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	readers.sfm@parnet.fi goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp goUp	September 2003 SportFishingMagazine Our Fishermen and Fishing Ladies send their reports to the Diary Team SFM: Kari Aaltonen, Tawny ja Pete Ahokas, Marko Alila, Markku S.S. Autio, Petrus Gottberg, Osku Gronman, Bude Ehrlund, Katja Eriksson, Nikolai Holttinen, Hannu Hupli, Jarkko Karvinen, Hannu Kesonen, Pasi Kettunen, Petteri Kojonen, Jyrki Kovanen, Pentti Laiho, Johannes Lehkola, Tomi Lehtinen, Juha Lindberg, Harri Matikainen, Jyri Mäntysalo, Iiro Ojala, Jani Ollikainen, Mikko Pajunen, Kari Palmunen, Hannu Roos, Markku Ruuskanen and Jouni Vyyryläinen. Send Your own reports to: readers.sfm@parnet.fi Tammela, Liesjarvi 30.9. KariA Fishing in the evening two hours. Three small pikes and about 20 perches. Aland, Hammarudda and Eckero 28.9. Pingo Now they are here. My friend Ola Sundberg caught in sunday a about 2 kilos seatrout with Deluxe Shrimp fly. Ola fished with intermediate line. Deluxe Shrimp Photo Pingo Bo Tholix caught with rod and reel a 4 kilos trout. The lure was blue-black-silver Haxa-spoon. Earlier last week Bo lost 3 seatrouts.The fishes are now active in evenings! The season is on now! Ola's seatrout Photo Pingo Parainen, Heisala 28.9. HannuR and Bude The morning hit time was nice, we caught about8 kilos perches, the biggest 500 g. Mostly the fishes were caught with motor oil colored grubs. Pikes were not in the hitting mood, some we caught with flies, one with Zalt and one with Mullet wobblers. Went home at 14.00. Rymattyla, Roola 27.9. Ktl and 9 persons of PJY Journalists learning how to jig perches. First in the morning looking in theory different jig models and their rigging. At noon to the sea and practical fishing. Water was still warm (about +10 centigrades) and the color was troubled, no good streams in narrow places. Perches were not in large schools, we found only small gangs here and there. All the students passed the maturity test. They caught all together some tens of perches. Pity the biggest ones were only 300 g. Brown and green motor oils grubs worked. Yellow was the hottest color of the evening. Not a so small bunch of student that all do like told. Some small pikes were landed, some pikes broke the lines. Three students caught against the rules of perch jigging school zanders. Legal size zanders were caught 5 pcs. The biggest troublemaker was Antti with two zanders, the bigger one 50 cm and 1,3 kg. Troublemaker Antti and 1,3 kg zander, which took yellow 5 " grub. Pyhamaa 27.9. Nikolai and Iiro First some perches and then a flyfished 5,5 kg pike. The wind was heavy like an enemy, but calmed down, when the rain fell. Pike were in the hitting mood. USA, Rhode Island 20.-21.9. JarkkoK I spent the weekend hunting eagerly false albacore in Rhode Island waters. I woke up saturday and sunday at 5 o'clock and drove to Jerusalem. I was on West Wall braekwater at six. The idea of fishing was simply to hold your fly in the water and wait the albacores to come. You can find them coming easily, but they are so fast, that you have no time for casting. So you have to hold the lines in water. Fast stripping is the second basic idea in this fishing. The faster you strip the more the fishes get interested in your fly. I feel now in my shoulders and back, that I made some casts. Fishing was once again like all this year long. I spoke with a local fisherman, who checks up this place every morning. The season should be on, the time was perfect and the place is one of the top spots in this area. The albies are late this year, he has not seen a tail of fishihes yet this year! They come when they come. All together this weekend and 14 hours of fishing gave to me only one broken rod tip and a wet mobile telephone. They say this model is waterproof, but it was not so. It is not fun when the tide comes so fast that you have to swim to the shore :-). PS. Jani: Perhaps we need own NF Fishing Club? Flyfishing Finnish Team Championchip Kynasjoki 20-21.9. IiroO A short report of our teams fishing in this competition: Our team Vesipossut (Water Piggies) of West Coast Flyfishing Club has participated in many competitions earlier. Team Kalle Auramaa, Nikolai Holttinen (SFM) ja Iiro Ojala (SFM) The first session we fished in Kukonkoski pool three. Nobody of us had