Merikarvianjoki
31.7.
Vyrtsi
First we fished Lankoski area, where it was
quite. Then downstream, where I had two contacts with rainbows just in
twilight time. The other one I caught up to my net, it took a long time
to stimulate the fish, although I tried to get it up so fast as possible.
Once again we found out, what too warm water temperature makes to fishes.
Water was in summer level, that means pleasant to fish, but air
temperature was high enough. At least you did not freeze while wading.
We had no contacts with searun salmons or seatrouts, but local fishermen
told us, that had had many contacts a few days ago, when the water level
was rising. Let us hope, that we have a nice salmon autumn!
Porras, Ilmetynjoki
31.07
JuhaL and Sari-Anne
A long hot day. We casting every now and then, only a finger size
perch took our lure. In the evening at nine o'clock we visited a small
rapid area, and caught a beautiful 30 cm trout, a real pearl of the
river.
Turku,
Halinen 30.7.
JaniO
One hour "eveningfishing", saldo 6 perches. I saw two huge
tailings of searun trouts, but had no contacts with them.
Konkamaeno
25.-26.7.
TomiL
and Jori
Fishing graylings in the "arm" of Finland. We have found a bit
bigger fishes as earlier, but not yet over 45 cm. The biggest trout is
now 43 cm. We have fished in this week now the following rapid areas
Peera-, Karjalan-, Saari- and Lammasrapids. Even if there are no insects
on the surface and no tailing fishes, we have caught most of the fishes
with dryflies and surface pupa flies. The weather and water conditions
have been optimal for fishing.
Tammela, Kuivajarvi 27.7
KariA and
Timo
We learned about yesterday and went trolling later at 21.30. Two
hours of fishing and the catch was
9 zanders, of which 4 too small and 5 fishes 42 - 54 cm.
Tammela, Kuivajarvi 26.7
KariA and
Kake
Trolling zanders from 18.00 to 00.00
o'clock. In the beginning we had to change lures all the time, no
contacts with fishes. At about 22.00 began to happen, in 45 min 12
zanders, 1 perch and 1 pike. Zanders were apparently two different
ages,, 6 pcs 32 - 34 cm and 6 pcs 42 - 46 cm. We trolled the same area
still one hour, but nothing happened, the hit was over as fast as it
started.
Merikarviariver
26.-27.7.
JaniO
On friday the waterlevel was still rising. Even the natural bed of
Lankoski (=rapid) was almost impossible to wade. I fished 3,5 hours,
saldo a grayling 34 cm.
Saturday I fished about one our in Puukoski, then I was fed up the
flooding river.
Kummaeno,
20.-24.7.
OlliT, Pasi and Arto
South of Kummaeno many trouts, biggest ones 35 cm. From the lakes about
15 graylings, of which 7 over 40 cm. Dryflies were the best ones, but
biggest ones we caught with Leech.
Merikarviariver
25.7.
JaniO
The water is getting higher and higher, wading in Puukoski (= one rapid
area) is almost impossible. I fished 1,5 h in daytime and again in the
evening. Saldo: two small trouts. It is wiser to take photos as to fish,
and at least more pleasant.
Konkamaeno
22.-24.7.
TomiL and Jori
Almost one hundred graylings. Only one was over 40 cm, a lot of fishes
30-35 cm. At least Ismo's Puppa has fished ok. The waterlevel is in
optimum.
Merikarviariver
24.7.
JaniO
About two hours of fishing. Waterlevel is really high. Saldo: 32 cm
grayling and 38 cm rainbow trout
Teno 24.7.
HarriM
Water is
warm and hard to catch salmons. Flyfishermen caught many grilses. My
results after hours of rowing was male salmons 2,8 kg and 8,4 kg with
Wayla-wobbler in Pahtarapid in Vetsikko. Hannu and Arto caught a 2 kg
grilse in Uulansuvanto with Wayla, too.
Special in our fishing was, that we caught our fishes with wobblers.
At this time of the season few fishes are caught by rowing and, when
caught, normally with flies. We were lucky to choose right colours and
swim of the wobbler, this broke the nerves of the fishes and they hit.
