Isojoki
and Lappfjardrivers 28.-29.6.
MarkkuR and Olli
Vanhakyla licence area serves nice fishing
with 17 euros. Our biggest trout was
Olli's only 38 cm, but a lot of graylings kept
feelings high. In midsummer weekend there
probably had been a lot of fishers and
disturbance in the river, so carefully you had
to fish, if you wanted bigger fishes.
Olli caught about 15 legal size fishes, the
biggest was 38 cm. Almost all the graylings
were in eating size. We found a
"new" bridge in upper parts of the
area. Now it is easier to reach the pool
of "big" graylings. This time
we saw no tailing fishes there, so we fished
in more familiar places. The fishers we met
told , that in June ther has been nicely
searun seatrouts in the river. A fisherman
from Vaasa had caught a 4.7-kilos
silvery trout with only 0,17 mm leader. The
fish had forced him to run after about half an
hour. That has been a really fine fish!
Olli's 41 cm,
beautiful Trout. Photo SFM-toimitus
Lappfjardriver
We decide to fish rest of the time in lower
parts of the river. We buoght licences in the
grocery of Dagsmark with 10 euros The
area is about 20 km long. First we drove
around to find bridges and rapid places, so
there was not so much fishing time left. In
lower parts the water stood almost quiet with
no run so we did not fish there. In Ohriluoma
there was a long rapid area, in which we
concentrated the fishing. Olli fished once
again very carefully and found graylings, the
biggest 37 cm. local trouts were abit bigger
than in Vanhakyla. Olli's biggest was a
beuautiful 41 cm trout, which is still
swimming in the river. Sometimes you have now
how your catch tastes, so I took a nice
43 cm trout to our kitchen.
The taste of this 43
cm trout I will test. Photo SFM-toimitus
Pernaja,
Kaldo 29.6.
JuhaL
KOut for
flyfishing at ten p.m. I fished the northern
and southern sides of island Kaldo. The result
was one one kilo pike and a perch with
streamers. Baitfishing gave only one about 300
g roach. The pike took 12 cm long,
black-orange Tom`s Pike Fly and the perch took
SFM-toimitus's five cm long red-white-gold streamer.
Pernaja,
Kaldo 28.6.
JuhaL
I fished
along our cottages shores after seven a.m. and
caught two pikes about one kilo.
Pernaja,
Kaldo 26.6.
JuhaL, Sari-Anne, Roope, Hanna, Iiris and
Krisse
We woke up to a rainy day. With two boats we
rowed about hundred meters from the home harbour. Sari-Anne
caught in five minutes with Biltema
spinner three pikes (800g-1100g) from the
hottest rushes of this summer. I caught with
Storm shad jig a perch. Hanna caught a half a
kilos pike immedistely, when she changed the
spoon to Biltema spinner. The other boat baded
in sunshine. Probably the small (0,5 kg) pike
they had, had jumped itself to their boat. In
the weekend I caught perches every now and then
with worm baits and flies.
Tammela,
Turpooriver 23.6.
PeteA
and Tawny
Testing my new flyline in pouring rain. Two minor (36
and 38 cm) brown trouts hit on a red Zonker fly.
Sysma,
Tainionvirta 22.6.
PeteA and Tawny
Fishing all night long gave four rainbow trouts, two
with a small, yellow pupa fly, one with Klinhamer and
one with Super Tinsel. Tawny caught two small brown
trouts with a yellow streamer.
Karkkila,
Karjaariver 18.-19.6.
MarkkuR+co
We fished a bit over 24 hours, which gave a good
valuation of the level of local fishing. Last timehey
had put rainbows in the river was almost four weeks
ago for the FFC qualification competition. Olli
fished the Pitkala rapids really carefully, the result
two rainbows. I caught there a small fish (31
cm), which I released. A better one I lost, when the
rainbow jumped. Probably they have concentrated to
plant small graylings at this time of the summer, so
many smallies there were in some places. Graylings
saved our trip. Olli caught two 39 cm, Tapio and
Janne had many in size 34-37 cm. Some about 35
cm brown trouts gave some action, too. The outdoor
shelter of Pitkalarapids was populated by local
younsters, but the shelter downstreams was peaceful
and locates in a beautiful place.
Olli and a nice grayling .
Photo SFM-toimitus
Parainen
17.6.
