Guiding and Testfishing :)

Wednesday to Friday, 16-18 September we have spend our days by the Lainioriver, on Rivers Of Lapland's new beat wich includes the famous Onka Pool.

We started our trip by visiting Sara and Johan from Explore The North and Rivers of Lapland in Kangos.
It was really nice and inspiring to meet them and hear about their company's and about their experience of the tourism branch.
After visiting them we went upstreams towards the Onka pool, where we was going to have our camp for the following days.
On this trip we also had the Nature Guide Students from the school with us, because we was going to guide them in grayling fishing and flyfishing technique on the morning after. The guiding went really good even though the grayling wasnt on the strike many of the natur guide students caught ther first fishes on a flyrod and everybody succeeded good in manage the flyrod. During this trip Rivers Of Lapland wanted us to look for improvement that can be done on the beat and testfishing for salmon to check the condition of the salmon so late in the season, the fishing was C&R and with single hooks.
Even though we hadnt so much time for test fishing it went really good, I made nine rounds in Onka pool during these days and got in contact with eleven salmons and managed to land four of them, the biggest one on 93cm. I also tried another pool upstreams Onka wich looked really nice. I made two rounds there and lost two salmons, one of them was a real big one, easily over ten kilos. I wont speculate more of how big it was, but one thing is sure, there are big salmons there.
The condition of the salmons were good and still they seemed to have som week left before they was about to spawn.
We also had som time on Friday going through some two-hand casting and theory of salmonfishing.
The time was running fast when we had such a good time and the schedule was a bit tight so the days just flew by.

Thanks to! Sara and Johan, Explore The North and Rivers Of Lapland!

I will be back in the summer:)