There is huge amount of fishes in Teno at this moment. You can see
tailing fishes all over, grilses and really big ones, too. I had one
big one on, but it spit the wobbler out of its mouth. When the gets a
bit cooler, there will be a salmon festival in Teno. So man, go north,
it is worth of coming.
USA, eastcoast, week 28
JakeK
It is about two weeks, when I last time
reported fishing from here. Here is what has happened since then:
Two weeks ago in Sandy Hookista was good catches of small blue-fishia. Now
have been so busy in working, that I have done only one trip in the
middle of the week: fresh air, more experience and asmal flounder was my
catch. Once again I ran following a school of flying terns, but nothing
hit on my flies. When I walked back, I saw a sign on the shore: Everyone
who is crosses this line is in danger to be shot. Perhaps I have believe
the safety borders of local seaguard basement are not to be crossed :-).
13-14th july we went to Cape Codissa, south of Boston, to fish striper
with Jari M., who had contacted me some weeks ago and asked
possibilities to fish in these areas. Finally we found each other and
went to a local fishing store to ask what is going on. They recommended
to take a boat to one long half island and fishing there. In Sunday we
hired a local ktl (= fishing guide) to tutor us in fishing stripers in
shallow waters. In saturday we caught a small striper each and I had a
small blues, too. All fishes took a small Sandeel imitation. Sunday was
cloudy, pitty, it disturbed fishing, because in shallow water you have
to fish the stripers with seen and served method. Simply, you
could not see the underwater life. The guide was helping us, but when I
saw a fish, it had already seen me and put the turbo on and swimmed away.
We both had pure NF, but the guide had his 250 bucks, so at least one of
us was happy. Striperfishing in shallow water is really interesting,
this I have to try again by myself when I have time to do it.
Next weekend I took first time on this continent the spinnfish
equipments in my hand. We had early ago made an agreement with my boss
to make a fishing trip, while I am staying here in USA. Because he is
not an eager fisherman, we decided to make a trip on a so called
party-boat. At six o'clock to the harbour, about 50 men on board, a
while driving out and then bottom angling with a heavy rod and reel. The
lure was about 150 g leadball and the hook 3/0 circle hook. The bait was
a slice of octopus or a small fish. We tryed to fishsea-bassesjnda
flounders. The first ones size about finnish perches in the Baltic and
the later a local flounder species, which grow up pretty big. The
fishing was interesting, when the schools of fishes were on the site,
but boring when they did not. Minimum for seabasses was14.5 ". Our
four persons group caught 15 legal size fishes and about double so much
minors. We did not catch any flounders, but they took on board some nice
size of fishes.
After the trip we went to my bosses house to make filees out of them. My
boss is originally from Korea, so he served us unsalted raw fish =
sashimi, which we dipped on sauce made of soya and wasabi. this tasted
ok even, if first I had to get used with this meal. Now I am waiting, if
I have tapeworms or not. :-). In my taste the grilled fishes tasted much
better. Tight!
Tammela, Pyhajarvi
and Kuivajarvi 23.7.
KariA and
Kake
From 17 to 19 o'clock trolling in Pyhajarvi: not a bite. Then we moved
to Kuivajarvi and fished there from19 to 22.30 o'clock: Two legal size
zanders 39 and 41 cm.
Brando, Ava
23.7.
ktl and
Fanitz and Hans
Pikehuntin from 9 to 12 o'clock. Heavy rainshowers and wind made fishing
a little bit un pleasant. Three pikes 700-1,3 kg with spinnerbaits.
Brando, Ava
22.7.
ktl and
Frantz and Hans
Forenoon holding the heavy rain in the cottage. Fishing the bridge area
from 3 to 6 o´clock pm. About empty perches from 200g to 600g. Fishes
warm up in the smoking oven now.
Perches from our three hours session
Brando, Ava 21.7.
ktl and
Frantz and Hans
In the morning fishing under the big bridge. Perches from 150g to 350g,
1,5 kg file. Chartreusse grub.
In the evening in rain same place: about 30 fishes, 300g-750g, with
living baitfish.
Pyhajarvi
of Tammela 20.7.
KariA and
co
Pikes were lazy to hit our lures. Four of them visited our boat. The
biggest one 1,5 kg, 64cm. A lot of followers. Again fishing with wrong
lures??