TimoK
I wished to catch perches, when I was studying
all day long the northern shores of Gullkrona. The
area was quite new to me, so I wondered, where perches
locate at this time of the summer. I fished. bays,
sunken islands, rushes and streaming passages and
everything between them.
The sunken islands south of the Paraisten Portti were
a total disapointment. The bottom was full of algae,
so it was almost impossible to jigfish there. A bit
more north on the claybottoms the situation was better,
but I found only some individual perches no schools of
them. Some about two hundred grams fishes I got in
streams and in front of rushes, mostly the small one
kilo pikes were interested in my jigs.
In two places I found a bit better size perches, but
not those really good ones. So my storagebox about
empty, when I got home. The best lure was
Berkley's brown caterpilar worm with biotic salt as
spices. Motor oil, neon green and all normal hot jigs
gave only hits!
Espoo,
Matinkyla 16.6.
Juha L
I fished very
actively pike and zander places from 8 to 11 p.m. in
the places, where the depth was between half and
three meters, but found no fishes. LaxMan
spinner and 10cm Storm shadjig had some
contacts, but that was all. The wind was nastily
from north and it rained heavily and horisontally,
so I was totally wet, when went home. So this time
it was total NF!
Parainen
12.6.
TimoK
Ithought to make a zander fishing trip, but zanders
were not pleased with the cold weather. Some minors
visited my boat, which I got bored quickly and changed
the project to pike fishing. They were very willing to
hit on my lures like they use to be in this kind of
rainy and windy weather.
I loosed about twenty old stinkers, when finally on a
white jig hit a fish in size to be eaten. The correct
size will stay as a mystery, because at home our
kitchen weight shows only five kilos. Ok the files
weighted 4800 g.
A relative call to me from Eastern Finland, Sulkava,
while I was fishing. He told, that he is participating
in an angling with worms fishing competition arraged
in a small local river. He told, that he got
frustrated in angling small bleaks, when his neighbor
took in his net a zander 6050g! I have say, that there
was a real fish to be angled with line and rod!
The files of the mighty pike
weighted 4,8 kg, so the pike has been about 8
kilos, because the waste procent in fileting pikes is
about 40. Photo SFM-toimitus
Vammala,
the Lake Rautavesi 11.6.
MikkoO/Vaparetket
and the Icehockey Team Tappara
The Team Tappara of Finnish Icehockey Legue had a
relaxing summer day in Ellivuori. Vaparetket and
Kalatiira companies arranged to their favourite team a
fishing contest on the Lake Rautavesi. Some of the
players caught fishes with rod and reel equipments
first time in their life. Total catch was 11 kg pikes,
perches and ids. The group took the competititon with
humor, the fishes even got bigger in the heat of the
smoke sauna. And the big ones, they were once again
lost just beside the boats...
Merikarviariver,
the rapid Lankoski 11.6.
IiroO and Jussi
I got my seatrout record two cm bigger to 69 cm with a
nice silvery female fish! The fish was so beautiful,
that I had to release it. The fly was a number ten dark
larva and the tippet was only 0,14 mm, so I was a bit
lucky, too. Rainbows were in the hitting mood, too!
Iiro and his new seatrout
record 69 cm. Photo SFM-toimitus
The
Lake Rautavesi, the 2. Asp Fishing Meeting10.6.
SFM-toimitus +co
On the lake at six p.m. with Mikko and Kallen. We fished
the hot spots first about two hours and then had a
coffee and meal break. There were several other boats
fishing in this meeting, too, guided by local fishing
guides from Pirkanmaa area. Veli and Jani were
puritanists and only flyfished. Jani had a mighty size
of asp on his fly, but lost it. A second fish followed
the fly, but did not take it. Veli broke the leader
white fighting with a big pike. Our boat had only four
pikes, SFM-toimitus three and Kalle one. Our guide Mikko had NF,
like the guide should. We fished mostly with grub jigs
and wobblers. I had some nice and heavy two times on,
perhaps zanders or even asps? The other boats caught
pikes, perches, zanders and even a bream. The water is
still evidently a bit too cold for asps (+13), some warm
days are needed and then it happens. I, Jani and Veli
quited fishing before midnight, Mikko and others went on
fishing. I eagerly wait the traditional third Asp
Meeting, so intereresting and fun the fishing was, and
really this was a well organized happening.
