Giant Salmon from Lake Vänern 11150g

I got today report from Mikael his very big salmon, caught in lake Vänern.

"Hej Mika.!!

Den var 104 cm lång vikte var 11.150 gr och tog en watermelon uv skalle bakom en VK-salmon small 15 cm uv 30s. Jag använder bara dina produkter pga att dom är enkla att trimma och sätten att trä linan i skallarna är oändliga.

mvh "Team Bomsvängen"
Mikael Krantz"

English version

"Hi Mika
Here is a quick report and some photos of the big salmon I caught on Wednesday in Lake Vänern.
It was 104cm long and weighed 11 150g and took a water melon UV baitholder behind a 15cm VK-Salmon UV30s flasher. I only use your products because they are easy to rig for swimming and there are so many possible ways to rig for different swimming styles.
Regards
Mikael Krantz
Team Bomsvängen"

Thanks for report Mikael and congratulations for new personal record.

Mika/Team VK

Trout 9,4 kg

Jonas Björk sent me this report of his succsesful fishing trip in Lake Vänern today.

"Vänern VK-Fishing report..

Hi Mika
Today it was a another nice day on lake Vänern.
Nice weather and fishing, it was a very short trip, When I have rigged the last rod in the water in the morning emmediatley the first fish strike
And after 1½ hour fishing it was time to pick up the rods.
I have 2 salmons 5 kg and 6,1 kg and a Trout 9,4 kg in the boat!! and put back the fourth fish a salmon 5--6 kg
And also lost two salmons tha came of during the fight when I had several fish on the rods at the same time, I was alone in the boat today!!
(that was my 1½ hours fishing trip!!)

(The photo is on the 9,4 kg Trout)

Best Regards
Jonas Björk OFFSHORE/GARMIN"

Huh.. Jonas was serial killer:-) Congratulations!

Mika/Team VK

Report from TOK Fishing Team

I got report today for Tok Fishing Team. Nice fishing, congratulations.
Mika/Team VK


"We had fantastic fishing on Lake Vänern last Saturday. 10 Salmon in the boat, 8 of them were "goodsize" Small baitfish "löja" in the VK- baitholders worked very well. The colors that worked best was "klunssila" and "watermelon chrome". We fished 150ft behind the boat with 40-80gr lead. The salmon we took home had a weight just over 33kg. We released 2 goodsize 61 and 70+cm. Here is a picture of the biggest salmon we caught 83cm VK-baitholder "klunssila" with 40gr lead.


Best regards
Johan, ToK Fishingteam"

Fishing reports

I got lot of new reports at lake Vänern fishing. Finnish guys have 7 header couple week ago. They have for their 3 boat after first 2,5 days 28 good size salmon and VK Baitholders and flashers was keyword of succses.

Cameron Ross from team Hooked and Göran Andersson from team Marre have good succses last weekend for Kinnekulle competition, they also use VK baitholders and both get very good size salmons.

Today I have report from Jonas Björk who get nice result for kinnekulle competition. Congratulations.

"Hi Mika

Fourth place total in the kinnekulle competition in Sweden
Here is some about our three competitions days, Friday was a short day because the weather forecast
said very strong winds up to 12-15 m/s so we must be back at the harbour at 13:30
Because of the high wind forecast we choose a fishing place there we would have some shelter from it, only one under size salmon that day!
On Saturday we could go to the fishing area that was the plan from the beginning, and we find the fish and got six salmons
but one was a wild salmon to put back in the water so we had five salmons to the harbour 22,5 kg.
Sunday we had six salmons and trouts 31,2 kg, and first price that day for the Sundays fishing.
The VK produts Worked GREAT as always!! baitholder with (löja) and the flashers......
It was no time to take photos, the only taken photo is on my mate Filip with a Nice Trout 7,78 kg
Best regards
Jonas Björk and Filip Rubin
Team OFFSHORE/GARMIN. "


Team Marre 6 salmon, total 28,35kg
Team Hooked 5 salmon total 29,68kg
Team Offshore/Garmin 11 salmon&trout, total 53,69kg

Nice fishing, congratulations all of You guys

Mika/Team Vk

VK release new style Webshop

VK:s new style multi language webshop is now open. Very easy to use. You can find all of our new products here. Click the picture or link

Because size matters... Janne Virtanen World Strongest man 2000

VK Stand 2010

New & Show Special colors

Helsinki International Boat Show 2010

Our stand 2009

We have our own VK stall in this exhibition. If you want to see and buy outstanding special VK-Baitholder colors etc. then you must visit us. We have lots of new and interesting products. The VK-Baitholder swimming school and trolling champions give free tips on how to adjust bait for different fish and situations.
Due to the fact that we are at the exhibition from February 11th to 21st we will need to stop our factory production during that time.

