Good cod fishing at Cape Nordkyn

Yesterday our guide went out with the guests to guaranty some good fishing, and with full throttle on the outboard engine and the stern pointing towards Cape Nordkyn that was only minutes away.

After a while they came upon a really good fishing drift on the outskirt of Cape Nordkyn where there was more cod than ever before this season, even more than during the spring fishing. They did a 4 kilometers long drift on 40-50 meters depth along a 60 meters edge and the sonar showed 5 to 10 meters all the way. I did not take long time before they had enough cod for the day and then just fishing for trophy cod. More cod then they could count was over 10 kilos and several cod over 15 kilos that was released back to grow even bigger until next time!

From Austria to Nordkyn by bicycle

Yesterday a man from Austria came here to visit our hostel. He had not traveled here by any ordinary way but by bicycle all the way from Austria. During the way he only got one flat wheel and no other problems. This morning he cycled to Slettnes lighthouse which is the northern lighthouse on the European mainland. You can follow his rut back to Austria on this web page. http://berghold.info/html/nordkinn.html

 Just arrived to Adventure Camp Mehamn  . 

 At Slettnes Lighthouse

Another great halibut caught at Adventure Camp Meham.

Yesterday another great halibut was caught at Adventure Camp Meham. Two of our Finnish guest went out to hunt the queen of the depth and succeeded when they hooked a 30 kilos halibut!

The queen of the depth

Here is the happy fisherman and his 30 kilos halibut

Today they are going out again, this time to fish wolfish.

Video 66,4 kilos halibut

Here is a video when a guest here on the camp caught a 66,4 kilos halibut.

66,4 kilos halibut!

The Swedish team from Havsfiskeguiden has been here to explore the fishing on Nordkyn

Peninsula. They where here for three days and caught a lot of cod over 10 kilos and several about 15 kilo. During these three days we caught 5 halibut and with a top on 66,4 kilo. It took Micke from Havsfiskeguiden about 40 minutes to fight this queen of the depth. Two hours later David also from Havsfiskeguiden, hooked a halibut that directly did a 70 meters run and then went loose. The day before our German guests fight a halibut for 45 minutes that later cut the line. The big halibuts seems to arrived to the north shores of Barents Sea.

Micke with his 66,4 kilos halibut!

167 cm long was the halibut 

David with  a 16 kilos cod

Micke and a 15 kilos cod

 

Hiking to Cape Nordkyn

Here are some pictures from the Latvian group that was the first this year that hiked to Cape Nordkyn .

On their way!

Far far away you can see Cape Nordkyn

Finaly there!

You cant get further north than this on the european mainland 

Swedish guests hitting the jackpot!

These last days our Swedish guest has hit the jackpot when it comes to fishing! It started this Monday when one of the guests caught a 130 cm and 30 kilos halibut. Yesterday first our guide John Hedström hooked a 115cm and 16,5 kilos halibut closely followed by another of the swedish guests with a 111cm and 15,5 kilos halibut. The halibut is more and more coming up on shallow grounds after a long winter on over 200 meters depth. The halibut fishing will continue being better all summer so we expect more and bigger along the way!

Her is our swedish guest with his catch, 30kilo halibut

Here is our guide John with the two happy halibut fishermen.