FISHING TRIP 22ND OF MAY 2016

3/6 of the team were out on a warm sunny Sunday. Had my alarm clock ringing 3.15 and noticed how funny it is that it feel almost impossible to wake without snoozin for at least thirty minutes when your duty calling but when it's about fishing.....No problems to wake up.

Anyway, after morning rituals I jumped in my car and while i was driving my team mate Alex called me to see if I was awake and yes....I was.

Pretty cool to see the sunrise while I was driving, sights like these makes me feel good.

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Sunrise on the road to fishing spot.

Early mornings at the shore are in some way magical,took a moment to just feel the beauty of the stillness before I started to rig my kayak and while rigging Alex also arrived and not long before we hit the water.

Rigging the yaks.

First planned spot was pretty close, only three, maybe four hundred meters away.
Sun had just risen, water was crystal clear and surface calm, not the best odds to play with but I was wrong,fourth or fifth cast and first fish was landed, Alex also got his first fish of the day, aah, so cool.

We paddle slowly around a islet enjoying surroundings, stopped for some casts here and there and think we both had landed 4-5 fishes before we decided to take a coffee break.
Hard to describe how amazing it feel to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee and a good fresh roll with good company on a warm beautiful  summer morning, hard to beat imo.

While we were drinking our coffee we got a call from Christer who had arrived and decided to wait for him and not long before he arrived too and the line up for the day was finalized.

Me and Christer in ATAKs and Alex in middle in his Ride 135.

Weather slowly turned from warm to hot but thanks to a light breeze it didn't felt too hot out on the water.
We continued to fish and we had some good fishing at a deep reed bank but only in amount, not size but who care, nice with some action anyway.

Alex fly fished catch from the reed bank.

Moved to second reed bank and we managed to catch even there, we had some fun too, Alex found a rock in middle of a bay we fished from and decided to "take a walk" with the yak.

Walkin the dog.

 Funny how you always feel for something to bite when your out fishing and we decided to take more  short breaks than we usually do, it makes all difference in world on long days out like this. I think it really helps you going on.

Close to the place you see above, I managed to land a pike with a nasty looking cut on it's back,many guesses heard,a prop,a cormoran, spawning wounds etc, etc, don't know but it was still feeding and felt strong despite the cut.

Nasty cut.

So, we fished, we had some breaks and had very fun and ended our day in My favorite way of fishing, in middle of reeds searching for those small pockets were to put your fly in and wait for the hit which use to come when you least wait for it and they are usually explosive, with bad intentions.
Here's some mixed pics from the rest of the day which was long (17 hours), it was fun, despite the missing big fishes but at least the amount was decent to keep the state of mind on alert.

 Season is on and there will be reports from almost every weekend now so stay tuned.