RIVER DREAMS

During the hours I spend at work in this cold wintermonths I often let my head float away in flyfishing throught the summer under a perfect cloudy sky and great conditions for riverfishing. This is what ends the year for me, flyfishing rivers and freshwater for salmon, trout and char. This is what I call beeing adjusted, recreated and new, ready for autumn and winter.

Seatrout of this size is hard to find and catch. Many hours waiting for the right conditions and searching for activity in the water can often be quite giving.

This is me posing with a 7,6kg seatrout cought in the dusk on a dark fly based only on the silhouette against the sky with an intermidiete tippet shootinghead, only a few centimeters under the surface and the fish took the fly close to the riverbank. This kind of successful fishing can keep me warm just thinking about it during the winter.

This seatrout I believe is the biggest one cought in the river of Saltdal last season and the angler is Åge Kråkmo. An hardcore flyfisher with the great ability of adapting his fishing to almost every condition you can get in the river. The fish with it`s 8,9kg, about 18lbs took the fly in broad daylight. check out the tail, it seems like the fish has been in a fight a some time during its time in the sea, Maybe a seal has been chasing it. This angler is also an expert with wolffish, I guess he would have the WR in big wolffish cought from the shore, and he has several times measured strenght with the awesome halibuts in the fjord of skjerstad and the waters outside of Bodoe.

Today we have another period of cold weather that wont allow me to fish as much and effiecent as I like to do, but that would give me some time to plan the redecorating and rebuilding of our livingrom and bedroom. Carpenting is great but I hate painting so planning the whole operation will take some time, I`ll think about that when my head is not on and about fishing.