Martin Sethman caught Big Salmon again!

Here comes short report from Martin

Hello mika!
Today we had another nice fish on the VK-rax uv purple, 33 feet on the downrigger and the nice salmon weighed 9,68kg!

Happy new year and
Best Regards and a lot of bent rods from
Martin "Punainen Parooni" Sethman

This is new personal record for Roger, who is picture.

Congratulations

Mika

Team Hooked report

Hi Mika

As you know our team consists of 6 members and on Saturday we had our own team competition. We were 3 boats and we fished Brommö NV in Vänern. The rules were simple, only VK products were to be used. The results were great!

Cameron’s boat took 6 salmon giving them a full pot and 1st place. Best was the down rigger at 30ft with a small silver taped VK flasher and a Stensson colour bait holder. The biggest fish they caught was 85cm long and weighed 7.8kg.

Leif’s boat took 2nd place. They had 4 salmon in the cooler, 5 under size and put back a wild salmon around 80cm. Best for them was UV bait holders. They started the day with a double header that gave them 2 immediately in the cooler.

Peter’s boat took 3rd placing. They had 2 salmon in the cooler and 4 under size. Best for them was a VK baitholder that was painted black with one small white eye on each side. In Sweden this is called a “Bullens”. Their biggest fish was also an 85cm long salmon That weighed 7.1kg

As you can see the results were very good. Between our 3 boats we took home 12 salmon and nothing but VK baitholders and flashers were used.

Tight lines
Cameron
Team Hooked

Merry Christmas and Screamin reels of the year 2009

Report from Martin

Terve Mika!

It was a great day on Lake Vänern yesterday! Me and my friend Tomas went out for a pleasuretrip in Mellerud. The total catch was 4 fish in the cooler and one small and a couple of lost ones. All fish took on baitfish with VK-rax, the two bigger fish took the UV-purple head on the downrigger at 24 feet. The rest of the fish took on VK-rax coulor number 737 with 10-20 gram lead on the surface. The fish was 6,0kg 6,5kg 9,12kg and 9,37kg. I am really impressed of the variety of action you can give your baits with these heads. I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year and of course a great next season on the water!
Best Regards and a lot of bent rods from

Martin "Punainen Parooni" Sethman

Röda Baronen Sethman caught 2 x 9+ salmon today

Martin "Röda Baronen" Sethman caught 3 salmon and 1 trout today. The 2 biggest Salmon weighed 9.1kg + 9.37kg All the salmon took baitfish with VK-Baitholders. See more on his Swedish language blog http://rodabaronen.blogspot.com/

Congratulations

Mika

9,6kg Salmon from Mellerud Vänern

I got report from Anders Larsson, he fishing with customers in Mellerud friday. Their biggest salmon weights 9.6kg and take baitfish with VK-baitholder, color UV green. Read Anders Swedish report his homepage. http://www.kluck.se/

Congratulations and Merry Christmas

Mika

New VK Dealer

Klik on the logo

Cabelas U.S.A

New VK-Raksi colors

Here is the pictures of our new strike colors that VK is making for winter fishing. Ask your dealer
Pearl Finnish Flag

UV Swedish Flag,
UV Watermelon,

Tight lines
Mika/VK

Laxcup Vättern

The competition for me together with Ove didn’t go as well as hoped. We unfortunately were not in the right place at the right time. It seemed the salmon were in very small spots and we didn’t find those spots. On Saturday we had lots of strikes resulting in many small fish. On Sunday we lost one good size salmon just before netting. That is fishing :-)

I would like to thank Ove and Dan, I had a very nice trip with them and they are both real professionals. It was a very good experience to fish with them.I would like to congratulate Team Scandinavian Sportfishing/Predator for second place. They have my friend Eric as one of the crew and they caught 3 nice salmon on Saturday and all took VK-Baitholders in the UV blue colour. Thanks for tip, we had that good size salmon on Sunday on that same colour baitholder. On Sunday they caught 2 more salmon and took second place in that competition. Nice work, well done!
Tight lines
Mika

More big salmons from Åmål

Anders "kluck" Larsson send me a picture of Salmon, what he got last sunday. Fish weighted 9.0kg and took VK-Baitholder Swedish Flag colour. He also caught a same trip Salmon 8.7kg that fish also took VK-Baitholder color 737. Fishing seems to be fantastic just now in lake Vänern. www.kluck.se

Congratulations

Mika

Big trouts from lake Vänern

Huge 9.1kg VK-Rax trout caught last week from Anders "kluck"Larssons boat. See report www.kluck.se

See also Petter "Salmonseeker" Larsson blog, where is lot of reports him VK Succses. http://salmonseeker.blogspot.com/

Congratulations

Another big one from Vänern

Hello Mika.

Here is a fishing report.

Fished Åmål yesterday (9th december) with a friend, and after several smaller salmon and a legal salmon trout caught on a (Vk raksi 737), A big salmon 9.84kg (control weighted at home) and 92cm had put teeth in a shallow fished Bleak caught in the Vk-raksi color Steénson. I used the middelhole on the head and had a small Action Disc 5cm before the head. It was a great fight and I had a lot of fun during that time..

