Lock N Load!

Today our journey begins, we will go by car all the way up to Bodo in Norway and from there take the Ferry out to the island Vaeroy, that is located at the southern tip of Lofoten.

The weather forecast is looking more and more promising, when I looked at it about one week ago it looked like we could loose alot of our days to wind. But now we might only loose one single day! (saturday), but might even be able to fish in one of the more isolated coves on saturday. We got a solid boat a Sea Pro 220(21') with a 150 engine and one backup engine. We got VHF so I feel quite safe this time.

We fish between saturday and friday. If there is any available internet up there I will try to keep this blog updated, I blame the slow delivery of my 3G modem I was going to buy!



 As you can see above, Its always windy but the definition could be very different. I will be in touch with you guys, got about 1 hour left to pack and I honestly can't understand how some people manage to go fishing using an airplane because my luggage is massive.

Atleast I come prepared, would hate to sit up there not having the right tools.

Heres a few examples.

Some of my leaders, used Seaguar it is definately my favourite flurocarbon to use, its soft and easy to work with even on higher lb tests. They are reinforced with kevlar tubing around the terminal tackle. Trying the chainnot this trip did improved clinch not before, not that I was disappointed using that but I wish to try new things.

Bag of jigs (softjigs) + my speed jig bag filled. Its more jigs than it looks and it weights more than I wish to admit...

Cya guys on the flipside!

Meet Nemo & Friends

I went to my local tackle shop today and was going to stock up on some extra terminal tackle for the trip on thursday but he had some unpacked lures standing in big boxes right inside the shop. After a short examination of the box I could see that it came from kinetic.

So... I knew that Kinetic been releasing some of their new saltwater fishing lures for cod and halibut but they haven't been in stock. I was quite certain that I would not get to try them on this coming trip, but lucky as I am.... This was it!

They unpacked the boxes and here they were.

Let me introduce Nemo with friends!

As you can see they are quite large compared to the pen.

The names of the lures is.

Red Ed (Rose Fish) 395g
Flat Mat (Halibut Alert) 400g
Scary Jerry (Spotted Wolffish) 365g

I can let you all know that they look and feel extremely realistic when you have them in your hand. It's one thing to see them on pictures and on movies but another to actually have them infront of you. I have a great confidence that they will all deliver what they promise.

Although I was after the glowing wolffish they didn't have that in stock. However these do look really nice, I think that the flat fish is going to be great when fishing on sandy bottom on quite shallow depths. But ofcourse I get to try all these on the coming trip now. So I guess Nemo will need to keep his back clear because he is going to get it busy....

Tight lines.

Custom Synit Deepshot 150 & 350, Enjoy the scenery!

Going to keep the text low and just let you enjoy the pictures. The rods are so light, almost like a feather. I felt that my old rod the Super Seeker Hercules 60H was light..(it is) but these are even lighter.

I love them. Can't wait to try them out.

So here they are enjoy.

Custom Elite Synit Deepshot 350 (Name: Strumpan) and Custom Elite Synit Deepshot 150 (Name: Pricken).

Added pictures of them mounted aswell and I am sorry that some of the pictures does not come in order. But the DS350 is the one in Black/Red/Gold the DS150 is the one in Silver/Purple/White colors.

The Custom Synit Deepshot 150 & 350 Rods have arrived!

Happy Day :)

Boy was I happy when Fedex arrived at my office yesterday! The shipping went perfect. The rods are amazing. Truely a masterpiece. I am especially in love with the Synit Deepshot 150.

Thank you Synit, Graeme and CJ.

I will be posting images on these early next week!

Have a nice weekend!

Shiny!!!! Me like!

I guess I am a real sucker for accessories when it comes to fishing.. So here is another one!

I decided to take it in purple since I have not seen many use that color. How do you guys like it? :D

It is Jigging Masters cheapest belt, I decided to go with their small gimbal pin belt. Since gimbal is what I currently got on my rod and I do not have a Popper rod yet so no real use for a rubber gimbal belt yet.

Also I know we do not have all that much "big" fish in Scandinavia where you will actually need a belt. But lets say that really big one comes on and you fight it for quite long period of time.. might feel reassuring to have a belt in the boat. Plus I know, this will come to good use on my future trips to other remote locations in the world.