Boat Show homepage http://www.finnexpo.fi/vene/ (Also in the English and Swedish languages)

Welcome to Helsinki International Boat Show
Mika/Vesa
Team VK-Trolling

2010 New products from VK

VK release new flasher model and some new colors for bait holders. New flasher was smaller version for popular original VK-Flasher and test fishing was very succsesful. New 15cm (6") size working extremely well in planer use and swimming was same kind slow but smaller circle than bigger.

New bait holder colors for spring 2010

"Father of pearl"

Tiger Chrome

Green, gold, orange.
Blue/Orange tiger glow

Tiger Glow

Swedish Flag Glow

VLS Glow (V-Lake Special)

All new color is available for both sizes. Coming soon for our dealers.. Ask Your own dealer!

Tighter lines

Mika/Vesa

Team VK-Trolling

VK2 Video

VK-Video

New VK-Dealer in Sweden

Click the picture

Report from Adam

"Hello Mika!!

Here is a short note to tell about the big salmon I caught in lake Vänern yesterday!

Pontus Lindberg and I went out from Lillängshamen, this was our first fishing trip together for salmon, and the first trip in more than half a year for Pontus due to engine problems he has been having. We put the gear in west of Prickgrund, but it looked bad on the sonar so we decided to go to some old waypoints. It looked much better there on the sounder for both bottom structure and baitfish. After about 2 hours of fishing a line released from one of the planerboard releasers, which was rigged with a large whitefish (siklöja) in a watermellon colour VK-Raksi baitholder. The fish took a fast run (about 20m) splashing around on the surface and then put up a heavy fight. On the way to the boat it became tangled with another line, but when it was closer to the boat we quickly cut away that line. When the fish approached the boat we saw that it is huge ... It made some nervous final runs before it could be netted and lifted safely onboard. Because of the rolling of the boat the scale oscillated between 11 and 13 kg, but it was 93cm long!! Back on land in the harbor we weighed it on a digital scale that showed exactly 12kg!! We used the rigging hole which is upper of the three side hole, which at slow speeds gives the baitfish rather big slow turns. This time the speed was around 2.2 to 2.4 knots. It was difficult to hold a steady speed due to the wind and waves, so I believe the löja was spinning relitavely fast.
It was really a successful fishing trip!!

Tight lines Adam"

Congratulation guys and merry chritmas

Wish You

Mika/Vesa

VK-Trolling

Giant salmon!

"A 12kg salmon was caught today not far from Prickgrund outside of Hammarö in Värmlandssjön. It is reported to have taken a watermelon colour VK-Raksi baitholder. For more information of the fish and fisherman click on the LINK!"

I try to get report from this lucky fisherman.

Congratulations

Mika/Team VK

Report from Andreas Dilen

"Fishing Report from Andreas.LAKE VÄNERN.

The last fishing trips have given us couple of nice salmon and trouts.Best colours have been "klunssila" in the small Vk with small Bleak.Swedish Flag and Gold 767 fished with bleak in size 15-17cm.Vk Rules!!

Best Regards Team Dilén Sweden"

Congratulations for nice fishing

Mika/Team VK

Salmon 10,2kg

Jonas do it again!!

"Hi Mika
Here come a new VK-fishing report from my todays fishing on lake Vänern (10 Dec)
I got 2 trouts aprox 4 kg ea and a NICE Salmon 10,2 kg
The salmon strike on a "Löja" in a VK baitholder in color Steenson
Fished from the planer board with 40 gram lead on the line.
This fish was the strongest of the 10+ kg salmons I have got in lake Vänern
It was a VERY long action fight!!!!

Best regards Jonas Björk

OFFSHORE/GARMIN Sweden"

Congratulations... again:-)

Mika/Team VK

Report from Jonas

Jonas sent me a new report of his fantastic success with VK-Baitholders.

"Hi Mika
Here is a VK-Fishing report from my day on Lake Vänern.
Salmon 5kg and 6kg also a 8,2 kg Trout.
A fourth fish strike when I pick up the rods a aprox 5kg Salmon
I put it back in the water!!!

