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Oland shrimp variation

And this is my last shrimp pattern. On las trip to Denmark this fly caught some trouts. I will test it soon again.

Hi Stefan,

Hi Stefan,

When to go is a personal opinion. As for me, I would go during the first week of September. By then there still is a fair chance of nice weather, which can be totally different at the end of September. (Last September 15th we woke up with about 10 cm of snow around the caravan. This is rather exceptional, but it happens every now and then) Back to the first week of September: most of the time the waterlevel in the river is low during that period and under these cirucumstances fish is fairly easy to approach.

Where to go is a personal thing as well. The fishing in the Koppang area is great and there is no real reason to assume, that the fishing is better at Kvennan camping. Only, like I already wrote, the landscape is different and I do have a preference for the Koppang area.

How to come there is another thing. I would recommend to have a look at the fares of cheap airlines like Sterling air. On top of that, I would rent a car. Regarding distances in Norway a car does make you much more flexible in your fishing. Suppose it rains, the river is too high for the right fishing and you blocked yourself in your campingcabin because there is no transport available for alternative fishingspots like small rivers and lakes in the area? Right, you will sleep for one day to forget about the stressy live in your country. But that was not the reason for travelling to Norway, was it? So, have a look at the site of Avis or Rent-a-wreck. (no joking, this company really excists)

I would suggest: call Edward Scholten at Koppang camping 004762460234. Ask him about the local fishing, nice spots and ofcourse a camping cabin. And do not forget to ask him why you should come to his camping for fishing. If you do not like the answers, call the other camping you mentioned and ask the same questions..........

Kind regards,

Vassenden

Vassenden,

Vassenden,
thanks for your reply. ... and nice graylings on the pic.
What would you say is the better time for my trip, mid August or mid September?
I'm still not sure what is best for me - Kvennan or Koppang. I'll first fix the flight to Oslo and decide later.
Regards,
Stefan

I live in Iowa - USA

I live in Iowa - USA
I FlyFish local ponds for Blue Gill and Bass - This is going to be a killer for both !!
Thanks Jan

Just starting fly fi

Just starting fly fishing and I would like to say I will use your site to learn how to tie my own fly may be some time you will put small vidio clips on to help fly tying thanks

Se trout open

Hi, thanks for message. Yes, I know it but I will personally not take part in this competition. We planed our trip after our last trip to SouthJutland in March and after that I found Sea trout opened. We were on Fyn during two Sea trout openes and once one member of our group took nine place. So we will see.
Thanks for your advice, we will try some new spots and be very mobile. We will stay on Healnaes camp as usually. I know you live very close to one of our favorite spots.
But we will also take a load of czech beer, some sausages, Jameson bottles and we will make perfect holiday on very beautiful island of Fyn. You are welcomed.
Regards

Ole,my point of view

Ole,my point of view is as follows:
when I'm travelling to a foreign country to flyfish, I try to be polite to the people I meet and try to adapt to the given fishing etiquettes,just in case I wanna come back.
In the matter of Kola there must be a legal way of obtaining a license,otherwise there would arise problems with the authorities on every guided trip some travel agencies offer.
I'm not judging your political system at all...

Rolandas,nevertheless I really appreciate sharing your experience,
thight lines!

F versus I

Hi Pike,

Good luck.

The main Sea Trout Open Competition starts on Friday to Sunday.

I'm not sure if your entering..?

But...
The main spots on Fyn will be shoulder to shoulder with eager anglers wanting a taste of the fine silver. I have seen it all to often. Hoards of the "Europico Anglericus" hugging the well worn stones of the shore.

My advice...
Avoid the usual and well known places. Try something new. The sea trout this time of year, tend to roam far and wide.

Just my opinion and experience.

Regards
Ripley

Graylings in the river Glomma.......

Ahum, picture seems to be rather "overdone". Will not happen again.

Kind regards,

Vassenden

Fishing for grayling in river Glomma.......

