The first time

Ok, I'm not talking about getting laid here, but my very first fly fishing experience.
This happened a few years back. My friend and I visited Pohjois-Suomen Erämessut fair, which is a quite a big fair for fishing, hunting and other outdoor activity stuff, and we both bought fly fishing sets. Those were complete impulse purchases, Vision 3Zone, 9 feet, 5# and reels and lines.
Next day we went to a lake to practice casting. To my surprise casting wasn't all that difficult. A day after that we went to Koitelinkoski in Kiiminkijoki river to try if we could catch something.

Lo and behold, after a while I got a trout! It was my very first time fishing in Kiiminkijoki and my very first time fly fishing anywhere. This guaranteed that I was hooked for fly fishing.

Since then I haven't caught that many trouts from Kiiminkijoki as I usually don't have time to go fishing early on in the summer before summer vacation. During summer vacation (July) I fish in different waters close to Utsjoki where I was raised. After summer vacation usually Kiiminkijoki is so dry and smelly that I don't want to fish there. But anyhow, quite a nice experience for a fly fishing rookie!

Finnish salmon rivers

Man they have a lot of salmon rivers in Norway as in Finland we have only 5 of them (if you don't count the tributary rivers). And actually only 3 of those give enough salmon to really talk about. Those are Teno, Näätämö and Tornionjoki rivers. Simojoki river has been getting better and I think they do catch fair amount of salmon from Kymijoki river also. Kiiminkijoki you can't really call a salmon river, but every year some salmon is caught. Oulujoki river used to be a very good salmon river before they build it for power production during 1940's to 1960's. Now it produces 2700 GWh. A few years back they build fish ladder so salmon can go past the first dam in Oulu. I've read that now there have been some salmon babies swimming in Oulujoki river above the first dam. I truly hope they build the fish ladder also to the next dam above and salmon starts to really come back to this river because I live in Oulu.