North Norway Fishing Trip.17th aug -24th aug

Posted by keens on September 4, 2009 under Sea Fishing | Be the First to Comment

After three flights and a two hour drive to oksfjord and a  ferry crossing over to our island which took around 10 minutes this was our sight of the place in which we where to stay for 7 days.We all unpacked our kit pretty sharpish and couldn’t wait to get out and sample the fishing that we had heard so much about over the last 8 month’s.A quick run over the boats and safety equipment and they where all ours for the week our first stop was a small bay area in just 5 mins from our boat jettie and with the first couple of drops of the pirks we where into some small coalfish and cod then a shadow appeared from behind one of the coalfish that was being brought up from 20m of water a hallibut of around 15-16 pound decided it was going to take the bait but not my hook so after a short fight it got away!!! so my luck hadn’t changed even over in norway.A few days into the trip we realised that the big 40lb cod where a bit harder to catch than we thought after speaking to the locals and our guide we had probably missed the bigger cod by about three months not to say they where not there but the numbers of coalies and kelp cod that where in our fjords we had our work cut out to get through to them.The actual shoals of coalies when found where out of this world most of the time our pirks with gummy macs fished above(similar to feathers but made of tuff rubber with a twisted hooks )wouldnt hit the bottom before 5and 6 fish where hooked and at 45 to 5o m of water can soon take its toll on you but i dont think you can get fed up of catching them most of the coalfish in a certain area where around 6-8 pound in weight and  wittness a shoal of these raise to the surface the place realy is something special.We worked hard further into the week and started to suss out the best times and colours to fish with and seemed to give the cod more chance when the gummy macs where taken off low water seemed to fish better than an incoming tide and to be fair the weather wasn’t on our side for about 4 days of our trip it didnt seem to matter which dircetion the wind was coming from you didnt seem to have much chance getting out to open water if it was blowing and i am convinced that the better fish where probably in these areas the one day we did manage to get a little further out we started to hit slightly larger cod almost every drop the average being close to double figures . (Glyn lewis pictured on the right with a nice cod of 20lb)the numbers of cod you could catch a day where out standing and the size of the fish didn’t seem to matter so much after a while just the quality of fishing was enough with the stunning suroundings and golden/sea eagles circuling over your head.A day was spent back in the bay area where the first hallibut was spotted and with the first drop darren had one follow his 2lb cod upto the surface as darren clicked the reel into free spool and started to lower the cod back towards hi slowly the hallibut took it hole with the pirk as well a quick fight and this beast was on the boat for a weigh and photo another two drops after on the same drift at 10lb and later on that night i got my chance to get one at 15lb

species caught all together where cod,coalfish,hallibut,haddock,torsk,redfish,ling,whiteing and the ugly aggresive wolf fish oh and that reminds me thanks to all the boys that made the trip so good mike,dennis,gerriant,darren and glyn