Aland, Slemmern 31.8.
Pingo and Robert

We spent a couple of hours jigging perches on Slemmern. The water was 17 centigrades, and the wind blew mildly from south. We tested several colors, but once again one was over the others:motoroil. We caught two nice pikes, too. They hit on the grubs in the middle of perch schools. Total catch was about forty perches, medium 400 g. I caught the biggest one, which was my new perchrecord 1110 g.

                   
               Pingo and his new personal perchrecord 1110 g. Photo Robert Jansson

Rymattyla, western sea-area 30.8.
Ktl, Timo and Markku

First thing we did in the morning was to catch bleaks as baits. The morning was rainy, but luckily calm. It rained in one hour about 3 mm. Perches took time to time nicely brownish grubs baited with a slice of fish. At noon we saw the sun again and the temperature rose to 20 centigrades. The afternoon gave perches quite a good amount, again fire pumpkin colored grub was ok, but the best bait was living bleak served just on the bottom. At five p.m. we started handling our catch = we made five kilos nice files. The biggest perches were a bit over half kilo. During the day we caught over ten small pikes, Timo hooked a kilos bream, but no signs of zanders.

Parainen 28.8.
JakeK

In saturday pike were in the hitting mood. I caught with spinner baits 6 fishes between 2-2.5 kg. One of them had to come to our supper table in form of pikeloaf. I spent several hours trying to find perches. The result was two smallies. Where are these striped delicacys now?

Teno 14.-20.8.
JakeK and Jyrki

Tana river was quite quiet now. Jyrki flyfished two grilses, both with Royal Coachman. Finally we succeeded in harling. A mighty 4.4 kilos salmon was willing to come into our boat, so we let it do it. Mother Nature gave to us a perfect scenery to take photos.

                             
Jake had finally possibility to hold a salmon! Harling gave to guys a good 4.4 kg fish in the last evening of the season.

                 
                 A happy salmon fisher and the hook jaw salmon. Photos Jarkko Karvinen

Pompiainen, Lohenrengas 28.8.
Ktl, Olli, Nikolai and Jani

Three compettion level flyfishermen and ktl testing flyfishing equipments on the smaller pond, Pompiainen, of Lohenrengas put-and-take area nearby Salo. Boys fished with barbless flies and the results were excellent: jani made in about one hour  6-8 rainbows to visit his net, Olli fished about three hours and released over ten fishes and Nikolai's golden rod hand fooled in the same time 18 rainbows. The fished were in so good hitting mood, that even ktl had three fishes, but first he had to borrow a hot fly, Leech, from Nikolai and lenghten the leader long enough.  Leeches and Boobies were the best flies, specially black and white colors.

Lohenrengas is a mighty fishing place. Last time they put fishes into the ponds was in May. Then they put into Kivijarvi and  Pompiainen 200-400 g rainbows about  1000 kilos. Both pond have so good natural food for fishes, that those 400 g fishes are now about one kilo size. Two years ago they put into both ponds rainbows and trouts, which are now over two kilos monsters.

                
                Nikolai watching closely the line when stripping Leeches in.

            
            Fish On!!!

                
                Careful landing and releasing the fish with pliers.

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Lohenrengas 26.8.
OlliT and Tapsa

We tested new equipments in the Lake Kivijarvi of  Lohenrengas. Two hours of  lazy fishing gave six rainbows and one 50 cm trout. We had some hits and once was the leader broken. Tapsa made his first ever double: He had  two rainbows on the flies at the same time and succeeded to net both of them.

Brando, Ava 25.8.
Ktl and Jarkko

We were under the bridge at about half past seven in the morning., and we fished to eleven a.m. Perches hunted small fishes every now and then on the surface, but not so active as in the evening, so we had to fish grubs slowly running just on the bottom. The hook needed extra attraction: a slice of stomach skin of perch. Working hard we caught so many over 250 g fishes, that we could make file a bit under four kilos. Biggest fishes were slightly over half a kilo.

               
         This morning gave once again a receptable full of fishes to put on cleaning table.

The Gate of Pargas 24.8.
TimoK and Joska

We spent the morning trying to find baitfishes. Finally we caught enough of them in the harbour of Granvik. The weather was nice so we headed to the Gate.  There was so much boat traffic that we had to stay on the eastern side of the fairway. We let the boat float with the wind. Bleaks as baits we caught perches in size of quater of a kilo enough to fry several times on a pan. Extra catch were some small zanders. We tried some other places, too. The result was small perches and a couple of long noses, of which the biggest was about two kilos.

                               
  If you look at Joska's face, you can read, that the perches should have been a bit bigger.

                         
Our floating routes from GPS in the area south of the Gate passage. The map and photo Timo Kilpeläinen

Brando, Ava  24.8.
Ktl and Jarkko

Eveningfishing in the Ava-bridge area. We caught about 50 perches over 250g - over four kilos file. And we had a nice supper: Seppo´s Perch stew on toast. Biggest fishes were again only 600 g. Ice clear grubs were working on the surface and in the middle waters and brownish on the bottom. 

                
Jarkko handling a basic size, 300 g, of perch. Fishes were hunting on the surface, so this one took clear grub with wobble head.