We're in the middle of the strait of Kalmar so the sea is quite protected, this is the narrowest bit and it's just under two miles across.
You wouldn't like fishing here, the Baltic is brackish and haven't got a lot of fish. Most common while fishing with a rod are pike and perch and the occasional garfish. The cod used to be plenty but pollution and overfishing have decimated them.
80 miles north of this place is Emån, a famous salmon river. That's a grand place to fish!
When I was a kid I went with my father who was fishing there and I saw a newly risen salmon male that was caught with a fly. 24,42 kg (55,6 lbs) and that was one huge salmon.
(Edit: I must have gotten confused here, the salmon mentioned above was caught in 2000, the one I saw must have been in the late -80's but probably by the same fisherman, he has caught lots of big fish. I found a bunch of newspaper clippings that my dad had saved when I helped my mother clear out some stuff this weekend and thought it was the one we saw.
There was no one fishing the river that day, everyone was in the ice house swapping stories about even bigger ones that got away and there was a furor when the Lady of the Manor promptly said "That's exactly what Mrs Rottenbottom wanted!" and put a SOLD notice on it (you'd pay for the fishing privileges and then you could buy the fish by weight for a minor sum if you wanted it, the squire huffed and hemmed and said I'm terribly sorry but this decision is above my paygrade (he was a cavalry captain) and offered a week's free fishing instead) but, again, I might have that confused with yet another salmon. My dad had lots of stories but he doesn't remember them anymore
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Emån is mostly known for big sea trout though, many world records have been taken there and I think that the current one is still from there.
Taken in 1993 15,26 kg, 104 cm in length and 64 cm in girth (33,6 lbs, 41" and 25")
My granddad used to put out nets for flounders when I was a kid but they disappeared too , they're coming back now which is a really good sign and this reminds me that I have to mend my nets before summer.