The lakes by our farm
The lakes in these pictures are in Halland, around Gudmundaredssjön. In 2012 they lay by the border of our small farm, where we kept sheep, cut firewood and ran two fishing shops, Jigg.se and Mormyska.se. I used to fish in those lakes. Now they are the lakes you see on fiske.guide, and when you fly in to the lake, the farm is there on the way.
You've been there before you go
Each lake is built from what has been measured: the ground metre by metre, the forest, the fields, the farms and the road there, in the light of the hour you pick. The houses stand where they stand, down to the summer cottage on the north-east shore and the path to the water.
Flowing the right way
Every stream follows its real course. This lake drains to the north; the streams in the north-east and the south run in. The inlets are where the fish hold when the water is cold.
And the bottom, measured
Lay the depth on the water and the lake shows its shape: the contours, the deep hole, the steep south-east shore where the depth comes close to land. On lakes that have been sounded, the phone becomes a depth sounder, in the boat and on the ice.
It becomes yours, one question at a time
The guide asks one thing when it matters, never a form, and the plan never waits for the answer. Call a point “the Stone”, and the next plan says “go to the Stone, the edge lies 30 m out from there”. Tell it what's in your tackle box, and it picks from your box first. Every trip, the ones without a bite too, makes the next advice sharper.
