Hard wind in Simrishamn

Today no fishing due to hard eastern wind!

Full Pott again

I left the harbor at 5.15 AM and came back at 8.15 AM already and with another limit catch of salmon. They weighted 6.2, 5 and 4.7 kg. The fishing was remarkable good this morning as I caught 2 more fish, 2 cm to short each. The new boat is living up to its name, Crescent Salmon!
Today was the last day on Vänern for this Spring, tomorrow we're moving to Simrishamn.

Full Pott with pit stop!

A limit catch of 3 Salmon, 5, 3.5, 2.7 kg (Full Pott) was the result of today's fishing, although I had to go for a pit stop for refueling in the harbor after having caught 1 fish and fished 3 hours, as I was afraid to run out of petrol.

2 Trout today

Today's fishing gave 2 Trout from 3.5 and 4.5 kg. I started early at 5.00 AM out of the harbor due to some heavy tournament traffic later on.

Nothing countable

Today's fishing gave 5 undersized salmon plus 1 pike, nothing for the freezer. Tomorrow the new motor has to go for it's first service, so no fishing only maintenance works on our house.

First real fishing day

Today was the first real fishing day. I caught a Trout of 6.4 kg and a Salmon from 5 kg. The new boat has been baptist with fish blood and is now a real fishing boat.

The boat is in the water

Today at 10.00 AM we launched the boat and the first test has been done successfully. I fished 5 hours only, more to get used to the new rig and caught 1 wild salmon from 4 kg.

Ready to launch

After 3 days work and some unexpected difficulties the boat is finally ready to launch and to be tested in combat conditions. More about later.

The new boat and a broken trailer winch

Yesterday morning at 6.00 AM and after 2 days of preparation we started the last trip with our old boat. We drove to Motala on the north eastern shore of the Lake "Vättern" to the boat dealer to exchange it against a new one. The trip went well also the handing over. As we were going to start our journey back to Mossen, we had to note that on our new Brenderup trailer, "Made in Denmark" a broken trailer winch, "Made in GB" had been installed. So the boat had to be fixed with some tie straps and we had to drive to Jonköping on the south tip of Vättern to the Thule factory to pay 1000 SEK to get a new one. The warranty has to be claimed with the dealer in Germany. So much about an united "European Market".
From Jonköping we went to Tibro, which we had passed already in the morning to do some shopping for fishing tackle and to complete the unplanned rounding of lake Vättern with a boat in the tie!
At 8.30 PM we arrived in Mossen having driven another 740 km and still no fish caught.
The next 2 days will be busy with fixing all the electronic and fishing stuff to the boat.

In Sweden an reconnected to the world

After the usually long journey, this time even longer due to a boat trailer transport, we arrived in Mossen, Sweden, on Tuesday afternoon only to realize that our telephone had been cut off for the third year in a row by some digging power company workers. The damage had been reported by our neighbor to "Telia", the telephone operator, already by last week Thursday. Yesterday, after only 8 days, they were finally able to repair it somehow, although it looks very temporary, as the pictures show. That's what one calls a very poor service, especially in the "Homeland of Telecommunication".