goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
goUp
|
|
|
This story has been restored from the magazine archive. The text is original; outdated contact details have been removed.
July 2004
SportFishingMagazine
Our Fishermen and Fishing Ladies send their
reports to the Diary
Team SFM
The
Salmon Week of Muonio 24.-31.7.
HarriM
I was 6th in grayling competition
and 41st in salmon series. This
result I got rowing 69 hours in this
week. Total catch in the competi 63
salmon. J. Ojanpera was the
winner with a 13,9 kg salmon.
Heat was problematic in fishing and
rowing. I had several hits, but no
good luck to get them up.
Tanariver
and Atserriver in Kola Peninsula
june-july
Vyrtsi and Maria
This summer has mostly served only
experiences in fishing. With Maria
we spent ten days in Tanariver both
sides of the Midsummer time. In five
fishing days the saldo was three
salmons on, but only one landed.
That was a nice two kilos seatrout.
So Tana was still quite quiet in
salmon fishing.
Week 29 was the long waited high
point of the summer. Spending one
week fishing salmons in the
tributary of Ponoiriver, Atserriver.
The trip was a safari, we flew to
the upper parts of the river and
hiked downstreams. In a week we
walked about
60-70 kilometers, but it was nice
to hike on the banks of easy
walkable salmon river. The week
before the weather had been really
warm, the daytemperatures were up to
25 centigrades and even more. The
water was now 24 centigrades, so it
did not promise good for fishing.
No salmon were running into the
river, but luckily there were local,
earlier into the river run
fishes. The saldo of the week to our
six persons group was 44
salmon. I caught seven salmon and
two seatrouts. I lost only 3 fishes,
which was not much considering, that
we used barbless hooks. Now I even
think, that why we need barbs at all
or treble hooks?
The biggest of my fishes was 88 cm,
that is about 7,5 kilos. With one
hand rod that was a exellent fight.
Mostly the salmon were in 3-6 kilos
class, some grilses were caught, too.
During this week our group had two
big salmons on. I handled a about
one meters fish, which made all the
jumping and running tricks it could,
so I lost it. Now I know the sound
of Loop reel when a salmon furiously
runs.
In thursday Maria and I will travel
to Kuusamo, and in friday we will
examine the Finnish Flyfishing
Championships waters in Hossa. You
will hear from us, when we are there.
Sarkisalo
week 30
KariS and sons
I have written to Fishing Diary
about my youngest son Lauri, who is
eager fisherman. In wintertime he
even slept with his icefishing rod..
Now in summer we sail with our
trolling boat. I bought to Lauri a
personal Abu kid's rod, and holding
his rod he has sat nicely in our
boat on trips to Forby waters. Now,
one week earlier when he is 2 years
5 months he caught his first fish.
He told to me that a pike is on. I
tried the line and thought, that
some grass is on the lure. After a
while I thought to check up the
hooks and felt something kicking on
Lauri's rod. I gave the rod to him,
and the son tired a big, 100 g perch
just to the boatside. His older
brother helped in netting and now
Lauri is a fisherman.
The biggest problem was waiting in
the evening. I had cleaned our catch
and put them into the refrigerator
to get salted for smoking tomorrow.
lauri sai, that it is wrong, that he
is not allowed to sleep with his
fish. Finally he understood the
problem and eagerly waited smoked
fishes. He selected his own fish and
ate it up very passionately. His
next wish is to catch a biiig pike.
Let us see, what happens, when one
of the Forby monsters hit on his
lure. I hope he holds the rod firmly!
Uusikaupunki
25.7.
JaniO
and Janni
Learning baitfishing in Uusikaupunki
waters. We caught small perches and
roaches.
Janni
and one of her catches. Look the pro
posing! (SFM-toimitus). Photo SFM-toimitus
The
Lake Matildanjarvi 25.7.
JoniS
Harling from four to eight
thirty p.m. The water on the
surface is already 21
centigrades, that means that my
next trip to Matilda will be in
the autumn, when waters are
cooler. Only some small perhes
took my lures even, if I used
downrigger. One baitpaste angler
had caught a small rainbow, and
one boatcrew had rowed all day
long and caught only one fish.
