Denmark Fishing Trip

Last weekend we drove up to the Denmark island of Fyn to go fishing. It is complicated and practically impossible for us to get a fishing license here in Germany because we are residents (tourists can get one however), but in Denmark you just have to buy a fishing license and kids under 18 can fish without one. We stayed in a little cottage on a vacation campground. We didn't catch anything (except that Molly snagged some seaweed that put up quite a fight in the current and seemed just like a fish at first), but it was nice to be able to fish openly and legally. We tried fishing for needlefish (which Europeans call garfish, but they are completely different from gars in America), sea trout (ocean going brown trout which can get very large), and fished some in the harbor with a flouder rig baited with herring. We were a bit too early for the needlefish. The saying around here is that when the rapeseed field bloom, the needlefish are biting, and we were just before that but couldn't go this weekend because of my job. Also, the kids got to watch a movie in English! (Movies are usually dubbed in German in Germany but are in their original language in Denmark.) And, a big highlight for me, because we were outside of Germany, V was able to drive the car for the first time and I got to ride in the passenger seat for a change!