Best Regards
Jonas Offshore/Garmin

Åmål Sweden"

Congratulations

Mika/Team VK

Salmon 10022g

Fishing guide Tommy Nerstrand send me a report of good fishing with VK

"Hello Mika!

I have caught several nice salmons last trips and special with the small VK heads. Today we had 4 fish at Vänern and we caught 3 fish on VK heads and one fish on Krippled. I had 3 VK heads on one side of boat and 3 heads Krippled on other side of boat.

Here is a picture of the salmon caught sunday 29 november on a VK head in colour Purple UV (103). The name of client that caught it is Herbert from Germany. The weight was 10022 gr. and the fight took about 55 minutes...:-) I like the small heads.

Best fishing regards!

Tommy Nerstrand

http://www.dalslandfishing.com/"

Congratulations

Mika/Team VK

Swedish VK-Dealers

Here is a list of Swedish dealers which have the newest VK-products in their shops.

Olssons Fiske Tibro & Mariestad
YM's Fiske Smedjebacken
Jaktia Örebro
Böjda Spön Sunne & Arvika
Ola's Sportfiske Motala
Bofab Grums
Karlstad Fiske & Fritid
Vidars Fiske Karlstad
Sundbybergs Sportfiske Stockholm
Sportfiske Charter Åmal
Trollingcenter Axvall

New VK-Dealer in Sweden

Now VK products are also available in the Stockholm area. Sundbybergs Sportfiske is now a new dealer. Our other dealers now have a lot of new VK-products in their shops. Ask your own dealer.

Home again

Tapsa with his 2nd Vänern salmon +4kg. It took a purple black chrome VK-baitholder at a speed of 2,5knWe went home yesterday from our Swedish trip, and now I feel a little tired, because of "jetlag":-) I want to thank all of my Swedish friends for a nice time and specially Petter "Salmonseeker", Cam and Blydonkern for absolutely fantastic fishing time in Lake Vänern. We caught 7 salmon over 60cm on this four day trip, but four of those were wild and therefore must be released. We also lost some good fish, but that is part of fishing. Our "Haukimaster" is Me this time and I caught a +5kg and a +7kg pike on my side:-(
I'll be back:-)
Tight lines
Mika

Sweden here We come!

Picture of My personal record 9,62kg on lake Vänern autumn -07 I hope we caught much bigger on this time:-)

Tomorrow I start to my short visit to Sweden, with My friend Tapsa. Last year in that same time I was fishing the fantastic Lax Cup Vättern competition with Ove & Dan from Team Extreme's who are real professionals. This Year I get the possibility to go fishing for a couple of days with Petter "Salmonseeker" Larsson to Lake Vänern and then my friend Cameron from Team Hooked has offered us the opportunity to fish with him and Norwegian Tomas "Blydonkern" Silden in the new Lorents Marin Competition. VK-Products is one of many sponsor of that competition and we made that decision because sounds that it is a good and fresh idea that a whole 100% of the registration fee used to buy smolt to be released into the lake the competition is held in. We also want to support better fishing on future in this my personal favourite lake.

I have heard there is a political situation between both Laxcup and LMC and my opinion is that is sad those 2 big competition are on the same weekend :-( If these competition had different dates then maybe we could have fished both of them, but now for a good change, I choose LMC and Vänern, without any politic reasons, just good possibility and the joy of fishing. I hope both competitions have a lot of competitors and my Finnish friends on the Laxcup take a Victory there:-D We promise to do our best in Lake Vänern;-) I come with real "Haukimaster" Hehee

I'm happy for the opportunity to be able to see my many Swedish friends again. Please just come and talk with me if you have anything to ask me. I have some new baitholders in chrome, gold and UV "steenson" colors to show. So just ask it.

You can call my mobile +358400907234

See You soon!

Tight lines
Mika/Team VK

Sea trout at High speed

My friend Tomi sent me a report about last Sundays 4.7kg sea trout. The fish took a VK-baitholder using the top hole rigging and adjusted to have a very slow rotation. The trolling speed was about 2,7kn. On their first trip about a week ago they lost a big +5kg trout just before netting and got some undersize trout and one brutal strike. All with VK-baitholders at hi-speed.
When the fish are near the surface try "Fastfood" that is sometimes the most powerful way to catch fish. Remember, adjust to have a slow rotation on the bait. A simple way to get a slow rotation is to change the placing of the hook so it is further down on the bait.

