Been farting about with the inflatable boat some this summer. But it was time to upgrade it, and with the refund from the Greys Greyflex S beach casting rod that the retailer in York never managed to send in a workable condition, I purchased a Lowrance 4x pro fish finder for it. That and a couple of rod holders is so far my version of pimping my inflatable boat. The problem of adding stuff to my boat, is that I don’t have a trailer to [...]

Finally, at the age of 40, I am fishing afloat in my own boat. Well, it’s not exactly a grand vessel, my little Chinese made Hifei HSD 270. And the 4 Hp Johnson Sea Horse motor that pushes it about on the waters was made the year my wife was born. But the boat floats and the screws are turning so at this point I ain’t complaining. The boat has a wood deck, so I am not to worried about sharp hooks landing there. And [...]

The Fisherman’s Wife waiting for her husband, while shielding her face from the storm. The seas are like a mirror, reflecting the white capped mountains, on a clear sunny day in Lofoten. You are into fish, with you best mates aboard and life is good. And 15 minutes later you are in raging, white capped, inferno, and the once so peaceful seas are trying to kill you. That is also Lofoten. Just to drive in how dangerous the can be, here are some facts from [...]

  Of course what clothes you choose for your fishing trip to our Northern shores depends on the weather. The only problem is that before you can get your floatie on, it will have changed. The north is not very warm either. Well, the climate is surprisingly mild for an area of the globe that is further north than Alaska. Oslo in the south of Norway, where we keep our capitol city so us northerners don’t have to be bothered by the urban cafe latte [...]

There has  been an accident involving four Lithuanian fishing tourists off Værøy in Lofoten today several newspapers reports. None say anything about what happened but they were in the water, as they where rescued by fishing vessel “Kari Anne” and a SAR helicopter from the SAR station in Bodø. Unfortunately one of the four lost his life. It was around 11am when the fishing vessel “Kari Anne” reported to the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre that it had rescued two people who was found floating in [...]

2-3 weeks ago I was looking for and found a reasonable priced surf rod on Ebay. The Greys Greyflex S is not to be found here in Norway, so ordering from abroad was the only option. So I ordered the rod, and as usual on Ebay, it was payed for trough Paypal. Normaly when I order things, in this case from a dealership in the UK, the goods are in my hands within days. For example a part for the flash gun of my Canon [...]

ABU Ambassadeur  reels need servicing to work over time. And if you take the time and effort, you will have a reel that may last you a life time. My ABU Ambassadeur 6500 CS Rocket is 15 years old, and my latest purchase, a red ABU 7000 is 20 years old, and both reels are still going strong, and is in use on every fishing trip. Since I go fishing several times a week, I use a pretty hard maintenance schedule. After every trip I [...]

This morning as I checked Norwegian Post tracking system for my latest purchase, an original ABU Ambassadeur 7000 “Made in Sweden” from 1991, I was pretty much resigned that it would still be stuck in some mail terminal in Oslo, where it had been for nearly a week. But there it was, arrived in Harstad. I just had to go to the post office to pick it up, where for a 230NOK customs fee I could take it into my possession. As I am only [...]

The family got thrown into the fish-mobile and we motored to lake Vikevannet for some trout fishing, and generally just enjoy the unusual high temperatures that where hovering around 25-30 degrees. This lake is overpopulated with undersized trout, and you are pretty much guaranteed to have a tiny trout hanging on your hooks with every cast. Not so fun for the adults, but popular with the kids, and a nice place to take them to learn how to fish. The wife took the first one [...]

So far this season I have been using two rods for my shore fishing with baits. The rod I have had the most luck with is the ABU Garcia Workhorse 2 salmon multiplier rod. It’s a 10′ rood rated for casting weights of 20-60 grams, so for using it is as a beach rod, it’s quite light. But it did bring in a 12lb cod for me last weekend. But then again, Salmon is one of the strongest fish there is, and they routinely catch [...]