Hasslö, first full day fishing.

We came here yesterday and went out to look at the conditions late afternoon. Water seemed to be ok, even though we got one garfish in the 7-8 C warm water, we found some hints to go after for todays fishing.
Everything works fine on the boat:
We caught some really nice salmon weighing just 10kg and another estimated 14kg on a rocking boat. Home, 8 hours later, bleeded, that salmon weighed 13.4kg.
The salmonfights are cought on film with two cameras. We have seen the films and especially the clips taken with the headcamera is just salmonfishing thrown in the face on those who will see the clips. We will not make any films of the clips on this trip, but below i have some photos from the fishes.
They took a grizzly spoon with sad colours and a Big Ed with happy colours. One salmon took behind a surfaceplaner and the other took on the downrigger.
Little bit windy today. But we are looking for a little bit calmer weather tomorrow.
Weatherforecast is sent on channel 25 on the VHF when Stockholm radio is saying there is a raport coming. Very good to know!

Hasslö.

We took a sunday to see and feel the waters out off Hasslö before soon getting there for a weeks fishing. We tried out the boat and equipment and everything worked well. We even caught some fish. Not very big but big enough for the grill next week. Some 4,5 kg salmon and a smaller one, to be back in the water.
Bert took a photo of the salmon with the new downriggerweights from Scanlure.
This weights tracked well, have no sharp edges, outershell made of plastic that will not destroy the boat if they accidently get close to the boats sides. We tried out our new cameras and they give a really good quality of the film. Some softwarebugs remains to get fixed, but in time those will be solved too. We have two cameras and hopefully we get something to film so we can cut our fishingfilms whole nights and fish all days:-)

Scanlure bottomseeker, Grizzly spoon from Denmark. Salmon from Hasslö, Sweden.

I had a really weird thing going on when i had a tangle on my stacked downrigger rod and the inner surfacerod. Those two baits found each other and the surfacerods hook managed to get through the stacked spoons tophole. I have never seen anything like this so i took a photo of it...what is the chance doing this trick again?

The tangle was easy to solve, just take out the hook from the hole and the spoons went fishing again.

It's looking good for the weekend. Weather is going to be a bit cold but what the heck, just get on with the big suckers. Try to get atleast one 15+ salmon is our goal. Tight lines and be careful out there.

Vänern eastertime..and a WARNING!

Have to start this raport with a warning in swedish: Farledsmarkeringarna är ute och flyter och det krävs extra uppmärksamhet när ni kör i Kållandsö skärgård med många grund. Jag körde från Pål genom den norra farleden mot Hörvik för att svänga av till Spiken. De första käpparna som markerar ingången till farleden står fel. De ser ut att stå rätt. Mellanrummet mellan dem stämmer, men kör ni mellan dem stå går ni på grundet. Vi körde inte fort, tog det försiktigt, men skäddan på motorn fick ett nytt utseende när vi touchade stenen som nu ligger mitt i det som ser ut att vara farleden. Vidare saknades hälften av all pinnarna i resten av farleden,  så kör försiktigt. Det kan vara så att detta är lagat, men var försiktiga ändå.

Close contact with a rock!

 Fished out of Spiken monday-tuesday for testing the boat and equipment. Everything worked well and we could concentrate on our fishing. I have had problems with my GPS signal and have to do some research before i could have the problem sorted out; in my Raymarine 125 antenna, there's an small battery that must be replaced every 7 year. There is no info. about this in the manuals, but i had to go to an discussionboard about sailing where i found an discussion of this matter. So, check your antennas if there i an battery hidden somewhere in them that must be replaced once in a while. I know there is atleast one Garmin antenna that has the same system.
We tested also our new cameras, V.I.O Pov,  they worked well, but there is a bug in the software that signals poor battery and shuts down the camera. The batteries are nearly full when this happends so either we have to carry kilos of batteries or have the bug fixed before we go to Hasslö in a few weeks. The camerapod is very exclusive! Take a look at the photo below.

Fishing was good for most of the boats last weekend. But on monday-tuesday it was fullmoon, northerly winds, very calm and nice weather. Just the way i dont like it. Bert and i had two bites on our baitfishes during two days fishing. We fished the strech between Klasgrund-Pålgrund on monday and south of Naven on sunday. That was also the place where we had our contacts. It is very cold water, 1-2 degrees outside of the nets, deeper then 30 meter. Warmer water inside, closer to shore, some 3-4 degrees. The deeper pockets close to shore seems to keep lot of baitfish and also some salmon and trout, so maybe we go  back there sunday-monday to see if we cant get some fish aswell. Team Extreme fished in the same area but further south from us, closer to Måken and had a really nice salmon caught from there on tuesday. There is fish in the area but not many. Also Finnish Salsa Pro team have been visiting the waters for a week. They have caught fish every day. They have stayed close to Pålgrund and Stavas knall almost all the time. They catch their fishes early in the mornings and usually when they pick up the gear for going home, so it seems to be either morning or in the evening when fish bite best for them. Noticeable is that they catch their fishes mainly with tackled baitfish and flashers in front of them. They are very skilled fisherman!
Weather is going to be really nice eastertime, diffucult fishing when it's calm, so we might try out some new waters and try some other fishing.

Very nice weather. No fish in the cooler!

Exclusive camerapod: fot is made of Jakaranda and the pod itself is rest of an Ugly stick trollingrod.

Springtrout from Germany.

Sven Hille in Rostock has been out spinnfishing for trouts. Due to the cold winter trolling for salmon has been hard even in south Baltic sea, but there is some good pikefishing on Rügen and the the troutfishing from the shore is fine too, but Svens latest fishingtrip was headed to a river.
Read Svens raport from his latest fishing. A really nice photo of the catch is added to his raport.

"I am just back from a few hour spinnfishing trip on a friends boat on our local river Warnow. I took this chance as a force 4-5 from west made trolling in the Baltic Sea impossible or at least not joyride. It took only 10 casts before the first trout was hooked. It was a small but very beautiful and powerfull fish which was released back to the water with good wishes for the future... Strikes countinued and we had some really nice fights. Not big fish, all in the range 50-60 cm but pure silver and very powerfull." 

Seatrout. Pure silver. Very nice fish.