Regarding the typing mistakes in a posting of late Saturdaynight demonstrates, that I better had waited for Sundaymorning. Anyway, I do hope, that the message was clear enough.
And Stefan, keep in mind that about 90 % of your catch will be grayling and the rest will be trout. Like I said, there are nice graylings in Glomma. I will enclose a picture of some
fish I took for lunch. For those who wonder what lunch has to do with flyfishing: about
99,9 % of my catch is swimming away unharmed! But sometimes I use a small smoking stove at the riverside. These two graylings opened theirs yes as wide as they could; they never, ever had seen such a nice smokingstove!

[img:7522903ce7]http://i25.tinypic.com/14l3pc7.jpg[/img:7522903ce7]

Kind regards,

Vassenden

Fly line

I will be from thursday on Fyn, so I'll pack my floating line too. There are some places where the floating line seems to me better. Maybe I will catch more fish :-)

Whoopy Doo for the w

Whoopy Doo for the wooly buggers! This year we have been fishing high country lakes in Canterbury New Zealand for browns and rainbows with bead head buggers in green, black, yellow and hot orange. In cold water fish deep, in warm water fish top layers with a fast strip and in hot go down deeper still and slow. Results an average of 6 fish per person per trip, best brown 8 1/2 lb best rainbow 5 1/2 lb. They just love em!

Ripley I am not worthy :D

Ripley I am not worthy :D

This is a great arti

This is a great article but could you please explain how you identify the But and Midsection of a leader in relation to calculating it's percentage of the overall length?

One of the differences is,

One of the differences is, that the Kvennan stretch is upstream of major damming. So, the waterlevel is more predictable than the Koppang part of the river. Another difference is, that the Kvennan stretch is not as wide as it is in the Koppang region. And in the Koppang area the motorroad is (on an averige) not as close to the river as it is in the Kvennan area. Whether the "fly only" zone really is an advantage for flyfishers remains to be seen...... From extensive personal experience I know, that the stretch of river in the Koppang area is really far form crowded by fisherman. So, good fishing spots are relatively easy to be found. On top of that: graylins is abundand in the stretch of river between Atna and Koppang. Exemplars of over 40 cm. ar far from rare......As for me, there is and preference for the Koppang area. But that is just a personal opinion......... This also has to do with the difference in landscape; the Koppang area could be described as more "rocky" and somewhat more attractive. Oh and the Kvennan area is about 130 kms north from Koppang. If you like travelling by public transport, it will be great! So, all in all, my preference is clear enough. But you Stefan has to decide for yourself.

Kind regards,

Hans

I never have seen su

I never have seen such a nice video before... Flyfishing at its finest..

chears Paulo

Salinity

[quote:6a966037cc]I read an article my Mike Connor (?) on the UKSWFF with regards to flyfishing in Funnen and his reasoning which does make sense to me was that intermediates are better when fished in saltwater due to the density of the water. Floating lines are typically designed for freshwater which has a different density to salt water. Typically a floater will sit much higher up in saltwater & you'll run into the problems that Wiggy pointed out to. [/quote:6a966037cc]

If you want to get technical...

The Baltic Sea's salinity is much lower than that of ocean water (which averages 3.5%, or 35 parts per thousand), as a result of abundant freshwater runoff from the surrounding land; indeed, runoff contributes roughly one-fortieth its total volume per year, as the volume of the basin is about 21,000 km³ and yearly runoff is about 500 km³. The open surface waters of the central basin have salinity of 6 to 8 ‰.
Below 40 to 70 m, the salinity is between 10 and 15 ‰ in the open Baltic Sea, and a fraction more than this near Danish Straits.

And...

The Baltic receives the drainage from a large part of northern Europe,
including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, northern Germany, and nearly all of Sweden.
As a result of this drainage and of the restricted channel to the North Sea,
the surface water of the Baltic contains relatively little salt-only a third as much salt
as the Atlantic Ocean-and the salinity shows a tendency to decrease toward the west and north.

