Fred & Me on Live TV

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Hi!
The last few weeks have been really busy. I´ve been doing a lot of fly fishing lately – summer above the arctic circle area is such a brief phenomenon that you really have to make the most it. Like last night, for example, when I caught the pretty 1,1 kg fattie above. We´ve gotten some pretty good Season 2 material on tape, too, as well as lots of other stuff that will be revealed in due time.

But the main reason for writing this blog was to let you know that Fredrik and yours truly will be appearing on the very popular TV-show Sommeråpent on NRK1 (that´s Norway´s equivalent to BBC, roughly) tomorrow night.

We´ve been invited to come and talk about Jazz & Fly Fishing in general and Season One in particular, and they´ll be showing some clips from the DVDs on the show. We´re really excited about this opportunity, as this will surely be a big boost for our following in Norway. Good times! If you have access to NRK1, tune in at 21.30, and you´ll see Fredzki and me making complete fools of ourselves on live TV.

And don´t worry if you can´t receive NRK, it´ll probably find its way to the internet somehow. We´ll let you know.

PS!
If last year was The Year of the Rat, this is truly the Year of the Worm. More on this later.

Peace –

H.

The way up

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I’m sitting in a café in Northern Sweden, charging some batteries, ready to take off and meet Tapani and Håvard who already have started our northern expedition this year. The apple pie was pure excellence and the coffee is strong. Good stuff!

I left Gothenburg alone this time, as Fredrik had to skip the trip this year. We took a seatrout trip during the week when he had a day off from his gigs. The night was purely magical, and several good-sized trout were active. I hooked and lost at least 10 good trouts but a three-in-a-row in the end made it up a bit. Fredrik the seatrout maestro got the biggest catch, a beautiful trout around 3 kilos. But poor Freddy, he wasn’t too happy of not coming on this trip.

So – I’ll finish my coffee and hit the road. Enjoy some seatrout pics from Gothenburg! Signing off – Gone fishing!

Stuck in southern Sweden

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If you red the last blog from us, you know about our expedition going on right now. Tapani is probably catching a huge trout as you red this. Håvard is dancing behind a tree. Joona is wrestling with a bear. Petzi is filming.. I´m just guessing since I´m not there. Quite a lot of gigs fell over me this month and I had to stay in southern Sweden and play. I need the money, simply said.

More precise, I´m playing in a comedy show in Karlshamn, about 2000 kilometers from the guys on the expedition. It is called “Sommarskratt i Bellevueparken”. It is a very nice show with many talanted people involved. If you are from Sweden, you probably recognize some guys from the pictures.

Of course I brought the rod. Huge sea trout are swimming very close to the hotel room. I will spend one night, searching for the big ones, next week. Until then, lets prey for the guys out there. Prey for good weather. Prey for huge fish. No diseases. Sauna war victory goes to Håvard..

 

If you live in southern Sweden, don´t hesitate to come and watch the show. See you in a couple of days! /Fredrik

 

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Urho Kekkonen and Erich Honecker decided to stop by. A pleasant surprise.

Greetings!
We are up north. We have started our expedition. The weather is crap. The weather will get better. We will catch big fish. We will keep you posted.

Stay tunes!

Injured!!!

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Now what’s going on here???

Firstly: our producer was in a bike crash and was really close to end up on the hospital bed for a long while. Luckily he was wearing a helmet and made it only with bruces. No fly casting for a while, but he’ll be fine for the summer’s expedition.

Secondly: I was playing floorball and fell down on the ground. I hit my right hand/wrist and yesterday it was aching really bad and got swollen. So now I’m just about to get it x-rayed. Piano playing and fly fishing feels far away at the moment. I just hope there are no broken bones there, otherwise it’s goodbye for the fishing trips and jazz gigs for the first half of the summer.

Keep your finger’s crossed (I can’t) and wear a helmet!

I hope mine look as good as these!

 

Back at the Upper Itchen

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Barking at the sky

Ahhh. Finally back at the Upper Itchen!

It´s great to be back up north again. Early summer is a magical time above the arctic circle, with nature exploding in the perpetual daylight. The transition between winter and summer is incredibly short – spring up here lasts for a couple of weeks – so everything is just so much faster and more intense than in southern Scandinavia. It has to be. And with summer arriving late this year because of this winter´s enormous snowfall and low temperatures in May, the action seems to be even more compressed than usual.

Despite the cold, wet and windy weather, yesterday´s 2012 debut in the Upper Itchen was quite sucessful. A decent feathermidge hatch kept a few really good trout rising steadily. I caught and released several good fish, including a 1,2 kg beauty. Not bad for such a small creek – and a real monster was observed, too.

Hopefully, the coming days will bring slightly warmer weather. The hatches of the mayfly Leptophlebia marginata are spectacular in the Upper Itchen, and after the marginatas come the proper Mayflies – Ephemera vulgata and Ephemera danica. And then the caddisflies arrive…

I can´t wait.

National Day, Bears And Plans

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Greetings from Sweden! No picture this time, I’ll save them for later!

Click on the blue text below to see the greeting card. This iphone-clip is from Dresden, and today we’re doing about the same thing in Gothenburg. This is how we are supposed to celebrate our own national day.

On friday I will hopefully catch wild trout over 2 kg. Actually maybe even over 5 kg if I´m very lucky. I´m going to a top secret place somewhere Sweden, Norway or Finland. It is right now a bit to cold there but the trout will bite anyway. Why so secret about the place? Well, according to a guy that I met last year, who’s been fishing all around Scandinavia the last twenty years, this is the best of them all… The weather will probably turn crap and so on, but anyway, it is a fantastic place, out there in the wilderness! “break a leg” /Fredrik

Greeting card: IMG_0979

Some trout in the town

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I’ve been sick now for about a week. It didn’t stop me from fly fishing or playing jazz. Last week I went to Germany with a traditional jazz-band. Man, germans really do know how to treat a musician – always friendly people over there I have to say! Then, back in Sweden with fever, two friends and a strange creature, I was fishing in the beautiful weather. Finally a descent trout! I’m cured! Later this week we’ll talk more about the strange creature. /Fredrik

P.S If you think that the pics are a bit bad quality, its probably because I used the phone this time. The trout fell for the angry worm-pattern…