Skarnsundet Fishblog

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Last week we had 2 lovely halibuts from the skarnsundet, 1 weighing 7 kilo and the other, which was caught with me a couple of nights ago weighing 12 kilo!! Both were taken on the same mark on very similar techniques! Paul Channing from England who had been with us fishing from the shore for a week with great sucess and Plaice to 3 pound asked me if we could have a try for a halibut so on his lastnight we gave it ago!! Fishing with medium heavy spinning rods we were not exspecting on his fist drop down to hook such a lovely fish!! After 35 min the fish was netted and weighed, I tried for another 30min to retun the fish but sadly it died!!! im sure it will not be wasted thou!!Paul with his Halibut!!

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Here is Jan with a 1o1cm cod taken on a Blue shad in 18m of water!!!

Thanks for looking

 Phill

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Gerard and his fishing mates experienced a great week of fishing here at the Skarnsundet Fjordsenter. Even the poor weather did not keep the lads away from going fishing every day and night. As they been here a few times, they knew when and how to fish the right spots in the area. The results were great and good sized cod, coalfish and whiting couldn´t resist to fall for their lures. Here are some nice pictures of their weeks fishing.

I hope you had a nice and relaxing time here! See you soon!

Cheers, Kevin 

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Hello everyone,

today we continue with our guests from P&S, who have been here last week. I think you enjoyed your time here, and I hope we will see us again.

You see Holland is still in the tournament......

cheers and thanks for looking...

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On our day off, me and Tom had a go for......yes, the halibut! The drift was quite strong and it was hard to fish depths of about 40 meters. We went a little shallower and caught some nice cod on a whole herring. Coalfish started to show up on the surface and I switched to a pirk. When it hit the bottom I had a fish on straight away. I couldn´t move it and then it took about 40 meters of line with the first run. Now I was sure that this fish was a halibut, we even had to follow it with the boat. It took about 10  minutes untill it came to the surface and, well, it was a foul hooked 9 kilo cod. I have to admitt that I was a little diappointed, but in the end it was still a beautilful fish, which really fighted hard. Here it is.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers, Kevin 

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Fishing for halibut can be like carpfishing. Days go by and you suddenly get the strike you waited for so long. Yesterday Tom was that lucky guy, when we were fishing over on Itteröya. We fished full herring on a lead head, which we slowly retrieved through the water column. Tom got his hammer strike right on the bottom and we knew imediately that is will be a halibut. We were right and the result was this 7 kg halibut!

Phill was winding his herring up slowly, when his rod just arced over. The fish took about 30 meters of line straight away and we were nearly sure, that it could be the next one. When the fish came to the surface the first time Phill said: "I saw it, I think it was a halibut. Unfortunetly it was "only" a 10 pound coalfish, which took the whole herring. Well, could be worse.....:-)

One guy just came in an told me about another halibut.......That will be interesting!

We will keep on trying for the big flatties, because there are many more than we think!

 Cheers, Kevin 

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Hello everyone,

the group from P&S from Holland caught some nice fish last week. We start with a nice spurdog from Don of 1.20 meter. He also got some nice cod.

The spurdog...........

cheers and thanks for looking

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Hello everyone,

This week the group from P&S Visreisen is back. Yesterday they did their traditional grill-evening, afterwards they were supporting Holland in the match against Camerun. Luckily Holland won 2:1, so everybody could enjoy the night.

The master of the grill....Peter

The supporting crowd

cheers and thanks for looking

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These outstanding catches from last week show, that not only pirking and jigging is sucessful. Natural bait always brings some surprises to the water surface. 

This dutch group was fishing in about 150 meters, when they got a hammer strike. A long and heavy fight began and everybody was shure, this could be the 10 kg lumbfish! Well, when they got the lumbfish into the boat there were just 500 gram missing, but a 9.5 kg  lumbfish is still an extraordinary fish. This lunker fell to a whole coalfish.

One day later they came back with this stunning wolffish of 5.5 kg! They were fishing on rocky grounds in about 30 meters, when the fish fell on a baited pirk. The jaw of the fish makes me shiver everytime I look at the picture!

One tip for the people, who are watchin: Try something different than the others!!!

Thanks for looking! 

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Hello everyone,

me and my mate Frank went seatrout fishing yesterday evening. We fished with really light gear and red/black side winders. We had no luck with the seatrout but an advantage about our area is, that you will always catch other fish while you are fishing for them.

After several mackerels we also had some nice pollock in between. Pollock seams to be everywhere at the moment, doesn´t matter if you fish shallow spots or deep.

Frank with his 5 pounder

me with a 8 pounder

cheers and thanks for looking

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