From Sweden, with love! Lapland Pike 2018, Kattisavan, Umealven.

vineri, 24 august 2018 | 8636 afişări

“Lapland Pike fishing competition is intended to give maximum freedom to the competitors. with a huge fishing area and free placing of the boats and at the same time introduce the fast growing kayak fishing to North Sweden. The area is easy to access with plenty of roads, paths and places accessible by car and trailer. In the river Umeälven You will find plenty of big pike and perch.”

This was the first message that made us join this competition in Sweden. Also we accepted the invitation because the event was organized by Greger Jonsson powered by Lycsele community. In the past, in 2007 and 2009, I participated in some similar fishing competition organized by Greger in Lapland, Sweden and Norway, for pike fishing, trout and sea trout. A lot of good memories from then still hunted me for years, now I was able to come back for a good refresh.

So, our Romanian delegation was formed very quickly, here we are:

Andrei Sava – World Champion FIPS in Russia 2017, rod builder at A-Sava, content media manager on WSB TV and www.wsbteam.com

Robert Boanta – World Champion FIPS in Russia 2017, fishing tackle producer and distributor for Relax, Fudo, 4Predators, www.relaxspinning.ro

Andy Arif – competition angler, content editor on Fishing For All magazine www.pescuitulpentrutoti.com and www.rapitorimania.ro, travel agent

Bogdan Doncea – competition angler, fishing media author, sound manager TFM music

Cristian Albu – TV Host at Fishing and Hunting Television, predator angler, web designer

Florian Niturad – Cameraman at Fishing and Hunting Television, competition rally driver

Before joining the competition, we visited Dorotea lake, the next location for Lapland Pike 2019. We discovered a very big beautiful wild lake with a lot of pikes and perch, guided by Lennart Ottosson. Despite the bad weather and lazy fish after a very hot summer, we managed to catch same nice pikes and perches. The record was caught by Cristi Albu, one 104 cm pike.

The good (big) fish were standing on 6-8 meters depth, the best way for fishing was trolling. We mixed trolling with spinning fishing, you will see soon new video materials and information's from our trip to Dorotea lake.

Now, back to our fishing trip, after two days at Dorotea, with more than 35 rods, 35 reels and more than 70 kg of lures we registered in Kattisavan for Lapland Pike 2018 with three teams, RapitoriMania (Andy and Bogdan), WSB (Robert and Andrei) and Delta Spinning (formed by Razvan Negreanu and Florin Voicu, that joined us later). 32 teams (boats and kayak) tried for two days to catch the biggest 5 pikes over 70 cm in the Umealven river.

Competition rules were simple and relaxing, more like a friendly meeting. When one team is catching a pike over 70 cm, it must measure it on the board received, make a photo and send it to the organizers Jessica and Roine Oberg. Simple and efficient.

We had also a Whatsapp group for the communication with all the competitors/organizers and live results on www.laplandpike.se with the fish caught. And a lot of fun between us, the anglers, on the group as you can see in the photos.

In the training day we discovered that all the pikes stay on 2-3 m depth with vegetation, but we had just a few places like this in the area were our boats was located. We couldn’t go too far on the main river, because of our short boats powered with small engines. Seeing the weather prognosis with rain and big wind gusts, we decided to fish only on the area we were located, knowing that all the big fish are in the main river.

After the first round, in the evening we had a nice friendly gala dinner, with lectures from Robert Westin (Kayak fishing guide in Sweden) and Miguel Sanz (fishing guide in Spain and Worldwide) all finished with a live band music formation.

We all looked at the big fish photos caught during the competition day. Our pikes were too small, so we fall asleep with big hopes and dreams for the next day.

Anyway, we had a lot of fun, we catch a lot of fish, but didn’t found any big ones over 90 cm. In the last day of the competition the wind blowed us with 50 km/hour power plus 70 km gusts in my opinion. We finished the competition earlier, safety first… fishing after.

Winners and prizes!

