Well, thought I'd been quiet for long enough and have now been out fishing some trout over here in Norge.
Anyway, I sussed out a little of the fishing rules and regs over here and where I could get a fiskekort so I headed about 45minutes south of Stavanger on a scouting trip with my mate Keith, to try our hand on a lake or 2. I also got my Shay bamboo rod bamboo from receiving some TLC from Mike Shay and NEEDED to try it out! We drove and stopped at all convenient place along the way to check out the water and see if there was much happening. We passed a few worm drowners so kept going until we saw no one.
We set up with bugs in the air and just as a few rises started to appear so I set up with an emerger and rose one but missed it but after moving slowly along the shore here is the result.
This was followed by the twin within 20minutes
We checked our map and saw we could fish another few lakes higher up so set of up the stream we thought was marked on the map but realised that it wasn't the one but it didn't matter too much as we just had to wolk over a ridge to get back on track. The water at this lake was wirth the trip. It was so clear and because it was away from the road it was sooooo quiet. I almost forgot I was in Norway as it was like the places I grew up fishing in the Highlands.
The fish at this lake appeared small but I was only casting to rises and sitting relaxing. Only seeing 3 rises I managed to get 2 of the fish, both around 7-8"
So, that was about it but we did see a nice little stream we want to try out at some point in the very near future.
Tight lines (or skitt fisk as they say over here)
Mike
