Fishing enthusiasts studying for a vocational degree, who decided to start working together from the beginning.
It's the cold days of January in 2024 and less than a week until the first "school" day in Asikkala. I need to come up with something to stand out from the crowd, maybe bring something to talk about. Let's get down to business. A quick call to an old acquaintance's printing house. Could you please give me stickers on the side of the car the day after tomorrow with haukionkala.fi text. Delivered, was the answer and off to wash the car and the next day tape to the side.
The first day of school arrives. A friend and I come to the school dormitory the night before (by the way, we don't go a second time). Already in the evening, the stickers provide a conversation starter among the younger students.
The first day and little by little we get to know each other. We start to find fighting partners and common ground pretty quickly. The first conversations come from stickers during the lunch break. On the second day, you start to realize that there are great people around, it feels like I've found a home among people like me. Spring passes, we study, fish, sometimes we visit "Jake's" places and sometimes somewhere else.
Maybe the melting of the snow will do the tricks, but little by little we are starting to get a question about whether we should start planning haukionkala.fi activities together, if there would be more fishing guides under that brand.
I ask my wife at home what she would think if this was done a little bigger, in peace with a good group of people and many fishing guides were given a good home under the same roof. So here we are, it's the year 2025 and little by little the blocks are starting to fall into place.
