News 2009. Fly Fishing Catch Reports, Water Level, Water Temp

Gjerfloen Flyfishing, Norway. Updated information bout fishing conditions on the fly fishing zone, water level and water temperature in the Trysil river.

You will also find information concerning fly fishermen, catch reports, may fly hatching, statistics of catches, weather forecast, origin of fishermen and other things of interest for fly fishers and fishermen. (English only)

The fly fishing guide and riverkeeper with a standarg grayling on the upper part of the fly zone

This book, "Einfach auf Äschen", from Bernd Kuleisa was released in September 2009. For those who like fly fishing for grayling, this book is a rich source concerning methods, flies, destinations, guides, tips and tricks

December

Statistics of reported catches 2009.

Day licenses 2009.

The June and September results are quite normal while July and August were very bad because of high water. Two swedish fishermen had two days of good fishing in October. Compare with statistics on the "News 2008" page.

Day licenses statistics 2009. Origin of fishermen.

Fishermen from 13 nations visited Gjerfloen Flyfishing this summer. Sweden is on the top also this year. Germany, Poland and Norway are up. Compare with statistics on the "News 2008" page.

December

4th of December

See picture from winter hunting on the photo gallery page.

October

23th of October

Water flow 54 m3/s this morning. Water temp 2 C degrees. Very good conditions for czech nymphing at the moment.

13th of October

Water flow 58 m3/s this morning. Water temp 5 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good at the moment.

12th of October

Wate rflow 59 m3/s this morning. Water temp 5 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good at the moment.

6th of October

Water flow down to 60 m3/s this morning. Air temp minus 7 C degrees this morning (07.30), wate rtemp 6 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good at the moment.

4th of October

More than 20 mms of precipitation yesterday, snow in the higher areas and some rain down in the walleys generated a small rise in the water flow, up to 62 m3/s this morning. Airtemp minus 2 C degrees this morning (07.30), watertemp 6 C degrees. In spite of heavy rain and snow fall yesterday, Thomas Karlsson, Sweden, landed 12 nymph graylings!

3rd of October

Water flow down to 60 m3/s this morning. Air temp minus 4 C degrees this morning (07.30), water temp 6 C degrees. Nice weather and good fishing conditions yesterday. Peter Slepicka, Sweden, landed 25 czech nymph graylings. Dark olive green was the winning colour.

2nd of October

Water flow down to 61 m3/s this morning. Air temp minus 7 C degrees this morning (07.30), water temp 6 C degrees. Good fishing conditions at the moment!

1st of October

Water flow down to 63 m3/s this morning. Air temp minus 0 C degrees this morning (07.30), watertemp 7 C degrees. Good fishing yesterday. Between 3 and 5.30 PM I landed 16 graylings, 30 - 40 cms and also I number of smaller. I few risings were seen, but I didn't try dry fly. Czech nymph only.

September

30th of September

Water flow down to 64 m3/s this morning. Air temp minus 2 C degrees this morning, watertemp 7 C degrees. Fishing conditions are beginning to be very good!

29th of September

Rain showers yesterday kept the water flow stable, 66 m3/s this morning. Air temp minus 4 C degrees this morning, water temp 7 C degrees. Fishing conditions are the best since June.

28th of September

Water flow down to 66 m3/s this morning. Water temp 8 C degrees. Fishing conditions are the best since June.

27th of September

Water flow down to 67 m3/s this morning. Water temp 9 C degrees. Fishing conditions are the best since June. Friday and Saturday, Stefan Johansson, Stenkullen, Sweden, landed 51 graylings. 33 of them were between 30 and 44 cms.

26th of September

Water flow down to 69 m3/s this morning. Water temp 9 C degrees. Fishing conditions are beginning to be good!

25th of September

Water flow down to 71 m3/s this morning. Water temp 9 C degrees. Fishing conditions are beginning to be good!

24th of September

Water flow down to 72 m3/s this morning. Water temp 9 C degrees. Fishing conditions are beginning to be good!

23rd of September.

Water flow down to 75 m3/s this morning. Water temp 9 C degrees. Fishing conditions are beginning to be good!

22nd of September

Water flow down to 78 m3/s this morning! Wate rtemp 9 C degrees. No more rain this week indicates good fishing!

21st of September

Water flow down to 81 m3/s this morning! Water temp 9 C degrees. Good fishing with dryfly and nymph last week end.

19th of September

Water flow down to 85 m3/s this morning! Water temp 9 C degrees. Norwegian Cup Flyfishing on the east bank of the fly zone this week end.

17th of September

Waterf low down to 90 m3/s this morning! Water temp 9 C degrees. Many places are now wadable.

16th of September

Water flow down to 94 m3/s this morning! Water temp 9 C degrees. Things are really going the right way now!

