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Lohenrengas, Pernio 30.1.
Ktl, Tommi, Seppo, Timo, Olli, Jani, Reijo, Jarmo and Juha

The sunshine in saturday had changed as arctic snowstorm. Our group was growing bigger and smaller all the time, when somebody had to leave home and someone else arrived.  Timo and Ktl were thehard-working rod shakers from ten a.m. to three p.m. Lucky our host Juha took care of the open fire, it was nice to grill sausages and warm up your hands there. Rainbows were in unusually careful mood. You could often see the line move, but could not feel the bite in your hand. Everyone of us had nice contacts with fishes, too. 12 fishes were lifted on the ice. best lure were again small mormuskas baited with maggots and shrimps. Small spoons irritated the fishes in some hits, too. The hot session began, when we had to leave home in the late afternoon.  

                            
       Timo and a rainbow trout, which had to rise from Pompiainen to the arctic upper world. 
       Photo Jani Ollikainen

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Lohenrengas, Pernio 29.1.
Nikolai and Olli

Nice winter weather with about ten minus centigrades wellcomed us to our first icefishing trip this year. There were quite many cars on the parking place, so others were on ice today. No wonger, because Lohenrengas is one of the top rainbowtrout places in wintertime, too. Now you have to pay ten euros licence, but this money is valid, when you buy your catch. If your fishes stay swimming in the lakes, you pay for experiences and the services of the area. This is normal system in most of the put-and-take waters. There are not so many fishing places were your host makes even open fire ready and does not ask any extra for that. In Lohenrengas you get service and can feel the sincere friendliness of the hosts.

And next our fishing, which was as good as always. We had contacts with about twenty fishes. Hooks broke or got straight and sometimes the upper leader stuck under the ice, but we even succeeded to lift enough fishes on the ice. The best lures were small mormyskas baited with maggot-shrimp combination. The lightest versions of MA-leeches worked fine, too. You have to serve the light lures with thin (0,14mm) lines. Most of the fishes hit just under the ice with about one meter line out.

             
             A break by the open fire gets You warm again. 

                               
                               Olli pulls the line upwards and a rainbow downwards. 

                               
               Small, colorful mormuskas were today the hot lures. Photos Nikolai Holttinen

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Ormajarvi 7.1.
KakeK

I visited the Lake Ormajarvi in the beginning of january. My catch was mostly small perches. Some extra was a nice pike, which weighted  5850g and was 90 cm long. The fish took on a barbless hooked balance jig, and the line was 0.20mm. 

             
              Ninety centimeters of pike on the ice!

                              
                              Kake and quite a big icefished pike. Photos Kauko Kemppi

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Erstan week 4
Kalakaima 

The ices are no problem to trolling at this moment on Erstan. Some really active boats have been out. Seatrouts hit in very shallow waters. Some boats have even caught several fishes per day. 

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Dragsfjard 23.1.
Jake
KI fished in the morning a short session on the shores of Dragsfjard. The weather was a bit too cold. Both casting and flyfishing equipments had problems in freezing. Flyfishing was difficult when rod guides and flies got ice on, and even the wind blew against my face. I fished first in the familiar hot places, but after ten a.m. I tried to find some new places for springtime fishing. At noon I had to collect my fishing things and drive back to Turku. The weather could not have been nicer, but what to do when you get your orders from the chief of your home team. No hits, probably I saw one tailing trout.

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Hammarudda-Eckero 21.-23.1
Pingo

Seatrouts were in incredible hitting mood in this weekend, even big ones were caught!  Bergstrom caught a 5,1 kilos trout. In another place he saw a school of 10-15 trouts to follow his lure. His saldo this year is already 9 fishes. Matts was in sunday fishing in Kungso area and caught a 3,1 kilos fish. Tolle has already in this year caught 14 seatrouts and lost 21 pcs. The quality of fishing  is now on the level it used to be about two years ago!

I myself have made two trips to Hammarudda in this year and caught a trout on both times. I have lost about  5-6 fishes. In  Eckero  Basie has caught several nice trouts, and lost many fine fishes, too. He saw a huge about  6-7 kg fish to follow the lure just to his feet.

When these freezing weather are over, it is againg possible to fish seatrouts! 

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Dragsfjard 21.1.
Ktl and Timo

We went to seach if there is any evening activity and were on the shore at half past one p.m. The wind blew from norteast and it snowed all the time. The waves made almost impossible to find tailing trouts.  Ktl ha da trout on about two kicks time on pearly  Pingo's Mini Tobis fly. We saw one tailing fish, and a neighbour had a hit on JK lightened spoon. Otherwise very quiet. 

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Dragsfjard & Mjosund 19.1.
Johannes L

This time the wind blew from nice direction, southwest. Still I saw no signs of seatrouts not in Dragsfjard or in  Mjosund. I saw nobody to catch fishes either. 

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Dragsfjard 16.1.
Jake and Jani

After long telephone conversations we decided to go with two cars (the decision was mainly made by our wifes and their timetables) I was on the shore at about one o'clock p.m., Jani was already fishing standing in the water  to his armpits depth.  So waders on, change the news and fishing began. We decided to walk abit on the beach to get warm and make blood to run in vains. We found a small bay, which was almost calm, it was nice to flyfish there. We saw a lot of sticklebacks swimming by the shoreline but not asign of seatrouts, only one probable tailing. When our toes were blue enough we had to walk again back to the beach. After a while Jani had to leave home. When the darkness began to fall I was again fishing on the beach on about the same footsteps I got week ago my first flyfished seatrout. One spinfisher had caught there a trout recently. At 16.40 my slow stripping of the line was rudely interrupted, three heavy kicks and I saw a silvery side to flash. That was all, perhaps I thought too much my own thoughts when the fish hit. I tied still ashort while, but this fellow had no friends with him. I packed my car and on the road home.

So, while driving to Dragsfjard I had possibility to blow down a policeman. I did not succeed and luckily the hand of the alcometer stayed in zero, too :-).

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Kimito 15.1.
JussiT

Fshing seatrout all day long from dusk to dusk. The wind blew from northwest and the waterlevel was rising. Temperature under zero centigrades freezed the line and rod guides. Small bays got a thin icecover on. My statistic was one hit. 

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Dragsfjard 15.1.
JohannesL

Northern wind evidently took fishes away today. My result was only one hot on a spoon. 

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Nauvo 12.1.
Nikolai and Jaakko

We made a short trip in the afternoon, because our lessons in the Institute were canceled. We tried to find new places. At the mouth of the first bay I got a nice hit on fly. At the first time thr trout hit I slipped the line from my fingers, missed the strike and the fish went. At the next cast the trout hit again and properly, so I got it landed. It was a bit under 50 cm so I released it. This does not happen in jammed put-and-take rivers and lakes. We did not find any more convincing new places and got no more fishes. 

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The Lake of Matilda 12.1.
JoniS

We were icefishing three hours from ten a.m. to one p.m. with my father. The weather was nasty, there was about two cm water on the ice and it rained more all the time, so finally we were wet to the bones. It has been over a month they last time put rainbows into the lake. Two baitfishers had on last trip three fishes, but now not even hits.

This was my first icefishing trip in this season, and first time I was fishing in the weather like today. So perhaps rainbows do not like low air pressures. This was my third empty trip to Matilda ever, even if I have visited the place tens of times. I mostly fished in 1-3 meters waters, but there were NO fishes. Perhaps they had swam to deeper water because of low pressure. My echoload showed fished in middlewaters on depths of six eight meters. Our timing was perhaps wrong, too. The hottest time in Matilda has normally been at sunset time.

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Inio 8.1.
KalervoK

I arrived my holiday house in friday evening like I had planned. Saturday morning i woke up so late as ten a.m , ate a good breakfast and then fishing. The weather forecast had promised a real winter storm, but the wind was only about 7 m/s from southwest. 

I started fishing with same yellow Trutta lightened spoon, which gave earlier in the week this nice  63 cm seatrout (look Inio 4.1). Fifteen minutes and no happenings. Then I was in exactly on the same footsteps as last time. A couple of casts and FISH on! I saw fast, that the fish is small, it shaked the line and got loose, good thing! That was an nice omen, anyway fishes are in the hitting mood even, if the storm is rising. Water level was unbelievably high and the color was a bit muddy on this shoreline. 

I moved 100 m southwards, casting all way long. I arrived a really nice looking place and thought, if I were a trout here I could park, and as hungry too like I always am. First cast and I felt something, perhaps mother earth. Next cast and two heavy hits and a fish on! I succeeded to land a 62 cm seatrout. (the weight cleaned up  2,3  kg, the meat was fire red, though the fish was thinner than my fish early in the week) It was half past noon, so I had a good break to honor the beautiful fish, too. 

At half past one p.m. the wind calmed down totally ( calm before storm?). I fished intensively, but got no hits. Just when I thought to give up, the rod bended to u-form. I felt a couple of mighty kicks and then the fish to stay on its place. I thought: Xmas again, this must be my record seatrout, but can I catch it? The answer came soon, the reel cryed, when the trout took a trainlike run...and LOOSE! I was really pissed off and the text I shouted was not something children to hear. Anyway I had caught one seatrout, which is much more than normally you can hope. A couple of cast trying to reach the fugitive again, then to the cottage to clean the fish and of course to eat! And the storm came finally...

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Dragsfjard 6.1.
Ktl  and Jake

We were onthe shore like early birds at eight a.m. Western wind blew quite heavily. Perhaps trouts were waiting the storm, which weatherforecast has promised, and held their mouths shut. We saw some tailing fishes, but only one showed some interest on our lures and flies. Back home at noon. 

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Kimito 7.1
OlliT, V.P. and Kustila

Again hunting seatrouts. I had the first hit on chartreusse Zonker at third cast. I released this 45 cm fish shaking the line. Next we had to walk a bit to find a calmer place to fish. After ten minutes of fishing I had a hit again and I saw a silvery flash behind my fly. A couple of minutes later Kustila, who fished near me, released his first ever flyfished seatrout. Evening was a good time for  V.P. He caught with spoon a 46 cm fish and lost another. We had to take his fish, because hooks had damaged the eye of the trout. 

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Dragsfjard 6.2.
JoniS, Mikey and Ville

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Inio 4.1.
KalervoK

Thanks to open waters the new year began with seatrout fishing on my familiar waters in Inio. I started at one p.m., lures on and walking on the shoreline. I made the first cast just in the place and with the same lure , where I caught it with Kuusamo Jubileum Spoon a two kilos trout in december.This time the wind was heavier and blew from west just against. First I had two hits. I changed to Trutta yellow lightened spoon, but no results. I moved about twenty meters to south and slowed down the reeling speed. A hit and FISH on! The cold water had taken the best speed off from the fish, so it took only a while, when the fish was in my net. Measuring gave 63 cm, this and the bride sides of the fish made me smile happily. I did not have a scale to weight the fish, but I estimated it as about 3 kg. The rest of the day gave only one sure hit, still I was pleased in this day when cooking warm coffee in my holiday house. A nice start for a new year! Next try in saturday! 

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Kustavi 6.1.
Nikolai

I feel, that all the fish gods are now on my side! I flyfished about three hours and caught two seatrouts. The bigeer 54 cm fish I took for supper and the smaller 47 cm I released. One more jumping machine I had on, but it released itself and really earned its freedom so fun the fight was. All three fishes hit on chartreusse Zonker.

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Dragsfjard 6.1.
Ktl, Mikko and Jake

We were rods in our hands on the shore before sunrise. The wind blew reasonably from southwest, in the afternoon we got rainshowers. The sea was now almost quiet,we saw only few tailings. Lucky, Jake saved our teams reputation. His first ever from sea flyfished seatrout was exactly 50 cm long. The fish hit on an orange fox fly at 09.50. The daytime and early evening were without seen or contacted fishes. Many of fishers I met complained same thing.

              
               Jake's first ever from sea flyfished seatrout hit on an orange fox fly. 

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Dragsfjard 3.1.
IiroO, Nikolai, Esa and Osku.

We flyfished all monday long. The start was promising, when a seatrout reached my fly after five minutes fishing. Fifteen minutes later we had a rare happening on trout waters: a double hit. I succeeded to land my 48 cm fish, but  Esa lost his fish. We tried to get warm on the shore, and then Nikolai waded back to water. He caught a nice size about three kilos rainbow trout. The winterstorm in evening- and nighttime had probably shut the mouths of trouts. After the good start it was quite quiet. We all saw some signs of trouts, but nothing slipped into our nets...

                          
               My first seatrout this year hit on chartreusse Zonkeriin. Photo Iiro Ojala

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Dragsfjard 4.1.
JoniS

This time I was fishing with my father and uncle. Once we were early enough and on the shore at sunrise. In the morning the water temperature was only 0,5 centigrades. Our saldo was: I had one sure heavy hit, and my uncle lost a trout, when it jumped. The fish hit on Rasanen spoon. Now the wind was from northwest. Water level was rising all the time, and so was the air pressure, too. It was nice to enjoy fishing in sunshine! We had to leave at half past one p.m.,  my job was waiting. In thursday again!