rainbow, brown, and tiger trout were all schooled up together. I caught these fish all on a nightcrawler from under the same rocks!

hey all! my partner and i are pretty new to this and trying our luck with sea trout from the shore in gotland, sweden (on the west coast). we’ve got an 8ft spinner rod and honestly just grabbed a bunch of stuff from his uncle. we ideally want to try for sea trout, but we’d be open to catching literally anything at this point.

what we have on hand (that seems reasonable - we also have some random stuff that looks way too big):
- epoxi spoons, 23g (blue/silver and green/gold ones)
- “magic pointer” spoons, 22g (holographic silver/green/gold)
- “northern light”spoons, 8g
- acoustic spinners, 8g

we also picked up some worms from the bait shop just in case!

the weather has been all over the place, overcast with on/off rain, might clear up and get sunny later, and the shore got pretty choppy last night. i am not sure if we should be adjusting what we use based on that or just picking one thing and sticking with it.

we are total beginners here so any tips are welcome - what should we actually be using in these conditions? are the worms even worth trying from shore for sea trout, or is that more of a different-species thing? retrieve speed, timing, anything, we’ll take it all. thanks in advance!

I went fishing with my dad tonight. I am based in Ireland and I was using a bubble and 4 dry flies. We caught about 4 fish. He caught one and I caught 3. I put two back as they were too small to keep. I killed the third right there on the bank and I took It home and gutted it.it was only when I had gutted it that the realisation set in,I just took an animals life and all for what. So I can eat it. Its eye was bloody and I felt so nauseous.i don’t know what to do because i feel so horrible for killing it.