Great arctic char fishing!

Our fresh water guide Dan where away the other day on an expedition to a lake with a great population of arctic char here on Nordkyn peninsula.

First he tried with spin rod and copper spoon bait but the char refused to bite on this but then when he tried his fly rod the arctic char was biting almost before the fly hit the water!

During a couple of hours he caught 19 arctic char where the biggest one was 1,9 kilo. The most impressive thing is that the smallest char was as big as 0,7 kilo!

 

Dan releasing a beautilful arctic char.

Two arctic chars was brought back home for a great dinner!

 

Magical Mountain Lake.

Two weeks ago our guide John went with a guest, Emma Bäcker to a magical mountain lake.

To get there they first drove a couple of kilometers with our new quad bikes. When you first arrive at this lake you will think you’re in heaven, the landscape surrounding the lake is like taken from a fairytale and the water is 100% Crystal clear. In this lake the primary fishing is for the sea char that now during summer is going up the rivers to the lakes to spawn during the fall and then stay over the winter. When they first come to the lakes they are totally silver but after just a couple of days they start to change their colors and soon they are looking like a normal arctic char. This day John and Emma caught 12 chars and lost a bunch more.

During summer the fishing after sea char is possible in fjords, rivers and later on summer in mountain lakes here on Nordkyn peninsula.

John says – If you like salmon, trout ore arctic char fishing then you will love the sea char fishing. The fishing after sea char is usually practice in unusual beautiful areas at Nordkyn peninsula with great panoramas. The water both in sea and lakes are so clear that its sight fishing that is the primary technique, which makes it incredibly exciting fishing.

First cast and first fish for the day!

John with the first sea char for the day

Here is Emma fighting here first this day

A happy Emma with a nice sea char

With ultra light gear this fishing rocks!

The colors are amazing!

Fighting the next char

Emma with another char

John tried to catch them on fly and succeded

The IMAX drysuit is not only great to wear on the sea!

 

Photo under water is easy in this crystal clear lake!

Sea char on the hook!

Catch and release!

75 halibuts during 10 days fishing!!!

Last week we had a group here from Norway that focused 100% on halibut.

During their week here they caught 40 halibuts, the top fish were 134, 137, 138, 140, 144 och 159cm. (check thehalibut length/weight list for weight)

Same week we had the team from Sweden here that caught 35 halibuts. This week was magical but at the same time proves just how good halibut fishing we really have on Nordkyn peninsula! A guide can never give any guaranty when it comes to fishing but we have been all and all at our halibut hotspot area about 30 times now since last year and have never been without halibut in the boat!

Kayak expedition Nordkyn!

Two guys from France did one of our kayak explorer tours, kayaking around Nordkyn peninsula.

They came here to us at Nordic Safari two weeks ago and rented kayaks. Along the shoreline and fjords they saw everything from the mighty sea eagle to huge seals and porpoise.

Every day after paddling they made camp in their own sheltered bays that is present throughout the peninsula. Besides having a great kayak adventure they also stopped at some good fishing locations to catch fresh fish for dinner.  Back at Nordic Safari after 10 days they were exhausted but really excited looking back over their great adventure.

Ready to start the adventure!

Making camp for the night.

Camp at Magkeila.

Cape Nordkyn at sight

At west Sandfjord (west of Cape Nordkyn)

Spectacular nature at west Sandfjord

 

Preparing the fish for the day.

Panorama over west Sandfjord

Ready to leave west Sandfjord

and heading west to Skjotningsberg

At Skjotningsberg

Another beautiful day kayaking

At Stokkvika.

Arrived at Hopseidet

 (The 300 meter of land making Nordkynd a peninsula)

  

The arctic char is really red in the meat!

 

A Weasel said hello.

 

Another great camp site.

Kayaking on Barent Sea.

Team Russia catching halibut

The Russian team started there week with catching a lot of cod but the big halibut was still missing.

We offered them a guided tour to our secret halibut hotspot with our big boat Viking explorer. The first hours of fishing was rather slow but suddenly two halibuts decided to strike two jigs at the same time and a tough double fight was the result. Just a couple of minutes later strikes one more and then another one. 

Catching four halibuts this early on the season is really great.

It looks like it is going to be a really good halibut season this year and I can’t wait to guide guests this July-September when the halibut fishing is at its best up here at Nordkyn peninsula, the halibut paradise. 

PS. more pictures will be uploaded later!

 Double strike!

 The catch of the day!

Another day at the office!

Ice fishing on a great arctic char lake at Nordkyn peninsula!

Motorcyclists visiting Adventure Camp Mehamn

Motorcyclists on a visit here at Adventure Camp Mehamn The couple has biked up here from Finland and are now spending their days exploring Nordkyn peninsula by road on their motorcycles. Today they have visited our neighbour village Gamvik and Slettnes lighthouse, just a couple of kilometres from Gamvik. Tomorrow they are thinking of visiting Skjånes, a small village in the southeast corner of the peninsula. The road there is a really nice road for motorcyclist.

In front of the Camp

Swedish guests on Nordic Safari

This week we have a group of Swedish guest here on Nordic Safari, they arrived this last Friday and are here to exploring fishing around Nordkyn peninsula. Their first day they caught several good size cod with a top on 15 kilo. Yesterday they went out on a shorter fishing trip close to land because of the bad weather but succeeded to catch some fishes. This morning the weather was great and they went out Northwest of Nordkyn peninsula to try their luck. Not only did they catch plenty of cod but lost a couple really big ones so tomorrow they are out for revenge!

Happy guest!

The catch of the day! 15 and 10 kilo cod.