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Post by deesider on Jun 19, 2007 22:23:49 GMT
Does anyone have any recent reports from the Vosso? I know it was in severe decline in the 1980s and there was suspension of fishing but has it opened again? Also, did it ever get the parasite Gyrodactylus Salaris?
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Post by tynetraveller on Jun 20, 2007 8:57:35 GMT
Hi there, I am not certain about Gyrodactilus, I am sure though that the River is effectively dead as a Salmon river..I was fishing a few weeks ago with a guy who held the lease on one of the bottom beats and he still receives the river status reports every year. There are very few salmon at all, and most of those are escaped farmers. I think illegal netting in the Fjord and salmon farming took out the wild salmon stocks.
Cheers, Simon
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Post by castlikeaghille on Jun 20, 2007 9:35:00 GMT
Hi there, I am not certain about Gyrodactilus, I am sure though that the River is effectively dead as a Salmon river..I was fishing a few weeks ago with a guy who held the lease on one of the bottom beats and he still receives the river status reports every year. There are very few salmon at all, and most of those are escaped farmers. I think illegal netting in the Fjord and salmon farming took out the wild salmon stocks. Cheers, Simon As a schoolboy, Oglesby's accounts of fishing for monster salmon on the Vosso captured my imagination. So I am sorry to read your report; what a waste  CLaG |
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Post by tynetraveller on Jun 20, 2007 10:31:58 GMT
It was a great river- The average weight in June was 25lbs. As you say, a terrible loss.
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Post by charlieh on Jun 20, 2007 10:39:48 GMT
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Post by macd on Jun 20, 2007 13:28:11 GMT
Excellent report Charlie
I have read the accounts of the Vosso, but also have a gem of a book called Salmon Stories by Jack Chance.
In it he states that during the ‘great years’ only the Bolstad/Vosso could rival the mighty Alta in the north. So it was certainly up there in its day.
Jack Chances book has a section dedicated to CM Wells which I thought worth sharing.
“Wells fished it in June-July and sometimes August from 1920 to 1939 and from 1946-1950. In a period of 207 weeks, fishing two rods, he and his guests killed 1,496 salmon weighing 40,896lbs, at an average weight of 27.3lbs. Wells’ personal record is of such interest, in that he killed every weight from 20-58lbs, missing only 55lbs,…”
The book shows a table of his catches and notes that he didnt bother to record details of any fish under 20lbs. In it there are 12 over 50lbs (59lbs the biggest). But Well’s guests did take fish over 60lbs; a Major WHS Alston, had salmon of 60,61 and 63lbs.
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