R.I.P. Professional Fishing Guide HENRIK BOLTEN

Friday 13 December 2013

R.I.P. Professional Fishing Guide HENRIK BOLTEN

The Professional Fishing guide and Halibut Kayak Fishing world record holder Henrik Bolten from Lippstadt, Germany has left us.

A bad accident took your life while cutting a big tree in your garden in Lippstadt.

Henrik - you have been a very good friend, and together we have explored the waters around Tromsø, North Norway for big halibuts for some years.

Together with our fishing buddy - Professional Fishing guide Burkhard Plichta from Bad Berleburg, Germany - who died in a car accident 3 years ago outside Tromsø - and our good friend Guenter Storr - we have made great expeditions and successful halibut fishing outside Tromsø in Halibut Kingdom.

Burkhard Plichta

Ringo

Henrik - kayak Fishing open waters

Henrik With 175 cm Halibut - October 2013

Onboard my vessel M/V " BigFisher" we had so many memorable trips together - this I will never forget.

It's hard to face a future up here in the far North without your good companionship dear Henrik - on our last trip in october this Autumn - we spoke a lot about the future.

You had found your favorite place in the world - it was up here in Halibut Kingdom.
The Nice Places Sørreisa, Mefjordvær, Sommarøy, Kvaløyvågen, Hav og Fjell, Finnkroken - all these Places you loved and were welcomed as a close friend.

Up here you wanted to start your own business together with good friends as a Professional Fishing guide and buy your own vessel, and we wanted to cooperate also from our future Halibutfishing camp in Kvaløyvågen outside Tromsø.

The last two years you have been a local guide for KINGFISHER, and you have been very successful with this. You was Professional and determined, and I know that your guests were very satisfied with your guiding.
This season you told med that you had landed almost 90 halibuts during your trips - thats your strongest personal record.

Kayak Fishing for halibut was your special perfection- in this nobody in the world could beat you.

You could stay out on the kayak from early morning till late in the evening - even sleeping on the kayak while trolling you managed to do.

In 2011 you landed a 175 cm Halibut just outside Kvaløyvågen from your kayak - and this is still as far as I know the world record.

Your Fishing skills were outstanding, and I have learned a lot from you about equipment, tackles and
baits.

Its heartbraking to know that you have left these hunting Fields, but like we have done with Burkhard - both of you will follow us on every future trip onboard the M/V " Big Fisher "

We will not forget you, dear Henrik !