Last time they have put fishes
into the lake was last monday
19.7.
The air pressure has now been
too long high about 1012 mBar,
and the weather has been too
clear. Some rainshowers would
activate the fishes.
So now I concentrate on zander
fishing!
The
Lake Kangasjärvi 21.7.
IiroO and Tommi
We both had problems to hook the
whitefishes, but yet we caught about
15 fishes. Fishing from deep gave
the biggest, over 40 cm fishes. When
the lake and wind calmed down there
was a lot of fishes tailing, but
mostly small ones. The big ones were
apparently already sleeping?!
Tana
and Tornioriver week 29
Harri
"The Fish" Matikainen
Week
29 was to me an excellent
salmonsession. In Tanariver I and my
wife caught two salmon, 6.77 kg and
9.17 kg in two rowing sessions in
row. On third turn we even had a
good hit, but we lost the fish. Then
we came back to Pello, which is our
fishing basement in this summer. In
friday we started fishing harling in
Muonioriver by the village Pakamukka.
The first rowing gave two salmons,
3.3 and 8.8 kg. Then we could only
follow others to fish, because the
daily limit is one salmon per fisher
per licence day. In the next morning
the reel was crying and the rod
bowing immedistely in the morning,
but that one we lost. In the daytime
the river gave to us first a 6 kg
salmon, and in the evening a good
hit and then something really big
on. After tiring the fish about
quater an hour I lost it just beside
our boat. I estimated, that the
salmon was at least 8 kg, so near I
could see it.
The water situation in
Tornio-Muoniorivers is lousy, the
waters are now so high, that they do
not fit in the normal river. Salmon
takes lures, when water goes a bit
down, that is why you have to be
rowing in the right time. Now I
begin trainign for the big
competition The Salmon Weeks of
Muonio.
The
Lake Matildanjarvi
19.7.
JoniS
We
fished on the lake one three hours
licence from 5.30 to 8.30 p.m. The
surface water is already +20
centigrades, so our expectations were
not high. First we trolled rowing
about half an hour, then my friend
wanted to go to the boat landing,
because there we saw tailing fishes
all the time. Perhaps the tankcar had
visited that place yesterday. When we
got there I saw a tailing rainbow,
first cast with Seniori-wobbler and I
had fish on! Nice rainbow about one
kilo. I lost there three more fishes
and my buddy lost 4. They probably had
put fishes to lake earlier today, so
many we saw.
Then the heaven opened and a rainstorm
began. And the fishes shut their
mouths. When the rain was over we
trolled about half an hour more. Two
minutes before our licences were over
we had a fish on in deeprigger. The
lead was in two meters and the wobbler
in about three meters, where the fish
hit. The hit was very careful, so the
fish was probabbly older inhabitant in
the lake, nice 43 cm rainbow. On our
surface rod there was only one hit.
Now it time to fish in the Lake of
Matildanjarvi, if you want to fight
with rainbows! The rain cooled the
surface water one centigrade. Perhaps
one reason, why we had quite a nice
catch, was the air pressure, so high
as 1017
mBar!
The
Lake Kangasjarvi 18.7.
IiroO and Kalle
Intensive session of flyfishing
whitefishes. At the end we checked up
the damages, in this case the amount
of landed fishes. We took up exactly
twenty whitefishes and, of course once
again, we lost the big ones. When we
found the correct dryfly, we had
contacts with fishes almost on every
cast!
Karkkila
17.-18.7.
OlliT and Tapsa
We visited Karkkila rivers to find,
how co-operative fishes are in the
middle of summer. In
saturday we fished about six hours,
the saldo was graylings 35 and 38 cm
and three rainbows, of which one was
netted. In the evening we were in
local music festival, the show was
really on there...
In the next day we began fishing at
six p.m. We fished the rapid Pikala,
where it was quite quiet with fishes.
Plenty of small graylings were
interested in our flies, and both of
us caught a raibow, too. Small flies
were good, various larvas and bead
head flies specially.
Merikarviariver
17.7.
