Ice fishing in Sweden

Warm weather period forced me and Emilio to search for frozen lakes further from Trondheim. I found out that lakes around Swedish ski town Åre might be good.

So we decided to spend a weekend on Gevsjön. Saturday was windy and there was a layer of water on the ice, which makes life harder ...

Without local knowledge it is hard to find fish, especially on such big lake. Saturday - zero, Sunday - 2 smaller char. In total 10 hours on the ice and about 100 holes drilled...

However, it was great winter weekend, with nice camping just next to the lake.

and much better condition on Sunday, when the ice was almost well frozen.

Czech February

Early start of another Czech trip on small train station in Skansen (Trondheim), just next to the local harbour

Czech Rep. has the highest density of railway network in the world...

How the transport will be in the future? Postcard from 1900, city of Jesenik...almost no cars!

Little reminder of the north

Visiting some hidden local curative springs. Our friend Asu is mapping and renovating them...

Cross-country skiing in Adrspach with Dr. Love was different from Norway,

especially with some nice refresment.

Almost ski-alpinistic cross-country trip to Krkonose, with a lot of snow

but no visibility at all...

An encounter on the way to Teplice rocks

along an abandoned settlement Zabor

and some great sandstone towers

Winter weekend

Most January snow in Trondheim since 1963, just amazing...

Saturday skiing to Holstdammen was challenging. But the lake was finally frozen and I got 3 big trout there.

Sunday ice-fishing trip started with a tram

to meet Emilio in city centre

and drive north, direction Åsen

to Lynvatnet with its røya. We got many bites and small fish, the only big one escaped

so just a few nice pics were taken back.

Stay tuned for more...

January

Spring weather in the beginning of 2019, so we did a nice fjord fishing session near Orkanger. Max got couple of small sharks there.

A jump to...

Brno with its massive traffic reconstructions.

And of course trains...

almost a Norwegian view from a train to Prague.

Checking the renovated National Museum

and jumping back to Bymarka

to catch my biggest trout ever (1.7 kg, 55cm) in Blomstertjønna

and jump to Baklidammen to test my reaction in cold water.

 

Winter in Rondane

We decided to enjoy Xmass holiday in Norway in this lovely cabin Kringsætra on the borders of Rondane national park.

After 4 hours drive, we found real winter. In the next 8 days, the weather varied a lot, from silent sunny days to snowstormy conditions.

Moon-view from the kitchen window in 9:00 in the morning, direction Svartkampen,

and sunrise view a little bit later from the living room window.

And we went also outside the cabin...

to enjoy ski tracks starting 200m from the cabin,

leading to Furusjøen lake.

I spent many hours starring at this hole in middle of Heimtjønn lake. I got 6 arctic char, mostly very good quality (500g), all of them around 14:30.

And after 8 days in the nature, it was time to move back into civilisation and new year 2019, hopefully full of beauty...