Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 28 March 2025
Friday I had ice fishing guiding. I had good feeling about that as weather was good, wind from right direction. There were old holes where light could go under ice. What I didn't expected was that fish didn't agree with me.
It was stunning weather, sun shine and warming over zero celsius and just light wind which didn't have any freezing effect. I didn't realize that heavy wind couple days before had ran snow and old holes where covered. So no light going under as I was hoping. That what happens when you are too confident, not considering every aspects.
It was nice day even only one small perch was caught. Saturday we had local reindeer race, kind of final practise before coming finals, Grande Finale.
Sunday I had casting session as weather was still nice. Now wind was heavy, yet not cold. Thursday when having session with Paul, I had problem that line which was on snow got hard and tangled easily. I thought I will test if reindeer hide would solve problem.
So I put hide on snow and put line on hide. No tangling anymore. My testing didn't last long as wind was so heavy that it blowed hide and line now and then somewhere. I re-measured my marks on line, had some accuracy and launching drills, little more carry drill and hour was fast gone. It is funny how time disappears while casting or fishing.
Thursday we have bbq evening where we grill whole reindeer. It will be pretty much end of season evening. During weekend we will be in Inari and watching reindeer race, Grande Final. Our reindeer is competing amongst 24 fastest reindeers in Finland.
Next Tuesday ice fishing and tvshooting. That will be last action on this season. Well we have again one group coming for ice fishing end of April as every year. Anyway end is here, season end. It is time to figure out summer. There are still some open spots left if you plan trip and fishing here.
I'm writing this on Tuesdsay evening as Paul is heading Sungai Tiang and needs to put this online before. I have to admit that I'm little jealous. Paul and guest will have stunning trip to river. When we visited ST last year it was so great. River is amazing, hopefully I can return there one more time. River left something between teeth as we say here.
Weather is warming and it show plus degrees, so snow might be gone fast. I kind of hope so as we don't have guests coming so no need for snow anymore.
Have a great weekend
Mika