MY WIFE AND HER CAMERA.

My dear wife Elisabeth have a great interest in photography, she is shooting magnificient pics with her 350D.

Posting here one of her beautiful shots that she did in the "Aurlandvalley" last summer.

The photo which she have given the name "Rock-Face", have got her very good criticism in international photo-sites.

Enjoy the magic rock wall.

I am really proud of her.

Chris <;))><

PANORAMA IN AURLAND.

I am standing on the terrace at my father in law`s house, the house is located on a hill above the village Aurland, which I have mentioned a lot in this blog.
Aurland means a great deal to me, and I can`t get enough of the nature there.
Top photo is taken a late friday night with a beautiful sunset, and the other photo in the afternoon the day after.
Both pics is taken at the same spot on the terrace.

Enjoy the photos....

Chris

<;))><

VIEW.

I am gonna share with you a beautiful viewpoint, this post describes a mountaintop in Bergen which is named "Sandvikspilen" and the hiking trail up there. The trail up to "Sandvikspilen" is called "Stolzekleiven" and it is a precipitous stonepath which also have about 730 steps made of rocks and 80 woodensteps. Difference in height from sealevel to the top is 316 meters.





Every step is in different size and height, it is a tough route to the top! Every year in October there is arranged one of the worlds toughest stepraces in "Stoltzekleiven", runners are coming from the whole Scandinavia to participate. I am using about 15-20 minutes up, when I walking there is no stress, taking some photos and enjoying the nature, but the most crazy runners do the whole ascent in only 8-9 minutes, record is 8 minutes and 13 seconds!

Magnificent, or what?

Chris <;))><

ALSO A BEAUTIFUL VIEW.

It is just a fantastic view at this spot, it is a new-build viewpoint at one of the mountains by Aurland.

Aurland is a village almost in the end of the famous Sognefjord, and at this mountain, nearly 700 meters height over sea-level the local authority have built a big platform of wood, stainless steel and tempered glass. From the platform which is marking out from the precipitous cliffs, you can see straight down on the village and the magnificent fjord. It is just incredible! I have been up there a few times already, access to this spot is trough an old road which is going over the mountain pass to another village with the name Laerdal. The highest point on this road is 1350 meters above sea-level, and there was even snow remain now in June. It is a beautiful drive, the village Laerdal is like Aurland famous for their fantastic Salmon and Seatrout river!

Just beautiful...

Cheers..

Chris <;))><

EXPLORE THE COASTLINE

This thursday I jumped into my car early in the morning and drove west to the coast, I have used a lot of time the last years to explore our coast, and find good fishingspots.

Saltwater flyfishing is one of my favourites, and in Norway we have some great oppurtunities to do that.

After driving a half hour I came to a real good spot, a place I have tried sometimes before, I rigged my Burkheimer 890 Saltwater, my Vortex, a nice Deciever and started my casting. It was a lot of fish here, but I only got small ones. I got Pollacks and Saithes by the dozen.

I used many different flies today, like Decievers, Clousers and some Norwegian saltwaterpatterns. Of course tied on Owner or TMC hooks, that is the only hooks I am using for saltwaterfishing. Owner is my favourite:-)

After fishing about 2 hours, landed and realesed lots of smaller fish I hooked a big one.

That was a 8-10 lbs Pollack, I could see the fish coming up from the bottom, and it took the fly right under beneath the surface. That was a really strong fish, it swimmed into the seaweed to hide, and after a few minutes I lost the fish. It does not really matter, I did hook the fish, and it was great fun. A fine day it was at the coast today, conditions good also, with high tide and no wind. A beautiful day, and I used the oppurtunitie to take some photos, have added some of them here.

The photos shows magnificent nature and good conditions, oppurtunities for saltwater flyfishing are endless. This country do have a fantastic coastline with thousands of islands, here is really a lot to explore.

Soon I am going on my trips for Salmon and Seatrout, hope for more nice pics then.

Best regards

Chris <;))><

FRIDAY MORNING FISHING

This Friday, the 2 of june I used the morning hours for a little trip with my flyrod, even though the conditions was quite bad today with a lot of wind, rain and low water. But, "you cant catch the fish if you dont try", so I gave it a try.

Drove to a nice spot located 15 kilometers north of the city of Bergen, there is a narrow strait under a bridge in a area with a lot of brackish water, the strait is between the sea and a lake.

Used my Coho #4 rod, my Lamson reel, GPX-line and a small #8 silver/white epoxy streamer.

On the second cast I hooked a beautiful Browntrout, not very big, about 1,5-2 lbs.

The size does not really matter, the colours and the pattern does make the Trout a fantastic, beautiful fish, even though that it is not to big.

And of course, on light gear it is good fun:-)

A good start on the weekend.

Chris <;))><

My kids :-)

Since I was a little boy, my parents have been taking me and my sisters to campingtrips in the mountains and to the sea, there they taught us fishing and survival.

All these adventures that I experienced as a child is the most important reasons for my interest in fishing today.











That is why I am trying to teach and include my own children, so they can have some of the adventures I had as a boy.











Today with all the hardware and software, I do mean that it is important for the children to experience some nature and wildlife.





As a guy who love cooking and good food, it is nice to let the kids get to know different types of seafood.












My kids have been on many trips with me and catched many different species of fish like Trout, Cod, Pollack, Saithe, Haddock, Mackerel, Dab, Ling, Whiting, Tusk, ballan Wrassel, Dragonet, Grey Gurnard, Bull-Rout, Catfish, Deep-Snouted Pipefish, Halibut, Greater Weever, Herring, Spiny Dogfish, Redfish, Flounders and of course differnt types of crabs, also Deepsea King Crab, Crawfish and more.

They have many good memories from these trips.















Have even let the young ones try some flytying, with a nice result.







I have added a lot of pics here, photos of my kids and some of their catches, I am really proud of them, enjoy the pics :-)

When my kids was about 4 and 7 years old, I built for them their own customized fishingrods, and those rods are well used.






Hope that you are enjoing these pics, I know that I do, later I will also add an article of my wife and her interest in photography, she is fantastic with her Canon :-)

Wish you all the best!

Cheers..

Chris <;))><