Fish Diary

An anglers Journal

Why do many anglers keep a journal or diary?  Let me give you a clue about why I keep a logbook from my fishing adventures and no it’s not to keep stats on my bragging rights. That’s what my Digital Camera and Camcorder is for. 

Most serious and old school anglers have a notebook or journal in one shape or another, where they keep a diary of their catches. More and more probably use apps for this, but I’m old school and yet have to be converted into this. Maybe if I made my own I would be able to get used to this, but I yet have to find one with all the stats I want in my diary in one app. Also I don’t like the risk of losing my diary if I should lose my phone; have to deal with transferring it to a new phone if I were to change it. Maybe coz I’m a bit too old school and I still see my cell phone as a tool to call people, sure texting can be handy as long it’s not conversations people try to keep with me. Maybe coz I suck at texting, takes me forever to type in a message and specially on those new touch screens. It’s very handy that it got a clock and alarm, I have to give it that but the million other features my phone have, I totally ignore and don’t even bother to try and learn – Ignorance is bliss!?

Anyway back on track, writing an old fashion diary got its benefits if I have to say it and I have to. At least it’s my blog so if I’m not gonna say it who else?  I can easy backtrack in my notes, writing everything down also stores it better in my mental memory bank. So often I don’t have to look in my diary, even though I end up doing it anyway just to be sure that I did remember correct. I’m the kind of guy who like to be right, I’m not opinionated or anything like that. I try to stick to facts.

Testing lures from Paradox Customs

A nice May morning

I found a few hours in my weekend to get out fishing ;) only had time for a 2 hour session, so I went out early Saturday morning 7 am and arrived at the lake and started fishing 30 minutes later.

I started with casting out my passive rod with a good old fashion worm on it, getting the 2^nd rod ready. Picked a yellow River bug jig from Paradox Customs and a Milo bombarda float, but befor I had my 2^nd rod ready I hooked a trout on the worm, only minutes after I cast it out. It was just a tiny small trout so it was not much fun at all, no fight and not really anything worth keeping.

It took me a good 1½ hour before I had any action on the jig, but once I figured out how to work it thru the water and at what depth I started to get strikes.

I got two nice trouts on land in the last 30 min of my fishing session and lost a 3^rd, guess I didn’t get the hook set right. All in all it was a great morning, started out with a bit of rain but it cleared up a little later.

  

 I also got a bit of footage on the camcorder,

hope you will enjoy. 

 

New lures from Paradox Customs

Adding to the collection 

Is there any greater feeling then getting new tackle? Maybe there are a few things but I promised not to fill in sexual content to the blog when I signed up, so let’s just stick to getting new tackle and fishing gear is the greatest feeling ever. At least for me, I always get a nice warm feeling in my whole body and a goofy satisfied looking smile on my face right after ;)

This morning my nice post lady came by dropping of a package (why does package delivery always show up when you are in the shower?) Luckily I was able to wrap a towel around my waist and get out and open the door before she drove off again, as she only do knock once and wait 20 sec before she’s off to the next house. If you can call it lucky to stand in the door dripping wet in the cold wind waiting for her to walk back from her car, while giving me an odd stair. I then realize I’m standing there wrapped in a pink towel with a Disney princess print belonging to my girlfriends daughter.

I dropped off the package on the living room table and hit the shower again, with that goofy look on my face as I kinda knew what would be in the package. On the other hand it looked bigger then I had expected! After I was done rushing the soap out my hair, partly towel dry I was almost ready to open my package of new lures!

Again my package arrived within a week, shipped from USA to Europe just like the first package from Paradox customs. Always very satisfying when shipping time is as low as possible, yes I am a bit like a little kid Christmas morning when it comes to buying fishing tackle. I most of the time buy locally to a much higher price than what I can get it for online, simply because that way I don’t have to wait for it to be shipped to me. But living on an island in small Denmark, it’s not always easy to get what I really want locally either. Especially I can’t buy custom build lures, that are handmade and if I could. I would most likely have to pay 3x the price.

After a speedy breakfast I’m ready to open the package, I rip into the package and what do I see a T-shirt?
WTF I did not order that, I double check the package. It is not for my GF and it’s not from www.WomanGiveMeAllYourMoney.com, it was from paradox customs and getting it out of the envelope I see I got a free T-shirt with their company logo – Sweet!

Impatiently I empty the bag out on the table, now let me see my goodies already!

3 packs of River bugs – Check

Purple River bugs 1/8th Oz

Yellow River bugs 1/8th Oz

Pink River bugs 1/8th Oz

  

  6 packs of Magnum Spinners – Check 

2x Super Duper Spatter

1x Blood Wraith

“Blood Pali” a customized Blood Wraith made to my own specifications and it looks perfect!

Along with a white grubtail, it will make up a very classic pike lure! 