15th of September

Water flow down to 99 m3/s this morning! Water temp 9 C degrees. Less than 100 m3/s for the first time since 20th of July!

14th of September

Water flow down to 103 m3/s this morning! Water temp 10 C degrees. Today the water level is the lowest since the 20th of July! Fishermen from Italy, Holland, Poland, Sweden and Norway have experienced that dryflyfishing this weekend has been pretty good and with the weather prognoses we have for this week, the fishing will be better and better!

13th of September

12th of September

Water level is going down 3 - 4 cms pr day now and the flow is down to 106 m3/s this morning! Water temp 10 C degrees. Fishing conditions are slowly improving. 5 fishermen on the fly zone yesterday, but I have not got their catch reports yet. 7 fishermen from Belgium, Patrick Thiry, Philippe Labouette, Patrice Demelenne, Eddy Georis, Robert Gerard, Eric Bouchoms and Michel Demoulin landed 170 graylings under difficult conditions 4th - 8th of Septmber. Below their catches dispersed in lenghtgroups. Under good conditions I guess their catches might have been 4 times higher!

10th of September

Water flow down to 112 m3/s this morning! Water temp 10 C degrees. Fishing conditions are slowly improving.

9th of September

Water flow down to 120 m3/s this morning! Water temp 11 C degrees. Fishing conditions are still difficult and strong wind from the north did not make it easier.

8th of September

Water flow down to 130 m3/s this morning! Water temp 11 C degrees. Fishing conditions are still difficult, but some good catches yesterday and also before noon today.

5th of September

Two days of heavy rain brought the water flow up to 180 m3/s again this morning. Water temp 12 C degrees. Very difficult fishing conditions at the moment.

August

31th of August

Water flow on it's way down again, 129 m3/s this morning. Water temp 12 C degrees. Fishing today was quite good. A guided group with driftboats landed 30 graylings, all sizes up to 39 cms. All with nymphs, - pink colour was the winner of the day.

26th of August

Water flow down to 106 m3/s this morning. Water temp 12 C degrees. Fishing yesterday was the best for a long time. See the photo gallery page.

24th of August

Water flow down to 114 m3/s this morning! Water temp 13 C degrees. Fishing conditions are still difficult, but improving.

23rd of August

Water flow down to 122 m3/s this morning! Water temp 13 C degrees. Fishing conditions are still difficult!

22nd of August

Water flow down to 130 m3/s this morning! Wate rtemp 13 C degrees. Fishing conditions are still difficult!

20th of August

Water flow down to 141 m3/s this morning! Water temp 13 C degrees. Difficult fishing conditions, but Richard Szebries, Germany, landed 5 grayling, 3 of the them between 35 - 39 cms and 2 between 40 - 44 cms.

19th of August.

Water flow down to 175 m3/s this morning! Water temp 13 C degrees. Difficult fishing conditions!

18th of August

33 mms of rain since the 15th has brought the water flow up to 184 m3/s this morning! Water temp 13 C degrees. Flyfishing today will be extremely challenging!

15th of August

Water flow down to 107 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Fishing conditions are improving. Thomas Kühnel landed 50 graylings. See the photo gallery page.

14th of August

Water flow down again to 112 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Fishing conditions are better again.

12th of August

Heavy rain yestrday and last night brought the water flow up again to 127 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees. Fishing conditions today are not so good.

11th of August

Water flow 111 m3/s also this morning. Water temp 15 C degrees.

10th of August

Water flow down to 111 m3/s this morning. Water temp 15 C degrees. Astrid Löffler, Germany, tried czech nymphing for the first time today and landed 7 graylings up to 40 cms!

7th of August

Water flow rapidly down since yesterday! 114 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees.

6th of August

Water flow down again to 127 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees.

5th of August

Rain yesterday brought the water flow up again to 131 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Now we shall have some sunny days again! May be the rain is over?

4th of August

Water flow down again to 129 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees.

3rd of August

Water flow down again to 134 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Inspite of very difficult conditions yesterday, Vaclav Safar and Frantisek Furchtsad, Czech Republic, landed 11 graylings up to 37 cms. Under normal good circumstanses their day catch might have been 10 times higher!

1st of August

Heavy rain again yesterday brought the water flow up to 180 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Very difficult fishing conditiond the comming days.

July

31st of July

30th of July

Water flow down to 122 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Stéphane Deramoudt, Belgium, landed 35 graylings on the upper part of the flyzone yesterday, CdC dryfly. Most of them small, but also a few +30 cms.

29th of July

Water flow down to 130 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Improve in the weather generated some raising activity and dryfly and also nymph catches today.

27th of July

Water flow 135 m3/s also this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Benjamin Benenowski, Germany, landed 3 czech nymph graylings, 32 - 43 cms, this morning. They all were hooked with Pink Panter.

26th of July

Water flow down to 135 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees. Better fishing again today. The water flow is going down and warmer weather is predicted so the week ahead we shall have better fishing than we have had for a long time.

25th of July

Rain again all night, 15 mms! Water flow up again to 140 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees. Flyfishing today will be more or less waste of time (if the point is to catch fish).

24th of July

Water flow 135 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees. Some rising activity on the upper part of the fly zone. A few graylings 30 - 37 cms landed between 5 and 7 PM. Olive green and pink czech nymphs.

23rd of July

The water flow is now going rapidly down again. Water flow 148 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. Very little rain is predicted for the weekend and next week, so may be we already on Saturday may have some kind of good fishing again.

22nd of July

The flood culminated early this morning and the water flow is now going down again. Water flow 171 m3/s this morning. Water temp 13 C degrees. The water is clare and there has been some rising actvity on the upper slow streaming area of the fly zone this afternoon. There will probabely not be really good fishing untill the water comes down to a more normal level again.

21st of July

21 mms of rain since yesterday. The wate rlevel is still going up more than 10 mms pr hour. Water flow 135 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees. This afternoon the rain will stop and from tomorrow morning the water flow will be going down again. The next 10 days we shall have more normal weather, some rain showers, but also periods with sunshine.

20th of July

(Monday) 33 mms of rain since yesterday! The water level is at the moment going up 10 mms pr hour. Water flow 95 m3/s this morning. Water temp 15 C degrees. We have now, due to the weather conditions, had 3 weeks of difficult fishing. Last Friday and Saturday we had nice weather and the fishing began to be a little bit better, but now it's down again! I presume that the conditions will not improve untill Thursday or Friday. Neveretheless, a few czech nymph graylings were landed today too!

14th of July

Water flow 86 m3/s this morning. Water temp 15 C degrees. Two fishermen on the flyzone today. They reported very little rising activity, but they had some success with nymphs in the afternoon when the sun broke through the clouds.

13th of July

74 mms of rain last week brought the flow up to 90 m3/s yesterday. Water temp 15 C degrees. The water flow is now going down again and today nymph fishing finally has began to work. The "prophets" are promising better weather from now on and the fishing conditions will improve.

9th of July

Heavy rain showers the prevous two days brought the water flow up to 77 m3/s this afternoon. Water temp 15 C degrees. The water flow will culminate tonight and due to less rain the flow will decrease again. This week end it seems we shall have air temp between 13 and 19 C degrees and some rain showers. The fishing conditions will be OK.

8th of July

Rain last night and today brought the water flow up to 64 m3/s 6 o'clock this afternoon. Water temp 15 C degrees.

7th of July

The water flow down to 61 m3/s this morning. Water temp down to 15 C degrees. Optimal water temperature and water level at the moment. GO FISHING TODAY!

6th of July

The water flow down to 63 m3/s this morning. Water temp down to 17 C degrees. Weather, water temperature and waterlevel at the moment are beginning to be optimal! I am convinced that today and tomorrow will be a highlight to good fishermen. Wednesday is predicted to be rainy so therefore: GO FISHING NOW!

5th of July

The water flow down to 64 m3/s this morning. Water temp 19 C. Because of high water temperature last week (up to 23 C degrees late afternoon), the fishing has been very tricky. Next week we shall have colder weather and some rain. Lower water temperature will generate better fishing.

3rd of July

The water flow is down to 69 m3/s this morning. Water temp 20 C. Intensive rising in the middle of the night!

2nd of July

The water flow is down to 72 m3/s this morning. Water temp 19 C. Intensive rising in the middle of the night!

June

29th of June

The water flow is down to 77 m3/s today. Water temp 20 C degrees at 2 o'clock PM. Best fishing at the moment before noon and between 23.00 and 01.00 at night.

27th of June

The water flow is down to 80 m3/s this morning. Water temp 17 C degrees at 10 o'clock AM. Warm weather the last few days has warmed the water so much that next week the period between 23.00 and 01.00 at night will be the best. The danica is till here.

26th of June

The water flow is down to 83 m3/s this morning. Water temp 18 C degrees at 2 o'clock PM. 12 fishermen on the fly zone today. Knud Nørregaard Hansen, Denmark, reported 24 landed graylings during the day. A selfmade Danica imitation was the winner. Kenneth Johansson, Sweden, had 17 graylings, 15 of them were 35 - 39 cms and 5 (30%) were +40 cms.

24th of June

The water flow is down to 87 m3/s this morning. Water temp 14 C degrees. 10 fishermen on the flyzone at the moment and they can report good fishing. Most of the graylings are between 30 and 40 cms, and a few +40 cms too. The danicas are now hatcing all over the flyzone!

23rd of June

The water flow is down again to 89 m3/s today. Water temp 12 C degrees. Conditions for dry fly fishing is very good.

22nd of June

The water flow is down again to 97 m3/s this morning. Water temp 11 C degrees. This week we shall have nice and warm weather, and the fishing is expected to be very good.

20th of June

Rain yesterday brought the water flow up to 105 m3/s this morning. Water temp 10 C degrees. Hatching Danicas are observed on the lower part of the fly zone also today, but not on the upper part yet. The graylings have been very selective and difficult to catch also today. Fishing conditions are good.

19th of June

The water flow is normal, 98 m3/s this morning. Water temp 10 C degrees. In spite of rain and cold weather, we can see lots of hatching and risings.The fishermen report that the fishing are very frustrating today as the graylings are neglecting even the most beautiful artificial creations. Breaking News: The first DANICAS were observed on Gjerfloen Flyfishing this afternoon! Matt Hayes (Discovery Channel) and fishingguide Espen Eilertsen (Call of The Wild) made the observations on the lower part of the fly zone late this afternoon. Next week the weather prophets promise warm weather and no more rain. I think you know what it means ;-)

17th of June

Water flow down to 97 m3/s this morning. Water temp 10 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good.

16th of June

Water flow up again to 103 m3/s this morning. Water temp 10 C degrees. Sulphurea, Rhodani, sedges and stoneflies are hatching at the moment. Next week we shall see the first danicas, may be some also this week end on Gjerfloen Flyfishing. Further north a few days later. Fishing conditions are good.

15th of June

Water flow down to again to 100 m3/s this morning. Water temp 10 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good.

14th of June

Very good fishing on Gjerfloen Flyfishing this week end. Team Karlskoga; Anders Nord, Mikael Nord, Stefan Nordh, Lars-Erik Stenman and Jouni Rissanen landed 201 graylings from Thursday afternoon till Saturday evening. Superpuppa (different colours) and E-12. Kingfishger was Mikael Nord; 93 graylings and he also caught the biggest grayling, 48 cms. See their catch statistcs below:

Even if we had 15 mms of rain Friday night and Saturday, it had nearly no influence on the water flow, 102 m3/s this morning. Water temp 10 C degrees.

12th of June

Water flow stable, 100 m3/s also this morning. Water temp 10 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good. 11 very satisfied Swedish fishermen on Gjerfloen Flyfishing today. Please see the photo gallery page.

11th of June

Water flow stable, 100 m3/s also this morning. Water temp 11 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good.

9th of June

A lot of hatching and risings this afternoon. Water flow down to 100 m3/s this morning. Water temp 11 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good.

8th of June

Water flow down to 104 m3/s this morning. Water temp 11 C degrees. Fishing conditions are good.

7th of June

Water flow down to 107 m3/s this morning. Per Øyvind Amundsen (Norway) landed 15 "dry fly graylings" late yestreday afternoon. Marginata and midges were a good choice.

5th of June

Water flow is going down again and the flow at the moment is aprox 120 m3/s, very near the normal for the time being. Due to cold weather the last few days the watertemp is down again to 9 C degrees today. Warmer weather is predicted and we shall see hatching and risings again this week end!

1st of June

Water flow is going down and the flow at the moment is very near the normal for the time being. Water temp 13 C degrees today. We have seen a lot of rising fish this week end, BUT NO FLYFISHERMEN!

May

24th of May

Water flow and water temp stable, 135 m3/s and 9C degrees also today.

21st of May

The first rising graylings are observed today! Normally we see the first rings on the water between the 5th and the 10th of June. Water flow stable, 135 m3/s. Water temp up to 9C degrees today.

19th of May

Water flow down to 135 m3/s. Water temp 8 C degrees. No hatching yet, but conditions for nymph fishing is OK.

18th of May

The waterflow is going rapidly down. Watertemp up to 8 C degrees this morning!

14th of May

Water flow 180 m3/s, Watertemp 4 C degrees. The water flow culminated the 1st of May, 3 weeks earlier than normal and this could indicate a very early fly fishing start this year. Maybe we shall see the first rings on the water around the 25th of May.

Statistics of reported catches 2008.

Day licences 2008.

The June, July and September catches pr day this year were nearly similar to the 2007 results. August was much better last year. Compare with statistics on the "News 2007" page.

Day licences statistics 2008. Origin of fishermen.

Fishermen from 15 nations visited Gjerfloen Flyfishing this summer. Sweden is on the top also this year. Italy, Belgium and Holland are down, while Germany, Poland and Norway are up. Compare with statistics on the "News 2007" page.