Fly Fishing Photo Gallery 2008. Grayling, Brown Trout, Fly Fishers

Fishing pictures. Photo gallery from Gjerfloen Flyfishing, Norway. Fly fishers and fishermen, photos of grayling, brown trout, arctic char, whitefish, pike and other "shots" of interest. (English only)

As fishing guide and riverkeeper I spend a lot of time by the riverside and the camara is always with me. I therefore have many opportunities to take good "shots" of fishing situations, fishermen, catches and nature from and around the Gjerfloen fly zone area.

The photo gallery page will contain updated pictures of fishermen and catches from Gjerfloen Flyfishing and other pictures of interest from Trysil.

NYMPHS, a real challenge for fly tiers (and others...)

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The eternal question...! Johan Klingberg, Sweden (right) and the fly fishing guide and riverkeeper, Snorre Grønnæss. Photo. Ulf Börjesson

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This kind of mussle is very rare in the Trysil river, but there are a few and they can be up to 300 years old! Please let them live and don't take them out of the water. This one was found here in 2002. If you find one of them, please report to me.

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Pink Panther is a new creation from my fly tying vise. This nymph has proved to be of great interest for the graylings in this river. The nymph can be used in different sizes, more or less weighted or not weighted at all. More experiments will show if this colour/material combination also might work well in a Klinkhammer dry fly body.

Hook: Knapek shrimp barbless. Body: Backpart; Siman ice dubbing, 18 uv pink. Middle; Oracle Holographic dubbing, fuchsia. Front; Siman ice dubbing, 02 uv brown. Back; Siman magic shrimp foil, white. Rib; Stroft 0,10.

November 2008

Gjerfloen Flyfishing has for a long time been planning restauring initiative to improve the conditions for the fish at Gjerflokoia and Halvorsøya. Finally the plans were recognized by the authoroties and the plans could be carried through! The biggest rocks are brought back into the river and the canals between the islands and the bank are opened up again.

Rocks more than 3 tonns were no problem for the big excavator!

Making more and better "parking places" for the graylings.

Gjerflokoia before (In december 2007)

Gjerflokoia after

Halvorsøya before (In december 2007)

Halvorsøya after

4 th of November.

Call of the Wild (Espen Eilertsen rowing) has imported special designed guiding boats from USA, here tested for the first time in Europe!

Gjerfloen Flyfishing was the location for the premier trip! Next season we hope that many fishermen will find this way of guided fishing comfortable and interesting.

September 2008

Klaus and Ulli from Germany landed 55 graylings the last weekend of September. Some were hooked with gold head nymphs and czech nymphs, but most of them were landed with Klinkhammer

Klaus

Ulli

13th and 14th of September

The last qualifying competition for partisipation in the Fly Fishing World Championship next year, was arranged in this area. 15 anglers landed 427 graylings! Jarle Strandberg, Norwegian Champion this year, making the final preparations

Erik Eikre demonstrating how to cast a fly with style

Sunday morning was cold and misty, but the graylings didn't mind and wanted breakfast! Knut Braaen and his son Bernt Christian (below), had a hard private fight and ended up with the same number of fish (25 graylings), but junior had bigger fish!

The winner of the competition, Erlend Vivelid-Nilsen, landed 47 graylings

Tor Grøthe, a well known fishing guide and host in Hemsedal, was fighting hard and landed 44 graylings

Jørgen Hagen had the highest number of fish during the competition (52 graylings), but others had bigger fish

12th of September

Morten Krohg and Lars Henrik Langsrud have experienced that the wood grouse hunting last year was better than this year, but nevertheless, they have had some success!

9th of September

Teachers and students at "Naturbruksgymnasiet Älvdalen", Sweden, had their traditional visit at Gjerfloen Flyfishing

The group had quite nice dry fly fishing in the afternoon and Klinkhammer was the winner again. Here is Mattias Orosz pictured with one of the 67 graylings they landed during the afternoon.

7th of September

Mattias Johansson, Vänersborg Sweden, and his "friend" on the upper part of the flyzone

6th of September

Tove Hunter, Montana USA, landed more than 20 graylings during the day. We started in the morning with czech nymphing and the "Pink Panther" proved again to be good

In the afternoon when the sun had warmed up a little, we had very good dry fly fishing! Klinkhammer size 10 was a perfect choice. See picture below

Klinkhammer black body size 10

4th of September

Dieter Benenowski, Germany, with one of the 61 graylings he landed during his stay. This one was tempted by a grey/olive green gold head nymph. Half an hour later he landed a 47 cms grayling, but then the photographer (Benjamin Benenowski) was occupied with me while I was landing a 40 cms grayling 100 metres downstream

August 2008

30th of August

Ulrich Kohls, Berlin Germany, landing a "Pink Panther grayling" the 30th of August. Dieter Benenowski was the Kingfisher during the morningsession, 11 graylings up to 40 cms

29th of August

The 29th August I was guiding Dieter and Benjamin Benenowski, Berlin Germany. Cold wind from the north made the fishing very difficult, but a few graylings were landed, all on gold head nymphs

Benjamin Benenowski with a "gold head grayling".

28th of August

The 28th August I was guiding Klaas Lamberts (79) Holland. Hares Ear gold head was a good choice this afternoon

24th of August

German journalists visiting Gjerfloen Flyfishing the 24th of August. From left: Karen Bofinger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Alexandra Lutzenberger, Augsburger Allgemeine, Claudia Ihlefeld, Heilbronner Stimme, Snorre Grønnæss, Gjerfloen Flyfishing, and Geraldine Friedrich, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung.

