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

NEW VK-Baitholder!!!

The new small VK. Fantastic new color, available in both sizes.

Bigger & Smaller VK-Baitholder

Coming soon our dealers and homepages

Tight lines

Team VK

VK Introduce the new baitholder this autumn!

VK-Products will soon release the new small size baitholder. Suitable bait size is 7-12cm , but can also hold bigger baitfish in the 13-14cm range. Test results have been very very successfull and we are expecting fantastic fishing successes also for this new model as well. Pictures and color chart coming soon.. Wait a little;-)

Tight lines
Team VK

Another VK-Victory Volvo fishing club tournament

Congratulations to Team Toby which won the Volvo Fishing Club Vättern competition today by weighing in 4 fish. They also won the whole Volvo Fishing Club tournament!

Another VK-Victory Urho trolling Lake Vuohijärvi

I just got message from Keijo Korhonen .He told me, they won couple week ago Urho trolling competition using baitfish with VK-Baitholder. They caught nice 5460g/78cm salmon. Fish took 15 meter deep of downrigger. Strike color was own painted yellow/orange/chrome tiger.

Congratulations guys

Tight lines

Team VK

VK News

The new VK-2 chrome and gold series. Click on the link. Also the new VK super glow pop-corn & watermelon flashers . More news coming soon from VK!!

New charter fishing report blog

I have made a new blog for my charter fishing English reports. Click on the picture.

Tight lines
Mika

Our result was 5 under size pike-perch, a few pike and a trout.

2 pike and one strike.

The Finnish Trolling Championship for Pike-perch

Tomorrow we travel to Lake Vesijärvi. There is the Finninsh Trolling Championship for Pike-perch. The team which catches the biggest pike-perch wins that competition and the Finnish Championship. Teams are allowed to use a maximum of 6 rods and the competition time is 14.00-22.00.

Mika

GIANT SALMON 21,287KG!!

Team Siivikkala caught huge salmon in Helsinki competition in baitfish. They using another baithead label than VK but get our full respect. Fish is only 115cm long!

Congratulations

Mika/Team VK

Helsinki competition Results

Results in Finnish, clik the link

Another VK-Victory. Double Victory in Helsinki

Finnish Champions Team VK-Trolling 2

Finnish Champions Team Känkkäränkkä (Marko Suppala & Jari Kataja) Their prize was a Yamaha 9,9hp outboard motor. They also won Sunday's best team prize, Yamaha 2,5hp outboard motor.

Today they caught 2 salmon their weights were a 13.390kg & 13.590kg

Team Känkkäränkkä won today the Finnish Sea Salmon Trolling Championship. They caught 4 salmon with a total weight of 41.568kg Team Känkkäränkkä was also one of the 3 winners in the 3 boat team Competition , They 3 boat fishing team was called VK-Trolling 2
This year Helsinki Competition had absolutely fantastic success. the 3 day competition resulted in a total of 203 salmon being caught!!!!! That was the best result ever in this competition! About 80-90% of all salmon caught were on baitfish with different brands of baitheads and flashers. VK-Flashers & Baitheads users had absolutely fantastic succses on that total results. The biggest salmon in this years competition was Team Siivikkala's huge 21,287kg It was also a new competition and Finnish gulf trolling record.
Some statistics:
19 salmon over 10kg
8 of those was over 13kg

Congratulations all!!
Tight lines

Mika & Vesa

Helsinki Trolling Competition 2009

Tomorrow starts the big Helsinki Salmon Trolling Competition. We have 2 VK-Trolling team there. Both teams include 3 boats. The competition ends on Sunday and it is also the Finnish Sea Salmon Championship. I personally am fishing the competition with my friend Antti, on his Silver Eagle Starcabin boat. I maybe won't be able to blog because my phone has some problems, it got water in last spring in Simrishamn:-( I will get a new phone later.

Tight lines
Mika

Another VK-Victory

Team Taavila brothers took victory in the Lake Saimaa, Yövesi Salmon King Competition. They caught a nice salmon weighing 7kg and 86 cm long. it took a fluo orange/black painted VK-baitholder on the side planer with a 50g weight. There were 70 boats that competed in the competition.
Congratulations on a nice victory and a new personal best for fresh water salmon.
Tight lines
Mika/Team VK

Porkkala today

Team PoPo Joni & Hannu caught a couple of nice salmon and one trout today in the Finnish Gulf. All the fish took VK-baitholders and biggest one took the bait with a VK2 flasher. The salmon weighed 11.7 & 8.1kg and the trout 4.3kg.
Congratulations!
Mika/Team VK

Salmon 12,5kg

Team Satunnaiset saaliit Sami sent me a picture of this salmon that they caught today outside of Kotka on the Finnish Gulf . The fish weighed 12.5kg and was 101cm long. It took a green, yellow chrome colour VK-Baitholder. . Congratulations, well done!

Mika

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