FISHING BROWN TROUT

I got home on sunday from a very nice trip with my kids, we have been visiting some of my family 200 kilometers further north in the west of Norway. Spent 4 days near a nice small town with the name "Foerde". In the walley "Angedalen" my cousin and her husband are running a hotel for animals and pets. It is almost like a kennel, but the hotel have a higher standard. And when my kids did have a great time with all the different animals in the hotel, or went for a swim in the river by their property, I used some of the oppurtunities to look at the conditions for troutfishing.

My coho # 4 trout rod with my Lamson Radius 1.5, have gradually become a permanent companion on my trout-trips, and this weekend was no exception. I tried my dryflies and my nymphs in several streames and lakes, and got brown trouts by the dozen. Unfortunately not big ones, only trouts with the weight beetwen 0,2 - 0,6 lbs. My troutgear is actually a little bit to heavy for these fishes, a # 0 rod would be superb for this.

The nature in this part of Norway can really be quite magnificent, the photos speaks for them selves. Even though most of the trouts that I got is a speciality to eat, I released them all. I usually fish for the sport and not for food, but apart from my focus on the fishing, small trouts is very popular to fry in a frying pan, or to grill them on open fire. With salt, pepper and dill, sour cream, fresh warm home-made bread, lots of butter and mybee some new potatoes, it is delicious. A real snack.

This territory are further inland, not far from the nearest coast or salmonriver but interior country. Mountains and the forests have an enormous stock of game, and big game hunting, as well as fishing is very popular. I have picked out some photos and added in this post just to indicate the opportunities for fishing.

The streams and spots on the pics are just a few that I visited in the weekend, the spots are countless :-) All of them have trouts like them I catched, but some of them have real giants also. Enjoy the photos........

My son Christian joined me to one of the streams, he have not started with flyfishing yet, but he do baitfishing with worms. And he landed several nice trouts, even before I got my gear rigged :-)

This post became a lot bigger then I thought it would be, I love photographs as well as nature and rivers, and I added much more pics then I was thinking in the first place. It gives you all a scope of our nature and fishing-opportunities here in the the west of Norway. We have a really long winther, but the summer is just fantastic...

Chris <;))><

GREAT DENMARK

I just want to add a little post from our trip to Denmark and Sweden.

Denmark is a country that I have had the pleasure to visit many times, and like my other visits there, this trip was also great.

As opposed to the Norwegian mountains and fjords, Denmark is flat as a pancake, almost the whole coastline is a giant beach. It is a beautiful country.

Norwegian people are quite introverted, prejudiced, conservative, and bounded by traditions, in Denmark the population are almost the opposite. Danish people are very open, relaxed, hospitable and international. There is many good things that I like about Denmark.

This trip was a holiday with my wife and children, not a fishingtrip. But when I am travelling I always bring some gear with me, you never know, suddenly there will be a opportunitie.

After spending almost a week at the westcoast of Denmark we visited some friends of us, who have a nice house in a small township 15 minutes drive from Copenhagen city. We stayed with them for two days, then early the second morning I got the opportunitie, gripped my gear and went for a little trip.

A five minutes drive away there is a beautiful lake surrounded by moisture wood and white cliffs. And the colour of the water is like turquoise.

The area is also home for a lot of snakes (european vipers, venomous, but not very strong venom ,only uncommon cases are potentially fatal). I did not meet any reptile this morning.

The lakes name is Karlstrup lake and it have a lot of fish, many different freshwater species and imported Rainbow Trout.

To fish in this lake we have to buy a fishing-licence, and it cost 120 DKK to fish there one day, and there is a bag-limit. The lake is under strictly supervision by the local angling club, and that is really necessary, if not the environment could easily be damaged. The local angling club is doing a very fine job here.

I rigged my Burkheimer 790, my Orvis Battenkill Large Arbour with a Scientific Anglers Intermediate Striper taper line and started to fish with different streamers and gold head nymphs.

After one hour of fishing I had only hooked one fish (quite big one to), and lost it immediately. Now I could see trouts starting to take insects on the surface.

Then it was time to rigg my Coho #4 rod, Lamson reel with Scientific Anglers GPX line and start dryfly fishing. Started with a great dryfly, a Europea 12. This is a fly designed by the famous swedish writer, pioneer, flyfisher and flytier Lennart Bergquist, which I have had the pleasure to meet several times, he once thaught me to tie the fly. Europea 12 have been the best dryflypattern in Sweden for many years. The pattern have always given me brownies when I have tried it in streams and lakes in Norway, and the fly also worked perfect in Denmark!