Tight lines
Mika/Team VK
Remember "Fastfood" is also unhealtly for fish :-)

Report from Jonas

"Hi Mika
Send you a report from yesterdays fishing in lake Vänern, Åmål
I went out on my own in the boat, and it was a nice day on the lake.
The result was 3 nice salmons between 5 to 7,5 kg
And once again the VK products have produce fish!!!

Best Regards Jonas Björk

Offshore/Garmin

Sweden"

Congratulation Jonas

Mika/Team VK

Report from Cameron

Hi Mika

We fished Sweden's Kållandsöträff competition November 6-8. On Friday we went to Måken and put in. Our tactic was to fish one side with plastic baits and the other side with baitfish in VK baitholders at a speed of 2.7-2.9 knots. After some hours we had contact with two fish on the baitfish and no contact yet on the plastic baits. We decided to fish with just baitfish. We fished that same place using baitfish in the same VK baitholders at that same fast speed all 3 days. We caught 5 “goodsize” fish, lost a big trout 1 meter from the net and took 5 other small fish between 50-61cm. Our tactic worked and we won the competition!
We love your baitholders!!

Regards
Team Hooked/Marre"

Absolutely fantastic, I'm very happy that victory! It comes just right guys:-)
Mika/Team VK

Another VK-Victory

Team Hooked/Marre won Sweden's Kållandsöträff competition today. It is a three day competition in lake Vänern. They were using VK-Baitholders and caught 5 nice salmon. Report is coming.

Congratulations Cameron, Göran and Peter!!!

Mika/Team VK

Report from Jonas

Trout 7,73kg

Hi Mika
Send you a report from this weekends competition BERRA TROPHY in lake Vänern
After two days fishing we end up on a 2 nd place total, and the second
biggest fish in the competition!!
as usually the VK baitholders works on the salmon and trouts.

Best Regards

Jonas Björk

Team Offshore/Garmin Sweden

Congratulations Jonas

Mika/Team VK

Yövesi meeting 2009

Today we had the Yövesi meeting in Lake Saimaa in Finland. The fishing was difficult and of the nineteen boats that participated only four of them caught salmon. We had a minimum size for salmon of 60cm and trout 55cm in this competition/meeting. Normally the minimum size in Yövesi is 50cm and the size under Finnish law is only 40cm for those fish! All the boats released a lot of undersize fish.

Yövesi meeting 2009 results

1. Petri Forsman/Janne Relander Salmon 72cm/5150g

2. Team VK-Trolling Mika Kärkkäinen/Toni Anttila Salmon 70cm/3760g

3. Team Satunnaiset Saaliit Keijo Korhonen/Risto Hasu Salmon 62cm/2800g

4. Tapani Ruotsalainen/Tapsa Karjalainen Salmon 61cm/2660g

Our fish took a new small VK-Baitholder purple black chrome color, with 30g lead.

Tight lines

Mika

VK-BAIT HOLDER +9 CLUB

I have a little extra time and I looked at all the reports what I have for over 9kg Lake salmon and trout. All these fish are caught using VK-Baitholders. If something is wrong or missing then please let me know and I will fix it. The list is growing fast in such a short time since our baitholders have been on the market. This has given us at VK Trolling great happiness. If you have some VK-fishing reports that should be on this list let us know.
Thanks for all the nice reports and we wish you all tight lines.
Mika
Team VK