Jani "NF" Ollikainen
Our flyfishing club, V-SPK, arranged
the club championships in Lankoski
area. Over twenty members were
contesting of the Cup. Five fishers
caught fishes. The Champion is our
club chairman Ari Meskanen with
2 rainbowtrouts. The water situation
is ok now, even if it is the dry July
time. In the evening of 16th, a
fisherman had caught in Lankoski a
nice, 79 cm searun seatrout. If you
want to hunt searun fishes, now is the
time to visit Merikarviariver.
(In the Championships I was 4th)
Ari Kaunonen
flyfished this slendid 5,9
kg and 79 cm searun seatrout
from Lankoski. Photo Anne and
Jukka Ruissalo
Finnish
and Norwegian Lapland 9.-15.7.
KariA and Kake
We spent 9.-11. days fishing Luttoriver.
In the first day we only enjoyed
fishing and released all the fishes.
An elderly gentleman asked us
releasing the fishes and, if we do not
like to eat fish. I told to him, that
we have still fishes not eaten
from earlier fishing days. In the
second day we took up some more
foodfishes. Then in the morning I
turned the car wheels so that our
direction was to Norway.
We toured around the norwegian lapland
11.-12. days and enjoyed those
beautiful sceneries. In the evening of
12th after 900 km we were back
in Utsjoki. When the weekly
prohibition was over at 7 p.m. we were
already ready to fight with grilses in
Tsarsriver. The place at falls was
once again so full booked, that we
walked to the canyon of Kevoriver. We
fished to midnight, but no signs of
fishes. We camped overnight in the
canyon and went on fishing in the
morning. The same show was on, no
signs of salmons in the morning either.
The night between 13.-14. days we
fished in the curve of hotel in
Utsjoki. Same thing, only a lot of
smolts and graylings were interested
in our lures.
Then in the 14th we drove to
Kapsariver in Inari. In the beginning
everything seemed to be ok. At second
cast kake caught alegal size grayling.
We fished the river about 5 km, but
the result was poor, only one forel
per fisher. Perhaps the problem was
the flood in the river or our fishing
skills. In the morning we of 15th we
were in Kitkariver in Kuusamo. The
fishing places and views there are
mighty fine, but we did not catch any
legal size fishes even there.
At least we
saw big, huge fishes. This monster,
SALMON 18,3 kilos, was in the coldroom
of Hotel Pohjan Tuli. The fish was
caught by the cook, Tommi Lehtonen,
in 4.7. from Tanariver
flyfishing and wading. His double
handed Sage rod has spent heavy times
with this fish. The fly was dressed on
number 6 double hook, the body of
hologram gold and peacock colored
icedubbing, the wing was chartreusse,
olive and black foxhair. Tommi's
earlier record, 15,2 kg, fishing
from shore was from the year
2002.(SFM-toimitus) . Photo SFM-toimitus
Tainionvirta
12.7.
PeteA
Fishing all night long gave as result
three lost nice fishes. One of them
was a nice size brown trout. The water
level was high, which made wading
difficult and it was hard to get flies
deep enough.
Tenoriver,
Sirma 12.7.
HarriM
Harling in Sirma area and an immediate
result a salmon 6,77 kilos. nousulohi.
LJ-wobbler was the hot lure, model
sidetits with brown back and grey
belly. The fish hit on our first round
and wad clear silvery, just run to the
river from the sea.
The
Lake of Matilda 11.7.
JaniO and Janni
Teaching my daughter Janni how to
behave in the boat and move on the
lake. Everything went ok, but pity,
that we caught only one small perch.
Grilling sausages and rowing on the
lake was fun. They had put into the
lake some rainbow trouts last monday,
but in three hours between 1.30 and
4.30 p.m. we did not see a fin. Next
time we are perhaps luckier!
Being in the
boat is already ok for Janni and she
is learning fishing, too. Photo SFM-toimitus
Sarkisalo,
an island by the open sea 11.7.
JoniS
It
had been about a month since I had
fished last time, that quite a long
break for me. We tried to fish perches
with jigs from certain earlier good hot
spots, but the result was only acouple
of lost fishes. It was a bit depressing,
that we had to wake up in the morning
really early, so early we had to drive
back home, too. The water was clear and
the temperature on the surface +
17
centigrades. So that was not the problem.
Problematic was in jigfishing, that
almost every cast took up green algae,
which some years ago was not there. The
bottom has been very clean.