All the teams received two Strike Pro lures from CWC-AB, Buster Jerk and Pig Shad, probably the best lures in Sweden and Europe for big pikes.

The winning team: Alexander Östlund and Anton Nilsson from team En Ständig Besvikelse 1.5. Alexander and Anton caught a total of 505 cm (wow, sum of the five longest pikes). They received three boxes of lures from 4Predators and 7000 SEK. Alexander Östlund, who caught the longest pike during the competition, 118 cm, received a custom built rod from A-Sava.

The winners in the best opposite class, kayak, was Jakub Kabat and Mascha Mrskoč from the kayak team Kámen&Kámen from Czeck Republic. All the kayak teams had a rough competition with hard winds, waves, and gusts of up to 20m/s, which makes their contribution very impressive. Jakub and Mascha received three boxes of lures from 4Predators.

Final rankings

“Thanks all...you are all the best competitors ever. Feels more like a group of friends gathering then a competition. I got a suggestion from a Check competitor with experience from a pike competition on the continent. All prices were on lottery. The winning team got the honor only and joined the rest of the group in the lottery of prices. In that way all "negative" potential competition elements are gone and it's more of a pike festival. Something to discuss among you competitors for the future.” Greger Jonsson – organizer

111 cm pike!

Competition ended and we still didn’t catch our swedes pikes over 100 cm, so for the last day we went again for fishing, this time downstream Kattisavan. The biggest pike was landed by Bogdan Doncea and it had not less than 111 cm. Boom!

Finally we all had good fish thanks to Kenneth Klintefelt, our guide at Umgransele.

In the end...

Even if the upper video is in Romanian language you can see our top 3 lures used in Sweden for pikes, a lot of toys for big boys. See you all and more next year at Laplandpike 2019 in Dorotea, Sweden.

Until then stay tuned on www.laplandpike.se, www.rapitorimania.ro, more materials from this expedition to come!

Andy Arif

Strike Pro Lures

Every team participating in Lapland Pike will receive two lures provided by Strike Pro.

In over 40 years, through our active involvement with our agents, Strike Pro has continuously improved and developed “THE BEST” lures and fishing relate products to meet ever change market, and be consistent with high quality standards. This has shaped the Strike Pro into a truly professional manufacturer of distinctive lures. Mutual trust with all our agents is paramount; Strike Pro is now distributing to more than 60 countries around the world. Agents are making their best effort to promote and devote themselves to the brand of “Strike Pro “.

More details about Strike Pro Lures here:

http://strikepro.com

A-SAVA Custom Casting Rod

The angler who catch the longest pike will receive a special designed rod, American Tackle Bushido SWB710/12-25, length 7’10”(2.38) Mod-Fast, lure wt:3/4-3oz (real, up to 150g), line wt:12-25lb, Fuji Alconite guides, American Tackle reel seat and custom cork handle.

Since, always I liked to get my hands dirty, to create and wreck all sorts, especially if they were connected with fishing. I’m not modest, and I will admit I was pretty talented when it came to the meticulous stuff. I started by making my own lures, when lures were still scarce in Romania. Rod building was the natural evolution, considering I always found things I didn’t like about the rods I was buying. If others could do it, I knew I could also. Therefore, ambitious by nature, I ended up making my first rod, sometime in the spring of 2006… The rest is history :). Andrei Sava – rod builder, World Champion at fishing predators from boat FIPS.

More details about A-Sava Custom Rods here:

http://asavacustom.com

4Predators Soft Plastic Lures

Winning teams will receive three boxes with soft plastic lures different models, length, colors.

4Predator is a small soft lure Romanian company founded in 2014, born out from the passion of fishing. From 2014 till now, the company has been in a continuous growing process. In the year 2017, the company is taken over by Relax Spinning Expert (Official distributor of Relax and Fudo). All new models and colors are now designed, created and tested by Robert Boanta, owner of company Relax Spinning Expert and World Champion at fishing predators from boat FIPS.

