Booyaka! Time for a new developer entry, featuring theDevs. Last Friday we went on a weekend fishing trip! Andrés, Peter, Robert and Daniel were the braves ones accepting the challenge, which turned into a pretty nice little adventure.

We’ll start from the beginning. Last Friday morning we wanted to celebrate the release of the Muzzleloader with a little fishing trip. We went in the CEO’s car (Robets crappy Volvo. No seriously, it’s quite nice) to Mölnbo, outside of Stockholm, to Andrés parents summerhouse to stay over the weekend. The plan was just having some fun together, make dinner, drink some beer, and first and foremost to see if we could catch some fish with our brand new fishing rods. We’re not what you call experienced fishermen, except for Andrés perhaps, who knows a little bit about it and has some past experience. But the rest of us are pretty green.

We went to a nearby lake and started throwing hooks where we thought the reeds would not have all of them. After a couple of minutes Andrés (probably using some trick he didn’t want to share with the rest of us) pulled a small pike out of the water. While celebrating the first catch of the day though, the fish, somehow, dropped the hook and jumped right back into the water on the slippery sloping rock and escaped. In the end the fish got lucky and at least we got ourselves a great laugh!

After a while, without catching any fish, we hiked on toward another spot where we had lunch. Hot dogs, coffee and a beer (but just one beer each. We´re responsible people you know).

Half decent Swedish view.

Peter, Andrés and Danny.

Food always taste so much better in the wild. And it hardly even have to be thoroughly cooked! We ended up wasting most of our drinking water on putting the grill out once finished as nobody felt like carrying it back home while it was still glowing hot.

Soon after lunch, at a new fishing spot, Robert got lucky and caught a nice perch that we decided to keep. Andres broke it’s neck and Peter got struggling with some of his fishing line being tangled up pretty bad, we concluded that a little more weight on the hooks would make it easier to keep the line stretched while throwing.

First proper catch of the day (can you see it?). Don’t know what that tall guy is smiling about though because he didn’t catch anything!

A short while later Andrés caught a little one which he gave a second chance at life and let back into the water.

Andrés and his little friend at mercy.

The real action was yet to come though. Danny thought he was snagged, but soon realized whatever his hook was stuck in was moving. And it was definitely bigger than anything we had gotten before. After a short struggle an awesome pike appeared on the surface. Everyone was quite chocked to see this and while trying to pull it out of the water the line snapped and it ended up getting away, with the hook and everything. Note to self: get a hoop-net to pick the fish up with next time!

We didn’t quite see the whole thing, but at the time it seemed to be quite similar in size to a great white shark.

After that whole adventure with the pike was settling we thought it would be a good idea to turn back home. Andrés was of course sure of the way and we embarked. Problem was only they had made new logging roads all over the place since Andres was there the last time and we ended up at a dead end. It had started to rain a little and as we all (still) had trust in Andrés leading us we went on, straight into the woods which turned out to be a less good idea.

One of several deer feeders we came across during the day, and there was hunting stands all over the place. Something is definitely going on here, and it probably ain’t organized flower picking!

After getting somewhat lost while trying to navigate using our cellphones GPS, negotiating a few bogs, slippery rock, clear cuts, ditches, mud holes, getting our feet soaked, spirits weakened and just plain tired we got back to the house. Not tired of fishing though, so we threw a few more hooks from a small pier while the rain got worse.

Peter wasn’t giving up despite his lousy odds. The rain is hard to see but it is there!

When we were more or less freezing we finally got back indoors, had more beer, made a great dinner and played some cards for the rest of the evening and early night.

We also cleaned, fried and ate the perch that Robert caught earlier. It was delicious! “Best fish I’ve ever had in my life.” – Danny.

AK 47 gets the job done! Awesome Cold Steel folding knife bought by Peter at his trip to the Eastern Sports show last year.

In the end it was a great and fun weekend, and we’ll definitely do it again some time and report back here about our success!

Until next time, gangnam style!

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