The spring and late summer / autumn is the time for herring fishing in ports and jetties and not least in the fjord.

Herring Leaders

You must fending use a herring rig with a 40 gram weight in the bottom. Remember to turn sildeforfanget so silent were at the top. Is there a strong current is a heavier weight on the 50-60g might need.

Always more herring rig with and like different types and have also a small selection of their lot. Herring fishing is done often they use the bottom and so is the risk of bundbid with loss of lures to follow very large.

You can put two or “half" herring snoods together so you can fish in a vertical larger area. It is an advantage when not exactly know how high the herrings instantaneously. It is not always, they go all the way down at the bottom. The total length of the snoods can not be longer than the length of the rod, as it will impede the draft or even virtually impossible to shed off. Are there many herring and the possibility of “full house", one must make do with only a leader if you do not use an extra heavy wheels. The increased weight can overload and destroy the wheel - and the rod.

Sometimes herring rig with “long-haired hooks" the best, other times it is those with “small, golden wings". I have experienced that rig type can mean herring or not: We fished side by side and in the same way, the difference was only snoods. I caught nothing with the small Gyldene wings, but my partner caught in each roll of the long-haired hooks. When I switched to the long-haired, I bite led throws.

Fish varied

Cast out and let snoods and let sink to the bottom. Pull slowly into possibly with small, soft jerk. When it begins to vibrate (as biting herrings - you have no doubt) then pull still slowly and quietly into. Herring mouths are delicate and you can tear them off the hook if you pull too hard - so you do not get herring and herring have only a short life for.

Whether to fish high or low, you find out by trial and error. A school of herring can move very quickly, so you can catch well by a roll, it can be a completely different place on the next roll.

Keep back!

On a good day when yo"u can heave 3 to 5 herring in every time, you have to “pat the horse a little" and not let the blood rush to take over.

Catch only the herring you need - and remember so that they must be cleaned afterwards!