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 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 [...]

Yesterday I woke up and decided that fishing was a pretty good idea for the day. So the fish mobile was packed, said farewell to women and children and into the rising sun the mighty hunter/gatherer set forth on his voyage! After a couple of miles down the road, however, the mobile chirped it’s merry tune. It was the wife informong the mighty warrior that he had left his tea and food at home… So after returning for that I set forth again. The plan [...]

Been blanking for a few trips. So it was time to head back to the Mercur quay in the polluted waters of Harstad harbor again. This time armed with mackerel for bait. The weather however was not very cooperative. And while it was gray with a hint of softness in the air, before I had the second rod up, a good wind was blowing straight in my face, and the rain was drumming hard on the fish-mobile parked next to me. But before I could [...]

The weather was rather nice, with the sun shining form clear skies. So I got my kit into the fish-mobile and headed for Mercur in Harstad harbour again for some possible flatties. As there simply is no herring to be purchased in the area, and the mackerel has not arrived yet, I would have to fish for bait. Either saithe, or perhaps whiting. But none of those would be there for me on this trip. So with no bait suitable for the halibut, it was [...]

This may sound incredible, but I have never caught a flounder. In fact I have never landed a flat fish at all. So yesterday it was off to my new mark at Mercur in Harstad. It sits smack in the middle of what is probably one of the most polluted harbours in Norway, after about a hundred years of ship building industry. The bottom is so loaded with  heavy metals that I am surprised the fish can manage to swim. But my fishing buddy Andy, [...]

It’s been a while since my last entry on this blog. Well, last season went down the drain as the wife got pregnant, and when our baby boy was born, I got seriously ill shortly afterwards. Well, now I am on the mend and did the first shore fishing trip of the year this last Friday. The mark was a quay right across the harbour from the centre of Harstad, where the previous weekend my fishing buddy “Andy” caught a 39lb halibut from the shore. [...]

My fishing buddy, Torstein purchased a nut shell of a boat back in January. Since then we’ve either had temperatures approaching minus 20 degrees, blizzards or neither of us have had time off to enjoy it. Until finally this Saturday we both had time off, and with the sun shining from blue skies and not a breath of wind, it was time to launch the boat and get out there. The boat is an open 16″ thing with a 25hp Mercury at the stern, and [...]

Headed to Trondenes to try out the Quay by Trondenes Historical Centre outside Harstad. The weather was beautiful. Sunshine for the first time in a month, where we have just slogged trough the wettest September in about 60 years. But today we woke up to clear skies, and frozen water puddles on the ground. So with the tide up around noon, I packed my car and headed for nearby Trondenes. It’s only a 3 minute drive. Set up my surf rod with herring and prawns [...]

,Made another trip to the old quay again. On setting up my old Ambassadeur 6500 CS Rocket had a problem. The spool, even with the brake adjustment knob taken completely off, the spool would not free spool properly. But decided to make a few casts, and it was soon it’s old self. Well…not quite. After a few casts I had a spectacular birds nest. I will come back to that as what happened next was that my fishing buddy pointed out that the surf rod [...]