KILLER WHALES AND HUMPBACK WHALES HUNTING ORGY

WOW - HUMPBACKS EATING HERRING

Had a breathtaking experience today on the " BIGFISHER" just outside Kvaløy.

Great numbers of Humpback whales where hunting for herring in a small fjord outside Kvaløy Close to the city of Tromsø, North Norway.

I shot these pictures today, and are pleased to share it with the followers of my blog.

 

BEAUTIFUL KILLER WHALES

BIG FISHES AROUND

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BIG SEI IN NUMBERS TOGETHER WITH THE HERRING

THE HERRINGS ARE TRYING TO ESCAPE THE HUMPBACKS

TOO LATE !!

FRESH HERRING IS SERVED FOR DINNER

6 HUMPBACKS COOPERATING TO HUNT THE HERRINGS

HE IS KEEN TO MEET US

WOW - HE IS COMING STRAIGHT AGAINST US

HE IS GOING DOWN 5 METERS FROM MY BOAT

CLOSE MEETING WITH THE 30 TON HUMPBACK

THANK YOU FOR A NICE MEETING- SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

 

 

WONDERFUL ARCTIC NATURE

The big Humpback whales and orcas are back in Tromsø. What a scenery it is !!
Arctic autumn is wonderful with Aurora borealis - the Northern Light, , big halibuts, big whales, orcas, a lot of big cod and sei, and in two weeks the sun is under the horizon up here at 70´ north. Happy to live up here !!

Aurora borealis on the sky above Vengsøy outside Tromsø

Spinning Aurora Borealis

The sun is almost at 23 degrees below the horizon- the dark time in North Norway is soon here

Big groups of orcas - killer whales - are hunting for herring just now

Kurt Andreassen

Øyvind Høier

The humpback whales - Knølhval in norwegian - is back

Fishin' is the mission

A lot of Big sei is coming up to the North Norwegians coast outside Tromsø just now in oktober / november - following the NVG Herring from Arctic waters. And the big Humpback whales and Orcas go crazy with all this fresh food ! This is a great adventure and M/V BigFisher  II will join them out there. Let me know if you want to Explore this - Mail me at mortenwill@msn.com - perhaps there will be an oppotrunity for you too !

BIG HALIBUT

NICE HALIBUT FROM HALIBUT KINGDOM- 

Picture from a nice fishing trip the first days of Juli 2015 together with angler Gunter Storr in Halibut Kingdom.

We landed four halibuts from 10 to 40 kg , but had several hard attacks that didn´t get hooked up.

Halibut Kingdom outside Tromsø is still one of the very best spots for catching big halibuts.

Fishing around Finnkroken for halibuts has also been a success this year. 3 days ago a 60 kg halibut was landed just beside the Finnkroken fish camp.

The weather has been very cold - night temperatures at around 6-8 degrees celsius, and very clear water. The small sei is coming into the fjords inside, and a lot of  mackerel is just outside the coast now.

You can feel the tension - more reports will follow.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE : I have still trouble with the adware pop-ups that block the blog. To avoid the pop-ups - press  ESC on your testator several times after open my halibut-blog - and then my blog works as normal.

TROUBLE WITH ADWARE ON THE BLOG

For a while I have been less active on my blog due to trouble with unauthorized popup adware that makes trouble to read the blog. The problem is reported to Google, and hopefully they will solve the task. As far as I can see there is a Romanian adress that you will be linked up to if you try to esc the adware.

Anyway I had many nice trips after salmon, halibut and cod the last weeks, and reports will follow.
Halibuthunter

Tromsoe Deep Sea Fishing Club

At Malangsgrunnen outside Tromsø. You can see Halibut Kingdom with Rebbenesøy and Sør Fugløy in the horizon behind.

 

Together with 8 keen anglers from the Tromsø Havfiskeklubb, we made a Fishing trip with Cato on his very nice power catamaran to Malangsgrunnen last weekend on the 11. and 12. of april 2015.

We entered the catamaran saturday evening at 11 o clock, and started fishin' at Malangsgrunnen early sunday morning.

 

Due to bad weather and heavy Winds,  the planned  clubtrip before eastern had to be cancelled. This day the weather was Perfect, and 8 very keen guys started to search for the big cod - in Norwegian called skrei.

 

On my own trip with the " Smallfisher" on the 21. of march - all the area at Malangsgrunnen was filled up with big skrei.

But unfortunately - today most of them had left the area.

 

Anyway - we had a wonderful trip, and was back in Tromsø harbour sunday evening.  The Catch was around 500 kg round skrei with sizes up to almost 1,5 meter length and just below 25 kilo. Personally I was very satisfied with the  trip.

 

For me this was great contrast to my basecamp in Thailand where I returned from after a Nice eastern holiday with my Family and some good friends only two days before. The best of two worlds you can say :-)))))

Skipper Cato and Chairman Øyvind in Tromsø Havfiskeklubb



Big skrei

Guys are ready for big Catch

Fishcamp Thailand - great contrast after a  15 hour trip

BIG SKREI AT MALANGSGRUNNEN

MALANGSGRUNNEN - VIEW TO KVALØYA

A good feeling to get out to Malangsgrunnen today after months with a lot of gail and rough conditions.

I went out with the Smallfisher - some big Waves - called "dønning " in norwegian - but fair enough for a Fishing trip.

The water was full of big skrei ( Arctic cod ) and big sei .

The echo sounder showed a lot of fish at 75 meter depth

In two hours I filled two 100 l. boxes with big skrei - size from 7 kg to 23 kg . Today I preferred to use my Okuma Makiara 50 lbs rod With the very strong Penn International 50 S  reel - a Perfect combination for big fishes !!

 



Nice big Skrei - best quality

Pit stop on my way home for filling  fuel and relaxing at Gaasvaer pier.

Great Adventures Ahead

To become a successful angler and sailor, you have to understand and follow some important guidelines  : innovation and cooperation !

It is good to start early to learn  - you need to " know the ropes " as you see the kids are doing :-)))

We Are getting closer to spring now up here in the arctic North - norway - and the Anglers Are ready for action.

I was looking through some of my photo-albums from the last years - and it is so many good memories from wonderful trips. It's hard to imagine that it can be more to experience out there, but I am pretty shure that there will be more great adventures to come !! :-)))

HALIBUT KINGDOM - READY FOR NEW ADVENTURES IN 2015 !

SELFIE IN FRONT OF SØRFUGLØYA IN HALIBUT KINGDOM

Looking for great  halibut action ? Just send me a mail - mortenwill@msn.com !!
This year we go for the 200 kg ++  on the " BigFisher "!

The last weeks the weather has been rough - heavy snow storms and gail conditions with wind strokes measured up to 60 m/s outside the coast.

And the big cods - the skrei - has still not found its way in great numbers to the norwegian coast. But after the storm the weather will calm down - and then the skrei will arrive.

The big halibuts are on deep waters now, but they are moving to more shallow waters now to find something to eat. And some bait fishes will work very good then.

Wonderful days are ahead !! Springtime in north norway is a great adventure for nature lovers - and other lovers.

BIG COD ADVENTURE IN NORTH NORWAY

Humpback whales jumping of satisfaction outside TROMSØ 

The big cod is not far away - picture Tromsø Havfiskeklubb

Now the Big Cod - up to 40 kg - is approaching the North Norwegian coast . This is happening every Year from December till April, and the last years the breeding has moved more North along the coast. A wonderful fishing adventure is taking place just outside Tromsø, and BigFisher will be there as son as the weather improves. This weekend the weather forecast reports gail and really bad weather. But after a storm the weather will be calm :-))))

Reports will follow !!!