Jan O

Hello friends, you must check this out. My friend Lubomir has created a FishMobile, an Audi turned into a fishermans car dream Lubomir is a fishconservator by occupation and can handle a paintjob... and hes got a sense of humour... http://fiskenyheter.se/nyheter.php?id=1494 http://fiskenyheter.se/webbtv.php?id=146

Hello friends, hope all of you are well I have spent many hours this summer searching for pelagic zander by vertical jigging. Zander that swims over great depths, searching for bait. These fish has by tradition always been caught by trolling, but can be found and caught in other ways with the right technique. This involves some tricks with the sonar among other things... I havent had tis fun in 20 years. I have translated an article via google, it looks a bit funny but i hope you will enjoy it anyway. Its really revolutionary... http://translate.google.se/translate?js=y&...sl=sv&tl=en Ps, i love the pic where the fish dances with the jigg...

Btw, check this out, an incredible Italian pike... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QUUHtUHMmbQ/S6ZC...PIKE+TROPHY.jpg

Thanks Dale, Yes, I have seen the light . Its not even fun, just gready, to fish on the spawning places. I know of several places where the fish has disappeared due to heavy fishing year after year and it makes me very sad...

...nature is moving fast right now, in just a couple of days the fish has entered the spawning grounds and has made the fishing very easy, and a bit unetical. The last trip was very succesful, I caught 7-8 zander in perhaps two hours, the fishingwas almost to easy. Now the fish is going to be left alone, to be sure that a new generation will be secured...

...at last, spring is arriving in Sweden and so is the zander. Ive fished two times last week and not a single fish, yesterday the curse was broken... One lost fish and this 65 cm lovely looking "springer". Now Im going at it again, se ya.

Hello my friends, very long time, no see... Time just fly. Ive been busy working, among other things ive launched a swedish fishingnews magazine on the internet fiskenyheter and this has taken an enormous amount of time, its doing great... But, ive also been to your wonderful island, fishing for salmon in river North Esk for the second time. I managed to catch two lovely springer, enclosing a pic of one of the. This one was caught at Pert, Bridges beat. Now im just awaiting my friends to report that the zander fishing has started, it cant be long now... Live Well. //Jan O

Youre absolutely right... They are very much canibals, this is well documented. There has been atempts to try to exterminate crayfish by heavy fishing, this has only led to more but smaller crays.... You cant get rid of them, and they are imune to what we call "crayfishplague" that killed our domestic crayfish.... The population expands by the factor 8. One female leads to 8 new crayfish and so on... So, the conclusion is, if you cant get rid of them, eat them

Hi Steve, in my Swedish lakes there are millions of crayfish and they have never endangered any other fish or species... On the contrary, both Eel, perch, and pike enjoy eating them. Some Perch even specialize in crayfish and this shows in some of the fish fins, they almost burn in red, beautiful fish... Im enclosing one of them.... But, in the lakes that contain char for example, crayfish is beeing blamed for eating fisheggs... the original swedish crayfish was no problem but the american signal crayfish that has replaced the swedish enjoys much deeper water, where the char spawns, and is therefor a threat... Next week we start the yearly fishing for crayfish to eat, they are lovely. Boiled in water, salt, dill and onions... and to this you drink swedish snaps until you drop... an old viking tradition [ quote name=Steve Walker' date='Aug 10 2009, 10:05 AM' post='2691226] I fished a crayfish infested length of the upper Thames yesterday evening and wasn't bothered by them - my method doesn't seem to pick out the bigger fish, though Had about a dozen fish, mostly dace with a few chub, nothing over about 4oz, but good fun all the same. Hitting dace on the fly is, erm, challenging! I had a chat with a bloke who owns a stretch of the river and lives by it - he blames the poor fishing on that stretch on the crayfish (personally I think there are probably other factors), but he is trapping and eating hundreds of crays each week without making a dent in the population. That's a lot of biomass - what are they pushing out, I wonder?

...hello friends, the swedish summer has been lovely this year, lots of sun and c-vitamin... Ive done som traveling lately, fishing for zander in lake Storsjön in the middle of Sweden, not without succes, a green Fin-S was strong medicin... Now im awaiting september, if the rain comes it will be a wonderful autumn for seatrout.... Live well... I do...

...Budgie, what are you wating for? People find so many excuses Not to go fishing... . Get some friends together in may next year and I will show you the best zander fishing there is.... At least in Sweden... Well, now its barebeque and czech beer for the rest of the evening... zander fishing tomorrow... Live well.

...time is flying... its already midsummer and im actually enjoying a small glas of Lagavulin and at the same time planing a flyfishing trip in october to British Columbia, fishing för Coho Salmon among other great fish http://www.pittriverlodge.com/ ... recently the fishing in my nearby lakes has been super... enclosing at few pics for anyone interested... Soon its time for some serious attempts on big perch, Live Well and if you celebrate midsummer, have a nice one.... Btw, Trigger X Zander, a gel that contains feromones has been outstanding... spice your jigs and be amazed...

...Thanks Tigger, yes it really was an excellent trip... Im going today also, but the wind is wrong... Hopefully it will turn in the afternoon...

...summer is closing in and its really zander time right now... Yesterday I made a serious attempt to catch one of the bigger females... It was hard, only males where interested, but very nice sizes and numbers, 15 fish in four hours, the biggest was a coloured fish at almost 10 ppunds... all on VJ using big jigs...

...finally, entlich... the spring fishing for zander is at its best... Couldnt resist fishing a few hours yesterday, vertical jigging on lake Mälaren. A beautiful evening and angry vampires, four wonderful fish with at nice 9 pounder as final fish... Its great to be alive!