SFM-toimitus,
Kalle and Mikko in the Silver boat of Mikko's
Vaparetket co. Photo SFM-toimitus
MikkoO
From midnight on:: Kimmo
caught an asp, and their boat lost three more. The
catching lure was a yellow-white wobbler, which Kimmo
had tuned himself. We others caught small pikes and
three zanders. In early hours there was a short moment,
when asps were hunting smalll fishes and splashed all
over. We succeeded not to parcipate in this party...
A Lake in
Southern Finland 9.6.
HannuR and Janne
Spendind an evening fishing tenches with a specialist
Janne. Everything was totally new to me. First Janne
made the baitmixture of flours, corn and other
ingredients. The small bait boilies used as baits and
attractors he had made ready already at home. Then he
baked atractors in size of grapefruit, and those were
casted all around in the water. To the same area he shot
with a sling those same small boilies used as baits.
In the main lines he put boilie baits on side leaders.
The whole system was casted with bottom leads.
The reels were Baitrunner models. There were no need to
watch the rods all the time because of the electronic
alarmers.
First we had quiet times. Then janne made a new
attractor place, where he in some moments angled many
roaches and a nice 1,5 kg tench. The main rods stood
quiet all the time. janne thought, that perhaps he has
forgotten some important ingredient away from the
boilies. Ok, half an hour later I took the other rod and
the fight was on. I was surprised how strong fighters
tenches are! Janne,s rods are heavy, because he uses
them a lot in carp fishing, still the rod bowed nicely.
After awhile Janne had the fish in the net, the first
tench of my life! It was exactly two kilos bigger than
my earlier tench record!
Hannu made his tench record two
kilos bigger than earlier. Photo SFM-toimitus
In rest of the evening we did not catch any more tenches,
even they were moving around the area, but we caught
some roaches and rudds.
Kynasriver
4.-6.6.
MarkkuR + co
Me and three students
of our institute were enjoying weekend
by Kukonkoski rapid area staying in the outdoor shelter.
Mosquitos kept us awake almost all night long, nobody
had mosquito oil with him, so everyone was fishing very
early in the morning. When the sunshine hit on a hot
spot I lost three rainbow trouts in the row and caught
one fish for the lunch. Otherwise the fishing was quite
difficult. The good start, six in the nets visited
fishes, turned in sunday as NF. Lucky, until sunday even
the first timers had had the touch on rainbow trout
fishing. White Marabou Muddler was one of the best flies.
We caught some graylings here and
there, but legal size fishes were difficult to catch.
The biggest one, 37 cm, was caught by Janne
Huhtanen, one over 40 cm fish was lost when netting.
Merikarviariver,
the Qualification Contest of Finnish Flyfishing
Championships 5.-6.6.
OlliT
The contest was finely organized. The competition was
even, if you caught fishes in every sector, that still
not secured you get in the finals. The water level is
now good for fishing, and so quite a lot fishes were
caught in the competition. The weather was ok, specially
for us watching and following the contest. Local fishers
took the top places, only the second, Kari Suhonen,
succeeded to have position between locals. The three
best will be in the finals, the fourth has to wait, if
he gets a place there. It was a pity, that three of the
pre-registered competitors did not come to the contest.
There were many willing fishers, who wanted to
participate, if those three had canceled their
participation early enough. Greeting to the new
finalists!
Top 6:
1. Saku Nieminen
2. Kari Suhonen
3. SFM-toimitus
4. SFM-toimitus
5. Mikko Hakala
6. Tommi Hakala
Points are in the net! Photo SFM-toimitus
Sakyla,
the Lake Pyhajarvi 3.6.
TimoK and Markku
Our project was the early summer dryfly whitefishes. We
put our boat to the waters in late afternoon in the
Fishing harbour of Sakyla. Western winds had rosen high
waves, so we drove slowly to the island Iissalo
and the open fireplace there.
We hoped the wind calm down in the evening, but that did
not happen, luckily on the eastern shores of the island
there was almost calm. All evening long a school of
fishes cruised along the shoreline, which I believe were
whitefishes. They tailed just like whitefishes: You
could see their sharp triangle backfins. Something they
were eating just under the surface film, but what? In
the air there were flying different species of mayflies
and caddisflies, but which of them were hatching?
