Five days of test guiding
I have been out guiding a father and his son for a couple of days. They traveled from Stockholm and arrived at the bus station in Älvsbyn, where I picked them up. On the way we stopped at a small lake and my guests caught trout, grayling and perch. Good start! When we arrived to the cottage we immediately packed our stuffs and went down the lake for some pike fishing. There was no great results, but we caught some pikes around 70-80cm on spin fishing.
Day 2
This day I decided that we were going out on a bigger lake for some trolling. Summertime, you have the best opportunity to catch a big pike on trolling. But when we had put my boat into the lake I noticed that the lake was bright like a mirror. That isn’t the best condition to fish for pike. The pikes get shy and don’t rise against the surface to take the baits. However, we tried! And in fact, we succeeded to catch some pikes, and one was pretty nice.
Because of the bad weather for pike, I decided to go to shore and get back to the cottage. Then change gear and go for some grayling fishing. But it wasn’t so easy to fool the graylings this evening. So the father insisted that I should show them how to do it. I took his rod and made a few casts. Then I suddenly had a nice grayling in my net.
After that I showed them a new place, where I thought it should be some graylings. And of course I was right, the father caught a nice one! Then we went back to sleep, to be ready for next day of fishing.
Day 3
Now, there were time to catch perch. So we went to a river, about 3km away from the road. It’s not so easy like it may sound. The terrain in this land is really tough to walk in, because of the huge areas of marsh. I’m used to it, so for me there was no trouble. Even the father and the son made it without complaining! While we were there they caught a lot of nice fishes, both pikes and perches. Unfortunately I succeeded to catch the biggest perch this day. It was a really nice one with great proportions. The weight was 940g. When we got back to the cottage, we all fell asleep.
Day 4
My guests were really tired after yesterday’s walk, so we chilled out and went fishing at noon. The lake and the river which pour into the lake, was today’s fishing spot. My guests caught a few pikes in the lake before we went to the river. We were going to make a new attempt to have great grayling fishing. And this time, the son caught several. He outshined his father with the result 5-0.
Day 5
Today, my guests were going home. But I calculated that we should be in time even with a stop along the road, of course we were going fishing! Both the father and the son manage to catch several graylings and trouts. It had been five fantastic days!
//Markus, TeilusFishing
