River Bjerkreim,Norway

[castelforte]

Stu,

Any news on the Bjerkreim this week. Did you get an invasion of grilse or was it just the Danes.

How are the levels after all this rain?

CF

[stu47]

Castelforte,no news this week,i have been in Cyprus,I see on the website there has been some rain so will give it a bash tomorrow

[castelforte]

Stu,

I ended up driving down last night for a couple of hours. Very heavy rains at times and highish water. There were some despondent faces in Sone 3 around Vinningland.

I heard last week fishing was good around Gjedrem. A few Scots were over waving their Ally's Shrimps and doing quite well by all accounts.

I get the feeling that it has not been a great season compared to previous years and we have had plenty of water this year.

If I get down this week I might try a sunk line and some big tubes.

CF

[stu47]

Unfortunatly the season ends at midnight tonight,went out for a last chuck after work,there were a few fish still on the move,the river was still high though after it had risen about a metre on sunday.Got one fish today of around 5 kilos,coloured hen fish returned,it took a templedog conehead i made the other night just for the last day,did the trick nicely

[stu47]

Couple of pics of the fly,i wanted something with a bit of movement and colour as the river in the weekend had picked up[ a bit of colour,which is a bit unusual,even high it runs clear

must remember the dressing

[stu47]

Few more pics of the river just below sone 3,the best stretch for the fly on the whole river,fishes well on all levels,i took these a few days after a spate,still upa little but running of nicely, and full of fish

[stu47]

Seems the season was a little better than most people expected with a total for the whole river,that is Bjerkreim,Fotlands and Tengs,of 11,179kg,which is only about a 1000kg less than last year