Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 30 October 2026
It is wednesday when wrote this one. Paul is in Sungai Tiang thursday-Sunday or something like that so request was to write bit earlier. And I had awesome plan for Wednesday due weather forecast. We had slaughter on Tuesday again and I had booked masseur (torturer) after that. So Wednesday would be total day off with easy living.
And plan was to go fishing on our lake as not much wind or rain like forecast said. Wednesday morning reality check, wind from hell and rain like monsoon. So no fishing, this what my dream meant.
Last night I slept like a baby or log which ever tells more about good sleep. Even Garmin watch congrats me about good sleep. You get idea. Garmin didn't know which I was dreaming.
Somehow I ended up to be tour guide in bus tour to Ammarnäs for Finnish people. It was rivers were excatly Tjulån and Vindelån with Lake Gautsträsket. Only difference was that Tjulån had upper Soca valley details. I won't explain too much of this as you know if you know. Shortly it was two different great fishing areas combined together.
We were with group on terrace outside of restaurant and I explained something about nature, rivers etc. It was probably September as some colours on leafs. During my talk I saw rising starting on downstream, it was on left side of river (Tjulån) last two hundred meters before entering lake. Lot of rises and some of those were from big fish.
People were eating so was not really working at the moment, just chatting with some of them about area. I saw rises coming closer and was fully ready to go fishing. Someone even told me to go.
I sat on terrace and saw huge over 60 cm grayling just next to terrace and picking some flies from surface, it was great beautiful grayling, best you have ever seen. I turned to go and pick up fishing gears from bus, this is not opportunity to miss.
Now nightmare part starts... I don't have any gears with me as I was throwed somehow as tour leader straight. I'm watching hatching and huge graylings rising and I can't fish. I have absolutely nothing with me for fly fishing. I'm not sleeping like baby now, even I can feel stressed. I'm on parking lot, some friends are passing and asking why I'm not fishing and where are your gears.
I don't have explanations for that, I'm in panic. They offer rod etc to me. We all are confused how I can be there without any equipments. I go back to river, no fish, river has almost dried out as small ditch, restaurant is gone. I'm not even on bus tour anymore. I missed fishing, I missed hatch.
I woke up, not relaxed... just wondering why I didn't have my gears in first place with me. Wondering how stupid my friends think I am to come on that area without fishing gears there is absolutely no excuse.
I'm wondering same thing. That was truly nightmare, I fell asleep again. Just to woke up to have reality check from weather. Nightmare continues... I hope end of week would give me one day, forecast is that next week it drops below zero.
Have a nice weekend and go fishing
Mika with halloween vibes