Some days are better than others. It´s a fact.
And this July day somewhere on Nordkalotten was better than most.
With huge hatches of all kinds of insects and big, rising fish all over the place,
this is the stuff that winter dreams are made of.
Music: “Kivran!” (H. Stubø)
Performed by Jazz & Fly Fishing
Here´s a trick every angler should know: how to remove a barbed hook without any tools at all. It´s swift and painless!
While casting for a big, rising seatrout in the middle of the subarctic summer night, Tapani was unforunate enough to hook himself in the nose with a big fly. Luckily, I have done this procedure several times (even on myself once), and knew the super trick – otherwise there would have been a lot more blood involved…
Czech it out:
…when our tours last too long. No further comments.
Blog from Eco-Rapids #3
Hellau!
I´m back from Russia. Here are some interesting videos from our tour in Finland in early June.
The first one was made by Fredrik, who stole my camera and made this epic masterpiece entiteled Karja while I was searching desperately for the camera, thinking I´d forgotten it somewhere along the road:
The second film, What´s Up with the Lainen?, deals with the mythical Finnish word “lainen”.
Fredrik and I have been asking Finns about the meaning of this word for more than a year now, and we still haven´t gotten any good explanation for it. Poor Tapani is the victim this time:
Soon, we´ll go fishing together again! First, we´ll fish a mystical river somewhere on Nordkalotten for a couple of days, and then we´ll move into undiscovered country for a real expedition.
Stay tuned – lots more videos and stuff coming up!
In order to be in shape for the fishing season me and Fredrik decided to participate in the Göteborgsvarvet, a half marathon running competition in Gothenburg. It’s a big running party with around 50 000-60 000 runners, lots of bands playing by the track and the whole city watching and cheering. The weather forecast is promising warm wearther and sunshine so it will be really hot and sweatty!
My aim is to run under 1 hour 50 minutes, but it will be tough. I’m not sure if I can make it. Fredrik is starting ahead of me, with the “real” runners. His legs are about twice as long as mine and he totally lacks the ability to get tired when he’s moving. When he sits or lies down he can fell asleep in seconds. Power sleeping technique, he says. I remember him mentioning that he must make it to a gig after the running so he must keep up the running tempo. If he finishes at one and a half hours or faster, and he’ll be in time for the gig.
Keep your fingers crossed tomorrow, and all of you in Gothenburg come cheer us up! We are two of the 50 000 similar looking runners out there, you can’t miss us!
Bloodknot Magazine (US) has done an excellent interview with Joona and me.
Click here to check it out!
I just returned from Helsinki where I was mixing Joona Toivanen trio’s new album. This is a band both me, Tapani and the drummer Olavi Louhivuori have played had since we were kids. Olavi had just finished a long US tour with Polish trumpet legend Tomasz Stanko’s quintet, and it was great to meet with the trio again.
Both recording and mixing this album was great fun. We wanted to have a more “retro” sound and used old microhones, tube amplifiers and tape recorders. The sound guy Mikko Raita was very good in creating this kind of sound, and the tubes and tapes were running really hot!
Here’s my answer to Håvard’s video gear madness. Chaplin didn’t have the super colors and stereo mics, we don’t need them either.
But the music! Duke Ellington and his orchestra played jazz when jazz was young and the fish were big. And Fredrik’s monster trout is finally revealed here!
Here’s a glimpse of one of the fishing trips me and Fredrik did last week. It was the first week of the sea trout season and despite mostly cold and windy weather we had some nice moments of sunshine. I also got a chance to test my new JFF-camera: it’s a GoPro HD Hero videocamera that is waterproof and very tiny. Easy to carry on wherever you go. The week was not only blue skies and sunshine, and also the darker moments were captured on film. So there’s more to come…
Oh yes, I almost forgot! The music on this video clip is a sneak peek to the material we recorded a few weeks ago. The tune is called “Hatch”, and is one of my compositions for this band. It’s not mixed yet, and I mercilessly faded out from the beginning of Tapani’s wonderful bass solo. Sorry Tap!
Juha Mieto
Well, we finally got word from Fredrik. Apparently he is cross country skiing in Dalarna, Sweden.
We had an interesting debate about the olympics last night. As you might have noticed, things are not going too well for the Norwegians so far. The Swedes, on the other hand… Here´s our correspondence from last night:
Hello guys! I´m skiing (what happened with Petter Northug, Håvard?!? I think I remember that you said he was gonna win everything?) in Dalarna. That is why I m a bit absent in this conversation. I´ll be home on sunday, after that there will be action from Fred!
From: Håvard Stubø
To: Fredrik Hamrå, Joona Toivanen; Tapani Toivanen
Cc: Petzi // Petzifilm
Sent: Tue, 16 February, 2010 23:33:46
Subject: RE: JFF site todo list
Northug? I don´t know. The Norwegians are very disappointing so far… Good with Björn Ferry today, though. A Storuman homeboy! And what about everybody´s favourite Swede, Charlotte Kalla! She´s from Tärendö close to Gällivare, which is where they make some of the iron ore which is the reason my home town Narvik exists, so there is a some sort of connection there. I´ve been cheering for her since she came around a few years ago.
Actually, I often find myself cheering more for some of the Swedes than some of the Norwegians. Maybe it´s because many of the Swedes come from Nordkalotten, and most Norwegian skiers are from the south of Norway? Not my all-time hero Vegard Ulvang, though – he´s from Kirkenes. Where in Finland is Juha Mieto from, Joona? He must be one of the coolest skiers ever.
From: Joona Toivanen
To: Håvard Stubø
Cc: Fredrik Hamrå; Tapani Toivanen
Sent: Wed, 16 February, 2010 23:56:02
Subject: Re: JFF site todo list
This is great stuff man! Put it on the blog!
PS! Juha Mieto is from Kurikka
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Speaking of Dalarna, I suddenly remembered this video that bass player Torbjörn Zetterberg sent me some time ago. Enjoy:
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