Happy new year!

2009 has been a great year, the birth of my son in november has been the greatest experience ever. In january, the first day of the year we sold our apartment close to the hart of Bodø in advantage of a house we bought on new year`s eve on the island of saltstraumen. Waking up every day to the pure and fresh enviroment close to the sea is something that I will not regret for a second. Now that we were about to live in such a place as this I needed a bigger boat, so I turned my nose south and travelled to the area around Oslo where trolling is the game and I bought this Ryds 600bf, a 20ft boat build for sportfishing with downriggers and Raymarine electronics. Many hours and lots of gasoline has given me more sea to fish. -trolling for seatrout and halibut and deep sea fishing for other species.

My greatest achievements in fishing this year.

In may I managed to catch a 42lbs halibut fishing from the shore in the fjord of skjerstad, I have been trying to do this for five-six years now and finally it came throught. Flyfishing for seatrout in the sea gave me a fish with the weight of about 5lbs, but it was the fishing and everything around me and in the sea that makes this fish special for me. In the river of Saltdal at the south end of the skjerstadfjord I had a great time flyfishing. Seatrout with the weight of 15lbs and new personal best salmon catch, a fish that measured 109 cm, and that is about 30lbs on a single hand loomis #8 flyrod. The salmon went back to the river to ensure later generations of giant salmon genes, it was so great to watch that perfectly build fish swim out of my hands with majestic movements away from the riverbank. In october, baitfishing became an obsession again when I started fishing a short shoreline that I`ve been thinking about for some years now, with the catch of small halibut three times I believe that I have discovered a new great spot, cant wait to fish this place when the weather gets warmer. Then Saltstraumen once again delivered, a 50lbs cod, a new great personnal best and I am still today excited.

 This seasons I did not get much time for coalfish, in june once I was fishing for bait from my boat and suddenly the screen on my fishfinder was filled up with giant coalies and the fish was hammering my lure 6feet under my boat for about 30 minutes until we left for some halibut.

This picture shows you the reality that awaits me, winthermonths shorefishing in bodoe. Wind, ice, cold, rain and snow and it`s all mine. I will use every hour and every minute that I can -fishing and beeing outdoors. -The price is the summer, flyfishing freshwater and rivers for trout, char, seatrout and salmon, that is recreation and holiday for me.

The last few weeks there has been little or no fishing, the weather has not been right with freezing temperaturesand lots of wind, christmas has been a relaxing period with family and food.

Usually January and february the fishing can be poor but I will do my best to make my fishing a success. Beeing outdoors is always something...

Happy new year and tight lines!

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Lake Toho Bass Fishing is Miraculous!

  Vacationing in Orlando take bass fishing adventure. Jeannie & Bruce from New York did and had a miraculous day bass fishing in Orlando!

Jeannie and Bruce are just that couple, while tossing a shiner out on a free line, we notice the second line crossed the first. The first line got a bite and the shiner on the second line wrapped around the first. “WOW, is that confusing or what.”

So, Bruce sets the hook on the second line, minutes later Jeannie start to reel a fish in on the first line. Bruce has contact with his fish and it’s fighting incredibility hard, mean while Jeannie fish is starting to take drag. Both at the same time, both fighting and pulling like it’s the biggest fish in the lake.

At almost identically times, both fish get near the boat. Bruce cranks his up close, we see the fish..it’s a nice 6+ pound bass. Jeannie is reeling with all her might to land her fish. As Bruce gets his fish in the net, we noticed that Jeannie’s “fish” fishing line is hooked on Bruce’s line.

So, awesome catch for Bruce and false alarm for Jeannie. But as Bruce later described, “for 40 seconds it was the catch of Jeannie life,”… as we all laughed together!

As the day progressed and the catching continued, several other big fish were caught by both Jeannie and Bruce to top off there day of fishing in Orlando. Pictures prove both of them caught trophy bass in November on Lake Toho outside of Orlando Florida.

We appreciate your business and look forward to fishing with you in the future.

Till next time tight lines and good fishing….
From Staff Writer Capt John Leech (johnl@bassonline.com)
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Winter an der Donau

In der letzten Woche wars bei uns richtig knackig kalt. Jeden Tag zwischen -5 u. -10 Grad und meistens recht starken Westwind. Nicht gerade kuschelig an der Donau.....

Heute jedoch konnte ich nicht anders, der Drang zu fischen war einfach zu groß, so gab ich diesem nach....

Den Bericht darüber werde ich so kurz halten wie das Fischen ansich.