More details about 4Predators here:

http://www.rapitorimania.ro/articole/recomandari/made-in-romania-who-is-4predators-12408

About the Competition

Lapland Pike fishing competition is intended to give maximum freedom to the competitors. with a huge fishing area and free placing of the boats and at the same time introduce the fast growing kayak fishing to Northern Sweden. The area is easy to access with plenty of roads, paths and places accessible by car and trailer. In the river Umeälven You will find plenty of big pike and perch and a limited amount of grayling and trout.

When: August 18-19 2018

Where: Chilla Inn, Kattisavan, Lycksele municipality, Sweden

Competition area: Ume River (Umeälven) within Kattisavan and Blåvikens Fishing area

Boat and Fishing Kayak:

· Kayak Teams: 2 kayaks, one contestant each; or, one tandem kayak with 2 contestants

· Boat Teams: Max 2 contestants per boat

Prizes and Strategy

Lapland Pike aims to be one of the year's nicest fishing meet ups. It will be two “ordinary” days of fishing-but with an element of competition, and plenty of opportunities to meet new fishing buddies in a great atmosphere. We do not have any sponsors or outside influence, so we do not have to spend hours doing the volunteer-work the sponsor hunt requires.

Since the prizes are directly related to interest, and number of registered teams, it now feels safe for the organizer, Blåvikens FVO, to increase them:

· Winning team: 7000 SEK cash

· Best team – opposite class (Kayak – Boat): 3500 SEK worth of merchandise

· Individual price – Longest pike: 3500 SEK worth of merchandise

Regulation

Approved pike: Minimum size 70 cm

Result: The sum in centimeters of the 5 biggest pike during the competition

Registered fish: Documented in the competition sheet + photo against provided measuring board

Measurement: Fish mouth towards the edge of the board to the outer part of the tail fin. Only catch that has been clearly documented with photo against the provided measurement board and with an entry in the written journal will be approved.

Team: Max 2 competitors per team. Kayak teams can consist of two single kayaks or two competitors in a tandem kayak.

Team responsibility: Every team will use either a smart phone or a digital camera to take picture of their catch. We encourage the use of a smartphone as we plan to use a web-based, mobile-friendly reporting system for gathering data.

If however a team decides to use a digital camera instead, they should please remember to empty their memory card beforehand and to bring their own cables to ease the process of transmitting the images to the controller at the end of each day.

Safety:

Obligatory life west
Max 5 knot/30 m distance from other boats or kayaks
No alcohol before or during the competition
Display sportsmanship towards other teams
The participants are responsible for their own safety and insurance
The competitor committee takes no responsibility for the competitor's safety during the competition or during transport to the competition

Methods:

Spinning and fly fishing, from boat or kayak.
Trolling, angling and trawling is not allowed.
One rod per participant and only artificial lures.
Catch and release is required.
Please use a landing net or lipgrip (gaff or similar is prohibited).

Program:

Saturday Aug 18th

10.00 Registration. Review of rules, reporting and fishing area at the Tipi-shaped house behind the reception at Chilla Inn Camping in Kattisavan. Equipment will be handed out. (Lunch packages can be purchased at the reception-please order this beforehand by contacting Chilla Inn.)

12.00 Start anywhere within the Umeälven competition area. Contestants are free to launch and move vehicle on land or water before and during competition.

19.00 End of Day 1. Return to Chilla In, Kattisavan. Submission of images and catch journal entries from Day 1. Return the provided measurement board.

21.00 Two coarse dinner. Lecture on World Wide Fishing by Miguel Sanz , Adventura di Pesca, Spain. Pub Night. Live music.

Sunday Aug 19th

09.00 Start of Day 2. Pick up the provided measurement board. Start anywhere within the Umeälven competition area. Contestants are free to launch and move vehicle on land or water before and during competition. (Lunch packages can be purchased at the reception-please order this beforehand by contacting Chilla Inn.)

16.00 End of Day 2. Return to Chilla Inn, Kattisavan. Submission of images and catch journal entries from Day 2. Return the provided measurement board.

18.00 Price Award ceremony: