Salmonfishing in the Alta River

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Salmonfishing in the Alta River

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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.

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Alta city down below - a dream is coming true.

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Ready for landing

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The canoe is ready to bring me up the river, up where the salmon is :wink:

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My boatman with full control over what he is doing

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Through the fast Water

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Tying the right fly on the leader...

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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

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The morning sun is rising again and a new fishing day can begin.

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Fish on :shock: :shock: :shock:

And now 2 Pictures - this is some that I don't show very often 8) 8)


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I caught 2 salmon on this trip :shock: :jump: :yay :yay

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Awesome, Jacob! Thanks for sharing.
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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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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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Jacob,

All I can say is WOW! :jump: That looks awesome 8) Beautiful pics and I'll bet those fish tasted wonderful! :wink:

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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! :loco:
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Jacob:
Great pictures. Makes we want to get my spey outfit ready for the fall season!
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Glad that you all like the Pictures... and it was great finally to catch a salmon :wink: and then with double up.

John, the Uniqua is to small for this rod :mrgreen: so I used my Tibor Spey.

The salmon was made on the fire and it tasted very good :yay

Found one more Picture, the fly is on the way out to the salmon

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So now 4 weeks Work and then off to 3 days salmon fishing in Sweden.


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Robert, great salmon - that is my dream to catch a salmon that is big enough to put on the wall

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My largest was a 30 lb. King from Lake Michigan. Yours made mine look like a baby.
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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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I hate to brag :roll: thanks Jacob!


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My son and I 2002
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Big striper in 1976 wow that was along time ago 39lb. just could not break that 40 lb. barrier!
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Whoa Robert, that is really some big fishes.

You can use my salmon as bait to catch them :wink:
They looks more like herring as salmon compared to yours :jester

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