Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
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:
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
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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
Mika
Monday, October 13, 2008
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
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
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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
http://www.vk-products.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=106
Monday, October 6, 2008
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
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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