Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Thanks Mr. Putte for the welcomed photos, wowwee!  your a tough couple to do that for fun,  Its a beautiful place where you live.  Lots of water, stunning scenery, quaint architecture, and the metric system still telling us westerners how soft we are.   
   Send more pictures anytime,  as we all enjoy fishing and the life.   Welcome to a great family of admirers.
  Also any tackle tips, jigs, baits and such would be appreciated, as I also fish halibut some in S.E. Alaska, and would love to share info with you. 
  Below is my wife with a few nice ones we got a couple of years ago.  Her 4/0 Avet is blue and has a faint clicker.

Ah ! It´s always nice to see pictures from "over there" :-)

Normally i use softlures to catch halibuts, and also to catch cod, coalfish etc. Sometimes i use a deadbait tackle, because live baits are forbidden in Norway. It depends on my mode, soft lures are more active fishing, while deadbait are much more relaxed. This year i´m gonna try more float angling, it´s very effective !

And to set things right, i live in Sweden, but all my deepsea fishing is in Norway, i love that country !

One of my Accurates and a softlure, nice colours during clear days ! :-)

And someone noticed that it´s not kinda "Hawaii" weather in Norway, but sometimes... ( Not my brightest moment... )

Quote from: Tightlines666 on February 19, 2017, 08:47:25 PM
Stunning scenery!

Thank you for sharing!

Are those norse gargoyles on the roof of that building?  Or what is their purpose?

John

I´m not really sure waht you mean, my english is not that perfect... ;-)

Putte, John was asking about the unusual (in America) roof decorations on the church.  I wondered about them also.  I looked closely at the roof and they might look like gargoyles  (person med groteskt ansikte) from a distance but they look like just a building decoration.  I must congratulate you on your photography.  You have received a lot of responses for a first post.  Also you have plenty of fish for your lutefisk.  Dominick

beautiful country!!!!

Awesome fish, excellent Pictures, love the scernario and landscapes

greetings from Baja, Mexico

This is a picture of my personal best during the fight. The rod in one hand and the camera in the other, needed the proof if the fish should get loose. :-)

And here is the fish on land, it´s nothing i´m proud of but the fish died and i couldn´t do anything about it :-( Here in scandinavia the halibut is a threatened specie and normally i try to release as many as possible, of course we take some to eat, but when they are bigger than 110 - 120 cm´s we put them back. This one is 187 cm´s and the weight around 82 kilos.

And a bad, really bad, video from one of our trips:

:-)

I enjoyed that.

Thanks for sharing!

Quote from: STRIPER LOU on February 19, 2017, 06:28:41 PM
Great pics Putte. Norway is king when it comes to codfish and also Norwegian Jigs. I enjoy jigging for these in our Block Island area. There was a time when you could just about fill the boat.

They still have some great catches but its more sporadic and depends on the amount of herring, tinker mackerel, and sand eels that are around.

What you gents call coalfish is know to us as Pollack, Ocean Pollack, Boston Blues, etc. etc. Fierce fighters! Trolling a frame one day we had a 4 bagger, all in the 20 to 25 lb range. I remember my brother and I gaffing 3 of them a sliding the last one up over the transom. It was a back breaker.

Even the cod can be excellent fighters. Here its a jig with an armed teaser. At times fishing 125 ft of water, its not uncommon to find them up to 25ft below the surface chasing herring. When those fish are on the feed like that its game on!

Halibut for our area is a no, you have to go further north but for cod I thoroughly enjoy catching them, and if we get an early spring we'll head out and pound them for sure.



Keep up the great work and post up all the pics. When the weather is like it is here in New England, its pics like that which keep us psyched and ready for action!

All the best,  ..  Lou

I think that pollock and coalfish are 2 different species over here, pollock is what we call: "Bleka" a fierce fighter, kinda bronze coloured, with big black eyes. And coalfish is what we call: Gråsej, a little bit more silver coloured, hunts in big shoals and are really easy to catch during the late summer, early fall in Norway. Really strong fighters, but you need to fight them hard so they dont get to exhausted, really hard to release them if you fight them too long.

This is a coalfish, "gråsej"... :-)

And this is a pollock, "Bleka"... :-)

That was a great video thank you for sharing it here.  I enjoyed it very much.