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Fishing reports 2008
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The fishing season is
nearing it's end, and the beautiful autumn colours are covered with snow.
In the middle of the day Baetis still hatches, and if you know where to
look, rising grayling can be spotted. Berry from Holland was our last
guest this season, and he had good fly fishing on dries and nymphs,
catching grayling up to 45 cm. This is the last fishing report for this year, but there will be updates this winter : a fly fishing forum, complete month-by-month information about the fishing season, and all the other pages that still have to be filled. So check out the site now and then, there might be new content.
Thanks for your visit, have a
nice winter, and see you next year ! |
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So this is happening every
afternoon - hatching Baetis flies. I tried to shoot some pics of it - this
is the best shot. Needless to say the fishing is still very good, Per and
Thomas from Sweden had a nice time fishing dry fly only, Per had his
second best Glomma grayling ever, a beautiful 52 cm specimen.
Not much has changed since the last fishing report. Baetis hatches every day around noon. Fisherman tell me they have good fishing with dry flies, catching quite a lot of grayling between 40 and 48 cm, and a few just over 50 cm. Ted and Fred from Holland both had a beautiful trout on a dry fly, between 45 and 50 cm........................ 09-09-2008 |
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There were several reports this week of grayling measuring between 45 and 50 cm, most of them on dries. Like this time last year fisherman tell me they have seen big (huge) jumping trout, possibly trout hunting for small fish in the surface. The fishing can be very good, but timing is important. Baetis is still hatching, but depending on the weather, it can take place during mid morning or early afternoon. There is not much going on in the evening. Nymphing can be done the whole day, of course.
The pics to the right show Jacco - I guided him and showed how Glomma nymphing can be done. He had a nice time with plenty of grayling, biggest fish was 46 cm......... 31-08-2008 |
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Some Swedish guys
staying at
Aakerøien Camping today
reported to me a grayling of 48 cm, and lots of smaller fish. I've seen
one of them fish - he used a small red tag, fished classical wet fly
style, down and across. He had quite a few fish. I fished upstream, nymph,
and also had a lot. Not very big, but it was fun. The weather is not so
nice, weather reports are fine, but it is cold, cloudy and sometimes
windy. The water level remains more or less stable, and the water
temperature is slowly decreasing. There are not so many fish rising, but
if you fish at the right spot it doesn't seem to matter terribly much
which fly you use, chances are you will have good fishing. Anders from
Sweden reported last week a 51 cm grayling. You can read the whole story
in
fishing stories. |
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The pictures below show Stefan
from Germany fishing in the FF zone. Stefan is a rod builder, and his fly
rods are things of beauty. But more important, casting with them is a joy.
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The last week the water level has not been very stable, it comes up and it falls again. This is not good for the fly fishing, that is, when the level rises the fishing can be totally lousy. And the next day when the level drops again the fishing can be wild. As a general rule : when the level rises, go for trout, use streamers. As it falls, go for grayling, and use small dark flies : size 16 and smaller. Use thin tippet ! If you want to follow the water level day by day, look at http://www.glb.no/ (vannstander). Every day the information is updated at about 08.45 hours.
The may fly species to the
right is hatching every day in small numbers. To me it looks like a
Heptageniidae sulphurea or dalecarlica. (if you don't agree : please let
me know, I find it quite hard to determine all these species of upwinged
flies).
The two guys fishing
are Maris and Raitis from Riga, Latvia. They hired me to guide them, and
at the same time learn them fly fishing....... They have been fishing all
their lives, but fly fishing was new for them. They both had their first
grayling within an hour, and at the end of the day they were totally
infected with the virus called fly fishing ............. ;-)
The beautiful and warm weather is ending now. Tomorrow will be the last day with temperature in the twenties, and some rain is predicted. The water level will come up (but only a bit) and the temperature of the water will drop. The fishing has been good the last week. Hans from Holland showed us some tiny dries, see pic below, size 24. The grayling have an apatite for these small flies (imitating, of course, Baetis) but Renato proved with two 50 + cm fish that trout also like them ! Another Dutch fly fisherman reported a 55 cm grayling. Best places to fish now are the fast riffles. ......... 01-08-2008 |
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As predicted, the water
level is falling fast now. This is not a bad thing, it makes finding fish
easier. In the middle of the day there are many fish rising for small may
flies. Ant patterns are also successful, as are Super Pupa size 12. Well Felix, since Renato is out of this competition, it looks like you have a nice chance to win the free license for next year ! At the end of the fishing season I will publish the winner here, in the Fishing reports 2008. Thanks for the pics, and see you again next summer ! .............. 23-07-2008
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There was another
beautiful trout for me, last week. This one measured 57 cm and weighted
1,8 kg, on a nymph. I was fishing for larger grayling using my #3 rod and
12/100 tippet. It took me about 15 minutes to net the trout, and I was
just lucky I guess I landed this fish, with such light tackle. The water
level is more or less stable these days. Long term weather forecast says
there is nice and warm weather coming, so the level will fall next week,
and the water temperature will rise. Fish the fast stretches, use small
nymphs or ant patterns. You can also try (quite big) black mosquito
patterns, and, as always, Baetis patterns .......... |
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Fly fishing has been
good the last few days. Pawel and Lukasz from Polen reported 283 fish in a
week fishing, 96 between 35 and 45 cm. Renato landed and released a beautiful 51 cm
grayling, on a dry fly, and he had a ca 55 cm trout on a
streamer. |
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We had a few days with
beautiful and warm weather last week. The water temperature has come up to
15 degrees. If there is no wind you can see clouds of sedge swarming, they
mate in the air, in night time they lay eggs in the river. Renato likes
night fishing, he has seen many fish rising for green caddis pupa. But the
timing is crucial, at 24.00 o'clock the river may seem dead, at 01.30
action can be furious. The next night it may be completely different. Don't forget to bring ant imitations, they will work time after time. Colours : black, black and red, yellow (!) .
What might be very important
is to take with you quite thin tippet. Many guys only have 14/100 or
16/100 tippet, and I think this is not fine enough. Many of the larger
grayling in the river are getting a bit educated, and fishing a super pupa
or red tag on a thick tippet will not always do the trick !
Yesterday I guided some guys
from Austria, who are lodging in the Telstad cabin. It was hard to find
some feeding fish, the river looked empty at places where normally there
is a lot of (bigger) grayling. The reason for this might be that the water
level has come up a bit in the last few days, and grayling doesn't like
that so much. In the last hour of the trip we found fish
after all, and the guys had nice dry fly fishing using blue winged olive
parachute flies size 12 ......... 09-07-2008
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Yesterday was a dark and rainy day. The water level came up a bit, and circumstances like these are ideal for trout fishing. At the campsite a Dutch boy had a trout of 65 cm and 4 ( ! ) kg, he used a worm. The fish was killed, so I don't place a picture - we only publish catch & release pictures. Renato and me tried a stretch in the lower part of the FF zone. There was nice dry fly fishing using Baetis patterns, when the rain came I switched to streamer fishing, and had 5 trout, two small, one 42 cm, one 48 and the biggest one was 55 cm and 1,6 kg. Needless to say they where all released. Jac, member of the Dutch section of the Grayling Society reported a 53 cm grayling, on a Klinkhamer Special ............. 01-07-2008 |
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An important species of may
fly is the Baetis group. These are mostly very small (but beautiful)
insects that hatch during the complete fishing season in Glomma. So if you
like dry fly fishing, make sure you have some patterns in your fly box !
Small, size 16 - 20. See pictures to the right. Great pike fly fishing can
be had in the Hodalen Lakes. Bram from Holland had a few on a yellow
streamer, biggest one measured 108 cm (using his #5 rod....). Mario and
his friends from The Hague, Holland, staying in Telstad cabin also fished
these lakes for pike with similar results. |
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This sedge sat on my table, so I took some pics. If you visit Kvennan Fly Fishing this summer, bring your digicam and a USB cable. Make some nice catch and release pictures, if the pics are good enough in quality I will place them at this page. The lucky fly fisherman with the largest grayling, photographed and released unharmed, will fish for free next year .................... 16-06-2008 |
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The fly fishing is good now in Glomma. There are many insects hatching : Beatis Rhodani, Beatis Niger, Ephemerella Aurivillii, and several species of stoneflies and caddis. I get enthusiastic report from satisfied fisherman - Leif, Jonas and Peter from Lindeberg, Sweden had beautiful dry fly fishing at the Labyrinth with grayling up to 45 cm, Bertil from Falkoping, Sweden landed and released a big one measuring 52 cm, and Ralf and Gunnar from Hamburg, Germany landed two grayling of about 50 cm. With my fishing buddy Michael from Deventer, Holland I fished a nice tributary of Glomma called Tunna. We only had a few smaller fish, but the scenery was great .............. 15-06-2008 |