I lost even more my feelings, when my
daddy got some nice fishes with worm
baits. Then we both had quiet times, no
fishes anywhere.
Norja,
Kautokeino 10.-11.7.
NikolaiH,
Olli, Osku and Iiro
Osku lost a nice trout, which hit on a pink
foam ant fly. The fish pulled the hook
straight! On our trip we could find, that the
man is developping with long steps in the art
of flyfishing. Iiro specialized in big, over
one kilos whitefishes. I had to run 200
meters downstreams after a 38 cm trout. These
naturally born fishes are really powerful! We
caught some arctic chars and two legal size
trouts, too. It rained in every day, so the
water level was going slowly up. There were a
lot of insect hatches, mosquitos, too... Now
we are on the road back home.
Nikolai's and Olli's
mighty trouts.
Iiro and a "tiny" whitefish.
Osku's first ever flyfished whitefishes!
Photos SFM-toimitus
Tanariver
10.-11.7.
SFM-toimitus and Petrus
Our last fishing day of this trip we spent
fishing Tanariver on norwegian side. In the
mouth of Borsseriver we saw no tailing
graylings. Some fishes took nymph and pupa
flies. Three times we saw a grilse to jump,
but they were not interrested in our flies. A
boatfisherman lost a about five kilos salmon.
In Ylakongas it was totally quiet.
Rest of the licence time we camped in Levajok.
Even there we saw only a few tailing graylings,
perhaps the water was still too cold. Some
fishes in size to eat we caught, two of them
we smoked in smoking bag. We saw only two
jumping grilses and one sandcasting.
Salmon were not interested in our flies. In
sunday afternoon at five we packed up and 1300
km driving back home was waiting.
The highlight of our
trip were dryfly fished arctic chars in Batsfjord
highlands. These six were the result of first
session, biggest 780 g.
Dragsfjard,
Holma 9.7.
JuhaL
Ville, Ida and Joonas
PIt was a hard day waiting, because we had
to catch perches, so that we can serve
fishdinner to our guests. Joonas had already
two fishes in thereceptacle. We sailed with
our host Ville more and more to the
open sea, and too far of course. Nothing
there, In a inner bay we caught two fishes,
but then the time was out. In homeharbour we
caught four more perches fast, so the supper
was secured, even my dog Ida got one.
Warning!
Be careful even, if the weather is warm and
sunny. I stayed too long without shirt on
the dock having only a towel on me. The
water in the sea is still cold. Now I have
fever and my throat is sore. This was my
holiday! Sunny summer to eveeyone!
Vetsikkoriver 8.-9.7.
SFM-toimitus
and
Petrus
We fished 24 hours beginning at 8 in the
evening. Two heavy contacts with grilses and
some fishes showed themselves when turning
behind the fly. The river was so dry that
there were only a few pools to be fished.
Lucky, Petrus caught a nice, fat 35 cm
grayling for us to eat.
Pernaja,
Kaldo 8.7
JuhaL
Sleeping tasted so good, that I went
fishing after noon. making a worm to swim as
bait gave only one perch. I caught aone
kilos occasional pike, too, even if it
blowed from north. Next to
Dragsfjard.
Norway,
Kautokeino 8.7.
NikolaiH,
Olli, Osku and Iiro
We went back to the troutriver. I caught a
50cm fish, and the boys did not get
their big ones landed. Osku had once again a
pike, what a machine he is!
Inari,
Peldoriver 8.-9.7.
KariA
and Kake
We got a lot of graylings and trouts, pity,
they were all very small. We go back to the
Luttoriver.
Pernaja,
Kaldo 7.7.
JuhaL
and Hanna
I had already slept four hours, when my
mother woke me up at 7 a.m. and asked me to
come fishing with her. We rowed 100-500
m from our cottage. Maamy caught in first hour
3 pikes. I tried to jigfish laying on my back
and having the hat on my eyes, that attitude
gave no hits. In the daytime I waded in the
rushes and caught with a streamer one kilos
pike. The swedish wormes seemed to have lost
their taste, so I digged in secret place real
worms. In the daytime perches were too small,
so I worked a while as timberjack. Perhaps I
was too late trying to fish in the evening. I
caught only four perches, of which three were
in size to be eaten.
Pikes bowed my
mothers rod in the morning. Photo SFM-toimitus
Norway,
the Arctic Sea, the Fjord of Teno 7. 7.
SFM-toimitus
and
Petrus
We fished about an hour in a beautiful scenery.
The sea was like a mirror and the air almost
too warm. Petrus caught some small codfishes
and SFM-toimitus saw 3 porpoises.
Pernaja,
Kaldo 6.7.
JuhaL
I arrived to our
cottage in the afternoon. In
the evening I rowed to a rushes nearby in a
deep passage and tried to fish perches with
spinners. I caught two about one kilos pikes,
but no perches. When I was bading in our
sauna, the perches began to tail in front of
our dock. Soon I had perches enough to cook
delicate soup:
These saunaperches
will be a delicate soup. Photo Juha
LIndberg
Norway,
The Highlands of Batsfjord 6.- 7.
SFM-toimitus
and
Petrus
We hiked in the afternoon up to the hills.
When we arrived to the lakes, the weather was
cold, windy and foggy. We began to fishing in
a tiny creek. It ran through a swamp and
disappeared partly under the earth. Small,
even under squaremeter pools were full of
arctis chars. When you dropped the fly the hit
came immediately. Petrus caught the biggest
one, about 25 cm. We took about 10 fishes and
made them in a smoking bag. Delicacy! At
midnight the wind calmed and the air warmed up.
Suddenly the surface of the lake was broken by
tailing chars. We were flyfisher´s heaven! We
could serve dryflies blindly or directly to
the tailing fishes. At 2 o´clock the hatch
was over. We had landed 6 beaytiful fishes,
the biggest 800g.
we had a break by open fire, had some coffee
an followed the surface life of the lake. Then
at 5 the hatch begun again. We caught 3 more
nice fishes. During the night we landed 9
arctic chars and had over ten good contacts.
We were so tired that we had to hike back to
our tent. After an hour and half hiking it was
time to go sleeping. I was sleeping before my
head did hit the pillow.
Norway,
Maziriver 7.7.
NikolaiH,
Olli, Osku and Iiro
It was hard to catch fishes in the canyon,
but in lower parts of the river fishing was
excellent. We caught tens of white fishes and
graylings. Osku succeeded again, he got his
first ever flyfished whitefishes. I lost 2
nice trouts, which hit on small flies. Some
really big fish took all the leader. Now
we unbuild our camp and go again troutfishing...
Inari,
Luttoriver 6.-7.7.
KariA
and Kake
First night in Lutto. Kake has caught so big
trouts that I have to shame my smallies. Let
see one more night, perhaps I will be lucky
and have a big trout on my line.
Inari,
Sotariver 5.-6.7.
KariA
and Kake
One night and day in Sotariver. When you walk
far enough you will catch legal size graylins,
too.
Norway,
Maziriver 5.7.
NikolaiH,
Olli, Osku and Iiro
Quality grayling fishing. The biggest fishes
about 45 cm and they are furious fighters.
Osku caught his first ever flyfished fish!
Extra catch were some trouts and arctic chars.
Most of the fishes we caught with dryflies and
larvas. Tomorrow new adventures...
Norway,
Ifjord highlands 4.7.
SFM-toimitus
and
Petrus
It was really difficult to find licence
sellers in Sunday in Norway. Finally we found
an open postoffice and got our permits. We
made a sightseeing trip to Eckeroy
birdmountain. The creek running by our
nightcamp gave us tens of small trouts. In the
morning we fished rivers on highland, heavy
wind made flyfishing impossible on the arctic
char lakes. We caught tens of chars and some
trouts. Pity, they were all tiny.
Norway,
Kautokeino, Cabardasriver 4.7.
NikolaiH,
Olli, Osku and Iiro
Finally we succeeded, life is now nice! I
caught 46 cm and 50 cm trouts. Olli had a 50
cm fish, too. Iiro lost about ten trouts but
caught a 50 cm whitefish. Osku got the biggest
pikes of today.
Sweden,
Saxnas 4.7.