fished here earlier. The place gave some promises when we looked at it. The water level was low, but in lower parts of the pool there was a good strem with deeper water. The catch: kolmosessa. Kukaan meistä ei aikaisemmin ollut kalastanut ko. aluetta. Paikka näytti kuitenkin heti lupaavalta. Vaikka vesi oli erittäin matalalla kuului pooliimme kovavirtainen ja syvä loppuliuku. Saalis: Kalle 2 , Nikolai 3 and Iiro 3 rainbows. At the end of session I tried to fish graylings, too. I caught eight of them, but all were a bit under minimum. A excellent start in competition! The second session we had in pool fourteen in Kynaskoski. everyone thought, that this should be one of the top pools, but nobody caught fish in this pool. After the first day we were on the top in the ranking, five points ahead the next team. The first session of sunday we fished again in Kukonkoski, but pool seven. When I saw the pool, I knew we will have a difficult time of two hours. Kalle lost a rainbow and Nikolai had agood hit. NF and a medal was now only a dream.. Our last session was in Kynaskoski pool twelwe. All teams had had adifficult day, so we had some hopes to take amedal. A bit we were worried, when heard that the team, who had fishes this pool before us was Keuruu FFC, a top team. They had one fish in this pool. Our captain Kallesent me to the lower parts and told to fish like never before." Be a magician take some fishes" I put as tippet 0,14 mm and tied on some small 10-14 flies. About at the tenth cast the line moved a bit, strike and I had a fight on. My feet were trbbling when I landed the fish in my net. A rainbow 39 cm. The moment was happy and more was to come. Nikolai handled with all his skills a second 39 cm rainbow. This was one of the finest sessions I ever have fished. Two fishes took us by the leadeing team Virrat with five points. The Team Vesipossut is now Finnish Champions Results: fishpoints sectorpoints 1. West Coast Flyfishing Club 1 409 149 Kalle Auramaa Nikolai Holttinen Iiro Ojala 2. Sportfishing Club of Virrat 284 156 Kari Suhonen Markus Koskinen Ville Ristolainen 3. Helsinki Flyfishng Club 279 165.5 Iikka Vaananen Santeri Lindholm Jaakko Pulkkinen Congratulations Kalle, Iiro (Team SFM) and Nikolai (Team SFM)! Tammela, Liesjarvi 21.9. KariA and Kake Jigging six hours. Three pikes, the biggest 1,8 kg. 40 perches, biggest ones about 300 g. Parainen Heisala 21.9. HannuR and Bude Fishing from 6.30 to 13.00. First about 30 perches, motor oil with flakes was the best lure, the biggest about 400 g. Perches were between 6 and 8 meters water. Ten pikes, the biggest 2,5 kilos. Bude lost one 5-6 kilos pike. Tiger Zalt and Bomber's Jerk were the best lures Åva 20.9. Ktl, Seppo, Antti, Jarno, Antti, Ahti and Asser Hittin time in the morning was only about half an hour. Total catch only about two kilos perch file. Ahti had again a small pike with Professor. 5" grub of Action in color pumpkin was one of the best baits in this trip. Åva 19.9. Ktl, Seppo, Antti, Jarno, Antti, Ahti and Asser In the morning perches were in really crazy hitting mood in the bridge area. We made file two three litres kettles full of. Biggest ones 400-500 g. Grubs were hot lures. In the evening with jigs quite quiet. With living bleaks as baits about 30 nice fishes over 300 g. Jarno had a pike 1,2 kg and Ahti 1,0 kg with perch colored Professor spoons. The hitting time in the morning was crazy Ava 18.9. Ktl, Seppo, Antti, Jarno, Antti, Ahti ja Asser Fishing two sessions in the afternoon. Wind and stream made jigging difficult. Still the total saldo about 6 kilos perch file. Biggest ones a bit under 500g. Karvionkoski 17.9. HarriM In the morning a fast visit to Karvionkoski of Heinavesi. Water level low, only possible places to fish were in the upper parts of the rapid and under the bridge. I had fished about three minutes, when I found, that my fly was hanging on the bottom. A bit forcing with rod and the reel gave a nice voice. The bottom was a fish. Good fight and finally I landed the trout with my forfinger and thumb. Then knock between the eyes.The trout was 46 cm. A nice fish for supper. The trout took a Black and Silver Tinsel fly served just by the bottom. With a Bead Head Pupa I caught a redeye roach, that was all. This fishing trip with about hundred km to drive took about two hours. Sometimes it goes like this! Nautelankoski 