Vk-raksi works great!!!

Mvh Andreas Team Dilén Sweden

Big Salmon from Lake Vänern

Jonas Björk send me report from 9+ salmon what he caught from lake Vänern.

Hi Mika
VK-rax report from lake Vänern
I spent today on the lake, I got a 9.1 kg Salmon, took a UV blue VK rax on the surface
I also got a trout 7-8 kg but it was a wild fish, so I put it back. Also put back a 3 kg salmon so it can grow to be big!!
Had several fish on the rod but they came of during the fight one was a very nice fish!!
Your products WORKS GREAT!!!
Best Regards
Jonas
Team Offshore/Garmin
Sweden

Laxcup Suzuki Vättern 2008

I start my trip today at the Vättern Competition. If we catch something, You can see reports at the Team Extremes blog. http://teamextremesweden.blogspot.com/ I fishing with them.

Mika/VK-Trolling

New VK colors, available Laxcup Competition

Firetiger

Chrome, copper, purple

VK-Trolling Release new flasher to Laxcup competition

VK-Products release the new bigger model VK-Salmon 2 Flasher. The new model is 24cm long and has many good strike colors. During testing this season in Finland this "Secret Weapon" produced excellent results. Just like the smaller model it has superb irregular movement causing fish to bite more often.
VK-Trolling will have a small amount of the new big flasher as well as the small one at the Laxcup Suzuki Competition, and those that are first can choose between many attractive colours. There will also be many colours of baitholders and some exciting new ones available there as well. The new big flasher will also be coming to our dealers soon!

See you at the Laxcup Suzuki Competition

Mika

See new model first colors: http://www.vk-products.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=107

Norwegian trouts

I got a mail today from Norway.

Jonny Bråta and Per Olav Kristiansen caught two nice trout. They weighed 8250g & 5100g . The last meal the two fish had was baitfish and VK-Baitholder color Chrome 727.

More info http://fullpott.blogspot.com/

Congratulations!

11+ kg Salmon from Åmål

Salmon 11.1kg Congratulations

Another "Big Salmon" caught in Åmål. Here is a Swedish report from http://www.kluck.se/ website, and the picture is from the Röda Baronen's blog.

"Ny storlax på VK-rax

Dagens största fisk krokade Kristoffer i Team Stenlake!!! Efter vägning i hamn så kúnde killarna konstatera att nya båtrekordet var 11+ !!!!!!!! Fisken tog på en VK-flasher och VK-rax. Stort grattis Kristoffer och Tomas."

New VK-Dealer in Sweden

Sportfiskecharter Åmål www.kluck.se

New VK-Dealer in Sweden

Böjda Spön Sunne

Johan Cederborg and 12,03kg Salmon!!

Johan sent me some pictures the monster and little Swedish report, I heard the fish is a new Åmål record?

"Fisken tog en löja med UV101 färgad VK-skalle och ActionDisc, 10 meter ner på djupriggen. Jag använde det mittersta hålet på sidan av skallen och trollade i 2,5-3 knop.Laxen mätte 97cm lång och vägde 12030gram

Johan C, Team Svartlist NoraGyttorp fiskeklubb"

English version

"The fish took a löja with a UV101 VK-baitholder with actiondisc. It hit the downrigger at 10 meters deep. I used the middle hole on the side of the baitholder at a speed of between 2.5-3 knots. The salmon was 97cm long and weighed 12030g"

Thanks Johan your report and Congratulations!!

Salmon 6,4kg Lake Vuohijärvi

The Finnish team Satunnaiset Saaliit who are the European Champions caught this nice 80cm Salmon in Lake Vuohijärvi. This is an outstanding fish for this lake. The fish took a purple black chrome VK-Baitholder. These guys are also planning to go to Sweden in December and fish the Laxcup Suzuki Vättern Competition.

Congratulations on a great fish.

Huge Salmon again!!!

Yesterday I saw some Swedish blogs Had news of a huge salmon over 12kg. The happy fisherman that caught it was Johan Cederborg and the fish’s weight was 12003g. That is the biggest salmon from lake Vänern for this winter season. Once again it was caught on a VK-Baitholder!!? Maybe we will get a Report from Johan? Johan if you read this take contact with me.

Congratulations Johan

Mika

mika.karkkainen@co.inet.fi

Huge Salmon from lake Vänern

Jonas again!! Here is report for his yesterday succses. Congratulations

"The salmon was 11,5 kg from lake Vänern. Salmon strike on löja with UV coloured VK-baitholder on the downrigger (it was a nice fight)
I used the centre hole on the side on the VK-rax!!
Later on the day I lost a nice Trout approx 9+ kg I have it in the landing net but it jumps out again and I lost it. (I was alone in the boat) That fish strike also VK-Baitholder.

Best Regards from Jonas Team Offshore/Garmin. Sweden"

Salmon +7kg

I got report from Wildwater Charter Kristian Keskitalo. He testing new VK-Products and having good results. Saturday He and customers catch nice, little over 7kg salmon with new VK2 Flasher and VK-baitholder, colour UV green. He also saying to catch few another salmons our products, but that was this season biggest for those.

