Extra concert on regatta 2010 in Varkaus.

Here it is, the extraconcert on the Steamshipregatta this year in Varkaus, Finland. Very spectacular. Just listen!

New gear with attitude!

A new fishingreel and rod for perchfishing. Shimano rarenium 1000 ci4 and a Pezon-Michel Gunki Kaze is new material for my jigging after perch. I bought them from

the address below. 95€ for the rod and 160€ for the reel. A lot less than in sweden. I Like fullcarbon rods. Very sensitive and longcasting, but i find them somewhat expensive considering how fragile they are.
I found out this summer that powerwindows on a car and temporary bad memory is a poor combination when good fishing is on.

That cracky sound when an expensive fullcarbonrod brakes is unmistakable and good for me i have several rods at our place so a new rod was not needed right away, but a replacement had to be bought.

I like smaller reels and this shimano rarenium will be just fine. Made of some spaceshipmaterial. Really light and looks good. Hopefully it handles braided lines better then my old Shimano Sedona 750.

www.mur-tackle-shop.de

Theese lures and baits are what we needed this summer to keep the smoker and the fryepan going every day. Perch, pike and trout likes theese baits!

Mepps size nr:2, Yum and Storm jigs and that little yellow handmade minnow from a local minnowcarver. Weird colours on the jigs and the minnow, but somehow they work. Perches are like humans - they also like colourful, fancylooking things!

Perch that thought they were trouts!

Look at these perches! Fantastic colour on them, isn't it?

I was checking out one of my spots in Lappland. A small creek doesn't look like it can hold big fish.

But it does; I had a really good looking trout biting my spinner there a few years ago. I never managed to get it up, but i had it on the hook long enough to see it was a fairly big fish, considering the stream is really small. The fish was some 55cm long, at that time. I know, because i had it just to my feet before it got loose.

This year i went back to see if it still was there. When getting closer to the little pool i use to see them i saw a bigger fish fish getting away. I asumed it was the fish i have seen earlier years or another one, just as big. But when i tried to catch it in it's pool i started to get some really good looking perches instead of the trout, i was looking for.

Perches were really fat and had those fine colours. The water is really clean and the bottom on the stream is sand, so that's why those perches have the troutcolours. They were in really good condition and they all ended up in the smoker at home.

But i got one of the trouts in the stream aswell. A smaller fish, around 50cm. I saw it was lightly hooked so i let it free even without touching it.

The photos of that fish are somewhat blury, but they'll have to do.

All perches and the trout bit on a Mepps spinner, nr:2 copper with red dots.

S/S Puhois and regatta in Varkaus, Finland

On saturday, july third, we came with 23 other steamers to Varkaus, southeast Finland. City of Varkaus was the host for the regatta this year, so that was the reason why we ended up there. Saturday noon when all boats have arrived a conferencier introduced all boats. Names, owners and their purpuse during the times when they were used on the lakes. Towboats, cargo or passengerships arr the most common boats. S/S Puhois is really rear. Her hull is made of wood, has 20 beds and a sauna + we can sit 20 persons and have dinner at the same time. She's very roomy.

When conferencier is done he tells all Kaptens to blow the horns on their ship and that is a serenade out of this world. The serenade goes on for a minute...I wanted to record it this year, but i didn't hear the conferencier at all, so i missed the start and most of it fumbling with my camera. When i had it ready the serenade was almost over, but i was suprised of the little extra concert that followed.

I have a little problem getting the filmclip here at the moment...I'll post it here as soon as possible.