14.9. JaniO Spending sunday by rapid with very low water level. Places to fish were very few. If there are fishes now, they are very careful and difficult to fish. We need some rain. I fished one hour and then I gave up. Once again NF. Parainen, Heisala 14.9. HannuR +co Me, my mother and my son Benjamin we went to see, if perches are now co-operative in a place were last autumn there was a real hit on. I casted once to show to my mother, how jigging works. First cast and she had a nice 500 g perch and with next cast a smaller one.. I thought, we have found a school of fishes, but we caught only some more. Then to Paraisten Portti cafe to have icecream. On the way there I had a 200 g pike baby. Sailing back we still tried jigging, but quiet. Benjamin thought that grandmother is not so very good fisher, when two jigs found themselves hanging on birches on the beach. We fished 10.30.-14.00 o'clock. We should have woken up earlier to find the morning hit-time. Water temperature is still about 16 centigrades. Next weekend I am going to fish seriously pikes. Aurajoki 13.9. Adele and Inka Fishing near the Bishops House. We caught six baltic herrings. Is baltic herring nowadays a sweetwater species? Left Adele, right Inka. The catch was six herrings Photo Boris Lumme Nauvo and Rymättylä 14.9. Ktl, Osku and Nikolai Knocking with jigs about twenty potential perch places. Nowhere were rea good hitting schools. Result of working eagerly ten hours was about fourty small perches ( the biggest 300 g). The best colors were white, yellow and green, in this order. Nikolai caught first in the morning two baby pikes. Heinavesi, Kermankoski and Vihovuonne 9.-10.9. TomiL and Jori Trying to catch a big trout in the last day before the protection season. Camping in tent by Vihovuonne and bombing the rapids with flies. The waterlevel was low, so it was easy to wade to the hot spots. We saw two bigger tailing fishes and some smaller ones, too. Darkness silenced the place. The only catch was one 35 cm trout, but even bigger we saw. The local reel and rod fishermen had NF, too. Hauho, Vihavuodenkoski 8.9.-9.9. TomiL and Jori The low waterlevel made still fishing problematic. In the upper parts and at the end of the rapid area there were possible places to catch fishes. We heard, that two weeks ago in upper parts there had lived a mighty trout with some smaller ones. Now the place was empty, at least daytime. In the end of rapids we saw some nice ids and breams. In the evening I had two about 800g breams. Finally at about eight o'clock I saw the first trout, but it took nothing. Then it jumped four times and disappeared. No more happening in the darkness so we gave up the rapid to bats. The place is fine, even if to count fishes in the water. You can evev buy icecream from the shopping bus, which has a stop by the rapids. A Whitefish Pond11.9. JaniO Fishing in the evening about one hour. Very few tailing fishes, so I had fish blindly with nymphs. Last time I had a lot of happenings with whitefishes and no contacts with perches. Now the situation had totally changed, now perches hit my flies, but whitefishes not. Next trip I have tomake daytime, then perhaps the whitefishes are active. North Western Lapland, Ropinsalmi 8.-9.9. KariA KThe rivers were full of butterfly caterpillars, so fishes were not co-operative. With a green Bead Head Pupa (the color of caterpillars) I caught 20-35 cm graylings about 30 pcs. Rivers were full of butterflies and their caterpillars Photo KariA Ava 10.9. Ktl, Urs, Willy and Res Again in the morning at six o'clock under the bridge. Brown grubs fished nice size (+250 g) perches over twenty pcs to ktl and Res. Urs and Willy fished with light spinners and caught more pcs, but the medium was clearly smaller. Ktl had a 40 cm zander,too. 5" grub of Action was the hottest machine of this trip Ava 9.9. Ktl, Urs, Willy and Res Fishing in the morning from 6 o´clock to noon with jigs and spinners. Now thw brownish jigs were better like 10 - 2. In the afternoon first fishig baitfishes two hours, then to the bridge to fish with them. Total catch of today about 7 kilos file. The biggest perches to Urs 650g and Willy 920g. To Urs also a zander 39 cm. Medium size of the perches in Ava was today nicely over 300 g Ava 8.9. Ktl, Urs, Willy and Res Fishing in the morning from 6 to 10 o´clock under the big