Welcome home
By Chris Halling When I came as an angler to the Little Belt coasts around Assens for the first time, I knew immediately that I had found a place where anyone with a passion for catching gleaming sea trout by the coast will feel at home. Everything I had dreamed of in varied coastlines was here. Shallow bays with a soft bottom and rushes at the edge for fastpaced winter fishing. All those bathing pools in the bays, where sea trout look for food in the warm spring sun. The currents on the reefs and open, stony beaches for summer trout, and the migrating autumn trout in the bays at the mouths of West Funen’s lovely rivers, where the big sea trout come to spawn. It’s all here, everything is close. Masses of it. Plenty for everyone. I still feel the same after more than twenty years of fishing in these areas. Perhaps the feeling is even stronger today. Now, as I park the car near the water, I know I have come home. The many rivers and streams in the area supply the Lille Belt with sea trout of all sizes. Large numbers of really big trophy fish migrate in the autumn, or just spend the summer on the reefs and between the big rocks along the open coast. Sea trout that stay over the winter are smaller, but often plentiful in the shallow bay, where the water warms up faster in the pale, but beautiful winter sun. Fish of all sizes actively hunt shrimps and sticklebacks between the fronds of seaweed in the bays in the warming spring sunshine. The Little Belt by West Funen is the jewel of sea trout fishing off Funen. Or rather ... It is a whole string of jewels.
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