Markku had possibility to serve to the school a small
black Klinkhamer fly and purposely sunken Superpupa
almost at the distance of touching the fishes (= rod
length). Nothing happened! I could even not to reach the
school cruising around all the time.
It would be interesting to hear, if someone else has
been flyfishing whitefishes in the Lake Pyhajarvi!
Markku waiting the next fish to
tail! Photo SFM-toimitus
Askainen
6.6.
SFM-toimitus ja Markku
Once again fishing zanders. We were at the places at
half past five p.m. and fished to ten. Now the best
color was classic zander color chartreusse with silver
flakes. The hit was not so hot as last time. Still there
were many unspawned females, which all were released
exept one. We caught fishes in size totake about 15 pcs,
the biggest 45 cm. Now there are too many smallies, most
of the caught fishes we had to release.
Sysma,
Tainionvirta 3.-4.6.
SFM-toimitus, Pete and Tawny
It was really fun to go flyfishing for a long time. I
have fished in the sea almost daily since last month,
and that you could even call a overdose. We started in
the upermost rapid at nine pm. Insects were hatching and
we saw many tailing and rising fishes. Bleaks run away
from bigger predators as flashing schools. Two hours of
fishing gave only some careful contacts.
As the darkest night fell we had coffee and mealbreak by
the open fireplace near the powerplant. Then we tried to
fool the brown trouts, which run to the river from the
lake Paijanne. Pete caught a 30 cm trout youngster. I
lost a nice fish after fighting with it some seconds. An
other trout, about 1,5 kg, came to the distance of
netting, but I lost it anyway.
A bit before the sunrise we went to an nice island
upstreams of the dam. You can nowadays go there over a
walking bridge. When the light increased, the rainbows
began a jumping show in the stillwater area. The
funniest fishes made over one meters airflights. Pete
caught immediately a rainbow with a bleakstreamer, and
after a while a second fish. We woke up Tawny from the
car and told, that now is the time to practice tiring
fishes with flyfishrod. First she tried with
bleakstreamer, but had no successe. The sun made the
world look red-orange colored, so she changed a
minitubefly in ambulance color on the line. Just a while
and a rainbow was dancing on her line. She tired the
fish correctly and got it in the net despite of the good
advices, which Pete and I gave to her from the shore.
Tiring next rainbow was like from the schoolbook of
flyfishing!
My trip included only contacts. I lost those two trouts
and in the morning four nice rainbows. The funniest was
a fish, which followed my fly about ten feet nipping it
all the time. I was lucky to "save" my fly
from its teeth! Lucky, Pete took his third fish on my
licence. Anyway I took a lot of fishes back to Turku, I
got on film many action fishphotos. Evidently my fishing
wrist is now too acclimated in jigfishing and works
poorly in flyfishing. We quited fishing at eight a.m.
The fight is almost over and
Tawny releases her net.
Action like from the schoolbook of flyfishing!
The winner and the looser.
Parainen
1.6.
Petrus
+ co
Fishing from the shore in a stream under a bridge. Our
catch of the evening was only one legal size zander but
a lot of smallies. I had on line a small 30 cm zander,
when a big monster hit on it. Unluckily the huge
zandermama let its teeth loose of the smallie just on
the shoreline.
Parainen
1.6.
TimoK
Fishing again for a looong time. I tied to find
new zander places or to be exact new for me. Most of the
places are for certain familiar to some fishers. Hardly
there are any unknown places...
I fished seriously in four different places, and thre
were fishes in every of them, quite nicely in two of
these. Problem was once again the size of the fishes. I
made about fifty zanders to visit my boat, but only four
were in size + 40 cm to take with.
F..king pikes ate up a handful of my jigs, anyway one
three kilos mr longnose had come with me, too. Somehow I
can not use leaders while fishing zanders. When the wind
went down in the evening began ids to tail all over. One
brave one even hit a white grubjig, but I lost it.
Askainen
1.6.
SFM-toimitus and Markku
On the hot spot at two thirty p.m. In the first hour
both of us made over thirty zanders to visit our boat.
In the hitting there were only some short pauses, but
until eight thirty we had more casts with fish or hit on
than empty casts. The problem is now, that there are too
many minors in this area. nly about every fifth is legal
over 37 cm size. We took up 26 zanders and about the
same amount small legal size fishes we released. The
biggest was caught by Markku: only 44 cm. The best
colors were fire pumpkin ja old yellow.
