Fiskeutstyr koster endel penger og når man klarer å ødelegge noe av det så gjør det vondt langt inn i sjela. Spesielt når det er på grunn av egen dumhet/uforsiktighet. Jeg hadde en slik hendelse tidligere i år. Dette er muligens ikke verdens mest spennende blogginnlegg, men jeg deler med dere allikevel...
Det var på sensommeren mener jeg og jeg var på brygga for å stelle litt med båten. Jeg tar alltid med meg ei fiskestang når jeg skal ned på brygga - naturligvis! Jeg hadde med meg min Savage Gear Big Pike-stang og på den satt en Ambassadeur 5601C...
Gjeddefiskets merklige psykologi
Jeg bruker å tenke (og si høyt noen ganger) at gjeddefiske som oftest er litt som å spille golf. En dag så går det hur bra som helst - neste dag funker ingenting og man vet ikke hvorfor. Jeg tipper at de fleste som har prøvd begge kjenner seg igjen på dette.
Selv om det er veldig frustrerende de dagene ting ikke fungerer så er det ingenting annet å si enn at dette er mye av sjarmen med å fiske. Om det gikk like bra hver gang man fisket så hadde det blitt kjedelig... eller?
Det er mange elementer som påvirker fisket. Men, jeg er ganske overbevist...
Team Riverpigs vs Evja Pikers?
Team Riverpigs og Evja Pikers fisker i Nedre Glomma (Evja over større områder) og Lars-Jørgen Karlsen (Evja) kom opp med en artig ide tidligere i høst - nemlig at vi burde holde en uhøytidlig konkurranse mellom Evja og Riverpigs neste sesong. Dette syns vi høres veldig artig ut!
Ingenting er spikret eller planlagt i det hele tatt, men det har vært snakk om å kanskje ha et par forskjellige konkurranser. En hvor vi fisker i hver vår båt og en hvor vi fisker i samme båt og fisker annenhver time (altså, Evja fisker første time, Riverpigs neste, osv.)....
Eksperiment Kina
Jeg har lenge vært litt nysgjerrig på produkter bestilt fra Kina direkte (via f.eks. AliExpress.com), men har samtidig vært veldig skeptisk. Ukjente produkter fra østen som koster en brøkdel av hva merkevarer koster her hjemme? Tvilsomt...
MEN, så tenkte jeg som så: når en rull med 500m multifilament koster under 100 kroner (gratis frakt), så er det vel egentlig verdt et forsøk? Jeg tror jeg kommer til å holde meg til småting (sene, sluker, kanskje kroker, swivels etc.) dog. Sneller og slike ting styrer jeg unna.
Men, nå har jeg altså en rull...
Favorittbaits
Tenkte å ta for meg et forholdsvis vanskelig tema, nemlig å fortelle litt om favorittbaits som jeg bruker. Grunnen til at det er vanskelig er rett og slett fordi jeg er den typen som bytter baits ofte når jeg fisker (sikkert altfor ofte). Jeg tar noen kast og om jeg ikke får noe på de kastene så begynner blikket å vandre mot baitbucket'en og baitboksene. Jeg er klar over at det sannsynligvis ikke er så lurt, men jeg kan ikke noe for det :-). Men...
Mr. BackAndForth is back!
I changed this blog to English earlier this year. Well, now I'm not sure if I want it to be. I notice when I write posts that the quality of the content is lesser when I write in English.
So, I'm wondering if I should switch back to Norwegian. Let's face it - this blog isn't exactly the most interesting blog around and targets a very narrow group of people.
The next post might be in Norwegian... I guess Google Translate can be used if you don't read Norwegian and really want to see what I'm babbling on about :)
Chee...
A great day of pike fishing!
Last Sunday (2.October 2016) me and my friend Dag Ronny Hansen had our annual fall pike pass. It was supposed to be the weekend after, but because of some double booking we had to change the date.
This is the fourth year in a row me and Dag have fished for pike in the fall together, and we have stamped this event as a tradition now. I obviously always love going pike fishing, but I have to, with hand over heart, say that I really enjoy fishing with...
September pass booked
Next Sunday - 25th of September - me and Ali are going out pike fishing. We'll go out really early in the morning and fish most of the day. Some uncontrollable variables control if we can fish all day or not, but either way it'll be quite a few hours.
I'll be exciting to see if the pikes are willing to bite or not. Sure, it's fall and they should be pretty 'on', but this fall has been extraordinary warm around here, so it might be that they are still in summer-mode. We'll see.
We will be fishing the river Glomma where I have my boat. We'll hit...
Anual fall pass booked
So, for the last 3 years me and a buddy of mine, Dag Ronny, have done a day trip fishing for fall pike. It has become sort of a tradition I guess and I'm really grateful for these trips. It's great fun.
I guess you can say that the fishing hasn't been very great on any of the previous trips really, but we've had a great time anyway.
So, this years trip has been booked (we booked in earlier this summer actually). It will be on either Saturday or Sunday the 2nd weekend of October.Location is still undetermined and will remain so until maybe the...
Then and now...
I fished quite a bit when I was a kid and in my early youth. When I was out fishing today, my thoughts went back to those days and how different the equipment is now from then.
Of course, back then I didn't have a lot of money to buy a bunch of different gear and baits, but even if I did, the selection in the stores was very limited.
I had a couple of favorite baits back then that I fished all the time and which I bought over and over again when I lost them. For me those were Abu Garcia Hi-Lo (jointed red/white) and a spoon called Lillauren (copper...
Nedre Glomma Gjeddefestival - report
So, during this last weekend the anual Nedre Glomma Gjeddefestival (Nedre Glomma Pike Festival) was held and Team Riverpigs participated for the second time. We had been looking forward to this event for weeks and this is maybe the highlight of the late summer for us.
This year 51 teams competed - which was a new record (by 15 teams no less) and 104 individuals. Really great. The event got quite a bit of local media coverage also, which...
Favorite bait type
When my interest for pike fishing re-ignited some years ago, it was mainly due to the amazing movie "Gäddfeber" from Sweden, featuring Stefan "Trumman" Trumstedt and Torbjörn "Buster" Odén. These two guys had a once in a life time fishing experience, catching numerous 10+ pikes. As far as I know, they mainly used Buster Jerk baits.
I got hooked on jerk bait fishing (or glider baits as they're called in the US) and this has been my favorite...
My first 10+ pike!!!
I went out this morning to fish some pike. I started off with some shallow trolling and did that for a while. Didn't catch anything - as expected really.
The water level in the river has went down drastically the last couple of days - especially during last night. It's almost down to the lowest level actually.
I went to a well known spot - it's known to hold big pike, but I have never had any luck there... until today! I put on a Savage Gear rubber...
Report from C&R pike competition
Ok, so we participated in Aremark Gjeddeklubb's C&R Pike Competition in Aspern and Ara near Halden this last weekend. Me and Ali headed out on Friday night and spent the night there (the competition started on Saturday morning). Why? Because the registration started fairly early Saturday morning and we wanted to avoid having to get up super early on Saturday to make the fairly long drive.
Our tents are up and ready
We got the boat on...