Brando, Ava 20.7.
ktl and
Frantz and Hans
One hour in the evening in the
harbour, no fish. And one hour under the Ava bridge: two quarter
kilos perches.
Ounasjoki 19-20.7.
Aapi
Testing the new Teno model boat. Trolling
all night long. Only 5 joonas (=pikes). Perhaps the water is too warm
for trouts and rainbows.
Sysma,
Tainionvirta 18.7.
Pete + co
Again fishing the Tainio. A nice, silvery, 1.2 kg trout, which had risen
up to the river from the Lake Paijanne and two 1,5 kilos rainbows. The
fishes took dryflies like Klinkhamer, even if the weather was sunny and
clear. The water was like boiled. The trout we caught under the fast
rapid in a two metrers pocket with a perch streamer, there perhaps the
water is cooler than elsewhere. Rainbows were caught upstream of the
rapid with Klink.
Muonionjoki,
Vahaniva 15.7.
ktl and
Rebu
In the morning two hours picking 5 kilos cloudberries.
In the evening fishing from the boat in slow stream under the fast rapid.
Graylings 41, 34 and 32 cm. And a wild bonusfish a fighter trout 41 cm.
Rebu and the fighter trout
Lakselv
15.7.
HarriM and co
Our trip went on to the Lakselv beneath the norweigians hills.. We took
the warm weather with us from the Tornioriver. salmons were still hard
to catch, even the locals made No Fish trips.
Lakselv is a medium size river known for its huge salmons.The biggest
one this summer has been 19,8 kgs, this male fish was caught in the pool
two. Anyway you can see more proffessiol looking flyfishermen on
riverbanks than normal turists.
We fished three nights the pools one, two and three. The catch was one
hit and several jumping fishes seen. Jumping fishes means that there is
a lot of fishes in the river, but they are not wiilling to take lures.
Perhaps too many nets in the sea and too little water in the river.
We were lodging in the Skoganvarre holiday village. The biggest fish to
this day was caught in the lake by the village. I caught with adry fly a
grayling 930 g just in the Skoganvarre harbour.
The lake is a excellent grayling water, even salmons rise up to the
lake, but it is forbidden to take salmons up here. They have to have
possibility to move on to their upstream spawning areas. But the
grayling licence to the lake is much cheeper than salmon licences to the
river.
The
best season for salmonfishing this summer will be the two first weeks of
august, only we need more water to the river. You can ask about salmons
and conditions of the river directly from Skoganvarre host Markku tel
+47-95-847863. Tight lines to everyone. We go on to the lake of Suolu
and then to Teno. You will hear from us then!
Muonionjoki,
Tapokoski 14.7.
ktl and
Rebu
Two hours of fishing in the evening. Rebu
caught with spinning with the fly-rig about twenty graylings of which
two were legal, over 30 cm. Ktl caught about ten with pupa-flies, but
they all were too small.
In the morning to the swamparea to pick cloudberries.
Nice graylings from the Tapokoski
Kummaeno
12.-13.7.
ktl Aapi,
Topi, Veikko and Veikko
Veikko and Veikko went upstream to the small lakes for evening- and
nightfishing. Topi and Aapi fished the river. They all caught lots of
nice graylings. Ktl fished the homelake and had some arctic chars. A
kilo fish broke .15 leader.
Veikko the Magic Fisherman caught these nice
trouts
At midnight the clouds fell down, north wind and rain began. No fishes
anymore to anyone. On Saturday we were holding the rain and waiting for
the helicopter to come.
Utsjoki, Kevo 11-12.7.
Johannes and Kari
JoL lost ower two kilos fish when it jumped.
A beautiful place, a real fisherman´s paradise. Now packing and back
home to Salo.
Kummaeno 12.7.
ktl Aapi,
Topi, Veikko and Veikko
Ktl found in the morning that there are nice 400g arctic chars in
our small home lake. We fished them to fill our smoking box two times.
Topi fished in the river a lot of graylings, some nice trouts and
a char.
Topi fished a triple: From the right an arctic
char, a trout and a grayling
Tornioriver
11.7.
