Nordic Safari: Halibut and Coalfish

These last three days we have had a team from Russia here at Adventure Camp Mehamn.
The first day of guiding was focused one Halibut, John and Artur was guiding in each Dolmoy 230.

Day 1 Fishing started rather slow but after a couple of hours the guides found the right place for the day and the Russian team caught 4 halibuts, the biggest one 128cm. After the halibut fishing the team wanted to test fishing for some codfish. The last couple of weeks the cod fishing has been better and better so it was not long between the strikes.

Day 2 Just like day 1 John and Artur started to guide for halibut but this day they found them rather fast and after 4 hours team Russia had caught 8 halibuts and the biggest was 136cm. John had heard from a professional fisherman the day before that it had arrived huge schools of Coalfish at a specific area so all halibut jigs was removed and speed jig baits was attached to the rod! When arriving to the area John and Artur split up and searched with the sonar after the big schools. After about 30 minutes John found them and the speed jigging began. At first only coalfish about 2-3 kilo was biting on the jigs but after about one hour the drift brought the boats over bigger coalfish and 4-6 kilos was striking one after the other. As always in fishing the biggest got away, but first after pulling several meters of the super strong Accurate reels!

Day 3 The plan for the day was to go out on a short tour to get some more cod. The day started with a lot of wind which made it really difficult to fish anything at all. After a couple of hours the wind went away and it came really good weather. Right away both boats went out to a good place for cod, after catching a lot of cod the guests in Johns boat wanted to try for more halibut the last hour before they had to be back at the marina. Usually there is not much point of fishing halibut only one hour but this day was different and they caught 3 halibuts. When the tour was about to end Artur calls on the radio that they just caught a smaller halibut one 80m depth.