Report of 9,5kg Landlocked salmon

I got some pictures and short report today about a big salmon that was caught last weekend.
Kari caught this salmon on the surface with a 15g weight and a clear colour VK-baitholder. Kari said he used the centre hole on the baitholder and the fight took about 20 minutes.

Congratulations, well done!
Mika / Team VK

Nothing today

Now we stop. We did't catch any fish here today? Later I heard about one small salmon being caught here, and Vesa only caught one small and had one strike.

In Åland it was also very quiet fishing day, but our Team member Antti caught an 11kg salmon on the new color "klunssila" VK-Baitholder. The fish took the planer with a 4g weight. Antti was using the center hole with fast midsize rotation. Speed was 2,2kn. Our other friends Team Salmomatic had a very strange experience, because they had a good salmon strike in Åland and they were fighting with that. After a few minutes into the fight the "salmon" took a huge run and almost took all the line on the Amb.7000 reel. They were fighting with that "salmon" a long time before they saw a huge seal that took the salmon and kept it in its mouth. The story ends with the line broke and the seal stole their very good size salmon and VK-Baitholder:-)))

Coma

Only 2 hits with broken baits.

All is out.

Tomorrow we fishing Finnish Gulf

Tomorrow I am planning to fish Porkkala, which is one of the most popular salmon trolling places in the Finnish gulf. VK Vesa is fishing tomorrow outside of Helsinki, and we are having a little competition between us. I will be blogging if something happens.

Mika/VesaVK-Trolling

Today our friends caught a salmon around 8kg in Åland on a "Klunssila" colour VK-Baitholder .

New VK-Baitholder Color

This spring a very hot new VK color was Gold series 770 "Klunssila", it caught many salmon during test fishing. This new very powerful Baltic Sea and Vänern color is gold chrome with fluo yellow top/fluo lime green side and orange nose. Available on our webshop.

Tight lines
Mika
VK-Trolling

Hot news from Åland

I just got a call from Team Salmomatic (Toni & Tero) who is fishing Åland today. They just caught a salmon 10,32kg and 16,2kg on VK-Baitholders. (New Personal record) Both took big rotation swimming, color "lapinkulta" and green/blue/chrome.

Our team member Antti call, he got just +10kg salmon baitfish with VK-Baitholder.

My friends Team Fisu Taxi have the best birthday present they have a giant 125cm salmon in the boat! Exact weight is 19,280kg. Happy birthday Reijo, new personal record!!!

Congratulations

Mika/Team VK

Another VK Victory!! Åland

Team Känkkäränkkä ( Suppala and Vänskä) Took a absolutely fantastic victory in the Åland Trolling Competition!

They caught all their fish in the competition using VK-Baitholders + VK2 Flashers. They weighed in 4 salmon, 2 of them were huge 17+kg and one of them was the biggest salmon caught in the competition. (17.6kg)

This is the second time that Suppala has won the Åland competition!

Competition results here
Biggest fish results here

Congratulations guys, great job
Mika/Vesa

News from Åland

I heard that one team which was using VK-Baitholders and flashers caught today a salmon weighing about 18kg and also 12,5kg & 7,5kg. They also had very good results yesterday.

I just got a call from our Team VK-Trolling Antti Rautio who caught +10kg salmon. the fish took the rod on the downrigger at 20ft deep with of course a VK baitholder. They were using a trolling speed of 2.2 knots.

I also have heard a few rumours of some big salmon.

Congratulations
Mika/Team VK

Landlocked Salmon 9,5kg

I got call today, Finnish fisherman told he caught yesterday 9,5kg salmon, one small lake in Finland. Fish took baitfish with clear coloured VK-Baitholder. Report and pictures coming later.

Congratulations
Mika/Team VK

News from Åland

Salmon +9kg and 6,7kg today to my friends, both took VK+VK2

I heard rumour today, triple strike and double strike to same boat.

Yesterday Team Väkeväinen caught huge 20,890kg salmon!!

