My name is Jouni Luiro and I was born 1965 in Savukoski. It’s a small village in northern Finland. Fishing has always been important part of my life. In the good old days I spent most of my time fishing during spring, summer and autumn. Now it’s enough if I can go fishing some times during the season.  Most I love it when you it is time to gather a round the camp fire and making some coffee and telling the true stories of the big fish that did get away. The day will come when I can share those experiences and pass on the tradition to my four children.     

My first fishing trip

I remember like it was yesterday. We went fishing with my grandfather fore the first time. It was a July evening; we walked through the meadow down to the river. In the meadow it I could feel the odour of just dejected hay.Grandfather had his fishing pole and I had an ice pole fishing with me. I walked proudly alone side with him to the boat. When we reached the boat he told me to go in the boat. I went to the back of the boat and sat down. I was scared and in eager expectation. I hold on hard to the boat. Grandfather pushed the boat in to the Kemi-river and he jumps in the boat and sat down. He started to row,

When we reached the middle of the river he threw the lure into the river. He said that I should release my lure also. When I started to release my lure I Looked in to the water. I saw in the pure water the lure reach deeper and deeper in to the river. I became anxiety and fascinated of what I saw. This happened nearly four decades ago. I was only 3-4 years old then. I still get the fascinated feeling when I walk to the river.         

When I grow older I started to angling with worm, and when I was around 10 years old  I got my first fishing reel, it was an Abumatic 220 The reel worked well for one summer and the next summer my dad purchased a new Abumatic 220.

 And that was the case every summer until I was old enough to get a summer job. I fished mainly fore grayling and pike In those days. I fished for pike with spinner until I was around 20 years old. 

Me back in 1971                  my twins sons in summer 2005

whit my first grayling           and the boys whit there first...

Fly fishing

Somewhere in the 70's/80's my uncle went to a fly tying course. He teaches me to tie flies and that’s where it started.

And I’m passing on the skit to my kids..

It well takes some more practice. But there well get there…

Around mid 80's rainbow trout was planted in to a lake nearby and I started to fish with a fly rod. In the begging of my fly fishing career I fished only for rainbow and grayling. In the beginning of the 90s I tried to fish for salmon. And at the same time I tied my first salmon fly. It took me the whole 90s to master fly fishing for salmon and I have still lots to learn.   

The last season I have started to fish for pike with fly rod.  

Now I fish for grayling only in the autumn, because when we talk about grayling it is a "must" to catch it with dry flies.     
The most of the season I fish for salmon. I fish for Pike in the early spring and in late autumn.