Mika

Fishing in lake Saimaa

Yesterday me and my friend Jari fishing in hard and cold northwest wind in lake Saimaa. We got one 65cm Salmon and loose one strike. Fish take VK-baitholder with 80g lead. Head colour is new testing color Peanut Butter. My friend call me another lake and tell he got 68cm fat salmon, surface without any lead. His baithead color is glow orange splatter.

Mika

Good reports from Sweden

we got all the time lots of good fishing news to our products from Sweden and Finland. New VK2 flasher gives fantastic results and also our baithead users is very happy for their succses.

Here is one of many reports from Jonas Team Offshore/Garmin.

"I have test my new boat for the first time to day!
I had not so big faith in the fishing when i went out due to try out new boat for the first time and not so good reports from others of yesterdays fishing.
i started to rigg the rods and when nr 5 i was in water the first salmon strike 7,2 kg
leater i got a 8,1 kg salmon and lost three strikes of fish!!
The VK rax works fine!! best color today was UV color.

Best Regards from Jonas Team Offshore/Garmin. Sweden"

VK Release new Swedish Special color series

VK-Trolling Vänern tour

Team VK-Trolling came home earlier than planned, because of gale force winds and the Kållandsö Competition was postponed two weeks to November 7 - 9.

The Sunnanå Competition was also effected by strong winds, but the teams did manage to get 1.5 fishing days in. On the first competition day our team lost a huge salmon that we estimate being over ten kilos. On the first run it took fifty metres and during the long and exciting fifteen-minute fight it jumped out of the water three times. It ended up getting caught on another bait from one of our rods and suddenly it was gone! THAT’S FISHING! Our final position was 15th, but if we had landed that salmon we would have won the competition. Maybe next time it is caught it will be bigger and make someone very happyJ The big one took a clear UV coloured head with a 100g weight on the side planer. We had adjusted the bait to give us a small swimming circle.

We took a salmon trout weighing over 3kg in both the training day and the second day of the competition. We also had a number of bites and caught a few pike. We maybe might come back to Sweden to fish the Kinnekulle Competition in 2009.

We would like to thank everyone for the warm reception we got in Sweden and the competition officials for a well organised competition in tough conditions.

For VK-products this trip was very good. We met a lot of nice Swedish fishermen and we also got four new fishing stores who want to start selling our products. Below is the updated list of Swedish stores, but we are adding some more in the near future. Ask the shop near you. We are planning to do some special bait holders in the favourite Swedish colours for wobblers and plugs and hopefully they will be in the shops in Sweden soon. The new VK salmon2 flasher will be on the market in about 2-3 weeks, so ask for it in the store near you.

Stores now selling VK-bait holders in Sweden:

Olssons fiske
YM's fiske
Jaktia Örebro
Kinnevikens Fritid Lidköping
Fiskeshopen i Trollhättan
Vidars fiske Karlstad
EL-GE Sportfiske Kristinehamn

Tight lines
Mika

VK-Trolling is leaving to go fish Lake Vänern in Sweden

Team VK-Trolling is fishing Lake Vänern in Sweden October 16th-26th. We will compete in the Sunnanå Competition in Mellerud which is also the Nordic Championship October 17th-19th. The following weekend October 24th-26th we will compete in the Kållandsö Competition which has Spiken as the starting harbour. We will be blogging our results if the laptop computer and mobile broadband work together. We will be bringing some products with us so if anyone is interseted in the products they can come and speak to us there.

Tight lines
Mika

Report from lake Puulavesi

I got a mail from my friend and charter fisherman Mika Pihlaja who just had a guiding fishing trip on Lake Puulavesi. They took two really nice salmon 5,5kg & 6kg. Both of them took the same VK-baitholder glow color 840. Both fish took the bait on the surface without any weight at all. His customers were extremely happy.

New VK-Salmon 2

VK-Products present the new VK-Flasher.

The product comes on market in November 2008. The new flasher's name is the VK-Salmon 2
The first model to come on the market is 15cm long, and the larger 25cm model will come at a later date. The New flasher is very easy to use, and it has a very light power to line. That is why it is very good for sideplaner use as well.
The new flasher comes in four different plastic colors ( UV, glow, clear, chartreuse), with 15 different tapes.
This summer's test fishing with the flasher gave fantastic results!

Tight lines
Mika

New VK-Salmon 2 Flasher

Swimming videos of VK:s new flasher. See the link.

http://www.vk-products.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=106

Yövesi meeting

On Sunday October 5th we had the Yövesi meeting in Lake Saimaa in Finland. The fishing was difficult and of the twenty three boats that participated only five of them caught either salmon or trout. 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!

Yövesi meeting results

1. Team Syrjälahti Matti/Hockman Ismo Salmon 3250g + 2930g = 6180g
2. Team Forsman Pete/Tynkkynen Janne Salmon 2790g
3. Team VK-Trolling Kärkkäinen Mika/Tukiainen Tomi Salmon 2600g
4. Team Riipinen Juha/Hukka Taisto Salmon 2280g
5. Team Koskinen Simo Trout 1900g