In the middle of May and you really feel that summer is coming. Days and nights become warmer and warmer and you are able to spend your first late night outside. Barbequing or just relaxing in the sun or sitting in the warm evening after the sun has set. For many Swedes, this period also means the start of the fishing season. The ice is gone from the lakes and it is time to take out all of the fishing gear and go fishing in the lake or in the sea. If you have a boat and can set sail for the sea or you can fish from a bridge one can find a lot of herring just now. This is also a very easy fish to catch, if you find a shoal of Baltic herrings. Just let the fishwire weigh down in the water, with up to five hooks on it, make some bobs up and down and if you are lucky you can pull up five herrings at the same time. Just continue with this and you will soon have enough for both the cat and for your own dinner or dinners.
This is a good recepie of fried Baltic heerings
1 kg Strömming, (Baltic (small) heering
1 1/4 dl Ströbröd (Bread crumbs)
1 1/4 dl Rågmjöl, med salt och peppar (Rye flour or wheat flour together with salt and pepper)
75 g Smör (Butter)
1 dl kaviar (Fish roe aka caviar)
Clean the fish and put fish rou on the inner side of one filée and put an other filée over it and press them together
Turn the heering into flour, salt and pepper
Fry in butter until it will become golden brown
Serve with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam