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The water temperature has dropped to 10 degrees Celsius, and in day time there are more and more fish rising. There are caddis on the water, very small ones size (18-22), and bigger ones, size 12. When the sun shines there are several species of upwinged flies hatching : most important one seems Beatis Rhodani ........... 13-06-2008 |
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More and more fish are rising now. The warm weather is over, temperature is normal again for the time of the year. There are some reports about a few hatching upwinged flies, probably Marginata, and several species of sedge flies. Streamer fishing is still interesting, I tried the stretch just downstream of Telstad cabin yesterday for a few hours, and had several trout up to 42 cm and grayling up to 43 cm. Torbjorn from Sweden released a beautiful 48 cm grayling from the FF zone, she took a dry fly............10-06-2008 |
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Yesterday I fished with Jan and Walter from Holland. No rising fish, so we used nymph and streamer. We had a few fish, and I took some pictures. Later on we tried another beat in the FF zone, and Walter landed and released a big grayling (48 cm) using a dry fly (Softy). In the early evening there was nice dry fly fishing just downstream from Kvennan Camping ............. 06-06-2008 |
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Glomma has fallen a bit and the water is more clear then yesterday. Renato fished for some hours yesterday in the FF zone, at a certain place he spotted several fish rising to dries close to the bank. It was a group of bigger grayling, he landed and released 5 fish measuring about 45 cm. The guys that went to Hodalen Lakes had great pike fishing, several nice fish on streamers, biggest one 90+ cm (and than there was the one that got away, Walter thinks is must have been quite a bit larger......) I fished a few hours in the evening, hoping for trout, using a small streamer. Well, I landed two small ones and several nice grayling between 35 and 40 cm ..................... 05-06-2008
The river has come up
again, and the water is a bit coloured today - not very good conditions
for fly fishing right now ! Have a look at the two illustrations (source :
http://senorge.no) to the right : the top one is a snow
map of our region, showing the amount of snow (in white and blue). The
date of the map is 28-05-2008. The second one shows the actual situation. Green coloured areas are bare ground. It shows how many snow has
melted in the last week, due to the beautiful and warm weather we have had
for almost two weeks. The weather forecast for the next days is still
the same : it will be warm and sunny. So it seems a safe assumption to say
the level in the river must fall soon now. If the weather changes and the
temperature goes down again, the water level will fall also.
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Still the weather is very
fine, the temperature in the afternoon is in the twenties. The water
temperature has increased also, this afternoon it reached 12 degrees
Celsius. The level is falling a bit, and it seems that most of the snow in
the mountains has melted now. Take a look at
this new page about water
level, snow condition and rain fall for more information how to predict
the water level in Glomma. |
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Today fly fishing is only just possible. This morning the water level is 588,46 and that is almost to much. A group of 5 Dutch fly fisherman had some fun yesterday in the Labyrinth, they fished with a kind of sedge emerger called "Softy" (size 16 - 18) and had a nice time with grayling up to 45 cm. One of the guys, a experienced Glomma fisherman called Walter (interviewed in the fisherman pages) tells about his pattern : “ The Softy is without doubt my favourite dry fly for Glomma. So called by a friend of mine. It's basically a pupa emerger with a very low profile. The fish trust the silhouette and take this fly with great confidence, while higher floating flies are rejected ”. In the evening I noticed small dark sedges on the wing, the first ones this year................01-06-2008
The water temperature is
rising now - 2 degrees up in two days - and insect life in the river
is kicked into action. Yesterday afternoon grayling was rising for small
dark stoneflies (size 16 - 18) at places where the water warms up fast:
slow flowing shallow parts of the river or just downstream of them.
Renato, an Italian member of Kvennan staff, reported nice dry fly fishing
.............. 28-05-2008 Last Sunday afternoon Ivar and me fished for some hours with streamers. No trout this time, but we had quite a few nice grayling. Ivar landed and released one that measured 47 cm. In the stretch we fished fish were rising for big stoneflies, but we left our dry flies at home ............. 21-05-2008 |
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In the late afternoon I tried a streamer just in front of the campsite. In 2006 I had two big trout there, and now there was another one: 60 cm and 2,2 kg. He jumped fully out of the water 4 times and gave a nice fight. After a photo session I released this beautiful trout again. More pictures soon in Ivar's gallery ........... 16-05-2008 The water-level is stabilising now, and wading is possible at many places. The water is clear but still very cold, only 5 degrees Celsius. No rising fish, no insect activity. Use streamer or nymph. If you go into the river, be careful, the cold water makes it a bit dangerous .................16-05-2008 Opening day - Despite the lousy and cold weather, Tage from Tynset and me had to try the river. After some searching we found large schools of grayling, and they had an appetite for our nymphs: in about 2,5 hours of fishing we landed and released ca 20 grayling, average size 37 cm. But the largest ones fell for my streamers ............15-05-2008
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