None of the girls had ever been fly fishing before, but nevertheless, a few graylings were too much tempted by their flies. Here is Claudia Ihlefeld holding up a grayling hooked with the "Pink Panther".

Karen Bofinger very soon became a tuff wader.

19th of August

The 19th of August José Castillo, Spain, had success with a Hares Ear gold head nymph.

15 & 16th of August

One of the 179 graylings Clas Ohlsson, Per Sandfridsson and Thomas Kühnel landed the 15th and 16th of August. This one was tempted by a violet Klinkhammer!

13th of August

Dennis Jensen, Denmark, visited Gjerfloen Flyfishing. Minutes after I left he landed a 47 cms brown trout with a Hares Ear gold head nymph.

A small, but beautiful "brown" from one of the small, undisturbed lakes in the area.

6th of August

Johannes Lunau, Düsseldorf Germany, had success with a pink czech nymph.

Johannes and the guide

4th of August

In the morning the 4th of August, under difficult conditions with high and rising water, Hans-Peter Jährig, Austria, landed a few czech nymph graylings.

July 2008

30th of July

Brown trout 66 cms, 2480 grams. The fish was caught in the trap at Sagnfossen power station, 5 kms upstream Plassen the 30th of July. I tagged the fish with the ID 125051 and then it was released. Fishermen; the trout is somewhere in the river waiting for you: GOOD LUCK!

Reinier Verduijn, Holland, czech nymphing for the first time. After a short guiding session he could show me this very nice 40 cms grayling!

The grayling was tagged (you see the green tag just under the back fin) on the same location the 27th of September 2005 and it was at that time 38 cms.

5th of July

In the afternoon the 5th of July we were struck by an extremely heavy hailstorm

2nd of July

The Danica is still here!

June 2008

27th - 28th of June

Team Rolf Häuptli, ANDINO REISEN GMBH, Switzerland, landed 212 fishes during their stay at Gjerfloen Flyfishing.

This one was hatching today.

Rolf with one of his many dry fly graylings during the week.

A few minutes later Rolf hooked another one. The other members of the Swiss team in the background.

25th of June

Thomas Reinhartz and Tim Füldner from München Germany, flyfishing for the first time. After a short casting lection they were ready for "the noble art". Thomas needed only a a few casts before he could hook his first dryfly grayling.
Thomas with his first fly fish.

After a while we went to another hotspot to practice nymphfishing and Tim could hook his first fly fish.

Nymph grayling.

23rd of June

Kate from Nevada USA, with a tagged grayling, 35 cms. The grayling was tagged on the other side of the river on the same location the 6th of September 2001. It was at that time 23 cms.

16th of June

My second fishing trip to Landsjøen this year gave me this beauty, brown trout 47 cms!

13 to 16th of June

Piotrek Raczynski, Jakub Gujda and Artur Mysiara visited Gjerfloen Flyfishing this weekend. They landed 142 graylings, all hooked on dry fly

Jakub

Piotr

13 to 15th of June

Fjällorna were amazed by the enormous hatching and all the risings. They landed 71 graylings during their visit

Anna with a nice 40 cms "superpuppa"grayling

Karin with her second fly grayling ever, here assisted and pictured by My

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Katarina

Åsa

13th of June

Pupils from the local school "helped" me catching fish for tagging in the fish stairs.

The catch

Brown trout 43 cms ID 111420. The fish was recatched by Jan Kvil the 20th of June, 18 kms upstream the tagging location!

Releasing tagged grayling

9th of June

My first fishing trip at Landsjøen the 9th of June, gave me this very beautiful brown trout, 51 cms.

Hans Molin (picture) and Erling Wiberg, Sweden, were the first fihermen on Gjerfloen Flyfishing this year. They landed 32 graylings during Friday and Saturday. Hans had success with a light green superpuppa

May 2008

Read about the advantages of using a wading stick in the April/May edition of the German flyfishing magazine FliegenFischen.

Skilful students from "Naturbruksgymnasiet i Älvdalen", Jonathan Söderlund, Zara Andersson and David Danielsson at work, staining the flyzone cabin.

Cutting firewood

Tracktor driving

9th of May

Today the water was about 2 metres above normal summer level at the shooting range area. The waterflow was 470 m3/s. In the middle of June we shall have good fishing conditions and about 100 m3/s.

April 2008

27th of April

A nice brown trout, 45 cms, grabbed the mormyshka this morning.

24th of April

The perches were in the eating mood also today. Just minutes between these catches. 900 gram - 39 cms, and the smaller: 35 cms - 515 grams.

22nd of April

The perches in Landsjøen are in the eating mood at the moment. I caught two very nices species today. Here the biggest is pictured. 40 cms, 1020 grams.

The other perch, 38 cms and 720 grams.

16th of April

The local school and kindergarden at Plassen arranged the the annual icefishing day on Landsjøen.
The kids were very interested in the "aquarium" we made.

Sigrid Elise obviously did something the right way.

12th of April

Perch 830 grams, 40 cms

Even a smaller brown trout liked the mormyshka

8th of April

Rob Neuhaus, Holland, trying to "invite the perches to dinner"

Eric Neuhaus found the way...

6th of April

The Swedish division of the company SAP, providing software solutions, arranged the annual winter conference for the employees in Trysil this week end. Some of the participants wished to try ice fishing for the first time. The perches were not in a "cooperative modus", but we had fun and caught a few fishes too.

Kevin started the show with his first fish ever

A few minutes later Tobias called for the photographers attention

Pedro found that patience pays off

Mona also succeeded

Finally Magnus also had success

5th of April

Ice fishing is a matter of concentration (from all parties!)