Season on the Gaula! Norwegian Flyfishers Club
By: Manfred Raguse
Norway- The last week started with promising weather fore casts with a lot of rain for the next days. On the last weekend some new guests and friends arrived on the Gaula to enjoy the last week on the NFC Beats. On Saturday evening it started to rain already, so that the water rose over the night around 20 cm. So it did not take a long time until the first fish of the week has been caught. Chris Henshaw managed to land a salmon on our Beat D1, which has been carefully released. Chris estimated the weight of his salmon about 10 kg (22 lb.)
On Our Lower Gaula Beat E2 Franz Hochecker from Austria caught a nice seatrout of 2,6 kg (5 � lb). The next day was a great day for the well known fly tyer H�kan Norling � on his birthday he landed a female salmon of an estimated weight of 10 kg (22lb.) on our Beat C2, a little bit later he hooked another, even bigger fish � he estimated his 2nd �birthday salmon� to weigh more than 15 kg (33 lb). H�kon released both fish carefully.
Also Chris Henshaw has been successful again and caught 2 fish on our Bogen S�ndre Beat BS1. Chris was able to catch and release a grilse about 2,5 kg (5.5 lb) and a salmon about 5 kg (11 lb). Also Matte Olson from Sweden caught a fish which weighted in with 5kg on our Beat D2.
Johannes Kmieciak caught a grilse on our Lower Gaula Beat E2 and Marcus Thomasson has been successfull on our new Upper Gaula Extension Beat and was able to catch and release a coloured salmon estimated about 4,5 kg (10 lb).
During this night it started to rain heavily. It rained so much that the water rose to the next afternoon up to over 2m at the Fr�seth Gauge!! (over 500 m�/ sec.). The water was quite coloured until noon, but this is hardly ever a hindrance on the Gaula. However, most of our fishing guests fished not before the evening when it started to clear up again. The next morning the water started to drop again. This rise should bring a lot of new fish in the river, that was clear for everyone, so it was no wonder that our Norwegian guest Jon Anders Schei from Norway hooked a nice fish in our Beat D1. Jon Anders released this salmon, which he estimated to weigh about 11kg (24 lb). This day should be a good day on our water, so there have been several nice salmon been caught, for example another salmon about 11 kg (24 lb) from Franz Hochecker and a 2nd of approx. 10kg on our Lower Gaula Beat E3, both fish were carefully released. Michael Blanca caught a salmon of 6,6 kg (14.5 lb) and Marc Wardel a fish of approx. 5 kg (11 lb) both fish from our Beat D1, also Olivier Plasseraud from France caught 2 salmon on our Beat B1, the first fish about 4kg (8.5 lb) the 2nd he estimated about 5,5 kg (12 lb).
The last 2 days of the season provided good fishing on our Beats during dropping water to a normal level. Olivier Plasseraud managed to land another big fish in the end of the season as well, this time he caught and released the fish on our Beat A1 and wrote in our list approx. 13,5 kg (30 lb) with a lenght of 1,10m. If you have a look on the picture, you will see the salmon was definitely not overestimated...( you might remember, Olivier was the one who caught the approx. 17,5kg (38.5 lb) salmon during the first week of the season 2008�).
Later on the evening Olivier caugth another fish on our Beat BS2, estimated about 7kg (15.5 lb). Also Marc Wardle had a good day with a fish of approx. 5 kg from our Upper Gaula Beat and a 2nd fish of approx. 7.5 kg ( 16.5 lb ) from Beat A1, both fish from Marc has been released as well. Michael Blanca caught also two fish, a grilse and another salmon which an estimated weight of 7 kg (15.5 lb) on our Beat B1 and released these fish carefully.
On the last day Jon Andres Schei caught short before he had to leave a nice salmon on our Beat A1. He estimated his last Gaula salon for 2008 about betwen 6 and 7 kg (14 lb.) Marc Wardle�s last fish has been estimated about 5.5 kg (12 lb) and has been caught and released in the same pool. Marcus Thomasson caught on the last evening a salmon of approx. 3 kg (6.5 lb) on our Upper Gaula Beat.
Per Nyquist from Sweden who came just for the last weekend had a nice last evening and caught and released 3 salmon on our Beat D1, a grilse and 2 salmon each about 5,5 kg (12 lb.)
Franz Hochecker caught the last fish on our Beats- a grilse which weighted in with 2kg (4.5lb).
There have been caught several more fish during the week, but all together we are glad to be able to say � the season ended as it began � with great fishing on the NFC Beats!!!
You are very welcome to book in for next season 2009 � we already started to book in for the next Gaula summer�.just give us a call or Email us
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