I will also add that Lennart have designed many, many patterns, especially dryflypatterns and many of them are famous fishkillers worldwide.

I did not need many cast before I had hooked my first Rainbow, and the next hour I got several fishes. Lost the biggest ones of course, the ones that I landed was small ones, about 0,5 lbs. Released them of course. But it was really great, I could see the trouts rise from the bottom and take the fly, fantastic!

Well, I had a great morning at the lake, weather was fantastic, sunny with 25-30 centigrade.

Satisfied I drove back for a late breakfast and other activities with my family and friends.


Among other adventures we visited a big oak forest just outside Copenhagen city, and that was amazing. We watched houndreds of Deers and Fallow Deers, many of them real tame. We even observed white Fallow Deers, and that is uncommon.

We spent the last two days of our holiday in Sweden, a beautiful country with a fantastic coastline. Now we are back in Aurland and we have 10 days left of our holiday that we will use for swimming, fishing trips and more summerfun.

Have posted some photos from Denmark and my fishing (small fishes, anyway...).

Chris <:))><

SEATROUT TIME

It is not easy to take photos of moving fish in a hard stream with a ordinary camera, I tried and as a thaugt the pics did not became very good.

But I had to post them anyway:-)

Me and my family having a stop for the weekend at my father in law s house in Aurland, on hour way to Denmark and Sweden, then of course I have to check the river when I am here, to see if the Seatrout is on its way up the river. And it was! Where the mainroad between Bergen and Oslo is crossing the river, there is a bridge which is a good place to spot the fish. I do visit this bridge everyday when I am in Aurland.

This Saturday I spotted 4 big fish and Sunday there was 5 nice Seatrouts and a Salmon, all of them about 10 - 14 lbs! Beautiful, the Seatrout have started on its journey up the walley.

Seatrout have so beautiful colours, it really is my favourite fish and I am looking foreward to using my Burkheimers here in a few weeks from now. Hope that you will enjoy the pics, even though the quality is not to good.

Keep in mind that in this river there is every season landed 20 - 22 lbs Seatrout, it is one of 4-5 rivers in Norway with giant Seatrout.

This is where my father in law who is a great flyfisher thaught me flycasting 13 years ago, the river is crystal clear and it is my favourite!

PS: The fish on the lowest photo is a Salmon!

Chris <:))><

SALMON AT "NAMSEN"

Yesterday I arrived from a great trip to the river "Namsen" .This year was the fifth time me and my fishingbuddys visit this river, and the conditions was good when we arrived.

After two days the temperature starting to get really high, and the river sunk about 40 centimeters, the watertemperature was suddenly over 15-16 degrees centigrade.

Then the conditions was not so good!

We observed a lot of fish on its way up the river and I got 3 salmons, not the biggest ones but great fishes after all.

The Salmons weight was 3 lbs, 5 lbs and 11 lbs, I was satisfied with that. The only stupid thing was that the other guys did not get any catch, we are a group of 7 fishers and it had been nice if everyone got a Salmon.

The river "Namsen" is called "the queen of the Norwegian rivers", and the total weight in catches of Salmon and Seatrout each season is 30000- 40000 kg!

I hooked all my Salmon on a tubefly variant that I tied myself, it consists of green, grey and brown Foxtail and Temple Dog, green/yellow Hen hackle, Teal, grey Heron hackle, Jungle Cock, green and silver Angel hair/Lite Brite, a 3/4" - 1/1/2" tube with silver cone head, holographic silver and a silver rib/Veniard no. 14. This is about what I use to make the fly, of course I ty the fly in different sizes and proportions.

And the most important on the fly is good hooks, I have said it before, I love Owner and Owner tubefly hooks is just the best. Fantastic hooks!

My Fenwick 15" doublehanded rod with Bringsen Black Shadow Salmon reel and a Rio Classic DT Speyline #11, was superb gear to fight the fish with.

I also used another rod/reel this time, a Redington 13", Scientific Anglers Mastery Salmon reel and Guideline Power Taper lines, good fishing gear.

Like the other years we also fished in a smaller river which is connected to "Namsen", the river "Sandoela", a fantastic river, have posted some photos from that river as well. We did not get any fish here this time.

From Bergen where I live it is a 13 hour drive to "Namsen", approximately 900 kilometers each way.

I bought a new car i March, a Toyota Rav4, and now I had the chance to test the automobile. We drove about 2000 kilometers in 6 days, the car accomplished the test very well, with a lot of offroad driving as well.

It have been a good trip for me with the 3 Salmons, now the next big adventure is Seatroutfishing in the "Aurland river" in August.

Have posted some photos here, hope that you all will enjoy them.

Best regards

Chris <;))><