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!

...returned from scotland last sunday and what a wonderful river and what a wonderful country... I loved it. One whole week with good food, flyfishing and actually some salmon. We fished the Dalhousie beat, the Burn and the Stractahro beat. The water was fairly low and it hadnt rained a lot in a long time... The first days we fished small shrimps and flies like the stoats tail but had no success. I thought about how we do in Sweden when its hard fishing and tried a big Sunray Shadow, speeded it a bit and was rewarded almost imediately with a nice springer, a bit over 32 inches... the following day I played a salmon for over 20 minutes, the fish never got tired and finally won, we estimated the fish at 20 pounds minimum!... It took a big Allys Shrimp. The water was rising and was a bit coloured and a bit dirty. As a small comfort I got a nice seatrout soon after... Thanks for all the tips, I will be back next year... More pictures here http://janofiske.blogspot.com/

...a couple of more pics... if you want even more try http://janofiske.blogspot.com/ enjoy...

...my journey to Scotland was wonderful... the North Esk was a bit low and the fishing a bit hard. I managed to catch a nice springer, 32,3 inches on the Stracathro beat... The day after i played a 20 pounder+ in 20 minutes before it released it self... I became "Perfectly Numb" but got at seatrout short after, a little comfort... Lots of wonderful birds, nice seafood and lovely people made my stay to a life long memory, I will be back...

...happy birthday in advance... Such a nice place to "chat", propably the best forum in Europe...

Hi there, yes, I got your pics, lovely, it makes me wanna go back to "the Green Island". Just for fun I checked the prices att Blackwater Lodge, it has been raised since my last stay in 1995 Maybe not surprising but it takes at lot of cash to enjoy salmonfishing theese days...Wich guide did you hire in Sweden? As I said I know most of them... A lot of pike is spawning at the moment, yesterday I fished just a few hours eith a good friend Lennart, he caught a nice fish 40,6 inches... approx 8 kilos. (not that pike in the pic)

....very nice pics and fish... Did you hire a guide in Sweden? I know most of them... This lovely weekend i spent mostly with family and birdwatching... got an osprey fishing in my camera...

...I feel almost jealous... you must definitely visit those rivers... so close and so nice. Yes, we do at bit of trolling but only when necessary, its not that exciting, but efficient to locate fish. Sometimes we practise slowtrolling with pole and bait, roach or herring or whatever there is to find. This often produces big pike and is much more exciting than regular trolling... Soon the pre spawn fishing for pike begins in my nearby lake Mälaren, the ice is almost gone, we us big heavy jigs such as Alien Eel or Bull Dawg and fish a little deeper than normal.

Hi Hoppy, I remember your spectacular fish... what a monster pike... Im sure you will do well in sweden too. The article has been written, actually a long time ago... here it is... http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/Coarse-Fishing...al_jigging.html

...those are nice places, the stockholm acipelago really is wonderful. Yes, ive been to Ireland in 1993... a long time ago i realize... how time flies. I loved it! Fished the river Blackwater for a week, stayed at Ian Powells place in Ballyduff... I really want to go back.

...there will be more... Many thanks....