Es war Arschkalt, obwohls eh nur -3 C° hatte. Der Wind war extrem stark, ich konnte mich kaum sicher auf der nass/eisigen Steinschüttung der Donau bewegen. Auch die Finger waren bald kaum noch zu spüren.

Doch dann die Erlösung in Form einer Fehlattacke auf meinen Glider in "Perch". Ich war wieder hellwach, kam mir das Wasser bisher recht fischleer vor.

Schnell auf den Rot/Weissen "Drunk" gewechselt, der in letzter Zeit viele Bisse brachte und schon war die Rute krumm. Der Fisch reisst ein paar Meter geflecht über die fastchlossene Bremse und............ schlitzt aus......

Als ich den Köder kontrolliere wird klar, ich hatte wohl im relativ seichten Wasser einen schönen Waller im Rücken gehakt. Der Köder war überzogen mit Schleim...

Fassungslos machte ich noch ein paar Würfe mit dem gleichen Köder, und fing einen kleinen Schiad.....kaum ein Trost

Ich hoffe den Wels,noch vor Neujahr regulär haken und auch landen zu können.
TL

SUR-fishing

Finally got my Kow!

I got up at 2am, drove down from Richmond and was on the water by 5am. I was aiming for the morning tide change and finally after 6 trips of at least 8hrs each (usually 12), I got my kow. 45" 36lbs. I got him on braid early and decided to get him in the car. As I was getting back out, I get a call from Charlie Church, and told him Kevin got two, another guy got two, and I got one. According to his report, he did pretty darn good (50+lber!). I went out to the drift and got pretty close to the bouy. There were lots of boats out there. I had three take downs total. One of which I hooked up to. I had 8lb test line (looking for a line class record). After a couple of minutes the hook came out. I left out the expletives from the video. On the way back in I ran into a school of porpoises. Got back to Richmond by 5pm in time to make it to my company xmas party. Tired, but an amazing day.

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Zeit wirds....

mal wieder zu posten. Im letzten Monat kam ich krankheitsbedingt fast garnicht zum Fischen. Wenns dann doch mal ging versuchte ich mein Glück natürlich auf Hecht & Zander.

Letztere sind übrigens wie vom Erdboden verschluckt und so konnte leider kein vorweihnachtlicher Stachelritter zum Landgang überredet werden.

Bei den Hechten lief es zahlenmäßig eigentlich recht gut, doch wieder war bei ca. 70cm schluss. Zwar maßig, aber dann doch nicht das erhoffte Großwild....

Auch Kollege Bernhard konnte sich mit einem Esox ins Fangbuch eintragen.

Lange Rede kurzer Sinn, währe es mir öfter möglich gewesen die Rute zu schwingen, hätte vielleicht der eine oder andere Größere Esox drin sein können. Hätte ....... könnte........ drauf geschi**en :-)

Aja, ein "Winterschiad" konnte auch überzeugt werden.

TL`s

SUR-fishing

Baitfishing has become an obsession

All the acheivements in my fishing the last few weeks has made me in to a baitfishing nerd. I`m almost forgetting about my boat, my lures, my flies and my job, hmm.. -what did I do for a living? Well, when desember turns into march and april I guess I will be dusting off some old salt and trout from my flyrods, and preparing my boat for some trolling. Anyway, I`ve been thinking about a tripod for my rods, It is not everywhere I can find rocks to support them. This is two great rods, the closest one is the DAM supernatural lightweight surf with the Shimano Big baitrunner LC, and then there is the great allround rod that feeds the bait, the lure or the jig to the biggest and the hard too reach fish with no proplems , Shimano Beastmaster 50-100gr. 12` supplied with the smaller Shimano baitrunner 10000. Both of theese rods and reels is a great combination for my fishing.

And then, todays fishing turned into a success with this 5kg 10lbs halibut that went back too the sea after a quick photo session. Perfect cast, perfect rig, perfect fish. High tide, no winds and a happy angler!

Cod, Big cod!

Yesterdays baitfishing in the dark, prowns on a sliding rig. I would not dream of a fish this size, a cod 25 kg, 50lbs. New personal best. Not much to say about the fishing, 5 minutes of fishing, 15 minutes of fighting. Did not believe my eyes when I saw this monster in the light of my petzl headlight.

I will use this fish for bacalao. First I need to make klippfisk, salting and drying it. the drying is usually done on rocks in the sun, but I will after 6 weeks of salting nail the fish with the flesh side out on a wall facing north witch is the driest side where I live. In april next year the fish will be ready for bacalao. Great food for anglers.

Klippfisk has been made in norway since 1700, and is important for export. The product is wery popular in Spain and portugal.