JaniO
The second
day: heavy rains lifted the water level to
flood. Water rose between the 3rd and 4th
session 45 cm and at nighttime even more. My
result was in 3rd sektor 1 fish and in
4th NF. Totally I was some 65th. The
Finnish teams no 1 was 10th and 2 was 12th.
And the best Finn was our team´s Ville
Vainio, 6th. Now the price gala is on. This
has been a good trip to learn new ideas of
competition flyfishing. I am really happy!!!
Utsjoki,
Patoniva 4.7.
SFM-toimitus, Petrus,
Kari and Kake
SFM-toimitus went to sleep at one o´clock and the trio
went on fishing in Patoniva. Only one grilse
was seen, no other happenings. Our camp was in
sleep at 6 am. Everyone had been awake for 48
hours.
Norway,
Kautokeino, Cabardasriver 3.7.
NikolaiH,
Olli, Osku and Iiro
The evening was difficult. When we arrived a
thunderstorm was on. It was painful to build
our camp whwn it rained cats and dogs. The
water is high and quite cold, so fishing is a
bit poor. Some insect hatches were on but
trouts and whitefishes were not rising. Lucky,
the weather in Sunday looks much better! I am
sure that one of these days will happend a lot.
Utsjoki,
Tsars- and Kevoriver 3.7.
SFM-toimitus,
Petrus, Kari and Kake
In the evening at 6 o´clock we were fishing
in the falls of Tsars. SFM-toimitus had one heavy hit
in the down pool. We saw there several grilses.
A local fisherman caught a nice 1.5 kg fish
with a spinner. We left the place because
there were too many people in a small area. We
went walkig 2 km to Kevoriver to a very
beautiful pool between two waterfalls. A nice
grilse broke Kari´s line. No other happenings.
At midnight walking back to a boat and to our
camp.
Teno,
The Salmon Festival 3.7.
SFM-toimitus
There were
120 boats fishing from 11 am to 5 pm. The
result was poor. Only 5 grilses were caught.
The winner had a fish 1.4 kg. My friend Antti
was the second with 1.2 kg grilse.
Congratulations! They even lost the winning
fish, a several kilos salmon.
Sweden,
Saxnas 3.7.
JaniO
The first
day of the Championship: I got one fish in the
river and three on the lake. This was a
difficult day. Pools were very uneven. The
best result in the river was 37 fishes, but
f.i. the silvermedalist of last year´s
World Championship got NF. I fished on the
lake with english lake-specialist Ian Bar.
Result was to him 3 - 4. Not bad. Fin 1 is
after the first day 7th, Fin 2 is 13th and I
myself 69th.
Utsjoki,
Patoniva 3.7.
SFM-toimitus
and Petrus
Taking the heat and loose feelings away after
1300 km driving. Fishing from 3 to 6 o´clock
at sunny night. Both of us got some small
graylings and saw one jumping grisle. The
gnats sounds like a rain on our tent canvas.
Sweden,
Saxnas 2.7.
JaniO
The
trainingday is over. The lake was OK, but I
have to find my strike. Of 8 fishes I got only
one into the boat. The river gave to me so
familiar NF. The water level is high and the
temperature low. That makes fishing difficult
to all the teams. Only some small trouts,
15-25cm were caught. The real competition
begins tomorrow!
Sweden,
Saxnas 1.7.
JaniO
I arrived
today, but had no time to fish, because I had
to be in the captains´ meeting. Some of our
team were practising on a lake, results were
some arctic chars. The results of other
national teams varieted from almost zero
to splended catches. Frenchmen f.i. are so
sure about their skills that they do not
practise tomorrow at all in the river areas.
The competition will be hard and tight. I
myself will tomorrow fish in the morning on
the lake and in the afternoon in rivers.
|
|
|
Diary
2002-2004
Fishing Guide
Ingmar "Pingo"
Eriksson
Tel: +358-40-
579 5313
Fishing Guide
SFM-toimitus,
Sweden
Mobile:
+46-708-7687 910
E-mail:
Internet: www.outdoor.se/
abelsson
Fishing Guide
SFM-toimitus
Vaparetket Co
Vammala
Finland
E-mail:
mikko.ollila@
kopteri.net
European Flyfishing Championships in
Sweden:
Official Results
|
