Simon Andersen – Sea trout release

Michael releasing a sea trout

Simon Andersen – Glomma

Michael flyfishing for greyling in Glomma

Simon Andersen – Kysing Næs

Michael battling with a sea trout at Kysing Næs

Lars Matthiessen Brown trout 1,33 kg

Hardangervidda 21/7-26/7 2009

My first trip to Hardangervidda which is the largest national park in Norway. We were a group of 10 people of whom I only knew one beforehand. That was Inge who I met in Los Roques in January earlier this year. Hardangervidda is a high mountain area where you are not allowed to use any kind of motor, so trekking is the way to move around. After a three hour car trip from Oslo we went on a 45 minutes boat trip and we could start walking to our destination.

Inge - also known as Dr. Rasmussen – in his out of the ordinary trekking suit, not like most Norwegians.

 

The area has some fantastic views, here you can see an ice cap in the background. The group was a very mixed bag as there was an evenly distribution of the sexes in contradiction to the normal fishing trips, which was nice and a mix of four nationalities.

 

The Flamish twins – Agusta from the Netherlands and Afge from Belgium

We started walking uphill first in a forest and later we ascended above the tree border to the plateau. As I am not used to trek I have say that after 5 hours of walking in rough terrain with a 23 kg back pack I was worn. I think everyone else felt the same. The first night we stayed in a hut Lagarås 30 minutes from our final destination. Next mourning we walked the last part and put up our camp close to a hut of stone with an oven inside which should prove very useful as the weather was quite cold and wet most of the time.

Our main fishing spot was located a mile from our camp and was a very nice stream between two lakes. The stream was with some heavy current and then 5 -6 pools. Places where the streams enters and leaves the lakes should be hot spots especially in the evenings but we did not see or catch anything in these places, why I can not figure out. Further away we could fish another stream between lakes but this was a typically dry fly stream and unfortunately the weather conditions were not for the dry fly as no insects hatched except for a few short periods of times.

 

We caught quite a lot of fish, but most were very small in the 20 – 25 cm range.

 

A days catch – many small fish but very nice for the frying pan.

 

There were also bigger fish and my very first fish – the only one on the first day- proved to be the largest on the trip. It was a very nice 1.33 kg (Morten brought a digital scale) app. 48 cm brown trout taken on a black woolly bugger with rubber legs.

I am too big (195 cm) for fishing pictures, they always look small. Or I simply do not catch big enough fish

 

On day two Morten got this 900 gram trout. Morten is a convinced spinning fisher, but I think that he will admit that on this trip the fly was more efficient than the lure.

 

A 41 cm 800 grams brown trout in the net. As most fish it was taken on a streaking caddis. It was fish number 19 on an evening trip to the stream where all the first 18 were small fish.

Some of the bigger fish were graved and that was very delicious.

 

Others were pan fried – also a delicacy

 

The last day we could fish with dry flies and Klinkhammer proved the be the pattern of the day as many other times. Inge celebrated the dry fly day by wearing this special bow tie! When do Simms come up with something like that in Goretex?

Morten, Inge and I were the experienced fishermen in the group but everyone wanted to try fishing and everyone actually caught several trouts so in that respect it was a success. The weather could have been nicer to us especially to the dry fly fishers but we all had a great trip despite or because of the hard work we had to put into the trekking so maybe next year we will come back and get the really big ones.

Rasmus Gade og Bo Rasmussen Summer sea trouts

The guys from gofishsilver had a good summer trip to the coast

Hirtshals 27/6-2009

An overnight trip in pontoon boats with Henrik, Bjarne and Klaus at Hirtshals. As this is in the North sea, the weather conditions are crucial. We needed wind from east for several days and we got it. We were going for sea bass which to all of us is a first – some had caught sea bass before but only as a lucky punch while fishing for sea trout.

We started at noon and after a few hours Klaus got his first ever and the first on this trip – a fish just above the minimum size (38 cm).

After a pizza break we went for the evening fishing which is supposed to be the peak time. We did not see any sea bass hunting but despite many garfish interrupting we landed two bass. I got what turned out to be the largest bass on the trip a 47 cm fish.

We had a fantastic sunset and saw 3 sea trouts jump out of the water all very good sized but no one made any contact with them.

Bjarne landed this nice flounder which grabbed his minnow imitation!

In the mourning Henrik got two more basses – one around 40 cm and one too small. We also got some greater weevers at good sizes and more garfish. The trip was a succes as we got what we came for and some more, but we would like to come back another time and maybe cast to junting sea bass – that could be great fun

Ballehage 22/6-2009

An evening pontoon boat trip with Michael. We wanted to try a new spot so we entered the water at the kayak club. The  weather was beautiful so there were many people and many kayaks. Most of the people had never seen a pontoon boat before so we received many big smiles and laughs. One of the kayak rowers was so curious that he kept turning his head while rowing until he tipped over into the water – then I was smiling and laughing.

I got three very small trouts and Michael got one sea trout above the minimum size so the new spot payed off, though next time we will try another spot nearby.

Stavrehoved 13/6-09

A night trip wade fishing on the eastern coast of Fyn with Thomas. This was my first visit to this spot and it was very nice. We saw many deers, hares, a fox and many porpoises, and the bottom is filled with big rocks – good for sea trout but bad for wading. We started at 23.00 and fished until 02.00. The we had a break an hour an continued until 8.00 with several breaks. We heard several fish splashing in the water but too far away the first hours and actually we also had two within casting range – you know 50 meter

At 01.40 I got this small but well conditioned trout (43 cm – 975 gram). It really gave a terrific fight for its size. I think this was my first sea trout caught at night. I used a luminous pearl in front of the fly, I have done that before without any success so I will not jump to any conclusions from this.

The sunrise was beautiful but without any sleep in the night it can be difficult to appreciate it. Thomas litterally fell asleep in the midlle of a sentence – and he did it several times.

Gudenaaen – Åstedbro 7/6-09

A short trip to Gudenaaen hoping for some dry fly action.

From the start I could see that the sea gulls were having a ball eating mayflies, so I did not have to worry about the hatching.

Close up photo from the main character of the day. Like last time I was here there were mayflies but not much action at the surface. Though this time I actually spotted a few fish that occasionally feeded at the surface. I got two of the fish – both brown trouts, one around 25 cm and one at 34-35 cm. Both were released as I always do in the streams in Denmark as the fishing pressure is too big in relation to the number of fish in the streams.