Two new Swedish angling records in June 2011
Martin Maripuu’s lake trout and Philip Wermelin’s fourhorn sculpin set Swedish angling records in the original June 2011 report.
Two Swedish angling records were set in early June 2011: one for a large, aggressive predator and another for a smaller, less familiar species. Martin Maripuu caught the record lake trout in Jämtland, while Philip Wermelin landed the record fourhorn sculpin in Västernorrland.
A lake trout record had been set at Landsösjön in Jämtland as recently as 2009. On June 1, Maripuu, from Umeå, was targeting big fish on the same lake during a trip he and his friends had spent a year planning.
After a friend caught a large lake trout, hopes were high. Soon a heavy, powerful fish took Maripuu’s trolled Zalt lure. Following a hard fight, the group landed it, weighed it and measured it at 103 centimeters, documenting the catch carefully with several witnesses present.
“The new lake trout record is 12.658 kilos, about 1.2 kilos above the previous record,” said Nicka Hellenberg, Sportfiskarna’s specimen-catch registrar.
The other record fish was almost its opposite: a small, seldom-seen bottom-dweller caught in the Baltic’s brackish water.
Wermelin, from Arnäsvall, spent Sweden’s National Day, June 6, fishing with a friend. Both caught good-sized fourhorn sculpin, around 30 centimeters long. Wermelin’s fish measured 31 centimeters and weighed 350 grams on a checked scale, beating the standing record by 20 grams.
“The previous record was caught only last year, off Nynäshamn. The new record fish took a white jig in Bergöfjärden, Västernorrland,” Hellenberg explained.
