Hi and
happy New-year
As the year
has changed and the wait and preparations for the next salmon season have
begun, it’s a good time to look back at the season 2017.
Season 2017
for me was definitely defined by one thing, High water conditions.
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| The Mighty Skoltefossen |
My trip to
Neiden began as so many times before, at Midsummer. Normally at this time the
spring flood has already passed and the river tends to be in “normal” summer water conditions(flow<60m3/s), but as it happened this year the spring was around 2-3 weeks late and the flood was still on (flow 136m3/s) and the water was very cold(6,6°C)when we arrived.
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| Korbiniva at arrival, this caused some dissbelief (flow 136m3/s) |
During the 2 weeks I spent there the conditions started to improve as the water level dropped to normal high water conditions (>70m3/s) and the temperature began to rise to around 10 °C.
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| Korbiniva at departure(flow 70m3/s) |
As the conditions improved so did the fishing and the second week of my trip happened to be the best week of the season
The biggest down side of the high water conditions on Neiden is that most of my favorite fishing spots were unfishable, for an example Lillefossen.
But nonetheless the trip to Neiden was catch vise one of my all-time best.
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| The Fly-Fishing Zone (flow 70m3/s) |
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| Skolefossen at High tide, no rapids here |
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| Upper part of Krokfossen, caught the 94cm fish here |
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| Panorama, Korbiniva |
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| Panorama, upper part of Krokfossen |
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| Panorama, upper part of Lillefossen |
2017 I also decided to start learning salmon fishing in the river Kymi, and what better way to do so than to take part in the annual Finnish championship of salmon fly-fishing. The idea was to be able to fish the river with people that are far more experienced on that river.
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| Ruhavuolle fly-fishing zone |
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| The Beach |
So during the later part of September I made a couple of trips to the River (the other being the competition), which got me one grilse and one 73cm long fish (which actually happened to be the only qualifying fish in the competition, talk about luck )
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| Where could they be (competition day 1.) |
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| The weather was nice (Competition day 2) |
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| The boat trolling in the picture lost a huge(10-15Kg) salmon shortly after |
Also in Kymi the Water level was high, at least according to the other people I talked to at the river
My salmon season 2017 in numbers:
-2 Rivers
-17 days of fishing
-24 salmon caught, 6 Multi Sea Winter fish + 18 grilse
-Best flies: Blue Charm, Sarvijaakko
-Most used lines: 65´ Airflo floating spey line, Guideline connect S2+4-5tip
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| Biggest of the Year (96cm) |
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| Getting Ready to go |
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| 94cm Silver from Krokfossen |
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| Strong 84cm |
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| First one from Kymi |
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| Off he goes |
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| Competition Fish |
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| Fast measurements |
Thank you