HarriM and
co
The young fisherman Jouni Linna (in pic left) got good advices in Pello,
when fishing with triple Salmon King competiton winner Jorma Ojanpera.
The result was Jouni's first salmon ever. The wobbler was the
killing machine called Wayla -wobbler, red back and gray sides.
There are salmon in the Tornioriver, but warm weather makes the fishes
passive. The best times are night and very early morning.
Karigasniemi,
Teno 11.7.
Vyrtsi and Maria
Three weeks fishing in the Teno river is
over. Now towaeds new adventures in the tributary of Kalix river: Angea-ata.
This week has been nice time. The water level in upper Teno has been
gooing down and the first schools of grilses have come to the river also
in Karigasniemi area.
My week has been more like turistbusiness and photographing.Luckyly the
other members of our combinate have taken fishes to be shown to us, too.
water temperature is quite high, so the small flies have been catchable.
Hook size 10-12 and treble hooks have been the correct ones. The
variations of the flies like Marlodge and Silver&Black have
worked well.The fishing will be perfect in the near future. My next
report will come from Sweden.
Kummaeno 11.7.
ktl Aapi,
Topi, Veikko and Veikko
Afternoon and evening fishing
in two groups. Aapi and Ktl fishing the southern lake area. Tens of
graylings, 30-40 cm. Topi, Veikko and Veikko fishing the eastern lakes
and rivers. Tens of graylings, some nice trouts and an arctic char.
A arctic char from our home lake
Utsjoki, Patoniva 10-11.7.
Johannes and Kari
Nothing yet in the upper parts of the river in Patoniva. Fishes
rose to the fly, but we had to leave when the Ferrariman came. From the
lake some nice graylings and two whitefishes.
Kummaeno 10.-11.7.
ktl Aapi,
Topi, Veikko and Veikko
The river is very dry, there are only about 10 deeper spots to fish on
five kilometers long area. Still we have caught tens of graylings,
30-45cm. To be able to send this, I had to climb up to 800 meters.
Vetsiriver
10.7.
SamuliM
Thank you for good tips for Vetsiriver.
We had a memorable trip with my brothers. The weather was good, in the
morning and the daytime sunny and in the evenenings a bit cloudy.
And fishes we caught. My salmon was 3.6 kg and
the other brother caugt 1.5 kg salmon. The youngest one had mostly only
experience, but he has a lot of fishing years left.
I caught my fish from the upper part of pool one, my brother's fish was
caught near the camp area. There was a lot of fishes: we saw many
tailing fishes and many fishermen, who had grilses hanging in their
belts.
Our trip was almost totally free of mosquitos. Thank you once more for
the tips. Have a nice summer!
Utsjoki, Patoniva 9.7.
ktl and
Johannes and Kari
Tuesgay evening´s first session from 7 to 10 o´clock pm. Kari had not
even a bite. I took once again a Bomber from a fishes mouth twice. A
pause in the cottage. When the spirit is on again, we´ll go on fishing.
Utsjoki, Patoniva 8-9.7.
ktl and
Johannes and Kari
Fishing began at 7.00 o´clock pm. Kari had a nice about 2.5 kg grilse
on 10 minutes. The fish ran away just on the shoreline. It took a silver
and green Minitube. Ktl had two hits on the Red Belt Bomber and
Johannes three. Ktl was sleepy at 1 o´clock am, the boys
fished up to 7 am. A fish, about 5 kg, took Johannes´ Red Belt Bomber
in his mouth, But Johannes took it away.
Utsjoki, Patoniva 7.7.
ktl
Fishing from 2 to 7 o´clock pm. One grilse exact one kilo and 51
cm. Ally´s Shrimp no 8, double.
The grilse which took the Ally's Shrimp
Pitkalanrapids, Karkkila
7.7.
TomiL
Fishing in the morning from 7 to 12
o'clock. The water was high like in may (+18 c) and a bit muddy, because
of the heavy rains. No rainbow trouts seen this morning. The
orange Ant hanging in the sideleader caught some about 30 cm graylings.
Karigasniemi,
Teno 4.7.