1x “Blood Pali”

2x Black Ebon strike

Thanks to Paradox Customs for the Free T-shirt, lures and customization job they have done. Check their site out; they are also working on a skirt shop and “build your own” supplies, and if you have any special requests just send them an E-mail.

Photo Contest

Photo Contest

I have entered a photo contest where I can win a week’s fishing vacation for two at lac du Charlou!

Help me win, by rating my picture on the link below! All you have to do is click the link below, enter your e-mail and hand me as many stars you think my picture deserves. 

Northern Baits Photo Contest  

Thank you to everyone who already have rated, and to all of you who are about to rate my picture!

Cheers

Pali

Easter weekend

A well spend Easter holiday weekend - by Pali

 48 hours at local water

I had my 14 year old daughter with me on a 48 hour carp session, were we camped out at a small pond 30 minute’ drive from where I live. With the weather forecast said night temps below freezing, so I had packed up well with warm sleeping bags and deer skins to cover my daughter’s bedchairs.

Unpredictable spring fishing

The wonderful and unpredictable spring fishing - by Pali

Out fishing again

This might come as a surprise to some of you, but I do that a lot and I do it most of the year!

In the middle of March the weather got really nice, as far as I recall it’s been warmer this spring and earlier then usual. Have had several days where a hoodie have been sufficient for most of the day, first at sunset it’s been necessary to put on a jacket. There have been little rain and bad weather at all this spring, it’s been awesome fishing weather pretty much since the ice broke after the winter.

A mate called me up and asked me what I had for plans for the last weekend of March; I checked my calendar and double checked with my girlfriend. You know just to keep the air in the house breathable, as I have been fishing A LOT since the ice broke. On the other hand she knows I will have 3 months from middle of April where I won’t be able to go fishing. And I will defiantly not have any chances for overnight sessions, so she is very understanding. This time was no different, so I called back and we planned an overnight session from Friday to Saturday that was what I had free in my planner.

Everything was packed up, the hold-all with my carp rods, unhooking mat, camp equipment and all my wonderful bait materials from Northern baits; Boilies, pellets, dips and particles. The weather channel was checked and I was ready to head out Friday as soon my Girlfriend got home from work, she was going to use the car for the weekend and drove me to the lake. I unhooked the trailer and home she went, I was met by my mate who already had setup camp and had a cold beer ready when I showed up at the fishing spot. We emptied our alu cans with bubbling golden nectar worthy of gods, in beautiful spring weather. My mate helped me carry all my stuff from the trailer, to the camp and I got in place with my setup. Tent, bedchair, baited my rods up, plus everything else needed to start fishing. Now it was time for another cold one, but first my mate had a bream pick up his Northern baits Krill boilie. So while he reeled in, released the bream and got his tackle out again, I got a fire started and prepared to make fire baked potatoes. As most other things I make over fire/hot ambers, it takes a lot of hours and my fire baked potatoes is no different.

Bait**** and their representative Pit Bull

Bait**** & their representative Pit Bull – by Pali

 The world of sports fishing is, a world dominated by men?

Apparently there are a few he-bit**es between them, now I’m not referring to female anglers who I have the deepest respect for. But men with tiny little penises, who properly look more like girls missing an orifice. The internet fishermen who spend more time bit**ing about other angler’s with success, than they spend on fishing and lifting their own level of success in sport’ fishing.

I was warned about their 'kind' when I started to become a sport’s angler, evolving from the regular Put & Take fisher visiting the local stocked trout lake. No offence towards P&T, I still do that too from time to time. I love trout fishing and it’s both easier and cheaper, then joining an angler club to get the rights to fish the local streams.
I soon after I started carp fishing met the first carp anglers who didn’t really want to talk with me, as I was not a member of “his” carp angling community. Here there are two carp angling “communities” and if you’re a member of one of them, the other community members will not talk with you and vice versa. I’m a member of non-of them. But I live in a very small country and I’m used to there is a very limited amount of information available in Danish, the info there is are often locked in private online forums that you will need to pay stupid amounts of money to gain access to. Lucky me I am fairly skilled in English, where I can both read, write and talk English, like so many of the wonderful people on the internet. I really don’t care if I have to read a text in English or Danish, it’s all the same to me and when I rarely come across a word that I don’t know. I have Oxfords Advance Learners English dictionary and internet right at hand, so it’s really not an issue to find all the information I needed about Carp fishing online. I just went outside the Bit**ing world of Danish Carp fishing communities; I soon met Carp anglers from England, France, Canada, Australia and many other nations. Who has been nothing but friendly, and egger to let me learn from them about carp fishing. Along with a few Danish friends, who are experienced carp anglers. Especially the Danish friends have been very helpful, with Danish lakes and ponds that aren’t public listed as carp water.