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 [...]

Had a nice session with my new rod and reel yesterday afternoon. The tide was up around 6pm, so I hit my mark around 3pm, as around here, fishing is best the last 2 hours before high tide, and the first hour after. Rigged up my surf rod first with the new 7000iC3 reel with a pulley tackle using boiled prawns as bait. I simply tie them on using normal office type eleastic bands…works great. Anyway chucked out but was not happy with the distance. [...]