Succesfull trip to Teno

I heard a funny story the other day from a friend of mine.
He had been fishing at Teno river for a week last summer. He tried and tried but couldn't catch a salmon. That as such is not that funny, but he did caught something, a pike! That is funny. This guy travels 1000 km hoping to catch a highly valued, great fighting Teno salmon. Then he rows his ass to blisters trying to get salmon bite his bait. When finally something catches the excitement jumps to high heaven and early hopeful expectation of record salmon kicks in. But soon he realizes it's nothing but a pike! He could have gone fishing to any pond or lake near his home to catch a pike. And you never catch a pike from Teno...if that happens to you, your fishing mates will be laughing at you and cracking jokes on you for years to come :)

Time spent on fly fishing

I was wondering how much time people usually spend on fly fishing...I mean if it is your hobby, not your job ie. you're not a fly fishing guide or something?

I just counted that I fish on an average during the season for about 50-60 hours. Another way to count is days when I have fished and that number is around 15. Of this time fly fishing is at least 90%. This really ain't much, so you can hardly call me a pro :)
But when I think about the time I use for reading magazines, books and net about (fly) fishing and add time used for watching related films and now writing about fishing, it easily doubles the time used for fishing hobby.

So I guess I'm more of a virtual fisher? But hey, I named this blog Fisher Wannabe anyhow :)

Too many gigs so little time

I have a major problem. There are quite a lot of good gigs coming up in my hometown during Oct-Dec. I really don't have the luxury of being able to go and see all of those due to time restrictions. Below is some listing of the upcoming gigs that I'm interested in. Maybe I could pick one from each month but it's a tough choice to make...

Oct 12 KOTITEOLLISUUS
Oct 19 THE 69 EYES + Deep Insight
Oct 31 THE ARK
Nov 03 VIIKATE
Nov 09 Eppu Normaali
Nov 21 U.D.O. + Primal Fear
Nov 26 ALICE COOPER + Uriah Heep
Dec 11 NIGHTWISH
Dec 13 MOTöRHEAD
Dec 27 SONATA ARCTICA + Thunderstone

Well, which ever gigs I choose to go to I'll report here or shorter in Twitter how they were