Alessandro

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.