ARCTIC SAFARI - With Mortens halibut page

Monday, 13 June 2016

HALIBUT HUNTING IN KARLSØY

Nice trip for halibut with the "BigFisher " and "SmallFisher" together with some german anglerfriends recently.

The weather was nice, but cold. It is still a lot of snow in the mountains, and temperature is still around 6-7 degrees Celcius. And we are only 2 weeks left from midsummer🌞
Fishing is not good at this time. Maybe watertemperature is too cold and still a lot of fresh water is running down from the mountains into the fjords.

Indeed there is not much activity - not much sei, no big cod and not much seagulls at the moment.
The birds must be starving, and hopefully they manage to feed their small ones.

In spite of this poor situation we had a nice trip, and the Masterchef Ludwig landed a 27,5 kilo halibut after a nice drill.
After the trip Masterchef Ludwig made a barbecue with the best beef I have tasted - a true gourmet !

Happy anglers Masterchef Ludwig Blochum and skipper Morten

Preparing for the trip. From left Ludwig Hermann and Johann

Skipper Morten, Ludvig and Harald Kaaserer

Hard working anglers

The "SmallFisher with Johann Marjeta

Hermann Fehringer

The seagulls are hungry now

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Arctic april adventures !!

In April and March 2016 it has been a variety of differnt weather conditions outside the North Norwegian coast. The coast and waters outside has been full of big codfish, but heavy winds has made it a challenge to go fishing. Fortunately we had some very nice days too, and together with good friends we have made some very nice trips outside and made great catches- codfish and halibuts.

Skipper Morten at " BigFisher" with a nice cod at Malangsgrunnen March 2016

Johann Marjeta With a Nice halibut at Malangsgrunnen March 2016

Trude and Halvard With a Nice Catch outside Finnkroken in april 2016

The new Lowrance Elite 7 TI echosounder - launched at the market in january 16 - worked very well with the new Totalscan transducer.On the Picture you see big cod - called skrei - hunting for lodde - from 60 meter Down to 120 meter . The red dots show very dense concentrations of big fishes.

Nice day for fishing on the " BigFisher II " outside the coast

The Bird Island - Sørfugløya - is looking great. We could see 10 sea eagles circling above the island

Going home after a wonderful fishing day outside

The big codfish is a perfect raw material for making Boknafisk and tørrfisk ( stockfish)

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

BigFisher II - Fishin' is the Mission 🐣

The halibut eye

A Nice trip to Malangsgrunnen On the 22. Of March 2016 with anglerfriend Johann Marjeta. A nice, cold and sunny day outside the Norwegian coast hunting for the big cods called skrei.
We could have filled the boat with big skrei. Most of the fish was more than 10 kg . It was a perfect day for fishing - and this season has just started ! The first halibut onboard the BigFisher this year was landed by Johann on the first drop? But not the last - follow my blog and much more will follow during this season.
Johann made this short videosequence from the trip - enjoy it !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsSjRvHc6e4

Sunday, 24 January 2016

GREAT WINTER ADVENTURES OUTSIDE TROMSØ

This Winter the area around Tromsø has been the best place in the world to watch the great Humpback whales hunting for herring . We have been out several times with M/S " BigFisher " watching them very closely - this has been the adventure of my life.

On the 21. of January the sun was back in Tromsø after beeing under the horizon for two months.

The aurora borealis is still here. I took this picture from Glimbukta - the opposite side of Finnkroken and Reinøya.

Skipper Lisa out watching the big whales.

A lot of interest for whalewatching up here.

A little overcrowded

The following Pictures is a taste of how it looks when 6 humpbacks are hunting for herring. They cooperate to hunt the herrings on shallow water, and make cooperated attacks from beneath with their enormous mouths open- It's a great hunt when you can watch this at short distance. You can hear the talking beetween the whales, and they smell like a Fish factory when they open their mouths.

HUMPBACK'S GOING COMPLETELY CRAZY

PROUD FISHERMEN - GUNTER STORR, FRANK BRODRECHT AND MORTEN WILLUMSEN.
HENRIK BOLTEN TOOK THE PICTURE.
AND NOW THE " BIGFISHER " AND IT'S CREW IS PREPARING FOR THE BIG SKREI FISHING. AND THE BIG HALIBUTS IS BACK ON SHALLOW WATER IN APRIL :-)))
This halibut is still my personal record butt - 110 kg and 2,06 meter. Now we will hunt for the 150 + +

Henrik Bolten fighting with a big halibut on his kayak - Dominik Engelbrechter and Ringo are watching. As far as I know Henrik still has the World Record Kayak halibut with his 75 kg butt from Kvalsund

Burkhard Plichta With a Nice cod - and his good smile ! Now the big cod - the skrei - is back up her. I have made two trips the last week, and the Ocean was full og big cod. This year I will hunt for the 30 + + big ones - and I know they will be there.