Tag: killer whales

Anglerfish just at the shore

25th June (transfered from document)

Dull weather, about 10 degrees.

Went out to fish in the close area (as the tank in the boat is starting to get more empty after we have forgotten to buy more gas when in Leknes for a couple of times), but was not so successful today either. Got a very small cod, which we threw back. I start to get tempted to fish for plaice (rödspätta) instead for a while, but then we need to get shrimps as bait, something we don’t have yet.

Coming in to land, we heard that some tourists had seen killer whales at, this time, the north side of Nappstraumen. Missed by me once again. Soon I hope to see them too. Just need to get more gas to go further out with the boat. Hopefully they will stay around for some more time. After all, we are supposed to be here the whole summer this year to finish working on the interior of the rorbu we are building.

Some days ago some tourists were asking about if we had caught anglerfish (breiflabb / marulk) yet in Lofoten, but we haven’t. Have probably not been out with the boat far enough to fish at the right depth for the anglerfish (or this is what we have heard gives higher chance of catching one).
Surprisingly enough, some of the tourists sees a small one close to the boat parking lots at not deeper than 3-4 meters. A fisherman gets it up to take a photo, and then let it back to it’s natural habitat, the sea. So now also an anglerfish has been seen in the Skreda area. 🙂

We can only guess what made this fish get so lost in the sea. Perhaps the killer whales have scared it?

Anglerfish

Nises being spotted!

24th June (transfered from document)

Nice weather, about 12 degrees.

During a midday walk at the old Skreda street, I spy after something you think you see now and then when it is not. Something that can be a wave hitting a underwater hill or just a strange wave… or something more interesting.
Lucky enough it appeared to be what I thought: a nise (artic dolphin), and not the more boring one.
This time I had the phone up in time to both get a picture of the fin and to video tape the fin coming up several times after each other. What was suprising is that the nise appeared very close to land, probably only 30 meters out.

When I came back and showed the video to Johan I had the idea it could be one small nise, when Johan thought it is probably two nises swimming close to each other.

Later we also heard that some of the tourists at the fishing camp had seen killer whales at the south side of Nappstraumen. Something I long to see, as I have not seen them yet. My video of nise(s) sounded like not so cool anymore, comparing to that vision. 😉

Johan went out with the boat nearby and got some small cods, perfect lunch fishes!