Wonderful May and
              
      Gentle June 

May is the most versatile time in fishing. Pikes, zanders, trouts, whitefishes and baltic herrings are hitting eagerly on lures and baits. In june perches will be in the mood, too.

Earlier fishing in spawning times was important way to get food in Finland. Nowadays fishing is mainly hobby. People with long standing nets catch too much fish in springtime, even to waste them in carbage. Should us sportfishermen show them examples, how to fish with sense? I myself have decided to limit my fishing in spawning times. The pikes in outer archipelago may have their weddings in piece. Zander fishing I will start when spawning is over, then the big ones are hungry. These are my personal decisons, I do not mind what others are doing.

What should be the moral in put-and-take waters. The first rule is to follow the local limits. If there is a certain number of fishes to take with, follow it. More fun to more fishermen! It is very difficult to get information of natural born fishes. Always when restoring a river they should think the developments in long time.  It is ok to put bigger fishes for fishermen, but the main point must be developing the natural born of fishes.

You have be very careful, when you fish natural born trouts. There should be a method to mark put-and-take fishes. When so it is easy to pick fishes to eat and release the wild ones.

Norwegian fishfarming has done it again! They lost in Arctic Sea in the fjord of Teno 100 thousand salmons and 40 thousand rainbows from the farming nets. These refugees can spoil the future of the best atlantic salmon river in the world, Teno. The talk of this catastrophe has been in press too mild. Nobody is brave enough to say negative things about our neighbours norwegians. Our politicians must act fast and strong. Who of us allows his neighbours to empty their wastes and shits in our backyards. 

Know Your Limit, don't Kill Your Limit! 

Tight Lines!

Turku 9.5.2003

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