1. 12030g Salmon Johan Cederborg 2008
2. 12000g Salmon Adam Ludvigsson 2009
3. 11600g Salmon Olsson & Bergqvist 2008
4. 11500g Salmon Jonas Björk 2008
5. 11400g Salmon Levin & Brutalböj 2009
6. 11150g Salmon Mikael Krantz 2010
7. 11100g Salmon Team Stenlake 2008
8. 11080g Salmon Martin Sethman 2009
9. 11000g Salmon Tommy Högkvist 2010
10. 10950g Salmon Team Hooked/Toby 2009
11. 10500g Salmon Kluck Fiskecharter 2010
12. 10220g Salmon Tommy Nerstrand 2010
13. 10200g Salmon Marko Suppala 2009
14. 10200g Salmon Jonas Björk 2009
15. 10100g Trout Olsson & Bergqvist 2008
16.10022g Salmon Tommy Nerstrand 2009
17. 9970g Salmon Team Hooked Cam 2009
18. 9940g Salmon Team Pondus 2009
19. 9840g Salmon Team Dilen 2008
20. 9750g Salmon Team Hooked Cam 2009
21. 9720g Salmon Team Hooked Peter&Albin 2010
22. 9680g Salmon Martin Sethman 2008
23. 9600g Salmon Anders Larsson 2008
24. 9600g Salmon Team Hammarlund 2009
25. 9600g Salmon Jonas Björk 2010
26. 9500g Salmon Team API 2009
27. 9500g Salmon Kari Kekäläinen 2009
28. 9400g Trout Jonas Björk 2010
29. 9400g Salmon Team Icebox 2009
30. 9373g Salmon Martin Sethman 2008
31. 9350g Salmon Mattias Lakakoffa 2009
32. 9310g Salmon Sportfiske akademin 2009
33. 9300g Salmon Olsson & Bergqvist 2008
34. 9170g Salmon Petter Larsson 2009
35. 9160g Trout Team Hooked Peter & Albin 2010
36. 9120g Salmon Martin Sethman 2008
37. 9119g Salmon Petter Larsson 2011
38. 9100g Trout Anders Larsson 2008
39. 9100g Salmon Jonas Björk 2008
40. 9060g Trout Anders Larsson 2008
41. 9000g Salmon Team Predator 2008
42. 9000g Salmon Name unknown 2008
43. 9000g Salmon Anders Larsson 2008

Total weight 428.711kg
Average weight 9.970kg

41 Fish came up in Lake Vänern
1 Fish in Lake Vättern
1 Fish in Finland

You can find reports and pictures almost all these fish in this blog.

Report from Andreas Dilen

Hi Mika.

Fishingreport from Vänern.My friend Andreas Wikström caught his new personalbest. A nice salmon 86cm and 8,52kg! The Fish striked a bleak in a Vk-rax colour Watermelon with 40g lead on the surface. A great and strong fish.!

Tight Line Andreas Team Dilén

Congratulations guys

Team VK

Small VK-baitholder in Sweden

Many Swedish fisherman ask me, "where can I buy small VK-heads in Sweden"? Here is a list of dealers who have them, we are always looking for new dealers.

Olssons fiske

YM's Fiske

Jaktia Örebro

Böjda spön

Ola's Sportfiske

Tight lines
Mika/Team VK

Fishing in Vänern

Patrik Lindell send me a new report. They caught last saturday couple nice fish. Salmon weighted 7kg and trout 5,2 kg. They were caught VK-Baitholder color PLO and 737

Congratulations

Team VK

BIG Salmon 9,940 kg

I saw this news on fullpott's blog. This was was the biggest salmon ever caught in the 25 year history of Sunnanå Competition / Nordic Championship. It took a VK-baitholder..

Congratulations
Team VK

Read the original report here: http://fullpott.blogspot.com/2009/10/magnus-9940-gr-sunnanatreffet.html

Trolling in Vänern

I got a message from Patrik Lindell, they had fantastic fishing success in Lake Vänern.

"Hello Mika!

Here is some pictures from Vänern when i have been fishing with VK Rax. It is working very good in high speed. Keep in touch!
Best regards Patrik//Team Pm Fishing"
http://teampmfishing.blogspot.com/

I ask some more details on Patrik

"I was in Vänern for 9 days but i could only fish 4,5 days because of the wind. I caught 10 oversize fish and 9 of them was caught on VK-rax. I had VK on the planerboards and trophy spoons on the downriggers (only one rod on each rigg). It wasn´t so good fishing these days but it went well for me. 4 of them was caught on Steenson 2 on 737 1 on Lapinkulta crome 1 on UV and the last one i dont remember.

The size of the fish in the cooler is 7,1 5,6 4,5 4,4 3,5 3,0 That was a good day =0))"

Thanks for a report and congratulations

Team VK

Another VK-Victory Finnish Championship

Today Team Kirri won the Finnish Lake Salmon Fish Championships. They were using VK-baitholders and on the first day they caught two really nice salmon. The total weight was 6,934g Team Kirri also came 3rd in the three boat team competition. They caught both salmon on our Gold green violet color VK baitholder.

160 boats started this big two day competition in Lake Päijänne.We caught one trout weighing 2,530g Our Result was 21st. In the three boat team competition we took 5th place.It was a really nice weekend. The fishing was a little difficult, we got many under size fish and also many broken baits.

Results click here
Three boat Team results here

Tight lines
Mika