Description af my stripping basket

 

 

• Cones in the bottom are the best way to minimize problems with the shooting line. Here the number and the placement are optimized.
• In a large stripping basket, the shooting line is easy to place and with more room for the flyline, less problems occur. This is naturally most important when you have a lot of flyline in the basket, i.e., when you are making long casts.
• Low weight and the curved back improves the comfort.

 

  

 

 

 

• No protruding edges on the inside or outside can catch the flyline.

   

• Built in handle to facilitate transport.
• Quality buckle mounted on a 50 mm wide belt ensures comfort and makes it easy to release the belt.
• Belt holes with “anti-twist” and tight tolerances prevent twisting of the belt and minimize unintended water leakage.
• The stripping basket is made from a special polypropylene for minimum weight, maximum strength at low and high temperatures and resistance to UV radiation.

 

 

 

• Built in rod holder.
• Discrete colour.
• To order

Stripping basket in the art

Painting by the danish artist Peter Carlsen.  It is  called “Villy is hooked up”

Rasmus Gade og Bo Rasmussen Summer sea trouts

The guys from gofishsilver had a good summer trip to the coast

Hirtshals 27/6-2009

An overnight trip in pontoon boats with Henrik, Bjarne and Klaus at Hirtshals. As this is in the North sea, the weather conditions are crucial. We needed wind from east for several days and we got it. We were going for sea bass which to all of us is a first – some had caught sea bass before but only as a lucky punch while fishing for sea trout.

We started at noon and after a few hours Klaus got his first ever and the first on this trip – a fish just above the minimum size (38 cm).

After a pizza break we went for the evening fishing which is supposed to be the peak time. We did not see any sea bass hunting but despite many garfish interrupting we landed two bass. I got what turned out to be the largest bass on the trip a 47 cm fish.

We had a fantastic sunset and saw 3 sea trouts jump out of the water all very good sized but no one made any contact with them.

Bjarne landed this nice flounder which grabbed his minnow imitation!

In the mourning Henrik got two more basses – one around 40 cm and one too small. We also got some greater weevers at good sizes and more garfish. The trip was a succes as we got what we came for and some more, but we would like to come back another time and maybe cast to junting sea bass – that could be great fun

Ballehage 22/6-2009

An evening pontoon boat trip with Michael. We wanted to try a new spot so we entered the water at the kayak club. The  weather was beautiful so there were many people and many kayaks. Most of the people had never seen a pontoon boat before so we received many big smiles and laughs. One of the kayak rowers was so curious that he kept turning his head while rowing until he tipped over into the water – then I was smiling and laughing.

I got three very small trouts and Michael got one sea trout above the minimum size so the new spot payed off, though next time we will try another spot nearby.

Stavrehoved 13/6-09

A night trip wade fishing on the eastern coast of Fyn with Thomas. This was my first visit to this spot and it was very nice. We saw many deers, hares, a fox and many porpoises, and the bottom is filled with big rocks – good for sea trout but bad for wading. We started at 23.00 and fished until 02.00. The we had a break an hour an continued until 8.00 with several breaks. We heard several fish splashing in the water but too far away the first hours and actually we also had two within casting range – you know 50 meter

At 01.40 I got this small but well conditioned trout (43 cm – 975 gram). It really gave a terrific fight for its size. I think this was my first sea trout caught at night. I used a luminous pearl in front of the fly, I have done that before without any success so I will not jump to any conclusions from this.

The sunrise was beautiful but without any sleep in the night it can be difficult to appreciate it. Thomas litterally fell asleep in the midlle of a sentence – and he did it several times.

Gudenaaen – Åstedbro 7/6-09

A short trip to Gudenaaen hoping for some dry fly action.

From the start I could see that the sea gulls were having a ball eating mayflies, so I did not have to worry about the hatching.

Close up photo from the main character of the day. Like last time I was here there were mayflies but not much action at the surface. Though this time I actually spotted a few fish that occasionally feeded at the surface. I got two of the fish – both brown trouts, one around 25 cm and one at 34-35 cm. Both were released as I always do in the streams in Denmark as the fishing pressure is too big in relation to the number of fish in the streams.

Mariager Fjord 5/6-09

A very early morning trip with Henrik and three other pontoon boat fly fishers. Almost no wind and the fjord looked fantastic. When the light came you could sea a lot of algae and it did not look that fantastic anymore.

At first we did not see any fish but later they showed now and then around the algae sections where there were feeding. Henrik caught and released a trout around the minimum size but apart from that the trouts did not show much interest in our flies.

Very close to the shore Kent got a very nice trout at app. 5 pounds, so his day was made.

Bredningen Randers 4/6-09

A pontoon boat trip with Henrik fly fishing for pike. We started at high tide and soon we both had contact and got a pike. Then we had to wait a long time without any interest in our flies followed by a short period with activity and it continued like that most of the day. The weather also changed from no wind and sun to heavy rain to very heavy wind and hail – we tried everything. As usual Henrik got the biggest of the day – a pike in the 13 pounds range.

The largest pike of the day

Moesgaard 2/6-09

An evening trip with Michael  wade fishing at Moesgaard. It was quite crowded ( 8 fishermen) we managed to keep away from the most popular spot so it worked out fine. To my knowledge no one saw or had contact with anu sea trouts this evening so a bit disappointing.

But and a big but Michael got his first sea bass ever. This is not a common fish here so big gratulations. It was 42 cm and was caught on the classic Red Tag.

Lushage 30/5-09

On a overnight stay pontoon boat trip with Henrik, Lasse, Bjarne, Claus and Claus to Lushage. We started from a heavy crowded beach at Sletterhage in beautiful sunny weather. After a first leg against the current and the wind we could put our gear on the beach at Lushage. While we started the fire and had our dinner a big trout was seen jumping just were we intended to fish so expectations were high. Unfortunately that was what we did see to the trouts even if we fished late in the evening and very early in the morning.

There were an extreme amount of garfish hitting the fly but not many got hooked.

We also caught many cod but in baby size though this is positive as it has been years since I have seen these at the coast.

Finally I was the only one getting Lesser Weevers why I do not know, but I got 6 all together. Too small to eat and I had my plier so no problem to unhook them safely. So we were in contact with many fish and many species but not the ones we hoped for.

Omme Å 29/5-09

After two weeks in China as a tourist I needed to go fishing and I headed for some dry fly fishing. I started in Gudenaaen at Aastedbro and saw some mayflies – both the big Danicas and the yellow Sulphuria. There were not o lot of flies but it should be sufficient for some activity at the surface, but after two hours at the stream I had not seen any activity at all. Then I moved to Omme å near Filskov but here there were almost no flies. After an hour I saw a fish and made some casts for it and actually I got  some takes here by blindfishing. Not my prefered way of dry fly fishing but I had to do something. I ended catching five greyling and one brown trout but most were fingersized. I had one nice greyling around 40 cm which made my day on this boring day with almost no surface activity. Better luck next time.