Early season fishing

Winter is taking a firm grip of Sweden and even in Göteborg we got a few moments of snowfall the past days, but every snowflake seems to melt away as soon as it touch ground.
Spring feels far far away. But first fishing could bee closer than one might think. Most water open in April but there is a few streams in the south of Sweden opening in January!

I do however wonder a bit about it.
In the streams that open in April or May the fish who has been up spawning has had time to move out at sea again, undisturbed.
The sea trout does have some difficulty to cope in salt and cold water and might stay in the river for a bit longer... which means that early fishing is mostly aimed at those over wintered fish. Fish that should bee moving out to sea at soon as the water temperature is rising. Fish who have been spawning, have already made the journey from egg to fully grown. they found their way back to a stream and found a mate... those fish has a very good chance to return for spawning yet another time, much better chance than the fertilized eggs down in the river bed waiting to hatch.

But on the other hand, fresh fish is rising in the rivers as well