TeamHelgoya

Hi. I'm on the steps to order some new downrigger rods. I've been recomand Pinnacle Silstar Powertip 8.6' $60 Today I use Greys SIN 8.6' Scandinavian Model, but this are terrible expencive ($285) and I'm not an bank robber so I've got to find some cheeper. Any of you having experience of this Pinnacle rod or other simular to they? 10-20lb and for me it's important that they have top over, or spigot connection. I'm not forced to buy the Pinnacle, but they're in the right price class here at the wrong side of the atlantic (if you look at prizes on fishing gear. If someone kneew a downrigger rod with top over connection, 10-20lb and cork finish at the bottom part, in the prize class $40-80 please let me know

Don: No i havn't seen those atractors, but i think the princip are the same as mine with attatch the atractors to the downrigger weigth with a short line so the flasher goes about 1 feet from the weight. Our autumn started again today and we got one trout on 2.2kg and lost one between 3.5 and 4 kg.

I'm looking for a boat like this or comperable to, with trailer. Anyone who have one for sale? Without engine, but ready for outboard please send pics and price to [email protected] Edit: size between 21 and 26 feet and not older boat then 1990

We have three main colours we use in Lake Mjøsa; white, blue and green. Most of the lures have at least one of this colours, but no we altso have started with the mother-of-pearl colour. Black is not fishing any great here. When it comes to the flasher I've planned to have 1 feet behind the weight, I've have to customize the lenght of the stacker lines above it so I can be sure they don't get into eachother. I altso looking forward to the picture of the BIG one

Sorry, I've never tried this, and none of my fishing mathes either. The only ryobi LC we've tried is the Ryobi Ad-Checker

At monday the season starts up again. And now I gonna try hard with flashers. My plan is to attatch the flasher 30cm behind the weight and use stacker 2 feet above. Then I can use a bait like Apex and Tomic who have hard action and get the adventage of the flasher, without interfering the lures good action

When it comes to Tica reels I have only one word : HORRIBLE! The break is jerking, the "knarr" (the sound when the fish run) suddenly disappear. The DaiwaSG47LCA is much better with fewer problems. A friend of mine is sponsered by Tica. And he don't want to hook a big one because of the disapointment WHEN and not if he lose it. The best reel I've ever tried is the Tekota and even if the price in Norway are high $556,76 we baught 4 back home, before ordering 8 more from fish307. And the quality of the Tekota is worth every norwegian crown or american dollar!

Thank you. We use many of the same teqnicks as the Swedes. Unfortanly we can not fish the Atlantic Salmon in open water here, because of they're in danger of extermination. However, we hope to could fish it in 10 years. The rules are very very hard if you shall troll after anadrome salmon species (Salamo Salar, Salamo trutta trutta and Salvinius Alpinus) Anadrome fish is fish who spawn in freshwater and eats in saltwater. Mostly I troll in Lake Mjøsa after brown trouts. The metod depends on when in the year we troll. You can divede our season in two, spring (May-medio July) and autumn (October-Desember) In January, February, March and April trolling fishing is forbidden in Lake Mjøsa. In the spring section we fish close to the surface from 0.5 meters (2feet) deep to 10meters (33feet). The autumn section can altso divides in two parts, early (1st october to 15th november) here we fish from 8meters (24feets) to 20meters (66feets) and late autumn (16th nov to 31st des). In early autumn we mostly use downriggers and in late autumn its combined planerboard and downriggers. Unfortantly its only allowed with 4 baits per boat in Lake Mjøsa, but we cauth a lot of big trouts anyway. The biggest ever caught was caught on November the 1st in 1981. 15,3 kgs. The lures we use is Tomic, Rapala, Apex, different spoons and some local baits called Devon. This year no one have reach the 10kg boarder, but maybe in the autumn. Flasher and dodger become more and more popular and we try to learn from the finns who are europes masters in trolling with flashers and baitfish. Since I wanne be the best I ask the best and thats you lads on the other side of the Atlantic. You started with trolling so hope i can snach a LOT of tips from here. Most common baitfish is a herring species (Clupea sprattus). I don't fish with baits I use lures like Tomic, apex and Bomber15A. Helgøya is an island in Lake Mjøsa and Lake Mjøsa is a pond in your eyes Surface fishing is planerboard when we use 4 rods and planerboard. Let the lure goes about 100feets behind the boat. And speeds from 2.2knop to 3knop (1knop is 1852m/h) When we use downriggers we place the lure from 1-60feets behind depending on how deep we fish. The magic line for me is 40feets. From 40 feets and deeper i seldom put my lure more than 6feets behind the weight. De deepest going lure closest to the weigt.

Hi as a novice fisher with flasher I will ask the experts at the other side of the atlantic ocean. I've been trolling for some years and latley I've started to use flashers on my downriggers. What kind of lures can I use behind it? Can I use apex and tomic, or do they have so good action alone, so a flasher in front of them are as butter on bacon? I normaly fish trout 50 feets down and have my lures 3-5 feet behind the downrigger wight. How far behind the flasher should I place my bate? Is 1 feet enough or should I have it 2 feets behind? And how fast can I troll with a hotspot flasher type crome