Tight lines
Mika

Åland 2009

Next weekend is the Åland Trolling Competition, which is one of Finland's biggest trolling competitions. A lot of my friends will be fishing it and I will try to update their successes here on our blog. The weather forecast shows it will be a little windy :-(
During the training days there have been big salmon caught using different baitholders

Tight lines
Mika

Report from Simrishamn

"Hello Mika

I'm sending you a picture of my today's catch in Simrishamn. All fish were caught with Löja on VK Baitholder. The fish were 11.9/9.5/8.3/6.6 and 3.8 kg in weight."

I ask Martin more information for colors & rigging style and he answer:

"Hot colors have been chrome 737, 739 and SS08. I used the middle hole of the Baitholder for the rigging."

Best regards

Martin Gaertner

http://teammossen.blogspot.com/

Congratulations Martin

You have a perfect day:-)

Mika

Salmon season starts

Team PoPo: Kinne/Hannu 8,0kg (VK+VK2) 9,6kg (VK) 6,2kg (AS)

Team PoPo Joni/Huuru: 10.0kg (VK) 7,4kg (VK+VK2) 4,5kg (VK) 5,kg (VK)

Last weekend Salmon season starts Finnish Gulf like a storm. Almost every boat who is out got 2-5 salmon contact/day. VK-Baitholder & Flashers give fantastic results.

Congratulations guys, now it starts:-)

Tight lines

Team VK

Big Trout

Hi Mika

Saturday I had a customer who caught a big trout on “VK-rax 737 chrome” Fish weight 9.06kg

Med vänliga hälsningar
Anders Larsson
Sportfiskecharter Åmål
070-653 56 98
www.kluck.se

Big Salmon from Simris

Tomi & Crew took again today a big salmon from Simris. The weather was again very difficult, because of hard wind. The fish weighed 13.2kg and was 110cm long. It took the downrigger at 35ft on a Fluo green/Fluo Yellow-Chrome VK-Baitholder with clear VK2 flasher. We were also fishing with that guy, and his boat took this week 4 big salmon, which weighed 15.3, 13.2, two weighing 11.00kg. All of those took VK-Baitholders.

Picture: Tomi's father Pauli who’s fighting with that fish.

Congratulations, nice job!

Team VK

Sweden 2009

The biggest fish in the 2009 Kinnekulle Competition. It was caught by Team Hooked/Toby and weighed 10.95kg. Congratulations!!!

Kinnekulle competition winner 2009 Team Timab Congratulations!!!

We came home yesterday. Our trip was fantastic, and we enjoyed good fishing in Sweden. Our Kinnekulle competition wasn't as we had hoped for, but we are still happy for other VK users absolutely fantastic successes. We caught 3 salmon around 4kg the first day and we were in the 6th position. Unfortunately size wasn’t with us the next two days and we finished in position 28 of 127 boats.

We were unsuccessful the last two days because we chose the wrong place. The weather was also too calm & beautiful which makes fishing very difficult. Maybe next year;-)

Team Timab won the Kinnekulle Competition and they used VK-Baitholders and Flashers. Also four another teams in the top ten used VK!!! There was also 4 fish weighing over 9kg that were caught during the competition days and all 4 of them took VK baitholders, include biggest fish in whole competition, Team Hooked/Toby’s 10,95kg salmon. That was another VK-VICTORY!!

After the competition we moved on to Simrishamn and fished with our friends for a couple of days. They took a salmon weighing 15.3 kg on a VK baitholder. On our first day it was very rough weather and we tried to start fishing. After 15 minutes fishing we caught an 11 kg Salmon with VK-Baitholder. Unfortunately we needed to stop fishing then because the sea was too rough. The second day had fantastic weather, but the fish were not biting. We were the only team for our 4 boats who caught salmon. The fish once again weighed 11kg and I got to fight the fish. It was a fantastic fighter and took on its first run about 150 meters of line off the reel. That salmon took a VK-Baitholder in the UV color. VK-baitholders work very good as well in the sea, I recommend you try them.

Thanks a lot to all our Swedish friends.

Team VK

Remember: Fish eat fish!!!