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