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This year I'm starting a

This year I'm starting a guiding service, so if you would like any guiding let me know.

During the winter I SWFF mostly sea trout and cod, then in the spring it's trout in the lowland and as it warms up I start fishing in the mountains. The obviously salmon fishing during the season. I'm lucky ebough to be married to a norweigan girl who's family owns some of the Mandalselva, so I fish for free!

If you like trout, I can recommend you have a day with me. I've discovered some lakes where the average size is roughly 1kg and upto 2-3kg both brown trout and brook trout. The biggest that was caught this year in a net was 7kg! and that's a brownie.

Otherwise I'm currently finding out about the arctic char in the area.

As regards the SWFF, cod fishing is best during the winter/spring. Now the sea is full of them, almost a hassle as they take the fly before the sea trout do!

I'm not really well known in Tovdalselva, but from Søgne to lindesnes, I'm very well known.

If you want anymore tips, just ask.

Hi Wiggy,

Hi Wiggy,

mange takk for your answering!

An englishman living in Mandal - lucky you! I am every year fishing the last three weeks of the season at mandal, mostly zone 4. But 2006 all of the catched brownies and small salmons had parasites, nematodes. My wife don’t like it…
At this year I will try in june the Tovdalselva near Arendal. There are a lot of very nice waters for brownies too in the region Birkeland, maybe you know a good water for pike there?

For saltwater I have tried the most of your flies, the white wooley buggers catched some nice pollacks and seatrouts, but when the water was clear and still I only had luck with the orange-yellows.

A dark black wooley bugger brought me a lot of fine cods at the beach of Spangereid and at the Lindesnes Fyr, it worked very well at the evening on a floating line. But the last two years I didn't catch any cod there, maybe too much fishing?

I saw a lot of people while beachfishing at Spangereid with worms and pieces of herring, there cannot be many fish anymore! :(

Hei Wiggy :D I`m from

Hei Wiggy 😄 I`m from Stavanger. You from Mandal? very nice place!
If you are here or near Stavanger you can call me and we can go to the seatrouts :idea:

Tight Lines

Great picture! Look

Great picture! Looks like a Dutch master's painting.

Hi Sarunas,
Sent yo

Hi Sarunas,
Sent you an email.
Ripley.

Action, rough weathe

Action, rough weather, and fishing. Yes sir, this is 5.

Vive la peche! Alway

Vive la peche! Always use a tripod when shooting w/ a slow shutterspeed. A little boring. I'd say about 2.

Lovely flies

Lovely flies, your right though your having trouble with folded wings (Mallard & Claret)
LOL
Tight Lines

In what river this p

In what river this photo was taken,Ripley?

Nice flies Hans, I too have

Nice flies Hans, I too have gone away from the detached body styled daddies to a tied in body as after a few fish, I need to tie on a new fly! And boy these norwegian fish go mad for daddies.......so that alot of tying to do......

Hi, nice flies and they

Hi, nice flies and they should work well for Norwegian SWFF. But to be honest, I've found white and charteuse flies, wolly buggers, various shrimp flies and a few black muddlers will cover pretty much all of your needs.

The white and charteuse covers the herring/sardines
Wolly Buggers cover lug and ragworms
Shrimps obviously shrimps
and black muddlers can't be beaten at night worked on a floating line.

I use a floater at night and intermediate and lead sinker during the day. This will cover all of your SWFF needs in Norway :P

Feridun, whereabouts in

Feridun, whereabouts in Norway are you living?

What a great fly! I

What a great fly! I guide at a brook trout lake in Labrador. It has monster pike along with huge brookies. Been tying deer hair poppers all along. Very time consuming. Definitely going to give some of these a plop or two this coming season. (The brookies will likely hit them more than the pike! )

Thanks Martin

Thanks, Martin. The other files were too big to post. DOH!!!

The Carp was my first one on a new rod I had picked up a few days before. It was a 7 foot 8 inch Sage four weight. I was just trying it out on the big Shellcrackers in the Shennandoah River and I saw the Carp lolling under a huge log. I had the nymph on and threw it above the fish a few times until if got right under it's nose. It glided over sucked it up. The fish fought for one hour and fifteen minutes. A man and his son watched the whole thing. They thought that I was fighting a huge Brown Trout. The man offered to take my picture. When I went in to revive the fish he exploded from my hands and swam out to a school of tailing Carp and commenced feeding like nothing had happened. There were twenty pound Carp in the school but I had to meet my wife about thirty minutes before so I left. Since then I have returned to the same spot with similar luck.

Speaking of luck, I am off to the National Park to try my new Ross on some Brook Trout. I'll let you know how it goes.

Trying again to post a pic of

Bob,

It seemed to work this time around. And what a nice fish!

Martin

Trying again to post a pic of

Trying again to post a pic of my Carp.

Ripley,

Thanks fo

Ripley,

Thanks for this, just wonderful. Don't let them spoil it.

Les Austin

Hello Dada, I`m from Turkey

Hello Dada, I`m from Turkey and living in Norway now. :)
There is a lot of beautiful places in Turkey for FlyFishing. An example Blacksea Coasts (Karadeniz) you can catch Seatrouts. In West Turkey Aegean Sea; between Bodrum and Selcuk there is big rivers for trouts.
My Favorit place is the "Abant Lake" between Bolu and Düzce called 7 Rivers-Trouts-Paradise !
Here, I found a page for you, A to Z Fish types of saltwater and freshwater in Turkey.

http://www.oltaciatlas.com

If I might be so bol

If I might be so bold as to correct you on your knots. Your first leader to fly-line knot is in fact a needle knot. So called because a needle is used to first penetrate the end of the flyline. Your second knot is in fact a nail knot as a nail is used to take the wraps of nylon. The nail is then gently removed, the tag end is pushed through and the knot tightened. The nail can be used for both knots.

Help, Martin! I can't post

Help, Martin! I can't post pictures!

I have attached pictures

I have attached pictures before. I know I can do it.

Maybe I got it right this

Maybe I got it right this time.

I had a lot of tough times

I had a lot of tough times trying to figure Carp out. The best success that I have had is like this. I tie a ratty looking reddish, brownish, orangeish nymph and I weight it well. I use a long hook. Maybe 3X or longer in a size #10. I wrap .035 lead free round wire from just over the point of the hook to about an eigth of an inch from the eye to leave space for a head. I wrap over a thin layer of super glue to hold the wire from spinning. Tie on a few fibers of anything for a tail and dub something really fuzzy and light brown or orange for a body. Finish the head with some kind of light softish hen hackle of varying lengths and give it a try. There are so many things that Carp eat that live on the bottom that getting anal about tying immitations is a waste of time for me. Cast well upstream of the fish and let the fly float down and under them. Twitch it along like a big nymph struggling along in life and if they see it they will suck it up. Look at how excited I was in this picture. I peed my pants. I caught this 28 inch, fourteen pound Carp on a messy little barbless fly like the one I described.

thanks for the insight. the

thanks for the insight. the river i fish is about 40ft across at most and is usually slow flowing and relativey clear, the carp can be extremely spooky and the other day i had to drift a run full of large fish for over an hour before oi got one two pounder. it was a test of endurance and patience that no other kind of fish has been able to give me. im beggining to think that the really big ones only bitea fly under almost perfect conditions with a perfect drift.