Midsummers Eve approaches! Destination Vikna...

So traditionally I would spend the midsummers eve with my girlfriend eating good traditional swedish food and beverages! But this year we had nothing special planned, so there was no suprise that when my friends asked me if I wanted to go back to Norweig and fish for three days and celebrate midsummers eve there that I said yes!!

We are going tomorrow, this time we are going back to where I started fishing in Norweig, Vikna archipelago it's located quite a bit north of Trondheim but not as high north as Lofoten. The camp is called Vikna Skärgårdscamp.

We felt that the last time we were there the place had alot of potential being hardly fished by any tourists and the boats we had back then was very basic, even without a plotter. This time we are bringing our own boat, so the expectations are high. We are also alot more experienced fisherman now then we were back then. I did loose a halibut there last time! Time for a rematch!

Now with a few days left before we arrive the weather forecasts looks very promising with light wind and some rain, this could change but at the moment it looks good. The wind is the only thing I am worried about as the traveltime to the fishing destinations here is quite long but is well worth the effort of going all the way.

The bad thing about this trip for me is that my friends decided to go by car on the westcoast of sweden, I live on the east side. This meant I had to try and get my gear together and try to take it with me by airplane to Oslo where my friends pick me up. I Never thought my gear weighed as much as it did, I do not have half of it packed and i easily breeched the 40kg limit...Sigh, I think I packed and unpacked my gear 5 times yesterday, I just keep removing fishing lures one by one since they weigh so much... My guess is I will end up with to few...I am only bringing two rods and two reels aswell, bummer! It's better to get used to it now since I imagine I will be going alot more times using airplane.

Anyways, I will make a little report once I am back home from this short trip.

I am looking forward to this summer alot, first I am going to Malta between the 14th - 21th of July with my girlfriend, There I am going out with Nick from Maltafishing.com and we will do a costsharing trip with a few others from Malta and jig for some tuna, amberjack or whatever the ocean has to offer, it's also dependant on what everyone wants to do, but Vertical Jigging is on the main menue. Yummy!

Later on, the 18th of August I am going back up to Vaeroy where I was earlier this year in April. My main focus will be catching a big coalfish and to break my old halibut record which I also got earlier during April this year! So I would not would not mind working really hard for halibut that entire week!

I'll keep ya updated!

Tight lines.