Hästholmen 11 april.

Went to Hästholmen, Lake Vättern on sunday. Testing the boat and equipment. Northerly wind, 5-8m/sek. I didn't have a clue where to start fishing so i went up to Stocklycke, went west from there, fished my way out to deeper water. Tried to fish over some spots that have given fish before. Continued fishing my way down to the pumphouse, trying to find a spot with little warmer water, but failed doing that. Warmest water i found during whole day was a so small that i almost missed it on the fishfinder. +1.1 degrees, 1000m west the pumphouse ! Average temperature was some +0.8 degrees. Not very warm, but some people caught fish anyway. There was this Grandslam competition. 20 boats taking part. I had my mother and another friend with me. None of them experienced in fishing from a boat, so i didn't join the 20 other boats in the competition. But, thanks, Team Gesse for asking;-) Maybe next time!

Anyway, I used my baitfish, but should have used smaller minnows this day, since that's what i was told the fish bit on. Plastic, lightly weighed down in the surface was the melody. I still went for using my baitfish. It's fun to try to get a nice, fishy swim on the baits, so i did that. I simply had to since i forgot the tacklebox with the small Conrads and Strike Pros home, so i just played with the baits whole day long. I also forgot the sparebatteries to the camera, so there where not a single photo taken this day.

Credits to the fishermen who managed to catch fish i the GrandSlam competition. Not so much credits for some boats fishing closer then 300m out from the cliffs. They might have found small spots that held fish, but thats not a reason to fish in front of the people fishing from the cliffs. Those fisherman sometimes use not so visible clothing, hard to see, but they can sit there and try to catch fish too. So, regardless if there is people visible or not fishing from the cliffs, i think we boaters can stay outside 300m from them. Besides that i believe it's forbidden to to go closer then that.

Everything on the boat worked fine today. So did, my new car. With the Skoda Scout it was really nice to pull the trailer:-)

Giant salmon caught 2008 from Rügen, Germany.

"WAHNSINN, UNSERE KUNDEN UND FREUNDE THOMAS ALLENSTEIN UND KNUT POSCHMANN FINGEN AM 09.04.2008 DIESEN REKORDLACHS MIT
22,4 KG UND 1,30 M VOR RÜGEN!"

Look at this salmon caught by fellow two German fisherman in 2008 from Rügen, Germany. The fish was caught with Vuoksiraksi baithead with an unknown bait tackled to it. The salmon weighed 22.4kg and was 1.30m long! A fish to be remembered.

Late congratulatios to the fisherman. These German fishermen will be rewarded by Vuoksivieheet for this catch.

Season has started late in Rügen, three months delayed! Salmon is at those waters now, so it will take some time before they reach Swedish costal waters moving further north to their spawningrivers. I have booked accomodation on Hasslö, Karlskrona week 19, and hopefully the big forerunners are there at that time. We will be some boats fishing there. I will fish with Bert Lachner and he has experience from fishing those waters, with many nice salmon logged on him. Looking good!

Thanks to Sven Hille for the information about the giant salmon. Never to late to report a nice catch.

New Fishmobile!

Yesterday i went up to Vårgårda and picked up my new car. I took my bicycle the 85km, made the deal and went home a lot more comfortable in the Skoda Octavia Scout. It's a dieselengine in it and 4x4 by haldex. Perfect to bring my boat around to where ever i want to fish. Lots of space and much safer then the old Volvo i had before. It has nice things as powerwindows and AC. Things that i never have had in my earlier cars. This will be just fine!

Till salu!

Dephtraider for sale. This unit is one of the best to measure speed and temperaure. This one is the first in Sweden. Kell laboraties in USA recalculated the software so Dephtraider showed the speed and temp in kmh or knots and celcius. This unit is little bit unique, since it's the first Kell laboraties sent us after we convinced them there was a market for Depthraiders here in Scandinavia. All they had to do was set the numbers so we could read them. And they did. This is unit nr.1. It has worked perfectly for many years. 2500kr is what i want for it. More info? Call or mail me.

Warn 1700 winch. New, never used. Only tested for function. Will pull 772kg. This winch can be used on a ATV aswell. 1300kr for this is worth not having to wind a boat up on a trailer. This winc is now sold/ Jussi