Tournament day 2, the evening.

Another lovely evening at the Eumer Lodge was the end of day 2. We had Simon demonstrating to us how to tie some tubeflies. And of course everybody had his share of beers and brandies.



A lot of information was exchanged, even among the teams and the decision fell that Simon would be going out with the only other true fishing boat the next day, to guide team England 1 (Mike and Guy). This all in a collective effort to get England 1 and Netherlands 1 (Harmen-Jan and Erik) to the best chances possible to attack the lead position of the Finnish. Home-teams always seem to have a bit of an advantage and all other teams would love to support the effort to make that less true in this tournament.
The weather forecast for the coming days looked better and better. Day three of the tournament the temperatures would start to be summer-like. And for the days after the tournament (we were allowed to fish the entire week) the forecast was sunny with temperatures way above 25 degrees Celsius. After the tying most of us went out on one of the decks of the lodge and enjoyed the low sun shining through the trees. Some even tried to capture some trout on the river next to the lodge and as usual it was time for sauna and skinny dipping in the river before we went to bed.


sunset at midnight....May in Finland



Hajee and I talked it all over one more time. Both of us felt a little bit ungrateful to not go with Kari the next day, but if we still wanted to make a small chance of getting up in the rankings it was obvious we would need to go for another boat the next day.
About tactics it was clear. We had been trying different new rigs that are lighter than the ones we usually use. This to stay higher in the water, as the fishing through the reeds means you’ll hook-up a lot of dead reed.