The Savean threads the eastern edge of Gothenburg, running from Lake Aspen at Jonsered down through wooded reaches and small rapids to join the Gota alv at the city harbour. Modest in size, it is a river of outsized importance: its salmon are reckoned one of the few genuinely wild, native Atlantic-salmon stocks left in Sweden, and the river is protected under Natura 2000 for them, along with its kingfishers and dippers. These are big fish — the rod average is over five kilos, and salmon past ten are taken every year — though the run is small, fifty to a hundred fish in a season. The prettiest water lies on the Jonsered stretch, a sequence of clear streamy necks and small rapids over hard west-Swedish bedrock. The character is intimate, urban-fringed freestone. Wading is steady on firm rock and gravel, the clear water and wary, heavy fish rewarding a careful approach.

Wading: Clear water over wary, heavy fish