Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 26 April 2024
When writing this one we are over Poland, heading our first leg to Istanbul. It has been an insane week and as usual some extra things before leaving from home.
Monday we had last group for this winter season. Ice fishing, we had same group two years ago I think. Great people and good fishermen and women. Last time they were with us I told only thing they need is golden mormyska.
And they remembered my advice. Fishing was great for them even it was snowing, quite heavy wind from north and all circumstances was against them than on their side. They were really banging the lake. There was a two hot spots, one was south side of lake were a brook is coming in, that was only for rainbow trout. Another one was kind of the middle... just next to shallows, which was great last time also. This spot was for whitefish, some trout also but huge whitefish mostly.
And when I say huge, I mean it. You can consider good size/ big whitefish over 500 gramms. What they got were over 1 kg. Stunning fishing.
Before group arrived I moved my reindeer to the wild, Satu's reindeer we had done already on Saturday. Everything was looking good with reindeer BUT.... there is always but when we are going somewhere.
This time it happened on Tuesday evening, we had packed everything for our holiday and sauna was ready to use. I had few drinks and basically I was naked and going to sauna when I made huge mistake. I wanted to see where reindeer are, as some of them have gps so I can track them. They had turned to east and getting closer to city.
So I jumped on snowmobile and went to turn them, while doing that I decided to take them back home over night. It was 1am on Wednesday morning when I got home, went sauna and had short sleep. Wednesday we started to drive to the south as we had agreed overnight, stop on half way to Helsinki where our flight would leave. Wednesday morning we changed tyres even it had been snowing few days as I knew it will be more of less summer weather in south.
I called to Niklas (Satu's son) and Siili (our friend) and asked them to move grounded reindeers by car to calfing area. It took 6 hours for them to do that but now reindeers are were I want them to be.
And we are heading to our holiday, so far so good. We will have a night over in KL, bus trip to Gerik and night over in Royal Belum resort before going to lake. Warm and fishing here we come.
Have a nice weekend
Mika the Legend