And then...

The Baltic Sea is so nearly landlocked (and its outlet so shallow) that its waters are remarkably fresh. Its longest rivers, the Vistula and the Oder, drain regions that have a temperate continental climate; they have low evaporation rates and become swollen by spring snowmelt, thus further reducing the salinity of the Baltic. The highest salinity is recorded in the western Baltic, where it is about 10 parts per thousand at the surface and about 15 parts per thousand near the bottom; the lowest is at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, where it is less than a third of this amount.
The Baltic, sheltered from the strong North Sea tides, is remarkable for the general absence of tidal currents.

There's also this article. Although no comments on salinity, you can "gestimate" the low salinity if the predominant direction of the current is north.
http://globalflyfisher.com/global/denmark/tide.htm

A standard WF/Floating line will do fine.

Regards
Ripley

i used to buy my pop

i used to buy my popping bugs from a company called ultimate poppers but they have gone out of business i was told. do you sell them or know a good company to get them from. i want a good quality one that doesnt fall apart after 10 fish like the ones you buy at walmart. thank you

I read an article my Mike

I read an article my Mike Connor (?) on the UKSWFF with regards to flyfishing in Funnen and his reasoning which does make sense to me was that intermediates are better when fished in saltwater due to the density of the water. Floating lines are typically designed for freshwater which has a different density to salt water. Typically a floater will sit much higher up in saltwater & you'll run into the problems that Wiggy pointed out to.

Vassenden,

Vassenden,
thanks for your reply.
In the meantime I've read on the website www.kvennan.com about river Glomma between Tynset and Tolga. They talk about a special fly fishing zone. .... sounds good.
Do you (or anybody else) know this stretch of the river? Any comparisons to Koppang area?
Stefan

Jesper,

poin tis

Jesper,

poin tis that state gives you a right to fish and even names a price to particular river and so on, but local office just ignore the orders from center....
as Ole (who lives in Moscow) sais"everybody who does not know the country (and in this way does not know how things work in Russia) should not judge''

I been in Russia 10times, i have many friends in Russia who are really professors in flyfishing and more to that i know how all Russian flyfisherman are confused by conflict between law creating and law effecting institutions... even having a license in hand you can be cocidered as poacher, just because you didnt fill up close your licence properly...

Rolandas

P.C

sorry for gramma

Q. When the smaller

Q. When the smaller tube is inserted into the larger tube (prior to tying), is there some sort of cement that is used to secure the inner tube within the larger one?

I wholeheartedly agr

I wholeheartedly agree with palmi; in Alaska where I live, more than 30 % of the salmon harvested in the commercial fisheries are produced in one of the 27 industrial-grade hatcheries in the state. These are marketed as wild fish, when they are in fact spawned with rubber gloves in plastic buckets and hatched in concrete raceways. The ecologic and biologic impacts to truly wild stocks have been inadequately assessed because the State of Alaska has refused to do so. The real tragedy is that we humans seem to be having an increasingly difficult time discerning the real from the artificial. We like to fool the fish with artificials, but we are the bigger fools for accepting artificial fish in place of wild ones..

Grayling fishing in Norway

Hi Stefan,

Take the train from Gardermoen airport to the village of Koppang; the norwegian NSB site will tell you how to arrange for that. Keep in mind to book "minipris"; this will save you a lot of money. Contact the owner of Koppang and arrange for housing; at their website you will find out about that. The owner of the camping is a Dutchman; no doubt he will be able to answer your questions in English and/or German.

Koppang camping is located at the border of the river Glomma; you may walk upstreams or downstream to find nice fishingspots. Getting nice fish will not be all that difficult.....
There is a flyfishing guide available through the campingowner; getting to know this river takes time (a lot) and why trying to invent the wheel during your holiday? Anyway, you can do without the fishingguide, but I would recommend to make use of him for at least a day or two. He also will advise you about the rigth flies by then.

Kind regards,

Vassenden