I was out fishing with Lars & lars again the other day, and Lars Lenth took us to his secret urban fishing spot in Oslo, known only to a few die-hard urban anglers: Smestaddammen.
Maestro Nilssen made a short film out of it, and the video is out now on Lars&Lars´ blogTV now. Check it out!
Some pics from our absurd session:
In order to be in shape for the fishing season me and Fredrik decided to participate in the Göteborgsvarvet, a half marathon running competition in Gothenburg. It’s a big running party with around 50 000-60 000 runners, lots of bands playing by the track and the whole city watching and cheering. The weather forecast is promising warm wearther and sunshine so it will be really hot and sweatty!
My aim is to run under 1 hour 50 minutes, but it will be tough. I’m not sure if I can make it. Fredrik is starting ahead of me, with the “real” runners. His legs are about twice as long as mine and he totally lacks the ability to get tired when he’s moving. When he sits or lies down he can fell asleep in seconds. Power sleeping technique, he says. I remember him mentioning that he must make it to a gig after the running so he must keep up the running tempo. If he finishes at one and a half hours or faster, and he’ll be in time for the gig.
Keep your fingers crossed tomorrow, and all of you in Gothenburg come cheer us up! We are two of the 50 000 similar looking runners out there, you can’t miss us!
Maybe the most peculiar piece of clothing that the fly fishermen wear are the waders. Maybe not the stuff James Bond would wear, but let’s face it. All fly fishermen love their waders, right? Waders or Armani suit? Waders. Most of the time.
After a hard day of fishing you might want a beer in a nearby pub, and wearing the waders you will definitely get some extra gazes from the ladys (or gents). But keep in mind that fishing is tough, and the waders will eventually get dirty and smell bad (I mean really bad).
So all of you who want to finish off your day by hanging in the pub wearing your favourite pants, this guide is a must for you!
After a couple of days of radio silence I’m back again. I’ve had busy weeks with the trio album and some gigs and really haven’t have any spare time at all. It always happens in the spring: a lot of stuff gets piled and the schedule gets overfilled. A kind of a spring flood that just keeps rising. On top of that I got the cold (again) and have been curing that. Last weekend I finally got some time to relax and I spent my time fishing, barbecuing and just relaxing.
I went fishing to a small stream in southern Sweden. The flood was still high and unfortunately the very high summer temperatures that have been caressing Finland and northern parts of Scandinavia didn’t reach there. It was pretty damn cold and the fishing was slow. The sun showed up a couple of afternoon hours and that made the fish active. I got one trout that I saw rising, and then it was time to return to the grill where the steaks were getting too well done. The day after, the temperature went down and it was raining. Active fish rising all over the place? No. Still, just walking in the woods and casting was exactly what I needed after a hectic period.
I was over at Vigelandsparken again yesterday, trying to hook up with more urban trout.
Out of nowhere, Norwegian fly fishing legends Lars Lenth and Lars Nilssen, known from various books, articles and TV-shows, showed up with their fly rods and camera ready…
The result of our joint efforts can be seen on their exciting new blog at www.larsoglars.no.
Check it out!
Urban trout – just another urban legend?
No! Check this out:
I just returned from Helsinki where I was mixing Joona Toivanen trio‘s new album. This is a band both me, Tapani and the drummer Olavi Louhivuori have played had since we were kids. Olavi had just finished a long US tour with Polish trumpet legend Tomasz Stanko’s quintet, and it was great to meet with the trio again.
Both recording and mixing this album was great fun. We wanted to have a more “retro” sound and used old microhones, tube amplifiers and tape recorders. The sound guy Mikko Raita was very good in creating this kind of sound, and the tubes and tapes were running really hot!
I just ran into this site on the net. An online magazine with focus on fishing photography. Incredibly beautiful pictures, check it out! Catch Magazine
What is jazz and what is fly fishing? Some of you who read and watch this blog might be fishing maniacs, musicians or maybe both. But I guess that many of you just discovered a site where four idiots are doing weird stuff and now you’re checking us out every now and then!? I will now try to (maybe you’re already into both J&F) make you try both jazz and fly fishing…
Jazz, is it strange? Do you have to know what you hear when you listen to it? Do you have to play an instrument and buy a hip jazz hat in order to listen to jazz? Of course not. I could write page after page but I’ll try to keep it short! Jazz CAN be strange and demanding to listen at, that’s for sure. But so can pop music. And rock music. And salsa. And so on… The thing is… jazz can also be very smooth and easy to listen to. If you never bought a jazz record in your whole life, there is one magic record that is perfect to start with. The cool thing is that this record never gets bad. It works every time you’ll put it in your CD. I’m talking about Miles Davis, one of the real heroes in the music world.
The name of the record is Kind Of Blue, buy it, it’s a keeper!
Now, what about the fly fishing world? Many people believe that you need to spend lots and lots of money and read thousands of books before you can start to fish. After that you must practice ten hours a day for three years before you will catch anything. This is wrong! People often say “it seems so difficult”. That is not true. It is not difficult! IT IS NOT DIFFICULT! Anyway, get a fly rod and you’ll be surprised! That’s all I’m saying. The only things you need is: 1 fly rod, 1 simple fly reel, 1 fly line, some flies and some regular fishing line. Good luck! /Fredrik
There’s been a lot of talking lately about Guideline’s new fly rod series Fario. It has been praised by the critiques (the 9′ #5 rod won a test in Trout & Salmon magazine) and our friends who have tested it have been very impressed. And when we got our hands on the 9′ #5 we just had to try it, even without water or fish.
Fredrik was on his way to a soundcheck and we only had time for some casts on the grass. Speaking of that, casting on grass really makes people talk: “Are you catching anything?” “ Where’s the fish? Let me see the fish!” and so on. An old man came to us, shook his head and wondered what on earth we were up to and why. He had some tips for the really long casts, such as: “You have to put a heavy weight on the end of the line, then you’ll cast further”. We didn’t have anything to tie on the line so the man just shook his head, said some unrecognizable words and slowly went away, disappearing like a trout in the stream.
Well, the rod is not just beautiful to look at, it was a real delight to cast. We used a #5 Guideline Highwater line, and the action felt very good at all distances. You could easily load the rod even with a short line, but the rod didn’t have any problems to hold a long line in the air and then shoot the last meters. I know some people use to use heavier lines on their rods, say a #6 line on a #5 rod, to get a better feeling on short distance. I don’t think this is be necessary on this rod, even though it probably could handle a heavier line just fine. We never tried a #4 line but it would probably work well if you are used to lighter lines and faster action.
It was great fun to try the rod, and while the casts became longer and longer, the sense of time started to fade. Fredrik realized he was already late for the soundcheck and had to take the rod case and the drum stick case on his back, and ride the bike to the gig. I was left alone in the rain, without the rod, feeling empty. Well, I can’t wait to get fishing with that rod!
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