Vyrtsi and
Maria
The days after weekly protection have
been rainy in the valley of Teno. In tuesday there were a lot of jumping
salmons seen in the river. Some fishes were caught, but mostly the hit
was poor. Perhaps the fishes were more concentrated in swimming to the
spawning places as in the flies.
I was lucky: in the evening I caught a nice size grilse. Again we can
eat fresh salmon! That was my first one this year in Inaririver. The
rainy weather fly, Ally's Shrimp number 8 double, was the fly.
The water level in Inaririver is now tens of cm higher than earlier and
warmed up to 15 centigrades. When the level begins to go down, then it
will be a real salmon festival in the river. There are a lot of fishes
both in Teno and in Inaririver.
Merikarvia River 3-7.7.
JaniO
A lot of rain had raised the
water level high. There are fishes in the river, but they are difficult
to be found. Saldo two rainbowtrouts.
Utsjoki, Patoniva 7.7.
ktl and
Johannes and Kari
Johannes and Kari fishing from 2 to 6 o`clock. Both had some nice hits.
Kari caught a grilse 900g, 46cm with Olive Timberjack number 8,
treble.
Kari
and the first grilse he ever has caught with flyfishing equipments
Utsjoki, Patoniva 6.7.
ktl, Johannes and Kari
Fishing from 8pm to 1am. Tens of small graylings. Ktl a grilse
1290g, 53cm with Olive Timberjack number 8, treble.
Johannes and the grilse that ktl caught
Utsjoki 5.7.
kt, Johannes and Kari
Evening and nightfishing in Patoniva and Rassiniva. Some tens og
graylings, mostly too small. About twenty times grilses jumping. No
contacts with the salmons.
Luttoriver 5.7.
ktl and Pena
Morningfishing in the Longrapids area. Some small trouts and graylings.
No legal size fishes seen.
Lutto 4.7.
ktl
ja Pena
Early evening a nice trout tried on Super Tinsel. Insectlife began
at 9 o clock. Two 20 cm graylings with Cdc-nymph and over 30 cm trout
with Spent
Matildalake 3.7.
JaniO
Three hours rowing and fishing on
the lake. No fish. At last I saw two tailig fishes.
USA,
eastcoast, week 26
JakeK
There some news from this arae. i have made many trips
lately, but without rea success. The best happening were a flounder 17
inche, some unknown fishes and the crab biting my finger. That hurt!
This week on monday I decided to make a trip. The conditions were bad as
possible. Water low and western winds ( here the best winds are eastern
and southeastern). So I did not hurry too much: first to the barber and
then waiting the ebb and tide to turn. Finally, at about 7 o'clock i
walked to the shoreline waiting the evenening to be only practising my
casting skills.
When I came to the shore, I saw a lot of birds hitting on the water all
the time. And there were a real blitz on. Schools of bluefishes
had hunted small fishes toward the shore, and the bird were eating these
small ones.It was funny feeling to fishing with hundreds of atttacking
birds. the first cast five meters from the shore and immediate hit. That
was about 750g blues. The show was going on still about 30 minutes. I
caught three more and a lot of bites, hits and lost fishes. Then came
the silence, everything was away like the famous farth in Sahara. I
talked with some other fishermen, and they told that the hit was on
about two three hours. Poor me, I was there only the last 30 minutes.
F... barber! Better to catch fishes as to look pretty!.
Next day I was there again, and the same show was going on.This time the
fishes were farther put, and I had problems to reach them with my flyrod.
Anyway I showed the beach to three blues, and had some more bites.
These were very interesting trips. Fishes were easy to find out, because
the birds showed the places. The schools of fishes moved fast along the
shoreline, so there were no need for jogging after a fishing trip. Now
the fishes were small, but later in the autumn there wiil be blueses 3-5
kilos. I am just waiting! It is not many times, when icecold beer tastes
so good as after running with wading trousers all evening long hunting
the fishes. The temperature was only 35 centigrades. in tuesday I was
clever enough to change waders to shorts. That is it!
Laajoki,
Korvensuu 1.7.
JaniO
1h 10 min disturbing the life of
the rapid. Testing my new Surfer Flies. Fishes were not interested in
them. With Leech 2 minor trouts. Water level was surprisingly high and
colour dark.
