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Well I live in Mandal (Norway

Well I live in Mandal (Norway's most southerly town), and work in Kyrkjebydga, Åseral which is the village at the end of that lake you described which is called Ørevatn. I've fished this lake a few times but only have caught small ones due to the over population in the lake.

Better places are in the two rivers that flow into the lake and in the mountain lakes of Ljosland. In the rivers I've caught brownies of 2.3kg and 2.6kg but have seen bigger and in Ljosland upto 1kg both brownies and brookies, though there are fish much much bigger up there including big arctic char. I'm very well known in this area, and it's one of the best areas for fishing I know.

Eikerapen is where I go skiing and regularly collect patients that have either concussion or factures!

As regards moose or 'elg', well there's loads of them. My brother-in-law wrote-off his car two days ago due to hitting a moose, which just missed his head whilst it procceded to go through the car!

@ostsee-silber

hello Mirko,

my reply was long ago and obtained to the GFO summit last year.
At the moment there is no need for searching a driving partner, but that does not mean,
that I'm not interested in finding some new fishing partners.

Maybe we can find together on some upcoming trips, but not to Fehmarn!
My hole yourney from frankfurt is long and in most times I accept two hours more for driving directly to fyn or als.

For the next time no bigger trip is planned, because I'm having less private time.
I think my first trip to the north will be about eastern and till then I will be lucky when I catch some good pikes or something else in my local rivers Main and Kinzig.
If you are interested in sharing my next trip, yust let me know and I will contact you.

Tight lines
Florian

Excellent picture. I

Excellent picture. I love the reflection in the silver reel pin.

Ripley

Hi Wiggy,

Hi Wiggy,

where "up in the mountains" do you live? Maybe i have been there :?:

My last stand for Mandal FF was in Eikerapen, a ski camp. There is a very big lake and i catched a lot of good brownies near the Skjerka electricity. Its fine to have a belly boat on this lake.
But be careful while evening driving, there are a lot of elks coming to drink :o

There's big pike around

There's big pike around Grimstad. This summer there was caught a new unconfirmed record pike of 18kg from Rorevatnet. This is quite a popular place for pike FF and it's stuffed full of pike!

As regards arctic char in that area, well I've no idea. I'm best known in this area of Norway and up in the mountains where I work.

@Ostsee-Silber: YEAH !

@Ostsee-Silber: YEAH ! Kvitsøyfjorden is my Favorit Place LOL!!! and Kvernevik 😄

@Dada: ABANT is near City "BOLU" is far 100 km from Ankara. Antalya between Ankara 300 km. I can give you more informations, you need only a #7/8 class Rod and you can catch every fish in Turkey. There is sooo many places :)
What kind of fishes are u interrested? tell me so i can give you more details and direction :idea:

Envy, envy,

I envy you guys in several ways:

- I didn't catch my first fish this year yet. Haven't even fished actually...
- I've rarely seen such huge bones. Dare I ask where they were caught? Hawaii?
- I wish I had sunfish and bluegill in my back yard. I'd be out there every day with a small rod.

Happy new year!

Martin

Hi again keld.
I wa

Hi again keld.
I was just thinking about the shutter/exposuretime does it mean 1/53 of a second?
i think my eos 350 would have made a rather dark picture with the iso at 80?
Or am i missing something?
/Allan

Hi Allan.

Thanks

Hi Allan.

Thanks for the nice words !

The picture was taken on a cloudy day, that's why the colours are so natural, and almost no shadows appeared.

Keld

great picture keld.

great picture keld.
Beautifull colors.

was there a lot of light the day the photo was taken?

regards Allan

Coch-y-Bonddu

D Marson,

The book is available from the Paul Morgan's Welsh bookstore Coch-y-Bonddu. There are currently several copies available from about 25-30.- UK£

Martin

first fish of 2007

My first fish of the year was a handsome male Bluegill taken on a soft hackle. I can't imagine a better fly for sunfish. My second was a Largemouth Bass.

Unable to find a copy in the UK

Great reading, This is a book i have been after for along time,and after reading this article makes more determend to get a copy, but so far been unable to find a copy in the uk, CAN YOU HELP. I know it was reprinted in 1986 by Charles Bllack.d

Carp.

Hello there,
in our country carp is fish number one, so they introduce this fish too much to our rivers and lakes! They are everywhere! But its still not to easy to get them on fly, like Esox wrote: Messy, dirty small nymphs, very small streamers and buzzers. In rivers we fish for them with short nymph and its luck to catch them somewherein a school and fight im streams is very hard! But in still watters or slow parts of rivers a lot of guyes here fish for them nearly like for a rainbows!!! And there is picture form czech tiyer and he named this fly somethink like a carp killer.......

Amazing.,..

When I posted this topic, I was just hoping that Ill find somebody who has beeen there or who is from there!!!! Thanks you very much, Feridun!!!! Could you tell me more? Or send some pictures? Bacause Iam any information will be great! Or you ll go with us 😄 ! So could you tell me more about Abant lake??Is there safe? How far is it from Antalia or Ankara? Thank you so much!!
Best regards Dalibor

I posted on the flyforums

I posted on the flyforums regarding this trip, but no reply........

Hopefully I can get over and get distantstreams to steer me towards the monsters 😄

Hallo Florian,

Hallo Florian,

i cannot help with your trip, but when you want to go to fehmarn...

Hej Feridun,

Hej Feridun,

did you tried for seatrout on Kvitsoy?

That would be nice, thank you

That would be nice, thank you!

My biggest trout from norway was 3 kilo, catched 2003 on the isle Bømlo at the west coast. The boat was for repair so I had to use a spinning rod - sorry :oops:

The best "pattern" was a Mepps, again sorry for the ugly ugly, but it worked well :twisted: Maybe somebody have an idea to tie this colours into a trout streamer?

Wiggy, I heared from some arctic char at the region Birkeland, Arendal, but nothing special yet. Pike and perch too, I must try it out.

...something like that...?...

...something like that...?...

I dont have golden pearls, but some different brown. Instead of the poly material i used saltwater yak hair in this fly. Trying again 😉

My killer perch fly is:-

My killer perch fly is:-

Thread - Black
Tail - Pink Marabou
Body - black cactus chenille
Eye - Silver chain

As simple as that. Catches me perch in bucket loads!

Great fly, though I'm

Great fly, though I'm wondering if I could get permission from yourself to change the silver/transparent beads for gold transparent beads, it would represent a small brownie perfectly.

Back to the tying table........

Nice raggie, I use the same

Nice raggie, I use the same prinicpal for lugs, but just use olive instead of orange, and obviously make it a bit fatter.

Haven't caught anything on it yet, but the arrival of a new daughter during the lug swimming season maybe had something to do with it 🙄

Yeah, sounds like a good plan

Yeah, sounds like a good plan.

And if you're down this way, drop me a line and I can guide you to the big one's 😄

So have you had any big ones recently. I've had loads of 500g and the biggest around 1.3kg. There was a 3kg sea trout caught about an hour after I had fished the same place, typical!