Fishing summer 2023 has been characterized by spring, heat, dry, torrential rains and high flows, here and was interspersed with normal summer weather. There is actually weather that can be counted as such. We have escaped the worst consequences of climate change, at least among things that can be seen and read on the thermometer and rain gauge. However, the threats of a warmer climate are looming over our cold-water-dependent native fish, Långåfisket's precious fish! The worries and concerns remain there. It's not like we're at the end of that wealth, but unfortunately the foreseeable future is a concrete problem.
But is that all we remember of this summer, now that fishing closes? Oh no! There are those who remember that they didn't catch a single fish and those who had the experience of a lifetime, unprecedented records. All others are somewhere in between, which perhaps speaks for the fishing summer 2023, with some exceptions in both directions, was still quite decent. The essential thing is to make your own and new top notes. Much like in golf! At the same time, free from any competitive instinct other than gathering one's own experiences for harmony and survival with nature itself as a source.
Insect life and hatchings? Unusually little and at other times. Nevertheless, the dry fly fishing has been satisfactory, it is widely reported, which should not be true. Is it the climate, many think. Perhaps, but still maybe not. Variations and fluctuations have occurred in the past, even before man was conceived. "The Rock", Stora Sjösandländan, Ephemera Vulgate, and Åsandsländan, Ephemera Danica has lasted for more than three hundred million years and managed to be part of most of it. It can be humbling for less.
From then on 1 September 'fishing closes', but not completely. Within the Långå fisheries management area, the entire Långåljusnan is open, an offer that provides fine fishing, even compared to Emån's sea trout fishing, but here in the form of top-rated whitefish in the Storfiskeregistret. The fishing journalist Lasse Hallberg makes that comparison in the leading magazine 'Flying in the Nordics', No. 2/2013. And the autumn hare, of course, when the whole landscape is on fire with all the warm colors of autumn, the air is clear, the temperature is pleasant and the crowd has died down. The peace times apply, but for hare they are in the spring. It takes a long time until it freezes in the tracks!
We can thank each other for this summer! From Långåfisket's viewing booths, we say - welcome back, from 1 september.
Helgi Jonsson