Carp fever

The Carp fever is making me itching all over!

Today I sorted out my tackle box with Rigs, Safety clips, Hooks and all those small bits and pieces to see what I need for the new season. Boxed up two reels and extra spools, moved my rods out of the old hold-all and into my new 5 rod quiver with sleeves. Separated two sleeves and packed the quiver with the rest of the rods away again.

I'm slowly getting ready to go to Ebro River in Spain, only bringing two rods and the minimum things needed. Leaving Saturday evening after a shop event and a meeting with hopefully another sponsor, leaving with a truck loaded with a little tackle and more than a ton of bait. We (my sponsor) have a bait delivery in Spain, so no I'm not gonna  be feeding with a ton of bait on this trip.

Looking forward to see the Ebro river, catch some big fat Carps and get started on the 2013 Carp season! And I promise I will return, with a ton of pictures, video footage and interesting stories!

Cheers - Pali 

New Season

Finally I got launched the new season of The Boilie Effect!

To start this 2nd season I decided to make a video about boilie production, so I visited Northern Baits in Norway and in their Baitcave I made A LOT of boiles.

For those who don't know what boilies is, it's a boiled doe ball used for Carp and Catfish bait. I make them from a mix of many different ingredients, the main ingredients are LT-94 Fishmeal (made from whole fish)and Krill meal along with Eggs, undiluted krill protein and spices.

I hope you all will enjoy this 1st. episode "A shit load of boilies" and the rest of the new season, I've put in a lot of effort in planing this season.

In the 2nd. episode I will visit the Ebro river in Spain, home of Monster Catfish and Giant Carps.

Cheers - Pali

WARNING

Be aware, it's out there!!!!!

Im infected bad, so is most of my readers!!!!!

So hurry up, turn of your computer or at least find another blog!!!!!

I might infect you with.......

Cheers - Pali

Welcome back

Okay well .... welcome back, I haven't been very active writing here at my blog lately. Work, life and many exciting things have come in the way, taken up my time. And well thats life for you right there, but it's great!

In December 2012 I went to Parco del Brenta in Italy fishing for a week, unfortunately the weather wasn't with us and we came down there just as the cold sat in. It really effected the fishing, where I had hoped to land a bunch of great fish I only got 3 fish in 6 days fishing. Non the less I got a nice Italian PB for Common carp at 16,4 kg (36.15 lbs) and another PB for Channel Catfish at 8 kg (17.63 lbs) all on Northern Baits Krillers
 

So I went to Norway for a month in January to Febuary 2013, did a little work and some fishing. Okay I did a lot of work, and a little fishing. I'll have a Video up from my trip soon, still waiting for some Underwater footage and a few other things before I can finalize the editing and get the Video up. I also shot a episode of "The Boilie Effect" during a visit to my Sponsors Northern Baits, they where nice enough to let me use their baitcave and I where able to make a "S**t load" of boilies for the upcoming season. So there will be no shortage of high quality bait this year either!

Then I spend a week in the sun at Puerto Rico (Grand Canaria) where I had hoped to go Carp fishing, but apparently the Guide company "Carp Grand Canaria" where very busy as they never replied to my E-mail. Non the less I had a great time, fishing or no fishing but it would have been great to catch a carp on Grand Canaria.

Upcoming I will go to Spain once again in a few weeks, this time to visit the mighty Ebro river - home of Monster Catfish and Giant Carps for 10 days. The trip is planned with Gary Sheridan from www.carpdreamfishing.com. We are focusing on Carp fishing, but as far as I know he also guides Catfish trips if thats your poison. Tho I would not mind hooking into one of those huge monsters, I'm afraid my line wouldn't be up for the job of landing a Monster Catfish.

So stay tuned and keep an eye out for the upcoming Season of "The Boilie Effect"

Cheers - Pali

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.