Skrei on shalow waters

The other day me (John) and Albin were out fishing for skrei close to the coast outside Mehamn. It dident take long before we caught skrei, actually we caught skrei from the first minute of fihing to the last! We were fishing on 30 to 90 meters depth the whole time and the skrei was under the boat the entire time. Also i caught a halibut that came swiming up to the boat while i was tackeling on a new lure. It swam one time around the boat in the surface and i droped my jig about ten meters down before stoping and BAAAM! The rod i was fighting with, the Savage-Gear MP Pro >150g was great fun fighting this 10 kilos halibut with!

Me with a skrei caught on light gear!

Albin with a great skrei!

 

Me fighting halibut on the Savage-Gear MP Pro

And here it is!

New Guide boat!

We are happy to present our new boat for guided fishing tours, a Minor 34 feet offshore boat, a boat which is of walk around model.

The boat does 30 knots at cruising speed and 40 knots at maximum. This makes our fishing and sightseeing territory a lot bigger in the future.

This boat will be used for a lot of adventures such as: Halibut fishing, skrei fishing in wintertime, King Crab fishing safaris, shuttle boat for Cape Nordkyn hikers and sightseeing tours around Nordkyn peninsula and its surroundings. Also safety boat for our boat rental customers.
The boat can carry up to 8 passengers which makes it a great boat to charter!

Welcome aboard! Let’s go fishing!

//Vidar The Viking!

 

 

It got a lot of space to fish from!

And high rails all around the boat!

I can’t wait until we go out and fish with this boat for the big cod called skrei that are spawning close to the coast from the end of February to end of April. The sooner you fish on the season the bigger possibility to catch the really big cods but at the same time the sooner on the season you fish the more unstable weather. That’s why this boat really comes to its right during these conditions!

Also the fishing after the exotic spotted wolfish and the blue halibut which both lives outside Mehamn but really far out on deep water will be easy accessible with our new Minor 34!

//John

2012 first skrei fishing tour

Today the weather got really great so we decided that today was a good day to do this year’s first skrei fishing tour.

 Skrei is cod fish that lives down in the deep parts of Barents Sea most of the year but in early mars the cod fish gathers to spawn close to the Norwegian coastline and then they are called skrei.

At noon today me and Vidar the Viking went out with two guests on our big boat Viking Explorer to locate and fish skrei that are swimming in big schools. The day was a great success, even though we didn’t fish for more than 4 hours we manage to catch plenty with skrei and the three biggest was 16, 18 and 18,5 kilo. During the following weeks more and more skrei will gather along our coast until it’s almost not room for more so we look forward for a couple of month of really good cod fishing!

Vidar the Viking with a 15 kilos skrei!

Kenneth having fish on!

Vidar, Kenneth and Joppe

 with the days three biggest skreis!