EXPEDITION SHIP MS " TROMSØ "  - A FLOATING FISHCAMP in HALIBUT KINGDOM 2021

Anglers all over the world has suffered hard in the last year due to the terrible corona pandemic. Hopefully things will turn into normal when many people around the world have received the hope giving vaccines. I am afraid the first half of the year 2021 will be troublesome for travelling to the places we want to visit, but there is a light in the tunnel. 

This summer I will invite anglers to visit Halibut Kingdom - the area outside Tromsø where you find some of the best spots for halibutfishing in Norway and perhaps all over the world. 

I launch a new project in June 2021that I believe keen anglers and nature lovers will find interesting  - the ARCTIC SEA FISHCAMP onboard the expedition ship MS TROMSØ. 

We are planning two trips this summer to check out how this floating fish camp will work out.  The vessel MS TROMSØ har 25 beds, a nice restaurant, bar on the upper deck and a lot of space with good atmosphere. We will bring with us two fishing boats, two fishing kayaks and a rib for fishing, photo safaris and exploring the remote uninhabited islands in the archipelago outside Tromsø. The first trip is planned to take place in the period 25.- 29. of June 2021.

If you find this interesting, just send me a mail and tell me what you could be interested in. My mail is morten@arcticsafari.no . We will open for normal booking later in February 2021 so we have still some free tickets onboard.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN HALIBUT FISHING

TEAM ARCTIC SAFARI from Tromsø - Norway partcicpated in the World Championship comtetition in Havøysund- Norway in August 2019.
The team won the 1. price for biggest halibut in the Halibut fest competition.
A great event with 200 keen anglers and 58 teams from many nations.

GREAT HALIBUTFISHING WITH FRIENDS THIS AUTUMN

Hello friends !
This autumn the weather has been fairly good up here in arctic Norway. In Tromsø just now it is mild temperatures around 5 degrees celcius and no snow on the ground. Hopefully it will get a little colder so we can have some snow - since the sun these days will disappear under the horizon up here, it will be very dark without snow.
Most of my trips this season after halibuts have been very succesful, and I also had some nice Arctic Safari trips fishing for cod with nice people.
Unfortunately the whales have moved more to the north after the herring, but just now its a great feast going on with orcas and humpbacks just outside Skjervøy.  The trip from Tromsø to Skjervøy takes close to 5 hours  with the M/V Bigfisher II and I am ready to go there on two- day trips if some of you are keen to watch this great adventure with the big whales. Just let me know - my mail is morten@arcticsafari.no.
Here are some pictures from some of the halibut trips this season.

Ben Brodrecht from Germany with a 152 cm nice halibut

Frank Brodrecht and his son Ben with a small beauty that was released without injury

Gynter Storr with A 200 cm big halibut from this summer - the biggest halibut so far this year on the Bigfisher II

 

Nice feeling far off the coast with the Bigfisher

Team Arctic Safari with a good halibut catch

Anni with a nice halibut 

A big Ling from Malangsgrunnen

Nice halibut on the Halibuthunter

Big cod at Malangsgrunnen

HALIBUT KINGDOM STILL RULES

Skipper Morten with nice 132 cm halibut

A nice trip on the 5. july 2018 to halibut Kingdom outside city of Tromsø, Norway . Good conditions and keen anglers made the trip to a great experience. During the daytrip we had 7 attacks and landed 3 nice halibuts on the BigFisher II.

One 200 cm , one 132 cm and one 90 cm . The big 200 cm halibut was measured and released without beeing lifted out of the water.

Skipper Morten

Gynter Storr from Angler fuer angler with his 200 cm halibut catch

Happy anglers - Asle, Dennis and Morten

200 cm halibut  - the fish was measured and released without beeing lifted out of the water

ARCTIC COD - SKREI at Malangsgrunnen

Together with keen anglers from Tromsø Havfiskeklubb I went to Malangsgrunnen outside Tromsø fishing for big Arctic cod - named  SKREI - in Norwegian.

We had a nice day of fishing, and all together we landed more than 500 kg skrei during the day.

The biggest skrei this day was 31,5 kg , but we had many big fishes between 20 and 30 kg.

The conditions were great - nice weather and no big waves.

 5.30 AM - arrival at Malangsgrunnen

 Havcruise With skipper Cato

 Skrei 31,5 kg

 Skrei 23,5 kg

BIRD WATCHING AT SØRFUGLØYA

Sørfugløya is one of the most interesting bird mountains in northern europe.

Every spring hundred of thousands different seabirds and a lot of sea eagles prepare their nests out there to give birth to a new generation. 

The island Sørfugløya is situated far out in the Barentz sea at the North Norwegian coast

The bird- island Sørfugløya 

It's a great scenery out there - this is summertime and midnight sun

A lot of these birds - the puffins - make their nests on the Cliffs on the rock island

It's a great scenery and a neverforgetting experience.

Arctic safari are planning some very special photo-safari trips out there with the M/V " BigFisher "

We will start from our harbour in Kvaløyvaagen. The trip will last 6 -8 hours, and the trip requires fair weather.

You will find more information about this expedition and other adventures on our website .

Follow this link :

https://www.arcticsafari.no/activities/foto-og-fuglesafari

ARCTIC SAFARI LAUNCH NEW WEBPAGE

Arctic Safari present new website  - 

Check it out - let's go fishin'

www.arcticsafari.no

ARCTIC SAFARI WEBPAGE

ARCTIC SAFARI launches a brandnew WEBPAGE this Christmas - www.arcticsafari.no

We hope you will enjoy our new webpage and that this will be your desired checkpoint for New fishing - and nature adventures in North Norway in the years to come.

HALIBUTHUNTING VIDEO FROM ARCTIC SAFARI

You are welcome to watch my underwater video from halibutfishing outside Tromsø, North Norway

To become a successful halibuthunter, you need a lot of patience.

All real  halibuthunters know this.

To watch this video, you will also need some patience , but in the end you will have some action.

Like in halibutfishing.

CLICK LINK :  HALIBUT CATCH ON VIDEO

GREAT HALIBUT FEAST IN NOVEMBER WITH ARCTIC SAFARI ON THE BIGFISHER II

Skipper Morten With a beautiful Halibut 

November in North Norway - short days and special light conditions

The Angler - Gunter Storr from Angler fuer Angler in Germany -   ready for action !




Together with my friend Gunter we  had a wonderful trip to the heart of Halibut Kingdom now
in November 2017.
After a short phone call between Germany and Norway we decided to make a last halibut-trip this year together - it was good prospects - full moon and nice weather forecast.


The conditions turned out to be good - at this time of the year it is fast changing conditions between nice weather and bad weather - the polar low pressures coming in from the Barentz sea can turn the weather upside down in a few hours. But we were lucky and had a great halibut trip.

The last day of 3 days with hot fishing we had 9 halis and a lot of action in addition-  very good days of fishing.

ARCTIC SAFARI ADVENTURES TO COME

From april next year ARCTIC SAFARI with skipper Morten will offer special arranged fishing trips for both professional anglers and newbeginners from our locations in Kvaløyvågen, Tromsø and Reinøy on the sportfishingvessel M/V " BigFisher II ".
Contact skipper Morten  at mortenwill@msn.com if you are keen to go fishing with me up here in Arctic waters  - for halibut, cod, catfish, pollock. haddockcusk or flounder fishes.

Fishin' is the mission