a nice fish to catch on the 806, and even more fun because i caught it on a foam hopper.
It was just under 20 inches if i remember correctly. The other one (pictured in the net) was around 17-18 inches.
The size limit in Denmark is 40 cm (15.75 inches) if you want to bring them home, and fish from that and up to 23-24 inches is generally referred to as small/smaller fish - at least when we are talking river-caught searuns. On the coast the size is generally a bit smaller.
In the rivers you have the chance to catch the big herring eating monsters, the ones that normally lives in the open ocean - out of reach of a flyrod. The will go up in surprisingly small streams to spawn, and quite a few chrome searuns around 15 to over 22 lbs are caught every year in danish rivers.
Here is a picture (not mine) from the most famous "big trout" stream in Denmark, called Karup Å (Karup River).
If I remember correctly, the world record was once held by a fish caught here. The strain of trout in this river is known to grow very large
It is a typical danish river: relatively slow flowing, narrow, deep. Denmark is, in most places, flat as a pancake - so we don't have the big roaring rivers like they do in Norway for example.