It feels light and steady. I like the comfort. Oh I forgot to mention that the belt in the background is bought as an extra, it is not included with the belt. It is a back support belt also from Jigging Master.

Shortie, but goodie! until next time, BLING BLING.

Bag me up, Scotty!

So basically something I figured out a long time ago is that you can't really find the bags you are looking for on the Swedish market. The bags out there are either adapted to fly fishing / fly fishing reels or pike fishing. Nothing for the one looking for smart bags to travel with and save your expensive fishing reels at the same time.

You might think it sounds like an easy task, Hey go find a bag to put your reels and jig in? How hard can it be? It is in noway an easy task, let me tell you that much!

So after alot of research I have found two bags that I am very very satisfied with, Both arrived last week.

One of the bags is a reel storage bag of medium size for up to 4 reels. The other is a jig storage bag for your normal flat side jigs.

Both are built extremely well, robust construction and with very nice design aswell.

Here is a picture on both of the bags on the same picture.





So what do we got?

1. First bag from left side is a HOTS Tackle Bag Size Medium.

2. Second bag from the left side is a Jigging Master Detachable Jig Bag

So lets discuss whats good about the first bag? Well first of all it's made of a very robust outer material plus its waterproof, the seams seem very good and there is no parts that can easily break. Its quite light in weight and the good stuff comes when we open the bag to look inside.

There is a small pocket where you can load up all your reel tools, grease, screwdrivers, rod holders etc. Fits perfectly. What you see below is my 4 reels that is now covered with two isolating pillows that you can place where you want sice they are made with velcro on the sides and so is the bag. They seem to isolate very good from damage and bounces. The bag comes with a total of three customizable pillows. I placed one in the middle between my two set of reels and the other two ontop of each side to reduce vibration.

This is how it looks with both of the small pillows moved up. Very nice bag overall! I got mine from Kilsong at his site, jignpop.com.

                                                 Up next is the jig bag from Jigging Master.

If there is anything bad to say about this bag, it would be that it is a little heavy from the start. Even without it filled of jigs!

However the construction and quality of the bag easily makes up for that. This is one of the most well thought bags I have ever seen. Its made out of quality rubber materials making it tough. It also has velcro inside of it so if you wanna remove one of the jig (pages) you can, reason I am saying pages is that it is like a book where you can fold between the different pages. 

The entire jig bag contains four full pages of spots for jigs. I managed to fit 20 quality jigs in it plus four in the front pocket.

I think this bag is worth it, if you already did spend a couple of hundred dollars on your jigs you do not want them to get scratched and destroyed due to bad handling.

So this is my tip to you guys, even there is no one listening just yet ;) These two bags are great if you are looking for the same thing I was.

Have a nice day all you fishermen out there.

21 days to go.. Vaeroy.

Almost there...

This post means two things.. Almost there, we leave the 7th of April.. only 24 days left before we sit in the car driving up to Bodo and then taking the boat to Vaeroy.

Second thing! My Synit rods are almost complete the last update is that the silicon inlays is supposed to be dried and finished and the rods will be shipped on Thursday. Graeme took some pictures , the rods ain't finished at these pictures and they are still a little blurry since they keep spinning on the drying rack.

Let me present a sneak peak on DS150 Pricken (The Dot) and DS350 Strumpan (The Sock).

Graeme even was nice enough to give his last example of a limited edition of the DS350, it sounds great. Hear his response. I must say its been a pleasure working together with Synit in crafting these two fishing rods. I can recommend them warmly.

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the address, here are a few pic's of the two rods sorry the focus is a bit out on some but they were spinning at a speed where the camera had trouble foucusing. We have one coat left to go on Pricken and possibly two on Strumpan. The weather is limiting us to one coat a day so it will be the weekend before we can do the inlays on the grip grooves.

I should have done a few more of the limited edition DS350 blanks as they are slimmer than the standard DS350 blank and feel really nice when loaded up. You have a true one off rod in Strumpan as it is the last of the 10 limited edition DS350 blanks we did. I may use the same special carbon wrap when we do a limited edition of the 2012 Synit Kaha Espada jigging rods

Thanks

Graeme

So I hope you enjoy the pictures. I will take some on my own once I receive the rods here in Sweden.

Over and out!