Denmark is in for an unexpected, exceptional fall steelhead run. A cargo ship crashed into an ocean net pen this week dumping as many as 80,000 rainbow trout, averaging six and half pounds, into the Baltic Sea near the island of Funen.

Fire up Google Maps and you’ll see a protected saltwater environment full of bays and points—imagine cobbled beaches with a light chop on the water and Clouser-crazed, porpoising trout for miles.

The escapees—formerly owned by aquaculture company Snaptun Fisk—were headed for the dinner table next week. Now, anglers are worried the rainbows will head for local rivers to dine on sea-run brown trout eggs.

Soren Knabe, director of the fishing association Vandpleje Fyn, told The Copenhagen Post, “Sea trout are currently coming up into Funen streams to spawn, and sea-trout eggs are a favorite food for rainbow trout.”

Bet they’ll take a green butt skunk, too. Locals have been grabbing rods, heading out to try their luck. You can join ’em. Tickets from SFO to CPH start around $1k.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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