Is it still good time for Fishing ?

S.richard · Post by **S.richard** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:38 pm

Hi,
I am planning to take license for 1 or 2 days and wanna to go for lure fishing this week. But not sure if it is good time for fishing. However I am finding some big Hauki (pike) now a days in K and S market, thats why I am little bit interested. Could anybody Suggest or have some experience of fishing in this time of the year? I live in Espoo.

regards,
Richard

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kharnynb · Post by **kharnynb** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:29 pm

don't know about espoo area, but hauki will be good now, and bit better the next 2 months still.

Untill it gets really cold, you can fish pretty damn well.
Living at saimaa, i fish atleast once a week, hauki is pretty standard to get 1 per hour(usually around 1-3 kg ones).

Grab a decent casting rod, a couple of medium spinners and you'll do great.
If you want to fish with spoonlures, get a decent reedlure or 2 from kuusamo.

Hauki is tasty, but pretty hard to filet, due to the center y bones, medium to big ahven is what is the best eating.

Karhunkoski · Post by **Karhunkoski** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:30 pm

kharnynb wrote: Hauki is tasty, but pretty hard to filet, due to the center y bones

This is very true

I usually fillet hauki using a method which leaves no bones, but you do need to chuck away quite a bit of fish. There are some excellent videos on youtube showing many similar methods to achieve this. Happy fishing!

irnbru · Post by **irnbru** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:18 am

Anyone fancy giving me some fishing tips? I have never fished before and keep being asked by my sons to take them. I live near the sea in HKI.

kharnynb · Post by **kharnynb** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:27 am

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/young_natura ... index.html
Good start for a tackle box.
Try to start in fresh water, you'll need a license for casting rods, no license for worm fishing.
Toknet/tarjoustalo is a good place for buying some kit on the cheap.(they have the decent brands there, starter rods/reel kits from abu etc.)

For freshwater casting (hauki/ahven) best is a spinner bait or a spoon lure, small ahven you can get with wormfishing too, but you'll get a lot of trash fish too.

kharnynb · Post by **kharnynb** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:35 am

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are needed for fishing in your area if you go lurefishing and are over 18/under 65

tkf · Post by **tkf** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:15 am

I make soup with my hauki, if I boil the bigger hauki the tasty flesh is easy to pick off from the bone. Usually I make it with ahven also and some spicy makaraa or choritzo. Sorry for my spelling.

kharnynb · Post by **kharnynb** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:55 am

Hauki is good for soup indeed, also great for fishcakes if you have a foodprocessor(saves you from having to get the y bones out).
Ahven i always filet, since they just are too good with flour, salt and fried in butter

You can smoke ahven very well indeed, but hauki doesn't work so well.
särki(common roach) is concidered a trash fish mostly, but does quite okay in fishpies and/or stews.
Some people can särki, mostly because it will soften the bones, similar to canned sardines.

irnbru · Post by **irnbru** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:26 pm

Thanks a lot.

kharnynb · Post by **kharnynb** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:58 am

No problem, always willing to help out fellow fishermen

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