Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 5 June 2026
Monday was season opening here. Rivers are open and ready to fish. Monday was rainy day and Tuesday and Wednesday we were building new fences. Weather has been still cold as nights around 4 celsius and days barely +8 celsius.
And all this is good news. We had extremely low water levels after winter and short heat wave in end of May was increasing water temps already around 15 celsius. And it was not even summer yet. So with some heavy rains and cold days, water levels raise and temperature went down. Now rivers are 8 celsius and will be perfect for fishing on coming weekend with sun and warm days. Slowly temps will go up to 18 degrees... Hopefully there will be some heavy rains now and then.
I was guiding on Thursday and we had great fishing and some starting hatches. We started two hours casting lesson at farm and spent 6 hours at river, river reading and fishing. It was definitely successful day for me and guest. He said that he caught more fish today than during whole last summer. It is up to you to judge if he was shitty fisherman or if I'm excellent guide.
Friday I will do guiding again and I'm looking forward as everything look perfect. And there is always fall when you think like this. I got extra short notice booking also for Saturday evening. That will gamble for me. It is our wedding anniversary with Satu, and I'm guiding as so many anniversaries before. It is possible that she is not happy after all in the evening.
My plan for Sunday is go fishing with my nephews as they are here for fishing few days. Hopefully Satu will join. Game is on.
It has been long waited game, we had pre season in Slovenia yet it's always nice to fish home waters after all.
Have a nice weekend and go fishing
Mika from north