I know that it is not a fish !!!

I know that it is not a fish but I still wanted to share this picture taken at the Dolphin Academy in Curaçao.

Curaçao Blue

Every fishing story needs a good scenery. The water, the breeze, the local people are part of the fishing experience. This is why a fishing day without any catch still be a wonderful day. This year we decided to spend our vacation in a little quiet piece of paradise located on the north-west side of the Curaçao. This beautiful and serene Caribbean island located near to Venezuela features crystalline waters, gorgeous white-sand beaches and a culture all its own with wonderful and friendly local people. In such a place where the sea is always blue, the air is always warm and the opportunities to experience interaction with the marine life are always endless.

Playa Kalki at Northernmost village of Westpunt, Curaçao

Our "headquarter" at Lodge Kura Hulanda

A view from the bedroom

Willemstad the beautiful capital of Curaçao

Searching for new places

We were decided to search for new fishing places and we went on the other side of the lake near to a place called Kvarntorp.


It was not a very successful day mostly because it was raining all the day. We tried to fish for pike with small live fish but catching a small bite fish it was almost impossible. In the evening somehow we manage to catch a small pike which was not very impressive.

The place was looking promising and we decided to come back for more tomorrow…..

The Season Just Started

This is the first day of the season. After a long Swedish winter that don’t want to go away finally a little sunshine. I took the opportunity and went fishing for a few hours. I could stay only 4 hours but everything went fine. After two hours of casting the wobbler I caught the first pike of the year. Look at him! What a beauty!

The pike attacked the Perch Storm Kickin' Minnow lure. I was no expecting this because I don’t trust very much soft lures. However after one more hour, another attack to the Storm Lure convinced me that in the future probably I need to reconsider soft lures. This time the attack felt differently. After 10 seconds the fish was hooked I felt that it was not a pike. It could have not been a pike. The fish was much faster than a pike and was fighting quite vigorously. After a 2 min fight it finally showed up from the water. To my surprise it was an Asp, a threatened and protected species in Sweden.

After a few a photos the Asp went back to the water :-)

No Catch Today!

This is actually a late entry to this blog. It was on Sunday September 9th. Great weather and nice outside temperature but unfortunately no fish catch on this day. Actually the water temperature was quite cold and it was very hard to catch some small fishes for the pike bait. I think that my unluck was mostly due to the fact that I took my camera with me.

Trip to Washington

As I expected it was not too much fishing during this trip in Washington and Baltimore. A big surprise was in Washington when in our way to the meeting we met some people that actually were fishing in the Potomac River in the middle of the city. I took this picture from the car near to the Lincoln memorial. Obviously he was heading to have some afternoon fun.

There is no trip to USA without a visit to the Pro Bass Shop. I really like this shop. We went to the Pro Bass Shop at the Arundel Mills Circle Hanover, a one hour drive from Baltimore and as usual, it is always fun to do some shopping here.

I took a couple of pictures of the fishes from the aquarium, the northern pike was quite impressive and of course I’ve checked again my favourite Remington G3 semiautomatic shotgun. It has a perfect weight balance and a barrel length that gives you the perfect steadiness and facile movement.But let’s not continue with this because this is supposed to be a fishing blog and not a hunting blog.

Actually in Washington there are fishes. Some of them are quite old, like the ones that captured on my camera from the National History Museum. They are 50 millions years old and came from the intermountain basins of the Rockies and the lakes that covered during that time the north-eastern Utah, north-eastern Colorado and south-western Wyoming. In September 2008 next year I need to go to Salt Lake City in Utah and definitely I will not miss the possibility to check out the ancestors of these fishes.
On our way back to the airport we took the wrong exit and we ended up in a wrong direction. On top of that the GPS simply did not want to work anymore. Ironically the GPS name was “Never Lost”. However we have managed to find the right direction but on our detour from the main route, I found a small fly fishing shop called “Angle’s Lie”. I found this name extremely funny. Here it is the picture of the fishing shop.

Finally

That’s it. I’m going to do it right here and right now. Me and Adrian have discussed many times that we should open a blog about fishing. Now I’m sitting in the train on my way to Copenhagen, bored to death by reading projects reports from my job and I decided that finally I will create that blog. At least I would keep my brain occupied with something else during this trip. Look at this picture how bored I am.

I’m so bored that I started to take pictures of myself. Actually today it is Saturday and we were suppose to be out and fishing. Instead of that I’m sitting in X2000 high speed train on my way to the airport that makes me sea sick. I hope that at least Adrian will have a little bit more fun tomorrow and will go fishing and fill in this blog with some nice stories and pictures. As for me, there is not too much hope that that I will do some fishing in Washington and Baltimore during next week.

We will try to document here our fishing adventure. In this way I guess we can systematically document our catches and not argue anymore when and where we caught that particular fish. And of course, fishermen have always something to tell people…...