Salmonfishing in the Alta River
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Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Back again from a short trip to the world famous salmon river in North Norway.
The river is known as the river with the largest salmon in the world.
Alta city down below - a dream is coming true.
Ready for landing
The canoe is ready to bring me up the river, up where the salmon is
My boatman with full control over what he is doing
Through the fast Water
Tying the right fly on the leader...
Having a rest by the fire where we made coffee and sausage over the fire... this is life, far away from the office where I normally spent lot of my time
The morning sun is rising again and a new fishing day can begin.
Fish on
And now 2 Pictures - this is some that I don't show very often
I caught 2 salmon on this trip
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Jacob
The river is known as the river with the largest salmon in the world.
Alta city down below - a dream is coming true.
Ready for landing
The canoe is ready to bring me up the river, up where the salmon is
My boatman with full control over what he is doing
Through the fast Water
Tying the right fly on the leader...
Having a rest by the fire where we made coffee and sausage over the fire... this is life, far away from the office where I normally spent lot of my time
The morning sun is rising again and a new fishing day can begin.
Fish on
And now 2 Pictures - this is some that I don't show very often
I caught 2 salmon on this trip
Best
Jacob
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Awesome, Jacob! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Those last two photos are the ones I have been waiting to see! You caught some fish. In your previous posts the scenery was awesome but it's better to catch a few fish also. Nice going.
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Did you get to use the Uniqua? Looks like quite a spey rod you have there!...a little huge for that reel!
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Jacob,
All I can say is WOW! That looks awesome Beautiful pics and I'll bet those fish tasted wonderful!
Tom
All I can say is WOW! That looks awesome Beautiful pics and I'll bet those fish tasted wonderful!
Tom
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Finally you got a good catch, thanks for the share again Jacob! any of the big salmon look like this? 54 lb. Pacific King salmon out of the Klamath River, CA where I use to live not known to have big fish! This is a acyclic mount of a big male I caught on a peach colored corky 30 minutes to get him in! what a day that was!
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Jacob:
Great pictures. Makes we want to get my spey outfit ready for the fall season!
Great pictures. Makes we want to get my spey outfit ready for the fall season!
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Glad that you all like the Pictures... and it was great finally to catch a salmon and then with double up.
John, the Uniqua is to small for this rod so I used my Tibor Spey.
The salmon was made on the fire and it tasted very good
Found one more Picture, the fly is on the way out to the salmon
So now 4 weeks Work and then off to 3 days salmon fishing in Sweden.
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Jacob
John, the Uniqua is to small for this rod so I used my Tibor Spey.
The salmon was made on the fire and it tasted very good
Found one more Picture, the fly is on the way out to the salmon
So now 4 weeks Work and then off to 3 days salmon fishing in Sweden.
Best
Jacob
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Robert, great salmon - that is my dream to catch a salmon that is big enough to put on the wall
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
My largest was a 30 lb. King from Lake Michigan. Yours made mine look like a baby.
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
That fish was something else he was 48 in. long 28'"around, the anapest fin was 4' long and the tail was 11" tall! I paid $975.00 for the mount looks way better close, I also caught a 30 pounder that day I will try to find that pic too! We conked him and had 35 pounds of smoked fish it was what every one wanted at the time! Had to buy a big fish box to hold the fish!
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Re: Salmonfishing in the Alta River
Whoa Robert, that is really some big fishes.
You can use my salmon as bait to catch them
They looks more like herring as salmon compared to yours
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Jacob
You can use my salmon as bait to catch them
They looks more like herring as salmon compared to yours
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Jacob