Italy and Sweden won the Lapland Fishing Festival
Italy and Sweden won gold in the Lapland Fishing festival. Aldo Silva won the flyfishing competition and Stefan Karlsson won the pikefishing competition.
Even this competition was affected by the vast amount of rainfall that hit Västerbotten during the first weeks in July. The flyfishing competition was in the river Åby älv that offered very high water and tough conditions. But the biggest surprise was maybe the tough fishing for pike in the Lake Finnträsket. This lake is noramlly a superb lake for pike, a fact that also was visible for the competitors, but the pike didn´t want to eat. Some competotrs saw pike and practically threw the bait just in front of the mouth, with no reaction from the pike. After 2 sessions a well worth first place was taken by Stefan Karlsson, Sweden.

Flyfishing
1. Aldo Silva (Italiy)
2. Andrea Andreveno (Italy)
3. Marino Rota (Italy)

Pikefishing
1. Stefan Karlsson (Sweden), 6 pike
2. Daniel Edeljung (Sweden), 5 pike
3. Patrick Dahlberg (Sweden), 4 pike