Alessandro

Well, I prefer an yellow dacronline to the utterboats, better visibility and if caught under a bow of a sailingboat it cut off and we don´t lose the utterboats. Since I use rollable dogleash to adjust the utterboats, I don´t fancy wire to much especially in rough weather and if the utterboat sink. Yes staying home is a option, but when you fish at sea things can change fast, I had one incident when I was fishing for european perch on a shallow lake, alone on the lake (no petrol engine allowed since they take tapwater from the lake) and lightning started and hit a tree near the lake and fire started, not too pleasant I say. I start first with masts, downrigger is a few paychecks down the road...

Not cool, it´s warm in Guinea-Bissau....

I fished as long as I can remember, none in my family is interested at all (my younger brother a tiny bit). Nowadays I mainly dream about catching a big atlantic salmon (my brother caught a 44lbs last season) here in Sweden. Here´s a pic of me from a fishingtrip in africa chasing tarpon, http://www.fiskesnack.com/fotoalbum/showimage.php?iid=49883&cid=19&scid=0&sort=date

I´m going to try out Sebilé Onduspoon when we start fishing for Atlantic salmon next month, it´s made of plastic and have 5 rattle chambers with 3 rattleballs in each. Mainly made for pike fishing, but I got to try something different and this caught my attention. Anyone tried it as trolling lure? http://www.basstackledepot.com/sebile-onduspoon.aspx

Saw a Russian guy whom fished Zander (relative to Walleye) whom used the flying lure while fishing from the ice, anyone tested this?

Since a scotty electric downrigger costs 1200US$ here, I been thinking of fitting a Big Jon manually downrigger with an ATV electric winch (cost about half here and spareparts are much easier to get hold on), anyone tried this? I can only get hold on Big Jon manually downriggers here in Sweden. Also thinking of fitting a Berts Custom Tackle mast with ATV electric winches for the same reasons (with no wire but dacronline instead). I´m also thinking of taking an old glassfiber fishingrod as mast extension and adding a small red flag (indicating fishing boat) on the top and a bigger flag with our team name "Team Plockepinn (swedish)=Team Mikado (english)", using also as a lightning pole. Unfortunatly one person died of lightning here a few years ago when he was holding a lance during a knight tournament and lightning struck him. So I´m a bit scared of holding a carbonfishing rod during thunderstorms. My questions about the mast is if anyone had a lightning strike in the mast and if you should ground (how do you ground a mast?) it?

Can´t see the pics? My personal experience with black bass is very limited. I got my first ones last year in Portugal (they tried to introduce them here in Sweden but too cold), fished in the Santa Clara and Alqueva dams.