bridge. Excellent hit! Ktl had with a brown grub 28 perches without empty cast. Light spinners were hot, too. Total catch 90 perches 250g or bigger. The biggest Ktl 580g. Fishing again in the evening from 5 to 7.30 o´clock. Now fishes were not in the mood. Only about 20 fishes to take. Only spinners hooked. Sysma, Tainionvirta 7.9. PeteA First weekend in long time I had free fri-sun. Last time in Tainio we had so many happening so in saturday I had to go there again. My wife was driving early saturday morning. I was not able to do it. We had a party of my working place in friday evening and we took some whole and some half pints. In spite of my funny feelings we were onthe road at eight o'clock. we arrived to Sysma at eleven. The weather was really beautiful. We fish many rapids, but the fishes are not in the mood. I catch a small 30 cm trout and Tawny my wife catches a school of perches. While having a break we see cars driving by on the small gravel road so many as in Finnish Rally. What is happening we wonder. Then to the upper rapids. I thought that nobody else knows this place, but when we arrive there are already six fishermen. Not here too crowdy, so to the next place. Soon we find these six guys leaving, so now the rapids are for us. Tawny makes the first cast with a yellow zonker. When she is straightening the line, a nice two kilos rainbow hits. Two nice jumps and then it is loose. I was not so brave to give any comments. Better so, she is anyway my chauffeur today and long way to walk home. We fished a while and had hits but nothing landed. By a small island something chased bleaks every now and then. So I waded over the river. First cast and somethig followed myfly making nice waves on surface. Second cast and FISH ON! A short fight and I had 1,4-1,7 kilos rainbow in my net. I was wading back, when my wife told me, that she is pissed off when she can not land fishes, only to hold them a while. While wading I made an inappropriate comment about women and fishing. The revenge of fishing gods was awful, I slipped and was swimming in ther river. About eight meters downstream I met mother earth again and to the shore. The fish I had still in the net, but about thousand liters water in my waders, too. Tawny tried to hold her laugh. Then dry clothes on and drying the waders. The peace fell again in our family and we had room enough to sit in the same car. Only one rainbow today, but the nice weather compensated all. Think, september and warm like in summertime! I wish I have time to make at least one more flyfishing trip this autumn...! Eurajoki, sea-area 7.9. OskuA + co Jigging 45 minutes, result 15 perches, the biggest 360 g. One small pike, too. Had to leave because the darkness fell down. Western Lapland, Ropinsalmi 7.9. KariA Eveningfishing four hours. One trout, 28 cm, four minor graylings and one 31 cm, which we are going to eat... Ava 4.9. Ktl, Osku and Pasi Fishing under the bridge from six in the morning till one in the afternoon. Now the hit was better than yesterday. The medium of the fishes we took was over 300 g. Now we made file about 6 kilos. Brownish grubs served slowly on the bottom were good. When tailing fishes were seen, glassclear grubs with red and blue glitter took fishes in the middlewater. Osky had a perch with seven casts in row. The results: Osku 520 g PB, Pasi 470 g PB and ktl 400 g. A Whitefish Bond 3.9. JaniO One hour evening fishing session. I saw quite many tailing fishes, but outside my casting reach. The fishes were eating nymphs, I could see their backfins drawing lines on the surface. Whitefishes took my tiny nymphflies very carefully, and they were impossible to hook. So I had 6 lost fishes and nothing landed. It was exiting to strip the flies slowly and to see a backfin follow it and then to turn away. That is fishing life! Fun??? Ava 3.9. Ktl, Osku and Pasi Fishing perches under the big bridge from 2 to 7.30 pm. About 15 kilos perches, 250 g and bigger ones. Pasi had the biggest one, 420 g. Brownish grubs were hottest. Northern Norway week 35 Nikolai When half of my trip was gone the saldo was almost zero. The tributary of Alta river, Eibyelva, saved my trip. First this 64 cm seatrout and then two searun arctic chars. The bigger was almost a kilo. This river gave a really possitive impression.	Fishing Guide Ingmar "Pingo" Eriksson Tel: +358-40- 579 5313