Norway - Top ten

[Peter Terndrup]

Here you can see the ten biggest salmon from Norway so far this year. Unfortunally most of the fish are killed.

www.nettavisen.no/friluftsliv/article1105464.ece

[splash]

terndrup said:

Here you can see the ten biggest salmon from Norway so far this year. Unfortunally most of the fish are killed.

www.nettavisen.no/friluftsliv/article1105464.ece

Some big fish, not speaking Norwegian it would seem that all of them bar one were caught spinning?

[charlieh]

splash said:

Some big fish, not speaking Norwegian it would seem that all of them bar one were caught spinning?

Yes, looks that way. My few words of Norwegian are very rusty, but as I recall Sluk = spo0n, Mark = worm, Reke = prawn and Wobbler = er, wobbler (probably Rapala-type, but maybe other plugs such as Kynochs).

On a related point, I was surprised to see that only 3 of the top 10 fish from the Gaula were taken on fly. www.gaula.no/topp10.asp

Yet the Gaula's reputation is as a much more fly-friendly river than the Vosso, for example, which (as discussed in a recent thread), also achieved 30% on fly even in the days before modern fly tackle.

So is the Gaula over-sold as a fly river, or do the beats one tends to hear about only represent a small proportion of the total catch? And if the latter, are there less well-known parts that are equally suited to fly but which tend to be fished with other methods, for whatever reason? Or are the well-known bits much better suited to fly than the rest of the river?

[Lohi]

charlieh said:

splash said:

Some big fish, not speaking Norwegian it would seem that all of them bar one were caught spinning?

...Yet the Gaula's reputation is as a much more fly-friendly river than the Vosso, for example, which (as discussed in a recent thread), also achieved 30% on fly even in the days before modern fly tackle.

So is the Gaula over-sold as a fly river, or do the beats one tends to hear about only represent a small proportion of the total catch? And if the latter, are there less well-known parts that are equally suited to fly but which tend to be fished with other methods, for whatever reason? Or are the well-known bits much better suited to fly than the rest of the river?

Hi guys, I've been fishing Gaula for the past ten years, and fly only. One has to keep in mind, that the big fish come in early, when there is a lot of water in the river, thus the spinning and worming are the most used methods on the lower parts of the river, by the local fishermen, and thus the biggest fish are annually caught using these methods. However, I dare claim that most of the fish annually are taken by fly. No statistics to prove this, and I may be even wrong, but it is a superb fly fishing river anyway.

[Peter Terndrup]

Hi;

I did just take a look on the Gaula.no website.

Total there is reportet 1556 fish in, and 610 of these are caught on fly.

[Lohi]

One should however look the season as a whole, this season is just in the turnpoint, the grilse about to coming in, and the fishing focusing on the upper beats, better suited for fly fishing. Can you see the earlier years total catches and their distribution between fly/other?

[Peter Terndrup]

I did take a look on the last three years.

2006 was the total catch 6689, and 3476 was on fly.

2005 was the total catch 6151, and 2572 was on fly.

2004 was the total catch 3540, and 1978 was on fly.

These numbers are whats reportet to the gaula.no website.

[Lohi]

Ok, thaks for the info. I would have expected more fish to be taken on a fly, but it seems to be about fifty-fifty, varying from year to year. One might even think that from those fish that are not reported, more than half would be taken on other than fly? The fish taken by sluk and mark are also usually bigger on average...

[salmoncane]

Is the Gaula.no website offered in English? Most Norwegion sites offer this option, but I saw nothing on the gaula site for English language. Keith

[stu47]

A 26 kilo salmon taken on fly in Alta

www.finnmarkdagblad.no/nyheter/article2895533.ece