Mastery Flyfishing

 16th.of August; at last, very good conditions in river Rena. New personal best, grayling 58cm!  River Grimsa, hard to find any fish, but a very nice river.  Views from high country rivers Views from high country rivers   Trout fishing at altitude over 1000m  Trout fishing at altitude over 1000m  One of the more spectacular Orkla beats  The Syrstad beat in river Orkla  A really Orkla "killer"  The Sugustad beat  Too much water, too heavy current, too cold water....  My sons spinning at Sugustad  My sons pike fishing  Erik with a all selfcaught pike  Friends at Mid-summer celebrations, Lindstad, river rena  Packing it in; no salmon seen  Water level indicator, river Orkla  1,5m above normal water level, pea-spoup water!  The develish fly-fishing vehicle; I'm the worlds fastest fly fisher...  Undseth-åa, VERY...

Using traditional material like heron, guinea fowl and golden pheasant; tied on stainless steel needle tubes, gives the flies more "lifelike" movement in water than ever before! Looking forward to make the spey casts with the Salmon Spiders in my favorite pool of river Orkla soon! 

Pike caught on variant of Gurgler. Not the best weather, but action. Water level at Elverum 178,70m

The bike ready for taking me to fly fishing action this season! Visited river Glomma by Elverum today: good amount of stoneflies in air and a few on water, but didn't see any rises. 12 degrees in air and 5 in water. Waterlevel at Elverum 178.21 m

Today the Glomma river had a waterlevel of 178.36; a rise of 21cm since last visit. The rise due to quick melting of ice and snow and the water temperature had also dropped to freezing 2 degrees C. No rises seen and only a few active stoneflies by the river. Had to try the nymph then and in spite of this very cold temperature; a few grayling hooked! Imitation of the Plecoptera nymphs, here a version of the Capnia Pymeae, Knapek hook size 16, are very effective in the spring. This style of tying have a coating of rapid epoxy which a have a density of 1.6 - 2.0 in relation to water. Products like Bug Bond have a density of 1.1. So the epoxy not only gives the finishing touch to the nymph, it also aids the nymph in sinking!

My best pattern for imitating the stonefly Capnia pymeae. Small sizes, hook 15 - 17. This fly allways land upright. While waiting on grayling rising; I use this very effective nymph. Casting this quickly sinking shrimp slightly upstream and across, and then mending as the line floats downstream.

Larger stoneflies (hook size 8 -10) in action today. On tuesday small black Capnia pygmea (hook size 16), made the grayling rise quite frequently. Today many stoneflies about, but few rises of grayling. Still managed to hook a few.... Water temp. 4 degrees and air 14. Water level 178.15